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.

We have all heard the jokes that question a blonde’s intelligence. We have all seen the cartoons of the washed out, tired looking individual standing there with a ‘duh’ look on their face. Society has labeled and stereotyped nearly every style and look you come across.

Don’t allow yourself to feed other’s preconceived notions and stereotypes. Just because you have had a few more birthdays than your co-workers, doesn’t have to mean you lack the same knowledge. In most cases, you are far wiser because you’ve had more learning experience with those additional birthdays. Sure, you may not look like you did several years ago, but that doesn’t mean you forgot all the things you know. People are funny. A first look at someone bears so much weight on what that first impression is based on. If you walk into a business presentation looking worn out and haggard, chances are the intelligence of your presentation will have already lost some merit because of your appearance.

Wouldn’t it be great to walk into that presentation with your head held high, your face looking refreshed and energized, and your eyes bright and sparkly? By utilizing the Fivein5 facial exercises, you can see results that will give you the confidence needed to march right in there and make a presentation that will knock their socks off. The results you see will be the same results your audience will notice. They may not be able to pinpoint exactly what the difference is they are seeing, but they won’t be able to help but notice the youthful, fresh faced, presenter in front of them. You will have their attention, without the distraction of an aged appearance. They will hear and see that the person standing in front of them knows what they are talking about. Hey… Beauty and Brains. They can go hand in hand. “Who would of thunk it?”

Five minutes a day, doing five simple exercises, will strengthen the underlying muscles in your face and neck. By strengthening those muscles, you will tone and tighten to reduce lines and wrinkles earned from many hours spent fine tuning the knowledge of your trade. The blood flow is increased to your facial area, resulting in a healthy, glowing appearance reminiscence of youth. Your eyebrows will magically lift to open up your eyes and smooth out the weary puffiness below them.

Don’t allow your expertise go unnoticed because those darn birthdays keep on coming. I say it’s time we let folks know there is such a thing as brains AND beauty.