Fashion Flash Monday

This week, Barbara Hannah Grufferman, blogger and Huffington Post Contributor is hosting Fashion Flash. Her well known blog Best of Everything after 50 is a great source for daily lifestyle tips on how to be your best at every age.

This week, our savvy group of bloggers shared their views on nutritious best bets, like beets, kale and flax,
lash primers, appropriate wedding attire, great multi-tasking beauty products, lash primers and the do's and don'ts of shimmery shadows for women over 40, among other smart posts.

Click here to get the 411.

Enjoy...

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

This week, Pamela from Over 50 Feeling 40 is hosting Fashion Flash for our wonderful group of bloggers. As always, we like to present the best of beauty, fashion, health and lifestyle to our conglomerate of lovely readers.  Please click here to read more.




Here's a peek at what we are blogging about this week (courtesy of my friend Kari at Fab Over Forty):

Women over 40 on You Tube

Stem cell skincare products

Looking chic at the beach

Exercises for arthritis

A fabulous GWP

A great summer pasta recipe

Quick hot flash relief

Riding the waves

Curvy is sexy

Glycolic acid for skincare

Enjoy!!!


xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

This week the lovely Cindy Ingalls of Prime Beauty Blog hosted Fashion Flash.
To see what our fab group of 40+ bloggers were writing about please click here.

Topics this week include:

• A fabulous RoC giveway
• Black & White, a plus size Girls best fashion look for Spring
• Get moving! Every choice we make to do more instead of less benefits us
• Is there a true "beauty vitamin"?  Find out...
• Clicks and Clacks--what's the deal with all of those popping joints?
• Shape up in an instant, with Hourglass Shapewear
• Are you sitting on a pile of cash? Find out how to consign your unused treasures at The RealReal

Enjoy!!!

xox,

DD

Fashion Flash Monday

It's Fashion Flash Monday again! I hope all those who celebrated Easter enjoyed their family time. What a lovely Spring day!

This week Mirabai Holland of Moving Free With Mirabai is our host. Please click here to see what our group of experts are sharing with you this week.  Topics include:

• Help find plus size prom dresses
• Two new Dove products 
• Natural products to celebrate Earth Day
• The nose "knows"; how scent effects us all day, everyday
• Roseacea- cause, effect and some help
• Enhancing your lashes without the sting and redness that often ensues
• Staying in shape on your time and at a special savings

Enjoy!

Xox,

DD

Review: Spa Sonic Skin Care System

Spa Sonic Skin Care System
$39.99- $59.99
Do your Internet due diligence!

The Spa Sonic Skin Care System was sent to my friend Kari Solyntjes who writes Fab Over Forty, to review.  Kari's reviews are a daily must read for me and I have long regretted waiting as long as I did to purchase a Clarionic Mia after she raved about it.

What intrigued me most about the Spa Sonic was the large brush head that comes with it. I sometimes bring my Mia into the shower to use on my face, neck and decollote, but what I really wanted was a device I could leave in the shower.  Clarisonic Plus does have a large brush head, but it is a separate unit and I am not springing for $225 on it.  Even I have a limit to my indulgence.

The Spa Sonic sounded like it might just fit the bill and Kari blessed it, so I ordered it...

Getting to Know Kari of Fab Over Forty

I have been an avid reader of Fab Over Forty for quite some time, even before I had the chance to meet Kari at a Totalbeauty Blogger's conference in September of 09.  She is a proflific writer and focuses mostly on high end cosmetics and skin care.  She is a straight shooter and always tells the unvarnished truth.  I love her blog and since being invited to join her weekly round up group with Charleston's Best Things in Beauty, I have added many new fans and subscribers.  This week we get to know more about Kari.  I highly recommend subscribing to Fab Over Forty so you never have to miss a thing!

Beware the Boogeyman - Mid-Face Sink

Oh-Tay...Let's tawk about "Mid-Face Sink". I don't know what it is, I don't think I have yet succumbed to it and I don't think I want to. M-FS sounds awful, doesn't it???

Filextra Facial Revolumizing Treatment with Collagen, was developed by Good Skin Labs, which is under the Lauder umbrella of companies, (I'm a sucker for a little major cosmetic giant cred.). For reasons that are unknown to me, their products are exclusive only to Kohls and can be purchased at retail or online. I am assuming their clientele is bilingual and Repulpant Visage Booster de Toncite will also be curing M-FS for the Latin American market, if they know what it was.

Anyway, we know I am also a sucker for anything that vaguely promises a wade in the fountain of youth. One of my favorite Beauty Bloggers, Kari Solyntjes , who writes Faboverforty is one month ahead of me in her Filextra trial. Kari has no idea what M-FS was either, BUT, she did see a significant difference in the hollows under her eyes, (and I am also a sucker for a little fellow Beauty Blogger cred.)...if Kari can detect a difference, I'm in!

This is Good Skin's explanation of of M-FS and what it is Filextra
can do to counteract it:

"As the skin ages, loss of natural collagen in the "mid-face sink"- a sunken and hollowed look to the cheek and under eye area and unhealthy, sallow and thin looking skin. These signs are as much an age indicator as wrinkles, dark circles and uneven skin tone. To address this specific anti-aging concern, Good Skin Labs introduces Filextra Facial Revolumizing Treatment with Collagen, its latest skincare innovation which visibly corrects the "mid-face sink" with a potent mix of technologically advanced ingredients and a rebuilding system that improves skin's translucency and radiance immediately while stimulating natural collagen production to help support skin structure over time".

Holy Pacholy what a mouthful!!! However, I am also sucker for a press release that makes me want to try a product immediately.

Filextra usually retails for $42.99. I checked the Kohls website and Filextra is on sale for $37.99, in case you want to try it to.

I will give you a photo update at the 4 and 8 week mark. We will all be able to see if there is any difference...after all, I am a sucker for a good "before" and "after" story...aren't you???

xox,
DD