Let’s start with your eyes.  By focusing on your eyes, you can draw attention away from problem areas.  If you have dark circles, you can use three dots of concealer to hide them.  Your concealer should be a shade lighter than your foundation.

You can use your fingertips to blend in the concealer, but you should never rub.  Constant rubbing pulls and damages this thin area of skin.… Read Full Article

UV rays are the invisible ones.  UVB causes sunburns.  You can usually tell when you have had too much of it, because your skin gets red and hot.

UVA causes hyperpigmentation, age spots, wrinkles and skin cancer.  You can’t always tell when you have had too much UVA.  We don’t even know how much is too much.

Many of the anti-aging lotions on the … Read Full Article

The researchers declined to mention the brand names of any of the products they tested. What we do know is that all of them had an SPF rating on the label.

SPF stands for sunburn protection factor.  The higher the number, the better, when it comes to preventing a burn, but burns are not all we have to worry about.

The researchers tested products that ranged in price from $1.88 per ounce to $64.71 per … Read Full Article

It could be that they didn’t test the products for long enough.  Some take three months or more to provide maximum results.  Or it could simply be that they did not test the right products.

Some ingredients are truly effective for reversing sun damage and wrinkles.  They can improve the skin’s softness and firmness, while improving moisture content.  Cosmetic company R&D teams … Read Full Article

Hyaluronic acid, collagen, elastin and an assortment of synthetic fillers will stretch out wrinkles when they are injected into the deepest of the skin’s layers.  The injections are widely advertised.  They have different brand names.  You have probably heard some of them.

They are available at day spas, dermatologist’s offices and from cosmetic surgeons.  They range in price from $400 to $1000 per … Read Full Article

Active Manuka Honey

Active Manuka honey can be found in some of the better body lotions, nighttime facial creams, under eye gels and deep cleansing masks.  The benefits have to do with the antioxidant and the antibacterial activity.

Antioxidants of all kinds are beneficial to the skin’s health and appearance.  They prevent and sometimes repair free radical damage, which dermatologists believe to be the primary cause of wrinkles, age spots and other visible signs of aging.

The antibacterial … Read Full Article

Grape seed oil contains essential fatty acids similar to those that combine to create the skin’s sebum, a naturally lubricating and protective fatty substance.  We tend to over-clean, especially our faces, and remove too much of the skin’s natural sebum.  Once the protective substance is removed, there is an increased risk of damage, which can eventually lead to wrinkling.

Grape seed oil helps to prevent wrinkles in several ways.  The first is by moisturizing…replacing sebum removed during cleansing.  … Read Full Article

For many years, they were “secret” formulas.  Only the rich and famous had access to them.  Makeup artists used them to get rid of bags and dark circles under the eyes of models, actors and other celebrities.  Even young people have problems with those things when they stay out too late and party too hard.

Today, the ingredients are available to average people like you and me.  They aren’t even that expensive.  Some people tend to have bags and dark circles throughout their lives.  Sometimes the cause is light nights and … Read Full Article