Outlook
HEALTH KIT EDITOR
“Getting guffaws out of my kids. Making
other people laugh is a guaranteed ego
boost—even if it sometimes involves
wearing a cereal bowl as a hat.”
Say no to your third cousin’s last-minute baby shower, to staying late at
work (again), to the telemarketer who
wants five minutes of your time, to
trying to be perfect at everything.
LEARN TO
SAY NO 6 8. GET A THAI MASSAGE This style of massage let’s you participate—and don’t worry, you’re clothed. “The benefits go much deeper than other forms of massage,” says Thin Thin Yu of Footprints Healing Arts in Vancouver. “My clients leave feeling taller, energized and more relaxed.” 9
What makes Kit Editors
instantly happy?
FACE KIT
As you read this sentence, you’re getting older (boo!) but according to a new American study, you’re also getting happier (yay!). After surveying 340,000 people from 18 to 85, researchers report that after age 50, not only do you worry less and enjoy life more, but by 85, you feel happier than you did at 18. Don’t believe us? Just look at Betty White. seven EMBRACE YOUR AGE
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CHANTEL SIMMONS,
HAIR KIT EDITOR
“These five quick fixes never fail to boost my spirits:
an Axxium mani (it lasts for weeks!), deleting all the
emails in my inbox, getting outside, swimming and
having a Timothy’s chai latte.”
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