Smoking makes you look older

Even if you look younger than you are, you shouldn’t forget regular care for your body. Here are the simplest tips you are to follow to maintain youthful look for ages.

Drink more water

This is a vexed question if it’s really necessary to drink eight glasses water a day. But the fact is obvious – our skin consists of water by 90 percent. If your organism is short of water, your skin can become dry and sensitive. Water also removes toxins from the organism. Otherwise they come out through our pores, forming pimples and spots. Water humidifies, vivifies, cleans and oxidizes skin. It also reduces pigment spots and makes wide pores smaller.

Choose proper food

There are no special products or drinks promising an eternal youth, but antioxidants help us to restore skin and to struggle against free radicals. Antioxidants protect us from the signs of aging, which are by-products of pollution, smoke and UV-rays. Fruits and vegetables with a bright colour and green tea are great sources of antioxidants. Pay attention to vitamin C as well – it’s necessary for collagen production. Collagen is a structural protein making skin smooth and elastic.

Quit smoking

It’s incontestable that smoking makes your face age faster. So if you want to look younger and fresher you should immediately stop smoking. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4000 toxins and many of them get directly into your blood flow and are transported by blood right to your skin. Besides when you inhale smoke, your lungs produce more than a billion of free radicals that do harm to the whole organism. Smoking influences blood vessels in the upper layers of the skin, what makes your blood produce less oxygen and collagen. At last, slow circulation of the blood is the reason of a thin skin of the smoker and early signs of aging.

Avoid stress

Long stress has always an effect to your face, causing tension, lines and wrinkles that can hide your true age. Maybe it sounds like a cliché but if you feel good you look good. It’s very important to find a time for relaxation. Give a treat to yourself with bubble baths, face masks and spa-procedures. All this gives a powerful psychological support and inspires you with conciliation and harmony.

Jane Fonda - dazzling mature beauty

Nowadays the situation becomes more complicated because we have an opportunity to delay physical signs of aging, at least the most evident of them. Active exercises help us to strengthen flabby hips and belly, moisturizing milk makes our hands and feet softer. Besides, we can’t forget plastic surgery doing miracles: baggy skin below the eyes and double chin disappear as if with a wave of a magic wand. The fact is beyond any doubt – we don’t look the way our mothers did when they were forty years old. But our ability to look young at a mature age actually turns to reality the myth that woman is as good as beautiful she looks. It’s called Jane Fonda effect.

Jane Fonda has brought healthy life-style and youthful look into fashion. Watching Hollywood stars on TV we hold our breath – they roll in luxury, favoring us with a perfect smile on their everlastingly young faces. They serve as an example of how splendid one man can look at the mature age and we start thinking that we should also look well. And soon it turns to another cultural purpose. It seizes a strong hold on our minds and causes the contradictory situation, when the distinctions on the scale of age become smoothed and obliterated. But at the same time we continue to believe, that a woman with wrinkles on her face, pigment spots on hands and gray hair looses her allure and grace, at least a part of herself.

Actually, the things shouldn’t go this way. The middle of life can be the time of a great spiritual growth, because it’s time when we look in the mirror and ask: “What have I achieved and what am going to do?”