How To Keep Your Face Young (on a budget)
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Oh yeah, And my memoir is here: https://amzn.to/2KYGujG
This has nothing to do with gender, and you can do it if you're a boy, too. There's no sense in feeling like it's wrong or "gay" to take care of yourself and keep from looking like an old bag. Who wants to stare at old bags? So here ya go.
1. Water. Drink it. A lot. TONS. Tons of water. Drink it, spray it on your face, swim in it. Not chlorinated.. just water. Beach. Rivers. Anywhere there's natural water and not a chemically treated hole in a bucket.
Speaking of water: Don't take so many darned baths and showers. Yep, that's right. Dermatologists will tell you (especially those with dry skin issues) that you don't need a shower every single day unless you're working in a coal mine. It dries out and destroys your skin. All you need to do is take a whore bath. Yes, I said that. That's what my grandmother used to call them. It's when you wash the necessary parts, under your arms, below the waist, your feet, hands and under your breasts if you have them, then move on. Oh.. and your face, of course. You don't need to dunk yourself in water to get clean.
Don't use hot, hot water on your face in the mornings. Cold is better. Hot dries it out, then flakes it off. It's bad. Hot: Bad. Cold: Good.
Note: Your quality of drinking water is paramount. You want as high alkaline water as is possible. The best is spring water, but if you live in a city, look for bottled alkaline water. Example: Southern California is already turning sewer and wastewater into drinking water. They use a process called reverse osmosis. The good news is that it's super clean- everything has been eliminated. The bad news is that everything has been eliminated. What?!?
This actually has a negative effect on your body. RO has killed everything in the water, so your calcium and magnesium minerals are gone, too. Without these, the body actually loses electrolytes, and mineral & water metabolism in the body is compromised. This results in impaired heart conditions, headaches, muscle cramps and more. The pH levels are also dropped, resulting in higher acidity. This causes more free radicals to run rampant. And everyone knows free radicals cause damage to cells, resulting in faster aging processes. So if you're in a city that uses a filtration system like this, start purchasing or finding bottled, high alkaline water. Or find a spring somewhere. Don't rely on your tap water for good health.
2. Exercise. Old fashioned, hard, time consuming exercise. Do it.
3. Eat healthier. You don't have to be a health nazi. Just cut way down on the sugars, refined garbage- and oh, we Americans have a bad habit of eating a dinner plate with mostly meat and a few side vegetables. Reverse that. And more raw veggies is better than anything. Don't cook the good out of them.
Now for the weird stuff:
1. Let yourself feel crushes on people and engage in flirting, enjoying love scenes in movies, and looking at photos of people you're attracted to. Yes, that's right, and I'm not crazy. This stimulates the pituitary, which is responsible for the cocktail of reproductive hormones you need to sustain a youthful appearance. It's real. Now don't go around obsessing over people and creeping them out; flirting can either be done decently and within boundaries, or you can turn into a real nut job and scare the crap out of people. Don't do that. Flirting is supposed to be fun, non-serious, and open. NON serious. It's just a feeling. A fleeting one. Treat it as such and don't be a weirdo.
When we stop feeling crushes, sensual fire for each other and we repress our sexuality, our pituitary gland takes it's cue to stop producing those hormones. It goes, "Oh.. okay, we're done now? Time to get old.." That's when testosterone levels in men and estrogen in women drop significantly, fat is displaced throughout the body, and we start losing collagen faster. Men lose their hair, women lose their libido. It all goes to pot. We get fat, old, and thin haired. Oh.. and cranky- because we're fat, old, and thin haired.
Note to dudes in serious relationships: Giving your woman a hard time for feeling innocent, playful crushes on people who aren't you- and demanding she hide or repress those feelings- will result in a significant drop of breast volume. The repression and depressive guilt for making you pissy about it will cause her pituitary to decrease the hormonal production responsible for voluptuous and healthy breasts. So stop it. It's just a crush; nothing but dopamine and serotonin, and it's part of being alive.
