Fashion Flash

This week it's my turn to host Fashion Flash. Each week, we strive to bring you interesting posts on beauty, fashion, and wellness for women over 40. They are a savvy group and I hope if you enjoy their websites, that you bookmark them, or follow them on Facebook or Twitter.

ICYM my post on how to create the perfect fake tan, please click here to get the skinny on my secret sauce...it only took 30 years :)

Not a fan of turnips? Melanie of Society Wellness may just change your mind! Society Wellness shares 2 great ways to cook and eat turnips in this post. 

So you are trying to lose weight and knock off a few winter pounds. Mirabai Holland, Certified Health Coach and Exercise Physiologist gives you some pointers.

Jodell from Black Cat Plus  gives us the 411 on the difference between how Plus Size Models and Plus Size Women are portrayed. US Weekly Takes A Look at how Plus Size Models Portray an Unrealistic Silhouette Compared to Real Plus Size Women.

Deb of No Nonsense Beauty Blog looks at a real beauty fruit.  Click here to read more.

Barbara Hannah Grufferman, author of THE BEST OF EVERYTHING AFTER 50 and AARP YouTube Host, wants to take you beyond sunscreen! Barbara offers her best tips on how to shield your skin from the sun . . . from the inside out! 

Surprised to see suede as a fashion trend for spring?  Josphine Lawlan of Chic at Any Age gives advice on how to wear it best here.

Fashion and beauty blogger, Pamela Lutrell, shares a skincare proceedure with no needles, knives, or scars...just youthful skin.   Join her.  (And I want what she's having too!)

Ever dreamed of a custom made dress that fits your body like a glove? PIOL dress company lets YOU be the designer of your own custom made dress. You choose the fabric and style. Take a look at the dress Cindy at Prime Beauty designed at get a $100 off code too!

Sometimes your second life is a redo of the talent and skill that brought you success in your first.  Learn how Donna McDonald got some romance in hers.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

This week, Melanie of Society of Wellness is hosting Fashion Flash.  Our talented group of bloggers strive to bring you the best of fashion, beauty, health and wellness each week.  To read more, please click here.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

This week, Mirabai Holland MFA, fitness guru, with dozens of videos to her acclaim and blogger, is hosting Fashion Flash.

Our group of bloggers receive over 500,000 pageviews by readers around the world each month. As always, our focus is on beauty, fashion and wellness for women over 40.  ICYMI, my post is about Christie Brinkley's newly launched skin care line...I'm still awaiting my samples!

Click here to read this weeks news from our circle of talent.

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

This week, Jodell Raymond, who write the Plus Size Blog, Black Cat Plus is our host for Fashion Flash.
As always, a clever group of bloggers seek to bring you relevant posts on fashion, style, beauty and health.

Click here to see what we couldn't wait to share this week.

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

This week my dear friend Jackie Silver, author, blogger and radio personality is hosting Fashion Flash. Jackie's well regarded beauty blog Aging Backwards is a favorite source of mine for anti-aging tips.  I can tell you that she truly is an ageless beauty and to know her is to immediately think, "Ill have what she's having".

As always, our sharp group of lifestyle bloggers share theit insights on how you can look and feel your best, at any age.  Click here to read them all and ICYMI, my contribution was on whether or not you need or can skip and eyeshadow/liner primer every day.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

This week Mirabai Holland, who writes the health and fitness blog Moving Free with Mirabai and produces and stars in her own exercise videos, is our host.

Besides Valentines Day, February is also Healthy Heart Month. Heart Disease is  the number one killer of women, though if polled, I would have guessed lung or breast cancer, and I suggest I am not alone.

Awareness should be raised.

To her great credit, Mirabai has established a world class cardiac rehabilitation program in NYC, which has now become the model for other centers.  While exercise is her passion, exercise that focus on a healthy heart on her personal passion.

You can read about her suggestions and other heart healthy posts by our blogger group this week by clicking here.

Enjoy!

xox,

DD

Fashion Flash

Cindy Ingalls, the author of Prime Beauty Blog is the Fashion Flash host this week. Each week, we strive to bring you interesting and informative reads about beauty, fashion, health and fitness, particularly gear towards women over 40.

ICYMI, I contributed Totalbeauty's well done, easy to follow piece on, "How to Fake a Facelift with Makeup.  It's a must read!  Catch them all here.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

This week, the well regarded Huffington Post contributor and creator of Chic at any Age,  Josephine Lalwan is our Fashion Flash host. Josephine describes FF as: a select group of lifestyle blogs for women over 40, covering a wide range of topics including health, skin care, fitness, fashion, make-up and reinvention. Fashion Flash is one of the largest forty plus communities on the web. This weeks Fashion Flash is full of useful tips to keep us healthy and looking good this winter plus “red carpet” insider information.

