41 WAYS TO LOOK YOUNGER!

So do you want to look younger and start as you get older? It’s really a silly question, of course. We all do. Well, not that much younger. But just a bit.

There is nothing wrong with looking your age- or with looking old, for that matter- except that few of us relish the idea. Certainly, we should learn to accept ourselves as we are, to embrace our changing faces and physiques as the years take a toll, but given the current national preoccupation- make that obsession- with the beauty of youth and with finding ways to cheat nature and look “good for our age”, its no wonder that we feel we need to make the best of ourselves.

Would we be better people if we looked younger? Would we be kinder to each other and would the little glitches in our lives sort themselves out? I rather doubt it. But there’s no doubt that when it comes to bolstering a fragile sense of self-esteem, if you think you look good, then you feel better about yourself and more confident, too, which can’t be a bad thing.

It stands to reason that, if you want to bring about any changes in the way you look, you’ll have to make a few changes in your way of life, which required sustained effort. Your sleeping partner, emotional balance, eating habit, exercise regime (or lack thereof), skin-care routine and stress levels – all of these have an impact on the face of your present to the world.

To improve the outlook, here is a whole bundle of things that you could try. You need to be realistic, though. As leading cosmetologist Dr Nick Lowe often says when lecturing on the subject of facial aesthetics, “Choose your parents with care.” How we look and how we age is largely – about 50 per cent – determined by our genes, and there is only so much you can do to change what your genes have in store for you.

None of these suggestions is going to make you miraculously appear a decade younger, like a candidate on a makeover reality show. Nor would they turn you into Claudia Schniffer or Keira Knightly. Pick out what appeals to you and give it a whirl. There’s nothing to lose but a few wrinkles.

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