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.

Okay guys, this one is for you.  You have the gray peppered throughout your hair.  You have the wisdom of experience reflecting in your eyes.  You have the knowledge of life that you have learned from many years of trial and error.  You have wrinkles.  Wait a minute. Wrinkles? No, that will not do.

You guys have it made. You don’t have to spend a fortune at a barber getting those gray hairs hidden. You’ve heard of the ‘distinguished’ look? Well, that’s largely in part because of the gray hairs.   A weathered, ruddy complexion is quite sexy to the ladies.  Some of that extra weight you may have accumulated only accentuates your ‘beefiness’ factor; again, quite sexy to the ladies.  We like our men strong. (And a little secret? When you are bigger than us, it makes us feel protected and safe and not so self conscious about the few extra pounds we’ve acquired). Yeah, like I said you have it made.

Wrinkles on the other hand, don’t have any beneficial factors at all.  All they do is make you look old.  Yep, I said it: Old. Not Distinguished.  Old.  Period.  Now why in the world would you want to have such a wonderful looking way about yourself and then have it all blown apart with lines and crevices and floppy skin on your face?

I have a secret for you.  The wrinkles can be only temporary.  And fixing them does not involve a bunch of girly creams and products or going under the knife.  You can get rid of those wrinkles the way a man gets rid of wrinkles.  Exercise.   Facial exercises to be precise.  Five minutes a day, doing five simple exercises to tighten and tone and smooth out those wrinkles.  The Iphone Fivein5 facial exercises will get rid of that one thing that keeps you from carrying the title of Distinguished Gentleman; those blasted wrinkles.  Yep, gone.  That’s what they will be when you drop only $4.95 and get started with the Fivein5 Exercise Program.  Don’t deserve it?  We ladies think you do.

At age 24 I married. At age 25 my first daughter was born. At age 30 my second daughter was born. During those years I owned my own business, kept house, loved my family and fulfilled my duty as a wife the best way I knew how. At age 39, my life changed. I had recently lost my grandmother and was having a very difficult time coping. I began to see my life as someone looking in would view it. Some of the things I saw made me realize that something had to change. At age 38, my marriage of 14 years was over. I was starting a new life.

How does someone find what they need inside of themselves to go out there and face the world as an individual when all they know is being part of a unit? How can someone that looked in the mirror for so many years, not liking what they saw, open their eyes and see a vibrant, happy, emotionally content person? How is someone able to find the confidence and self assuredness they once emitted as a flirty, younger woman with their whole future ahead of them?

Life is not an episode of Sex in the City. Four of our closest girlfriends are not going to show up at our door, dress us in a sexy outfit and take us to a club where we dance, meet the latest J.Crew model who adores us and solve all of life’s challenges in a 60 minute condensed version of happily ever after.

It takes baby steps to pull yourself back up and reorganize your world. There is a transformation that occurs within as you rediscover your strengths and prioritize your needs. To some extent, you need to reinvent yourself as you get comfortable with being an individual again.

As you work on your insides, something begins to happen on the outside. You become stronger inside and begin to gain self confidence. Your smile shines, perhaps a new wardrobe is in order, eventually you want to put yourself back out there in the dating world.

Looking in the mirror, you see the strides you have made. You also see the lines that have been drawn, the wrinkles and creases that didn’t seem to matter before. Do you have to carry those leftovers with you as you begin anew? The resounding answer is NO. You are starting over; you are transforming all facets of your life; including your facial appearance.

The Iphone Fivein5 facial exercises are designed to be effective, chemical free, simple exercises that will erase the tell-tale signs of your previous life. A one- time fee of only $4.95 and five minutes of your day is all you need to strengthen and tone the muscles in your facial and neck area. Blood flow will increase to rejuvenate the strengthened and toned areas to bring back the vibrant, healthy appearance you once had. Lines and wrinkles will disappear. It won’t be long before the day comes when you will look in the mirror and realize… You’re back. You’re ready. You have come full circle.

Oh, what a wonderful day that will be. Trust me. It will happen. It happened for me. Here I am, on the cusp of my 42nd year, and life is good. I have rediscovered myself, and am now happily married again.
The journey was frightening but you know what? It was totally worth it.

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.

Looking back through pictures from years and years ago can be a frightening awakening. You see the smooth, glowing skin from your heydays. Bright, toned, healthy complexion. For many of us, the wear and tear of managing a family, raising children and also working outside of the home can take a big role in fading the face we see in pictures from our past.

How many of us have put in a days work outside of the home and then put in practically another full days work once we’ve clocked out at the office? There’s picking up the children, maybe stopping at the grocery store or running other errands you couldn’t do while at the office, getting home and tossing a load of laundry in the washer, fixing dinner, tending to the children, cleaning etc… The list goes on and on for a typical woman in today’s times.

It isn’t any wonder your skin is worn out. It’s tired. Just like the rest of you. The circles under your eyes, the washed out tone, the wrinkles. Oh, the wrinkles. Moms worry. We worry about everything from wanting our children to be healthy and well adjusted individuals to mortgage payments; and everything in between. We worry about our friends’ problems, we worry about our extended family, and we worry if we remembered to do all that we had to get done today. And we worry about all the things we have to do tomorrow.

I have a suggestion. Take five minutes for yourself. You deserve it. Actually, you deserve more, but let’s not push it. Baby Steps. In those five minutes a day using the Fivein5 method, you can do some relaxing facial exercises that will rejuvenate and refresh your appearance. The telltale lines of worry will begin to visibly diminish within the first five days of use. Some women can immediately notice a lift in their eyebrows after the first session. It only takes 30 days to see significant results. That’s only two and a half hours out of your month and it is in five minute increments at a time.

The laundry can wait. The dusting can wait. Dinner can wait. Five minutes. Take them, for YOU.

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.

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.