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The Best Skin-Care Routine for Your 50s
17 items in this article 1 item on sale! Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers Turning 50 is a major milestone for your skin. While your 30s and 40s may have been about protecting collagen and keeping the pores clean and blemish-free, your 50s is when your skin-care routine needs to be more reactive to the body’s natural processes. “The cell-renewal process slows down as we enter our 50s, leaving older, duller cells that stay on the skin’s surface longer,” says Dr. Dendy Engelman, a board-certified cosmetic dermatologist and Humphreys Witch Hazel committee member. Your 50s also bring lots of hormonal changes, which also affects the skin. This could be when…
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Brooke Shields’s Guide to Less-Is-More Makeup and Skin Care in Your 50s
“Now as I’ve gotten older and don’t have as much elasticity in my skin, I realized that I need to be more gentle,” Brooke Shields reflects as she starts her beauty routine with a True Botanicals Renew Nourishing Cleanser. Considering her iconic modeling career, it’s not an exaggeration to say Shields has been in most makeup looks under the sun, and it’s that experience that has given her an appreciation for simple, effective skin care—complete with a couple high-tech touches. Cleanser is followed by a topical collagen supplement powered by the Droplette device. “I just love the ritual,” Shields says. “I love getting facials or anything that’s pampering. I’ll try…