Ponds Cold Cream — Best skin clenser I’ve ever used. Steam your face with very hot water — close the pores with ice water (ala Joan Crawford) — use this process each evening. Never, no never go to bed without cleansing your face. Always floss your teeth (at least twice a day) brush, and always use listerine to gargle and rinse. Use Bobbi Brown cosmetics - always use less! Less is always better. Get sleep, drink water —use sunscreen - wear sun glasses. Walk at least 2 miles per day. Get a facial at least 4 times per year. And, lots of chocolate and sex!

* Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. Use a daily UV moisturizer, it helps! * Think positive. The power of positive thinking on one’s physical, mental, and spiritual health is immeasurable. * Wear clothes that put that extra little strut in your step.

Be fully here in the now, appreciating all the beauty there is in this Life, other people, & the earth—-don’t waste a moment worrying about how you look. Some will look better & some will look worse than you—it doesn’t matter—really, it doesn’t—if you have developed all the parts of yourself—you’ll feel great & be loving your Life. That’s my beauty tip. Find what you love & go with it.

Must admit, I didn’t wear a speck of make-up until I was 40, when an Orlane rep. from France took time with me at Neiman’s and proved that my experience with cosmetics was simply because I have a sensitive oily skin, so he did a facial, and make-up; it was still on my face for the opera that night—a first! From that point on, I wore Orlane, until a few years ago when I had reduced the little I wore to virtually nothing. Also from about the age of 45, I’ve used a name-brand facial moisturizer with alpha-hydroxyl, and SPF15. Overall, I use Olive oil on my still wet body after every shower and bath, and have found only 2 soaps mild enough for my skin—finally! No one notices make-up on me, and I used only organic hair products, including for perms in my years traveling 1978-1998. This is all because, being a red-head with freckles, a childhood of serious sun strokes and sun burns dictated that I be careful about my skin. I do believe that our skin cannot take in nutrients, so we look like what we ingest, and that has to include Vitamin D, calcium, and plenty of fiber. In that vein, basic high quality foods, tons of fresh veggies, saving any cooking water by freezing it into cubes for later use, including drinking—I’m a firm believer in herbs, spices, and the use of olive, canola and other high-quality oils, and sweetness being only from natural honey, molasses, or maple syrup. Lastly, don’t ever finish any plate, or bowl of food. Overall, from the outside, an excellent haircut is worth every cent put in to it, and our eyes, and the skin on our hands tells a great deal about our health overall. So, beauty is as beauty does.

I think Moisturizers are the best thing for my skin. I give my face a rest one day a week…………..no makeup just moisturizer. Otherwise I like to make my face up completely. Ususally don’t go anywhere (anymore) but Always like to be ready to hit the door and be gone in 10 min time of an invitation. Also I like to know if I pass a mirror I won’t scar myself!! lol………………… I’ve always looked younger than my age and I’d like to keep it that way.

My best beauty tip is to smile more. Don’t be concerned with laugh lines, smiling is a sign of inner beauty. Inner beauty is superior to outer beauty.

Exercise, exfoliate and hydrate. Personally, I think that you are what you eat. I eat organic. I try to eat healthy. Organic, as in sweet potatoes, broccoli, spelt, beans, brown rice, fresh veggies, herbs, teas, broths, beans, including soy milk.

• The Master Cleanse Fast, every 6 months. • Getting rid of all formaldehyde - in your clothes, carpet, especially bedsheets and pillow cases. (Victoria secret is being sued for putting it in lacey bras - making women sick.) All cotton, old weave, naked. • Swimming, preferably outdoors in fresh water. Total rejuve. • Try every lavish and expensive face cream. The ONLY one I recommend is Reviva Collegen Night Cream. Hard to get, in some health stores on Upper West Side, Columbus Ave in Manhattan and in some health food stores on West Coast. Might have to order it. Even so: the price is 12.00! Nothing like it in the world. • Nightly meditation to music, mostly Brazilian or Krishna Das. • Sleep: the world between worlds, where anything is possible. • Cognac with coffee. Everything in moderation, including moderation. • Gut-bouncing laughter, shared with people I love and admire.

Lena B writes with a smile, “My best beauty tip is to smile more. Don’t be concerned with laugh lines, smiling is a sign of inner beauty.” Yes! Yours is very wise advice. Much can be read from a person’s face, especially older time engraved people. Personality and character, this is where we find the beauty, and the ugly. Too often I see older people with cynical scowl lines surrounding their mouths. Right off, you know these are people you typically want to avoid. A companion feature of scowl people is a deeply furrowed brow, a constant angry look. You look at those people and know you will not be able to afford them a smile, not be able to give them a laugh and, certainly, they will not gift you with your own smile nor your own sound of laughter. I always go for the people with crow’s feet around their eyes and smile lifted cheeks. A companion feature of smilers is a brow which points upward in the center, a look of told joke surprise. Strikes me smilers always have a sparkle in their eyes regardless of how old. Not so much a beauty thing, a feature I almost always look for is callus on hands. This mark of pride comes only from hard work, and this mark of earning your own way never completely vanishes; callus is forever. Nothing impresses me more than a rough callus handshake. Smile! You are so right, Lena! A smile is the greatest beauty we can display, and the most powerful beauty we can display. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Good genes.