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My Entire Beauty Maintenance Calendar at 49

This is my entire beauty maintenance calendar at 49, every single thing I do to stay hot as fuck, from what happens every morning and night to the stuff I only do a few times a year. What I do, in what order, how often, and what I skip when I just cannot be bothered. Get The High Maintenance Planner now! Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment Rewritten’s Show The Face Up Serum. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Use code MYSELF for 15% off Get the Sunday Rewritten newsletter Get The Rewrite newsletter each week Things I Mentioned in This Episode. This one is for every woman who has looked at a woman like me and wondered how the fuck she fits it all in. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face. First I walk you through my mornings and my nights, including the two devices I use to lightly electrocute myself every single day, why I lift weights by candlelight, and what I wear to bed for the creasing on my chest. Then I get into Sunday, my Everything Day, and the things I used to pay other people to do that I now do myself. From there I go all the way out: the in-office treatments I keep up and how often I actually get them, the one I'm testing on my neck right now, the yearly medical stuff I do not play around with, and the lab result that made me lower one of my hormones. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #beautymaintenance #highmaintenance #womenover40 #beautyroutine #antiagingroutine #skincareroutineover40 #antiaging #antiagingskincare #morningroutine #skincareroutine #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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I Spent $1.3M on My Looks. These 10 Things Mattered More.

I'm 49, and these are the 10 things I actually do that make me look and feel hot AF after 40. Some of them are about my skin, my clothes, and my heels. The one that made the biggest difference has nothing to do with Botox, filler, treatments, or anything I can buy. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman who has ever felt like she was supposed to make herself a little smaller so everybody else could stay comfortable. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face. But I was not born knowing how to walk into a room. I was the girl who got laughed at for walking across one. First I get into the things people notice before you ever open your mouth: how I take care of myself every single day, the two-minute ritual I do while my serum goes on, why I stopped apologizing for caring how I look, and how I figured out exactly what to wear for my body so I'm not trying on a new personality every time a trend changes. Then it gets personal. I tell the story of the day I stood up in class to enter a beauty pageant and the whole room laughed, and how I walk into a room now. I get into pace, standards, having a signature, why I don't make myself smaller anymore, how I got comfortable being seen, and the one thing on this list that changed everything else. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #confidenceafter40 #womenover40 #hotover40 #styleover40 #beautyover40 #confidence #fashionover40 #skincareover40 #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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Why I Quit Under-Eye Filler (And What I Do at 49 Instead)

Under-eye filler was the wrong fix for almost everything I was actually trying to fix, and I found that out after years and a stupid amount of money spent on my own face. What most people call under-eye aging is really five completely different problems, hollowing, darkness, crepey skin, fine lines, and true bags, and filler is only built for one of them. This is exactly what I do instead now, and how to figure out which under-eye problem is actually yours before you spend a dollar. Things I Mentioned: Rewritten Show The Face Up serum My eye retinol My peptide eye cream My at-home radiofrequency device Download The Under-Eye Fix Decision Card! Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman staring at her under-eyes in bad bathroom lighting, wondering when she started looking so tired, and this close to booking filler to fix it. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face, most of it by testing everything on my own. First I get into why under-eye aging is really five completely different problems, how to tell which one is actually yours, and why putting filler in the wrong one can make you look worse, sometimes years after the injection. I tell the whole story of my own under-eye filler, the round I couldn't even see and the round I genuinely loved, and why I still choose not to do it again. Then I walk through exactly what I do instead now, from the daily skin baseline to the treatments I actually booked for hollowing, crepey skin, fine lines, and jelly rolls, plus the one thing that is truly a different conversation with a surgeon. I get into the newer stuff I'm watching, the one I stay away from, and the single question to answer before you let anyone near your face with a needle. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #undereyefiller #undereyes #womenover40 #tearroughfiller #beautyover40 #fillermigration #undereyebags #skincareover40 #antiaging #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia #botox #microneedling

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If I Were 40 Again, These Are the Exact 10 Things I’d Do to Look Hot AF

