Daily Beauty Practices and How to Achieve Them: Part 1
Thankfully we are in a time where beauty is often associated with health. This means that a lot of things that will improve the look of your skin and body are going to help you live a healthier life. We know most of these things but we have a problem actually carrying them out. Here are most of the things you should be trying to check off your list each day and some ways you can try to turn New Year’s Resolutions into genuine life changes.
If you already do this, kudos to you. I have a problem drinking water every day so I do a couple of things to make sure I’m staying healthy: I fill a glass with lukewarm water and have it first thing as I wake up in the morning. In addition I fill a bottle with ice and water and take it around during the day. When it’s right next to me, it becomes a habit to just lift it to my mouth. This one doesn’t work as well: I try to order water with meals instead of a drink or soda. Years of habit tends to mean I just order the more delicious and often cheaper alternative.
Your body is made up of 60% Water. One of the functions of your skin is to protect and prevent excess fluid loss. When your body gets dehydrated it begins to absorb the water it needs from wherever it can get it. That includes your skin: "Dehydration makes your skin look drier and wrinkled, which can be improved with proper hydration," says Atlanta dermatologist Kenneth Ellner, MD. When you are running low on water your body will tell you. Listen to those cues.
Read More: http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/6-reasons-to-drink-water
There’s this idea now that there’s no wrong or right time to eat breakfast, as long as it’s in the morning! (It’s no longer breakfast after noon) So don’t try to force something that doesn’t fit your lifestyle. I don’t and can’t eat as soon as I wake up and many health advocates are beginning to say, ‘don’t worry’. The idea is to make that first meal the biggest one for the day.
Breakfast doesn’t have to be any specific foods. Pick things to carry to work in the morning while you’re in the supermarket, if you know you’re one of those people who can’t find the time to cook in the morning.
"People skip breakfast thinking they're cutting calories, but by mid-morning and lunch, that person is starved," says Milton Stokes, RD, MPH, chief dietician for St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City. "Breakfast skippers replace calories during the day with mindless nibbling, bingeing at lunch and dinner. They set themselves up for failure."
Eating breakfast is a daily habit for 78% of the "successful losers". The bigger the breakfast you eat in the morning, the less likely you are to overeat later in the day.
Read More: http://www.prevention.com/beauty/beauty/10-breakfasts-healthy-skin
3. Clean, Tone and Moisturize
For a lot of us the air and water we contend with on a daily basis is not good for the skin. They are aging us and our skin needs help fending off the ill-effects of the environment. This is one of the reasons that beauty experts sing the “cleanse, tone moisturize” song over and over again. Good skin is healthy skin and healthy skin looks better with makeup on it than unhealthy skin.
Put the three bottles of the items you need and put them right next to the sink so you can do your routine as you’re getting into the shower or stick them in the shower caddy. For me, my skin feels weird if I haven’t done my routine, because it has become such a part of my life.
Cleansing is required to remove most of the dirt of the day. Toning removes dead skin, additional impurities and prepares the skin for any treatments you use including moisturizer. But, you need to make sure the products you use are right for your skin. Take the time to read the label. Someone with oily skin should not be using the same products as someone with dry skin. Moisturizing your skin begins with hydrating by drinking water.
Read More: http://www.cosmedix.com/skin-care-related-articles/skin-health/hydration-vs-moisturization
4. Replace Bad Habits with Healthy Ones
Smoking, drinking alcohol, greasy foods and processed sugars all come out on your skin. We already know this. Instead focus on getting more things that you like. If you tend to pick up packs of snickers, grab bags of fruits you like more. I like otaheite apples more than almost anything. I buy them whenever I can. When you focus less on cutting down bad habits and more on building good ones, you find it’s not as hard to drop the one that
This is about changing bad habits. Barack Obama insists on never wearing anything but blue and gray suits. According to the president, “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make too many decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” The president’s belief is well supported by the research. According to the Harvard Business Review, if you want to maintain long term discipline, it’s best to “Identify the aspects of your life that you consider mundane — and then ‘routinize’ those aspects as much as possible. In short, make fewer decisions.”
Creating sticky habits is far easier when we make use of our current routines, instead of trying to fight them. This tactic involves picking a regular part of your schedule and then building another “link in the chain” by adding a new habit. Multiple studies confirm this to be a successful method to rely on contextual cues over willpower. So the next time you decide to “eat healthier,” instead try “If it is lunch time, then I will only eat meat and vegetables.” (99u)
Read More: http://www.webmd.com/beauty/face/ss/slideshow-skin-beauty
http://beautyandwellbeing.com/beauty/story-beauty/natural-tips-skin-rejuvenation/
Statistics and Quotes from WebMD and 99u
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