All of us are on the path of searching for the fountain of youth while we age. There are many things that will affect our skin over our time, and don’t think it is just smoking and sun exposure.
There a loads of small but bad habits that we have, and that we wouldn’t even think would make us look older but they do. Don’t add years to your look by making the following mistakes.
1. It’s not called beauty sleep for nothing
Not only does insufficient sleep exhumes tiredness and fatigue, but it’s vital that you get enough sleep because at night so your skin goes into rejuvenation and renewal mode. This isn’t only the time when the skin repairs itself, but there is also a difference in the PH and circulation so anti-aging products penetrate better. Dark circles and bags under the eyes don’t just make you look tired, but they also make you look older.
2. Don’t sleep on your side
Now that you are getting that well needed sleep, it is important to try not to sleep in the foetal position on your side. When you face is pressed to a pillow for seven hours or more a night, over time the skin breaks down which will lead to wrinkles.
3. Being skinny
When you are underweight you can add years to your looks and researchers found that women who have a BMI that is under or normal can look two to four years older than the heavier counterparts. Loss of weight on the face, or facial fat will cause the skin to sag and give a gaunt, aged appearance.
4. Rubbing your eyes
It’s natural to want to rub our eyes when they are itchy or have something in them, but rubbing the delicate skin around your eyes will make you appear older than you are because it results in dark circles, wrinkles and stretched skin. Over time we damage the weak tissues that surround the eyes as it is thinner here than anywhere else in the body.
5. Intensive facial scrubs
While it is important to exfoliate your skin, scrubbing more than once a week will damage the epidermis and therefore weaken the protective functions that it has leaving it prone to negative results.
6. Sipping through a straw
While you may think sipping through a straw looks seductive you are actually causing the appearances of wrinkles around your lips. The same effects will occur when you smoke, and the little lines and wrinkles that become notable are pretty much irreversible.
7. Expressions
While movement of the face shows emotions to others and is a way for people to tell your response to things, but screwing up your face in dislike to something will give you wrinkles. Similarly expressions that you think are cute, like outing, will also result in fine lines.
8. Stress
Cortisol, which is a hormone and released when we are stressed, actually breaks collagen down in which then leads to skin that sags and wrinkles. Stress and worry also cause frowning, and over time the muscles in the face actually conform to that movement.
9. Smoking
We all know that smoking is a habit that it bad for us, but it actually ages us also. Smoking breaks down the collagen, and when this happens, repeated facial expressions cause small lines and wrinkles to develop early. When someone pulls on a cigarette, like sucking through a straw, it causes lines around the lips. Smokers also develop a yellow tint to their skin and studies can detect the beginnings of aging in smokers as early as their 20s.
10. Eating junk
People who don’t eat the right foods will have aging issues and although you won’t see or feel the changes overnight you will definitely notice it in ten to 15 years. You need a minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables everyday as they give you fluids, fibre and antioxidants which are substances that slow the deterioration of the body.
11. Hands and neck
Make sure that you don’t forget about your hands and your neck. As they hardly get any attention they are the first to give away our age.
12. Sunglasses
It’s important to wear sunglasses because constant squinting and frowning when we are in the sunlight causes lines and wrinkles over time. It is also important to wear them when you are in the sun, because sun exposure breaks down collagen in the skin around the eyes and can cause pigmentation.
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