Live beautifully. Age like fine wine.
I cannot believe I am sitting here writing my Day 90 red light therapy update already. The second half of August was packed with work travel, a lot of time on the road, and somewhere in between all that driving, 90 days came and went faster than I expected. If you are just catching up, […]
After almost twenty years behind the chair, I have used more foundations than I can count. I know good formula when I feel it on my skin, and I know when a brand is just chasing a trend. I saw one foundation launch getting quite the attention on social media. To my surprise, particularly from […]
Welcome back to the challenge! We are officially 60 days into my 90-day at-home red light therapy journey. If you’ve been following along, you know the deal by now. My promise to always share my honest results with real time pictures of my progress. I am going into this realistically, providing you with education so […]
In my last post, PCOS Is Now PMOS: A Personal Journey, I shared a recent moment in my endocrinologist’s office when my bloodwork revealed something I did not expect. The new symptoms I had quietly filed under perimenopause were not perimenopause at all. They were my PMOS (Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome), active and speaking up […]
For as long as I can remember, I have felt like something was off with my body. Growing up with obesity was an awkward and frustrating journey. Losing weight was always slow and hard. Gaining it was always fast and easy. Food felt like the enemy, because the only solution back then was restrictive dieting. […]
Welcome back, my lovely LLVB community. As you know, back in June I set out to take on a 90-day at-home Red Light Therapy challenge. Red light therapy is a wonderful way to boost collagen, soften fine lines and wrinkles, improve skin texture, and calm inflammation, and I wanted to add it to my skincare […]
For the last twenty years, I’ve heard countless midlife women say how they used to have such thick hair when they were younger. Women often say it with a sad tone behind it. Being Latina, we take pride in luscious, long hair. I had fullness, but my goal was always length. Tape-in extensions gave me […]
I always prided myself on being detail-oriented. Remembering important events and exactly who was there. Focusing for long hours on a project without losing my place. I can still recall lyrics to an enormous catalog of songs and connect actors to Kevin Bacon in six degrees of separation without breaking a sweat. So when the […]
There is something quite revolutionary about a woman who gives herself permission to rest. The best type of rest is the kind that fills you back up. I found this restorative rest between the pages of a good book. For nearly a year, reading has been a part of my daily routine. The simple act of […]
In the Living La Vida Bella community, we are all about aging like fine wine. Yes, aging is inevitable, but leaning into it with grace means establishing daily disciplines that support our skin from the inside out. For me, the goal isn’t just about finding high-quality products to apply to my skin as a midlife […]