Are Your Eye Wrinkles Aging You Too Early?

Happiness, health and tranquility are among the best defenses against eye wrinkles. Long before gravity takes its toll in your upper years, some of your lifestyle choices cause premature wrinkles around the eyes that give you a tired and sad appearance.

Happiness is expressed by smiling, which lifts the muscles. Frowning turns muscles down for a droopier look. Scowling or squinting are also wrinkle producers. Now you see why happiness is good for the face (and the rest of you too)!

Healthy living that includes eating nutrient-rich foods, taking vitamins and minerals, avoiding alcohol and exercising is the right formula to manage the free radical damage that breaks down collagen in your face.

Eating junk foods, lack of exercise, midday sun exposure and exposure to environmental toxins are lifestyle choices that will show up on your face in early wrinkles. You want to prevent more wrinkles from appearing using tranquility methods.

Tranquility is dealing with stress in ways that refresh such as yoga, meditation, prayer or journaling. Trying to reduce stress with smoking, drugs, alcohol or excess activity while failing to get enough sleep will definitely deepen the eye wrinkles.

When you're rushing around, it's easy to neglect cleansing and moisturizing your face. Chilled eye masks can revive the eyes, but not nearly as effectively as reducing stress and harmful lifestyle choices.

Before they appear, or as a repair method after-the-fact, you want to treat your eyes to a skin cream specifically made for that tender, fragile area of the face right around the eyes.

Want to put the crow's feet back on the crow and off of your face?

Those deep lines under the eyes give you a tried, sad appearance that doesn't match your youthful spirit.

So what can you do to make the face reflect the actual age and mindset you possess?

Always wear high SPF sunscreen - even if you're driving. Avoid outdoor activities during midday when ultraviolet rays are strongest. When you apply sunscreen around the eyes, dab it gently, never pulling the skin.

Wear large Jackie-O sunglasses that protect your eyes and skin around them or don a hat to shade the entire face. Otherwise, you're likely to squint in the sun and rub your eyes, which are both bad moves.

Use the best quality anti-wrinkle eye cream that you can afford. Sun, wind, dust and environmental toxins wear down the elasticity in the skin. Keeping the skin hydrated with moisturizer gives the skin support.

Skin creams with Alpha Hydroxy Acid (AHA) contain a boost of Vitamin C for the face that promotes replacement of dead skin cells with new cells.

An inexpensive home treatment is to whisk one egg white and apply it under your eye for ten minutes. After it dries, gently wash it off with warm water.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Mark Twain