2. Use growth factor serums. Real ones. They're expensive, but set aside the money. I know this goes against the whole "on a budget" thing.. but we tend to save our money for things we really want once in awhile, anyway. Think of it as another necessary bill if you need to. This is an alternative to tightening surgery if you seriously don't wanna grow old gracefully. Growth factor serums are the only serums that can really get down under the skin and stimulate the regrowth of collagen. Some brands even use stem cells in their formulas. Don't get the cheap stuff; it's not real. Go ahead and save your money and research the best brands. It's still less expensive than invasive treatments. One of the best is Skinmedica TNS Essential Serum. It's super expensive. If you're like me and your funds are tighter though, you can try out PCA Skin Total Strength Serum.. it's around 80 dollars. I've found it on sale for 50 before. I haven't got highway craters in my face yet, so I don't have to go for anything too crazy at this point. It works for me, for now.
3. Moisturize! I do declare, I can't stress this enough- especially for white people. Pale skin is thin, and doesn't have enough melanin to protect it. It ages faster. You have to take better care of your skin, white people. Aside from us weird white cave fish, everyone should be moisturizing. Even those with oily skin- just find a moisturizer that works for oily skin types and apply to a very clean face. I have dry skin, and I keep myself lubricated constantly. All over. Moisturize forever.
4. Soap: Do not use crappy soap, especially on your face. The more it lathers, the worse it is for your skin. There is a chemical called sodium lauryl sulfate that companies use to make soaps lather. This is done because we consumers are used to the idea that if something lathers, that means it cleans better. This is untrue. This chemical will actually rip your skin and dry it out. It's cheap, spreads out the recipe, and sells on the basis of psychological brainwashing. Soap is meant to decrease the surface tension of water, and its fats are binding themselves to dirt and bacteria. This causes the dirt and gross stuff to wash down the drain with the soap when you rinse. The reason it's harder to get clean using water only is because water and oil don't mix. And we're usually oily when we're dirty. So find a soap that's not sporting too much sodium lauryl sulfate, and you should be good.
There. There are some easy things to do to sustain your youth. It's not hard, and the serums I mentioned are way less expensive than laser resurfacing treatments and surgery. I'm not talking out of my ass. I went to school for Phlebotomy and learned a ton of information about blood, hormones and cellular structure. This is a rare post, and it will probably never happen again. So I hope you enjoy.
Oh yeah, And my memoir is here: https://amzn.to/2KYGujG
This has nothing to do with gender, and you can do it if you're a boy, too. There's no sense in feeling like it's wrong or "gay" to take care of yourself and keep from looking like an old bag. Who wants to stare at old bags? So here ya go.
1. Water. Drink it. A lot. TONS. Tons of water. Drink it, spray it on your face, swim in it. Not chlorinated.. just water. Beach. Rivers. Anywhere there's natural water and not a chemically treated hole in a bucket.
Speaking of water: Don't take so many darned baths and showers. Yep, that's right. Dermatologists will tell you (especially those with dry skin issues) that you don't need a shower every single day unless you're working in a coal mine. It dries out and destroys your skin. All you need to do is take a whore bath. Yes, I said that. That's what my grandmother used to call them. It's when you wash the necessary parts, under your arms, below the waist, your feet, hands and under your breasts if you have them, then move on. Oh.. and your face, of course. You don't need to dunk yourself in water to get clean.
Don't use hot, hot water on your face in the mornings. Cold is better. Hot dries it out, then flakes it off. It's bad. Hot: Bad. Cold: Good.
Note: Your quality of drinking water is paramount. You want as high alkaline water as is possible. The best is spring water, but if you live in a city, look for bottled alkaline water. Example: Southern California is already turning sewer and wastewater into drinking water. They use a process called reverse osmosis. The good news is that it's super clean- everything has been eliminated. The bad news is that everything has been eliminated. What?!?
This actually has a negative effect on your body. RO has killed everything in the water, so your calcium and magnesium minerals are gone, too. Without these, the body actually loses electrolytes, and mineral & water metabolism in the body is compromised. This results in impaired heart conditions, headaches, muscle cramps and more. The pH levels are also dropped, resulting in higher acidity. This causes more free radicals to run rampant. And everyone knows free radicals cause damage to cells, resulting in faster aging processes. So if you're in a city that uses a filtration system like this, start purchasing or finding bottled, high alkaline water. Or find a spring somewhere. Don't rely on your tap water for good health.
