Whatever: How to Look Younger Than Your Actual Age

By Tricia Buenvenida

49-year old Tricia Buenvenida, a marketing executive who has launched multiple products within the beauty industry, gives advice on how to stay and look youthful based on her own life lessons. Readers will be inspired to adopt these practical tips to forever change their lives and embrace a positive, empowering life outlook that will keep them young in body, mind, spirit, and heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Apr 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982245184

Tricia Buenvenida

Tricia Buenvenida started her career in advertising, working on Procter & Gamble’s fragrance business, Cover Girl, and Victoria’s Secret in New York City. She then went to Wharton to get her MBA and upon graduation, worked for L’Oreal USA and helped manage color cosmetics and exponentially grow the mascara business before moving to Southern California to launch the Revlon artificial nail business, Revlon false lash business, and Bio-Oil, a South-African skincare product, to the US market. She started her own marketing consultancy, Buena Beauty, LLC, in 2010. A journalism major and creative writer, Tricia’s favorite marketing task is to craft the brand story and tell it with a voice of authenticity. Tricia was featured in Lucky magazine as a “Marketing Guru” in the Beauty Spy section, quoted in The New York Times, The Orange County Register, and Marie Claire magazine as a top cosmetics consultant. Tricia received her B.S. Journalism Magna Cum Laude and B.A. International Relations Magna Cum Laude from Boston University and is an MBA Graduate of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, under full academic scholarship as a Kraft Foods Fellow. Tricia currently lives in Portugal as she and her family explore all the amazing wonders Europe has to offer.

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Dedication

For Jax. May you always have a youthful, kind, and loving heart.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1    Meditate

Chapter 2    Take Care of Your Skin

Chapter 3    Eliminate Envy

Chapter 4    Act How You Feel

Chapter 5    Laugh and Be Joyful

Chapter 6    Exercise Regularly

Chapter 7    Eat Well

Chapter 8    Get Your Sleep

Chapter 9    Choose Good Friends

Chapter 10    Pick the Right Partner

Chapter 11    Embrace Motherhood

Chapter 12    Take the Risk

Chapter 13    Tackle Your Fears

Chapter 14    Love Who You Are

Chapter 15    Enjoy Your Work

Chapter 16    Believe

Chapter 17    Give, Give, and Give Some More

Chapter 18    Whatever

Conclusion

Appendix

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There are quite a few people I want to thank for the publication of this book. Of course, I owe so much to my family: Ry, Jax, my mom, my sister Pearl, my brother RJ, and all of my wonderful aunts, uncles, and cousins. It is because of them that I am confident to try new things. I also want to acknowledge my in-laws for their never-ending love and support: Bruce, Joanne, Sam, and Taj.

Thank you also to my dear, loving friends who have either supported me, inspired me, or read countless versions of this book (in no particular order): Chris and Angie De Oliveira, Janine Sagar, Maria Wallin, Erik Svensson, Yvette Martins, Cindy Tidler, Hang Leibold, Aren Anderson, Renee Lerneby, John and Veronica Cavebring, Chris Barry, Sylvia Read, Lisa Sanders, Shannon Holbert, Julia Crighton, Angela Busby, Anna Quanne, Vlad Coho, Paul Farina, Craig Hazenfield, Leigh Ann Pena, Jennifer Nguyen, Aubrey Reavis, Hanh Tran, Eve Donovan, Anne Foreman, Jeff Anglada, Cara Haleblian, Amanda Brown, Peter Panagopoulos, Zachary Prell, Meesh Pierce, and Maripat Bacalzo.

Finally, thank you to my Dad. I miss you every day.

FOREWORD

Almost 10 years ago, I started writing a blog, www.nouglyduckling.com. I initially started it because I wanted my college roommate Janine, who is one of my very best friends and is always in the know of what is cool and cutting edge, to help me write it and share her secrets and insights. Unfortunately, she became too busy with both personal and work commitments. Since I had already established the platform, I decided to continue without her and thus my blog began.

Through the years, doing that blog has confirmed my love of writing which I’ve always known since childhood. For me, nothing sorts out my thoughts more clearly.

So, I write and write and write all the time. Not one day goes by that I do not write. Of course, I write for my marketing clients, but I also write for my family, my friends, and myself.

So now, here is my biggest writing undertaking to date. It came about because my dear friend Angie suggested that I should start telling people how I maintain my youthful looks and attitude. This suggestion comes after countless people have also asked me about the same.

Initially, I was hesitant to do this because I really never think about my age: 49.