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Olivia Wilde always looks stunning, and the looks she’s been serving lately prove it. At a recent event, her plunging yellow suit turned heads, dropped jaws, took breaths away and made us believe that God is, in fact, a woman. The ’fit was to die for, but we couldn’t help but notice that her décolleté was also in a league of its own.

Turns out, Miss Wilde, who’s a True Botanicals brand ambassador, used a secret product to keep her breasts looking perky. It’s a boob cream that contains ingredients that are super beneficial for firming, plumping, nourishing and hydrating the area. It also happens to be on sale at True Botanicals during the brand’s Labor Day sale, where everything is 20 percent off with code TBSAVE20. 

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All of those results are great, but taking care of and hydrating your breasts is also key to keeping them nice and youthful. Like everywhere else on your body, they age and change in appearance over time. It turns out that breast skin is much thinner and therefore more delicate. Not to mention, as you age and as your body’s estrogen levels drop, the tissue of your breasts and your skin’s elasticity can cause them to lower.  

You don’t have to sit back and watch time take its course, though. Think ahead like Wilde and try True Botanicals’ Boob Cream to restore elasticity and plumpness to your girls. 

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Photo: True Botanicals.

You might still have questions about how a single cream can make your boobs look incredible and keep them appearing youthful. It’s easy—ingredients like Grecian Coast tree sap firms and plumps, while rose hip, coconut and jojoba oils hydrate. To top it off, peach butter nourishes skin and helps counteract crepiness that the sun can cause.

Designed by women for women, the True Botanicals cream is packed with hydrating and anti-aging ingredients that nourish your sensitive skin. Additionally, the cream is vegan, certified non-toxic, paraben-free, cruelty-free and sustainably made. It also has the most calming aroma thanks to its notes of ylang ylang, neroli and frankincense. A goop that does good and smells good—now that’s what we need in our bathrooms. 

All you have to do is spread a quarter size of the cream onto your neck, chest and boobs, and gently rub it in. This should be the final step in your skincare routine, and you should indulge in both the morning and evening. 

But don’t let us continue to blabber, because it really is that simple and straightforward. Wilde’s yellow suit look confirms that True Botanicals’ Boob Cream is well worth a try. Grab a jar at a discount during the Labor Day Sale to get firmer, more youthful, more hydrated boobs ASAP.

Tamra Judge’s Black Asymmetrical Cutout Dress on Instagram

Real Housewives of Orange County Instagram Fashion 2022

Nature is healing and Tamra Judge is right back to where she belongs: in the confessional chair for RHOC where she looks freakin’ amazing in this black asymmetrical cutout dress. And needless to say this pic is getting us very excited for Season 17 so that we can see what kinda drama she has up her (one) sleeve. 

Fashionably,

Faryn

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Have you ever watched how young children behave in an airport? Or at a zoo? They race around the place, their desperate parents trying valiantly to corral them, often a toddler stumble-walking behind, hoping to catch up with the fun.

Because, at that young age, it is fun. Oh sure, children tend to settle down somewhat around the age of 9 or 10, but before then, watch out! With shrieks of joy and boundless energy, off they zip.

Which means that young children get an enormous amount of highly beneficial exercise from simply having fun. Exercise is critical to their physical development, growth and motor skills – something they know nothing about. All they know is the exuberant joy of movement.

Fast forward a few decades, and exercise is rarely about having fun. It could be, it certainly can be, but for too many of us, exercise is forcing ourselves off the couch to take a walk, go to the gym, or whatever else we define as exercise. But here’s the thing: exercise doesn’t just do wonders for our physical body, it is great for our mental health as well.

How Exercise Staves Off Cognitive Decline

This is not news. Science has known for some time how connected exercise is to good mental health. However, what is news, is recent research that shows more specifically how exercise contributes to preventing cognitive decline as we age. Namely, the dreaded Alzheimer’s and dementia that are the result of cognitive decline.

The researchers found that to keep electrical signals moving efficiently through what’s called “synapses” between neurons and onto other cells in the body, our brains must continuously replace the proteins that wear out in those synapses.

There’s more to it, of course, but the bottom-line findings of the research are that “exercise boosts proteins in the brain that protect against cognitive decline.” And that holds true at any age, even if you start to exercise later in life.

Get Motivated

What is often lacking, even when we know something is “good” for us, is the motivation to actually do it – unlike the three- and four-year-olds who haven’t a clue as to what’s good for them or not; they just know that running around is fun. It is all the motivation they need.

The motivation for Robin Borlandoe, at 70, to start seriously exercising again was her wish to help others. Back when she was 17, Robin had been a community pool lifeguard. She then had a career as a hospital office manager, raised a family of three daughters and became a grandmother to six.

All well and good.

None of which predicted that Robin would return to lifeguarding at any point in her life. Yet that is exactly how Robin answered her Pittsburgh community’s call for lifeguards. With summer coming up, and far too few lifeguards available, Robin decided to help out her community.

Robin trained from doing three laps to the required 12, took the certification exam, and voila! She spent her summer poolside, ready to do whatever was needed to keep children safe in the pool. And, in the process, Robin unknowingly was giving her brain the protein “boost” that would help protect her from cognitive decline.

Choose What Works for You

It doesn’t matter why you exercise or what you choose to do for exercise. The researchers were clear that even walking counts. What matters is that you do it consistently. It certainly helps if you enjoy what you do because that will keep you doing it. Figure out the exercise that is a source of more pleasure than pain for you, and have at it! Your brain will thank you.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

What type of exercise do you do consistently? Does what you do for exercise bring you joy? How do you feel after completing your exercise?

I’ve heard
many times that aging is about loss, and I don’t disagree. But I would offer
that it’s also about hard-earned gains – which are often the result of those
losses.