If I had to start over at 40, knowing everything I know now after spending $1.3 million on beauty, these are the ten things I'd do first, in the order that actually works. This is the anti-aging roadmap for women over 40 I wish someone had handed me, and no, Botox isn't one of them. Get the 10 Steps to Look & Feel Hot AF After 40! Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman standing in the middle of the serums, the hormones, the devices, and the anti-aging treatments after 40 with no idea where to start. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million and a decade figuring out what actually works on a face, and what order to do it in, so beauty over 40 stops feeling like a guessing game. First, the one thing I'd fix before I'd spend another dollar on my face (and no, it's not skincare). Then the unsexy stuff that runs everything after 40, including the daily habit that does more for your skin than your next cream, and why one simple routine beats a bathroom full of 147 products. Then the part they leave out of the ads. Why the treatment everyone reaches for first is not where I'd start, how I stopped shrinking myself to be taken seriously, and the last one, the reason 40 was never the beginning of the end. Because this was never about becoming 20 again. It's the part where you finally have the money, the standards, and the nerve to build a face and a life that look like you. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #AntiAging #WomenOver40 #BeautyOver40 #Over40 #SkincareOver40 #LifeAfter40 #Perimenopause #Menopause #HowToLookYounger #MidlifeWomen #Hormones #idliketothankmyself

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I Tested Every At-Home Skin-Tightening Device. Here Are the 3 I'd Buy Again.

If you've got your eye on all these at-home skin-tightening devices promising to lift and snatch your face, but you have no idea which ones actually work, I tested pretty much every one so you don't have to. I'm 49, I've never had a facelift, and I've spent tens of thousands of dollars figuring out which at-home devices are worth the money, which are a total waste, and the $6,000 one I'd never buy again. Get the free At-Home Device Cheat Sheet. Which device fixes what, how to use each, and the 3 questions to ask before you spend a dollar. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. Devices I Use & Love: NuFACE Trinity (microcurrent) ZIIP (microcurrent, jowls + custom routines) Dermalux Flex MD (red light panel) Omnilux men's mask (red light, deeper wavelength) CurrentBody Skin RF (radiofrequency) NIRA Pro laser (face, neck, larger areas) NIRA Precision laser (eyes + lips) (My discount codes for these are inside The Vanity Club.) This one is for every woman who keeps getting told to just age gracefully and accept it. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face, including a vanity full of at-home devices I bought so you don't have to. First, I get into the one mistake that makes women waste the most money, which is shopping for a device before you know what you're actually trying to fix, and why the device that improves your skin is not the one that lifts your face. Then I walk you through every category I've tested- microcurrent, red light, radiofrequency, at-home lasers, and microneedling, and I tell you exactly which bucket each one lands in and what it's actually worth using for. Then I get to the part you came for. The $6,000 device I'd skip in a heartbeat, the one I'd never use on my own face, the melasma warning nobody gave me before I started, and if you took every device I own tonight, the only three I'd buy again tomorrow. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #skintightening #athomedevices #redlighttherapy #microcurrent #radiofrequency #looseskin #jowls #beautyover40 #skincareover40 #womenover40 #antiaging #over40 #idliketothankmyself

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I Spent 2 Years Trying to Regrow My Hair Only 4 Things Mattered

