Anti aging skin care we love – Tracie Martyn

I had been reading a lot about Tracie Martyn’s anti aging skin care in beauty magazines long before I first got to try out her products.

Tracie Martyn was a British esthetician living in New York when she created an innovative anti aging facial which combined natural active ingredients with electro-stimulation.
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Puffy eyes – the no cost solution

Sometimes it’s the simple low cost tips that really work – as Helen Mirren knows.

You may have forked out in the past on expensive eye masks to reduce puffiness around the eyes – and many of them are excellent. But you may not have been aware that there’s a great home made remedy for puffy eyes – tea bags!

You probably have a packet in your store cupboard and it won’t cost you a thing to turn them into an eye mask.
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Best face serum – three favorites

Face serums are among some of the hottest of  hot products from skin care manufacturers.

They come as pumps or vials of potent but lightweight anti aging ingredients like Vitamin C, alpha hydroxy acids and peptides – all designed to give you radiant younger looking skin.

But beyond the hype in the beauty mags – do they actually work?
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Does your face serum ruin your make up?

Manufacturers of face serums often try to tell us that we have to buy a complete matching set of anti aging products that work together.

Rather than buy a face serum from one company and a moisturizer from another – we really should stick to one brand – theirs! Some makers are more honest. 

They know that consumers like to shop around and that letting them do that is a much better way to make the sale.
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TLC for eyes – ten tips for younger looking skin

Buying the best anti aging eye cream in the world won’t do you much good unless you give the delicate skin around your eyes some good old fashioned Tender Loving Care.

Younger looking skin doesn’t just happen.

The skin around the eye area is much thinner than anywhere else on your face. You probably know that already – it’s the first place most of us start noticing lines and wrinkles.

Not only is the under eye skin more vulnerable to skin aging but it’s probably the part of your face that gets the harshest treatment.

Foundation, concealer, eye shadow, mascara, eye liner, eyebrow pencil – you probably put at least some of this lot near your eyes every day.

The real trouble for your skin of course comes when you have to take it off at night and when you’re rushing to apply your make up in the mornings.

That’s when the worst damage can be done. But if you want to prevent eye wrinkles, sagging and bags then you must take time and follow an extra gentle skin care regimen for your under eye area.

Here’s ten handy tips to keep the skin around your eyes wrinkle free for as long as possible.

1. Keep a handy supply of Q-tips on the dressing table. Moisten a Q-tip with eye make up remover and use to remov mascara or eye shadow smudges without pulling or rubbing skin.
2. Wear non-waterproof mascara – you’re much more likely to pull and damage the delicate skin trying to remove waterproof mascara.
3. Buy a gentle but effective eye make up remover Try Ahava Gentle Eye Make up Removeror True Gentle Eye Make Up Remover. Both are excellent at dissolving even the harshest mascara quickly and without dragging or pulling
4. Avoid using a facial cleanser for your eyes.  Many facial cleansers won’t dissolve mascara, will be too heavy for and may sting your eyes.
5. Use natural cotton wool pads to take off your eye make up – not paper tissues which will scratch the delicate surface of the under eye skin.
6. Saturate the cotton wool pad with your eye make up remover before applying – dry cotton wool fibers can stick to your eye make up and get in your eyes.
7. Wipe gently downwards to remove eye make up.
8. Buy a good anti aging eye cream.Cellex C Eye Contour Cream or DDF Erase Eye Gel are both excellent. Apply eye cream sparingly – too much and you overload the skin causing sagging and puffiness.
9. Apply eye cream to the eye socket area only.  Don’t put your eye cream near the base of the eyelid or under the lash area.
10. Use tapping to reduce puffiness.  Apply eye cream with a light tapping motion follow the orbital bone around the eye area.  Use the tips of your  fingers until all the eye cream is absorbed. Tapping helps drain fluid and will gently stimulate the skin.

Make these your ten golden rules of eye care and you’ll be surprised how quickly you and others will start to notice the difference.

How to find an eye cream that works

Choosing the best eye cream for you is not a simple matter.

Eye cream active ingredients have become more complex and varied. Reading labels on cosmetic packaging can be confusing and many of us end up spending a lot of money trying out products that just don’t work.

But when it comes down to it, the bewildering array of eye creams on the cosmetic counter offer solutions to two specific problems – puffy eyes and dark circles.
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