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When Chrissy Teigen shares her favorite makeup or skincare products, we listen. So when she took to Instagram Live to share all the must-have beauty essentials she packs for trips. In a towel and a face mask, Teigen showed her favorite pimple stickers, the Zitsticka Killa that are actually currently on sale during Ulta’s Early Black Friday sale. Chances are, you use pimple patches too and you might want to get your hands on these.

After sharing everything in her makeup bag, Teigen got down to skincare and held up Zitsticka Killa. “They are so awesome,” she said. “They’re these little patches with these little, not needles, but pokeys and you put them into your pimple and leave it on all day or whatever you want and it dries out your pimpke and I love it.”

Those “pokeys” are actually 24 microneedles that dissolve into the pimple. Killa is different from regular hydrocolloid patches in that there are also acne-fighting ingredients infused within. In this case, there’s salicylic acid to kill bacteria, niacinamide to reduce inflammation and hyaluronic acid to retain moisture.

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Zitsticka.

Zitsticka Killa is for those new, up-and-coming zits that haven’t yet come to the service. A flat hydrocolloid patch will work well for those. Each Killa box comes with eight microneedle Killa patches and eight priming Cleana swabs used to prep the zit before patch application. You won’t get that satisfying white gunk in the patch, but instead you’ll be shocked by how well these shrink a swollen, red spot. You might need to use another one the next night to keep the pimple from ever becoming mature in the first place.

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If you asked us what kind of makeup we’re going for this fall, we’d say dewy, radiant, minimal and sun-kissed. When autumn hits, your skin doesn’t magically start to glow. You likely have to turn to beauty products to get that coveted summer luminosity. There are so many highlighters and glow sticks that claim to be the cream of the crop, but we’re here to tell you that Saie’s Glowy Super Gel is the only thing you need to bring brightness and shimmer back to your complexion.

The Glowy Super Gel does precisely what its name suggests. It’s a lightweight illuminator that you can wear alone, under your base makeup, as a primer or as a highlighter. It’s multi-use indeed and we can’t wait to use it for all of the above. You’re going to want to scoop it up ASAP because the product previously sold out but is finally back in stock.

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If you don’t believe us, watch this try-on from everyone’s fave beauty TikToker, @mikaylanogueira. She calls the Glowy Super Gel “extremely lightweight,” which can be attributed to its 75 percent water content. “It has a really nice cooling effect and I love the texture, it’s so thin. This is an immediate hit. Look at this skin, it’s so pretty. Wow, I really like this. Oh my god, I’m obsessed.”

That is one fabulous first impression of the product, and her words aside, just look at her face. Her complexion is giving glazed donut and dolphin skin all in one. The luminizer is so glowy that it almost looks like her skin is blurred or like she has a filter on.

“This product is amazing,” raved one five-star reviewer. “Makes your skin look years younger. I would buy it again and recommend this to everyone. Plus, you can wear it alone.”

You might look at the product and think it’s solely a makeup product, but it actually contains a bunch of glow-enhancing skincare ingredients. Keep reading for more on what makes this luminizer so good that TikTokers like @mikaylanogueira are losing it.

RELATED: TikTokers Swear This $18 Serum Is The Perfect Dupe For Charlotte Tilbury’s Hollywood Flawless Filter 

Photo: Saie.

To give your complexion a lit-from-within glow, papaya and vitamin C brighten, plant-derived glycerin hydrates and rosehip seed oil provides radiance and moisture. And because water takes up 75 percent of the formula, the result is a thin, weightless consistency that blends into the skin seamlessly.

There are so many different ways to wear this illuminator. Add a couple of drops into your moisturizer or foundation, wear it alone, use it as a base for your makeup or tap it on your cheekbones as a highlight. Either way, you’ll have an eye-catching sheen that’ll fall right in line with the fresh-faced, glowing, sun-kissed skin that everyone seems to be showing off these days. 

The two universal shades will look great on any skin tone, so choose between bronzy Sunglow or champagne-y Starglow (or, a simple solution: just get both).

When you’re done with the bottle—and we know you’ll empty it quickly—remember to recycle it. Just twist off the plastic pump to remove the inner pouch. Then, recycle the glass bottle.

From ingredients to packaging, the Glowy Super Gel really is super! It’s so good it has a near-perfect 4.8-star rating on Saie’s website. 

“I didn’t expect to like this product as much as I do, but I’ve been wearing it almost every day since it arrived,” wrote one shopper who gave the product a five-star rating. “It feels really good on my skin and sometimes it’s enough all on its own and I skip wearing makeup for the day!”

