There are two events that made me want to write this post: 1) Tina Turner was on Oprah not long ago and Queen Oprah declared that at 68 Tina had been in a happy relationship for the past 20 years (which would mean that she stated dating her current man at 48) 2) The “Sex and the City” movie features Carrie Bradshaw who finally finds love and gets married after 40.

It occurred to me that when you end a relationship in your mid-to-late 30s and you’ve been on a bad string of dates and you’ve had to endure a few bad medium-length relationships, you start wondering if you will ever be able to find a meaningful relationship again.

I’ve been a huge fan of house music (electronica gender – according to Wikipedia, electronica is refers to music that emphasizes the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology as a central aspect of the sound of the music.) since I was a teenager.

This underground sound became popular in some of the coolest bars in the city and although I was underage, I was able to get into those bars because I was tall and looked 18 and not 16.

I knew this guy who used to always say that after a woman had reached her 30th birthday it was all downhill from that point on because she would never have the same “beautiful and sexy” body she had in her teens and 20s and that a woman’s body after the age of 30 was just not as desirable. He always talked about how much woman lost their muscle mass and their firmness, gained a belly, acquired flabby arms and how everything on their bodies turned to mush. This is not something this guy said once or twice, this is something he said constantly and in time, I came to understand that he actually truly meant it … he wasn’t trying to be comical.

I recently read a really interesting article published in the New York Times last month about the trials and tribulations of adding more candles to your birthday cake.

The article revealed some fascinating facts from a recent study about the emotional reality of hitting certain “big” birthdays:

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Moira Cameron who had spent 22 years as an army accountant decided that she had had enough of her career and needed a radical change. She got to a point where she would have chosen a career as either a plumber or an electrician, but luckily, she choose tourism and with that decision she singlehandedly turned British history upside down.

During my recent visit to London, I visited the Tower of London under the strong advisement of my good friend who’s been living in London for a few years now.

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Beauty Match is all about celebrating beauty after the age of 35! We focus a lot of our skincare and body and mind tips on helping us look as young as we feel in our mid-to-late 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

Another very important aspect in feeling good and feeling beautiful is recognizing (and really believing) that life doesn’t have an expiry date marked “40”.