Actually, it's all about balancing of your finances. It's similar to your bank account. Your bank balance should always be positive. Your expenses should always be lower than your income. Inflow of money in your account should always be higher than the outflow. The same goes for your skin. Most important factor is to keep your skin balanced and nourished under all conditions.
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." - Victor Hugo
It's a myth to stay in shade/ Prevent direct Sunlight. That's wrong. Lack of vitamin D is prone to cause worse effects on health. Don't shy away from sunlight. But equip your skin well with protecting creams to keep it safe. Depending on the time you plan to spend under the sun, know well about the SPF cream you are applying about its effective duration. So, if it's effective for 2 hours, re-apply it every 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Tighter the skin, better it is. Tightness of skin comes with the help of collagen. Collagen is a binding agent to keep our bones, ligaments, and tissues intact. As long as this binding is intact, the skin stays tighter, younger, and vibrant. The production of collagen starts decreasing with age. The reason is very simple. When we are young, cells are mostly busy in production as there is least requirements for maintenance. But that demand from body for maintenance starts increasing with the age. That makes cells efforts divided in the two areas thus causing decrease in production.
"Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are."-Katherine Center
Smoking and Drinking always have adverse effect on skin and other body parts. You will wonder then how some people are able to keep their skin beautiful despite smoking and drinking. Well, that takes extra effort from their side. And remember we talked about finances and bank balance above. In these cases, what you do with extra efforts is helping only for short term. In the long term there will always be adverse effects on skin even if you stop smoking and drinking later. Of course, the compensation is high on both the cases.
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away. "-Douglas MacArthur
Hydrating your cells is very important to keep skin happy and young. There are a number of hydrating creams available in the market for that. But more important is to keep drinking sufficient water to get your cells required hydration in a natural manner.
"Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them." - Anna Magnani
Cleanliness - To keep skin healthy, Cleansing your skin is very important in a regular basis. Removing dead skin, opening of pores, regular supply of skin nutrients is something that is of utmost importance.
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." - Samuel Ullman
Diet plays a vital role to keep you healthy. Rich balanced diet is important for physical and mental health.
"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." - Lauren Hutton
Last but not the least is exercise. Spare some time on a regular basis for that. It will help you stay you young and healthy for a longer time.
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