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Category: Social Concerns

How to Get Beautiful & Get Your Last-Minute Holiday Shopping Done

In this pre-Christmas blog roundup, the Beauty Spotlight Team has tips on how to get beautiful and get your last-minute holiday shopping done, too! Age doesn’t matter. Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:

  • tips to treat and prevent brassy hair;
  • 20 ways to wear red pants that will make you stand out;
  • a four-piece Support Ukraine Skincare Set;
  • last-minute gifts and stocking stuffers; and
  • Pureauty biotin hair serum.

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Here Are the Latest Tips and Reviews by the Beauty Spotlight Team

Each week I feature the latest tips and reviews by the Beauty Spotlight Team (BST.) We are a group of beauty, fashion and lifestyle bloggers for women over 40. Age doesn’t matter, however, because women of all ages can benefit from the skincare, makeup, good health and up-to-date style information presented here.

In this post, you’ll find out about:

  • a lightweight antioxidant-rich balm that plumps and hydrates skin
  • a gentle, multi-tasking facial cleanser that can also clean your makeup brushes
  • a body-care line with sumptuous new scents
  • the many different ways to style a skull-print scarf
  • hacks for swapping plastic bags for eco-conscious shopping and food storage

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What I Want for Christmas? Help for Native Americans

When my husband asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I pointed out my selection in the Southwest Indian Foundation catalog:  a handmade embroidered hoodie and matching drawstring pants. When we called to order it, we slowly discovered that COVID-19 had swept through the desert Southwest reservation areas and large numbers of Indians had died. That realization made me decide to interrupt my Velvet Outfits series in order to let my readers know about this urgent situation. Now, what I want for Christmas is help for Native Americans.

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It’s Time for Mourning, Respect and Remembering

This week, we were saddened to lose our longtime, dedicated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  Now it’s time for mourning, respect and remembering this feminist icon.  It’s not a time for rushing a new Justice to fill her seat one week later just before an election.  That would be an injustice to her memory.  And it would take away the rights of the people to have a say.  Their vote is their chance to have a say in the matter at hand.

Also known as Notorious RBG, she received this nickname from a young woman named Shana Knizhnik who compared RBG’s dissenting opinions to protest lyrics by rapper Notorious B.I.G.  The idea was that RBG was tough and absolutely awesome.  Age doesn’t matter when you speak out and stand up for what’s important!

Scene from the Supreme Court Vigil – The Cut

Crowds showed up at the Supreme Court steps and across the country, holding vigils after the passing of this tiny yet great woman.  What they are feeling in their hearts is not something that is easy to put into words.  Poetry can help a little.  So I have penned a poem of hope for the grieving:

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Fashion & Protest: How to Show Where You Stand

In my last post, I celebrated the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Women’s fashion has helped them throughout their history of protest. Age doesn’t matter when a certain color, symbol or slogan is worn by women showing their support for certain issues. Fashion is how to show where you stand and how to show your true self without having to say a word.

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