Dying for A Cigarette? Your Skin Knows and Shows!

Even today, after all the warnings about cancer, emphysema, and other diseases, people are still "dying for a cigarette".  As your nicotine-stained hands reach inside your pocket or purse for yet another cancer stick, you reluctantly know it's true.  But did you also know your smoking habit also makes you look old beyond your years?

Smoking depletes your body of Vitamin C, an essential ingredient for skin elasticity and keeping your skin moist. Other essential vitamins and nutrients depleted more quickly include Vitamin A, calcium, and Vitamin D. Vitamin A is a must for beautiful skin, as it helps protect it from free radical damage while giving it a nice, healthy glow.  Calcium benefits the skin through cell renewal, lipid barrier function, and antioxidant protection from DNA damage. Vitamin D, a fat soluble vitamin, is a powerful antioxidant and anti-carcinogen.

No doubt about it, smoking almost always makes you look older, less appealing to the eye.  Your breath reeks, your clothes stink, and you also help non-smokers inhale 70% of your poison, causing them feel less healthy and age more quickly themselves.

You have a choice: Quit smoking or risk the chances of premature death, heart disease, cancer, or stroke.  From a vanity standpoint, you'll most likely look older than your non-smoking friends.

Fight back against smoking.  If you've already quit but look older than your years, we can help.  Visit HERE for more help!

Do You Want to Look Younger than You Are?

When asked“why do we want to look younger”, a wide variety of reasons come to mind. Everything from attracting someone special to renewed youth, from a healthier, more radiant appearance to the fear of appearing older than we actually are often come to mind after noticing our first wrinkles.

Sure, nobody wants to get old but, unfortunately, it happens. However, we can try to help ourselves feel young on the outside which may, in turn, help us feel younger on the inside. Very soon, avoiding looking in the mirror because you are scared of what will be looking back at you will become a thing of the past.

Many folks in their twenties and thirties, notice frown lines slowly developing, eyelids may also slightly hood over their eyes, and lips may no longer look as “full” as they once did. Is this happening to you? Don’t be alarmed if fine lines are developing when you smile. These are all just small signs that your body is getting older.

If you’re approaching fifty, you may notice your eyebrows sagging, vertical neck bands developing and mouth corners turning downwards. Add these three indicators to the ones above, and it is no wonder we start to lose confidence about our appearances when we look in the mirror.

Our facial muscles, which are attached directly to our skin, will lengthen as we age. Our skin begins to follow the path of the muscles and over time will also start to travel south. Although skin care products will never stop the time clock they can help to plump, firm and smooth leaving your skin feeling softer and your lines visibly reduced.

Our facial muscles are most likely to stretch up to one-half inch by the time we are fifty-five years old. This is why we see aging right before our eyes. Using chemical peels and lasers may initially tighten the skin but it won’t be long before you notice that the sagging has returned.

Surgery for prolonging our youthful looks is drastic and can be expensive. Cutting perfectly healthy tissue in the name of beauty has consequences; the skin is forever changing and you just may not like the results.

Facial exercises that use isometric with resistance movements will systematically lift every area of your face and neck. Basically if you keep smiling and keep those facial expressions in a northern direction you will help to keep your skin looking younger. The exercises will refine, tone, curve and firm your face so that the younger face you thought you had lost forever is returned to you.

Start looking younger today! For more solutions, Visit Here!

Reasons You May Look Older Than Your Age

Once upon a time, we were the kings and queens of our own private worlds.  Time, the elements (natural or man-made), and a daily dose of abuse to our bodies were of little--if any--concern.  But life has a cruel way of reminding us that it marches onward, without our permission.  It's called the mirror.  The deeply etched lines and wrinkles make us barely recognize our once youthful selves, we shake our heads and ask "What the hell happened to me?"

What happened?  How did we "let" ourselves get old?  Why do some of our peers of the same age look younger?  C'mon...Most of us know the reasons.  But, in the event you wonder, here are several:

 1.  Excessive Sun Exposure
 2.  Smoking
 3.  Alcohol
 4.  Poor Sleeping Habits
 5.  Depression
 6.  Stress
 7.  Anxiety
 8.  Recreational Drug Use
 9.  Caffeine
10.  Lack of Exercise
11.  Drinking Little Water
12.  Poor Eating Habits
13.  Pollution
14.  Chronic Diseases
15.  Too Much Television
16.  Hormonal Imbalances
17.  Lack of Intimacy
18.  Loneliness
19.  Medications

I will cover each and every one of these frightening, even harmful, aging issues in future blogs.  In the meantime, there is no doubt  there are other underlying reasons you look older than you should.  I will cover these issues as well.

Until then, click HERE and fight back against aging.  Your body will thank you for it.