Your poor skin has so many factors against it. So many things just itching to get in there and do some damage. Heredity, lifestyle, stress, aging, illness and yes, even environment. There is no way to escape all the villains ready to attack and destroy the youthful, healthy appearance of our younger days. In previous posts I have addressed every issue except for environment. Today that is what we will focus on.

Does environment merely mean where you reside? Does it mean the surroundings where you spend little of your time? Does it mean the surroundings where you spend a lot of your time? Does it mean the great outdoors? The answer is yes; to all of them. Your environment is where ever YOU are. Outside in the sun? Bad. In a crowded, smoke filled room? Bad. Surrounded by chemical fumes? Bad. Extreme heat? Bad. Extreme cold? Bad. Sometimes even sitting in a ventilated office can be slowly doing damage to your skin. (Example: mold in the air conditioning vents). Those are just a few of the situations your skin may find itself in, helpless to do anything to protect itself. Aside from living in a plastic bubble with pure fresh air pumped inside, nearly every minute of your life is spent in an environment that is breaking down the suppleness and health of your skin.

What can you do? Do you need to move to an isolated jungle far away from the reaches of civilization? Well, no. Not yet. First I want you to try the five in 5 facial exercises. Combined with a healthy lifestyle consisting of putting plenty of good water and healthy food in your system and following a gentle routine of outer cleansing, the five in 5 facial exercises will reverse the damage done by environmental factors. Healthy cells below the skin and increased blood flow to the strengthened muscles in your facial and neck area will bring about a radiant, youthful, glowing complexion free from lines, wrinkles and tell tale signs of aging. The toned muscles will tighten and lift sagging and washed out areas to turn back the clock.

So don’t pack up your pith helmet and mosquito spray and head out to the wilderness just yet. Take care to be aware of your surroundings and do what you can to avoid the invisible dangers lurking in the air. Utilize the five in 5 facial exercises. Civilization wants to keep you here with us.

Nearly everyone has a period in their lives that was or currently is a challenge or struggle. Some folks have had much harder times than others. We get through those hard times and challenges. We somehow manage to find the strength within ourselves and get out of bed to face the day. Some of us put on the ‘happy face’, hiding our inner turmoil and worry from others, others deal with problems recreationally, escaping momentarily by doing things we know are bad for us.

No matter how you deal with your challenges and struggles, eventually your face is going to tell the truth. You can put on the façade and fake your way thru every day, but somehow, from the inside, wrinkles and worry lines emerge from beneath the surface.  We know that when we don’t behave in our best manner, doing things we know are bad for us depletes valuable moisture from our skin  and the resulting dehydration will magnify fine lines and circles beneath our eyes.

Hopefully, the stormy times of your life have passed and things are better. Now what do you do about the effects to your facial area? You’ve pulled yourself together in other areas of your life, now it’s time to work on your skin. First step, hydrate. Drink lots and lots of water. Plain water. Replace the moisture lost and flush the toxins from your system. This will give you a clean base to begin the transformational results from utilizing the fivein5 facial exercises. Healthy, hydrated tissue will respond to the simple facial exercises you do for only five minutes of your day. The sallow, wrinkled complexion will rejuvenate as blood flow is increased to reawakened muscles in your facial and neck area. Those reawakened muscles will tighten and tone your skin, erasing the fine lines and crevices created by worry and poor coping choices. Your tired eyes will brighten as the eye brow area is firmed to lift and open.

Another effect of the fivein5 facial exercises is the calming sensation, as you relax for five minutes and focus on the task at hand. Breathing evenly, clearing your mind, and essentially allowing your mind to regroup.

There are so many things in our lives that are out of our control. How we deal with them is not one of those things. You can get through those rough times, and not have to see a reminder every time you look in a mirror. Take time to do the fivein5 exercises, do it for YOU.

Oh, the honeymoon’s over. Those quiet times snuggling under the covers seem fewer and further between. Work, kids, and other obligations seem to take precedence on our time. It is so easy to get caught up in day to day responsibilities and not have time to spend with the significant other in our life.