My hair started thinning after 40, and I spent almost two years and an embarrassing amount of money trying to grow it back. This is everything I actually tried for my thinning hair, what genuinely worked, what was a gorgeous waste of money, and the exact four-step plan I'd use if I had to start all over. Grab My Free Hair Regrowth Plan. The four things that actually work, in the order I'd do them, plus the exact products I use. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. Things I Mentioned: Topical minoxidil (the one I use) Nutrafol (the hair-growth supplement I take) My hair regrowth peptide serum with Capixyl™ My multi-peptide hair-density serum (budget option) The scalp oil I love (with rosemary) Air dry cream that leaves my hair shiny without the heat Ketoconazole shampoo The laser cap I landed on My silk bonnet My boar-bristle brush Budget brush option I love The scalp massager I use with my minoxidil My clip-in extensions made specifically for thinning hair This one is for every woman watching her part get wider and getting told to just accept it. I'm a skincare founder and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and I spent almost two years and a stupid amount of money figuring out what actually regrows hair after 40 and what is a complete waste. First, I get into why your hair is really thinning after 40, because hair loss is not one problem with one fix, plus the one question that saves you the most money before you buy a single thing. Then I walk through everything I actually tried, from the topical that made me shed even more before it worked, to PRP, microneedling, red light, ketoconazole, rosemary oil, and the supplements that earn their spot versus the ones that are a scam. I get honest about biotin, the shed that actually means it is working, what a good hair-growth serum needs on the label, and the one gadget I have zero proof does anything and refuse to stop using. And I close on the part most women will not say out loud, why losing your hair after 40 hits so much deeper than just hair, and why you are allowed to fight to get it back. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #idliketothankmyself #hairloss #hairlossafter40 #thinninghair #hairgrowth #womenshairloss #femalehairloss #perimenopause #hairregrowth #hairover40 #womenover40 #hairthinning #minoxidil #haircare

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The 5 Things I Do For My Jowls At 48 (And The One I Regret)

If you've ever pushed your jowls back up with two fingers, chasing the jawline you had at 35, this is the episode that finally explains why it's happening and what actually fixes it. I'm 49, i've never had a facelift, and I've spent $1.3 million on my face figuring out what works on jowls, what's a total waste of money, and the treatment I paid thousands for that made mine worse. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. Things I Mentioned: Daily sunscreen I use. My favorite microcurrent device. This one is for every woman who looks in the mirror lately and doesn't recognize the bottom half of her face. I'm a skincare founder and a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million and years of my life testing what actually holds a jaw up after 40, so you don't have to learn it the expensive way like I did. First I get into why jowls even happen, and it is not what you think. It is not just loose skin, it is your fat pads sliding, your collagen thinning, and the part I found out the hard way, your actual face bones shrinking. Then I walk through everything I do, in order from the cheapest thing to a facelift. The two free things you can start today, the microcurrent I do at home, the Sculptra reveal that even injectors get wrong, exactly where I put filler and where I would never, and the little Botox trick that lifts a jaw instead of just smoothing it. Then I tell you the truth about the stuff that gets all the hype and does nothing for a jowl, the treatment I regret paying thousands for, the one I am about to try next, and where I would spend my own money if I had to pick just one. Grab a drink. We have got shit to talk about. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #womenover40 #beautyover40 #gettingolder #midlifewomen #over40 #aging #confidenceafter40 #ageisjustanumber #selfworth #hotaf #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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The Lies I Burned On My 49th Birthday (Literally)

It's my 49th birthday, and instead of dreading getting older the way we're all trained to, I'm doing the one ritual that changed how I feel about aging for good. If your birthday has started to feel like a countdown, if you're seeing fine lines and wrinkles that feel like they showed up overnight, like your face fell off a cliff while you were sleeping, if you feel yourself going invisible after 40 and you've laid awake at 3am doing the math on everything you think you've lost... this one is for you. For the first time on camera, I'm taking the five biggest lies we all get handed about getting older, and I'm burning every single one of them. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman who's been told it's all downhill after 40. I'm a skincare founder and a certified clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works, on my face and everywhere else. First I get into what hot af at any age actually means, because it was never just the outside, and I tell you the story of the worst birthday of my life, the one where I decided I wasn't special and didn't deserve anything. I take you through the morning I turned 40, the birthday texts from people I knew telling me to enjoy being invisible, and exactly what I built out of that instead. Then I walk you through the five lies about getting older that I believed for way too long, from "aging gracefully" to "aging is a privilege" to the biggest one my own family taught me, and I set all five on fire. I close with the thing I do every single birthday, and an open invitation to do it right along with me, whether it's your birthday today or just the day you decide to start over. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #womenover40 #beautyover40 #gettingolder #midlifewomen #over40 #aging #confidenceafter40 #ageisjustanumber #selfworth #hotaf #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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I've Been Taking Testosterone For 2 Years. Here's What I Wish I'd Known

