Beauty

Are there some things you loved doing a couple of decades ago, but which you don’t love so much now? A few days before Thanksgiving, I spent a wonderful few hours with my long-time best friend Joyce who lives in another state. We reminisced about giggling…

Since starting Sixty and Me, I have come to expect the unexpected and embrace the diversity and eclectic style of women over 60. Sometimes when I look at a woman my age, I forget that behind that conservative dress and sensible shoes lurks the heart…

I have never been a save-your-best-clothes-for-special-occasions kind of girl, happily gardening in a party dress or walking down the shopping aisles in something glittery. Now that I am over 60, I don’t have enough years left to keep things for Sunday Best. :)

Have you noticed your hair is thinner than 30 years ago? If so, you’re not alone. By middle age, most people’s hair becomes finer as the diameter of individual hair follicles, and the hair they produce, decreases. The good news is that several diet…

In our youth too many of us thought ourselves unattractive. Now, at this stage of our lives, when we look back on photos of our teenage years – wearing those scandalous miniskirts, tube tops with bell bottoms, crowned by long straggly or wild hair – we think…

Winter can be a challenging time for mature skin. The cold weather, dry air, and indoor heating all work together to strip moisture from your skin, leaving it feeling tight, flaky, and dull. For women over 50, our skin is naturally thinner and produces less oil…

Here’s what professional makeup artist Laura Geller says about wearing makeup after 50: “We’re never too old and it’s never too late.” In my years as a makeup artist who specifically works with women over 50, I’ve found that many women give up on makeup…

After I joined the 50+ group, I noticed one day (seemingly out of the blue) that my makeup wasn’t cutting it anymore. My foundation looked cakey and grabbed onto my previously oily skin, my eyeliner ran, and my shadow didn’t last and didn’t blend well…

It’s January, and your wallet is cringing. Your wallet, let’s call her Dorothy, was singing and dancing in an ugly holiday sweater, eating pecan pie, sipping eggnog with slightly too much rum, and suddenly, WHAM! Everything came to a screeching halt. Dorothy, overwhelmed…

For most of us, what we wore in our 60s was not all that different from what we wore in our 50s, at least not through much of our 50s. Maybe that’s because, as a savvy friend of mine suggests, the demarcation lines of how we see ourselves…