Relaxation Advice
To nourish your inner self during the day, schedule 5 minutes to focus on your breathing. Relax each muscle one at a time, concentrating on the tension areas. Just a few minutes will increase your endurance and reduce stress, which will show in your appearance.
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Create Your Own Bedroom Retreat
The Bedroom. A place to reflect after a hard day and to dream of what tomorrow holds.
Your bedroom is your place of retreat, a sanctuary where you can escape the daily stress of your life and take a moment to surround yourself with luxurious fabrics and warm plush pillows.
If this does not sound like something you can do in your current bedroom, you maybe in need of a makeover or maybe just a sprucing up. Don't panic, achieving that first class hotel experience in your own bedroom is easier than you might think. Here's how to start.
Remove the Clutter
Anything that does not contribute to your relaxation or resting needs to be removed from your bedroom. Laundry can be stored somewhere else and anything that reminds you of work or bills should be out of site. Keep relaxation in and work out.
Start with the Walls
The walls are an excellent place to add a little color to your space and are relatively inexpensive to do. Choose a color that calms your senses. Typically pastels, blues, or greens are restful colors. Researchers have found that colors of the night such as blues, indigos and violets can decrease blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates.
Add the Basics
Next, add your furniture. Remember that open space is ok and in fact adds a feeling of serenity. So don't be afraid to include just your favorite pieces in addition to your bed such as your grandmother's antique dresser or a favorite find of your own.
Embellish Your Space
Now that you have the basics in place and the tone is set with the colors on the walls you're ready to add some charm. SoftSurroundings.com is an excellent resource for finding the perfect accessories to soften your space. From flowing bed skirts and window draperies to soft and luxurious bedding, Soft Surroundings understands the idea of making your bedroom a retreat.
When adding texture to your bedroom remember to make it soft so it invites you to curl up and escape the day's pressures. Lastly, treat your bedroom like any other guest-visited areas of your home. Just because it's your private room doesn't mean that you shouldn't add finishing touches like a plant in the corner, fresh flowers to the side table, or peaceful artwork on the walls.
Accentuate Yourself
Now that you've turned your room into a five-star hotel retreat don't forget to lavish yourself with a luxurious robe, and soft plush towels to dry yourself after a good soak. Luckily SoftSurroundings.com has not forgotten about this either making it a convenient one-stop site for all your Bedroom Retreat creation needs.
Fine Lines
What a cruel irony that youth-enhancing laughter and smiles inevitably leave behind a trail of age-revealing fine lines and wrinkles.
But before you resort to frowning, try this two-fold approach to keep a smile on your face:
1. Superficial quick fix. While working on the deeper issues, use a product that plumps up and fills in fine lines.
2. Renew from within. Your skin is a living, breathing organ, which renews itself every two to six weeks, depending on your age. This allows you ample opportunity to target the deepest layer of skin (the dermis), where youth-renewing collagen and elastin are produced. Look for formulas that accelerate collagen renewal and trigger the formation of elastin.
Tip: Give yourself an instant facial. Make delicate stroking movements along your brow, working from the center out. Try this for a few seconds, several times a day, to ease the wrinkles out.
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Dewy Lips
The Perfect Pout
Full, luscious lips are all-the-rage on red carpets and runways this season. It all begins with a healthy pout.
Lips are skin, remember. They require moisture, nourishment and exfoliation just like the rest of your face. In fact, even more so. Lips are protected by a mere three to five layers of skin cells compare to the 15 on the rest of your body. A barrier is essential, but you'll have to be choosey. Lipsticks, balms and glosses that are petroleum-based tend to be addictive and require more and more applications to remain effective. Instead, look for products that contain essential oils, vitamins and collagen enhancers.
Tips to achieve luscious lips:
1. If you have lines above your lips, use a lipliner pencil before lipstick. That will keep your lipstick from bleeding.
2. Only use gloss on the lower lip and press lips together.
3. For longer lasting lip color, fill the lip in with pencil and add lipstick sparingly.
4. Avoid frosted lipsticks, which tend to highlight wrinkles.
5. To avoid lipstick on the teeth: After lipstick has been applied, stick your index finger in your mouth, close your lips around it and pull your finger out. Any lipstick which was inside your lips will now have been transferred to your finger.
6. Look for products that do double-duty as sun protectors.
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