Dermatologist Dr Dray responds to Halle Berry’s claims about her keto diet and lifestyle for anti aging. In this video I discuss potential skin benefits of the keto diet.
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Helpful Tips For Looking Your Very Best
Whether you are trying to conceal one aspect of your look or just going for a new look altogether, this article has great tips to help you look as good as ever. This beauty advice was picked for you to help you enhance your inner and outer beauty.
Steam your face. You can do this by placing your face over a hot bowl of water with a towel over your head. This will open up your pores and draw out impurities and bacteria. You should clean your face, then rinse it with cold water so you close your pores back up.
Keep wool pads that have been soaked in water, in your fridge. You can also keep teabags or cucumbers in your fridge. This is great if you have puffy eyes and can relieve them. Using this on your eyes will make you look refreshed and will last all day.
Pick a foundation that is dermatologist approved and matches your natural skin tone well. Some foundations can clog your pores quite easily if you have sensitive skin, so find one that is oil-free as well. This will help keep your pores clear and help make your face look great and oil-free all day.
If you have very narrow eyes, you can create the illusion that they are more widely opened by first using an eyelash curler to curl your top lashes. Apply a dark brown mascara to the middle lashes, then tilt the wand diagonally and apply the mascara to the outer lashes.
Choose products appropriate for your skin type. When you are selecting your facial products, whether they are lotions, toners or cleansers, make sure they are appropriate for your type of skin. Using products aimed at your particular problem areas can improve skin condition dramatically. Follow this up with a weekly face mask that purifies.
Use cocoa butter on stretchmarks and scars. Cocoa butter is a beauty treatment with roots in ancient times. It has long been known to normalize skin-tone, and to make your skin more resilient. Cocoa butter has a small price-tag, and is available almost anywhere you can buy lotions or creams.
Avoid refined foods as part of your daily beauty routine. Refined foods take away most of the nutrients that would naturally be found in a food. Often times the good things are replaced by chemicals and fortifiers. Your overall health will vastly improve, not just your skin, nails, and hair.
Here is a number-one, tip-top beauty tip! Make your eyelashes look longer and fuller with a long-lasting lengthening mascara. You’ll find many brands will claim that their mascara is specifically formulated to curl and thicken your lashes. These special formulas are heavy ad weigh down your lashes. They may actually add clumps and bulk to your lashes. Only use a formula that is lengthening and waterproof. If you want voluminous lashes that curl upwards, then you want a lengthening formula.
If you have dry skin, or older looking skin, you need to be exfoliating on a weekly basis. You should also do this if you are applying any kind of tanning lotion. You want to exfoliate first to get the most out of the tanning lotion you are using.
To highlight your eyes and make them look larger and more awake, use a shimmery, pale shade of vanilla or light gold just under your brow bone. You can sweep it down to cover your entire lid for a natural look, or sweep it on after applying your other eye colors to frame your eyes.
To get a smoother look when applying your eyeshadow, apply primer first. Primer will give the eyeshadow an even surface and will create a smooth effect. It will also make your eyeshadow color look brighter and more vibrant. Be sure to choose a primer specifically designed for use on the eyes.
While taking care of your appearance is something that is very important for a myriad of reasons it should never be done at the expense of your personality. This means that you shouldn’t forget your social life and your other interests in an attempt to give more time to take care of your physical appearance.
Try incorporating your beauty routine into the schedule that you maintain every day. If you do it in 10 minute segments it will benefit your schedule. If you attempt to spend hours in the morning on your beauty regime, it will feel difficult and overwhelming.
If your skin looks like it could use a wake-up, try this idea. Use a hot, damp washcloth (with a few drops of your favorite essential oil on it, or plain is fine too) and press it gently against your face for a minute. Finish with a splash of very cold water. The heat will improve your facial circulation and open your pores, while the cold water will tighten your skin and wake you up generally.
If you’re concerned that your freshly painted nails will smear, you can protect them with a thin film of some type of oil. Either put a drop of olive oil on your palm and rub it over the nails, or even easier, use a can of olive oil cooking spray and give each finger just the quickest touch of cooking spray. The oil will form a protective barrier that will keep the polish from smearing.
Apply a tint to your eyebrows. You can either use an eyebrow pencil or get a permanent dye from a salon. Tinting your eyebrows will help to define your face and keep you looking youthful.
Before retiring for the night, make it easier to remove your nail polish later. Paint your nails with a base coat, a thick coat of color, then a top coat. If some gets on your cuticles, don’t worry about it. When you wake up and next take a shower, the thick nail polish will easily come off by just peeling or scraping it. This way, you get a professional-quality manicure or pedicure without paying professional prices.
If you want to change your beauty routine or need to find a way to look better, heed these tips. Keep these tips in mind, so you can put them to use whenever you want to give your appearance a makeover, whether minor or dramatic.