Tips to remain YOUNGER

Our skin is very delicate and in order to keep it looking youthful and beautiful one has to take lots of care. Your skin looks its best in your teens but if you do not take proper care then you will start looking older than your age. Thus give yourself 15 mins everyday and care for your skin. With age no doubt you will lose the radiance and shine on your skin but there are ways by which you can easily cheat on your age.

Following are a few tricks that will help take 10 Years off your looks:

Get the Right New Haircut
A good haircut helps in cutting down age. Thus next time you visit your hairdresser make sure you go for a younger cut.

Colour your hair : This is very important in order to take the years off your looks. Talk to your stylist about your look. If you have dark hair then go for some lighter shades because dark hair can make you look older. If your hair is already light, add highlights. Colouring your hair will also hide the gray and give you a complete make-over.

Bring shine into your Smile : As we grow older our teeth become yellow. Whitening your teeth is one of the fastest ways to take 10 years off your appearance.

Keep away from the sun : The rays of the sun have more potential to change the look of your skin than any other environmental factor. Thus keep away from the harsh sun rays. Always carry an umbrella and daily use of a sunscreen or foundation with an SPF 15. Use good moisturizer and drink lots of water.

Treat your skin once every week : Give your skin some attention. Cleanse, moisturize and tone your skin at least once every week. Apply some good face masks that will help clear clogged pores and let your skin breathe

Blackhead Causes and Remedy

Blackhead is caused when excess skin oil, sebum and congesting toxins are expelled through your skin from the blood and lymph fluid that supplies your skin with nutrients. These congesting toxins combined with skin oil and sebum clogs your pores causing blackheads, whiteheads, and full blown acne.

Thus after knowing the cause of blackhead you can easily deal with it. All you have to do is stop the formation of these congesting toxins combined with skin oil and sebum that builds up in your sebum channels. Thus applying anything externally will not help because blackhead is basically an INTERNAL problem. Thus to get rid of blackheads you've got to normalize your skin's sebum or oil production and purify your blood of congesting toxins. The key to effective blackhead prevention lies in your liver function. Thus you have to improve and strengthen your liver function.

Face Exercises

By following these few exercises religiously you will have a young and dazzling look without going for surgery or face-lift. Let us begin with forehead. This exercise should be done 10 times daily to the count of six at a time.

Forehead

1. Join your fingers together with your thumbs folded in and place your fingers near your temples i.e., where your scalp meets your head. Push straight up and hold and then, raise your eyebrows, hold for six counts and release.

Benefits: This face exercise removes the lines above the brow. It targets the muscles of the forehead and the muscles at the back of your head.

2. First, place the middle fingertip of each hand in the centre of each eyebrow. Pull the eyebrows apart or outwards, and at the same time try to frown. Hold for six counts. The next step is totally the reverse exercise. Place the middle fingertip of each hand in the centre of each eyebrow; push brows together or inward and at the same time raise eyebrows and hold.

Benefits: This face exercise helps remove the mark on your forehead and the area between the eyebrows. This face exercise targets the muscles right above the brow area.


Eyes

1. Place the three centre fingers of each hand underneath the eye, pull down, and try to close your eyes. Hold for six counts and release.

Benefits: This face exercise eliminates puffiness as it targets the muscles under the eyes.

2. Place the ring and middle fingers of each hand at the outer corners of eyes. Pull the corner of the eyes toward the hairline and hold. At the same time, squeeze eyes shut; hold for six counts and then release.

Benefits: This face exercise helps remove the wrinkles around the eyes.


Cheeks

1. Put your head back. Take your three centre fingers, place them on the apples of the cheeks and push down. At the same time, raise your cheeks as hard as you can by smiling.

Benefits: This exercise targets the muscles of the cheeks.

2. Put your thumb in your mouth right in the centre of the cheek and push. At the same time, bring the cheek back towards the teeth against your thumb. Hold for six counts and then repeat on the other side.

Benefits: This face exercise will fill out the cheek hollows, firm the face and lift.


Mouth

1. Take your middle fingers and pull down on either side of your lower lip thus exposing your teeth. At the same time try to mope.

Benefits: This exercise tones the muscles around the lip area.


Chin

1. Take your three centre fingers, pull the chin down and at the same time curl the lower lip over the bottom teeth.

Benefits: This face exercise tones the muscles of the chin.

Make up in 5 minutes

Isn't it amazing that you can do your make up in 5 minutes. Here are the steps you can follow to apply your makeup in as little as five minutes :--

1. Dot on moisturizer. In most cases, it is recommended that you wait for ten minutes before applying foundation, but there will be times when we simply haven't the time.

