From Tatiana Boncompagni

“A 30-year-old woman must choose between her bottom and her face,” Catherine Deneuve famously declared.  You’ve heard it before: After a certain age, you have to make a choice between your—ahem—derrière and your visage. Read more

As a fitness and wellness editor and regular contributor to Charlotte’s Book, people expect me to be in good shape. And I am—for a mother of three looking down the barrel of her 40th birthday. Read more

By now, the idea that beauty starts from within is pretty much an accepted fact. But it wasn’t always that way. When Naomi Whittel, the founder of Reserveage Nutrition, came up with her idea for a supplement company that used collagen and resveratrol—the antioxidant found in the skin of red grapes—it was pretty revolutionary.  Read more

As a veteran beauty editor, I’ve been able to test out more than my fair share of skin treatments—everything from electrotherapy to Botox and back again—in an effort to look younger than my years. Read more

One of the newest innovations in body contouring is TruSculpt 3D, a treatment that uses monopolar radiofrequency (RF) energy to target, heat and destroy fat cells beneath the skin (currently approved by the FDA for circumferential reduction of the abdomen and flanks). Read more

I was at a children’s birthday party, my eyes trained on a thick slice of chocolate cake, when the woman next to me gestured at a tiny roll on her otherwise flat abdomen with a pink plastic fork. Read more

Just as there’s no magic wand for getting rid of belly bulges and dimpled rears (although some of the new non-invasive body contouring procedures can show some real results), there’s no beauty potion out there capable of performing miracles either. Read more