How to Look Younger and Feel Better

Many of us still are searching for the Fountain of Youth. We go to all extremes to look younger. We wish someday to do surgery to look as young as possible. There are other methods, not as drastic, to assist in giving us a more youthful look, make us feel better about ourselves, and not as costly
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Steps

1. Eat a healthy, nutritious diet and drink water every day. You hear it all the time, you are what you eat. Proper nutrition is key to looking your best and living a longer, healthy life. 
2. Try to treat yourself to a weekly sauna. This helps the blood in your skin circulate better and brings all of the healthy nutrients to your face. You look better and younger! Saunas leave your skin super soft and you'll get an instant healthy glow!
3. Wash your face at least twice a day, gently with a soft washcloth. Use an exfoliate once a week to remove dead skin, moisturize to replace the moisture removed from the treatment.
4. Use a good quality sun screen to protect your skin to ward off skin cancer.
5. Exercise to improve your shape and muscle tone. Include both aerobic (cardiovascular) as well as anaerobic (strength-building) exercise to be fit, trim and feel great longer.
6. Learn to have a positive, rather than negative attitude. The way you think, reflects on the way you look. Frowning causes wrinkles faster than smiling and makes you look less attractive.
7. Learn something new. You look the best when you feel fulfilled.
8. Don't ever start smoking or quit. Oxygen is our best friend. The subject of smoking is a thorny one when it comes to giving it up. It has been scientific studies that have pointed to the fact that smoking releases trillions of free radicals and these are not good for your body or your skin. Free radicals kill off cells at any stage of their development. It also constricts the capillaries in the face leaving you looking very pale.
9. It is a personal choice, but clearly it has a detrimental effect on the body and its processes
10. The number one thing that ages people is their hairstyle. If you want to look younger, keep up with the trends. Do not get stuck in a style you have been wearing for years. Buy a hairstyle book and take it to your stylist.
    • If your stylist is old fashioned get a new one. Look at the current actors or actresses. They are most often up to date, and you can follow their style, but modify it to make it your own.
    • Color your hair. Get a beautiful color that works with your skin tone, and add some highlights or lowlights if blonde to give it depth. For very dark hair, lighten up. Hair that is too dark can be harsh.
    • For hair that is too light, add some lowlights. Ashy and too light colors can wash you out. Gold tones are great for adding color. Do not be afraid of red. Red and gold are the colors of youth and vitality.
    • Keep the hair and makeup effects natural. That means to color the hair and use makeup, but go for a natural effect.
11. Makeup should be light and airy. Go for a light moisturizing, hydrating skin brightener for a base. Follow with a light powder and then brush on a small amount of pinkish blush on the cheeks.
12. Eye tones should be neutral and soft.
13. Buy a lipstick that makes teeth appear whiter (but avoid brown tints). Whiter teeth make you look younger.
    • Keep your lips moist and glossed. Wrinkled lips are a dead giveaway.
14. Speaking of whiter teeth, get a tooth whitener, or go to the dentist and have it done. This takes years off instantly.
15. If you can get a moisturizing facial once a week, do so. If not, try to go once a month. The manipulations are great for the skin tone. If you cannot afford this, then do an at home facial using a honey mask. (Read my honey mask article).
16. Keep your nails done, but keep them light. It is youthful to have a natural effect.
17. Keep your hands moisturized at all times. Dry hands are a dead age giveaway.
18. Fashion is the number two biggest mistake people make. If you want to appear younger, you have to dress young, but not too young. There is such a thing as going too far.
    • Look at the mannequins in the store. Do not go to the old lady or man department. Stay in the juniors. Do not get carried away though. Keep it young, but not too young. If it looks good on a ten year old, it is not for you.
    • Look in current magazines and see what people are wearing. Tear out fashions you think are youthful and that you can wear. Even if you do not think you can wear it, try it on. Youth is all about trying new things, taking chances and being spontaneous.
19. Keep up with everything new. It's hard not to appear old when you seem to be stuck into the last century and know very little of the modern world.
    • Listen to new music. Do not get stuck in the old stuff. Try to listen to at least a couple of new songs every week. This will help you stay current. A young attitude is very important to looking young.
    • Try new things. Get involved in a sport, or take a class. This will help particularly if you are involved with younger people.
    • Learn some young terms. Listen to how younger people speak. Pick up some new language. If you can speak and understand younger people, you will appear younger.
20. Smile a lot. Young people have bright eyes and bright smiles. When you smile it can take years off instantly.
21. While many people would consider dressing in a younger fashion, to be a definite NO, it has been shown that if you look at the age group of 5-10 years younger than your current age, it frequently allows you to adopt the clothing styles and appear to be a younger individual by virtue of association. Look at some ot the older female film stars (Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton etc) to get a good perspective on what can be done.
22. Showing tension on your face hardens your appearance and makes you look angry sometimes, so relax a little, show a slight smile and this will visually soften the lines of your face, making you look younger. Look in the mirror or other reflective surface to achieve the desired result. This may take a little practice to reduce the long standing habit.
23. When out and about or at home use or migrate to softer lighting areas as these have a positive effect on your visual appearance. Harsh lighting such as fluorescent lighting causes sharp contrasts and stark appearance. At home use dimmed lighting or soft toned bulbs, shades and lamps.
24. Play everyday, let loose your inner child. If you have children or grandchildren play with them watch their funny antics. Pets can also be a source of funny moments, but positive interactions with them also have a beneficial effect on you. Harmonise with your natural surroundings. Take a walk by a shallow river or stream and listen to the gurgling and bubbling water as it playfully makes its way downstream.
25. Wearing formal clothes makes you look older, so look for the trends in the lower age group (some 5-10 years younger than you current age) and select something to wear from their ranges.
26. When faced with a challenge, give it a go, you will be surprised at the buzz it gives you when you attempt new things. This gives you a good feeling inside which means you feel better about yourself.
27. Sing to yourself, whistle or doing something that makes you feel good. All these things make you positively brimming about life which in turn makes you feel good inside with the resulting good effects on you.
28. Look after yourself by having a bubble bath, soak up the moisture and when finished help retain the moisture by rubbing baby oil into your skin, particularly around the eyes, forehead, mouth and neck. This will help reduce the effects of aging on the skin.
29. For men, being clean shaven is good but avoid long hair as well. Keep the sideburns to a short length
30. Where possible use natural products as these are unlikely to contain strong chemicals or even better try organic skin care products
31. Moisturise directly after having showered, perhaps with an Aloe or oatmeal based preparation to help prevent your skin from drying out.
32. Brown lipstick shades are not the colours of choice particularly as you get older. Opt for creamier colours or even glossy lipsticks (to make your lips appear plumper)
33. Try curling your eyelashes after your mascara as dried. Another desirable effect can be lining your eyes (smudging can be effective)
34. Trouble with dry skin on your hands and feet, a combination of avocado oils on hands and feet before retiring for the night will help
35. Get plenty of sleep, rest often when you feel tired. Sleep and rest is the body's way of recharging the system. It has beneficial effects by reducing reaction times to everyday events and increases your resistance to disease. Memory and IQ are generally better after a good nights sleep.
36. Use a contoured pillow with a silk pillow cases (reduces lines on the face)
37. Sleep is an excellent stress buster, which can be another factor in the aging process. Avoid stress wherever possible. Taking a relaxing bath is another way of reducing the effects of stress. Or try aromatherapy.
38. Stress increases the ageing process and plays havoc with metabolism, so anything that decreases stress is good such as laughter, playing etc