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                                            This, FYI, is  not  me :+) Although this was piece was written a decade ago (c.2005, when I was nearly 45), it still rings true for me today and I ’m sure going forward as well. In the past year, two friends who are my age (54) have decided to stop coloring their hair and let the gray come through. I dedicate this article to them and anyone who decides to just be themselves—gray hair and all.    I have gray hairs; more and more every day. I am in my 40s and the stra y grays started appearing around age 35. It began as just one solitary gray hair I found one day. I didn’t pull it out, I think I marveled at it actually. A  few years later and after a few more gray hairs had appeared, I was getting my hair cut . M y  stylist  was on his way to pulling one of them out and I said, “ Sto...

There are many things you can do (and not do) to keep your skin looking young and aging well. Below is just a list of twenty I have compiled, but, please, add to this list! All of the “dos” or “don’ts” have at least one correlating blog post that has been published on that subject, so just click on the blue text and you’ll be taken directly to that article . Avoid direct sunlight on your face . Other than genetics and the natural aging process, sunlight is the number one cause of aging. Don’t smoke . Smoking encourages wrinkles to form around your mouth from the constant pursing of the lips and cuts off all-important oxygen to your skin cells. Don’t drink . Alcohol is a diuretic and increases the removal of vital fluids from your body. It also depletes important vitamins. Curtail caffeine . Another diuretic, caffeine will release fluids from your system and taxes your adrenal glands. Wear sunscreen . Make this a daily habit. Drink more water . It will help all of ...

I’m always amazed when I hear the term anti-aging . It makes aging sound like a bad thing. Yet this term is used every day in conversations and advertisements for products (not just skin care products). You name it—people view aging negatively. A client telephoned and asked me what anti-aging products I thought she should use. I told her the best recommendation I could give her for anti-aging was to step away from the mirror. The phone went silent, and I think I caught her off guard, but I was actually halfway serious. It is only because we see our reflections in the mirror that we know what we look like. The less you look in the mirror, you will see less of your so-called flaws. I promise I don’t say these things to trivialize your thoughts and fears about getting older. I say them in order to give a voice to the other side of the story. We are constantly inundated with anti-aging-this, look-younger-that, and I’m quite sure that will not be changing any t...