As stress and not enough minutes in a day cause our last nerve to frazzle, the exhaustion we feel on the inside begins to show itself on the outside. We look in the mirror and barely recognize the vibrant, fresh faced, energetic younger woman who caught his eye so many years ago. As we stand there looking in the mirror, we come to the often times wrong assumption that woman is gone forever. Our insecurities start to bloom and often subconsciously we project those insecurities to the people we are closest to. Pulling away, not making time for the snuggling quiet times; poison to a relationship.

Now you have an easy solution. Boost your self confidence. Find the woman who turned his head so many years ago. She’s still in there. With the Fivein5 facial exercise program, the only thing that is gone forever is the tired washed out woman you once saw in the mirror. Amazing results in less than a month will lift your eyebrows and your spirits. Your skin will glow and radiate as the blood flow is increased to the toned muscles that smooth and diminish wrinkles. You will soon start to see a more youthful face with sparkly eyes and a more frequent smile. Five minutes a day are all you need to begin your journey. Sitting at a red light, waiting on hold on the telephone, in the shower, doing the dishes—no need to find a free five minutes, the exercises can be done during any of these other activities.

You’ll notice. He’ll notice. Your mirror will notice. The flirty lilt in your step will come back and so will some more time in your days as the renewed interest in each other awakens. Time for each other. Quiet snuggly time to reconnect and come to the realization that the honeymoon is indeed, NOT over.

How much of your mother are you?

You have her eyes, you have her smile. You have her personality. You have her shape. Whatever the traits that definitely shows the mother daughter connection, one trait that doesn’t have to be passed on is how you show your age in your face.

Appearances are altered by many factors. Stress, lifestyle, environment, heredity and aging to name a few. How well you carry your appearance as you age is heavily reliant on how well the other women in your family carry theirs.

Just because your mother has signs of aging, doesn’t mean you will show the same signs when you reach her age. There are steps you can take to reduce the amount of wrinkles, lines and puffiness you have.
Sunscreen has been proven to reduce the damage done to our skin. When mom was younger, sunscreen was hardly spoken about. That’s something your generation has that hers didn’t. Ways to reduce and manage stress are more readily available to women of these days that weren’t as prevalent when mom was dealing with her day to day issues. And mom didn’t have the IPhone.

Technology has brought us many luxuries and conveniences not available to our moms. The Five in 5 iPhone application is one very important resource we have to battle the signs of aging. For a low, onetime fee of only $4.95, you can have the Five in 5 facial exercises delivered right to your phone and turn back the clock.

Five minutes a day, five simple exercises. Visible results. Lift your eyebrows, diminish the wrinkles, and freshen your skin tone for a radiant glow. Blood flow to the facial area is increased with the exercises as you sculpt and tighten your whole face and neck area.

You will still have her eyes; they will just stand out better, not hidden beneath saggy droopy eyelids. You will still have her smile, just without the creases around your mouth. Take advantage of the one thing that can set mother and daughter apart.

Alright, I feel pretty safe in saying, probably not a lot of guys are checking in on current anti-aging applications. So ladies, it’s up to you to drag your man over to the computer to read this.

Women are forever looking for ways to enhance what they have, create what they don’t have, and hide what they don’t want. They guys get all sorts of benefits from our sometimes neurotic fixation with our appearance. Well, gentlemen, here is a unisex application that doesn’t involve any girly goops or makeup and it will allow you to reap a whole new world of benefits.

Guys work hard and have many responsibilities. Even with women in the workforce, society still looks at the man of the house as the primary provider. That can weigh a lot on the worries in a mans world. Even when you’re holding it all together and secretly stewing about things on the inside, the tired, drawn out lines of worry will give it away everytime.

The five in 5 facial exercises will minimize those lines of worry and stress. Sorry, it won’t remove the burdens you are carrying, but it will refresh and rejuvenate your appearance, and we women know the proven truth of “If you look good, you feel good”.

