Groom To Look Your Best

To look young and feel young you need to constantly remind yourself if you are following your routine and lifestyle right to look your best. The key word here is caring for your body internally and physically. Take time to perform the daily skin care as part of routine and live a healthy lifestyle. As you care and love your body, your look will show with glow. Taking care of yourself and body is not a one off thing, it is done on an on going routine over the years of your life and you will reap the results and benefit as you move on your life.

It is also important to realize the power of connection between how you look and how you feel. Looking your best gives you the energy and confidence to tackle and face changes in your life. When you look your best, you feel great and confident and you are more prepared to take on the world.

Checklist To Look Your Best:-

· Include the three basic skin care steps in your daily routine: Cleanse and tone, nourish and protect from head to toe

· Exfoliate your face and body at least once a week.

· Use UVA/UVB sun block for all seasons – summer through winter.

· Maintain your hair neat and healthy with regular trim and if you have colored hair, make sure you maintain its color.

· Go for change of hair style once a while, this will make you feel new and fresh.

· Have breakfast every morning as it will provide you with the necessary nutrients for the day.

· Always eat at the table, never in front of the TV or with the radio on. You won’t be conscious of what you are eating when you have entertainment on.

· Don’t gulp. Savor each bite and concentrate on chewing every mouthful slowly.

· Use a smaller plate than usual for dinner. You’ll feel like you ate more than you actually did.

· Go on a balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetable that are rich in antioxidants.

· Keep healthy food at home, not junk.

· Make the kitchen off-limits at any time other than mealtime.

· Drink at least 8 glasses of water everyday. Avoid drinking before meal, as it can dull your appetite.

· Don’t shop when you’re hungry. You’ll tend to buy more fattening food.

· Exercise at least three times a week for at least thirty minutes in each exercise.

· If you have a sit-down job, get up every hour and walk around for five minutes or more.

· Sleep at least eight hours a day. Practice early to bed, early to rise.

· If you feel tensed or stress once in a while, relieve yourself with your favorite hobby or game.


Dress Like Today Is Important

We can start telling ourselves today is important. Today is the only day we have got that has some reality to it. Why shouldn’t we treat it as important? It is. So dress like it matters.

A lot of rules are about conscious choice, conscious decisions and conscious awareness. Those I have observed who seem to have got a handle on this things called life are conscious people. They are awake and aware. They know what they are doing and where they are going. If you too want your life to be more than a set of random events that happen to you and instead make it a series of stimulating challenges and rewarding and enriching experiences, then you too have to be conscious.

You do this by greeting each day as if it is important. You get up and shower, wash, shave, put on make-up, comb hair, clean teeth and basically do all those things to make you look good, feel good, smell good. You then dress smartly, cleanly, snappily, stylishly, as if you are going to a job interview or a birthday party or on an outing. If you dress for each day expectantly, importantly, smartly, then each day will become that.

People will react differently to you if you dress as if it matters and you will react differently to that different reaction. It’s an upward spiral. I have to stress we are talking formal here and you don’t have to be buttoned up and uncomfortable. Just dress as if it matters.

What about weekends, you may ask, surely we can relax then? Of course, but it doesn’t mean you should let yourself go. At weekends you are going to see friends or family and they too deserve to see you looking good and as if they matter. Not even your friends want to see you slovenly, disheveled, untidy, and uncared for. It is really about you. If you greet each day as if it is important, then it will do wonders to your self-esteem, your self-respect, your self-confidence.

If you adopt the conscious approach to living, you will find it quite hard to consciously dress down.

Stay Young With Glowing Skin

Caring For Your Skin

Clear and vibrant skin actually starts from young age. If you have this benefit of starting with basic skin care from young age, the chances of a glowing skin is higher. However it is never too late to start off with one the moment you realize it is part of your daily personal care. With a consistent daily care, we can have clear, vibrant skin that radiates vitality and health all our life. It takes a few years off you and it makes you look good from your inner self. Never think that you are too busy for your daily personal care but start making it a habit and it will soon form part of your lifestyle.

Cultivate the habit to have your routine down to the basic: cleanse, nourish, protect. This applies to both men and women, young and midlife. It is with our daily skin care that helps us protect our skin from the damage effect of the wind, air, smoke, and pollution. The sun is the most dreadful offender. Gravity too has its bad effects and our skin also reacts and responds to such things as changes in season, hormones, diet, medication, stress and so on.

We all know that everyone of us will go through the aging process. Sign of wrinkles, change of skin texture, expression lines will all show up and it is important that we take this naturally. With some effort and discipline on daily skin care, we can slow down the process and protect our skin from further damage in the years ahead.

To look and stay young, we start with the basic steps with discipline and consistency:-

1. Cleanse and tone
2. Nourish
3. Protect

Cleansing is the first step in rejuvenating our skin which should be done, twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening before we go to bed. Although a simple and gentle cleanse is good enough to wash away previous night’s moisturizer, it is vital to thoroughly cleanse and sometimes deep cleanse the day’s grime in the evening. This is to ensure we get rid of the makeup (for the ladies) and debris that clog our pores during the day. Deep cleansing also removes dead skin to reveal healthy new skin. It also helps prepare our skin to be nourished, at the same time it washes away the day’s stresses.


Nourish your skin with moisturizer after cleansing and toning helps to retain moisture and create a protective layer against environmental damage. In a hot and humid country, oil-free moisturizer is ideal as you will feel more comfortable without the sticky sensation. In a cold and dry weather, a thicker moisturizer is most preferred to give you the extra moisture and protection from dryness.

There are different moisturizers for the day and night. Day creams are formulated for daily care and replenishment of moisture whereas night creams are formulated normally for night repair and rejuvenation.


Protect your skin from the sun with sun block! This is the single most important method to protect your skin from the damaging effect of the sun. Apply it on the face, neck, hands to ensure you get sufficient protection with SPF to avoid unnecessary damage to your skin. Many of us do not realize that even in winter or spring when we do not see much of sunlight, the effect is bad enough to leave and result in premature aging for our skin.

A tan may look good for the moment, but it is actually evidence of injury to our skin. When the tan fades, damage remains with premature aging skin or even skin cancer. If we know the causes of skin cancer which can be prevented, why would we choose not take action to protect our skin right now?

Applying Sun block:-

· Apply sun block every two or three hours or more often if you are in the water or under the sun.

· Use an amount which is sufficient to cover your face, neck and hands.

· Apply it at least half an hour before going under the sun.

Keep in mind, basic skin care is the first step in healthy glowing skin which keep you looking young.