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Valerie Bertinelli, 48, is on the cover of People Magazine and looking Age-MAZING!

It’s exciting to see that with some willpower, a good diet and lots of exercise, you can get your bod back even after 40! Of course, she’s been paid to do this, but still, it is inspiring!

On her blog at Jenny Craig, Valerie attests to feeling better than ever about herself, and obviously looks very healthy.

Have any of you had this type of success?

We want to hear your story! What diet and fitness tips can you pass on that can help us all look fabulous after 40?

She certainly fit the bill of an Age-mazing woman. As her friends have attested, not only was she beautiful on the outside, but even more so on the inside.

This weeks Blogging Boomer’s Carnival #109 talks more about keeping your brain safe and other various Boomer Topics.

It’s being held today at The Boomer Chronicles.

	What do you think of this Valentino fango nappa petale handbag?
	If money were no object would you buy this Miu Miu Matelasse Long Tote?
	Is this Christian Louboutin Layered Leather Hobo Bag something you’d love to own?

We’d love to get your opinion. Are these bags Foolish or Fabulous for Women over 40?

We’d love to hear your viewpoint!

Shopping used to be fun. Now it’s like hunting for the wooly mammoth!

Boomers are being left high and dry. Now a recent U.S.A. Today article called Clothing Stores rediscover boomers says stores are  waking up to the fact that we want to look hip, modern and fashionable and we do have the money to spend. (What took them so long?)

Bloomingdales started the trend.

Now, Talbots, is trying to modernize their line. We’ll see what happens. I (Deb) have had good luck with their summer sandals, but everything I’ve ever tried on is too conservative and hugely cut to be fashionable for me. JoJami bought a jacket there before because it was fantastic color, but it was very boxy and she had to have it taken in.

We went on line to see if there was anything interesting on their site since having read the this article. As soon as the site popped up we were oohing and awing at their home page. The cute and colorful doublebreasted pea coats looked exciting and fun.

Next, we clicked onto accessories and again, were impressed. Looked like a few things we wouldn’t mind checking out like the croc embossed clutch or the hair calf flats or cute brown ankle boots.

But when we got to the clothes, we’ve got to admit, we were disappointed. Nice classic stuff but so classic and plain it was boring.  We like classic, but give us classic with a modern twist. We did, however, give them points for this top from the plus size department which we thought was fresh and slimming for curvy glam gals.

Maybe they haven’t got their new clothes on line yet? JoJami has a client next week and she is going to take her shopping, so will test the waters.

Where do you shop? What lines do you buy? Tommorow we’ll talk about what is working for JoJami and me.

Came across an interesting blog post the other day at Raising Angls.com. The writer told the story how of how she was at the makeup counter recently and was asking the woman behind the counter , ” Is it Ok for women over 40 to have those “shimmer things” in the eyeshadow. The woman’s reply was “Why YES!, you can shimmer all you want after 40 you just dont want to sparkle!”

We were curioius what our favorite expert Christopher Hopkins (The Makeover Guy) thoughts were on the difference between shimmer and sparkle.

Here is what he said:

“I agree. A little shimmer in the right places can be very effective. (Key: right place). The brow bone, a touch in the eye lid, a soft shimmer in lip color. It’s the size of the particles, really. It’s like eggshell vs. matte vs. gloss. But it is pretty difficult to tell how much shimmer something has until you’ve worn it for a few hours and it has settled into ‘areas’ we’d rather not accentuate with shimmer or shine.”

If in doubt, save the shimmer for evening, and eliminate highly frosted or seriously shiny makeup altogether.

Christopher Hopkins is the author of Staging Your Comeback: A Complete Beauty Revival for Women Over 45