For some reason, bangs are always a bit controversial. Curtain bangs are no different. Some love them and some aren’t feeling them and others think people are calling long layers bangs when they’re really just a layer. Bur regardless, Ashley Benson does have new curtain bangs are they look great on her. The actress shared a video of her on set wearing a wavy bob wig and apparently, it inspired her to make a real change.

Not only did Benson get curtain bangs, but she also went shorter allover and much lighter. “The focal point of this look is the cut and color combo,” her hairstylist Joseph Maine said in a statement. “I love how the platinum color really compliments her skin and the dark root gives her a lot of depth, making her light blonde pop. The depth in her root also goes with her eyebrows and makes her eyes stand out. For the style, I wanted it to look effortless and just slightly tousled.”

Instagram.com/ashleybenson.

“I love working with Ashley because we get to try so many different looks,” the Trademark Beauty co-founder said. “She’s always up for new things. This is our first time really playing with her hair since Paris Fashion Week in March where we did eight different looks. It was fun to try something new today! While this is a wig that she’s currently rocking, we were so inspired by it that we ended up chopping her real hair super short too. It’s pretty drastic!”

Source: Instagram

Benson’s new bangs will take a little styling work to get used to but they’re very versatile. She can wear them straight forward, blown-out in a cool ’70s way or even just tuck them into the rest of her hair when she’s not feeling then. They’ll also grow out easily right into her chic bob. We love them and hope she keeps them around for a while—until she switches it up again.

For some reason, bangs are always a bit controversial. Curtain bangs are no different. Some love them and some aren’t feeling them and others think people are calling long layers bangs when they’re really just a layer. Bur regardless, Ashley Benson does have new curtain bangs are they look great on her. The actress shared a video of her on set wearing a wavy bob wig and apparently, it inspired her to make a real change.

Not only did Benson get curtain bangs, but she also went shorter allover and much lighter. “The focal point of this look is the cut and color combo,” her hairstylist Joseph Maine said in a statement. “I love how the platinum color really compliments her skin and the dark root gives her a lot of depth, making her light blonde pop. The depth in her root also goes with her eyebrows and makes her eyes stand out. For the style, I wanted it to look effortless and just slightly tousled.”

Instagram.com/ashleybenson.

“I love working with Ashley because we get to try so many different looks,” the Trademark Beauty co-founder said. “She’s always up for new things. This is our first time really playing with her hair since Paris Fashion Week in March where we did eight different looks. It was fun to try something new today! While this is a wig that she’s currently rocking, we were so inspired by it that we ended up chopping her real hair super short too. It’s pretty drastic!”

Source: Instagram

Benson’s new bangs will take a little styling work to get used to but they’re very versatile. She can wear them straight forward, blown-out in a cool ’70s way or even just tuck them into the rest of her hair when she’s not feeling then. They’ll also grow out easily right into her chic bob. We love them and hope she keeps them around for a while—until she switches it up again.

Our attitudes toward the important things in life – relationships, money, and careers – are shaped by the experiences we have in our youth. The Millennial generation – our kids, in other words – are demonstrating this in their attitudes toward saving, investing, and real estate.

Check out this interesting article in The Motley Fool on the financial habits of Boomers versus those of their children. It gives us a whole new take on the term “sandwich generation.”

Millennials Treat Money Like Their Grandparents Did

The Millennials are more like their grandparents than they are like us in their thinking about where to put their savings and how to invest. Apparently, we’re more trusting and invest a larger percentage of our savings in the stock market.

Millennials, like their grandparents, like to keep their savings in cash, and are far less trusting than we Boomers are. The author of the Motley Fool article, Amanda Alix, surmises that perhaps there’s similarity in the experiences of our parents, who lived through the Great Depression, and our children, who entered the adult world during a serious recession.

I think their “financial thinking alliance” with their grandparents also might have to do with the high rate of divorce among the baby boomer generation. We talk a lot about the emotional devastation our children suffered when their parents divorced, but what about the financial consequences, too?

How many of our children have seen households torn asunder, possessions split between two households, lessons terminated, clothing allowances constricted and style of living in general taken down a peg – or two – when their parents divorced?

That’s got to make them think about how attached one should be to material possessions; how important it should be to keep up with the Joneses; how risky it would be to try to build a financial castle that may turn out to be just a house of cards.

The interesting counterpoint is that our children have a high degree of trust in our advice when it comes to financial matters. Go figure.

A Time in Life to Teach Financial Management by Example

As we now go forward in life into older age brackets, retirement and perhaps more limited financial means than when we were younger, we have an opportunity to teach our Millennials by example again – only this time in a more positive light and with more planning and control over the outcome.

If we face our financial futures squarely, employ good planning skills and demonstrate admirably reasonable behavior, we can show Millennials some really good things, like what it looks like to marshal your financial resources, adopt a realistic outlook and make healthy and happy decisions.

One major decision that we all face as we age is where and how we will live. And unlike our Depression-era parents, we seem to be looking at our choices in a whole new, more open-minded way.

Happily, we do seem to be living out the ideals we held high when we were entering adulthood: that living in community is good for each of us individually and good for the environment, that sharing and supporting one another is the best way to be, and that friendships and the simple pleasures of life are worth their weight in gold. What an example to hold up to our kids.

Have you started seriously planning for retirement – such as making a detailed post-retirement budget? Are you discussing your finances with your adult children, letting them in on the plans you’re making or considering? Are you considering a shared housing or communal living arrangement for your future? Share how you are teaching by example in the comments section below.

