Fatigue and age show up around your eyes first. Here’s how to fight back
- Wear sunscreen year-round and be sure to apply it to crow’s feet.
- Avoid squinting. If that means wearing your glasses or contacts more often, so be it.
- Apply moisturizing eye cream twice a day. Put it on with your ring finger –your weakest digit and therefore the least likely to cause damage or wrinkles. Payoff: eyes will look fresher and less puffy.
- Gently exfoliate. Using delicate, circular motions slough off dead skin and improve circulation.
- Dab gently when removing makeup. The same goes when you put on makeup, cream or lotion.
- Don’t wear creamy eye shadow without a primer underneath or a layer of powder on top. When makeup sinks into creases, it showcases creepy skin.
- Define lower lashes with a quick coat of mascara or use nothing at all. Avoid dark liners which make you look years older.
- Don’t wear overly frosted, sparkling liner or eye shadow, especially the loose-powder kind. The glimmering particles can migrate into fine lines and draw more attention to them .
Friendship is the best antidotes for aging. Among women and men in their mid-thirties to early forties, those who report they have solid social support – a set of ties that make them feel good about themselves, a sense that there are people who like and care about them – collect big biological payoff. They look healthier in terms of every physiologic system that we look at. There cholesterol and glucose metabolism is better. Their inflammation and blood pressure is lower. All the main biological systems that regulate our bodies and our body cell look healthier. These biomarkers are a window on the future: decades before a disease would be diagnosed; they help predict the risk of developing atherosclerosis, dementia and other problems.
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Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables may ease aches and pains, help protect joints, and reduce inflammation. Recent research has shown that people who eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, particularly those containing with vitamin C, have lower risk of developing inflammatory arthritis.
