Beauty Tips for Younger Appearing Eye's

Advice for a Healthier, Younger Looking Eye Area

Lisa White ISSA & AFPA CPT
When it comes to changing your appearance from drab to fab nothing does the job like dressing up your eyes. Eye liners, mascaras and eye shadows come in shades for every skin tone and in a multitude of textures. Deciding which product is best for you may take some time but once you've made your decisions take an extra five minutes a day to pamper the delicate skin around your eyes. No matter how much makeup you apply it only masks the fine lines, puffiness and wrinkles that comes with age. Here are some simple beauty precautions when it comes to creating younger-than-you-look eye areas.

Makeup Remover

It's important to remove eye makeup before bed for several reasons. Going to bed with eye makeup on can get into your eyes and cause infections, puffiness and redness; which will cause your eyes to look overly tired and irritated the next day. Using an eye makeup remover is the best bet on getting your make up off easily and safely. This type of makeup remover is designed for the delicate skin around the eyes and can be used with a cotton ball, q-tip or soft cloth.

Eye Cream

There are many types of eye creams on the market to help moisturize and reduce the appearance of lines. When applying eye cream place a small amount on your ring finger because it does not apply the same amount of pressure as the other fingers. Use a small amount on the brow bone and along the orbital bone of the eye. Eye cream will spread due to the natural oils in the skin and applying it any closer to your eye will cause you to feel like there's product in your eye.

Eyelash Curler

Using an eyelash curler can open the look of your eyes up but can also do damage to the lashes if not used or cleaned properly. Use the curler with light pressure so the eye lashes are curled and not crimped. Squeezing too tight can pull the lashes from the follicles which takes a long time to grow back. Make sure your eyelash curler is cleaned regularly to keep irritation or infection to a minimum. If there is any left over mascara on the curler it acts as an adhesive and will cause your lashes to stick to the curler. If this happens the possibility of ripping out your lashes highly multiplies.

Tweezing

Keeping your eye-brows maintained is far different from being a "pluck-o-holic." Over plucking your eyebrows can leave bald patches or hair that grows in irregularly and will change the entire look of your face. Add the use of a protein-spiked brow gel to help hair growth and for eye-brows that are nearly bare use a brow filler to create fuller eye-brows.

Published by Lisa White ISSA & AFPA CPT - Featured Contributor in Health & Wellness

White is the owner of www.cptlisamwhite.com; a health and wellness site. She is an ISSA certified personal trainer, as well as an AFPA pre- and post natal exercise specialist. White freelances for Yahoo! Spo...  View profile

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  • Mallory Collier8/9/2010

    Ugh, I hate seeing an attractive woman with bags because she doesn't completely remove her makeup! ;)

  • Erin Simmons8/1/2010

    Very informative, thanks for the tips!

  • Rachel Ellis7/12/2010

    Stopping by to say hi :o) Great article!

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