Beauty

  • My Foundation-Free Makeup Routine After 50: Less Coverage, More Glow

    I used to think that the answer to dark circles and melasma was simple: find a foundation with better coverage. A full-coverage foundation seemed like the obvious choice. If I could cover everything, surely my makeup would look better. Except it didn’t quite work that way. The more foundation I applied, the more noticeable my…

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  • My Kitchen Remedy For Melasma

    I was wiping off my makeup one night when I caught my reflection under the bathroom light and just stopped. The brown patches on my cheeks looked darker than I remembered, and no amount of concealer had been hiding them for weeks. I’d been telling myself it was just uneven tanning. It wasn’t. When Melasma…

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  • The Hair Thinning I Ignored Too Long

    The first time I noticed it, I told myself it was the water pressure. A clump of hair sat in the shower drain, more than I remembered leaving there last week, and I just turned the faucet down and moved on. That happened for close to four months before I let myself actually look. The…

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