Neutrogena Lip Moisturizer

Lighten up for summer

Yet, makeover shows and magazines thrive on selling consumers the same information over and over because women don’t believe the general rules are enough.

Enter Joan Sato, a 53-year-old Realtor who’s making the transition to commercial development and seeking physical improvement to coincide with her enhanced business role.

“I think I’m in the category of OVER-haul, renovation, needing to add MORE to conceal/compensate for the ravages of nature and time,” she wrote in an email seeking help.

There are a lot of women like Sato who believe they will look younger if they bury their flaws under makeup, but doing that never fools anyone. What Sato really needed was a make-under, scraping off the layers of foundation and powder that screamed middle-age. For every woman afraid of letting her real skin show, summer is the perfect time to lighten up anyway, when warm-weather clothing, a relaxed mindset and the prospect of melting makeup call for a lighter hand.

To her credit, Sato had already started the process of refreshing her look last fall, when she looked at her new passport photo and saw an older person she didn’t recognize. She realized that over the years she had settled into a comfortable routine that was no longer working. Dressing and making up her face became, Sato said, “a matter of trying to hide this and that.”

She started exercising through Zumba classes and took an interest in more stylish clothing. A new haircut and color brought the child of the ’70s up to about … 1985, still a good 26 years behind the times.

In that time, beauty has gone from artificial to natural, with a focus less on color cosmetics and more on good skin that reflects health, radiance and youth. Heavy foundation has given way to lighter mineral makeup or BB (Beauty Balm) cream from Korea. With summer approaching, women can go lighter still, with just a thin layer of tinted moisturizer.

Over at Salon 808, stylist Ralph Malani said, “After 40, it’s about softness. As women age, they need to soften everything instead of calling attention to all the fine lines. When you wear a lot of foundation, you can see all the bumps.”

Malani said many women get trapped by trying to re-create the look they had in their 20s. “It’s when they felt they were most hot, and that’s where people get stuck. They still think that as long as they have that look, they look good, but they don’t. It just makes a person look as dated and old as they are. Especially in Hawaii, people hang on to trends longer.

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Product Description With PABA-free sunblock protection. No waxy feel. Conditions and protects dry, chapped lips. Neutrogena Lip Moisturizer softens, smoothes and protects dry, chapped lips with no waxy feel. This moisture-enriched formula soothes and conditions your lips, keeping them healthy looking and soft in all weather. Contains PABA-free SPF 15 sunblock to guard against the sun's UVA and UVB rays. Use everyday to keep lips smooth and moisturized. Formulated with only the purest of ingredients - so there's no color, no fragrance, no unnecessary additives. Made in USA.   Amazon Sales Rank: #861 in Beauty Brand: Neutrogena Number of items: 8 Features Pack of eight 15-ounce lip moisturizing sticks with SPF-15 (1.2 total ounces) Moisture-enriched formula soothes and conditions your lips without a waxy feel, keeping them healthy looking and soft in all weather Contains PABA-free SPF 15 sunblock to guard against the sun's UVA and UVB rays Formulated with only the purest of ingredients; 100% color, fragrance, and unnecessary additive free Made in the U.S.A.

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