So hey awesome ones so by now hopefully I've helped you with concealing some of our aging
flaws with makeup and maybe even helping to tweak some fashion styles. And also I really hope I've
helped you with your confidence building but with all of that you're probably seeing like
sometimes I do that those wrinkles are showing up at an alarming pace.
Well you're trying to look 10 years younger but what are you doing wrong? Well I have eight
different bad habit aging tips for you today. I can't wait to show them to you. Let's go.
So we're all getting older it, that's a fact jack! We can't run away from it but what can we be doing
and what's my number one bad habit? Well it's straws. You know those ugly little vertical lines
that we're all getting. Well the straws they aren't helping and you're probably saying to yourself
but Heather what about my half soy, half milk or cream caramel frozen macchiato? Well we gotta kind
of eliminate the straws. And if you're a smoker well you already know smoking's bad for you
but all of that kind of puckering of the lips is not helping these vertical lines. So that's my
number one tip. So for number two the same way that when we're puckering our lips take a look at this.
We're making those lines above by squinting. We're really starting to accentuate and I guess our
skin is like elastic. It's kind of learning to make these creases with squinting and we all know we've
got to wear our sunglasses but one of the things that I wear all the time now are my blue blocking
glasses for the computer. I find that they're just fantastic because I'm not squinting. I'm not
finding things are blurry and I've also learned now that you know we all have those big screen tvs
right and the blue light is hitting us all the time. So I always have my blue blocking glasses
down by whatever tv I'm watching as well and I'm wearing them for the whole evening the whole movie.
And if you have glasses you can get the clip-ons or the clip-ons like this and they also have them
in yellow in the blue blocking glasses. So those are really handy as well. And and by the
way as you know I'm going to have links. I did get these from amazon so I'll put links underneath
the description for these and a bunch of other things that I'm going to mention in this video.
So what else do we do on a regular basis that can affect the way that we age? Well how about sleeping
in our bed. Okay what do you mean by that Heather? Well they say that the best way to sleep is not on
your side that's the way that I sleep but you're supposed to sleep on your back and well I've tried
it it's not happening. It just doesn't work for me and I'm sure you might be the same way. So what I'm
trying to do is the next best thing and I have a lovely satin or maybe this is silk pillowcase
and the nice thing about sleeping on my side and snuggling up to this silk pillowcase it's not like
a cotton pillowcase or a flannelette pillowcase where you've put your moisture on it at night and
the cotton is really just kind of absorbing all of your moisturizer. It's nice and soft.
It's a lot less wrinkly for your skin and also it's kind of one of those affordable luxuries. So
I really like mine. Also let's talk next about our hair. You know as an aging woman we have the drying
of our skin but we also have that extra bonus of the drying of our hair. So let's take a look.
First of all I would suggest keep your hair as natural as it can be and that's naturally curly or
naturally straight without using these guys you know the the burning curling iron or the burning
straightener. We we want to try to stay away from those as much as possible and also use some of
those shampoos that are...this is my Davines Nounou shampoo that are less you know they have
less detergents in them they're more natural. And also anti-frizz products are your friend
and again they're getting into the cuticles and they're really really helping your hair. And as a
matter of fact I did a video on you know treating your hair as you get older and what I'm going to
do on the end screen of this video I'm going to put a link for you. So for number five let's talk
about the sun and I know everybody knows about SPF but are you wearing it daily? Are you wearing it
on those cloudy days in the summer? Are you wearing it in the winter time you know a lot of times
you're just thinking to yourself I'm running off to the grocery store but then you start talking to
a neighbor so I'm going to suggest that for your foundation certainly you try to put on because we
really got to protect our face first of all the rest of our body too, but there are some
mineral creams like this that have a nice tint to them. and this is by Laroche Posay and also if
you want a fuller foundation I really like the Estee Lauder. That was an SPF 50. This is an SPF
45 and it's just just that extra protection. You're putting on makeup sometimes anyway so you might as
well do that. And another little extra bonus that I love to wear these days is my my bucket hat
that I bought not too long ago. It's got that little extra protection with the brim and also
kind of makes me feel a little bit youthful. And stay tuned till the last tip because we're going
to have a cameo appearance from our little Yorkie Hurricane. So what's number six? Well number six is
you need your sleep. You know studies show that even as you age you need at least seven hours of
sleep. So it's so so important but if you're somebody like me I've got busy brain like my...
I'm always thinking. I'm always talking. I can't really shut it off and I really had to work on on
how I'm going to do this because I needed my sleep. So I actually did a video. It was a long time ago
but it still holds true and what I'm going to do is I'm going to put the link for that at the end
of this video and it's really some of the tips and tricks on how I get to sleep. One of them is I need
the sound of somebody talking and no it's not Bill. It's silently coming from the TV set for me. I know
there's tapes you can get but you know even if it's a hot milk what we need to do we need it
for healing and we need it to to help us repair ourselves and everything. We need our sleep and
it also helps with those bags under our eyes. So get your beauty sleep. So mistake number seven is
you're not taking the time every single night to do your moisturizing. As most of you know I use the
Strivectin products and the ones with the retinol in it. And every...it's kind of like a pampering time
for me, you know I'm putting on the serum and the cream and the eye cream, the neck cream and I also
use you know just a kind of over-the-counter Nivea cream. I'm doing my arms I'm doing my legs
and I'm using the L'Occitane hand cream. I really love it in lavender especially before I go to sleep. So
you gotta moisturize. It's so important and another mistake with this is you're not exfoliating the
dead cells off of your skin. So once a week try to find a nice mask that you like and get rid of all
those dead cells so that you get a healthy glow and you're a little bit more rejuvenated. So for
number eight we might not even realize that we're doing it but we're doing a lot of frowning.
I don't know you know this what is happening to your forehead and well frowning just makes you
get these marionette lines and everything and and as you're teaching your face you know with a straw
and with other things like squinting you're teaching your face that you know these wrinkles
should be set in and you don't have to do that. What you have to do is you just really have to
take some self-care for time for yourself you've got to de-stress. Hey it's bad for your looks but
it's also bad for your health as well and and for me 10 o'clock at night it's my pamper time.
I go upstairs. I have a long bath. I do the pampering on my face. I put on the lavender hand
cream. I say my prayers. I write in my gratitude journal. I put on some spa music and I just
kind of just relax until 11 o'clock. And then when 11 o'clock comes I don't watch the news.
I hear about the news anyway on my cell phone, on my emails. I don't need to watch the news
and start frowning before I go to bed. Nope I'm watching a funny sitcom and I'm laughing. I'm just
laughing and if I'm gonna have any you know any wrinkles at all I want them to be the upward ones.
And I suggest that you know you watch that and you make sure you have some kind of a
routine that helps you to de-stress. Hey you know what? Life is short. So why not wear our smiles more
instead of our frowns. And talking about smiles let's bring in little Hurricane. Hey Hurricane
how are you? I know you all love to see little Hurricane. So I thought I'd bring him
in here today. And you know what? I know that having a dog it's a big big commitment but you know what?
If you can get a dog try to get a rescue dog. And a lot of you know the story about little Hurricane.
I was just cutting through a mall and little Hurricane was in a cage.
He'd been in a cage for about four months, it's almost like he remembers the story,
for about four months and the pet shop had actually lost their license to sell dogs and
they said they just wanted him to go to a good home. He was the last Yorkie there and I'm just
gonna give him a little pat now and put him down. But having a pet is a great de-stressor. So I always
like to talk about something inspirational along the way besides just the facts jack.
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