You can also dab it on your chest, collarbones, shoulders and legs to highlight those areas, making it a true multi-use product.

“I really like this product and it goes on so smoothly! It gives my face a lovely glow that looks like a touch of sun but is not overwhelming,” wrote another reviewer. “Lovely clean feeling product and you don’t need a lot for a nice healthy glow.”

If these glowing reviews and Mikayla Nogueira don’t already have you completely sold, then you’ll just have to try Saie’s Glowy Super Gel for yourself. We have a feeling you’ll be applying it all year round.

As children we were easily scared by a ghoulish costume, a haunted house, or a truly ghastly ghost story, especially during the Autumn season when the days are getting shorter and the nights longer. Then we grew up and realized that there are more scary things in life than our dad in a sheet making boo noises on Halloween.

During midlife it is easy to regulate retirement preparation to the back burner during the crazy days of teenagers, aging parents, career promotion or pivots, friendships, and community involvement. Preparation can be scary for a new phase of life, and many of us let the overwhelm paralyze us from taking action, thinking we’ll start planning next January, or when school starts again, or after we’ve met with our financial advisor.

Yearly meetings with your financial planner are not enough to prepare you for the next phase of life. Now, don’t get me wrong – understanding your finances, decreasing your expenses, and downsizing your home are all important factors in retirement.

Besides daydreaming wistfully about “someday” or talking to friends about their financial plans over coffee, the actual planning beyond money in retirement never seems to happen. Many of my clients confess to putting off planning because it seemed daunting.

Stepping into this season is joyful and exciting. When working with clients, I share that the first steps to a successful retirement are as easy as P.I.E.

P = Prioritize Your Time

Without the 9-5 demands of your career to build your days around, how will you use your time in retirement? Will you spend more time on hobbies such as gardening, scuba diving, composing, or painting?

Would you like to take trips? How often? Do you want to be a sightseer, a volunteer, or both? What about exercise? Friends? Grandkids? How about earning a degree, becoming a mentor, or writing a book? What new challenges will you embrace to stay young?

One of my favorite activities as a coach is to help my clients narrow in on how they’d like to spend their time during retirement. Cindy, a client who was able to retire a bit earlier than initially planned because of good investments, decided to center her time on daily yoga, coffee with friends, writing a book, and training her two Goldendoodle puppies (dogs are her passion).

Sandra, a retired investment banker, booked four international trips in the year after she retired because she hadn’t been able to travel while working. As an amateur medieval European historian, she had all the sites in Europe planned out before her official retirement day dawned.

Lisa was very active in her community before retirement. She transitioned directly from full-time work into full-time volunteering with three different organizations (and is the happiest person you will ever meet).

All three of these women had a different vision for their retirement, but the key to their happy transition from the 9-5 world was a plan.

Studies show that retired adults stay young by filling their social calendar, exercising, keeping their brains sharp with continuous learning, and setting new goals. A range of studies from the Center for a Secure Retirement to the Huffington Post shows one of the most important factors in staying young is to have goals in every area of your life including physical, relationship, and education goals.

So, as you step off the career rollercoaster, what are some new goals you’d like to accomplish, and what are your priorities?

I = Intentional Living

Choosing goals is the first step, and probably the easiest. We all make a list of resolutions in January when we’re all full of sweets and optimism for the new year ahead of us, only to find our motivation peter out by February.

So, as you think about retirement, it may be easy for you to rattle off a list of goals for when you have more free time, especially if you’ve been putting off things that speak to your heart. However, thinking or dreaming about your priorities is not enough. You need to take intentional steps toward the creation of your new life.

The key is action.

For example, when I first met with Sandra (the client I mentioned above) she was two years from retirement. When we talked about her goals, one of the first things she mentioned was wanting to go to Europe “someday.” I asked her where in Europe, and she answered, “Everywhere.”

I probed a bit more and asked if she had an updated passport (she wasn’t sure). So, we discussed how she could take intentional steps towards her priorities in retirement, one of which was traveling. We wrote a list of 12 tasks, one that could be completed each month for the next year, and then we would reassess.

That initial list included updating her passport, making a list of countries she wanted to visit by importance, buying guidebooks, researching hotels and transportation, and booking a plane ticket.

Cindy decided to research what type of dog she was going to adopt as her retirement present to herself, watch videos and read books on training dogs, and register for a weekend class on writing fiction.

