Age Debate: Does It Matter How Old You Actually Look Or Feel?
March 8, 2023
You may remember (especially if you feel your memory is good for your age!) that about a year ago, we published a post about the significant number of people who subjectively feel younger than their chronological age. As that post made clear, many people feel younger than the calendar tells…
The Mane Event: How To Deal With Your Aging Hair
February 8, 2023
We tend to spend a lot of time and attention on how our features and our faces change as we get older. There are innumerable posts on agebuzz alone about skin care, precautions, and products to help lessen the undesirable effects of aging and counter the environmental factors that inevitably…
Facial Aging: How To Make Sense Of All The Potions And Procedures
February 1, 2023
It’s challenging enough to keep adding candles to the cake each year. But to then also feel shame or guilt or anxiety because your face reflects those many years feels deeply unfair. It’s largely an artifact of marketing departments for beauty products and a culture that celebrates a false facade…
Thin Skin: Prepping Your Skin For Winter
November 9, 2022
You may not have realized it, but this past Monday, November 7th, was named National Retinol Day! This “holiday” was declared by the skincare company RoC, which produces many products containing retinol, considered the “gold standard” of skin care products addressing such aging issues as wrinkles and fine lines. As…
Facial Touch-Ups: A New Competitor To Botox Has Arrived
September 14, 2022
There comes a moment for many older adults, both men and women, when the image in the mirror does not quite square with how you feel internally. And while fine lines, wrinkles, sags, and folds in your facial skin are a natural part of aging, for many of us there’s…
Beauty Bait: Have You Fallen For Cosmetic and Skin Care Marketing Messages?
August 4, 2022
So, like most of us, you’ve likely been through a few hard years and are yearning for better times, and maybe a version 2.0 of yourself. Maybe you’ve let your hair go gray, have given up the expensive manicures, and are allowing yourself to live and dress comfortably, rather than…