Just five minutes a day, five simple exercises will increase blood flow and tone your face all the way down to the bone. Your eyes will open up, and the frown lines will diminish. Your overall appearance will even out and have the streamlined chisled features she won’t be able to keep her hands away from.  (Remember those new benes I mentioned)?  Heres a secret, women just love to nuzzle in the neck area. And tight muscles, not just abs, feel great against us.

You take care to work out the rest of your body, whether it be in a gym, sports or during your workday. How about you find that five minutes a day to work your face too and enjoy the results?

Ah, relaxing by the pool, beach or just in the front yard on one of those aluminum lawn chairs with the slats that your butt keeps falling through. Radio? Check. Romance novel? Check. Chilled beverage? (with or without the little umbrella) Check. Sunscreen? (Insert really annoying screeching noise here.)

When we were teenagers, our primary goal when the days got longer and the sun got brighter, was to put much effort into acquiring the ‘perfect tan’. Baby oil, sometimes baby oil with iodine, and accelerators were by our side as we basked in the beautiful rays. That first time out there in the sun often brought out a little more rosey than we preferred, but comfort was easily obtained with the reasoning that now we had a good ‘base’ to build on for the rest of the season.

So build we did. Hours of unprotected exposure to what we now know was not the best idea we ever had. Today our faces are exacting their revenge from the damaging, torturous abuse we imposed on it.

Alligator skin, saggy pruny wrinkles. Oh, if we could only go back and know what we do now. You do have something going for you now that you didn’t have then. You are wiser. Now you know to protect the largest organ of your body. And you can undo some of the damage. The creases and crevices created by the suns damage can be minimized dramatically by utilizing the fivein5 facial exercises. These face toning exercises will build a healthier, smoother facial appearance from the inside out. Increase the blood flow to the areas and build a stronger foundation beneath the surface, to tighten and firm the damage you’ve done. No chemicals or radioactive rays involved. Just five minutes a day to undo years of naïve behavior.

So go ahead and drag out that butt squishing lawn chair. Just remember to use your sunscreen and wear a hat. Turn on the radio and take five minutes to do those exercises before you immerse yourself in the latest romance novel.

Is your self esteem getting lower and lower because you see the changes in your appearance? Have you been trying every potion and cream you can find to undo those changes? Have you looked in the mirror lately and begun to wonder if you should join the masses and start looking for a cosmetic surgeon? Stop. Just Stop.

Step away from the knife. That’s it. Slowly. Slowly. You got it. Good. Now take a deep breath. There is a way you can get the results you want; find the person you know you can be. Soon your self esteem will be soaring and you will be running out to buy more mirrors.

Facial toning exercises, adoringly called the Fivein5, will bring you amazing results in your facial appearance without the risk and cost of surgery. The person you remember is still in there. Aging is programmed to blast its presence right there on your face for everyone to see. With five simple exercises five minutes a day, you can defy the natural order of things without putting cosmetic surgeons’ children through college.

The Iphone beauty application is only a onetime fee of $4.95. Yep, you read that correctly. Most creams and potions are extremely expensive for just a small amount of product. The containers usually contain a 30 day supply. Some can burn your skin to get to the good stuff underneath. That seems a bit drastic to me.

The fivein5 beauty regime uses no additives, no chemicals, nothing artificial. Actually, all you need to utilize the program is your face and five minutes a day. I’m pretty sure most of us have those two things on hand. The five minute facial exercises increase blood flow to your facial area. This creates healthy tissue that works its way to the surface as your skins natural exfoliation process occurs. The radiant glowing skin is also toned and tightened as the muscles in your face gain strength. You get to keep all your face with the exercises, not have the edges trimmed off and tightened along your hairline to get results.

As you see the results of the Fivein5 facial toning exercises, your self esteem will re-surface; Just like the healthy, toned, beautiful you that’s been buried within.

