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For years I’ve been skimping on eye cream in the mornings. I found that it made my under eye concealer slip off easier, and I figured since I was wearing it at night, I was covered. But as more and more fine lines quickly approach, I’ve been on the lookout for something that can handle all my going-out-in-the-sun needs, and guys, I think I’ve finally found it. This eye cream/concealer hybrid from Colorescience is like an eye cream on steroids. It hydrates, conceals, brightens and provides anti-aging benefits all in one.

You’re probably already using a tinted SPF or BB cream throughout the day, and you can think of this as a tinted eye cream. It has the feel of a cream but the color of a concealer, and thanks to ingredients like albizia julibrissin bark extract, sea water, sorbitol and jojoba esters, the eye area actually appears brighter as soon as you apply it. It has just the perfect amount of sheer color, and I love dabbing it on for my no-makeup makeup look days, or just when I need to run outside in the sun for some quick errands or a long walk to take in the gorgeous fall temps.

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It also acts as a primer so you can pat this on before you put on your all-day concealer and ensure you have SPF coverage throughout the day. This product is “phenomenal at light reflection and brightening,” wrote one reviewer on Amazon. “It’s expensive, but a little goes a long way.”

Another said, “I’ve been using this for a few years now. After about 5 minutes of putting it on, the puffiness is minimized. I don’t have huge bags but i do have dark circles. The tint helps with this also. I doesn’t have an odor and it goes on smoothly. I put my moisturizer on after this and it all blends well.”

The formula is also made without parabens, sulfates, phthalates and synthetic fragrance. It comes in four different shade ranges so you can find the perfect shade to dab out dark circles and instantly hydrate and brighten the eye area. The metal applicator tip stays cold so you get an additional boost of cold therapy every time you apply it.

Grab it from Amazon now for $74, or from the Colorescience website for just $62.90 once you enter code NG15 at checkout to save 15 percent.

They
say you never know what it’s like to stand in another person’s shoes. This is
such a profound and true statement when it comes to the relationship between
married and single friends in their 50s, 60s and beyond.

As a dating coach for women over 50, I hear the pain in women’s voices when they talk about their married friends, and the lives they miss being part of. They longingly wish they could share what it’s like to be single and alone at this time in their life without coming across as needy or unhappy.

My
hope is that this article opens everyone’s eyes to being more compassionate and
aware of what it’s like when life changes, you’re on your own, and no longer
part of a couple.

We Need Your Encouragement and Love

We
know you mean well when you tell us what a great catch we are and that we’ll be
married again before we know it. But when it doesn’t happen right away, we feel
like we’re a failure in your eyes.

Instead,
we’d love if you could encourage us to go out and date when we’re ready and
that you’ll be there to listen when we need a loving ear.

We Need You to Honor Our Choices

Please
try and give the men we’re dating a chance. We know it’s hard for you to adjust
to us being with someone else, especially when we’ve shared a long history
together.

Whether
he is in our life for six months or we marry him, if you and your husband could
make an effort to get to know this new man, we’d so appreciate it. When you
tell us that you don’t need to make new friends, what we hear is, you don’t
care about our friendship anymore, and that hurts.

We Need Your Support When It Doesn’t Work Out

Please
don’t share you thought a man was bad for us after we’ve broken up with him. Sometimes,
even if you didn’t like him, we did. Our hearts are hurting, and we could use
support at this time.

We Would Appreciate a Call

If
you haven’t heard from us in a while, instead of asking all our common friends
if they’ve seen us, give us a call to make sure we’re ok. It would mean a lot
to know we’re still on your radar.

We Would Love to Be Included in Parties

Please
consider inviting us back to the holiday parties we always enjoyed over the
years. We miss connecting with our couple friends, both male and female. We
were part of the group a long time and it hurts to be left out.

We Need Your Support in This Time of Change

Please
understand we’ve had to experience a lot of change on our own such as
downsizing, loss of people in our lives, and suddenly being single after being
part of a couple for so many years.

You
have a partner to share your emotions with. We are doing it all alone. This is
a time we could really use some support.

We Miss the Friendship and Weekly Get-Togethers

We
can spend a lot of dinner times on both weekdays and weekends alone, especially
if our kids live far away. Let’s do dinner together sometime and bring your
husband too. We’re not interested in them in anyway but as a friend, and we
miss the friendship all of us shared.

We Appreciate Your Loving Ear

Many of us are strong successful women. We have a tendency to hide the pain we’re feeling and will act as if everything is alright.

Sometimes
if we feel close and safe with you, we will dump everything that has been happening
in our lives on you because we have no one else to share our thoughts with. We
don’t mean to do that, but we are so grateful you let us express what is on our
mind.

You Can Lean on Us Too

We
so treasure our friendship and we’re here for you too when you need us.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

How
do you feel around your married friends? Does it feel awkward to be in the
company of a friend who has become single after 50? Why do you think you feel
that way? Do you think you can keep an open mind and heart and accept your
single friend for who she is now? Please share your thoughts in the comments
below.

So much of our daily life is the result of habits, and we don’t even realize it until we step aside and observe our actions. Eating, too, becomes habitual. Just take a moment and think about how, when, what and where you ate this past week. Then, read on.

Thinking Twice

Past experiences inform our relationship to food which enable many of our food choices to become thoughtless habits, and rightly so, freeing our minds for other things. However, not all habits are good ones.

