About 40+ Style
40+Style offers style ideas, how to dress and beauty information for women over 40.
Our mission is to show you that you can look gorgeous and experiment with styles and fashion at any age. It’s all about having fun with style and fashion! Too often we get too worried about our wrinkled face, heavier bodies or loosening skin. Having fun with hair and makeup, fashion and new styles can help to make you look better, but also feel more confident and happy.
Looking good and being stylish is not so much about money, the figure you have or how old you are. It’s about dressing to your strengths, knowing your body type, and knowing and embracing your unique style.
We hope to help you in your quest to find your own style, dress to your strengths, look fabulous and embrace your age. You can start by reading all the articles on the site, or join our style forum and ask questions.
We believe that if you have fun with style and fashion and feel good about yourself and the way you look, you will feel great and so much happier!
If you like to know more then you can read this article on why I setup 40PlusStyle.com.
A little bit more about Sylvia, founder of 40+Style
I’m 46 years old and live in Singapore. Although originally from The Netherlands, I have lived all over the world: Italy, South Africa, England, Japan, China and Australia. I’m married and mother to a 11 year old gorgeous boy. I studied international marketing in Amsterdam but later did courses in colour and design and fashion styling. I’m currently working hard to turn 40PlusStyle.com into the best online magazine and blog for 40+ women offering style inspiration and advice. On request I sometimes advise women on style and dressing and help individuals and companies with their online marketing and social media.
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Thank you for your blog Sylvia. Your information on style is truly inspiring. I am so happy to have found 40plusstyle.com
Thank you Dale. That is so nice to hear. Thanks for making the effort of letting me know!
I’ms trying to get you e-magazine. Please enrol me on your list. The site looks fab.
Thanks Lisa. I noticed that your email subscription was successful. I look forward to seeing you again on the site!
I’m new to this site! I’m really glad i came accross the 40 plus Site..
Welcome and thanks for your feedback. I look forward to reading your comments!
Hello! I recently found your site and am enjoying it tremendously.
I love the red dress you’re wearing in the picture in the “About” section of your site. Can you tell me more about it?
Thank you!
Thank you for your kind comment. This is a silk dress from Calvin Klein that I bought 1 year ago, so I don’t think it’s in shops anymore….
I am excited to have found your blog! I will be 40 in January, and was starting to wonder if there were any other ladies out there fashion blogging in my age range. Great job, and thanks for helping to represent those of us who aren’t twenty-somethings anymore — We’ve still got it!
Great that you found me. Welcome! I look forward to reading your comments to my posts. Off to check out your blog now…
Thank you for commenting to me – I always appreciate that SO much! I love what you said about wanting to help women to embrace their age and their strengths. I am finding it to be a little bit of an adjustment knowing that I’m about to turn 40 (30 didn’t bother me at all, but I was pregnant when I was 30 so my mind was on the little bundle of love growing inside of me
) Forty is proving to be a tiny bit harder, esp. because I am starting to see some lines cropping up and such. But, I’ve always said that I wanted to age gracefully, and I intend to do my best to follow through. Thank you for blogging; I will be following you as an inspiration – you look just WONDERFUL!
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Tracy
Being over 40 has its challenges but I have found it a very rewarding age as well. In terms of style I feel I have never looked better and I feel much freer to be creative and try new things.
Forty is nothing! Forget it. I am 55 and it feels great. Kids have left home and all have jobs and futures. I have my health and my husband loves me. Age is just a number. Your health is what you should concentrate on. Lines show you have had a life. Just colour your hair or have fantastic hair cuts and treatments.
Well said Bridget. I also believe that health is the key. So long as you have that life after 40 is fantastic and you may as well look great at the same time!
Dear Sylvia, I have stumbled on your website and am delighted. I have stopped working, moved from Australia to NZ with my husband and at 49 now need an entirely different wardrobe for my new (wonderful) casual life while still wanting to look smart and a bit trendy. Thank you for sharing your photos and looks. I’ll look forward to more. Ann
Welcome Ann Marie. Very glad you found me. I look forward to connecting more with you on the site!
I can’t believe my luck in finding you! I was searching for makeup tips for over 40 and found your video and website. This is the website I’ve wanted all along but didn’t even know it. I’ve been poking around the site for an hour and have completely lost track of time. Thank you, Thank you. I’m 45 and a stay home Mom to my one Son. I don’t get out a lot but when I do, I want to look up to date and stylish. So glad you are here.
Welcome Romey. It’s always so nice to read that my articles are helping or inspiring women in some way. Thanks for taking the effort to let me know that you enjoyed it. I look forward to connecting more with you on the site!
