AARP’s List of Mature Trends for 2018 Beauty & Style
AARP' s Slightly More Mature Ins and Outs List
The latest trends for those who weren' t born yesterday
OUT Just for Men
IN Silver foxes
Robin Marchant/Getty Images All the trendsetters are , with everyone from Steve Carell (above) to Kim Kardashian showing how great a touch (or a major wash) of this cool tone can be. OUT Multi-gen travel
Getty Images IN Skip-gen travel
iStockphoto Taking every generation on that is passé. Skip the middle. Just take the grandkids. (Good luck with that, say their parents!) OUT Death sex
IN Killer Sex
New you won't die from even the most enthusiastic of lovemaking; less than 1 percent of cardiac arrest cases, it turns out, have anything to do with coitus terminus. OUT Anti-aging skin creams and everything else
iStockphoto IN Whatever Lauren Hutton is having
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images “The way we think about aging starts with the way we talk about aging,” wrote the editor of Allure, describing why that magazine would no longer use “anti-aging” to describe beauty products or practices. , rejecting the use of the phrase in any instance as ageist, unnecessary and at odds with our goal of expanding, not limiting, the opportunities that come with the years. OUT The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
IN The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning How to Free Yourself and Your Family From a Lifetime of Clutter
If Life-Changing author-magician Marie Kondo couldn’t move you to with all her shirt-folding as high art, perhaps your own mortality (and Margareta Magnusson's new Death Cleaning book) will? OUT Millennial pink
iStockphoto IN Ultraviolet
iStockphoto Associated with 20-somethings, velvety home decor and subtle fashion clashes, the super soft pink hue that has recently reigned supreme has met its pastel end. We like the sound of Pantone's more assertive official shade of 2018: “Ultra Violet communicates originality, ingenuity and visionary thinking that points us toward the future.” OUT 140 90
IN 130 80
Medicine has given us a cool new (of 120/80, now that “high” blood pressure has been re-defined as 130 80 instead of 140/90.) That’s the positive way to look at it, anyway! OUT All-cardio training
Getty Images IN Weight training
iStockphoto So you’ve been ignoring the advice about lifting weights? Try these latest takeaways: extends life for those over 50 and now trumps cardio for helping people lose weight. OUT Sleeping pills
IN Light therapy
Getty Images Sleep drugs are so tired. Our money's on Nobel Prize-winning science. to the rising sun, and you may learn to slumber soundly again. OUT Multitasking
Getty Images IN Meditating
iStockphoto Once a badge of honor, all that juggling turns out to be damaging to the brain. Even time-starved CEOs now are embracing the into their daily schedules. OUT Decaf
IN Full-strength java
Dump that decaf; you'll actually get more health benefits — including a lower risk of Alzheimer’s, depression and even some cancers — by (up to four caffeinated cups a day). OUT Man caves
IN She sheds
Courtesy Studio Shed Women are finding their voice and their place — and for some, it’s their own . OUT Financial planners
IN Financial therapists
You’d like more money, yes. But would you also like to explore your feelings about not having money? Forget the stockbroker. Find the financial therapist, the new hybrid healer-money guru who can help sort through retirement’s complicated dance. OUT Staying together
IN Living together
Westend61/Getty Images Divorce rates for people over 50 have more than doubled since the 1990s, according to research from the Pew Research Center. But if they're not staying married, : More people over 50 are cohabitating now than ever before. OUT Bucket lists
IN Immediate gratification
First of all, thanks, bucket list. Without you, there would be so many fewer inventories of trips we won't actually take. That said, we vote for tightening up the time frame for fun. Let's disconnect things we really want to do from thoughts of our own mortality, and just do it — now. Also of Interest
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