Eye Wrinkles

I just woke up this morning with extra puffiness under my left eye.

Puffiness around your eyes can be caused by a few different things. If you have seasonal allergies than an antihistamine like Benadryl or Claritin will help but they need to be taken regularly for maximum effectiveness. A cold compress held on the eye for 5-10 minutes can reduce some swelling. I have also heard that celebrities use Preperation H or other anti-hemorrhoid cream which is a vaso-constrictor (shrinks blood vessels) but be extra careful not to get it in your eye. If there are any changes in the skin surface you may have a little contact dermatitis from something you may have touched and been a little sensitive to. If it continues or worsens..see your doctor.

Have you ever wondered whether there was another way of retaining that youthful glow of your skin without spending a fortune on all the anti-aging beauty products that are being advertised today?  Well, there is, and it’s in your kitchen.  There are many effective, safe and inexpensive home remedies for younger-looking skin that can be made from the ingredients you normally have stocked in your kitchen.  The following is just a small listing of the home remedies you can use for younger skin.

Honey and Almond Scrub.  This gentle facial scrub is great for removing oils and dead skin cells.  Mix a small amount of ground almonds with honey to make a paste.  Massage the paste into your skin with a hot washcloth and then rinse with cool water.

Cornstarch.  Cornstarch dries up oily patches.  Mix 1-3 tablespoons of cornstarch with warm water to make a paste.  Rub on your face, let dry, then rinse off with lukewarm water.  Use it once a day for best results.

Apple Cider Vinegar (Organic).  There are two ways to use apple cider vinegar for great skin.  The first is using it externally to exfoliate your skin.  Apply the vinegar to a cotton ball prior to bedtime and let dry for five to ten minutes.  Then rinse with cool water.  Be careful when first using apple cider vinegar on your skin as some people may have an allergic reaction to the acid on their skin.  If using the vinegar straight is too strong for your skin, then dilute the vinegar with four parts of water.

The second way to use apple cider vinegar as a home remedy for younger skin is to drink 2 teaspoons of organic apple cider vinegar in 16 ounces of water throughout the day. Again, be careful when using the vinegar as some people may have an unpleasant reaction to the acid in the vinegar.

Aloe Vera.  Break open a leaf of an Aloe Vera plant (you do have one in your kitchen for burns, don’t you?), scrape the gel out and smooth onto your skin.  Let dry then rinse off.

Vitamin E.  Prick a capsule of Vitamin E or wheat germ oil and smooth directly onto your skin.  Vitamin E is said to slow down the aging process and wheat germ oil promotes skin elasticity.

Cucumber.  For tired eyes, place cucumber slices over your eyes. Cucumber juice is also effective in bleaching out age spots.  Combine one tablespoon of cucumber juice with 2 tablespoons of water and apply to affected areas twice daily.

Lemon.  To lighten age spots, rub lemon directly onto your skin.

Egg Whites.  Beat one egg white until frothy and stiff.  Apply with soft brush or cloth around inner and outer eye areas and along cheekbones.  Leave on for 10 minutes.  Remove the mask by spraying areas with water and using cold water on a cotton ball or washcloth to remove.  This works for reducing crow’s feet as well.

Green or black tea.  For puffy eyes, steep two bags of tea in hot water for 4-5 minutes.  Let cool until the bags are comfortably warm.  Lie down, close your eyes and put abag over each eye then cover with soft cloth.

Fruit Yogurt.  Used as a wrinkle mask, add 1 tablespoon of honey and 1/2 a ripe banana to the yogurt for an even better mask.

Watermelon.  This is a great natural cleanser when crushed and smeared onto the skin.  You can use it just by itself or you can mix it into your favorite fruit yogurt as a mask.

The above is just a brief listing of quick, inexpensive and effective home remedies for younger skin that you can create from things that can be found in your kitchen.  As with anything new, test everything you are going to put on your face (or take internally) to see if you will have any type of unpleasant reaction to the treatment.

