Dating
10 Things About Dating After 50 Nobody Warns You About (Number 6 Is a Relief)
The apps, the seven-year-old profile photos, the surprising relief of not having to settle — ten honest truths about dating after 50, from women actually doing it.
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10 Things Stealing Your Sleep After 50 — Ranked From Easiest to Hardest to Fix
The ten real reasons you're awake at 3am after 50, ranked from the five-minute fix to the see-a-doctor one — honest, tested, no lavender-scented nonsense.
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Mindset
11 Habits of Women Who Reinvented Themselves After 50
We keep meeting women whose second act is the best one. These are the eleven habits they have in common — none of them require a retreat in Bali.
Beauty
7 Makeup Mistakes That Add Ten Years — and the Five-Minute Fixes
Seven makeup habits most of us learned in 1995 that work against mature skin now — and the five-minute fixes that make you look like yourself, only well-slept.
Grief
9 Things That Actually Helped in the First Year of Grief — From Women Who've Lived It
No platitudes, no five-step plans. Nine things that genuinely helped real women get through the first year of loss — including the ones nobody says out loud.
Menopause✓ Tested
The 9 Best Products for Hot Flashes — Tested by Women Over 50
You know the drill. You're mid-sentence, mid-meeting, or three-quarters asleep, and suddenly your body decides it's July on the surface of the sun. The sheets are damp, the cardigan comes off, and…
Beauty
5 Skincare Mistakes That Age You After 50 — and What to Do Instead
Here is the honest truth no serum ad will tell you: most of what "ages" our skin after 50 isn't the years. It's the routine we never updated. We're out here using the same squeaky-clean face wash we…
Beauty✓ Tested
The Best Tinted Moisturizers for Mature Skin — Tested
Somewhere around 52, my full-coverage foundation staged a quiet mutiny. It didn't sit on my skin so much as settle into it — into every fine line I'd earned honestly, and a few I'd apparently earned…