I know this sounds trite, but your inner beauty is much more important than your outer beauty. After watching Matt Lauer's special on
Men over 50, Matt, the featured metrosexuals, and Dr. Saltz,
The Today Show psychiatrist (I guess talking heads need to have their on-air heads examined) mostly discussed the impending negative self image of men over 50. Mr. Lauer and friends made one's 50th birthday sound like a death sentence. I am a 53-year-young woman and my inner beauty is alive and kicking. I think you need to feng shui your inner beauty, Matt!
I know, I know. I have focused on beauty products ad nauseum on this blog, but today I woke up and smelled the coffee and it stunk. Since I changed my blog from
The Haute Dawg, where I was speaking through my beagle, to
Girl-Woman-Beauty-Brains, my blog voice was weak and hoarse. I got sucked into the SEO (search engine optimization) blogosphere, but when I was spit back out,
My Most Authentic Voice had returned and it was the voice of a baby boomer woman. I confess that I was hiding my
Girl-Woman-Beauty-Brains voice among the 20-somethings and Gen-Xers in the fashion and beauty blog world. No more! I want to represent and educate my peers as we traverse the next half of our lives.
So phooey, Matt Lauer, pull up your big boy panties and embrace your 50th year of life. Let your voice on the Today Show represent a 50-year-young man confident in his own skin. Dr. Boomer (maybe I am schizo with all these voices inside of my head) is diagnosing Matt with a
manopausal breakdown. According to the Urban Dictionary,
manopause symptoms include "frequent reminiscing about the
good ol’ days, a cranky judgmental attitude and a closed minded approach to anything new, usually punctuated by the chronic need to play a lot golf. The condition is difficult to cure and almost always progresses into oldtimers disease."
I am ecstatic to report that of this posting, Mr. Hubby is not showing any -- uh, many symptoms of
manopause, but if your significant other is showing signs of wear and tear of this rite-of-passage condition, here are three gifts you can put under the tree.
The toothbrush and tongue cleaner from Contemporary Oral Hygiene is a great gift to wash the crankiness out of their mouths.

Your man doesn't have to come out of the manscaping closet to benefit from this DYI Electric Back Hair Shaver by Mangroomer.
A squirrel golf head cover might hint to your manopausal man that he is getting a bit too squirrelly with his complaints. The Butthead Donkey Golf Cover from Amazon is a gift that needs no explanation.
Apologies, to Matt Lauer. I wrote this sans estrogen pill. Kudos to Ann and Meredith. You are paragons of confidence.