2. Apply foundation and blend. I was always a big sponge user and while I have no problem with them, I have found something even better. A foundation brush gives great coverage without sponge marks. In fact, no one will ever guess that you even have foundation on.

3. Apply blush and blend. Powder blushes are the easiest to apply.

4. Apply your favorite eye shadow. A light coverage is all you will need.

5. Apply eyeliner according to eye shape. As we are working on limited time, concentrate on the outer corners. Less chance of a messy application.

6. Apply mascara to lashes.

7. Using a fat brown pencil, apply color to brow bone and blend.

8. If your brows need color, apply it now with small strokes of a pencil.

9. Color your lips. A lipbrush gives a better application and takes no more time than lipstick straight from a tube.

10. Powder your nose and t-zone with loose powder.

11. Check your blush and add a tiny bit more if necessary.

Tips:
Before you begin your makeup application, set out everything you need.
For individual How To's on any of the above, see the How To index.
Your five-minute makeup is perfect to take along on holidays. It's fast and easy and won't take up a lot of room.

Face care tips

Never go to bed with your make-up on. Make-up that is left on overnight clogs the pores and prevents the skin cells from shedding, which may cause blemishes and/or blackheads. The skin needs to breathe over night. Waterproof make-up is most easily removed with a gel cleanser. The most important thing that you can do for your facial skin is to avoid sunlight or use liberal amounts of sunscreen. Sunlight causes the skin to age and causes skin cancer which is the most common malignancy in humans. The most common location for these tumors is the face. If you do not believe that the sun ages your skin, then look at the skin under your upper arm and compare it to the skin on your face and the back of the hands. Alpha hydroxy acid applied daily will help prevent acne out breaks if you have acne prone skin. If you have acne and the above measures do not help, see your dermatologist. There are many prescription treatments for acne.

Beauty and Health Tips

Health needs to be at the forefront of every beauty routine.

Not only for the obvious reason of physical health, but because it is an essential beauty building block.

Taking the time to understand the essential health principles in every step of your beauty regime will bring a lot of clarity to your decision making and product choices, simplicity to your routine, and satisfaction with the results.

The benefits of incorporating some simple but positive lifestyle habits, such as regular exercise, drinking enough water and nutritious eating, benefit your physical health and appearance, but they go far beyond this. These habits are also essential to your body's effective functioning and long term health.

Glowing Skin in 1, 5, 10 or 30 Minutes

As any woman knows, it can be a struggle just to get out the door some mornings. Luckily, there are simple solutions for looking your best in no time. Read on to find out how to look polished and pulled together in as little as a minute.

One Minute

Skin Care: Cleansing cloths, which remove dirt and makeup while gently exfoliating-are super quick, completely convenient and nix the need for a washcloth. And if you use cloths containing moisturizers, like Dove's Daily Hydrating Cleansing Cloths, you can cut your morning skin care routine to one step.

Makeup: Mascara, mascara, mascara! If you only have time for one thing, this little tube is it. Choose a formula that curls and lengthens, and you can skip the clunky curler.

Five Minutes

Skin Care: Dry air depletes your skin of much-needed moisture, especially in winter. After cleansing, apply a hydrating face mask; leave on for three minutes, then rinse off. Next, apply a moisturizer with sun protection, like Dove Essential Nutrients® Day Lotion SPF 15 which has a formula that replenishes nutrients naturally found in your skin.

Makeup:Apply a gel-based blush (which is more moisturizing than powder), blend it in with your fingertips, then top with a powder bronzer. The combination creates a natural-looking, healthy flush. Add color (and softness) to your lips with an emollient berry or burgundy-hued lip balm.

Ten Minutes

Skin Care: With a few extra minutes, you'll have time to add toner and eye cream to your routine. Toner cleans and tightens pores, leading to a brighter overall complexion. The delicate skin around your eyes ages 5 to 10 times faster than the rest of your face. Eye cream nourishes this crease-prone area and diminishes puffiness.

Makeup: Conceal dark circles by applying a creamy concealer that matches your skin tone and blending with a sponge. Also try using hydrating liquid foundations and cream blush and eye shadows. They may take a few more minutes to apply, but they adhere better to skin and won't disappear by lunchtime.

Thirty Minutes

Skin Care: Chill a plastic eye mask filled with water in the fridge for five minutes (you can find them at most drugstores). Before washing your face, put the mask over your eyes and rest for 20 minutes. The cool temperature will help de-puff eye bags, wake up your face and invigorate your senses.

Makeup: Pull out the tweezers and get ready to pluck: Nothing polishes your look like a nicely groomed set of brows. Follow your natural shape, getting rid of stray hairs and removing any extra layers under your arches (above your irises). Set the shape with brow gel or hand cream. Then sweep a powder shadow that complements your eye color and skin tone from lash line to crease.