Testosterone for women over 40 is the conversation almost no doctor will start with you, so I'm starting it. These are the ten things I wish I'd known about testosterone before I ever asked a doctor for it, from the magic number every doctor chases that doesn't exist, to the one test almost all of them run wrong, to the exact words to say at your appointment so nobody laughs you out of the office again. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. This one is for every woman who's been told her exhaustion, her low libido, and her missing spark are just her age. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a woman's body over 40, hormones included. First I get into what testosterone actually did for me, which I found out the hard way when I accidentally ran out for two weeks, why you are not too young to be having this conversation, and why so many women get told their labs are "normal" while they feel nothing like themselves. Then I walk through the form they don't warn you about, the doctor who told my friend to just be grateful her husband still finds her attractive, why it's rarely just testosterone, and the exact playbook I'd use to walk into an appointment and not get dismissed. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #testosterone #testosteroneforwomen #womenover40 #menopause #perimenopause #hormones #womenshealth #hrt #lowtestosterone #testosteronereplacementtherapy #menopausesymptoms #hotafover40 #idliketothankmyself

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The Only 3 Peptides I Put On My Face At 48

The truth about topical peptides at 48, from a skincare founder who spent a fortune testing every one of them. These are the three peptide serums actually worth putting on your face, the two that are a total waste of your money, and the one anti-aging ingredient that beats every single one of them... and it isn't even a peptide. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. The Topical Peptides I Use: NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Serum (my copper peptide) Medik8 Liquid Peptides (my Matrixyl) The Ordinary Multi Peptide + HA The Ordinary Multi Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum This one is for every woman getting handed another peptide serum with no clue which ones actually do anything. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent one point three million dollars figuring out what actually works on a face after 40. First I get into the copper peptide I will never take off my face, the vitamin C mistake that cancels it out every single morning, and the only peptide in my whole routine with a real, placebo-controlled study behind it. Then I break down the upgraded versions worth keeping, the two “Botox in a bottle” peptides that are a complete fantasy, the ten-second trick for telling whether your fancy serum even has peptides in it, and the one ingredient that beats every peptide I own, with thirty years of studies behind it. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #facelift #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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5 Ways Menopause Wrecked My Skin At 48. And Exactly How I Fixed Every One.

I'm 48, and somewhere in my forties during perimenopause my skin changed on me. Everyone said it was just aging, so I believed them for way too long and kept buying creams that did nothing. Then I went digging and found five different things actually aging my skin in menopause, all set off by one thing... my estrogen dropping. These are all five, and exactly what I did to fix each one, from the cells you cannot scrub off to the one bottle I built to handle all of it. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Use code MYSELF for 15% off. Things I Mentioned: ELTA MD. The sunscreen I wear every single day. Skinceuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2.The barrier-identical ceramides I use. This one is for every woman who keeps getting told her only options are expensive procedures or aging gracefully. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face. First I get into what's actually changing under your skin, the senescent 'zombie cells' you cannot scrub off, the stress hormone that flips your collagen switch to off, and the dark spots that feel like they showed up overnight but really took thirty years. Then I walk through the fixes, the gentle form of vitamin C that won't burn thinning skin, how to actually rebuild a barrier that's started stinging instead of just painting over it, the hyaluronic acid most people forget about, and the one bottle I built to go at all five at once. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #facelift #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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10 Things I Do At Home To Hold Off A Facelift At 48

I'm 48 and I have not had a facelift. Everyone in my comments is convinced I have. I haven't. A few weeks ago I showed you everything I do in an office to hold one off, and these are the 10 things I do at home... the skincare order, the devices, and the one hormone I put on my own face that holds off a facelift with no provider and no appointment. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Things I Mentioned: Rewritten Show The Face Up Serum. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. ELTA MD. The sunscreen I wear every single day. NIOD Copper Amino Isolate Lipid 1% (CAIL). The topical copper peptide GHK-Cu I press in. Medik8 Liquid Peptides Advanced MP Face Serum.The Matrixyl peptide I layer with it. Skinceuticals 1% Retinol Cream. The retinol I started on before tretinoin. Dermaflash. The dermaplaning tool I use. La Roche Posay Cicaplast Balm. The barrier balm I slug with. ZIIP Halo and Nuface Trinity. The two microcurrent devices I use. Omnilux's Contour Neck & Décolleté and Red LED Light Face Mask or Current Body Red Light Mask. The red light masks I use. Nira Pro 3 Laser. The at-home laser on my bathroom counter. This one is for every woman who keeps getting told her only options are a surgeon or aging gracefully. I'm a skincare founder and a clinical nutritionist, and I've spent $1.3 million figuring out what actually works on a face. First I show you the exact order everything goes on, and why the order matters more than the products. I get into the cells that are actually aging your face and why you cannot scrub them off, the retinoid ladder that explains why so many of you quit tretinoin, and the dermaplaning that surprised me more than anything else at home. Then I walk through the three at-home devices that earned their spot, the microcurrent setting almost everyone gets wrong, the red light mask I never skip, and the laser that lives on my bathroom counter. And then the foundation underneath all of it, including the hormone I put on my own face that starts a fight in the comments every single time. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #facelift #nofacelift #topicalestrogen #antiaging #skincareover40 #redlighttherapy #dermaplaning #retinol #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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10 Things That Got Rid Of My Menopause Belly At 48

I spent twenty years teaching women how to lose weight, wrote a best-selling book on it, and then in my forties a menopause belly showed up that I could not get rid of no matter what I did. These are the 10 things that finally got rid of my menopause belly at 48... the hormones, the muscle, and everything else that actually moved it after eating less and working out stopped working. If you liked this, watch 10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48 Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. I'm a clinical nutritionist and a skincare founder. I built my whole career on weight loss. So when the menopause belly showed up and wouldn't budge, it broke my brain a little. First I explain why this belly is different. Menopause belly fat is a completely different kind of fat than the soft stuff you had in your thirties. When your estrogen drops, your body starts storing fat around your middle. That's why eating less and working out stops working the way it used to. Then I walk through everything that actually moved it. HRT was my foundation, and nothing else worked until I handled it. Building muscle over 40 is the real secret, and I explain what can cost you the muscle you need if you're not careful. I cover how much protein I actually eat, the cortisol and sleep piece, and the creatine I wish I'd started years ago. I also show you how I track it all with DEXA scans and bloodwork. Then I tell you the one thing on this whole list that works against my belly, and why I do it anyway. And I tell you about a woman named Betty, who taught me exactly why I bother with any of this. In this episode: The kind of belly fat that laughs at eating less and working out The hormone move that finally took my body out of full storage mode Why getting smaller made me look worse, and the one thing that fixed it The stress hormone that might be the whole reason your belly won't budge The one thing on this entire list that works against me, and I do it anyway The supplement I thought was only for 22-year-old gym bros A woman named Betty, and the real reason I refuse to disappear This one is for every woman who did everything right, watched the belly show up anyway, and got told it's just your age. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #menopausebelly #menopausebellyfat #menopauseweightloss #perimenopause #menopause #womenover40 #hotover40 #midlifewomen #hrt #menopauseworkout #perimenopauseweightgain #idliketothankmyself #cynthiagarcia

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10 Things I Do To Look 10 Years Younger Without A Facelift

I'm 48, I get asked if I've had a facelift about twice a week, and I haven't. But I am planning one, and everything I do in the meantime is how I look ten years younger without going under the knife. This is my full non surgical facelift arsenal at 48: the biostimulators like Sculptra that build your own collagen back, CO2 laser resurfacing, Botox, filler, the Nefertiti neck lift, PicoSure for sun damage, and the one under-eye filler mistake I will never make again. If you liked this, watch 10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48 Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. Here's the truth nobody in the industry tells you: the work you do before a facelift and the facelift itself were never enemies, they're a sequence. Inside, I break down the exact ten things I do to look ten years younger without surgery. I get into how Sculptra rebuilds your own collagen and why CO2 laser resurfacing is the heavy hitter, including how long you're really down after it. There's the difference between a Botox lift and a Nefertiti neck lift, and the filler rule that separates natural from overdone. I also call out the laser everybody raves about that will not turn back the clock, and the skin-tone safety you need to hear before you book. And I close on the single most important anti-aging thing I do that isn't a laser or a needle at all. In this episode: The birthday text that built an entire skincare company (and why "aging gracefully" is code for disappear)▸ Yes, I'm getting a facelift... here's exactly why I'm holding off, and what the research says about the right timing The treatment that rebuilds your own collagen while it looks like nothing happened The laser that cost me a whole season of my life, and the one everybody loves that won't get you there The under-eye filler I did once and will never, ever do again The neck muscle secretly dragging your jawline down, and the fix almost nobody talks about The most important thing I do to look younger that isn't a laser or a needle This is for women over 40 and in perimenopause who are done being told what they're allowed to want. Retatrutide is not FDA-approved. This is my experience, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #facelift #nonsurgicalfacelift #womenover40 #co2laser #sculptra #botox #microneedling #antiagingskincare #hotover40 #midlifewomen #skincare #antiaging #idliketothankmyself

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10 Things My Doctor Never Told Me About Testosterone At 48

Testosterone is the most abundant active sex hormone in a woman's body, and almost nobody tells you what low testosterone does to women in perimenopause and menopause. When I asked my doctor about testosterone for women, he laughed in my face and told me to lift weights. Like I'd asked for a pony instead of a hormone. I lost two years to that laugh. Then I found a doctor who didn't laugh, and the right testosterone protocol gave me back my sleep, my sex drive, my energy, and my face. In this one I get into the 10 things he never told me: the hormone you have more of than estrogen, why low testosterone gets missed when your labs read "normal," whether testosterone really gives women a beard or bulky muscles, what it does to your libido and your mood, what it did to my skin and the collagen menopause stole, what the first night actually felt like, and how to find a doctor who won't laugh you out of the room when you ask about testosterone or hormone replacement therapy. If you're a woman over 40 navigating perimenopause or menopause, if your labs came back "normal" but you feel like a stranger in your own body, if you've ever been brushed off when you asked about testosterone, HRT, or your disappearing libido, this one's for you. If you liked this, watch 10 Things I Did To Stay Hot AF At 48 That Backfired Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #testosterone #testosteroneforwomen #lowtestosterone #menopause #perimenopause #hormonereplacementtherapy #hrt #womenshealth #hormones #womenover40 #beautyover40 #antiaging #idliketothankmyself

I Got My Boobs Done 4 Times. Here's What I Wish I'd Known

I've had four boob jobs in 27 years, two rounds of capsular contracture, a $30,000 lesson, and a little pig holding one of them together. And I'd do it all again. Four breast augmentations. Two rounds of capsular contracture, the complication they make sound rarer than it is. A thirty-thousand-dollar mistake I made because I thought I knew better than my surgeon, a boob job recovery nobody prepares you for, and an honest, no-shame conversation about breast implant illness (BII). This is everything I wish someone had told me before my first breast implants: the receipts, the regrets I don't have, and what I'd actually do if I were you, from booking a breast augmentation to deciding whether to take your implants out. In this episode: Why I got my first set almost 30 years ago, and what the itty bitty titty committee had to do with it The capsular contracture that hit me twice, on the lowest-risk setup there is The $30,000 lesson, and the pig that finally fixed it How I picked my plastic surgeon, and the five consults that saved my result The truth about cup size nobody tells you before you book The boob job recovery reality the glossy before-and-afters leave out Where I land on breast implant illness and breast implant removal, without the fear-mongering or the dismissing The one time my gut said no, and six months later the FDA agreed If you've got breast implants, you're researching a breast augmentation, or you've got a set and you're weighing breast implant removal, this one's for you. If you liked this, watch The Work I've Had Done To Stay Hot AF At 48 And The One I Regret Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #boobjob #breastaugmentation #breastimplants #breastimplantillness #capsularcontracture #breastimplantremoval #plasticsurgery #cosmeticsurgery #womenover40 #midlifewomen #hotover40

