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My Struggle to Age Gracefully: How Keeping Things in Perspective Helps to Keep Me Sane. Well, Sorta. My Struggle to Age Gracefully: How Keeping Things in Perspective Helps to Keep Me Sane. Well, Sorta.

In terms of beauty, I peaked at 26. Or so that's what I thought at the time. I remember totally freaking out on my 27th birthday, convinced that I was officially "old" and that my best years were behind me. Of course now, what feels like eons later, I look back at photos of my nubile, wrinkle-free self and wonder what the heck I was thinking. Youth, as they say, is wasted on the young. When I…  

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My Anti-Stretch Mark Strategy: How I Kept Lines to a Minimum During and Post-Pregnancy My Anti-Stretch Mark Strategy: How I Kept Lines to a Minimum During and Post-Pregnancy

I gained 96 lbs. when I was pregnant. Yes. You read that correctly. Ninety. Six. Pounds. Sure, I had twins, but still, I pretty much doubled myself during those TEN months of gestation. Happily, with breastfeeding them -- they never had a bottle -- (not that I'm pulling a Giselle here) the pounds seemed to literally melt away. Plus, with two babies to nurse, change and put to sleep, who the heck…  

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Which Cheapie Brands Do You Think Work As Well As (Or Better than) Their High-End Counterparts? Here's My List Of Drugstore Faves Which Cheapie Brands Do You Think Work As Well As (Or Better than) Their High-End Counterparts? Here's My List Of Drugstore Faves

The other day I bared my soul and copped to the fact that there are some products that I spend a lot of money on . And, in so doing, I may have scandalized some of you, but I'm here to redeem myself by sharing some of the reasonably priced treasures I keep in my beauty arsenal alongside their well-heeled counterparts. As I pointed out before, what's deemed splurge-worthy to one woman may be…  

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What Beauty Products Do You Splurge On? Here's a List of the High-End Products I Can't Live Without What Beauty Products Do You Splurge On? Here's a List of the High-End Products I Can't Live Without

If my husband had even the foggiest notion of how much of our hard-earned cash I fritter away on trying to look good, he might have a small cow. Scratch that. He'd have a big, honking moose. But, what's a girl to do? There are just some things that you simply cannot scrimp on. And, what's interesting to me is that we all have different ideas of what's splurge-worthy. My friend Whitney, for…  

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My Favorite Multi-Tasking Products: See How Rediscovering a Few Key Beauty Items Helped Me Save Face -- and Time My Favorite Multi-Tasking Products: See How Rediscovering a Few Key Beauty Items Helped Me Save Face -- and Time

Most (who's joking -- all) mornings are hectic for me -- I get up early to squeeze in 20 minutes on the elliptical (at least three days a week), then juggle getting myself ready while making sure the kids actually brush their teeth and walk out the door fully clothed. So needless to say, by the time I arrive at the office, I'm exhausted. And because I, like many of my friends, think I can do…  

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