For some reason, bangs are always a bit controversial. Curtain bangs are no different. Some love them and some aren’t feeling them and others think people are calling long layers bangs when they’re really just a layer. Bur regardless, Ashley Benson does have new curtain bangs are they look great on her. The actress shared a video of her on set wearing a wavy bob wig and apparently, it inspired her to make a real change.

Not only did Benson get curtain bangs, but she also went shorter allover and much lighter. “The focal point of this look is the cut and color combo,” her hairstylist Joseph Maine said in a statement. “I love how the platinum color really compliments her skin and the dark root gives her a lot of depth, making her light blonde pop. The depth in her root also goes with her eyebrows and makes her eyes stand out. For the style, I wanted it to look effortless and just slightly tousled.”

Instagram.com/ashleybenson.

“I love working with Ashley because we get to try so many different looks,” the Trademark Beauty co-founder said. “She’s always up for new things. This is our first time really playing with her hair since Paris Fashion Week in March where we did eight different looks. It was fun to try something new today! While this is a wig that she’s currently rocking, we were so inspired by it that we ended up chopping her real hair super short too. It’s pretty drastic!”

Source: Instagram

Benson’s new bangs will take a little styling work to get used to but they’re very versatile. She can wear them straight forward, blown-out in a cool ’70s way or even just tuck them into the rest of her hair when she’s not feeling then. They’ll also grow out easily right into her chic bob. We love them and hope she keeps them around for a while—until she switches it up again.

Does the coming end of 2020 feel like a blessing or a new beginning to you? As with so many things, it depends, doesn’t it?

If you turned 60 this year, or if you, like me, are starting to slide into 70 (I turn 68 in January), or if you’re like our founder, Margaret Manning, your 60s are already in the rear-view mirror. Consequently, this year might well have felt like a terrible waste.

So many things we couldn’t do, so many things we had to stop doing, so many new limitations. And for far, far too many of us, terrible losses.

However, if I may.

Perspective Is Very Important

As with all things in our lives, you and I have choices. One of those choices is to decide how we frame our situations.

We can concentrate on our losses: our youth, our unlined faces, thighs without cellulite, a youthful pre-kids waistline, any number of body-image issues that you and I might have. By this time in our lives, we have also lost friends and family.

We can also concentrate on what we’ve gained: a modicum of wisdom, new perspectives and experience, the gravitas that only comes with losses and life lessons and failures and the hard-won ability to laugh in the face of life’s worst.

Your time is now. Our time is now. Here’s why.

This Inverse article points out what you and I probably already know but may not necessarily acknowledge: we only truly come into our own right around 60.

Yes. Sixty.

My goodness, what terrific news that is, for those of us who have, and my hand is up here, spent far too much time focusing on the physical and what we lose, rather than celebrating the wisdom and grace that only comes with age.

The Possibilities After 60

I didn’t even begin to take on what I loved best until the year I turned 60. My first book didn’t get born until 58, and the darn thing won three prizes. The only reason why is because by that time I’d been writing for so long, that my “first effort,” as it were, was hardly a first effort.

I’d long since put in my 10 thousand hours. My first book was more so the culmination of decades of hard work.

From the Inverse article:

“Interviews with 1,042 people aged 21 to more than 100 years old reveal that people tend to feel like their lives have meaning at around age 60. That’s the age at which the search for meaning is often at its lowest, and the ‘presence’ of meaning is at its highest, according to a new paper published this week in the journal Clinical Psychiatry.”

I can’t speak for you, but that’s superb news. Because while society in its infinite lack of wisdom begins to devalue you and me for the crime of aging, we are also rising into whom we were meant to be.

We Are Holders of Wisdom

That is if we possess the wisdom to let go of chasing youth and focus more on what the aging processes have given us: the right to mentor, give back, and be in the fullness of our being without the intense pressures of perfection.

One reason I have so much respect for Margaret Manning is that she invested enormous amounts of time and treasure into creating something that serves that very population: you and me, post 60, at a time when society wants to shove our infertile selves aside for youth worship.

If we buy into that message, we stand to lose what we’ve just been given: Permission to be what we have spent six decades learning how to be: our best selves. Without the angst and frustrations of our early and middle years, you and I are free to concentrate on our best work.

We can delight in writing or travel (okay, okay, when the planes fly again, let’s be patient), in exploring not only the world but our inner worlds in ways we simply couldn’t before.

Becoming Your True Self

We have gifts to offer, whether that’s in a new business, or our own family circle, or the circle of friends we have crafted. How will you and I re-create our lives now that, finally, the pressure to live up to impossible standards can be set down?

I can’t speak for anyone else, only myself. Single at almost 68, I have no family but for those I cobble together. My “family” is stretched across 47 countries. As an adventure athlete (though a clumsy one), my life is full of variety and challenge and joy.

This would have been simply unimaginable in my 40s, when I still battled eating disorders and struggled with body image issues. Now free of both, I am living the life that was unimaginable 20 years ago.

This is my time. Your time. This is when we find out what we were always meant to be and give the world our considerable gifts. New lands appear on the horizon at 60.

Lands that we are far better equipped to explore, whether they are emotional, physical, mental, or spiritual, or any combination thereof. We are more ready to head towards those new horizons than ever we were at 20, 40 or even 50. For my part, that is the best possible news, even in a most difficult year.

How are you going to use the time you have now? What gifts have you been given that you can finally now unwrap and enjoy? What are the advantages of having turned 60?