I concur! To read this weeks FF please click here and ICYMI, includes my Red Carpet Golden Globes snarkfest.

Enjoy!

xo,
DD

Fashion Flash

Happy New Year from the Ladies of Fashion Flash!  This week Melanie of Society of Wellness is our host this week.  Some of the topics covered include:

• Facial Exercises
• 10 Best Cold Weather Beauty Products
• Scientific tips and myths regarding weight loss
• Things to consider before changing your hairstyle

ICYMI my post is my DivaDebbi Best of Beauty 2014 Roundup.  Please click here to see them all.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

DivaDebbi's Best of 2014

Oh what a year it's been!  As always, I wouldn't be blogging if I didn't enjoy it and I am always so delighted to hear from readers and friends who tell me that my obsessions have become their obsessions.  It's fun to go back and review the hundreds of posts and reviews that I have written over the course of  a year to pick out the must-haves of 2014 for you.

With each pick I will link you back to the original blog, so if you wish to read about it more detail, you will have that option.  In no particular order:

1)  Exuviance  Age Reverse Toning Neck Cream - $78 What can I tell you??? This stuff works... I love the rich gel like texture and can see a difference in the firmness of my neck.  It doesn't hurt to have friends ask me in hush whispers, if I , "had anything done".  It comes in a huge tub and will last several months.  Use it nightly. This is just one of a number of Exuviance products I have come to love. They have amazing depth and breath in their Anti-Aging arsenal.  Do check them out...

2)  Lancome Cils Booster Primer - $24.50 Do you really need a lash primer??? Yes. And not just any lash primer, but this one. Don't think of it as an extra step...think of it as your first coat of mascara, and one that you can just slap on with abandon.  The result, clearly, is longer, thicker lashes with just one coat of your mascara.

3)  Moodstruck 3D Fiber Lash Mascara - $29.00 -  Low maintenance Girls should skip to number 4...
for everyone else, this is both brilliant and life changing. I received this for review and raved about it.  I just purchased my own kit after a little more than 3 months of use.)  For those who love the look of insanely long and full Latisse lashes, or false lashes for special occasions, this two step lash system will give you all that and more...Voila.  You're a vixen (and it washes off easily.)

4)  L'Oreal Infallible Gel Eyeliner - $10.99 This is a great drugstore find... One pot of this gel liner will probably last you a lifetime.  It glides on and stays on like a dream. I even prefer it to Bobbi Brown's Long Wear Gel Eyeliner, which also requires the purchase of a separate $25 brush. This is as good as a drugstore find gets...even better than the costly prestige original.  Genius...

5) Perfect Pink Gel Coat - $30 I stumbled on this brilliant product at Sephora, the day after a manicure. Out of sheer boredom from my light colored Essies sheers, I chose a deep shade instead.  They were gorgeous for about 6 hours before the first chip set in. Maddening-- truly.  Perfect Pink Gel Coat is great as a base and top coat for light pinky colors like Ballet Slippers and Sugar Daddy, and for a glossy mid week touch ups.  In addition, it will strengthen them like granite.  In a word, perfect...

6) Lash Em Brow and Lash Enhancing Serum - $70 - Over the years, I have used over a half a dozen lash enhancing products with varied results.  Often I grew fabulous lashes, but they were always accompanied by unsightly red, scratchy eyes.  This is the first product I have used that both worked and caused zero irritation. I realize that experiences with this type of product are individual, but if your eyes are as sensitive as mine, Lash Em may just be the product for you (and as an additional plus, one tube lasted me 7 months. I was sent this to review but just purchased a second tube.)

Fashion Flash

On behalf of all of the wonderful bloggers who contribute to Fashion Flash, we wish you a very Happy New Year, with much good health, joy and happiness in the year ahead. This weeks topics include:

• How to travel in style
• Help finding your best colors
• Tips on how to succeed with your resolutions

In case you missed my earlier posts on my RoC Skincare giveaway, the contest runs December 31st,  until 11:59  Eastern Standard Time. Click on my post for your chance to win 12 fantastic RoC Skincare products and a $200 Visa gift card. 

Please click here to read all of our posts, the last of 2014, more to follow...

Much love,

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

This weeks Fashion Flash host is Pamela Lutrell who pens the lifestyle blog Over 50 Feeling 40.
As we wrap up the Holidays, the focus this week seemed to be about taking care of our overall good health.
Please click here to see the full wrap up.

In case you missed my original post on the perfect natural manicure  it's included here and in the FF post.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

Mary Lou Floyd is a our lovely Fashion Flash Host this week.  Mary Lou is one half of team who write the fabulous lifestyle blog The Second Live Club.  We always do our best to bring you interesting posts on beauty, fashion, health and lifestyle.

