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How does stress affect your complexion and cause eye wrinkles?

When you are stressed out, your body starts to react to its external stimuli. Stress causes an adrenaline surge that elevates your cortisol level, a hormone in your blood that regulates how much sugar your bloodstream is absorbing. The more cortisol that is released, the more energy you will have. While this is great when you are in actual physical danger, your body reacts the exact same way when you have a lot of stress and anxiety. As it turns out, your body can’t tell the difference between the 2 stressors.

In as little as a few months, new wrinkles can start to appear on your face as a result of this cortisol process. Want to know why is affects your face and skin? As said earlier, cortisol tells your cells to put more sugar in your blood to give you that extra energy in times of physical danger and stress. This same sugar can actually bind to proteins in your body and make them stop working. Collagen, the wonderful substance that maintains our smooth skin, is just one of the proteins that is affected.

If this isn’t depressing enough, when your body is stressed, it repairs your skin before it regenerates new skin. Therefore, all of your damaged collagen is getting fixed first and your body is not manufacturing new collagen. As a result, your skin starts to look less youthful and a lot more wrinkly. That wonderful thing called stress also slows cell turnover and increases your dryness which makes wrinkles appear more prominent.

Don’t fear, there is hope! There are somethings you can do to help this! Try to relax as much as possible. Do what you need to do in order to relax. If you need to hit the gym, get more sleep, read a nice book, do what works for you! Leading a more relaxing lifestyle have been shown to reduce cortisol levels. Always wear sunscreen when you are outdoors. If you have less skin damage from the sun, then your body will not have as much repairing to do.

Make sure to add a collagen booster to your eye wrinkle cream. This will help your collagen proteins that added boost they need to work. The best eye creams can actually be strong enough to increase new collagen.

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Why are elastin and collagen bad ingredients? First, they do not penetrate the skin. Then, even if they did, those ingredients would not do anything anyway because they are too thick to be absorbed. The key ingredients you need to look for are Cynergy TK and Phytessence Wakame, which encourage the body to produce collagen and elastin.

Some eye skin care products don’t do much for redness, dryness and itching. The reason for this is many men’s products contain alcohol, which actually makes your skin problems worse! This should not be put on your skin. Instead of this, find products with natural ingredients that are good for your skin! As mentioned earlier, the best eye creams have Cynergy TK and Phytessence Wakame. Your body already knows how to grow new skin. These ingredients help boost your body to do that!

There are many other natural ingredients that can help your body produce more elastin and collagen. Try using Capuacu butter, grape seed oil, Vitamin B-5 and Babassu palm wax. These ingredients help fight dryness, inflammation and redness by making the skin feel smoother and softer.

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One of the best eye creams that I’ve found is Garnier Nutritioniste Skin Renew Daily Anti-Fatigue Eye Cream.  It contains vitamin C, which helps reduce the appearance of eye wrinkles too. Just dab it gently around your eyes and tada! Like magic, your puffy eyes will gradually disappear and you are ready to start a new day!

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The Garnier eye roller first created a buzz by saying it can massage away puffy eyes by reducing the excess under eye fluid that builds up during the night. Olay took a similar approach, except that their Olay eye roller has three micro-rollers instead of one roller like Garnier. It also contains a hydrating serum that smooths out the lines and wrinkles around the eyes and improves the skin’s elasticity.

My favorite thing about these products is that you don’t need to use your finger to apply the eye wrinkle cream, which is good for two reasons: 1. When you apply eye wrinkle cream with your finger, you run the risk of stretching or damaging the delicate skin under the eyes, which can lead to more eye wrinkles. 2. Your fingers are often dirtier than you think! By applying the cream using a roller, you aren’t spreading dirt and bacteria onto your face or into a jar of eye wrinkle cream.

Have you tried the Garnier eye roller or the Olay eye roller? If so, I’d love to hear from you!

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The American Academy of Dermatology warns that sleeping in the same position every night can eventually cause “sleep lines” such as forehead and eye wrinkles. These are the creases that form on your skin’s surface while you sleep. These usually disappear a few minutes after you’ve gotten up. But, if you have a consistent sleeping position, the sleep lines can remain etched into your skin. This is particularly noticeable as you age and your skin loses its elasticity.

It actually makes a lot of sense. Just like any repetitive facial movement, such as squinting, frowning or smiling, if you’re causing the same lines to form on your face over and over, the lines will eventually become permanent. If you sleep on your side, you may cause your cheeks to scrunch up toward your eyes, creating crows feet and eye wrinkles.

