Beauty With Style Grace And Confidence

By Ferial Youakim AICI Style, Image & Color Specialist Makeup artist

I am turning forty this year and I have decided to write about turning back the clock ten years, by fighting the signs of aging to maintain my beauty. Sadly many of us decided to ignore it and merely grow old gracefully! Well not me, I will strive look my best at every age.

Simply dedicating some time for daily routines that promise to help you fight the signs of aging, you may find is enough for now.

Attending to your skin, and dressing in an appropriate style may be all you need to achieve your goals. I have addressed many of the rules that you need to know and follow to achieve a youthful glow and appearance.

Take care of your skin. It is very important to maintain a healthy appearance at every age, especially when you are reaching your forties. You are never too young to start pampering your skin, and you are never too old. The sooner you begin the better results you will enjoy over your lifetime. Many women just ignore their most precious feature. The reasons are most often ignorance, and inconvenience. They think that since they look good now why do they need to bother.

The aging process unfortunately will show more from the outside than the inside. If you ask anyone about how old they feel, they will answer that they feel in their twenties or thirties. Although, you will always feel younger on the inside, than your true biological age may show on the outside, why shouldn't you minimize the difference?

Our looks are a fundamental part of how we feel. By looking your best, you will feel good about yourself, giving you the power, confidence, and sense of well-being to excel in any personal, business, or social situation.

There are simple, everyday face-saving, routines you can do to maintain the beauty of your skin and a youthful, glowing appearance.

Thanks to today's technologies in skincare and makeup, we have the ability to maintain our skin, so that we can look young, healthy and fabulously radiant at any age.

Your make up will only look as good as your skin

A lot of women go strait into the cleansing routine while still wearing their make-up. They continue with toning (clarifying) and moisturizing. From now on I would like for you to think about the first thing you would do when you take a shower to clean your body? Before you step in the shower, you would take your clothes off. Isn't that right? Therefore, I would like for you to think about your makeup as if it were your clothes. Taking your makeup off before your cleansing process is essential, contributing to a cleansed, ready for radiance, glowing skin.

1. Cleansing

Cleanse, tone and moisturize every morning and evening. Cleansing will remove the grime and grease that have been accumulated during the day.

2. Toning / Clarifying

The toners' job is to remove all traces of dirt, makeup or cleanser that remain after cleansing. By toning/clarifying you are actually moving the dead skin from the surface, and helping your moisturizer to penetrate better; therefore, your skin, will be feeling rejuvenated and refreshed.

3. Moisturizing

Imagine a dry land without any water! Yes, lots of dryness and cracks, and so is your skin. The less moisturizing you do, the more fine lines and dryness will appear. Without moisture, the skin will not remain smooth and supple. The face is exposed to the drying effect of the weather, so moisturizers, which form a film over the skin, hold and increase the natural moisture, which help in preventing the formation of fine lines.

Reassess products to add to your routine as needed e.g. night creams, eye cream, firming creams, mask e.g.

"Smile and the world will smile with you frown and the world will see every wrinkle you have"

If you want to look 10 years younger instantly, then makeup is your best friend. Nothing works faster or better than wearing the proper makeup. By applying it correctly and using the right shades. Makeup will compliment your skin, creating a healthier, glowing, and youthful look.

If you are still using the same old makeup you used 10 years ago, it's a dead giveaway. That same look that worked then will now make you look ten years older. Toss your old makeup out and invest in a new modern look. Have an image consultant or a makeup artist, who specializes in this field, reassess your look. The change will amaze you.

Wearing the right shades will give you an instant glowing and youthful appearance. The colors and shades you wear on your face as your makeup, or in the clothing worn closest to the face, are the most important. By having the right colors and shades close to your face, I can guarantee that you will acquire a vibrant, glowing look. Of course, wearing the wrong shades will accentuate every imperfection you may have.

Nothing will take years off your appearance faster than the right clothes. Wearing the right style will compliment your figure, help you look current, and therefore, younger. Your image from head to toe needs to be current and constantly updated. Comfortable clothes are better than clothes that just fit you, so if size 10 just fits you, I suggest going to size 12. By wearing one size larger than the smaller one that barely fits, you will actually look one size smaller.

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