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9 Tips To Keep Your Hands Looking Young

One of the most tell-tale signs of aging is also one of the most underrated and least thought about, and that is your hands.
We  are all accustomed to taking care of our face (and hopefully throat and decolletage), but many of us forget our hands. Look around and you will see women who’ve been photofacial’d, injected, lifted, buffed and smoothed and look decades younger than their birth date, but who’s hands are wrinkled and spotted and give the game away.
Or maybe they’re young but by not taking care of their hands are making themselves look prematurely aged.

Here are  tips to keep your hands looking young:

1. Use A Really Rich Handcream, Liberally and Often
One of the key components to keeping your hands looking soft and smooth is to keep them uber hydrated, all the time. Find a super rich handcream with a broad spectrum SPF that is as high as possible.
The SPF will help prevent sun damage, and the emollients in the cream will keep the skin soft and help to fight off free radical damage.

2. Add A Retinol
Using a retinol cream at night will help to keep the texture smooth and even, and also improve skin tone.

3. 86 The Hand Sanitizer
The alcohol in hand sanitizer can be extremely drying to the skin, and can cause irritation to the skin.
Drying the skin also opens it up to more sun damage.
If you are washing your hands frequently throughout the day, this also dries the skin out, so revert to #1
and liberally apply handcream.

4. Wear Rubber Gloves When Doing Dishes
Just as hand sanitizer strips the skin, so does dish washing liquid.

5. Get Regular Manicures
Keeping your nails in good shape and keeping the cuticles trimmed helps make them look younger.

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6. Invest In A Good Cuticle Oil
Make a nightly investment in your hands by massaging a quality oil into your cuticles

7. Be Aware Of Sneaky Sun Damage Risks

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One of the worst offenders when it comes to sun damage on your hands, is the steering wheel. Wear driving gloves, or make sure you have a strong, broad spectrum SPF on the backs of your hands when you drive.

8. Get A Photofacial
Just as a photofacial can work to remove sundamage to your face, it also works on your hands. Actually there are a myriad of laser options to improve skin tone and texture.
A laser specialist can advise you on the best treatment course for your hands.

9. Get A Filler
Fillers such as Radiesse, Sculptra and Voluma can plump up lost volume in the backs of the hands, and even the fingers if your digits are starting to look claw-like. Saggy, crepey skin looks aged, whereas full, glowing skin looks youthful.

Hair Trends For Spring 2014

Yesterday we looked at Makeup Trends for Spring 2014,

today lets check out the new season’s hair trends.

1.) Windswept Updo’s


Super soft, undone and somewhat sexy, the messy updo is back.

All you need is a one inch barrel curling iron to pull off this look from the Michael Kors Spring 2014

runway show. Other designers showed messy french twists and back-combed loose updo’s.

teased and messy updo at Rochas Spring 2014

2.) Slicked Back


Slicked back hair at John Galliano Spring 2014

Several designers showed slicked back, smoothed down hair for Spring 2014. Some used center parts, others like these images from John Galliano Spring 2014, didn’t.

All however used grooming products to keep flyaways at bay and keep the hair smooth.

Slicked back hair at John Galliano Spring 2014

3.) Thick Braids


Soft, thick braids at Alberta Ferretti Spring 2014


At Alberta Ferretti Spring 2014  hairstylist Guido created soft, thick, peasant girl braids, pulling tendrils loose around the face.

4.) Flowers In The Hair


Flowers in the hair at Dolce and Gabbana Spring 2014

Flowers made a comeback as a sweet hair accessory this season,

pinned into softly messy updo’s seen above at the 

Dolce and Gabbana Spring 2014 runway show, and below in soft pony tails seen at Honor Spring 2014.

Flowers in the hair at Honor Spring 2014


5.) Mermaid Waves

Mermaid waves at Calvin Klein Spring 2014

This one is great for girls who like to keep it simple.

Soft, easy mermaid waves seen above at Calvin Klein Spring 2014,

and below at Diane Von Furstenburg Spring 2014

mermaid waves at Diane Von Furstenburg Spring 2014

6.) The Low Ponytail

Low ponytail at Jason Wu Spring 2014

Seen here at Jason Wu Spring 2014, the low ponytail was both fresh and simple.

7.) Choppy, Textured Bobs


choppy, textured bob at Balmain spring 2014

Seen here at Balmain Spring 2014, the choppy textured look makes the bob 

Makeup Trends For Spring 2014

Spring is now in full force, and if you haven’t done so already,

it’s time to update your makeup wardrobe

to fit the new season.

Or maybe you just want a few ideas 

for how to pull it all together for Easter.

Either way, its time to hit the makeup stores

and stock up on the new colors.

Here are the 5 major makeup trends for Spring 2014



1.) Metallic Eyes

Seen here at the Jason Wu Spring 2014 show at New York Fashion Week, beautiful, shimmering, metallic eyes.

Look for complimentary bronzes and warm golds to flatter skin tone, and make green and brown eyes spark.

Choose products with small particles – large glittery particles not only fall down your face, but look tacky too.

 2.) Orange Is The New Red
Try a bold orange mouth. Play with color to see which works best for you, choosing from a full blown orange to coral to tangerine to mandarin. Opt for formulas that have a slight sheen to them, making the lip look more succulent.



3.) The Cat Eye


Molly Roncal created this fabulous, pronounced cat eye offset with a metallic sheen for the Tracy Reese Spring 2014 runway show.

The key to pulling off a great springtime cat eye is to make that the central focus of your makeup, toning everything else down, and scaling back all other drama.

4.) White Eyeshadow

 There are two ways to wear the Spring 2014 white eyeshadow.
Above, (from the Alice and Olivia Spring 2014 runway show) the look is an iridescent wash of white shadow, with white liner. 
This is the easier of the two to pull off for a fresh faced, dewy spring look.
The other look seen below at Altuzarra Spring 2014 runway show is a more opaque, more densely packed white shadow

5.) The Soft Berry Lip

If you want to keep it soft and pretty, or if a bold lip feels too big for you, try out a soft berry lip, such as this one seen at 

Michael Kors Spring 2014. Berry tones not only spark green and blue eyes, but they also make your teeth look super white.

Simplifying your look, and building from a glowing complexion will always make you look fresh and dewy.

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