What if we could rejuvenate 5 to 10 years while remaining natural? While waiting for the invention of the elixir of youth, we give you 10 tips, not so restrictive, to adopt in a real way of life to challenge the passage of time.
1. Pamper your skin
To get old without realizing it, there's nothing like parched, dull, tired skin. According to a scientific study *, a woman can look 10 to 12 years older depending on the uniformity of her complexion! But rest assured this is not inevitable. In other words, it is essential to pamper, moisturize and wake up your skin with a lot of care tailored to your needs. The objective: to fight against wrinkles while unifying the complexion. In addition, taking a moment to take care of your skin is an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, to relax beautifully, and this is one of the keys to youth.
Serum, day or night care, eye contour … We need the best routine, 100% suited to our skin. The golden rule: we avoid pushing the face down (it already does very well on its own) and instead we get down to defying the laws of gravity. To penetrate the treatments, start from the neck to go up to the forehead, and from the center of the face to the top of the cheekbones. Push-up effect guaranteed!
To keep skin as toned as possible, make sure to cleanse it every evening to remove pollution and makeup residues that clog it. The ideal for skincare? Give it a moisturizing and nourishing treatment, but which is also a source of collagen and elastin, responsible for the skin mesh, and whose natural production is reduced and is of lower quality over time. It is firmer and smoother skin!
With this in mind, Caudalie Resveratrol Lift Redensifying Cashmere Cream is an ally of choice. Its new version offers even more sensoriality for an unprecedented beauty ritual that we are happy to find with each use. In addition, the treatment benefits from the brand's latest advances in the fight against the signs of aging, with a patented combination of vine resveratrol, hyaluronic acid and a vegan collagen booster. Result? A cream composed of 97% of ingredients of natural origin and capable of multiplying by 5 the natural production of this structural protein, collagen, and by 2 that of hyaluronic acid. No wonder this facial treatment is among the most sold in pharmacies in France!
Another precaution to take to keep skin young and toned for longer: beware of the sun and only expose yourself occasionally, while protecting your skin with a sun filter of 20 to 50 SPF depending on the geographical area where you are, the weather and the season.
Resveratrol Lift Redensifying Cashmere Cream – Caudalie
2. Opt for tailor-made makeup
To gain a few years, nothing prevents us from cheating a little, but always sparingly. We opt for a light anti-aging makeup, just enough to illuminate, highlight and give us a fresh, dewy, enlightened complexion.
In preparation, wrinkles are erased with a great reinforcement of a smoothing base (to be applied only to the areas concerned). Then, we opt for a good smoothing fluid foundation adapted to the complexion that we apply from the center of the face up outwards. We say yes to concealer, but in small doses. Just enough to illuminate the eye, without freezing it.
Another recipe to refresh the eyes: darken the eyebrows, which tend to lighten over time. Wax underneath to open the eye and delicately redraw the upper line of the eyebrow with a shadow of the same tone or a pencil. For the lips, we think of lipsticks containing collagen to give volume and smooth out small folds.
Velvet smoothing base Avant Première – Caramel color
Youthful perfection hyaluronic acid complexion serum 12h – Dr Pierre Ricaud
Collagen Lip Bath – Charlotte Tilbury
3. Work on your posture
To gain pace, we say goodbye to the arched back and we stand up. The technique ? Contract the abs (without blocking the breath), open the shoulders and grow taller by imagining that a thread is pulling us upwards. We adopt a dancer's gait, light, feline, whatever our age. Flexibility exercises and yoga are great ways to achieve perfect posture every day.
4. Find the look that's right for you
The key to a look that will look great on you is to choose the right cuts, clean shapes in beautiful materials. No need to go rummaging in the teenager's closet or on the contrary to fall into the overdose of sophistication. We opt for a casual chic look with timeless clothes.
Good tips:
– When the arms start to lose firmness, we put on long sleeves, or just above the elbow.
– Avoid the push-up bra, which wrinkles the skin in the hollow of the chest.
Above all, it is important to choose clothes in which you feel beautiful, and that it shows!
Above all, it is important to choose clothes in which you feel beautiful, and that it shows!
5. Move more
As we know, sport is the best ally for a healthy mind in a healthy … and young body. The right recipe? A bit of cardio to keep the blood flowing (good blood circulation helps bring more nutrients and oxygen to the skin), a bit of strength training to strengthen the skin and prevent it from sagging.
As a bonus, sport increases the production of collagen and fights free radicals, which are responsible for aging of the body and skin. Combined with a balanced diet, it is also the best way to see a few extra pounds fly off. Always good to take for a little boost.
6. Choose a youth diet
What if we revised our eating habits to opt for foods that are good for our body and allow it to stay young and healthy longer?
In the program : consume foods that contain the vitamins and minerals necessary for repairing aged and damaged skin, and fill up with antioxidants, to fight free radicals which accelerate the aging process. High-dose antioxidants are found, for example, in almonds, lemon, garlic, dark chocolate, berries …
7. Laugh more often
Stress is largely responsible for wrinkles and aging of the skin. The best solution to relax, to free yourself? The laugh ! It limits the production of stress hormones and forces the facial muscles to relax. So even when you're alone, a good little humorous video on the internet, and you're done.
8. Find the right fit
A good hairstyle can change everything. We run to the hairdresser to energize, offer volume, natural movement, and choose the color that will illuminate the complexion and camouflage gray hair. Lifting effect guaranteed!
Do not forget to take care of your mane, using shine and volume shampoos, and treatments formulated in collagen to plump, shape and give hair strength.
9. Sleep better and more often
Erase the signs of fatigue, drive away tension, eliminate toxins … Sleep is only good. This is because cell regeneration occurs at night, with a peak of activity between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. The ideal sleep time? Between 6 and 8 hours per night. Combined with a specific firming treatment, these few hours of rest will have a magical effect on your features.
And to make up for the missing hours, there's nothing like a good nap, but not too long, so as not to upset your night to come.
10. Adopt the right philosophy
Staying young, or becoming young again, is also understanding that there is no age for many things that we tend to deprive ourselves over the years. No, there is no age to have a picnic in the grass when the fine weather arrives, there is no age to go dancing until the end of the night, there is no age. There is no age to flirt, there is no age to sing your favorite song in front of the mirror. So we get rid of our age-related prejudices, and we refuse to see our passions or our little pleasures fade away with time. Believe it, the young spirit is reflected on the outside!
* Study carried out by scientists at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology in Austria and by the Department of Sociology / Anthropology at the University of Goettingen in Germany in cooperation with P&G Beauty. This study was presented at the annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) seminar, held in June 2006, in Philadelphia, PA.