Lines around the eyes are not funny

To target solutions for fine lines around the eyes, it is important to distinguish when you see the lines. Do you see lines around the eyes when you are not smiling or only when you are? If you have lines around your eyes when you are not smiling, then you need to step up your skin collagen building effort. When looking to build collagen around the eyes, be aware that traditional collagen builders such as glycolic acid and retinol, are much too irritating for the eye area in any meaningful concentrations. Oligopeptides, however, are highly effective, and less irritating. The encapsulated versions in a light serum are preferable for better presentation, delivery and penetration. I highly recommend my personal favorite Mary Kay's Eye Firming cream.

A simple tip I want to share is if your eye cream tends to make you eyes water, sniffing it's fragrance before applying it can help reduce the tears.

Let's leave the laugh lines for character and eliminate the rest!

Benefits of raw food as it relates to your skin

I currently work with a wonderful Fitness/Nutrition coach who helped me change my total way of life.  While this may seem extreme to some, here is an article I found that truly helps me, make it all make sense.

"Eating only Raw food has an instant and dramatic effect on our looks, just as it does on our health. Many stars have launched or prolonged their careers with raw foods. Many more are now giving up plastic surgery and other crazy beauty treatments like botox and are instead just eating only Raw.

How beautiful is a wild giraffe, a wild horse or any other wild animal? They have a pristine, natural, glowing, beauty, because they eat only natural unprocessed food. You can be as beautiful as that on natural food too.

You are what you eat. If you eat flaky pastry, you will soon look flaky and pasty. Eat dead animals, and you will end up looking like dead lifeless meat. Eat fresh, raw, fruit and vegetables and you will look juicy, fresh, vibrant and alive!

Our body, even when fed an excess of food, is starved of the essential building blocks it needs to be healthy and beautiful. These vital elements are destroyed when our food is heated. We need whole, live vitamins, enzymes and nutrients to grow a healthy, vibrant, beautiful body. Without these elements, our bodies can't work as they should. We deteriorate, prematurely age, and die unnaturally.

No matter what your parents, grandparents or siblings look like, by going raw you will become an outstanding natural beauty. It's all because balance equals beauty. When our bodies are in balance by being fed raw foods, our kinks and abnormalities are healed. Many say their skin, eyes, hair and even their body shape, bone structure and face shape changed after switching to eating Purely Raw foods.

The first organs to reveal our state of health are our eyes. Nothing is attractive about bloodshot, dull, sunken, puffy eyes. After you begin eating raw, your eyes will become as bright and clear as a child's. They may even change colour.

Our skin mirrors the internal state of our body. It is 'safer' for our body to deprive our skin of nutrition, in order to supply our vital internal organs with whatever it can collect from our food. When you eat only live nutrients, your body finally has plenty of fuel and no longer has to decide how to ration it. Your entire body, including your skin, will get it’s fair share of life giving enzymes, vitamins and minerals. Your skin will thank you by being glowing and radiant, and the signs of ageing will be reversed."

As featured in Raw Food -Purely Raw and definitely worth sharing!!!!

A personal favorite

- Chia Seed Pudding -

Chia seed pudding is a delicious, quick and healthy raw food recipe. Made with wild or organic chia seed it is a powerful superfood.
The tiny seeds have been used since 3500 BC and were one of the most important crops for the Aztecs. These ancient people prized them so highly that it was often used as currency. Their warriors could run a whole day on just a handful.
Chia seed - also called salba when they are white - has extraordinary nutritious power. Dr. Oz said: "These things may be the best food around." And according to one manufacturer chia/salba seeds contain (gram for gram):

• 30% more antioxidants than blueberries;
• 6x more calcium than whole milk;
• 15 more magnesium than broccoli;
• 25 more dietary fiber than flax seed;
• 8x more omega 3 than salmon;
• 3x more iron than spinach;
• 50% more folate than asparagus;
• 2x more potassium than a banana;
• 2.5x more protein than kidney beans.

But maybe most important, chia seeds form a gelatinous layer inside your intestines that is a preferred home for probiotics and other beneficial bacteria.
Therefore it is excellent food for people with intestinal problems such as crohn's disease or irritable bowl syndrome. It is also perfect for babies and children as it creates a optimum start for their internal environment. Chia seeds look like poppy seeds. They have a neutral, mild taste. Just like flax seeds, they become jelly like when you soak them for 30 min or more.
You can eat them as a pudding or add some to your smoothie. (My kids prefer them over flax seed in smoothies because the flavor is more neutral.)
You buy organic chia seed in most health food stores and online. They cost about 15 USD a pound. (Salba seeds a little more. Some claim salba seeds are better than chia seeds, but I haven't found any proof on that).