Lisa met unofficially, and then officially, with the directors where she volunteered to feel out positions that would be opening. Together they discussed what she wanted her schedule to look like, and which tasks she did not want to take on as a full-time volunteer. She did all of this before retiring from her demanding career in education, setting small goals.

Design your intentional retirement plans by planning backward. If your ultimate priority in retirement is to hike the Appalachian Trail or climb Mount Kilimanjaro, what are the steps you need to take to get there? Start building up body resistance by weightlifting, researching trail food, and planning your trip now.

If you’d like a more comprehensive social network or even to start dating again, how can you go about meeting people now? Could you join a book club or take a cooking class? These are things that a coach can help you problem-solve.

E = Embrace the Season

Just like in adulthood, there are seasons to retirement as well. You may have experienced young parenthood through the empty nest or started as a novice at your company and are now managing an entire division. It is the same with retirement. You will go through transitions during your retirement years that require you to pivot.

As part of our plan when discussing your priorities, we also look at the seasons of retirement. These seasons are a bit different for everyone.

Perhaps you’d like to spend the first couple of years during retirement helping with grandchildren like my client Betsy. After speaking with her son’s family, she volunteered to pick up the kids from school two days a week, drive them to activities, provide snacks, and drive them home.

This provided her son a break from carpool duty and gave Betsy one-on-one time with her grandkids. Both children were in middle school and as they moved onto high school and no longer required rides, Betsy planned to travel during the winter months as well as continue teaching yoga and golfing.

Lisa, my client who became a full-time volunteer, decided that after a couple of years of volunteering, she would like to transition to a part-time role to spend more time with her now retired husband and best friends as well as explore some continuing education classes and travel.

What might these seasons look like for you?

Ready to start working on Priorities, be Intentional, and Embrace your season?

As a life and career coach, I guide women who want more out of life and find themselves dissatisfied in some undefinable way. We always get to the root of the issue. There’s so much more to talk about! If you’d like more free tips and inspiration, visit my website, deborahvoll.com. Sign up for my free weekly newsletter and listen to my interviews with fascinating guests on my podcast, “Calm the Chaos.”

If you want to talk to me personally, take advantage of my free one-hour consult, which you’ll also find on my website. In the meantime, move from dreaming to action!

Let’s Have a Conversation:

Now, it’s your turn! What kind of retirement planning are you doing? How have you prioritized your goals and made intentional plans? What is your experience with time in your retirement? Never enough hours in the day? Does time drag? Tell me in the comments box below so we can all share and learn together.

Fall/Winter 2022/23 fashion trends come on the heels of Spring/Summer 2022 trends where the world was crawling out of a pandemic that included some pretty gloomy times for everyone. The Spring/Summer 2022 colors were bright and flashy, and the shapes were adventurous and fun.

Fall fashions typically tend to be more earth colored and subdued, but this year we saw a lot of hot pink and neon colors on the Fall/Winter 2022/23 runways. The post-pandemic freedom is palpable!

Top Trends Fall/Winter 2022/23 for women over 50.

1. Knee-high boots
2. Bell Bottom Jeans
3. Leather/Faux Leather jackets
4. Blazers
5. Belts
6. White Shirts & Tanks
7. Long Coats
8. Maxi Skirts
9. Sequins
10. Plaids

While trends are not attached to a specific age range, some fashion trends are simply not feasible for women over 50. What I like to do is look at the big picture at what is trending, then break it down to make it accessible for fashionable older women.

Fashion and luxury lifestyle blog Glamour and Gains founder, Eve Dowes, offers a good example of this. She says that she doesn’t really believe there’s any such thing as dressing for a certain age but one thing she has been asked by her older clientele is for styles that cover more of the arms or that offer lower heels.

With knee-high boots and over-the-knee boots being a big Fall/Winter 2022/23 fashion trend, one suggestion would be to go for a flat boot with either a thin sole for a classic look or chunky lug sole to be more fashion-forward or a small heel versus the platforms that are trending now.

Read 12 STYLES OF WOMEN’S WINTER FASHION BOOTS.

Sixty & Me contributor and fashion blogger, Jodie Filogomo, gives us her views on Fall/Winter 2022/23 trends.

“Different silhouettes of jeans. Personally, I think it’s fabulous to have a variety of silhouettes in our closet. The skinny jean will always be a classic style now since they are easy to tuck into boots and act as a thicker legging. But many times the bootcut jeans and wider leg jeans fit us older women even better. Many of the newer versions of these jeans will have some spandex, so they will be just as comfortable.