Sandra Hishinuma
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I need some tips on how to tighten the skin under my eyes. I drink lots of water, and get plenty of sleep so I don’t know why I have them. By the way I’m only 17 so it can’t be age. I’ve don stuff like put tea bags over them, or ice cubes and stuff in the morning but i am looking for a more permanent solution to the bags, not just a quick reduction of puffiness. So if you have any tips or products that have worked for you let me know. Thanks !

Some the main reasons dark circles can occur are from lack of sleep (you should be getting 8-9hrs every night), dehydration, and age. You say you deny all of these. Other reasons can from allergies(also very comon) and it also can be just genetic.
These factors can make skin appear more pale, or skin can become weak and stretched. This allows blood vessels to be more visible through the skin, giving the appearance of bluish-green or dark circles. They tend to be more noticeable in people with fair skin or deep-set eyes.

Here is an amazing home remedy you can use…
Open a tea bag and put the contents into a blender. Add flour, honey, lemon juice and some Aloe cream. Blend until a a nice smooth-soapy mixture is created. Message this remedy under your eye, and leave it until the flour begins to harden (should take 10minutes at the most). Wash off with warm water. Next, add these three oils/creams

Vitamin A: Is an antioxidant, helping to protect cells. It helps strengthen the skin and repair tissues.

Vitamin E: an antioxidant that plays a vital role in protecting skin cells from elements that damage cells. Vitamin E also prevents water loss from the skin and helps to retain its natural moisture. Thus, it makes dull, dry skin look healthy and moisturized. When used for the purpose of deep pores cleansing of dry skin, it helps to sustain the skin’s oil balance.

Vitamin C: It stimulates the growth of collagen. Collagen is the substance that gives structure and strength to your skin.

I know you said tea bags didn’t work for you, but i may have been because you didn’t use anything else with them.

If you have any question or are interested in any other home remedies, feel free to email me

Hope i helped
Quin S =D

Face wrinkles are of two major varieties. They are dynamic face wrinkles and the static face wrinkles. In this article we are concerned with the causation and treatment of dynamic face wrinkles.

Dynamic face wrinkles occur as a result of excessive muscle activity. The reason the dynamic face wrinkle is labelled thus is because it comes on when the muscle contracts and disappears when the muscles are relaxed. In the face, because the muscle layer is just underneath the skin with a minimum of subcutaneous tissue in between, it is quite easy for face wrinkles to occur whenever the underlying muscles contract. This occurs most commonly and importantly in the forehead (resulting in forehead lines or surprise lines), in between the eyebrows (resulting in frown lines or glabellar lines), and the corners of the eyes (resulting in eye wrinkles or crows feet). There are other areas, of course, on the face where muscular contraction produces dynamic wrinkles. Examples are the under eye wrinkles, the bunny lines on the bridge of the nose, and the smoker’s lines that occur when one purses the lips.

Face wrinkles, both dynamic and static, have the effect of making the sufferer look older and more unpleasant than he or she is. This impacts on the person’s personality and outlook in life, and can affect his job performance as well as that all important first impression when he or she meets clients or potential friends. It is thus very important when one notices the first signs of face wrinkles that there be an aggressive effort made to eliminate that wrinkle, or at the very least, reduce its degree of severity. It is also well known that persistent contraction of muscles will result in the wrinkle being permanent, or static, that is, it does not disappear on relaxation of the muscle, and is then harder to treat.

Treatment of dynamic face wrinkles is, by and large, through the use of a substance that effectively but temporarily weakens or paralyses the facial muscle groups that produce the wrinkle. Although there have been claims of substances that can work when applied to the skin, it is well known that by far the most effective substance that can be used is an injectable item called botulinum toxin.

Botulinum toxin is the purified toxin of a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum. The two most common brands in the world are Botox and Dysport, both of which use a specific variety known as botulinum toxin type A. Botox is produced by Allergan of USA and Dysport is from Ipsen in Britain.

