Thursday, March 11, 2010

Mini Makeovers: New Look For a New Life?

March 8, 2010 by Cathy  
Filed under Beauty, Fashion, Style, dailyplate

Submited by: Big Little Wolf
One of my rules to live by?
Don’t make major decisions under stress or duress. And post-divorce life certainly qualifies on both counts. When I was newly single again, I realized that I wanted a new look for a new life, but I wasn’t sure what that might be. I did know [...]

Nervous Wreck: A Separated Mom Tries Botox

February 11, 2010 by delainem  
Filed under Anti-Aging, Beauty, Style

Submitted by Me & My Evil Twin
Sitting in the medical spa waiting room, I flipped through a magazine without seeing a word.  My brain was wrought with worry:  what if it hurt?  What if I passed out? What if my face ended up looking so frozen, people referred to me as the Botox Queen?
The receptionist handed me [...]

Facial Yoga: Eliminate Wrinkles the Natural Way

January 31, 2010 by Cathy  
Filed under Anti-Aging, New on DWO, Style

In New York City, Annelise Hagen, a devoted yogi, former actress and author of The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles with the Ultimate Natural Facelift, runs a weekly facial yoga class. Hagen says she started to develop her face-based technique when she realized that her students, mostly well-to-do, well-educated professionals, were practicing yoga but getting Botox [...]

Top 5 Eye Creams: Say Goodbye to Crow’s Feet

January 24, 2010 by delainem  
Filed under Anti-Aging, Beauty, New on DWO, Style

Submitted by: Cathy
File this under “sad but true”: The first signs of aging—crow’s-feet—show up earlier than we ever realized. In happier news, the right eye cream can make all the difference. It has been years since those first fines lines around the eyes or crows feet started showing on my face. Not being a fan [...]

Black Clothes Suck The Energy Out Of Your Face

January 14, 2010 by delainem  
Filed under Fashion, Style

Like most women, I’m guilty of it too – that is, I often wear black clothes simply because they’re slimming.  And when we feel slimmer, we often feel better about ourselves, right?
But what if wearing black next to our faces makes our eyes look dull and our skin blotchy and shadowy?   In other words, what if black on most of us, AGES [...]

Beware the Loose, Wrinkly, Unsymmetrical Vagina!

May 5, 2009 by delainem  
Filed under Beauty, Women's Sexuality

  Well, apparently the look and feel of our vaginas are one more thing we’re suppose to be concerned about as we rebuild our lives after divorce.
 
 
Haven’t you heard?  We’re supposed to be as pretty and symmetrical as a text-book drawing.  Are you a little one-sided…stretched out…dangly?  Well welcome the labioplasto – a delightful flesh-carving [...]