When it comes to skin maintenance, we may not know exactly how to achieve beautiful radiant skin, but not to fear. Below are a few skincare secrets that will help in achieving the skin you have always dreamed about.
Too Many Products
Cleanse, maybe apply something in the morning, moisturizer over that and then your sunscreen. Most people lay on around 10 or 20 different products.
Poor Lifestyle Choices
Excessive exposure to sun, not getting enough sleep and, of course, being overly stressed out are the biggies. Stress is something we have to learn to deal with… Meditation makes a difference. It lowers stress hormones. Low stress hormones mean your skin stays young, high stress hormones mean you get wrinkled fast
Lack of Hydration
Drink eight glasses of water a day. When you’re dehydrated, the cells aren’t working right because all the biochemical reactions take place in the presence of water. We’re now just discovering that water is much more interesting than we thought it was. It does much more than act as a solvent – it actually forms a uniform layer inside the cells that aid in energy production. So there are some people that are saying that, with energy production, the cells can repair themselves better.
Lack of Nutrients
You want to make sure that you have a green salad every day. That’s very important. Green salads contain incredible nutrients, antioxidants and also increase nitric oxide in your blood. And nitric oxide is what gives you a beautiful healthy glow. The magic combination is a piece of salmon and a green salad. Because salmon also contains something that increases nitric oxide as well as antioxidants. So if you eat salmon three days in a row, you have such a radiance, when you walk into a room people go, ‘Wow.’”
Not Enough Color in Your Diet
The more colors you have in your diet a day, the more kind of phytonutrients you’re getting, because each color is something specific. So blueberries are very specific for brains and skin, and citrus fruits are really good for the ears. And astaxanthin is really good for eyes and skin. So it’s important to get all those different colors in during the day — I call it your color IQ. So ask yourself how high can your color IQ be today? If you know you had 10 different colors in your fruits and vegetables, you’re doing well.
Too Much Makeup
If you’re not taking care of yourself and you’re not getting enough sleep and you’re eating poorly, then you probably want to slather on something to hide the mistakes. But the thing is, if you’re doing the right thing, then you really want to tone down the makeup. In the end, vanity is really a good thing, because if you are worried about your appearance, then you are really motivated to eat correctly, maintain a good body weight, exercise and get enough sleep.
