People around the world have been filling their cups with hot green tea for over 4,000 years, and there’s a reason why this drink has withstood the test of time. Not only is it delicious, it's packed with health-boosting ingredients including: amino acids, enzymes, vitamins and minerals. People sip the brew to help them with everything from weight loss to the prevention of heart disease and cancer – and even skin care.
Imagine what it would be like to literally turn back the hands of time. You could say no to that blind date that turned out to be a total disaster. You could say yes to that geeky guy in college who later became a CEO. You could relive your favorite memories and get a do-over on your biggest regrets, and you could do it all with the smooth and flawless skin of your youth.
In a perfect world confusing terminology wouldn't leave us in the dark about important matters, especially when it comes to your skin. Trying to find the right products for you can become quite confusing if you aren’t able to decipher the small print.
Breathe and you inhale them. Sip water and they slyly enter your throat. Jog along a mountain trail and your muscles pump them into your bloodstream with every step. They’re free radicals – and they are everywhere. You know you should be fighting back – but against what, exactly? What are free radicals, anyway?
Collagen – it’s a term many of us learned shortly after we were old enough to flip through the pages of glossy fashion magazines. The women we saw inside had the regal cheekbones and knowing eyes that come from decades of knowledge and experience, but laugh lines were curiously absent, and their lips were smooth and plump. How did they do it? Collagen, the ads told us. It all came down to collagen.
I recently had the pleasure of enjoying an Anti-Aging facial at the plush Burke Williams Spa in Santa Monica. This location is massive and filled with an abundance of treatment rooms to make you feel pampered. Johaira, aka the facial guru, made my skin glow, moist, soft and super hydrated. She used one of my favorite brands, Eminence, along with Burke’s very own magical potion known as the “Youth Cell Activator.” I left there with skin softer then a babies tooshie. ; )
A bouquet of blue hydrangeas pulls the Sunday brunch table together. A vase of long-stem roses on a cluttered desk brings a touch of romance to your dreary corporate office. Flowers bring beauty wherever they bloom, and if you can learn to harness their appearance-boosting benefits, they might just share some of that beauty with you.
Pores can be the veins of your skin's existence as they constantly reveal dirt, oil and other impurities through tiny pinprick-like openings on your face. The average human body has over 5 million pores, and when you’re having a bad skin day, it can feel like nearly half of them are plotting against you.
Time is a funny thing. On one hand, it grants us wonderful gifts like experience, wisdom and a lifetime of cherished memories. On the other hand, it brings unwanted gifts like wrinkles, age spots, sagging skin and thinning hair. While signs of aging can be looked at as evidence of a life well lived, they don't always feel like something to be proud of. So what's a maturing woman to do? Fight back, of course, with simple tips like these:
