Use It or Lose It Feel Good Beauty Tips!

Use It or Lose It Feel Good Beauty Tips!

Ciao bella,

The best costume for the day to attend CCAE!.

Ahhhhh -- the ending of summer blues! We all have the feeling! So time to gear up for fall with a new schedule, new beauty routines and comfy cooking to keep you healthy, beautiful and happy! Our days have been filled with pool/cabana, beach ball fun and admiring our well tended gardens! Feasts and food, strolling a Cape Cod path, lounging out doors will soon be a passing memory! So look forward to keeping the fun going.

Autumn happens to be my favorite season. It's the door that closes summer with a flamboyant burst of color. A time of hauntings to be whoever you would like to be for just one day and a time for thanksgivings! So start planning some beautiful, breezy days and make it work for you!

Take a class at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. They have daytime and weekend classes all just for fun! No tests to be graded. Learn to speak a language, cooking classes from the best chefs around, taking a reading class allows you to explore the story with other interesting people and their viewpoint, sign up for a writing class so you can get started on that that book you want to write, computer classes and it goes on and on! For more info go to www.ccae.org or call for a catalog and one of their helpful reps will assist you! Fall semester starts in late September. I've been a student for almost 20 years!

Looking for some new bling makeup? LUSH COSMETICS has just launched their new makeup line "Emotional Brilliance"! Their gold and silver eyeliner brought me many complements this summer. Using them will put a new gleam in your eye! Pay it forward with food my dear friends!

I have found that baking, cooking and sharing the dish brings joy to all! Just a thank you and that look of yummy as they taste a homemade treat is worth all the labor! You feel good and feeling good is beautiful! When I do cook for people I feel like I am giving them a piece of the joy I made it with!

I have also found this wonderful recipe club www.justapinch.com for tried and true blue ribbon recipes! Healthy cooking recipes and Mom's traditional menus from around our great USA! Try one today!

So keep it going strong as we head into Autumn. Remember, "use it or lose it"!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Labor Day Weekend!

--Mary N. DiZazzo-Trumbull

Read prior weeks' "All That Zazz" columns at www.allthatzazz.com. Mary is a third-generation cosmetologist and a Massachusetts distributor of Kosmea brand rose hip oil products. She may be contacted at (978) 470-8183 or mary@mary4nails.com.

Beauty is in the Laughter!

Beauty is in the Laughter!

Ciao bella,

Mary with Italian-American Comic and Massachusetts Native, Mario Cantone.

Happy Anniversary to me! It has been 10 years writing my beauty culture column for the wonderful Post-Gazette this summer! It has given me full rein to express myself and my opinions from beauty rituals and beauty product to where beauty lies in all aspects of our lives! I thank the staff at Post-Gazette for all they do for me personally and of course to the editor my friend Pam Donnaruma whose family has made it possible for several generations for writers as myself to share with our peers our expressions of everything an Italian newspaper is worthy of! God bless you all for this privilege!

I mentioned laughter as my headline and laughter shall be the beauty tip this week!

This past weekend brought my husband and me back to Provincetown! We took the fast ferry and was greeted by our best friend Rich J. who picked us up in his jeep and touted us around for days! Fun in the sun and kept cool in the pool afternoons!

Recently, a popular morning TV show introduced Mario Cantone as their guest! He was Charlotte's wedding planner as well as a good friend to her in Sex and the City on TV and in the movies! A comedian at his best! He hails from Stoneham, Mass. Not many stand-ups make me laugh but Mario holds a special place in my heart! He was playing Provincetown's Art House and I was determined to make it! And laugh we did all night! Designer-to-the stars Bob Mackie and cabaret singer Marilyn Maye were in our audience as well! We split our sides! I felt so wonderful from the experience. Luckily enough we were just sitting for dinner and there was Mario! Oh my God I am going to meet and kiss Mario! And I did! He stayed and chatted and life could not have been better at the moment! So when a last minute opportunity arises to laugh-take the plunge and do it out loud!

Buona giornata and God bless the United States of America!

--Mary N. DiZazzo-Trumbull

Read prior weeks' "All That Zazz" columns at www.allthatzazz.com. Mary is a third-generation cosmetologist and a Massachusetts distributor of Kosmea brand rose hip oil products. She may be contacted at (978) 470-8183 or mary@mary4nails.com.