There’s good news and bad news when it comes to the best SPF face powder. The great news is that with broad-spectrum SPF, these mineral powders can protect your skin from harmful UVA/UVB rays. Plus, they can mattify even the oiliest skin and leave your face looking smooth and flawless in the heat. Now to the bad news. Derms agree that you probably shouldn’t only rely on powder sunscreens for your SPF protection. Allow us to explain.

Powder sunscreen, no matter how stellar, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t apply your usual daily face SPF. You’ll want to give your skin that base coverage to start the day. But did you know you’re supposed to actually reapply that sunscreen throughout the day? That’s not really possible if you’re wearing a full face of makeup. What a mess. These powder sunscreens allow you to easily update your sun protection while keeping your makeup intact. In fact, some of these are tinted and will even refresh your skin at the same time.

Choose Ilia’s sunscreen for its organic powders and oils, Colorescience’s powder for its reef-safe formula for all skin tones, Tarte’s for SPF 30 without the chalky finish, Supergoop!’s for a matte-satin finish and Derma E’s sunscreen for an extra boost of antioxidants. You really can’t go wrong.

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Ilia Flow-Thru Radiant Translucent Powder – SPF 20

This translucent mineral finishing powder offers UV protection with organic powders, oils and extracts of aloe vera, rosemary leaf, thyme and hibiscus flower.

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Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection SPF 50

This tinted mineral sunscreen is available in four shades: Fair, Medium, Tan and Deep. It’s cruelty-free and reef-safe with SPF 50 for UVA/UVB protection.

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Tarte Tarteguard 30 Mineral Powder Sunscreen

With broad spectrum SPF 30, you’re protected from both UVA and UVB rays with no chalky finish.

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Supergoop! Invincible Setting Powder SPF 45

This powder sunscreen comes in four shades: Translucent (for all skin tones), Fair, Medium and Deep. The 100 percent mineral broad-spectrum UV protection gives you a matte-satin finish.

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Derma E Sun Protection Mineral Face Powder SPF 30

Translucent non-nano mineral powder SPF protects skin from UV rays, while green tea, chamomile flower extract and vitamin E gives skin a boost of antioxidants.

Walking is touted as good for our health, our emotional well-being and our social connections. I want to give you 5 more reasons.

Sensory Stimulation

Walking doesn’t make you younger in years, but it allows you to have experiences where you forget your age. When you walk, you engage all your senses, and the world around you will trigger your brain to send you messages of aliveness, enjoyment and gratefulness.

Do you experience aliveness when you’re sitting in your chair watching a movie? I don’t think so. Passive entertainment takes you out of your current reality for a while, which can be pleasant, but it doesn’t enhance your aliveness.

Slower Aging

Walking and hiking will slow aging. I have found that my bone density has increased over the last four years of hiking long distances on the trails, a reverse of the natural aging process.

Walking in nature stimulates brain cells and burns cortisol, the stress hormone, leaving your body more agile and flexible. There is evidence that walking and hiking, especially longer trail hikes, cause an increased activity of telomerase, triggering an anti-aging process in your cells.

Reduce Your Footprint

Walking is a gift to the planet and yourself. Every step you take squashes your DNA and stimulates your cells to rebuild themselves, adding new healthy cells to your body, sloughing off the old ones.

While you’re rebuilding your body on your walk, you’re reducing your carbon footprint by not driving a car or using another energy-sucking form of transportation. While you walk, your breath does a photosynthesis dance with the surrounding plants. What a miracle to be alive!

Find a New Self

As you enter a walking life, you’ll feel better, sleep better and your mood will improve. You will discover a self you may have forgotten existed! It takes consistent walking to experience this. So, make walking a lifestyle.

Reduce your sitting hours and increase your walking hours while doing errands. Go for a walk-and-talk with a friend. Walk to a dinner you’ve been invited to. Wear your walking shoes to the theater while carrying your dress shoes in your bag.

Take a Walking Vacation

Walking is addictive. Once you increase your walking distances and feel better about yourself and your body, you may think about going for a day hike or even a backpacking trip. If you don’t want to carry a heavy backpack, you can take hiking vacations where you use pack animals to carry your load.

Or you can walk or hike from B&B to B&B, hut to hut, or lodge to lodge. Europe offers many such opportunities at a very reasonable cost.

In the USA, you may have to look around to find lodge-to-lodge hikes, but they do exist. Many developing countries offer trekking trips with pack animals. A walking vacation will give you a re-boot.

My new book, Walking Gone Wild, takes you on a journey to a walking lifestyle. The book is full of stories of women 50-plus who have been able to reinvigorate their life through walking.

It offers practical tips on how to overcome obstacles and find the right shoes and clothes to make walking a year-round activity you can enjoy.

Do you love to walk? What has been the greatest benefit of adopting a walking lifestyle? Please share your insights below.

Your mom probably told you more than once to eat your vegetables, right? If your mom was like mine, she chopped and served fresh when she could.

Our shelves along the basement steps were always stocked with canned green beans, corn, asparagus, peas and a few others that were quite distasteful to me as a child. They were mushy and just didn’t taste good. From this I learned to dislike vegetables unless they were fresh.

All those years ago, living in New England, it was not easy to get fresh vegetables in the winter, so we had to work with canned until frozen vegetables became available. They were a step up from canned, but still not as good as fresh.

Today, with a global food market it is easier to get fresh vegetables year round, but when grown locally, that remains my first choice.

We Eat What We Like

One thing I know is we eat what we like and don’t eat what we don’t like. I also know that on top of vegetables being powerhouses of vitamins and minerals, they are also your skin’s friend. Yes, your skin.