Botulinum toxins such as Botox (also commonly misspelled as Botax) work by blocking the neuromuscular junction of the muscle, thus causing the effect of paralysis or weakening of the muscle, during which time the effect is very positive, being the disappearance of the wrinkles on the part of the face which was injected. This effect is not permanent, lasting 4 to 6 months from the time of injection. After this time period, the affected muscles gradually recover their function, and the face wrinkle will recur. Botox is very safe and specific if used in the proper hands. Thus if one wants to have Botox treatment to remove face wrinkles, one should go to trained practitioners.

Injection of Botox is generally through the use of fine needles which hardly cause any pain, as very small amounts are injected directly into the target muscle. Bleeding is minimal, if any.

The effect of weakening of muscle, resulting in disappearance of the face wrinkle, takes place within 4 days. Generally no side effects are noted if Botox is injected properly. However some people complain of some tightness of the forehead or mild headache a few days after the Botox injection. This is thought to be due to an unconscious reflex contraction of the surrounding untreated muscles as the treated ones are no longer working. This tightness which does not cause any harm wears off after a few days.

tonywong
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Designer handbags are rather popular when it comes to decorating the wardrobes of desperate housewives to flashy celebrities on Rodeo Drive. While there are tons of designer handbags to consider, there are few whose style, design, and reputation surpasses that of authentic Gucci handbags.

With a history deeply rooted in the early 1920s, authentic Gucci handbags didnâ??t acquire an iconic reputation until their first handbag with a bamboo handle was introduced in 1947.

From then on, the popularity train has yet to come to a complete stop. Today, the demand for authentic Gucci handbags is so high that anxious consumers are even willing to accept a knockoff just to possess the Gucci name. Unfortunately, the present market is saturated with imitation designer handbags, which love to duplicate Gucci items. When looking for authentic Gucci handbags for your next purchase, there are a few suggestions you might want to consider.

Before purchasing a Gucci product or any other designer handbags, you should exercise caution, as well as eagle eyes. There are a few ways to determine whether or not you are in danger of purchasing an authentic Gucci handbag fake. First, the stitching of a designer handbag is rather telling, particularly around the edges. If your potential buy is one of the many dazzling authentic Gucci handbags on the market, it will display high-quality, fine stitching throughout the body of the bag. Fake designer handbags often showcase uneven or poorly executed stitching.

The construction of authentic Gucci handbags is also important. The quality of materials will alert you to the realness of your potential purchase. Make it a habit to analyze the leather, canvas, or other details. Cheap-looking or sloppy craftsmanship is a sure sign that you are looking at a fake Gucci handbag. One of the best ways to make sure you are purchasing authentic Gucci handbags is to shop or browse legitimate department stores and Internet sites.

Prada Blog
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Anywhere you look, you can find Halloween crafts, and there are plenty of crafts that are really easy to do. There are loads of magazines and books on Halloween crafts and easy crafts. The internet is perhaps the best bet for the widest variety of choices. Here are a few crafts from the internet that are exceedingly easy to carry out during the Halloween season.

A Q-Tip skeleton is one craft that was found on the internet and can be done by just about anyone. First, take some white paper and cut out a skull from it. You can either cut out the nose, eyes and mouth or you can draw them on. Then using Q-tips, make the body of the skeleton. Arrange the Q-tips on some black construction paper in such a way that they make the legs, ribs, and arms etc. of the skeleton. If you need to, you can shorten the q-tips by cutting them. Once you are satisfied with the skeletal arrangement, just glue the Q-tips to the paper using white glue and leave to dry.

Who doesn’t love Halloween crafts that are edible? Dirt and worms is the most popular edible Halloween craft and is especially a hit with the kids. All you need to do is take a clean clear plastic cup and fill it with some chocolate ice cream. Then take some chocolate cookies in a zip-loc bag and smash them into tiny bits. Take the smashed pieces and some gummy worms and pour them over the ice cream. Your dirt and worms is ready and you can have a great time eating it.