So many of us are constantly on the lookout for the latest way to keep our figures in top form. Whether it is by exercise or diet, it seems no matter where you look, new tips and tricks are constantly at our fingertips. But one thing that we have always been told is that diet and exercise affect everything about how we look and how we feel.

Eating healthier and making wiser choices with our diet has the benefit of restructuring our features from the inside. As we feel better and realize we have more energy to enjoy our life, living well becomes easier each day. Granted, some diet alterations will also have a beneficial effect on our complexion, but will do nothing to overshadow  the lines and wrinkles that are already there. In actuality, weight loss from your healthier eating, may even emphasize those lines and wrinkles as the fat around your face decreases.

This is where the fivein5 can help complete your transformation. When you rethink your eating habits and start to see results in your waistline, it’s only natural to become motivated to do all you can to sculpt and tone your abs. I’m here to tell you, the facial toning exercises  to sculpt your face, are a whole lot easier than abdominal exercises; and they only take five minutes a day, every day. You don’t have to go out and buy any fancy accessories to complete the daily routine. You don’t even have to wear special workout clothes. Just you, five simple exercises, and five minutes are all it takes to highlight the results of your transformation from impressive to spectacular. The increased vitamins from your healthier eating habits combined with the increased blood flow from the simple facial exercises, will complement each other for a more vibrant, toned and smoother facial appearance. Instead of fat around your face, you build stronger muscles that pull the lines and wrinkles into submission.

In no time at all, everyone will be raving about the new healthier, younger looking you that has been hiding inside, just waiting for the opportunity to shine.

Recently I read an article that had side by side pictures of twins. One twin wore their age vividly better than the other. As the pictures showed older twins, the differences became more prominent.

Each picture had a brief bio of the lifestyle of each twin. I noticed that one hundred percent of the time, the twin that had regular use of certain medications, especially birth control or hormone related medications, and / or more frequent use of alcohol than their twin, looked considerably older.

Not everyone has a twin to be able to do that thorough of a comparison. What you do have, is the benefit of applying their comparisons to you personally. Do you have puffy saggy skin? Is your complexion blotchy or red? Is your skin paper thin and not quite as radiant as it used to be?

It has been medically proven that hormone related medications will show up in later years on your complexion. Patchy pigment areas, or even blotchy pink areas may appear because of the use of these medications. With the fivein5 facial exercises, you can increase the oxygenation and blood flow to your facial area and diminish the visible effects of medicinal use from way back.

Frequent imbibing of alcoholic beverages also take their toll on our appearance. Dehydration is a direct result of consumption of alcohol and can show with puffiness and shadows on our face. If the area under your eyes remains puffy for an extended period of time, and you reduce the puffiness, you will have saggy pouchy areas left behind. The facial toning exercises of the fivein5 will bring back the taut, tone, hydrated skin you once had.

Five simple exercises, five minutes a day. The fivein5. You can undo the damages of time and uncover the youthful appearance and healthy complexion of your past. Facial muscle toning, increased blood flow, and healthier, happier skin are just a click away. You don’t need a twin to compare results with, you will be able to see them for yourself when you look in the mirror.

Everybody ages. Having your age etched into your face isn’t necessarily a preference of anyone. I’m here to tell you that you can embrace getting older without having it written in big bold lines and wrinkles.

Previous life choices, sun damage, and even heredity can be contributing factors to prematurely aged skin. Until now, the only way to correct any of the damaging effects was with radical surgery or expensive products.

The Fivein5 facial toning exercises will lift and tighten all those saggy areas in your face that seemed to puff out over time. The worry lines and creases will fill in, naturally, as you increase the oxygen and blood flow to the entire facial area.

Just five minutes a day can help take years off your appearance. Simple exercises you can do anytime; sitting in traffic, reading your morning newspaper, or slicing vegetables for a nice healthy complexion -friendly salad.

You’ve come here and read this blog. It’s a really good first step. Your next step is doing what you need to do, today, to begin erasing what’s written all over your face for everyone to read. Remember, there’s no stopping the aging process, but now you can be armed to do the battle with grace and victory.