Top Skin Care Tips for 2012

You only get to have one set of skin so taking care of it is your best bet for keeping yourself looking young, radiant, wrinkle free and healthy. As Ben Franklin famously said: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. So begin with these tips and you will be on your way to maximizing your beauty.

1. Always start and end your day with a clean face.  Never go to bed with makeup on.  Even if you like the Au natural look, cleaning the daily dirt and pollution build up off of your skin is so important. Use a gentle cleanser without abrasive agents to gently remove and dirt, makeup or environmental matter from your delicate skin. Remember to wash with tepid water – not too hot or too cold.
2. Moisturize day and night. Skin becomes parched from both the indoor and outdoor environments we spend out day in.  Air conditioning, heating, wind and the cold weather all take its toll on skin’s hydration.  Choose a moisturizer that suits your age and skin type.  If you have hit 30, you may want to consider an anti-wrinkle cream like Wrinkle Redeaux.
3. Hydrate! Topical creams are one way to keep skin moist and supple, however, skin needs to be hydrated from the inside too.  Drink 8 glasses of water or green tea daily to keep skin hydrated and looking its best.  Water will also flush out toxins that are harmful and aging to the skin.
4. Brighten skin tone. Why do children and teens look so beautiful?  It is their clear bright skin tone.  Get the radiant look of youth with a skin brightening serum, formulated to reduce the appearance of skin blotches and blemishes. Brighten looking skin makes you appear refreshed, radiant and more youthful. Try Lébrillénc Skin Brightener - Designed to promote brightened skin tone. Helps reduce appearance of age spots, freckles and blotches.
5. Brighten eyes.  Again nothing is more aging to the face than dark eye circles and under eye bags.  Dark rings around the eyes make you appear tired and older than your years. While there are many home remedies for soaking eyelids with tea bags and cool compresses, using a daily eye serum like Evaporté Dark Circle Formula will help to target those unsightly dark eye rings. Evaporté is formulated with ingredients researched and shown to reduce the appearance of dark eye circles and under eye bags in just weeks. 
6. Smooth the Complexion. Filling in lines and wrinkles gives a rapid boost to tired looking wrinkled skin, instantly making you appear more youthful and rested. Rapidé Resplendé Instant Wrinkle Formula – is an anti-wrinkle cream that is designed to promote a reduced appearance of wrinkles and fine lines rapidly. The serum forms a continuous, elastic and smooth film on the surface of the skin, smoothing the appearance and priming it for makeup application.  The result is a more youthful, radiant looking face.
7. Get Plenty of Rest.  When you are tired, your face looks drawn, eyes are darkened and somehow lines and wrinkles seem even deeper. When our bodies are at rest they are rejuvenated and revitalized.  It is during restful sleep that the body heals and restores itself.  Make sure to get 6-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep nightly to revitalize your entire body.
8. Eat Healthy. Your body requires good nutrition to not only fuel itself for the daily grind, however, to replenish and restore all the beneficial nutrients needed for a healthy appearance. Load up on fresh vegetables and fruits. Avoid caffeine, sugar and processed foods. Rewarding your body with a healthy diet will help your skin glow radiantly from the inside out.
9. Exfoliate. Our skin is the body’s largest organ. Skin holds everything together. It also: protects our bodies; helps keep our bodies at just the right temperature; allows us to have the sense of touch. The skin is also constantly shedding and replenishing. Though you can't see it happening, every minute of the day we lose about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surface of our skin. Flaky dry skin gives our face and body a dull appearance that is unflattering.  Exfoliating dry, dead skin cells keeps skin looking radiant and more youthful.  Even simply washing your face and body with a wash cloth will gently exfoliate skin.  Remember to always GENTLY exfoliate your face.  For your body, you may want to consider a loofah.
10. Frame your eyes. The eyes are the focal point of the face. Youthful eyes are embolden with thick brows and long, full eyelashes. Conditioning your brows and eyelashes nightly will help to maximize their beauty potential and promote the appearance of longer eyelashes and the look of thicker brows. Try Lash Relongé and Brow Relongé to amplify the look of a bolder, more youthful eye.

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