Have you ever woken up to obvious dark rings under your eyes?

I have. Regularly these days. On one occasion, it was so bad, it put raccoons to shame.

Out came my makeup bag. Dark rings are easily hidden if you know how .

BB cream 3-in-1 moisturizer sunblock and foundation from Silky Girl

I love my bb cream. It is a 3 in one moisturizer, sunscreen and foundation that is oil free. It hydrates skin with hyaluronic acid. This was my base and foundation to give the illusion of great skin. ( I’m cheating all the way )

Yellow and nude concealer for under eye circles

The next item is a concealer with 2 shades. Yellow and skin tone. Yellow neutralizes the purplish shade of under eye rings.

How to erase dark under eye rings

1. Wash face and hands.

2. Squeeze a dollop of bb cream on finger tip and spread on the tips of fingers.

3. Apply with finger tips on face, rubbing it in gently until it disappears into the skin. Focus on the dark rings to fade them as much as possible.

4. Use a concealer brush or your finger to apply the yellow concealer over the dark circles and blend it in.

5. Do likewise with the skin tone concealer to further cover the dark circle.

6. Squeeze a dot of bb cream on finger tip and spread that between your finger tips.

7. Apply bb cream over the concealer, blending over the surrounding facial area to hide the dark under eye rings completely.

Voila! You’ve gotten rid of those panda eyes.

You can apply the rest of your makeup. Or just slick on lip gloss and mascara before facing the world.

It seems as if everyone over 21 wants to know what’s the best antiaging skincare product around.

You’d think that the more expensive the product, the better.

La Mer. Prevage. Promises that cost hundreds, or even thousands of dollars.

Yet even the best cream, lotion or serum can not stave away the inevitable indefinitely. Wrinkles will eventually appear at some point in life. Still, when they do appear and how old you look compared to your peers is influenced by how well you care for your skin.

Stuff like not sleeping with makeup on.

Cleansing and moisturizing your skin.

But the most important thing, the most effective anti-aging skincare cream or lotion that helps you stave off premature ageing is *drum roll please*

Sunblock.

You see, UVA rays and UVB rays from the sun damage your skin at a cellular level, thanks to the free radicals they release. Now that is the primary cause of premature ageing of your skin.

So to avoid the wrinkles before their time, use a sunblock that protects you from both UVA and UVB daily.

That means protecting both your face and body with a sunblock.

For the face, that gets tricky. You want the protection from the UV rays without clogging your pores. I’ve a problem with that. I can’t use regular sunblocks on my face without breaking out. The sunscreen in makeup alone isn’t enough either. What worked was Avene sunblock. The emulsion works best for my oily sensitive acne prone skin.

Avene sunblock spf 50

Don’t forget about the rest of your body. Skin everywhere will age prematurely with sun exposure, so slather on sun block generously at all times.. until night fall, that is.

Banana Boat Sunscreen Lotion SPF50 is an excellent sunblock for the body

Now that’s the best antiaging skincare you can use, from top to toe.. to prevent premature aging from the sun.

Smooth, glowing skin is synonymous with beauty.

Care is taken to delay the onset of wrinkles. We gals spend a fortune on the maintenance of our looks. The more conscientious amongst us would go for the full skincare suite : cleanser, toner,softener, serum, moisturizer, sunscreen, scrubs and masks.

All that doesn’t come cheap.

Then we give in to our sugar cravings.

Chocolates. Ice cream. Cakes. Desserts.

Did you know that excessive consumption of sugar leads to earlier appearance of fine lines and wrinkles?

That makes my heart sink too. I’ve got a sweet tooth. My chocolate cravings, sugar and all, lasts all year long, not just that time of the month.

The problem with sugar lies in AGEs.

Sugar ages you. Sugar molecules combine with protein molecules in a chemical reaction. In food, you get caramelization. In your body, in the long run, you get the stiffening of your tissues that characterizes aging.

The harmful molecules it forms are called advanced glycation end products (AGE). These weaken your skin’s supporting structure, leading to wrinkles and the loss of firmness in your skin.

AGE is harmful to your health.
I found this wikipedia article about AGE

Many cells in the body (for example, endothelial cells, smooth muscle or cells of the immune system) from tissue such as lung, liver, kidney or peripheral blood bear the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End products (RAGE) that, when binding AGEs, contributes to age- and diabetes-related chronic inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis, asthma, arthritis, myocardial infarction, nephropathy, retinopathy, or neuropathy. There may be some chemicals, such as aminoguanidine, that limit the formation of AGEs by reacting with 3-deoxyglucosone.[16]

On the other hand sugar can be used in physical skin scrubs that exfoliate the skin gently. Mixed with olive oil or honey, it makes an excellent skin smoothing body scrub. Or facial scrub. It dissolves in water making cleaning up after use a breeze.

Sugaring is a form of hair removal where you use sugar to wax your skin.

1. Heat 1 cup sugar, 1/8 cup vinegar, 1/8 cup water and mix them together to form a liquid. Set aside to cool to room temperature.

2. Dust skin with talcum powder

3. Spread the sticky paste on skin

4. Press a strip of paper over the paste

5. Yank off the paper in the direction of the hair growth, taking the hairs away with it.

Personally, I prefer to either go to the salon for hair removal or use readily made waxing strips – see waxing for hair removal.

To stay off sugar completely is pretty drastic, unless you are diabetic. Everything in moderation. Just have your food with less sugar.