You can even adapt some difficult Halloween crafts into easy ones. You can make a cute little pumpkin wreath by cutting little pumpkins from some orange construction paper and using a black marker to draw scary faces on them. Then cut out the center circle off a paper plate and clue the pumpkins around its edges. Punch a hole at the top, pull a hole through it and hang.

Ghostly bushes is another Halloween craft that can make you a Halloween sensation in your neighborhood. Take a plain white sheet. Fold it into a half. Place a few newspapers between the folds and use some craft paint or a black marker to draw a ghost face on it. You can make either scary or funny faces. After it has dried, place the sheet over a bush and tightly secure it with some clothespins at the back.

There are a number of Halloween crafts that are really simple and easy. You just need to search. It will be great if you can add your own imagination and creativity to improvise on the crafts. This Halloween, decorate your home with crafts you made yourself!

Abhishek Agarwal
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Aging Skin Fighter Recipes

Fight back against aging skin! Try these recipes!  Everything you need to treat your dry skin and fine lines is right in your kitchen.  Remember, if you are allergic to any of these ingredients, don’t try this at home!  But, with a few minutes in the kitchen, you can save $100’s or even $1,000’s at the store on beauty aids and puffy eye treatments.  The natural, healing things our great-grandmothers used are sometimes the best rememdy.  Get back to the basics!

Aging Skin Fighter: 2 teaspoons plain yogurt 1/2 teaspoon honey 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice 3 capsules vitamin E (equivalent of 300 units)

Combine yogurt, honey and lemon juice. Prick open the vitamin E capsules and
fold contents into the mix. Leave on skin for 15 minutes.

bags under eyes Remedy: Brew a cup of strong rose-hip tea. Soak two cotton pads in it, and lie down with the pads over your eyes. This reduces swelling, refreshes and tightens the skin.

eye puffiness Easer: 2 teaspoons grated raw potato (no skin) 1 teaspoon moisturizer (without urea)

Mix well, then apply around the eyes. Cover with cool, damp cotton or gauze for
10 to 15 minutes.

Dry Skin Facial: 1 tablespoon dry oatmeal 1/2 mashed ripe banana 2 ounces plain
yogurt

Cleanse face, steam, splash with cool water and pat dry. Massage with the dry
oatmeal. Rinse off. Then apply a mask made by mixing yogurt and banana; spread
evenly on face. Leave on for 20 minutes; rinse off.

Dry Skin Mask: Mix 1 tsp. of butter in 1 teaspoon of water. Apply it thoroughly into all the dry areas and leave for 15 – 20 minutes. Rinse with cold water,

Banana Mask for wrinkles:  Mash 1/4 banana until very creamy and apply on face and leave for 15-20 minutes. Rinse with warm water, then use cold water to close the pores.

Avocado Facial Mask:  Mash the meat of the avocado into a creamy texture. Apply it thoroughly on face and leave for 15 – 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water, then use cold water to close the pores.

Cucumber Face Pack to get Smooth Skin:  Mash 1 whole cucumber, strain water, add 1 tablespoon of sugar and mix well. Put in a container,l keep refrigerated and take out whenever you want to use it. Apply on your face and leave for 10 minutes, then wash with cold water and enjoy the smoothness of your skin.You can try on it on other parts of body as a scrub. Test an area first!

Grape Cleanser : Split 2-3 grapes and rub the flesh over face and neck. Rinse with cool water.

See our other article in the Articles Base that also have easy and free recipes for dry hair and healthy skin!

Please check out our natural and handmade goat milk soaps, lotions and foot creams to aid in your fight against aging. www.NeeNeesSoapShop.com

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Renee Vailes
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Their monthly income are only 2000-3000RMB, but they will buy a Louis Vuitton bag in the monopolistic shop with the income of half an year, and then carry this louis vuitton bag to take bus, walking to go to work or go home.

