LOOK AND FEEL AMAZING IN YOUR 40'S
1. Embrace the changes in your skin.
Consider whether you need more hydration in your skin, or a less powdered finish, for example. DON’T Keep wearing the make-up looks you did two decades ago. Embrace a more sophisticated style that complements your skin and suits the woman you are now.
2. Contour
This quick contouring tip will take years off your appearance. Using a powder that is two to three shades darker than your skin tone, lightly dust on along the jawline, hairline and temples. This creates false depth to the face, which in turn emphasises the lighter areas and creates a youthful look (read: higher cheekbones). DON’T Think you need surgery to restore a more youthful look.
3. Increase consumption of maca root powder
This will help ease the symptoms of all stages of menopause by balancing hormonal fluctuations. Maca is renowned for helping to support hormone balance, as well as increasing libido and energy levels. DON’T Consume foods high in sugar. Refined sugar leaches precious minerals from the body and deteriorates skin health due to its collagen-damaging effect.
4. Drink red wine
It contains a powerful heart-healthy, anti-cancer, anti-ageing antioxidant called resveratrol. It also appears that resveratrol helps protect the skin against the sun’s UV radiation. Cabernet Sauvignon grapes have the highest concentration of antioxidants – just be sure to keep it to one glass, and have your wine with a meal to mitigate the inflammatory effects of alcohol. DON’T Eat saturated fats or trans fats. When you eat a healthy diet, your skin is more likely to glow and you may even appear more youthful. As well as leading to health problems, trans fats can cause problems with your skin – avoid these and add healthy fats, and you will likely begin seeing noticeable changes in how your skin looks and feels.
5. Use an anti-ageing cleanser
Use one that is full of nutrients, because your anti-ageing regime begins with a cleanser that gives to your skin rather than depleting it and then trying to give back what it has stripped away. Your skin should feel nourished right from your cleanser, all the way through your skincare regime. DON’T Use skincare that contains mineral oil/petrolatum ingredients as they act like a plastic wrapper on the skin and DON’T allow the skin to expel toxins or absorb nutrients. Literally, they suffocate the skin.