Most people seldom think twice about their food until a medical diagnosis makes them realize there’s a need to shake up something that never really got much attention. It’s only then that it becomes evident that food is our medicine, but can also be our poison.

We’re a society riddled with obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases that have become painfully commonplace during the past 40 years. Yet with all this illness, most people simply don’t have the time to focus on what they’re actually eating and often don’t understand the real need to do so.

Living with Discomfort

If the pandemic made us realize that we have to eat better, then what will make us implement that? I meet with people who are suffering daily with symptoms of inflammation and digestive distress. They know they need to make some dietary changes, yet commitment is difficult and breaking habits even more so.

Unfortunately, living with discomfort is the norm and it’s not well understood that our bodies are meant to function without daily discomfort. Symptoms are signals, no matter how minor, that a change is needed. They’re like maintenance symbols lighting up on your car dashboard to tell you something needs to be checked and fixed. Sadly, sometimes we take better care of our cars than we do of ourselves.

Time for Change

As you get older, you need to start integrating small changes to break long habits before you’re forced to. This is especially important if you’re feeling weak and fatigued, suffer from inflammation or chronic pain or have difficulty with digestion.

Maybe you’re struggling to lose those extra pounds and diets aren’t working. Perhaps you’re eating when you’re not even hungry or eating more than you really need to and then feeling awful after. And, surely, if your daily eating consists of mostly food “products,” that is, highly processed packaged foods, now is the perfect time to start new habits with whole food.

Shifting Habits

The US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) devised a three ‘R’ approach to improving poor eating habits by recommending to reflect, replace, and reinforce.

Reflection to acknowledge the eating habits you have. Replacement to rid your unhealthy habits with new healthier ones, and reinforcement to make sure the new habits last. It’s a helpful framework that lays out a realistic plan for success. It just needs implementation.

You can start by getting back to the how, when, what, and where you ate. What did you discover? When you answer these questions and then contemplate why you ate this way, you can begin to devise ways to change some habits around food. We often just need to take time to notice.

Sometimes ease, cost and time are factors that influence our habits, and these are all very valid causes, but there are often alternative options that are equally easy, cost effective and time saving. Sometimes we just need to give our creative selves the time to find them.

Small Change Is Lasting Change

Get Organized

Plan ahead. Weekly meal planning and shopping can sometimes eliminate the need to grab that quick “go to” when time is short.

Switch Up the Snacks

Keep some cleaned, chopped vegetables and fruit, hard boiled eggs, pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds on your counter or in your fridge, this makes better alternatives easier to access.

Don’t Overcomplicate Things

You can make great meals with a few simple ingredients and herbs (rich in flavor and nutrients) and get mouthwatering results without complicated hours of cooking. Stay in budget without the need for packaged meals or fast food take out. Simple can be delicious.

No matter how you choose to shift your outlook on food, give yourself some slack. Changing habits is hard and you need to be patient with yourself. Small steps are always better than large ones, and they tend to actually last, which makes all the difference.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

Are your eating habits leading to healthy aging results, or do they lead you to chronic inflammation? Have you tried changing your habits? What strategy have you used and did it work?

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There’s nothing more important than having multi-tasking products in your skincare cabinet. Though having a 10-step or more skincare routine is in vogue, versatile formulas save you both time and money, and isn’t that always the end goal? You might be wondering where the heck to start, but to keep it short and sweet, you really only need to find yourself a solid vitamin C serum. 

How could a single product be able to do so much? It’s simple: Vitamin C is known to promote collagen production, protect against free radical damage and smooth skin texture. All of that manifests itself in a radiant, even, youthful-looking complexion. That’s why Dermalogica’s Biolumin-C Serum needs to be in your shopping cart right this second. It’s a lightweight serum that taps on vitamin C, lactic acid and chia seed oil. Together, they brighten, exfoliate, protect and firm your skin so well that you’ll be shocked by the results. 

It’s not surprising that the product has earned a 4.6-star overall rating, with one shopper saying, “This serum makes my skin look clean and dewy. I’m obsessed. A must for anyone starting to see fine lines.”

If you’re trying to fade hyperpigmentation, get rid of tiny bumps on your skin and lessen the appearance of wrinkles, you’re in the right place. Dermalogica’s vitamin C Serum is ready to instantly transform your skin into an even brighter, dewier masterpiece. 

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A trio of key ingredients gives this serum its magical, skin-altering powers. The vitamin C complex is made up of two stable forms of vitamin C that work together to brighten and smooth your complexion. Additionally, lactic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid, sloughs off dead skin cells to reveal a stunningly clear and glowy layer of skin. On top of all that, chia seed oil protects skin from environmental aggressors, which is always a must. With an ingredient list that good, we’re more than certain your skin’s about to serve.

“I could tell a difference in the brightness and feel of my face within the first five days,” wrote one reviewer. “As time went on I started to have a radiant glow. I had a few dark spots that are getting lighter by the day.”

To apply, use a full dropper of product and rub it all over your face and neck in both the morning and night. Be sure to do this after toning but before moisturizing to see the best results. 

“This serum works incredibly well in brightening dull, aging skin. I am very happy with the results in just the first few weeks,” wrote another shopper. 

Don’t put up with hyperpigmentation, uneven texture or damaged skin any longer; Dermalogica’s Biolumin-C Serum is here to bring all of the radiance, protection and clarity you deserve.