You’ve probably seen the videos. A woman dabs a little cream under her eyes, and within minutes her under-eye bags seem to vanish. It looks like a magic trick and makes us wonder; is it real, or is it too good to be true? I’m 60, and I’ve worked as an esthetician and professional makeup artist for many years, so I wanted to find out for myself…

Have you noticed that the makeup that you have been wearing for many years doesn’t look as good on your skin as it used to? Are your tried-and-tested go-to products not sitting well, settling into wrinkles, and creasing? This happens to most of us who wear makeup. Our skin changes over time…

As we navigate the vibrant chapters of life after 60, our beauty and wellness rituals evolve. The skin we’re in tells the story of a life well-lived – full of laughter, sunshine, and experience. Yet, with hormonal shifts, declining natural lipid production, and years of environmental exposure, our skin, nails, and hands often begin to ask for a little extra tenderness and specialized care…

Silver hair has become one of the most striking beauty statements at the moment. Adding a bold makeup style can be the detail that makes it feel intentional and modern. For most of us, going gray or silver changes how color works on our faces. The shades that once felt natural may suddenly look either too soft or too harsh…

For the most part, losing weight is simply burning more calories than you consume. However, experts have turned this simple idea into a very complicated process, which has led to lots of people getting rich with their original ‘new diet’ to lose and keep weight off…

In the United States, cardiovascular disease kills more women than all forms of cancer combined. About one in two women over 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis. In 2022, 13.9% of Americans age 65 and older met both the aerobic guideline and the muscle-strengthening guideline in their free time…

Incontinence is more common in adults than many may think. In fact, about half of women (especially women over 50) and one-in-four men experience incontinence symptoms. Despite the prevalence of incontinence as we age, it is not something…

As far back as I can remember, conventional wisdom has been that the higher our HDL cholesterol levels, the less we and our healthcare providers had to be concerned about our ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol levels…

If you’ve fallen for a widower and can’t tell whether he’s ready, or you’re a widow thinking about dating again, most dating advice skips right over you. Grief keeps no schedule, and love won’t wait for it to finish. Here’s what 20 years of coaching has taught me about telling the two apart…

Hot flushes, mood swings, creeping spare tires around the midriff – we are all familiar with the big M and its effects on us as we hit ‘that’ age. Few women sail through menopause with ease, and some of us have an exceedingly difficult time of it…

I talk to smart, accomplished women every week who are stuck in the same loop: swiping through profile after profile, comparing and cross-referencing, and somehow still unable to settle on anyone. Here’s what 20 years of helping daters in my coaching practice has taught me: the problem usually isn’t a shortage of good people; it’s how you’re searching…

Dating after 60 has a particular flavor of nervousness that 25-year-olds simply don’t have to deal with. You’re not just wondering if someone likes you back – you’re wondering if you still remember how to do this at all, and whether your judgment, tested by a marriage or relationship that didn’t work out, can be trusted again…

We all have dreams and bucket lists that we would like to accomplish in our lifetime. Seeing that most of us are past 60, we have likely completed many of them…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel and stay in one place for an extended period of time? Do you often feel like your travels feel rushed, and that you get back home wishing you had spent more time? Maybe it’s time for you to look into slow travel. More and more women over 60 are embracing traveling and staying in one place…

Do you enjoy traveling? Do you have dietary restrictions that make you question your travel plans? Traveling with dietary restrictions, allergies, intolerances, or foods you avoid for personal reasons can be challenging. Eating away from home, especially in another language, can become one of the most stressful parts of a trip…

From Holy Week rituals to colonial plazas and artisan traditions, these three towns reveal Colombia at its most atmospheric, and best experienced slowly. Colombia’s heritage towns or Pueblos Patrimonio, are not places I wanted to rush through. I wanted to walk them, sit with them, and let their details unfold at a gentler pace. Mompox, Monguí, and Villa de Leyva, history is not something preserved in a museum…

A woman once said something to me that I haven’t forgotten: “Every retirement article I read seems to be written for someone who has money.” She had worked most of her adult life. She paid her bills. She supported herself. But there was no large 401(k). No pension. No impressive investment account waiting for her…

Just because your 65th birthday is approaching doesn’t always mean retirement is. You may enjoy your work. Maybe you haven’t hit your retirement goal. Or maybe you have great health insurance via your employer. And if you have access to a Health Savings Account (HSA), you might enjoy contributing to it…

There are money conversations we avoid because they don’t matter very much. And then there are money conversations we avoid precisely because they matter so much. Maybe your spouse keeps spending in a way that worries you. Maybe your adult daughter has asked for money again, and you don’t know how to tell her you’re uncomfortable continuing to help…

ou worked hard to get here. You built your career, gained experience, earned respect, navigated changes, raised families, met deadlines, solved problems, and probably handled more than anyone will ever know. So why does the career you worked so hard for sometimes leave you wondering…

Retirement is billed as the time when we finally get to do what we want. No alarm clock. No commute. No calendar filled with meetings we didn’t schedule. After decades of taking care of what needed to be taken care of, we’ve earned some freedom. But there’s an interesting question hiding inside that freedom: Do we know what we want?

There is something bothering me about the conversation we’re having around artificial intelligence. We’re giving the machine too much credit. Sometimes we’re giving it credit for what’s good. Sometimes we’re blaming it for what’s bad. Either way, we’re forgetting about the person sitting in front of it…

For this final article, I wanted to cover two things that might seem unrelated but actually belong together: matters of the heart and matters of the home. Both involve trust. Both involve letting someone new into your life, whether that’s a person or a contractor. And in both cases, AI can help you move forward with a little more confidence and a little less risk…

My brother recently sent me a comic about aging. The first panel shows a very young man, arm in a sling, telling his neighbor that his injury was caused by falling off a house and then getting hit by a car. Panel two is the man, now middle-aged, with the same injury, but this time he is explaining he broke…