Beauty Secrets

Five Foods To Reduce Wrinkles
Posted on April 1st, 2015I’ve always admired friends with that porcelain complexion typically reserved for romantic sculptures.
Even as a teenager, my skin had begun to disintegrate – oily and marked with zits – a bi-product of outrageous hormones, I’m sure. Thank goodness I grew out of my teens and a smoother complexion began to return... Read More...

Take a Powder & Face It
Posted on January 16th, 2014My face is falling apart! The wrinkle lines have become old friends dividing my face into one of those puzzles with 500 pieces. My long-standing foundation – previously relied upon to smooth... Read More...

Say Goodbye to Brown Spots!
Posted on June 3rd, 2013The last couple weeks I’ve been seriously thinking about seeing the dermatologist about the growing crop of brown spots on my hands, face and chest. We’ve gone beyond the “beauty... Read More...

Lulu’s Tips for Beauty after 60
Posted on April 3rd, 2013Lulu Kennedy-Cairn is a popular Scottish singer-songwriter. She’s petite, blonde and bubbling over with energy. And, she’s 64 and if I knew her, I’d probably dislike her –... Read More...

Ten Tips to Put Your Best Face Forward
Posted on October 18th, 2012If you’ve followed my posts on iMinerva, you know that I’m forever searching for the Fountain of Youth in a bottle. Not from the vinyard, tho’ I do recommend wine to activate a youthful... Read More...

New Year – New Face
Posted on December 29th, 2011I’m tired of this face – or at least the saggy, baggy, dried-up, tired look I have these days.
Reality began to hit me when I stopped at the cosmetics counter for a new foundation... Read More...

The Best of Beauty
Posted on October 3rd, 2011Allure magazine isn’t my usual nightstand offering but the other day, while waiting for my plane to LA, the newsstand called and there it was offering “Best of Beauty – 193 Winning... Read More...

Wrinkles Are Wrong!
Posted on August 17th, 2011It doesn’t matter if they’re in your linen shirt, or your freshly-laundered bedsheets, or your face, wrinkles are just wrong! They serve no purpose, detract from an otherwise-perfect surface,... Read More...

Putting On Your Face
Posted on July 7th, 2011We all put on faces – our happy face when we’re struggling with inner sadness, our patient, understanding face even though we don’t understand and may be about to explode in frustration, our... Read More...

Wrinkles Be Gone!
Posted on May 26th, 2011It seems that lotions & potions can’t really eliminate wrinkles but they can help minimize and discourage those wicked lines from taking over a beautiful face. And since I’m not... Read More...

Words of Wisdom
“If you wake up in the morning and something doesn't hurt, you know you're dead.”by Bel Kaufman The Today Show