Suit up Stylishly in the Workplace

Suit up Stylishly in the Workplace

Style & Beauty / Fashion

Long gone are the days of the stuffy pants suit, shoulder pads up to here and a sea of gray, black and navy. Today’s workingwoman has so many options when it comes to dressing professionally and stylishly that it can be hard to know where to start. Whether you’re considering…

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Take Years Off Your Eyes

Take Years Off Your Eyes

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Wrinkles, bags, puffiness, crow’s feet – they’re all common complaints that women have about their eyes, and rightfully so. These unsightly imperfections can give away your age – and even add years to your face. So avoid them or learn the best ways to treat and conceal them if you…

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Best Bras for Your Outfits

Best Bras for Your Outfits

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

How many times have you chosen what seems like the perfect outfit…yet something still just isn’t right about the way it looks? It could be what’s under the clothing that’s ruining your look. Take a peek in your underwear drawer to see if you have the perfect undergarments to go…

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Calorie-Free Beauty Indulgences

Calorie-Free Beauty Indulgences

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

If all the treats of fall tend to make you overindulge, then why not try some deliciously scented beauty products that’ll keep you out of the candy jar and on the straight and narrow when it comes to your diet? There are lots of fruity, sweet, savory and downright yummy…

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Are Your Cosmetics Really Organic?

Are Your Cosmetics Really Organic?

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Organic cosmetics such as lotions, oils, shampoos, soaps and makeup have natural ingredients that are allegedly free of pesticides. For example, the fruit and flowers that comprise the ingredients in shampoo, such as berries, shea and other plant-based products, must be grown and harvested as organic food is. A label…

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Facts To Know About Perfume

Facts To Know About Perfume

Style & Beauty / Beauty

Perfume (Latin “per fume” meaning “through smoke”) was highly favored by the Egyptians, Romans, and Arabs. In East Asia, perfumes were incense based. People used to make perfumes from spices and herbs like bergamot, myrtle, coriander, conifer resin, and almond. The use of flowers came only after Avicenna, an Iranian…

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Your Mom’s Worst Beauty Advice

Your Mom’s Worst Beauty Advice

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Good old Mom — always telling us to eat our veggies, that our faces would freeze like that if we kept scowling…and heaping on the beauty advice. But there are quite a few things Mom shared about our appearance that just aren’t true. Here are a few of the rules…

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Budget Gifts Under $10

Budget Gifts Under $10

Style & Beauty / Fashion

While the holidays are a time of merriment and good cheer, they can also produce a bit of hand wringing. While you’re by no means an Uncle Scrooge, just thinking about the strain on your pocket book with all that gift-giving may make you feel like one. Rest assured –…

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