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Body Skincare At 48: 10 Things I Do To Look And Feel Great Naked

I'm 48, and looking great naked has almost nothing to do with a flat stomach. It's skin you're not hiding, a body that feels like yours, and the confidence to stand in the light and not flinch. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. I'm not interested in looking 28. The goal was never younger. It's hot, at whatever age you actually are. So in this episode I'm giving you the 10 exact things I do, five tactical and five that have nothing to do with products at all, to feel great the second the clothes come off. Some you'd guess. A couple are going to make you go wait, she does WHAT. And yes, one of them involves needles somewhere you'd never expect. In this episode I'm telling you: The skincare step almost nobody does for their body (and it's the cheapest win on the list) The two-minute thing I do before I walk into any room that makes people notice How I fake a lit-up, toned-looking body without a single squat Why I say "I'm vain as fuck" out loud, and why you should stop whispering it The thing I own that I did NOT get from a green smoothie How I stopped apologizing for the time and the money The treatment everyone's selling you, and the honest catch nobody will admit The truth that ties this whole list together (it might surprise you coming from someone this vain) The every-few-months thing I do that sounds completely unhinged The one thing I want you to keep if you forget all nine others This is for every woman who's ever stood in front of a mirror with no clothes on and started a list of everything she'd fix. And for every woman who's ready to stop. Products I mentioned: Body retinol At-home spray tan machine + solution Self-tanner (touch-ups) Body lotion (the "lock it in and feel expensive" one) FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #perimenopausejourney #testosterone #beautyover40 #progesterone #hotover40 #hrt #perimenopause #hormones #womenover40 #hormonereplacementtherapy #midlifewellness #womenshealth #estrogen #midlife

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10 Things I Wish I Knew About Perimenopause To Stay Hot At 48

Perimenopause is what nobody warned you about. Here are the 10 things I wish someone had told me — including the peptide your doctor probably won't mention. Want the labs I run, the doses I take, and the doctors I trust? That conversation lives in The Vanity Club. Perimenopause hit me and my doctor told me my levels were "fine" for five years. They weren't. This episode is everything I wish I'd known before I started hormones two years ago — the five I take every day, the practices that keep them working, and the one peptide your doctor won't bring up unless you push. Plus the truth nobody tells you: hormones aren't a magic pill. They only work if you use them right. In this episode I'm telling you: The morning hormone move that took my face from gray to lit-up in three weeks The bedtime hormone that gave me my sleep back (and why no concealer fakes it) The 4 AM moment my dialed protocol quit on me — and what I had to do next The hormone most doctors won't prescribe unless you fight for it (and why you should) The hormone insert nobody films because it sounds clinical (and the glow it actually gives you) The off-label hormone move that turned my face from tired to lit in three weeks The peptide almost nobody in beauty is naming on camera The 3 labs that explain why you feel like shit even when your bloodwork says "fine" The real reason I bother with any of this — and why the alternative is unacceptable This one's for every woman who's been told her hormones are "fine for her age" and knew goddamn well they weren't. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz. Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment. Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. Get your bottle. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: transformationalnutrition.com #perimenopausejourney #testosterone #beautyover40 #progesterone #hotover40 #hrt #perimenopause #hormones #womenover40 #hormonereplacementtherapy #midlifewellness #womenshealth #estrogen #midlife

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10 Ways I Use Peptides To Stay Hot AF At 48