You may find skin creams that boast hardy amounts of antioxidants, but you need to look no further than your vegetables to get a daily dose of these skin preserving nutrients.

Sandy was in her late 50s when I worked with her. She set a goal to increase her vegetables to five a day. She accomplished this by eating some in whole form and others went into her morning smoothie.

If you are looking for an easy way to get your five veggies in, check out this recipe and you can start with breakfast.

Sandy not only felt more energized from this change in diet, but she noticed the tone and texture of her skin improved. Understandably, any woman in her late 50s whose skin tone improves is surely motivated to continue doing what she’s doing, and Sandy has. She has beautiful skin.

No vitamin tablet or skin cream can give you what fresh vegetables can. Cell growth and regeneration happens best when we eat high nutrient foods. Think of supplements and skin creams as a help, but not the first choice.

Vegetables Are Great for Aging Skin: Sugar Is Not

We all know that too much sun will wrinkle and age our skin, but did you know that sugar is also said to damage the skin? Sugar is an irritant.

There are numerous claims that eating excess amounts of sugar will harm the skin. It’s sad that sugar tastes so good, and that it’s an addictive food, but the truth is it ages your skin.

That doesn’t mean you should never have sugar. Eat it in moderation to best keep your skin vibrant, your weight in check, and your energy steady. You can read more about the effects of sugar, and ways to keep your energy steady.

Are you eating a good number of veggies every day? Have you been successful in avoiding refined sugar? What do you eat to nourish your beautiful aging skin? Tell us what works for you! Please join the conversation.

Kyle Richards’ Brown Leather Pouf At Her BBQ

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Kyle Richards’ brown leather pouf (and the identical white pouf) lined her low, rustic table at the annual family BBQ. Contrary to previous years, this BBQ was fairly casual (BH casual), but only if you consider catered non-BBQ food, guests in Chanel and a plated table casual. For most of us, Kyle’s BBQ would be considered less BBQ and more of a dinner party experience.

While Kyle throws this party (at varying levels of casual) every season, there usually is more emphasis on family, as in, Kyle’s family actually attends. Nonetheless, most of the ladies brought their families, except one. I don’t think anyone really expected Denise Richards’ to bring her kids after all the drama (shhh…threesome). But our favorite Beverly Hills ladies never miss a chance to feign shock and awe, especially if it revolves around a trending topic. And let’s be real, this will be the season of the threesome—or will it? The ladies better save some shock and awe, things are just getting started.

One question still remains unanswered, what happens to all the poufs when the party is over? Mo poufs mo problems, I guess.

Until next time,

Chelsie

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Sheltering-in-place.

Could have been the perfect Zen experience. Sitting underneath the shade of a Bodhi tree in perfect lotus position. Floating above the ground in a meditative state. The cool brush of saffron robes against my skin. The tinkling sound of tiny Tibetan finger cymbals calling me to a distant place.

Could have been. Didn’t happen.

Instead, the best I can do during the time of Coronavirus is to sit cross-legged on a LazyBoy. Drooling into a cup. Numbly processing the six hundredth episode of Law & Order, SVU. The one where Liv realizes how deeply she misses Elliot Stabler.

We all miss Elliot Stabler, don’t we?

My chakras cry out for alignment. Anxiety and stress push mindfulness and wellbeing into that quiet place in my brain where I store happy things.

It’s been 14 weeks in isolation; 16 weeks since my house has been professionally cleaned; 20 weeks since my last haircut. If a search party from another planet found me in the rubble, they’d assume I had been raised by wolves.

Never much one for exercise, my noble objective now is to walk 50 steps a day.

A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Indulging myself in a high-minded cultural re-evaluation of the 1970s, I grapple with the big topics. Unsolved mysteries avoided by the greatest minds of the 20th century.

My mind finds peculiar questions to ask, such as: What symbolism prompted Carly Simon to write, “I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee”?

Why did Joni Mitchell write that she was “stoking the star-making machinery behind the popular song” in America, but felt “unfettered and alive” in Paris? Why is Cat Stevens now called Yusuf Islam – yet his greatest hits album is still called Cat Stevens’ Greatest Hits.

What did Madonna mean when she said… well… anything?

When the Intellectual Pursuits Get Boring, Everyday Life Takes Over

Our precious 10-year-old Golden Doodle, Zoey, has cut me down to two walks a day. She no longer tilts her head trying to understand caveman communication. She now prepares her own meals.

Alexa, who once jumped to attention when I requested a three-minute timer for my ritual morning meal of soft-boiled eggs, now audibly sighs when I enter a room. When I question her, she now answers in Swahili.

I know she mocks me.

I worry that the new killer hornet will migrate from Seattle down into the desert where I live. As if scorpions and tarantulas weren’t enough.

And in terms of outside excursions, it’s come down to this: I only leave the house during a severe mayonnaise emergency.

Lost in Space

Like Will Robinson, upon hearing his robot scream, “Danger, Will Robinson”, arms splaying about in frustrated panic, I feel lost in space. Traveling around the universe in search of – hmmm – what were they searching for?

I wonder when the pandemic will end and what it will mean for all of us when it does. I see people in masks and resign myself to the mask as the new must-have luxury accessory. Though when I wear one, I look like I’ve just held up a convenience store.

I wonder. I wonder. I wonder.

What have you turned your mind to in the days of Covid? How do you engage with the world around you? Do you move enough to qualify as exercise? Do you feel settled or lost in space? Please share your thoughts below.