It’s true that with time life throws us curveballs and we grieve many losses – a spouse, parents, children, a marriage, the reflection that was once in the mirror and the confidence we had in our youth; perhaps having influence and receiving recognition or maybe having a clear role and purpose in life.

It’s easy to look
in the mirror and see a lesser version of our former selves, battered by the
winds of change and loss, grieving what once was, in a state of survival, or
maybe just existing.

Choose Your Version of Uncomfortable

Facing loss is,
at the very least, an uncomfortable place to be. Perhaps it’s uncomfortable
because we’ve outgrown the old version of ourselves. Our former selves no
longer fit into our current life.

It’s time to
grow – and that growth requires new skills. It is growth that no previous version
of us could accomplish.

It’s true
that growth is uncomfortable too. So, this is, in every way, a matter of
choosing to stay in an uncomfortable (albeit familiar) place, or uncomfortably,
but firmly, reach for the potential that only now opens before us.

It’s also a
shift in identity. Do we choose to identify with a lesser version of our former
self, as unpleasant as that might be? Perhaps the familiarity we’re used to keeps
us stuck.

Maybe we
don’t believe that we’re capable of more, or we don’t feel deserving of more.
Maybe the people around us aren’t supportive because they benefit from who we
are now. Or possibly the negativity committee chattering in our minds needs to
be evicted immediately.

Losses Can Produce Gains

I’ve never
met a strong person with an easy past. I naturally gravitate to people who have
endured the worst of what life can deliver. They are the most interesting, deep,
and positive people I know.

Life knocked
them flat, and then they regained their footing, they willed their hearts to
beat, and put one foot in front of the other. Initially, they chose to survive
minute by minute; later they merely existed. But eventually they began to live
again, even thrive.

In his book, The
Prophet, Kahlil Gibran writes, “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. (…) The
deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

Perhaps the
more sorrow we carve into our being, the more we can become. The more we can
live fully and love deeply, the more we can leave a mark on our world.

The depth of
our being makes room for more kindness and wisdom and more courage to become a
new version of ourselves – not in spite
of our losses, but because of them.

Find Your Anchor and Thrive

When life
knocks us down, it is our choice to survive, and later exist, and perhaps
eventually thrive. Grief looks different for everyone; there are no time
limits, no rules, no right or wrong way to do it. But ultimately, the world
needs the person we were meant to become because of loss.

To choose to
stay in a place of mere survival or existence is certainly an option, but one
that falls short when it comes to reaching your potential. The next version of
yourself is different, deeper and more resilient, it’s a beautiful product that
didn’t exist before.

With each
step, find your why and anchor yourself to it. Choose to live for two – yourself
and the person you’ve lost – and aim to
be the things you loved most about them. Make a bucket list of ways to honor
the past while living fully in the present.  

Moment by
moment, be courageous enough to draw the next breath and keep stepping through your
life after loss. Eventually, in your own time and on your own terms, decide to
thrive. The world is waiting for this new version of you.

What losses
have you suffered lately? Have you grown stronger because of them? In what
ways? Has there been a loss that brought you down in a way that you thought you
would never get up again? How did you conquer it? Please share your stories in
the comments below.

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When I think of cream foundation, the first thing that comes to mind is cake. No, not cake cake but the textured, flakey way my face looks when wearing it. That’s usually because stick cream formulas tend to feel dry while most compact versions are too heavy. It seems Patrick Ta might have cracked the code with his brand-new Major Skin Crème Foundation and Finishing Powder Duo. Allow me to explain.

The celebrity makeup artist (for the likes of Gigi Hadid and Camila Cabello) just launched his first complexion product, so I headed to the Patrick Ta Beauty office in Los Angeles to learn all about it. At first, I thought Major Skin was going to be full coverage, but I quickly learned it’s a lot sheerer — in a good way. This is a lightweight, light-to-medium buildable foundation. It’s very forgiving and very skin-like. I would describe it as more coverage than Jones Road What the Foundation but less than KVD Beauty Good Apple Foundation.

“I wanted something effortless like I would wear,” Ta tells me. “It’s your Monday through Friday foundation.” Because most folks would want a little extra coverage for a night out, he says. I tell him I probably would just add concealer to this pretty base. Maybe that’s coming next?!

Patrick Ta.

What’s especially interesting about this launch is the addition of a setting powder 1-2 shades lighter than the foundation. I learned that’s for mattifying any oily areas and “making pores disappear.” This isn’t meant to be an allover powder, Ta says. Instead, use the tapered end of the new Dual-Ended Complexion Brush ($45 at Sephora) to spot cover the middle of your face and under your eyes. Because the color is a little lighter, it gives a pretty brightening effect. Of course, the other end is for applying the foundation and ensuring the most even coverage.

There are 24 shades to choose from, taking into account undertones. It’s not the most foundation shades ever but the sheer formula is very forgiving. In some seriously harsh lighting and 100-degree Los Angeles heat, I snapped a photo of how the foundation was laying on my face while a makeup artist was applying it. I was pleasantly surprised to see myself glowy and smooth, especially since I wasn’t wearing concealer or even primer. I’m wearing Fair 3, a golden neutral.

It’s recommended that those with dry skin apply moisturizer before the cream foundation but if you’re more oily, you may not need to. (Sunscreen is a must though!)

Elizabeth Denton.

After I walked around Target for an hour post-application, the foundation still looked great. My hair on the other hand — let’s not discuss that. The heat is killing me.

Elizabeth Denton.

I’m impressed with Patrick Ta’s first complexion launch. I keep hearing “foundation is over” but maybe the way we’re wearing it has just changed. Letting skin peek through — freckles, melasma and all — feels fresher than ever.