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Super-Easy Tips to Beautify Your Skin

Updated: September 9, 2019

Beautify Your Skin Through Simplicity

Each of the following super-easy tips to beautify your skin can help you to give your skin a boost, in under two minutes a pop. One trend you may see among them is their lack of complexity. Often, we make our efforts overly complicated. We buy full sets of expensive products that contain dozens of ingredients each. Sometimes, it’s not about what we’re doing as much as it is what we’re not doing.

Have a look at your lifestyle as a whole and the way it could impact your efforts to beautify your skin. You may find that something small – like a bit of extra water every day – could bring on far better results than that new face cream

Changes To Your Skin Health Lifestyle

So whether your complexion is looking dull and needs a lot of help, or you are trying to maintain an already stunning face after having just returned from a day spa, these tips may be just what you’ve been looking for:

Keep your face clean – Twice per day, use a gentle cleanser to wash off all of the impurities and products that have been sitting on your skin and collecting dust, pollution, and other impurities throughout the hours. This is particularly important when you have been wearing makeup.
Moisturize – This is likely the tip that you have heard the most, but it is also among the most important, so it is worth repeating. Even oily skin needs to be moisturized in order to help to encourage a proper oil production balance. Choose a high quality moisturizer that is appropriate for your skin type.
Thin out your foundation – Use a few drops of a non-clogging skin serum and blend with the foundation that you are about to apply to your face. This will thin it out and help it to provide gentle, even coverage, while giving your skin some much needed moisture and preventing the pores from becoming filled and clogged. Wearing foundation this way will allow you to enjoy the benefits of a more even looking complexion, without worsening the one you truly have underneath.
Reduce the redness – If your skin is naturally red and blotchy, consider using a moisturizer with an anti-redness feature, instead of caking on a green base layer below your foundation, which will only lead to further irritation of the skin and clogged pores.
Use a natural skin booster – Mix equal parts lemon juice and club soda for a refreshing, effervescent toning experience that effectively tightens pores without the use of any harsh alcohols that are typically the base of drugstore toning products.
Do yoga – This is particularly important when you practice inverted poses (where you’re upside down) such as the Downward-Facing Dog. This encourages blood circulation to the face and helps to boost radiance. At times when you can’t flip upside down, gently rub circles on your skin with your fingertips, or lightly tap the various areas with your fingertips. It is an instant micro pick-me-up.
Look out for sun exposure – Photo damage is one of the fastest and most lasting sources of wrinkles, freckles, hyperpigmentation, redness, fine lines and other signs of premature aging, not to mention the increased risk of skin cancer. Sunscreen or simply sticking to the shade and wearing a big hat can make a substantial difference to your skin health and complexion.
Drink water – Proper hydration is a step you can see within a matter of days, hours or even minutes, depending on how dehydrated you are to start. Making sure you’re drinking enough water every day can plump up your skin to minimize the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines. It can help your skin to fight infection and inflammation which would bring on signs such as acne and redness. It also helps your skin to maintain a fresher, more vibrant look as opposed to being dull and sagging.

As you can see, many of the tips to beautify your skin are similar to those recommended for overall mental and physical health. Take a moment to consider the way they can be added to your life in a very simple way that is easy to adopt. You may even find yourself looking forward to some of them throughout the day and enjoying the way they make you feel all over.

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by jen

Updated: July 2, 2019

Make Your Metabolism Feel 10 Years Younger

by editor

Updated: July 15, 2019

Increasing Your Metabolism is Possible

That’s the bad news. Fortunately, there’s good news, too. There are many things that women and men over the age of 40 can do for increasing metabolism and tricking it into thinking that it’s 10 years younger.

It’s all about thinking younger and acting younger. This doesn’t mean that you need to stay out partying all night like you did when you were in college. In fact, that will likely have the opposite effect.

What it does mean is that you need to start to focus on eating as you learned how you should when you were in school – paying attention to nutrition and portion size – and you need to start focusing on exercising every day.

Stay Hydrated

Drinking water has a huge list of benefits. It can help to suppress your appetite, boost your immune system, encourage all your body’s systems to work better, and even improve your complexion. That said, it’s also great for helping to keep your metabolic rate humming. In fact, while you’re at the ideal hydration level, you will find that it will temporarily but effectively start increasing your metabolism.

Water is a central part of pretty much everything that happens in your body. Therefore, by keeping your hydration levels where they should be, you’re nourishing your body just as you do with your food, sleep and exercise.

Control Your Stress

Stress changes the way your body functions. In small doses, it doesn’t do any real harm. However, when you experience high levels of stress every day, it can work against your efforts for increasing your metabolism.

Chronic stress shifts your hormone levels and changes other components of the way your body works. Not only can this cause your body to burn fat more slowly, but it can also make you feel more tired and increase your appetite and food cravings. All these factors can work together to make it much harder for you to lose weight (but far easier to gain). Taking action to keep your stress under control can do yourself a big favor in increasing your metabolism.

Get Moving to Increase Your Metabolism

Exercise is critical to increasing metabolism. The reason is that as you lose weight and build muscle, your body will actually begin burning calories more effectively than it currently does. Muscles are calorie burning machines. So even though you have likely been told to focus on cardio to burn fat, you shouldn’t neglect your strength training exercises.

By building and toning your large muscle groups, such as your abs, your arms, your glutes, and your legs, you’ll be able to burn more calories while you relax in front of the television than you do now. When you exercise, you’ll burn even more.

Be Consistent About Your Weight

Next, you need to focus on consistent weight maintenance for increasing metabolism. The worst thing that you can do to your metabolism is yo-yo diet. The process of losing and gaining weight as you start and quit diet programs causes your muscles to shrink and your metabolism to drag. Instead, find a realistic program that will produce slow, but gradual results, and plan to stick to it from now on. Forget the fad diets that promise miracles and keep to an effort that will work more slowly but that will continue working over the long term. This will not only help you to shed extra weight, but you’ll also be able to keep it off once it’s gone.

Getting Down to the Basics of Increasing Your Metabolism

The following should be the basics of your plan for increasing metabolism:

Eat healthy foods that are rich in proteins at a moderate daily calorie level (ask your doctor how many calories you should be consuming every day for a slow and steady weight loss).
Do your strength training exercises twice per week, never two days in a row.
Do your cardio workouts at least three times per week.