Have you heard about CC creams? CC is short for color-correcting. They are not foundation makeup but more like a tinted moisturizer. They aren’t as heavy as foundations and often include sun protection and anti-aging properties (making it more than a simple tinted moisturizer). Some CC creams for mature skin also claim to correct brown spots and other skin discolorations over time.

CC creams are easier to apply than foundations and offer a more natural-looking finish. They are great for a minimal makeup daytime look and are definitely more comfortable than foundation in the hot summer months. They will gently cover and even out your skin tone without leaving a thick coat on your face.

CC creams are basically multi-taskers, making our morning makeup routines a little less time-consuming. I’m all for that! Since I’ve discovered CC creams, I spend much less time on my makeup application every day.

I like to use CC creams with moisturizers and SPF when I know that I’ll be out and about in the sun. There’s no need to apply moisturizer and sunscreen in separate applications, it’s all rolled up into one in my CC cream.

What to Look for in a CC Cream for Older Women

Not all CC creams are created equal. You may have to experiment with a few before you find the perfect one for you. Your skin type (oily or dry), tone, and texture will determine which CC cream works best for you.

A few things to consider before purchasing your CC cream.

CC Cream Shades

You will find fewer shades to choose from compared to foundation makeup. CC creams have the ability to transform and adapt to your skin tone rather than completely cover it as foundations do.

Typically, the brands will offer color selectors and skin-matching charts to help you find the best shade for your skin color, like IT Cosmetics for example.

SPF – Sun Protection Factor

It’s essential that we protect the delicate skin on our face to prevent premature aging and spotting… not to mention other scarier issues like carcinoma and melanoma.

The SPF level you choose will depend on your skin type, where you live, and what time of the year it is. You can choose a CC cream with an SPF of 10 and up to 50.

Some Extras

Some CC creams come infused with antioxidants, hyaluronic acid, vitamins, collagen, and other ingredients that are nourishing for the skin. Look for the extra moisturizing CC Creams if you have dry skin.

Cost of CC Creams

The price tag for CC creams varies widely. You can get a good drugstore brand for under $10, but you can also pay upwards of $50 for the more upscale brands. Look for promotions and discounts and get the best that you can within your budget.

Best CC Creams for Mature Skin

The following list is a product of extensive research, as I only wanted to present to you the very best of CC creams for mature skin.

IT Cosmetics Your Skin but Better CC+ Cream

IT Cosmetics Your Skin but Better CC+ Cream is an award-winning CC cream that works to reduce the appearance of acne scarring, wrinkles, redness, dark circles under eyes, and large pores. The hydrating serum and SPF 50+ physical sunscreen help keep your skin luminous and protected all day.

Total Effects Tone Correcting Moisturizer SPF 15

The Olay Total Effects CC Cream formula absorbs fast and won’t leave your skin feeling greasy. With one single pump, you get tinted cream mixed with moisturizers to cover and nourish your skin. It’s packed with 7 vitamins and antioxidants, including VitaNiacin Complex II and Vitamin B3 to leave your skin moisturized and healthy-looking.

Physicians Formula Super CC Color-Correction + Care CC Cream

The Physicians Formula CC Cream has color-correcting pigments, moisturizing agents, SPF, and also high-tech anti-aging ingredients. This CC Cream is lightweight and easily blended. It instantly corrects some of the most common skin imperfections like age spots, blemishes, dark circles, and redness. It effortlessly smooths skin texture and evens out skin tones.

Mary Kay CC Cream

Mary Kay products are tried and tested and their CC Cream with SPF 15 comes highly recommended. It’s a lightweight formula that’s easy to apply and corrects skin imperfections on all skin tones.

Purlisse Youth Glow VITAMIN C CC CREAM

Another CC cream getting rave reviews on Amazon is this one from Purlisse. It contains Vitamin C that promotes collagen production to reduce the appearance of fine lines. Vitamin C is also an anti-inflammatory that can leave your skin looking vibrant and dewy. This CC cream is also infused with hyaluronic acid that boosts hydration and keeps the skin looking youthful and moisturized.