2. Exercise. Old fashioned, hard, time consuming exercise. Do it.
3. Eat healthier. You don't have to be a health nazi. Just cut way down on the sugars, refined garbage- and oh, we Americans have a bad habit of eating a dinner plate with mostly meat and a few side vegetables. Reverse that. And more raw veggies is better than anything. Don't cook the good out of them.
Now for the weird stuff:
1. Let yourself feel crushes on people and engage in flirting, enjoying love scenes in movies, and looking at photos of people you're attracted to. Yes, that's right, and I'm not crazy. This stimulates the pituitary, which is responsible for the cocktail of reproductive hormones you need to sustain a youthful appearance. It's real. Now don't go around obsessing over people and creeping them out; flirting can either be done decently and within boundaries, or you can turn into a real nut job and scare the crap out of people. Don't do that. Flirting is supposed to be fun, non-serious, and open. NON serious. It's just a feeling. A fleeting one. Treat it as such and don't be a weirdo.
When we stop feeling crushes, sensual fire for each other and we repress our sexuality, our pituitary gland takes it's cue to stop producing those hormones. It goes, "Oh.. okay, we're done now? Time to get old.." That's when testosterone levels in men and estrogen in women drop significantly, fat is displaced throughout the body, and we start losing collagen faster. Men lose their hair, women lose their libido. It all goes to pot. We get fat, old, and thin haired. Oh.. and cranky- because we're fat, old, and thin haired.
Note to dudes in serious relationships: Giving your woman a hard time for feeling innocent, playful crushes on people who aren't you- and demanding she hide or repress those feelings- will result in a significant drop of breast volume. The repression and depressive guilt for making you pissy about it will cause her pituitary to decrease the hormonal production responsible for voluptuous and healthy breasts. So stop it. It's just a crush; nothing but dopamine and serotonin, and it's part of being alive.
2. Use growth factor serums. Real ones. They're expensive, but set aside the money. I know this goes against the whole "on a budget" thing.. but we tend to save our money for things we really want once in awhile, anyway. Think of it as another necessary bill if you need to. This is an alternative to tightening surgery if you seriously don't wanna grow old gracefully. Growth factor serums are the only serums that can really get down under the skin and stimulate the regrowth of collagen. Some brands even use stem cells in their formulas. Don't get the cheap stuff; it's not real. Go ahead and save your money and research the best brands. It's still less expensive than invasive treatments. One of the best is Skinmedica TNS Essential Serum. It's super expensive. If you're like me and your funds are tighter though, you can try out PCA Skin Total Strength Serum.. it's around 80 dollars. I've found it on sale for 50 before. I haven't got highway craters in my face yet, so I don't have to go for anything too crazy at this point. It works for me, for now.
3. Moisturize! I do declare, I can't stress this enough- especially for white people. Pale skin is thin, and doesn't have enough melanin to protect it. It ages faster. You have to take better care of your skin, white people. Aside from us weird white cave fish, everyone should be moisturizing. Even those with oily skin- just find a moisturizer that works for oily skin types and apply to a very clean face. I have dry skin, and I keep myself lubricated constantly. All over. Moisturize forever.
4. Soap: Do not use crappy soap, especially on your face. The more it lathers, the worse it is for your skin. There is a chemical called sodium lauryl sulfate that companies use to make soaps lather. This is done because we consumers are used to the idea that if something lathers, that means it cleans better. This is untrue. This chemical will actually rip your skin and dry it out. It's cheap, spreads out the recipe, and sells on the basis of psychological brainwashing. Soap is meant to decrease the surface tension of water, and its fats are binding themselves to dirt and bacteria. This causes the dirt and gross stuff to wash down the drain with the soap when you rinse. The reason it's harder to get clean using water only is because water and oil don't mix. And we're usually oily when we're dirty. So find a soap that's not sporting too much sodium lauryl sulfate, and you should be good.
There. There are some easy things to do to sustain your youth. It's not hard, and the serums I mentioned are way less expensive than laser resurfacing treatments and surgery. I'm not talking out of my ass. I went to school for Phlebotomy and learned a ton of information about blood, hormones and cellular structure. This is a rare post, and it will probably never happen again. So I hope you enjoy.
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