The Glam Gals, On Preserving Your Looks
Interview with JoJami Tyler
The Glam Gals, Deborah Boland and JoJami Tyler, have a huge following online via their Fabulousafter40.com website as well as in the offline world as style and image consultants. Here we checked in with JoJami for a conversation about aging and attitude and how to wear things well -- at any age. 
FY: You look amazing! What are simple things you’ve done to preserve your looks over the years?
The biggest thing is attitude, keeping up in all areas like technology, exercise, make-up, facial products, and of course wardrobe. We get stuck in these habits of using the same thing over and over yet there are so many great new things out there.
The word “update” is the thing. Your hair, your wardrobe, everything. When you’re young, you’re always out trying new things and experimenting. We’re not trying to be 19 again, but we can’t give up on updating ourselves. When we stop growing, we get depressed.
There’s also something about getting a compliment when you’re walking down the street, for a great handbag or something that looks good on you. Fashion – and trying to look pretty and youthful – gives me energy! Now that I am on the road, in this motor coach with a smaller wardrobe and doing more casual things, the days I throw on shorts and tennis shoes, I feel like a bum. I don’t get the same attention and I don’t get good service.
FY: Since you’re in the style business, what are some of the ways that women betray themselves in terms of dress, as they get older? For example, tending toward “dowdy” because that’s an easy look to access.
We say there are five major mistakes women make, either dressing too old or too young, and we address this in our free report: 5 Massive Fashion Mistakes That Make You Look Too Old (or Too Young) and How to Get it Just Right.
We tell women, after 40 this whole huge makeover thing isn’t really for us, we’re comfortable with who we are. We like to Tweak Your Chic™ and help you identify a few little things you’re doing wrong.
If you feel like you’re a little overweight, dress your body for the way it is right now rather than waiting until the weight comes off. By the time you’ve lost the weight, the seasons have changed. You’ve got to dress for the next two months – so go through your closet, get things out that feel old, dated, and frumpy, and make way for the new. Then be very, very picky about what you want to buy. Don’t go back to the same old Gap or Marshall’s. You’re in a rut. Instead choose one or two fabulous pieces, a fabulous jacket, for example.
Most women wear only 20% of the clothes in their closets. We have way too much stuff in there. Every time you reach for something and say, “Eww, I don’t like this” and start to put it back on the rod, instead put it in an empty garbage bag at the bottom of your closet.
Another thing is buying on sale. We all buy on sale, but ask yourself if you would pay full price for the item. If you wouldn't be willing to pay full price, do not be willing to buy it! If you only buy things you love and adore, you’d only have things in your closet that you love and adore.
And I dare you not too buy black. As we age, that black pulls the light out of us, it really AGES us.
FY: What’s one fabulous accessory that every woman over 40 should whip out on a regular basis?
Instead of just thinking of “one” – make sure you have all the components. For example, don’t leave the house without being groomed. And I always have a going to the grocery store outfit. I have a winter uniform and a summer uniform, not the usual sweats, t-shirt, and sneakers. It can be a cute little warm-up outfit, something colorful, maybe a matching baseball cap. My winter uniform is a beautiful velvet elastic waist skirt that became old and dated. I throw that on with black flat boots, a black turtle neck sweater, and a black baseball cap. I have it all on a hook in the closet.
FY: Wow, you've inspired me to go out and buy colors and a cute little outfit for grocery runs. Anything else you'd like to add about looking good at any age?
My mother is my inspiration. She is 75 years old and she’s just dynamic and adorable and having the best time of her life dating a guy 10 years younger than she is. I come from a long line of adorable, vital, vivacious women. I’m on way to Dallas, my next step, to see my 93-year-old aunt. The last time I saw her she had on her false eyelashes and her high heels!
Dump the Frump! If you feel like you’ve fallen off the style track and don’t know where to begin to look classy, modern and age appropriate, then visit our site to Tweak Your Chic.® We’re Deborah Boland and JoJami Tyler - The Glam Gals – Image and Style experts who specialize in helping women look Fabulous after 40, 50 and beyond. Life is too short to be Frumpy. Sign up for our FREE Get Fab Starter Kit at www.fabulousafter40.com and start looking Age-mazing™ today!
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