hey ladies this is erica johnston and welcome back to my channel
in today's video we're going to talk about seven different new ways yes new
that you can look more youthful with your gray hair so keep watching
well i've done a couple other looking youthful videos and i have to tell you
they are a hit with you ladies so i decided to do another one because hey
we all want to look more youthful do i mean younger no i don't necessarily want to look
younger than my age although i have to say i don't mind if somebody thinks that i look younger it's
it's very flattering but it's not the goal right the goal is to just sort of take what we have and
work with it and try to present you know the best version of ourselves that we can we don't need to
try to be somebody else we're all in different you know phases and stages of our lives i know that
you know the way i look now in my 40s is not going to be the same as when i'm in my 60s and so on all
right so with that being said let's start with our first way to look more youthful all right so for
any of you who have taken dance lesson like i took jazz dancing for a while in my 20s and i remember
always you know hearing eyes and teeth eyes and teeth sparkle sparkle jazz hands and all this and
you know there is something to be said about eyes and teeth right it's kind of like the first thing
that people see when they look at you and you want to have nice bright eyes and teeth so
for myself i've got naturally white eyes but every so often and usually when i've had like
an extra glass of wine my eyes can look you know a little reddish in the morning so i'll
just use vising eye drops once in a while just to kind of brighten things up a little bit i use
those sparingly so don't worry it's not like an everyday thing for my teeth i use crest glamorous
white that's what i use and i find though that i have to be a little bit careful because if i use
whitening toothpaste too much then my teeth do start to get a little bit sensitive so i
don't know about probably five years ago or so i went to the dentist and i saw this advertisement
on the desk and it was for teeth whitening service that you could have your dentist do the model in
the picture had brilliant white teeth and i wanted that i thought oh my teeth are yellow
and sort of yellow and i want to get that and they even said to me they're like what are you talking
about your teeth are white you don't need to do this i can't believe they said that but i thought
no i want to do it so i got into the the chair at the dentist and they put some sort of i don't know
cream or gel or something like that on my teeth and then they proceeded in putting this bright
light i don't know what it is like an ultraviolet light i have no idea but anyways they put this
bright light on me and i'm telling you no more than like 30 seconds into this procedure
it was the most shocking pain i've ever experienced in my life like it was right
up into the nerves into the roots it was just oh so i had them stop it and they were like it's okay
it's not going to be affect you long term some people have that or sensitive or whatever and then
they start it up again i'm like we're done i can't i cannot do this so then i just started using like
crest white strips a little bit here and there but again like i can't even use those anymore
if they touched the top of like just a little bit of my gum i would feel that like zinging pain
so i just use the toothpaste the whitening toothpaste and that seems to do the trick
do i have like brilliant white teeth i don't know you be the judge
i'm wearing a white shirt so i don't know but i find red lipstick actually
can be pretty good right it can make your your teeth look a little bit brighter so
that's something you might want to think about too is the color of your lipstick does it enhance your
teeth or not anyways enough about teeth but it does make a difference and it's very very youthful
so remember back in the past before all of these teeth whitening solutions that we had
a lot of people had more like yellowing teeth so just something food for thought
number two is your posture i am terrible with this and you know even as i'm filming this i'm
realizing i probably should have put my camera up just a little bit because i am hunching a tiny bit
down to talk to you but i really have to make a concerted effort to check my posture and you know
at five foot eleven very very tall i always was hunching down to talk to people right and then
same thing being a teacher kindergarten teacher leaning over and talking to the little kids i
find that my posture is not always the best so that's definitely something that can be
very very youthful you know to stand up straight instead of you know the frail little old lady
that's walking down the street hunched over which is not as youthful looking so number three
is age spots and i hate this i don't even honestly like talking about this i'm scared
like i'm afraid that some of you will be like oh how dare you it's a natural part of aging
and uh you know and so on but it can be aging right so i'm just being like honest right now
i actually was a sun worshiper when i was younger and i really damaged my skin quite