CLINIQUE Moisture Surge CC Cream Hydrating Colour Corrector

This fragrance-free and lightweight formula from Clinique instantly color corrects a range of complexion concerns like redness and dullness, for example. This CC Cream leaves you with a healthy-looking glow that doesn’t look heavy.

Marcelle CC CREAM SPF 35

This CC Cream from Marcelle leaves your skin with just the perfect glow. It corrects imperfections such as sunspots, evens out skin tone and texture, controls shine, minimizes fine lines and wrinkles, improves skin elasticity, and protects skin from environmental stressors.

Do you use a CC cream? What do you use it for? Do you have a favourite brand that works for you? Will you try a CC cream that is on this list? Which one would you recommend to our fellow readers? Leave your comments below.

Reflexes are automatic, involuntary actions to a stimulus. These subconscious actions do not involve the brain.

Reaction time to a stimulus involves the brain, the conscious mind, and is an important part of cognitive functioning.

Reflex Action to Stimuli

Reflexes defend the body before you even realise the problem on a conscious level. They happen faster than a reaction to stimuli. For instance, if you don’t know something is hot and touch it, a reflex action kicks in, and you withdraw your hand. A doctor taps your knee with a hammer, and it jerks upwards. You didn’t decide to do that movement; it was a reflex action.

Reaction Time to Stimuli

Reaction time is the brain’s ability to detect, process and react to minor or major happenings in our lives, like driving skills, playing sports or turning off a whistling kettle. You need quick action to avoid dangerous occurrences, like knocking a pot of boiling water off the stove.

We React to Stimuli on a Daily Basis

Perception

You either see, hear or feel the stimuli. Someone keeps ringing the doorbell.

Processing

Your brain processes the situation, focuses on the information, understands what’s happening and prepares to respond.

Reaction

Good motor control is essential for enabling a quick response to the stimuli. You hurry to see who’s at the front door. 

The Importance and Benefits of Quick Reaction Times to Danger

• Detection – you either see, hear or feel the stimulus, i.e., a car pulls out in front of you.
• Process – your brain processes the information and readies for action.
• Reaction – You swerve or hit the brakes to avoid an accident.

Diminished Reaction Times

The ability to react well can deteriorate as we age. Certain medical conditions can also impair our reaction to stimuli.

People with auditory or visual impairment can have an altered sense of reaction time. Those with Alzheimer’s disease can have poor processing skills, altering their ability to react. Others battling Parkinson’s disease or similar, often have their motor ability affected and have slower reaction times. Brain injury and stroke patients will also find a delay in their response times. 

Improvement of Reaction Times

Yes, you can improve your reaction times with practice, which will also improve your reflex actions.

Here’s a simple exercise:

Place a simple pool noodle upright in one hand. Let it go, then catch it, as in the video below. Or, juggling, anyone? Simple, fun processes can help improve your reaction times.

My participants report their response times for tasks are improving and they’re enjoying the challenge.

There are other ways to help your reaction times, if you’re willing to try them. To continue the discussion and find out more about your brain and body, join the Me Active Facebook community.

How good are your reflex actions? Can you count on your instinctive reflexes to kick in before you have time to think danger through? Have you worked on improving your reaction times? What exercises have you done and what was the effect? Please share with our 60 & Me sisters! 

You can learn a lot about a woman by looking at her closet. Some closet spaces are tidy and arranged by color while others are in disarray with heaps of clothes that didn’t quite make it onto a hangar.

I think that the way we feel about our aging bodies has an impact on how we view the smallest room in the house. It might be small, and hidden but the emotions stored there are immense.

Once upon a time opening your closet was an exciting, self-esteem-building way to start your day. Now, approaching the same door in your comfy oversized robe is out of necessity and is not necessarily a joyful experience.

Limited Options

Facing our selection of clothes is a stark reminder of our age and the limited options that it brings. Long gone are the sleeveless frocks, skinny jeans, short skirts, and high heels. We stopped wearing anything sleeveless due to the combination of underarm wobble and skin as dry as the Sahara.