So what can we do to prevent sleep lines? In addition to getting a good eye wrinkle cream that contains vitamins A and C, the ADA suggests sleeping on your back. Now, if you’re like me and you twist and turn all night long, you may need some assistance in staying on your back. Try putting pillows on either side of your body. These pillows can act like bumpers and keep you from rolling over onto your side or stomach.

Best wishes for a restful sleep and a wrinkle-free morning!

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SkinCareRX has a huge variety of cleansers, toners, moisturizers, anti wrinkle treatments and other products available for this 20% discount. Just click on the image below and enter the coupon code BASICS20 at checkout.

Happy shopping!

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If you visit a Sephora store, no purchase is necessary to receive the free sample, which is a 4-day supply. The Sephora stores inside JCPenney and Sephora Canada stores are not participating in the giveaway. Merchandise purchase IS necessary to receive the free sample online at Sephora.com. Enter promo code PHOTOFACIAL3 at checkout. This free sample offer is valid July 15 through August 31, 2009 while supplies last. So, hurry to get your free sample, then let me know what you thought about the Kinerase PhotoFacials. I’d love to hear your feedback.

The one thing I don’t like about this skin care system is that it lacks a Kinerase eye cream. The eye area often shows the signs of aging first, so I suggest getting an eye wrinkle cream that is specifically formulated for this delicate area. I highly recommend Kinerase Intensive Eye Cream, which is a top selling eye wrinkle cream on Sephora and SkinCareRx.com, my favorite online beauty store.

Redbook Magazine is also having an online contest to give away Kinerase PhotoFacial systems, valued at $216 each, to three lucky Redbook readers. Simply visit Redbook’s website, enter your information to receive a free trial subscription, and you’ll be entered to win. Good luck!

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To remedy this, I’ve tried using bronzer and tinted makeup, but I usually end up not looking very natural.  I was lamenting to a (very tan) friend about this the other day, and she told me her secret to having a tan without damaging her skin or getting eye wrinkles – sunless self face tanner.

She said that rather than using the same self tanner on your face as you do the rest of your body, it’s best to get a self tanner that is specifically formulated for your face and won’t clog pores.  She claims the best self tanner for the face is Fake Bake Anti-Aging Facial Self Tanner.

My friend said she likes how it is lightweight and doesn’t leave streaks.  Plus, it helps improve skin tone and texture with its powerful eye wrinkle fighters such as moisturizing tocopherol (vitamin E) and Matrixyl (palmitoyl pentapeptide), which is also found in highly effective anti aging and eye wrinkle creams such as StriVectin and Olay eye products.

Here are the instructions she gave me to apply the face tanner:  First, wash your face and use an exfoliating scrub to remove any dead skin.  Once your face is dry, squeeze about a quarter size of the self tanner into your hands.  Starting at your cheekbones, thoroughly rub the self tanner all over your face.  It’s important to get a thin layer of self tanner evenly distributed all over your face.  To create an authentic sun-kissed look, you can apply a thin second layer to just your cheekbones and top of your nose, where the sun hits your face the most.  Next, thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water.  Pay particular attention to cleaning the areas where the self tanner tends to collect, such as your knuckles and between your fingers.  Once the self tanner is dry, apply your eye wrinkle cream and sunscreen with spf 15 or higher.

So, it is possible to have tan, but still healthy, youthful-looking skin.  The secret is to fake it!

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However, excessive stretching or rubbing the skin around your eyes does cause eye wrinkles, and sometimes people are rough with this skin as they insert their contacts.  As we age, skin becomes thinner and more fragile because we gradually lose the collagen and elastin that keeps skin full and firm.  This eventually causes wrinkles, which usually first appear around the eye area, since it contains the thinnest skin on the face.  By frequently rubbing or pulling at this delicate skin, you are increasing the breakdown of collagen and elastin, leading to premature eye wrinkles.

There are multiple ways to keep these eye wrinkles away:

1. If you wear eye contacts, be very gentle with the eye area when putting them in.  Open your eye very wide, and lightly pull the upper or lower lid away to insert the contact.  If you can put your contact in without touching the skin around your eye, it’s even better, but it can be difficult to get used to.

2. Use an eye wrinkle cream that contains vitamin C, amino acids and copper peptides, which stimulate the production of collagen.  Again, apply the eye cream to the eye area very gently.  I recommend using your ring finger, which is a generally weak digit.

3. Wear sunscreen every day.  Sun damage is one of the leading causes of premature eye wrinkles.  Choose an eye wrinkle cream that contains sunscreen, and wear sunglasses regularly.  If you don’t have perfect vision, one of the benefits of wearing contacts is that you can wear stylish sunglasses that don’t clip onto your glasses!

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