a bit especially you know my chest and my face and so i ended up having intense pulse
laser on my face and my and my chest and i felt so much better i feel like it took off
years and i just i just feel more like myself so i am a very very naturally freckly person i've got a
lot of freckles and that's not what i'm talking about so i'm not saying you know remove all the
freckles off of your face or anything like that but i'm what i'm talking about is like the big
you know huge sunspots those ones are kind of nice to remove i actually had one here uh
on my neck and it started turning black when i was pregnant with my second son with everett
and i was a little bit worried about it right i thought oh gosh like is it you know melanoma or
something and i went into the dermatologist and she ended up spraying it with some sort of spray
and then it crusted and it came off and i looked and i was like oh it looks so nice without it
and she told me about ipl to get rid of you know the other big sun damage that i had so
that's something the same thing you know with our hands right they say that you can tell you
know a woman's age maybe not so much even by her hair color or anything like that but you can kind
of tell it by like her neck and her chest and her hands so um you know down the road i don't
know how my hands are gonna look but i'm already starting to get some sun spots and whatnot on my
hands so i think that that's probably something that i might do down the road you know get rid
of that but i know it sounds really vain and you know i hope i'm not coming across that way but um
but it is it is nice to feel outwardly you know the way you do inside right so anyways that's just
another option all right number four is some sort of i talked about exercise last time
but yoga specifically so this is kind of you know one of those mind body soul things right and yoga
is amazing for lengthening your muscles stretching yourself out making you feel good being in touch
with yourself and when you feel good on the inside then you look good on the outside so if you
haven't tried yoga i highly recommend it i really enjoy it and i really miss doing my hot yoga
at a yoga studio close by i really miss that so hopefully i'll be able to kind of get back
into that at some point number five is to spend time with youth if you've got grandchildren and
you spend time with them you just naturally feel more youthful right and more connected with youth
i that's one thing i have to say about teaching is that and having children obviously as well is that
i still have this like in with the youth right and it's it's been really nice and the same thing
when i went back to university in my 30s you know suddenly i was hanging out not really but
you know what i mean i was around you know 17 18 19 year olds and then of course like
older as well and you just keep up with with what's happening in the world right like keep up
with the millennials keep up with the little kids and the shows that they watch and all that kind
of stuff it just makes you feel more youthful and that brings me to number six is to sleep
sleep is underrated sometimes the difference between a good night's rest and a bad sleep
is huge i don't get enough sleep i it really really shows especially in my eyes
that's where i really see it so you know getting enough sleep it just makes me feel better
i'm trying now i'm actually trying to wake up at the same time every day and
my friend she uh she asked me to join her on this meditation app called 10 happier and it's a summer
challenge it's a 21 day summer challenge and one of the things that i learned um on this meditation
journey is you know about sleep and waking up at the same time every day is really important i
didn't realize just how important it is so when i started doing that because i found like especially
with covet and everything i was like i don't know sleeping in and getting out of bed late and i just
felt groggy all day long so right now if i've been trying to wake up around like 7 30 or 7 and that
really seems to make a difference for me so try that and that brings me to number seven smile
so yes i'm a big smiler and i i think that that is like such a youthful thing to do
you know it just means that you have like this zest for life you know you're happy and that's
all that people can see when you smile so if in doubt you're feeling bad about your gray hair
just put on a smile put on your red lipstick and smile so that's it for today
let me know in the comment section below any strategy that you use that i haven't mentioned
about looking youthful and i'll be sure to add it to another video thank you to those of you
who helped me with these awesome suggestions for this video anyways i hope that you enjoyed it
have a wonderful rest of the week and until next week bye for now
and then this one is seven ways to to look more paint to go gray seven ways to go great i played
sports in school anyways i digress so no oh my god talking so much oh my gosh i like totally forgot
what i was talking about oh yeah eyes on teeth eyes and teeth like the model that was in the
in the picture had brilliant breed all right so number three why is this sleeve
the sleeve keeps coming down is that would you consider this a sleeve i don't know