Hi Sylvia,
I couldn’t help but nominate you for the Versatile Blogger Award. If you decide to accept, I’ve got all the particulars at my blog. It’s just my way of saying, you are rockin’ it! http://bit.ly/y51lkR
xLaura
Thank you so much Laura!
You’ve got a wonderful blog here! would you like to create some invite posts on my blog?
Thank you Lyman. I will keep it in mind. For the moment I can barely keep up with my own site!
Hi Sylvia! I just discovered your blog and although I am not quiet 40 yet (37) I will be a regular reader! Glad I stumbled upon it!
Welcome Amy! Glad you found 40+Style! Hope to connect further with you on the site or in the style forum.
I have grabbed you button and am wandering your site
Thanks for focusing on fashion for the over 40 year old woman! Laura
Thanks Laura. Would you like to be added to my 40+ bloggers list? http://40plusstyle.com/women-over-40-blogger-community/
Hi Sylvia, so glad to have found your site. We share a lot of similar philosophies. I especially liked your post on posture — its so overlooked! Looking forward to following and hearing more.
Becca
Yes, posture is so important. Thanks so much for leaving your kind feedback!
You look fabulous
Thank you for your encouraging words to women who are no longer in their twenties or thirties !
Anne
thanks Anne!
Thank you Sylvia for sharing your wonderful website. Dutch greetings, Maria
Great to find so many tips and ideas that suit our age. Many things sylvia!
Thanks so much for your lovely feedback Marleen. I hope you don’t mind that I translated your comment, but the language on this site is strictly English. I look forward to connecting more with you on the site.
Sylvia, I just discovered your blog and love it! Being 40 and plus should not stop a women to look good, trendy and classy. I am glad to see more mature bloggers sharing their ideas about fashion and style. I am looking forward to explore your blog some more tonight with a cup of tea
.
Thank you for your kind feedback. Enjoy exploring all our articles!
Hi Sylvia,
Stumbled upon your blog, and I find it very interesting. I’m a 44-year-old Malaysian with a 9 -year-old daughter.
Being an Asian we often pass off as younger than our true age, and most times I don’t dress up like a 40 year old. It’s refreshing to see some of the styles I could try out.
Thanks:)
Welcome Audrey. It’s great to receive your feedback. You are definitely right that Asian women look younger for much longer than we caucasians. I’m never able to guess the age of any Asian woman! However, I believe that staying youthful comes as much from within as from the outside… I hope you enjoy browsing the site and I look forward to connecting more with you on the site
Hi, I nominated you for a Very Inspiring Blog award because I enjoy your blog so much. If you wish to accept (some do, some don’t, no hurt feelings either way) you write a post where you thank the blogger who nominated you, reveal a few things about yourself and then nominate a handful of bloggers who you like (anywhere from 7-15).
Becca
narcissista.me
Hi Becca. Thank you so much for nominating me! I will not accept it officially but I really appreciate it nonetheless!
Hi Sylvia, as a Newbie to your site, I’m dipping in and out of your articles – like a child in a Sweet shop ! Its wonderful. Excuse me if you’ve already covered these questions – I haven’t managed to read everything yet. Is Holland a very fashion concious country ? Also, did any one particular country influence your personal style more than the others ? Keep writing – every tip is like gold dust !
Hi Tonix, Great that you are enjoying the site! Holland is fashion conscious but also very casual. Brands are not so important. A country definitely influences your style and I actually wrote about that here: http://40plusstyle.com/style-in-different-countries/
looking for websites to help me come up with a capsule for my cruise in march.
Hello Sylvia,
You look great and I’m so grateful to have found this site!
I had always been a stylish dresser before children and then I felt the real me disappeared.
Seeing women make the most of themselves for themselves is so uplifting! :’)
Thank you.
Antoni
Thanks for your feedback Antoni. I hope to connect with your further on the site.
Hi Sylvia, I’ve just dropped a comment in another section of your blog. Also decided to stop here to express my respect for the work you are doing. Very glad to see the focused blog with high quality content, not just another “beauty for everybody”. Your blog is one of the best blogs for 40+, I wish you every success in developing this project!
HELLO!! I have been researching 40 Plus blogs and can not believe it took me so long to find stumble across yours. I think it is fantastic…. I too, have a 40 plus blog. The official name is being40plus.com I am searching GREAT blogs to see if a few will want to exchange information, “back link”, and share experiences. Again, I loved this one.
Enjoy your weekend! ~CB
Thanks for your kind words Cheryl. I have a 40+ Blogger community page that you are welcome to submit your site for: http://40plusstyle.com/women-over-40-blogger-community/
You look fantastic for over 40! This is a great site!!! I’m over 40 and glad that I stumbled upon your site.
xo,
Janise