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

Deb from No Nonsense Beauty Blog, ace facilitator and fearless leader, hosted Fashion Flash this week.

She asked that we put our thinking caps on, and submit posts related to Valentine's Day.  ICYMI, my post is about a great drugstore find; firmer skin in just two weeks...Yes, joyfully that includes knees and upper arms!

Click here to see this and all our groups fabulous posts.

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 Monday

It's Fashion Flash Monday!  This week Josephine Lalwan who writes Chic at Any Age is our host.  Each week we share some of our favorite posts on beauty, fashion, wellness and lifestyle.

Some of our topics this week include:

• Dry skin relief
• A chance to win a Clinique Black Honey Collection
• Personal Trainer abuse
• The benefits of Vitamin B 
• How to bake a fabulous pumpkin pie       

Click here to read them all...             

Enjoy!!!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

This week Cindy Ingalls, who writes Prime Beauty Blog is our Fashion Flash host.  Each week, our group tries to bring you our most interesting post on beauty, fashion, good health and fitness.

Please click here to read them all.

Enjoy!!!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

This week Jodell Raymond of Black Cat Fashion, a beloved blog for plus size women, is hosting Fashion Flash. 

Every week we strive to bring you our best posts on beauty, fashion and lifestyle for women over forty.

Some of our topics this week include:

• Laura Mercier's brand new foundation
• A fabulous cream for the neck and decollete
• The best moisturizer with sunscreen to wear daily
• What not to wear!
• An interview with skin care maven Kate Sommerville

Please click here to get the full 411.

Enjoy!

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, 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, 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 Monday

The lovely Josephine of Chic at any Age is this weeks Fashion Flash host as always, our group does our best to bring you the best of our blog on beauty, fashion, wellness and fitness.

Josephine recently joined our group.  She and her family split their time between their homes in London and St. Tropez. In my next life, I think I may want to be Josephine...

Please click here to read our contributions this week.  This week I wrote about my all time favorite skincare La Peau, 6 years in, I've tried a ton of product, as you know.  This is the one I am never without...

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

Fashion Flash: The Best of Everything for Women 40+

This week the fabulous Cindy Ingalls, who writes the exceptional Prime Beauty Blog is our host for Fashion Flash.  Each week we strive to feature our best blogs on beauty, fashion, fitness and wellness for women over 40.

Please click here to see what we have to share with you this week, including my favorite cheap and cheerful substitute for Bobbi Brown Long Wear Eye Gel.

Enjoy!

xo,
DD

Fashion Flash

This week my friend Kari Soyntjes who writes the truly fabulous Fab Over Forty is hosting Fashion Flash. Of our growing group of bloggers that comprise Fashion Flash, I've know Kari the longest as both our blogs are published by TotalBeauty.

She did an outstanding job organizing our posts this week on beauty, fashion, health and wellness for women over 40.  Click here to read more.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash

This week  Melanie of Society Wellness is hosting  Fashion Flash for the first time!  Melanie is a professional dancer and certified Yoga instructor  who walks the walk for  good  health and fitness.  Her beautiful site  features  always interesting and informative posts on health, nutrtion  exercise and  stress reduction.   We welcome her warmly!

Please click here  to read Melanie's post and the rest of the FF gang are advising this week for women over 40 and feeling fantastic.

Enjoy!

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday

It's Fashion Flash Monday...sort of.  I hope everyone had a fabulous Memorial Day Weekend, the official start of summer! We decided to post this later today figuring all of you were out doing fun things.

This week Barbara Gufferman of  The Best of Everything After Fifty is hosting Fashion Flash. Fashion Flash has added three new blogs to help round out our group so that  we can bring you positive experiences each week in beauty, fashion, health, wellness and joyous living.

Click here to see what we are busy buzzing about.

Enjoy...

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash: Best of Beauty, Fashion, Wellness and Life

It's Fashion Flash SunMonday again. This week Moving Free With  Mirabai is hosting Fashion Flash. We are pleased to be adding some new bloggers with fabulous followers to our group. We hope you will enjoy meeting and reading post from Melanie of Society Wellness, Josephine of Chic At Any Age, Pam of Over 50 Feeling 40 and MaryL of Second Lives Club.

Please click on this link to see what we were up to this week.  In case you missed it the first time, I included my flips and flops from the Costume Institute Ball...I don't have another opportunity to snark until the Emmy's in August, so it's worth a peek...in a word? 

Oy.

xox,
DD

Fashion Flash Monday: Beauty, Fashion, Wellness and More

This week Jodell, from Black Cat Plus is hosting Fashion Flash.  When it comes to plus size fashion, Jodell has you covered, so be sure to click on her link for her suggestions for Spring and Summer must haves.

What else were we chatting about this week? Click on this link to find out:

• White out; how to safely lighten freckles from your decollete
•  Less is more?  Wearing less makeup as we age
• Can a waist defining cream really whittle your waist? Take a look
• The best exercises for osteoporosis prevention
•  Managing your skin's changes during menopause
• A great makeup wipe explicitly for waterproof eye makeup 
• Are you in overdrive? Your adrenal glands made need some TLC

Enjoy!

xox,

DD

Fashion Flash: Fashion, Beauty, Fitness and Life

Deb from No Nonsense Beauty Blog hosted this week’s Fashion Flash.

She says, “Our bloggers are bursting with new ideas and insights!” Click here to read our full offerings.

Here’s a peek at this week’s Fashion Flash posts:

* Positive Living advocate Barbara Hannah Grufferman thinks there are so many reasons why taking a nice long walk is a really good thing.

* Kari of Fab Over Forty has found an easy way to refresh during the day.

* Have you ever heard of “chicken skin”? Cindy of Prime Beauty points out that those pesky bumps on your upper arms are actually Keratosis Pilaris that can be hard to treat. Not to worry. She has a three step system that gets the job done.

* Does low bone mass mean osteoporosis? Find out the answer from Moving Free with Mirabai.

* Who doesn’t love Paris? Jackie Silver from Aging Backwards has found a way to bring Paris to you.

* Black Cat Plus has an important message – Fat shaming and discrimination are among the last forms of acceptable bullying behaviors and it is necessary to speak up and take a stand.

* Staness of Menopause Makeover wants you to know about the special benefits of cinnamon for women. Not only is does it have anti-inflammatory agents, it also fights fat storage! Its easy to add cinnamon to your life with recipes from her new book Eat Like A Woman ( Harlequin)

* And I shared one of my cheap and cheerful favorites, that holds up well to a pricey favorite of many makeup artists.

Enjoy!

xox,

DD