This week, some of our topics include:

Consignment Shopping
Choosing great gifts for the men in your lives
A fabulous new blow dryer that reduces drying time by 70%
A chance to win a $300 skincare giveaway

And more... Click here to read them all.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

It is my week to host Fashion Flash, our weekly gathering of pertinent information for women over forty, on fashion, beauty, wellness, shopping and sometimes, a great recipe or two...I'm so proud to be among such noted and acclaimed company!

Enjoy!!!

Is Hydroquinone safe or can it cause cancer?  Deb of No-Nonsense Beauty Blog  talks to experts  for the answer.

Positive Living expert Barbara Hannah Grufferman thinks women can hip up their look by putting on a pair of these . . . with just about any outfit! (You have to read the post to know what they are!) Check out her tips for how to wear them to look fabulous for the holidays, or any time! 

Do you need a new sweet potato dish for the Holidays? Society Wellness shares their Coconut Sweet Potatoes and Greens recipe.

Home infrared sauna could heat up your winter. Jackie Silver from AgingBackwards.com

has the details!

Easy Jam Recipe: No Gunk, No Junk. Mirabai Holland, Health & Fitness Expert Shows you how!

Kari at Fab Over Forty likes to go to the experts to get the best advice on beauty and skincare for women over 40. One of Dior's National Makeup Artists offers some great beauty tips and they'll be especially helpful during the holidays!

Cindy over at Prime Beauty finds a sonic face brush that compares to Clarisonic in every way but price! Get the low down on the Micheal Todd Soniclear!

As the shopping season heats up, Josephine from Chic at Any Age gives  some helpful hints and tips on how to shop the sales wisely!

Black Cat Plus Gives Us Some Tips for Finding the Right Plus Size Jeans that fit.

Fashion blogger, Pamela Lutrell, takes us to her previous holiday tour of the San Antonio King Edward District. along with the Cynthia Rowland sweater she was wearing!

Thanksgiving:  done!  Time to start thinking about Christmas or Hanukkah cards.  Whether we send them or not here's one second lifers novel approach. 

And lastly, in case you missed my earlier post this week, DivaDebbi test drove a Physician's Formula Concealer that both conceals and lightens dark spots. Check it out, but consider nose plugs!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

This week Fashion Flash is being hosted by Cindy Ingalls, who writes Prime Beauty Blog.  As usual, our savvy group of plus 40 Lifestyle bloggers, do our best to give you noteworthy information on beauty, fashion, fitness, health and happiness.

Please click here to see what the Girls were up to this week.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

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, Second Lives Club is hosting Fashion Flash.  We always do our best to provide you with interesting and informative posts on beauty, fashion, health and lifestyle for women over 40.  I particularly gravitated to Kari of Fab Over Forty's fantastic roundup of her favorite offerings from Nordstrom's Beauty Week...gorgeous product abounds at great savings.

If you missed my earlier blog on my latest obsession, the E! channels Botched, be sure to catch it and everyone else in our fab groups post right here.

If I'm bleary eyed, it's because I stayed up from Midnight to 1:00am watching the 4th installment.

Enjoy!!!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

This week, my dear friend, the ageless beauty Jackie Silver of Aging Backwards is hosting Fashion Flash.

Please click here to see what our talented group of bloggers are posting about this week.

Some of the  topics are:

• Our favorite eyeliners...or not
• The benefits of water ballet
• Must have additions to your summer wardrobe
• Reuniting with old friends
• Finding your true colors; a guarantee to look prettier every day
• How to make wise sale summer purchases

Enjoy!!!

xox,

DD

Fashion Flash Monday

Fashion Flash is up! Deb our group founder and creator of the No Nonsense Beauty Blog  was nice enough to toil and host this weekend, while everyone else enjoyed the Holiday.

I hope yours was full of sun, fireworks, barbecues, family and friends.  Mine was...

Click here to see what our powerhouse group of bloggers were up to this week.

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash: All the Best of Beauty, Fashion and Wellness for Women 40+

This week Deb Chase, Fashion Flash Founder and author of The No Nonsense Beauty Blog is our host. Deb has worked incredibly hard to find a diverse group of top bloggers to contribute to Fashion Flash.  She does a ton of work behind the scenes on all of our behalf and I'm grateful and appreciative.

Please click on this link to see what our group was up to this week.  My DivaDebbi post includes my  RoC giveaway in celebration of my blog achieving over 1,000,000 views.  It's not too late to join and RoC has also stepped up with some products to giveaway so we will actually have two winners.

In addition, there is a Fashion Flash Book Review of Diane Keaton's new book, "Lets Just Say It Wasn't Pretty".

Enjoy!!!

xox,
DD