In the night, Nanjing West Road. Watching from the bus window that have lots of bead, the lamplight in the street is bright and colorful. Louis Vuitton interlocking shop locates on the Henglong Square that beside the street. A man who is about 40, take a pile of 100 yuan RMB in his hand and counting one by one, then give them to the shop assistant. At this time, a woman is infatuated with a Louis Vuitton bag that costs 16000 yuan (2350 us dollars) and is paying the bill with her bank card in the second floor of the shop.

Several minutes later, she appears in the bus station beside the road. Like most ordinary citizen of Shanghai, her daily vehicle is bus and underground. At this time, you can’t imagine that the Louis Vuitton bag in her hand cost her 4 month salary.

There are many women of such kind in Shanghai. Their monthly income are only 2000~3000 yuan, but they will buy a Louis Vuitton bag in the monopolistic shop with the income of half an year, and then carry this bag to take bus, walking to go to work or go home.

To the foreigners that live in Shanghai, they don’t understand such action.

In their eyes, the person who can buy Louis Vuitton Handbags must be the plutocrat that have house,car with special driver.

A friend talked about the self-absorption of Shanghai people to luxury goods, “It’s more or less comes from vanity. The women in Shanghai like to compare with each other, the person who are in the same office will pay special attention to who wear new clothes and the brand of the clothes. In addition, their love to luxurious,dainty goods are natural, so they will pinch and save to buy name brand for themselves.

It makes the luxury goods like Louis Vuitton,Dior popular in Shanghai just because of this mind. Most of the people who are the custom of the luxury goods shop are not rich at all.

A girl who works in LVMH combine said, the girls who work in the largest luxury goods combine around the world, like she, always contact with top-ranking name brand during working and their boss will ask the employee to be equipped with good personal appearance and taste, though their salary are low, they all pay special attention to their appearance and won’t buy counterfeit.

Their trick is to buy some name brand clothes (such as BCBG and so on) in small shop. Because clothes are mostly come from factory and are basically true, but the fittings, such as handbag, must be true name brand. Therefore, many luxury goods brand here have specific vendition aim, since no matter how expensive the goods here are, they can be sold. Recently the biggest cosmetic net, OKIC.NET, had enter into Shanghai stealthily. This net includes more than 400 Europe and America brand?more than 10000 color cosmetics?perfume?skin care product, and the price is more than 30% lower than in the emporium of Shanghai, so it attracts many Chinese female customer that between 20 and 45 since it opened.

In the back of luxury,why buy Louis Vuitton Handbags.

Of course, the women in Shanghai still have some methods to buy name brand costume with less money. Since the price of these luxury goods in the country are higher than in Europe and America, many beautiful girls will ask their colleagues or friends who go to foreign country for evection to buy something for them, but in this situation, the after service has no assurance. What’s more, many people in Shanghai like to buy some small fittings of the big brand, such as necktie,shoes,bags and so on. Some fashion experts said that there’s a big difference between buy a suit of name brand costume and buy fittings.

The first is the gap of income level. The person with lower income will buy some comparatively cheap fittings to seek for the feeling, and to indicate that themselves are also a member to this class. The second is the gap of taste. For the true big brand, it’s impossible to reduce anything in the design, that is, it prefers to concision while this means excessively conservative to the person who don’t belong to this class. 

Such kind of consumers own a big proportion in buying the luxury goods with comparatively lower price. The expert also said that the luxury goods dealers have a good knowledge about this point, so firstly they will introduce into perfume and fittings when they introduce into a brand.

The products that pay special attention to texture?handwork and quantity limitation, like costume, are seeking for reputation. However, the products with comparatively lower price, such as perfume and fittings, often make the highest profit and are the biggest profit source of these luxury goods manufacturers.

Huang Lixin, the general manager of Bentley car in Shanghai Company, consider that if you ask the person who are the consumer of Louis Vuitton Handbags the initiator of Louis Vuitton or why do they like the products of Louis Vuitton, more than 90% of them can’t answer the question.hey just go with the stream to buy these goods.