We can’t get the low-waist skinny jeans over the belly that has replaced our boobs. And the thought of exposing our road-mapped bare legs to the world is out of the question. Whatever happened to pantyhose? What a fabulous invention… cellulite remover, instant tan, and firmness sheath all in one.

Keeping the Dream Alive

Women of all ages have weight problems and poor body image. Some women fluctuate in weight so much that they have three different sizes of clothes at their disposal.

A great motivator/guilt enhancer is to have the smallest-sized group up front and center. Seeing your tiny-sized wardrobe from 1997 first thing can keep the dream alive that you will lose weight and fit in them again. Although it’s been 24 years, you WILL squeeze back into your ideal size and wardrobe.

Sexy Shoes No More

Another sign of our age is that the once sexy shoe collection has been replaced by a lovely assortment of orthopedic shoes and “going out to lunch” flats. You know you’re in trouble when your arches hurt in a pair of one-inch block heals.

We tell ourselves it’s okay since we no longer wear dresses and shorts so who needs leg- elongating shoes. Even younger women are wearing flats; the only difference is their ankles are still cute. We don’t ask for much, just shoes that are ankle minimizing, bunion covering and have steel support arches that can still pass for fashionable.

Thank Goodness for Accessories

Let’s not forget accessories. Have you noticed that older women take to wearing huge, bold jewelry? Regardless of the reason, the emphasis of the outfit has become the accessories. I think there are a couple of reasons for this. Unlike clothes, accessories are guaranteed to fit, and hopefully, they will draw attention away from the shapeless outfit with matching sensible shoes.

New Looks That Work

As the options of what actually looks good on us dissipate, we are left with some extreme choices. We can resort to high, elastic waist pants featuring wide legs that, above all, hide any lumps, or as the British say, “wobbly bits.”

And there are plenty of long-sleeved, high-necked tunics from the same “mature woman” department at your local mall. For resort and casual wear, a good old-fashioned moo moo or what they now refer to as a caftan will suffice.

I do have images of myself in a gorgeous, exotic print caftan looking both chic and effortless. The key to this look is that the fabric is nowhere near my body. Which eliminates the need for body smoothing, hip reducing, and anti-gravity lifting undergarment restraints.

Out With the Old

For many of us, it is time to face the reality of our age and our closet. I have put off doing this for far too long. It’s time to spend the better part of a weekend cleaning it out and in the process mourn the past.

Theoretically, purging clothes that no longer fit or are NOT age-appropriate should be an empowering experience. This is just another right of passage in an attempt to accept my age. I know I need to toss out the sleeveless section, donate the skinny jeans and have a ceremonial backyard burn for the short skirts that once turned heads.

And Finally, Acceptance

I would like to tell you that I feel better but to be honest, this process has been bittersweet. If I had gotten rid of half of my wardrobe 15 years ago, I would be excited at the prospect of going shopping and replacing them.

But instead, the thought of trying on clothes that don’t fit, are yet another size bigger and frankly make me look old… I think I can live with what I’ve got.

Have you faced your closet? Did you have trouble letting go of clothes and memories? Have you accepted what no longer looks good on you? Are you happy with how you look? Let’s have an honest discussion in the comments.

Leva Bonaparte’s Pearl Embellished Denim Jacket on Instagram

Southern Charm Instagram Fashion 2021

While people down south may be known for clutching their pearls, we’d like to clutch Leva Bonaparte’s pearl embellished denim jacket on Instagram. And lucky for us that’s possible considering the cute summer staple piece is still in stock, super affordable and ready to be worn out now that we’re vaxxed, waxed and in our Amazon prime. 

Fashionably,

Faryn

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Kristin Cavallari’s California Tee on Instastories

Kristin Cavallari Instagram Fashion 2021

California girl! Although Kristin Cavallari may live in Nashville, her heart clearly still resides on the west coast as made evident by her “California” graphic tee on Instastories. Which we’re very happy to report is still in stock and ready to be rocked no matter what your zip code is. 

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Faryn

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Originally posted at: Kristin Cavallari’s California Tee