The best way to make them work in your closet is to find inspiration from Pinterest or other women and be open to new looks.”

NYDJ Teresa Wide Leg Jeans

“Leather. Leather and faux leather are great for so many reasons. For the colder weather, they act as better insulation. And my favorite aspect about them?? The pet hair doesn’t stick to them. Just think of them as the perfect option for pet lovers!!

If you haven’t embraced the leather trend yet, I would start with a shirt or shacket. You will be surprised at how much you love them!”

Michael Kors Plus Size Faux-Fur-Collar Leather Moto Jacket, created for Macy’s.

“Blazers. I’m so excited that blazers are a huge trend for fall because it’s such an easy way to give any outfit an upscale vibe.

If you’ve thrown out all of your work blazers, don’t fret. The second hand stores can have a huge selection. And don’t think they need to be boring. You can always DIY some embroidery or any kind of extras onto the blazer to make them less “professional” Just as I did here with one of my work blazers. Best of all, many of the newer blazers are a knit material, so they are comfortable and easy to move around in. Think of putting them on instead of wearing your denim jacket.”

Knit Blazer at Talbots

“Belts. Belts are one of those underappreciated accessories. I know many of my friends shy away from them because of the weight gain in their midsections. Yet as Lesley showcases on my site, any woman can wear a belt. I would start with the thinner belts and try wearing them under a cardigan or shacket. One trick is to take a selfie wearing the belt and not wearing the belt and compare the two. Sometimes the outfit is better with it, and sometimes without.”

GIANI BERNINI Cobra Chain Logo Stretch Belt

More Fall/Winter 2022/23 Trends

White Shirts/White Tank Tops

Crisp white shirts and also white tank tops can be seen in most collections. Wear them with blue jeans and trendy boots for the perfect fall look.

Long Jackets and Coats

Long and oversized coats are seen in several collections in an array of colors, from tan to bright pink.

Maxi Skirts

Everything seems maxi this season, including maxi skirts.

Animal Prints

Go wild with animal prints. Animal prints never really go out of style. They are a staple print and can be worn practically any way. Yet, in some seasons they seem to be more popular than others. Fall Winter 2022/23 is one of them!

Sequins

Time to glitter and shine! Sequins are all over and are not limited to the holiday season only.

Plaids

Plaid patterns of all colors can be seen in blazers, pants, skirts, shirts, and jackets.

You probably have some items in your closet that fit right into this season’s trends. Mix and match and have fun with your outfits.

Read 5 WAYS TO REFRESH YOUR FALL WARDROBE AND GET MORE FROM FASHION OVER 60.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

What is your favorite trend this season? Where is your favorite place to shop for new trends? Tell us about it in the comments below.

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If you’re using retinol on your face but not your body, we need to talk. While transforming skin with retinol is mostly left up to the visage, next level body care is getting yourself a lotion with retinol in it. Vitamin A is my best skin care friend, so I make sure that all of my skin is covered in it.

Medix’s 5.5 Retinol Cream combines anti-aging ingredients with natural antioxidants to help decrease the look of wrinkles and fine lines, while natural ferulic acid targets sun-damaged skin. This well-reviewed body care product (it’s up to almost 30,000 reviews on Amazon—and counting) quickly transforms skin and brings life back to you. You can also use it on your face if you don’t already have a retinol in your skin care routine. Bonus points for the chamomile and botanimoist AMS, which helps increase your skins hydration by almost 88%. Your skin will feel hydrates and moisturized, on top of feeling oh so smooth.

Courtesy of Medix.

Medix 5.5 Retinol Body Lotion Moisturizer Face & Body Cream

This Medix 5.5 Retinol Body Lotion Moisturizer Face & Body Cream is a great moisturizer for skin that feels crepey, wrinkles, sagging skin, and sun damage. It’s vegan and cruelty-free, so it’s not tested on animals.

Reviewers love and rave about this body lotion, claiming that it erases the appearance of crepey skin almost immediately. One user said, “In the past two years, the back of my hands had developed crepey dried skin that looked like shiny cracked earth. It was very noticeable. Although I am 63, my face and body look 20 years younger but my crepey hands look at least 10 years older! I wore moisturizing gloves with lotion on at bedtime but not much improvement had shown. I purchased Medix. The first three days I was able to see drastic improvement. A week later my skin had gotten so smooth there was no traces of crepey skin at all. Thank you Medix! I shall recommend this product to all my friends and family.”