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...toll for city-center journeys. The chief focus of Livingstone's wrath are the four-wheel drive vehicles he calls "Chelsea tractors": shiny gas-guzzlers driven by affluent moms who drop off their little darlings at private schools and then cruise into town for their Botox appointments. The toll will be levied on any vehicle emitting more than 225g of carbon dioxide per kilometer (about 13 oz per mile) as well as any cars with engines larger than 3,000cc that were registered before March...
This isn't the kind of picture of women and money that has mainly sold on TV lately, though. Take the Golden State hausfraus of Bravo's reality hit The Real Housewives of Orange County, whose concerns are boob jobs, baubles and Botox. ("One of my biggest goals now is to look as hot as I can," declares one.) And in Bravo's The Millionaire Matchmaker, dating guru Patti Stanger hooks up single women with sugar daddies, warning one not to introduce herself as a doctor: "If you lead with your business foot, the man's ding-dong down there...
...former actress and author of The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles with the Ultimate Natural Facelift, runs a weekly facial yoga class. Hagen says she started to develop her face-based technique when she realized that her students, mostly well-to-do, well-educated professionals, were practicing yoga but getting Botox injections during their lunch breaks. "It didn't seem to be in the spirit of yoga to me," she says...
...Fresh Face Yoga workshops at her Pittsburgh studio for a mostly female clientele that ranges in age from 30 to 70. Koontz packs her sessions with inversion positions, arguing that keeping the head lower than the heart increases youth-giving blood flow to the face. "It's like natural Botox," she says. "Stress shows on our face, probably more than any other place on our body...
...quite at the point of injecting ourselves with Botox. But we're definitely on the cusp of a new era of do-it-yourself dermatology. While cosmetics companies such as L'Oréal and Avon have for several years been selling souped-up scrubs and exfoliators billed as microdermabrasion kits, and antiwrinkle creams that mimic the effects of dermatologist-delivered aesthetic fillers, this is different. These new treatments are scaled-down versions of the light-based devices used by dermatologists to treat skin ailments, all designed so that a consumer can use them. Even hair removal via an at-home...