I'm 48. I've been on peptides for over a decade. Here's what I'm actually on at 48, what each one does, and why I'm on it. From topical peptides injectables, I’m sharing what I use for my skin, body, mental clarity, focus, energy, strength building and more! Take the free Hot AF quiz Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I refused to disappear at 40. Where I Source My Peptides I work with my doctor and use a compounding pharmacy. Here are two providers I trust: Amino Vault Peptides Bio Longevity Labs Want to Talk Dosing? If you want to go deeper on dosing, what's working for me, what's working for other women, the providers we use, and the tips and tricks we've picked up along the way, all that conversation lives inside The Vanity Club. See everything inside The Vanity Club and get access here. A Word Before You Click This is what I do. Not what you should do. I'm sharing my own experience as a 48-year-old woman who's been on peptides for over a decade, working with a doctor, getting labs, and taking the smallest doses that work for me. I am not a doctor, and nothing in this episode or these show notes is medical advice. Peptides are not FDA-approved for anti-aging use. Before you take anything, talk to a qualified medical provider who'll actually look at your labs and co-create a protocol with you. If you click through to either provider link above, you are making your own decision about what to do with your body. You are agreeing that I am not liable for any outcome, side effect, or interaction that comes from a product you purchase from them. Figure out what's right for your body with a doctor. The choice, as always, is yours. Stay Subscribed… Part 2 is Coming Five more peptides, more reasons I use them, and the ones I'm about to start. Subscribe on YouTube so you don't miss it. I started peptides over a decade ago, before they were a buzzword, before everyone was trading their firstborn to get on one. This episode is what I'm actually on at 48. What each one does. Why I'm on it. And what I've come to believe about doing this in a culture that tells women to wait for studies that aren't coming. In This Episode: The first topical peptide I ever tried that made me wonder if my skin time-traveled Why people aren't actually judging the peptide... they're judging the wanting The hormone peptide I've been on for 10 years and would never give up The peptide I add when I need to be a fucking machine The peptide that cuts my recovery from aggressive treatments in half Why I'm not waiting 16 years for a study the NIH hasn't even funded yet The peptide everyone's gonna fight me on (no, not Ozempic, stop) The actually-simple reason I do all of this (it's not what you think) The two words for any provider who hands you a script without looking at your labs Why women are allowed to do whatever the fuck we want with our bodies, no permission required FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: www.cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: www.rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: www.transformationalnutrition.com #peptides #peptidesforwomen #womenover40 #perimenopause #idliketothankmyself

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I’m Microdosing a GLP-1 to Stay Hot AF at 48

I'm microdosing a GLP-1 to stay hot AF at 48. Not for weight loss... for what it's doing to my face, which now looks better at 48 than it did at 38. Here's the conversation about GLP-1s nobody is actually having. Most women on GLP-1s end up with Ozempic face. The 3-step Collagen Defense system I built BEFORE I ever started microdosing tirzepatide is the reason I'm not one of them. Today I'm walking you through the actual science, why I picked the smallest possible dose every other week, the full protocol, and the part the doctors won't say out loud. Want Your Free Personalized Hot AF Plan? Take the quiz! Join The Vanity Club. Where women over 40 come to look hot AF. No apologies. No judgment: Shop Rewritten Beauty. The serum I built when I turned 40 and refused to disappear. In this episode you'll discover: The clinical trial happening RIGHT NOW that suggests we may have just found the closest thing to a fountain of youth (if you know how to dose it) Why I'm on tirzepatide and what that has to do with the Ozempic face horror stories The two completely opposite things a GLP-1 is doing to your skin at the same time (and which one wins is entirely up to you) The exact dose I take and why "smallest possible, every other week" is the only protocol that protects your face The 3-step Collagen Defense system I built before I ever started dosing for anti-aging The bonus layer to add if you've got the resources and access The first time anyone ever told me "you don't need that"... and what it has to do with the prescription I just picked up A take on the people who call taking a GLP-1 "cheating" This is for women over 40 considering a GLP-1, already on one, or anyone who heard the horror stories about Ozempic face and wanted the actual science. FOLLOW CYNTHIA GARCIA Instagram: @iamcynthiagarcia TikTok: @iamcynthiagarcia Facebook: @iamcynthiagarcia Website: www.cynthiagarcia.com REWRITTEN BEAUTY Instagram: @wearerewritten Facebook: @wearerewritten Website: www.rewrittenbeauty.com INSTITUTE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL NUTRITION Instagram: @transformationalnutrition Facebook: @transformationalnutrition Website: www.transformationalnutrition.com