Lifeng Combine in Switzerland is the second biggest luxury goods combine around the world, it’s also the biggest famous watch combine in Switzerland. Francis·Kuto, the president of Lifeng Combine, Asia Pacific Ocean Company, said that there are three phases for luxury goods enter into a country or a region, the first phase is go on a fishing expedition, give a small scale selling to improve the reputation; the second phase is to carry out reeducation to the consumers after got some reputation; the last phase is that the consumers have a good knowledge of the brand and know the goods and the brand they needed.

He consider that the consumption of Chinese luxury goods is on the second phase, each luxury goods brand has a history of more than one hundred and had formed its own culture and style. However, among the current luxury goods consumers in Chine, less people know the meaning of these goods.

It seems that the public security in Shanghai is good. If it’s in Guangzhou, these Louis Vuitton bags will be looted or exscinded within 24 hours.

tracy li
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Getting ready for any surgery is a tedious process and preparing for LASIK is no different. One must ensure that everything is ready and that you look good. While preparing for LASIK isn’t as difficult as with some other surgeries, there are still a few things you need to take care of before you go in for LASIK.

If you are wearing contact lenses, take note. You must remove your contact lenses a few weeks before you have your LASIK consultation. The reason for this is because some contact lenses reshape your cornea themselves, hence causing problems with LASIK. Here are some FDA recommendations based on your contact lenses:

-Soft contact lenses should be removed and not worn for at least two weeks prior to your LASIK evaluation.

-Rigid gas permeable lenses should be removed and not worn for at least three weeks prior to LASIK evaluation.

-Hard lenses should be removed and not worn for at least four weeks prior to LASIK evaluation.

This is done so as to allow your cornea to regain its shape and size.

Once you arrive for your consultation the LASIK surgeon will be able to take the true measurements of the shape and size of your cornea and design the procedure around your measurements.

When you meet the LASIK surgeon to talk about your upcoming surgery you should tell him a little bit about yourself. Tell him/her about any past or present medical conditions you suffer from. Also tell him of any medications you may be taking or are allergic to. It is very important that you inform your doctor about all of this so that he can decide if you’re a good candidate for LASIK.

After you’ve shared your personal information with the doctor, he/she will then use this information to if you are a good candidate for LASIK surgery. Ask him to explain to you the risks and benefits of the surgery as well as other alternatives. In other words he should tell you what to expect all the way, from beginning to end.

Don’t use any perfume, cream, lotion or make-up the day before the surgery. This is to prevent any debris from getting into your eye. The LASIK surgeon may even ask you to scrub and wash out your eyes thoroughly before LASIK surgery to prevent any type of infection from occurring.

Lastly, it would be prudent that you arrange with a family member to be transported to and from the LASIK center. Before the commencement of the LASIK surgery, the doctor may order that you be given medicine to help you relax. Such medicine could impair your vision and reaction time, but it is nothing to be alarmed about. After LASIK surgery you may have impaired vision and may need a few days just to recover your eyesight, hence the need to have someone drive you to and from the LASIK center.

Jimmy Roos
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Have you ever looked closely in the mirror lately? Most women are problematic about the fine lines present around their eyes because these can clearly say that their skin is gradually aging and also reveal their age.

There is a wealth of anti wrinkle eye creams in the market which can help minimize the presence of fine lines and crow’s feet around your eyes.

An anti wrinkle eye cream has three major types. Day creams are applied during the morning in order to reduce the appearance of puffiness around the eyes. Wrinkles should also be minimized by the application of a night cream equipped with moisturizers to repair the skin around your eyes.

There is also an anti wrinkle eye cream which is not that specific when it comes to the time of application. This provides extra protection because it is coupled with more moisturizers than the average day or night cream.

Find a cream which definitely suits your skin type to make sure that it would effectively work. Remember to apply only a minimal amount of eye cream.

It is advised to just squeeze a small amount into your finger and carefully rub it around your eyes. After continued use, you would surely notice that fine lines are minimized.

If you want to be sure about the eye cream that you are going to use, you may opt to consult a dermatologist first. They know the best eye cream for you, and would also recommend extra tips on how to care for your skin.

Ricky Lim
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