JoAnn M. Romeo Aesthetics

Thanksgiving is over and now everyone is running around to try to get the best deals and savings for their Christmas shopping. Everyone knows that Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and is considered the biggest shopping day for retailers, but is also the beginning the Christmas shopping season. It is also been recorded that it is the largest spending day of the year. Because most companies have considered the day after Thanksgiving a holiday, this causes for more shoppers out there to spend their money.

What are you thankful for today? or this year? Is it possible that some of the pain, struggle, frustration, and conflict in our lives could be because of something we are overlooking?

The weather has definitely turned now that it is November and personally, I've noticed dryer skin and my lips are chapped, but I am also seeing this on my clients and hearing their complaints. Winter weather is hard on all of our skin, including our lips. This is the time of year that many have to change their moisturizer and start using a lip balm.

Lash year I wrote about some highlighted feature of November, and Veteran's Day was one of them. I decided this year that I would write about some facts about Veteran's Day.

This month, before you dive into your Thanksgiving dinner, or shop till you drop on Black Friday, take a good long look at your skin from head to toe. While November is traditionally known for the Thanksgiving holiday: the food, the leftovers, the shopping sales, and the time off from school and work, you probably didn't know that November is also National Healthy Skin Month.

Straddling the line between fall and winter, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday "All Saints' Day" incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as "all Hallows' Eve and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a secular, community-based event characterized by child-friendly activities such as trick-or-treating. In a number of countries around the world, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people continue to usher in the winter season with gatherings, costumes, and sweet treats.

If you follow Angelina Jolie, and have read her mother and her story, you will appreciate this information and the importance of getting testing. A test to detect if you are at risk with breast cancer is the BRCA Test. When you are tested positive, you have a much higher risk for developing breast and/or ovarian cancer. Even if you practice a healthy lifestyle through nutrition, exercise, and other lifestyle choices, this outcome is almost unavoidable.