Vitamin C has star status in your Goddess skin care routine, ladies, because it’s a collagen builder (plumping) and anti-oxidant (protecting). It also hydrates and evens out skin tone when applied topically. When taken internally, this anti-aging superstar helps your body produce more collagen all over (watch out knee, neck, and arm crepey!) and blocks free radicals while it boosts the immune system. Higher Concentrations of Vitamin C Can Work Wonders, so choose topical products that have a high-concentration, usually 15-20%. For internal use, start with 500 mg and work up to 1000, twice a day or to your individual tolerance (you’ll know if it’s too much when you go to the bathroom). Several reports have indicated that vitamin C levels are lower in aged or photodamaged skin, so we Goddesses over 40 must compensate for this to maintain a youthful complexion. Excessive exposure to oxidant stress via pollutants or UV irradiation is associated with depleted vitamin C levels in the epidermal layer. In young, healthy skin, more vitamin C is found in the epidermal layer than in the dermis, with differences of 2–5-fold between the two layers. This means topical application is especially beneficial to achieve the most youthful levels and most glow on the skin’s surface.
I'm also hearing, from my fellow beauty insiders, that a product called Crepe Erase works well! I'm planning to incorporate this for body skin (stay tuned for updates). And I'm always taking 1 -2 scoops of hydrolyzed collagen powder (peptides are easier to digest), internally, daily, which definitely helps with firmness everywhere. Here’s to the most gorgeous skin ever! It’s your time now.
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In this segment, Classical Homeopathic Practitioner, Carrie Hamilton, shares relationship advice and her beautiful, hand-made jewelry line using gemstones with energetic properties. As a long-time client of Carrie's, I can promise you, if you are open to it, her customized homeopathic remedies, sage advice, and holistic wellness fixes will change your life. Here, Carrie also shares her collection of handwoven scarves distributed for Cambodian women artisans, which can be purchased directly from Carrie. More on Carrie's Cambodian collaboration.
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Love this sexy shot from an ad campaign I did a few years ago ; ) but can't help noticing my thin, fragile hair, even here in my early 30s. Two babies and a whole lotta stress later, hair loss was a devastating beauty blow, which I'm now gratefully overcoming (with my Goddess Hair Protocol; Contact me for a personalized regimine). Hair, skin, muscle tone, shape, pleasure, stress, mood, magnetism- so much of our beauty inside and out is determined by our hormones. Yet, they require a delicate balance that our modern lifestyles and environments full on assault (increasingly as we age). The stress hormone cortisol, for example, competes with important master hormones like DHEA and progesterone, causing low levels and a cascade of resulting pleasantries and systems degeneration. Today I enjoyed a "masterclass" by Melissa Ramos, packed with solid info on optimizing hormones naturally, whether your challenge is thinning hair, sluggish thyroid, PMS, low libido, fibroids, rebalancing after child birth, or all of the above. Having been deeply immersed in the natural health and integrative medicine space for over a decade as a health journalist and publicist, working with top wellness centers and functional medicine gurus, it's clear when I come across an expert who really knows her stuff. Ramos is top notch - has the real scoop, ladies, and the sexy bod and energy to further prove it. (Ever Beauty has no financial ties to her.) Her free masterclass drilled in once again, like all health, wellness, and anti-aging ventures, that optimizing hormones comes down nutrition, inflammation and gut health, which so often depends on diet and mindset (yes mindset because: stress!). This means taking care of yourself in the fundamental ways really adds up and translates to big results - aging without degenerating; increasing vitality, fitness, and beauty. Rather than adding the stress of an overhaul, think 5%. We lose 3-5% of our muscle each decade after age 30, for example, so all we have to do is workout 5% harder to neutralize that effect. What can you do today to move 5% in the right direction with your whole health? Reduce inflammatory foods? Add a smart supplement that you really need (like a good probiotic for gut health)? Reduce your stress (through mediation, yoga, deep breathing, tapping). Taper off your medication (Kelly Brogan MD shows how)? For me, step one in my Goddess Hair protocol was optimizing hormones (specifically reducing cortisol) and I'm so grateful that my hair is nearly 40% thicker now (thanks also to some magical products). Rather than adding the stress of an overhaul, do 5% today for your hormones, Beautiful and do something else just for your happiness. You're worth it! Hello Gorgeous! This is me in my 20s. Somehow all the fat is in my face and not on my body and everything is higher and tighter than it is now. Will I ever be like this again? Nope! But do I feel this sexy, pretty and free? Actually, more so. Better! (most days) Because of the confidence, inner strength and wisdom age brings, we can now fully embrace our inner goddess and understand the power of our (albeit aging) beauty, like never before. And we're smarter now and better able to harness the healthiest, most effective beauty products and services, because beauty really does comes from within. We choose our beauty routine wisely because health on the inside makes us glowing and strong on the outside, and we know our energy is what enhances our magnetism the most. So we're upping our beauty game, because now is our time to be better than EVER! I hope to serve you in this endeavor and look forward to seeing you embrace your inner goddess and release your outer vixen. As a former beauty editor, health journalist, and international model, I will give you insider tips and tricks, and honest product reviews. I'll always disclose any financial ties, which still will only be with products I know are the best EVER. Please comment below and share your biggest beauty challenges and needs, and I'll get to work for you! |
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