Anti-aging products: What's the catch? (MSNBC)

In her new book “The Mind-Beauty Connection,” Dr. Amy Wechsler writes about what contributes to aging skin and how to fight it. In this excerpt, she explains why many anti-aging potions are more about packaging than product.
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Natural Beauty (BellaOnline)

This article is about finding what works best for you and your skin. Adapting a beauty regimen that gives the most benefit is what we are after. The natural market is tricky and not all product are created equally.
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Five Tips for Looking Red-carpet Ready at Home (Carteret County News-Times)

(ARA) - Women often look to red carpet events to see the latest trends in fashion and beauty brought to life. Unlike celebrities, most of us don’t have access to the stylists and makeup artists usually required to pull off these looks.
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Roswell barber makes faces baby-smooth (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The hand-lettered sign advertising a $15 haircut, the decorating scheme that leans heavily on mounted striped bass: Both hint at the old-fashioned allure of the Roswell Village Barber Shop. And then there’s Ray Espinal. One of three barbers at the family-owned shop, he works in black wingtip shoes and a white dress shirt and tie. […]

Green tea’s health benefits spill over into other products (The Fayetteville Observer)

Green tea is an ancient beverage, which has many health benefits that have been touted by researchers. These are just a few: Teeth: Tea has fluoride, a common supplement in toothpaste.
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Prime time (Nanaimo Daily News)

While some women find makeup application a joyous experience, for others it’s a necessary evil. No matter which group you fall into, you want your makeup to apply easily, stay in place, and not “pool” in fine lines and pores.
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Top 10 Tips for Summer Beauty (Carteret County News-Times)

(ARA) - As summer arrives and temperatures rise, beauty routines become increasingly challenged by heat, humidity and other seasonal factors. Looking great during summer months isn’t hard - it just requires smart preparation.
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Luxury hotels compete by offering exclusive beauty products (Los Angeles Times)

Hotel Bel-Air and others raise the fancy quotient in guest rooms and suites. WITH A harpist strumming gently in a garden gazebo, swans drifting across a pond and waiters circulating with gourmet hors d’oeuvres, the Hotel Bel-Air recently unveiled its newest bid to up the luxury quotient.
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Eight Ways to Get Your Complexion Glowing (ThirdAge)

Change your foundation to a tinted moisturizer for a sheer glossy finish, and only use a cover-up where necessary. Choose a moisture tint with a built-in sun-protection factor.
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Cosmetics Magnate Sells Chelsea Loft for $8.5 M. to Princess Nemesis (The New York Observer)

This time next year New York’s gorgeously extravagant real estate market could very well be a thing of the past. Will we all long, teary-eyed, for the days when makeup entrepreneurs bought nice Chelsea co-ops for a few million dollars one year and sold them a few months later for a few million […]

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