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Beauty
Serious Talk about Skincare – An Interview with Denice Duff, Founder and Creator of IN YOUR FACE Skincare
I realized that my lazy, slap-some-moisturizer-here-and-there-when-I-think-about-it days were over, and it was time to get down to some serious skincare business.
Give Your Makeup Routine a Makeover – 5 Things You Need Right Now
French women rely on good skincare and only a modicum of makeup to enhance their own unique and god given beauty. And I think that’s a pretty good way to go. Still, regardless of whether you’re a makeup queen or a French minimalist, the goal is to look your best, and...
Silver is the New Black — Transition to Grey Like a Boss
I’m sure transitioning to grey hair is different for everyone. For me, it was my invitation to be a rock star.
Fashion
Interview With Celebrity Stylist Sara Acevedo
Meet my friend Sara Acevedo – former New York model, celebrity stylist, and personal shopper to anyone looking to up their fashion game and create a cohesive style.
Show up Right – Dressing for Any Occasion
There’s about 20,000 genes in the human body, but I believe French women have 20,0001 – they’re born with the style gene. They’re the Goldilocks of fashion –not overdressed, not under-dressed, just right.
Your Fashion, Your Rules
Epiphanies come from all sorts of significant and spiritually moving events – births, deaths, stuff like that. Mine comes from The Devil Wears Prada. Well, at least my fashion epiphany.
La Maison
Keep Calm and Get Organized
Life gets busy, cabinets and drawers get cluttered and homeless objects take up residence, and I become a whirligig of “get organized” until order, and my sense of French-ness, is restored.
Putting the Chic in Shabby
I love change – in fact the only things in my life not subject to change are my husband and kids. And my dear husband lets me get away with changing up just about anything in the house because he knows if I get bored, it’s time to move.
A Kept House
I grew up in a very un-kept house. If relatives were coming for the holidays, it was a total freak-out to get the house cleaned up.
Lifestyle
The Honest Truth About Getting Fit
Getting fit. I honestly think all this thrill of victory talk about Being Your Bikini Best in 90 Days does nothing but create unrealistic expectations that set you up for the agony of defeat.
Serious Talk about Skincare – An Interview with Denice Duff, Founder and Creator of IN YOUR FACE Skincare
I realized that my lazy, slap-some-moisturizer-here-and-there-when-I-think-about-it days were over, and it was time to get down to some serious skincare business.
Aging Beautifully
Once you turn 40, you start evolving into the real you; the mature, grown up, wise woman of the world you. And beyond that, you start becoming aged to perfection.
Recipes
Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches for Grown-ups
Fridays were for pajama parties and comfort food – tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Except I elevated the crap out of it.
A Well-Stocked Pantry
We all have our superpowers. Mine, is being able to throw a meal together when there’s “nothing in the house,” even if guests show up unexpectedly.
Wine Braised Spare Ribs
Here’s the recipe for Wine Braised Short Ribs. I’ll be making a video on bread soon – I’m still perfecting my technique.
Travel
The Necessities of Life – Food, Shelter, and Travel
Recently I was at a meeting of women entrepreneurs, listening to a woman tell her story of going from losing her job and the difficulty of scraping by while raising her son as a single mom, to building a successful business that supports her comfortably and even saving enough money to take her son to France for a vacation.
French Bread the French Way
My recent trip to Paris was cut short due to circumstances beyond my control – c’est la vie. But the one thing I was unwilling to eliminate from my planned Paris activities was my French baking class. I’ll admit it – bread baking has become a bit of an obsession for...
Living in the Escargot Which is Paris
I just like to spend a couple of weeks living in Paris. You can be a tourist in Paris, or you can immerse yourself in the ambience of Paris. I choose the latter.
