We all know how much better we feel when we get a great night sleep! Getting enough sleep has to become a conscious priority. A lesser known fact is that how we sleep can affect our aging!

Here are three great tips to avoid additional aging to your skin!

• Avoid sleeping with your face touching your pillow.
  Sleeping with your face touching your pillow is proven to be one of the major causes of permanent deep lines and wrinkles. We have all woken up with these annoying creases on our faces.
  
  Certain positions night after night leads to sleep lines - wrinkles that become etched onto the surface of our skin. Sleeping on your side can cause wrinkles on cheeks and chin while sleeping face down can give you a furrowed brow.
  
  The most ideal way to sleep is on your back. It's been proven not only to help prevent wrinkles, but it also provides a number of other great health benefits too!

• Consider a silk pillow case.
  If you wake up with sleep lines, another cause may be that your skin is being pulled by the pillow case. Movement at night paired with a unforgiving pillow case may cause crease lines in your skin.
  
  With silk, your skin is able to slide easily and won’t get tugged or pulled against your pillow at night.

• Sleep slightly elevated to prevent eye puffiness. 
  The skin underneath our eyes is very thin. One of the main causes for eye puffiness is due to water pooling in that area and gravity weighing down while we sleep.
  
  To prevent this from occurring, sleep with your head slightly elevated.

Try these tips for yourself! You'll be pleasantly surprised to see some real changes when you look at your beautiful face in the mirror first thing in the morning!

Beauty sleep is not a myth! It is absolutely real! Sleep is the ultimate gift we can give to both our bodies and our skin.

Most of us require seven to eight hours of sleep per night, with very few who can get by with less. There are those who don't think they need to meet this minimum, but as a result, they are actually aging at an accelerated rate.

 
What happens to your skin while you are sleeping?
 
Sleep is the time when our body is able to heal, repair, and replenish itself. While we sleep our skin is replacing collagen and elastin that has been damaged by sun exposure, stress, and environmental pollutants. Cell turnover is eight to ten times faster during this time! Due to this regeneration period, your skincare products can penetrate deeper and absorb better while you sleep. Right before bed is the perfect time to slather on your stronger, targeted skincare products.

 
Lack of sufficient quality sleep can lead to accelerated aging. Pale skin, dark circles, puffy eyes, and non-rosy cheeks are all signs of sleep deprivation. Definitely not the look we're going for! Experts and researchers have proven that sufficient sleep each night has a definite correlation to our skin looking younger, healthier and more radiant.

 
Start tonight by giving your skin the ultimate gift - sleep!

What is a woman's true beauty?
 

True Beauty comes from within and works its way out.
 

True Beauty is self esteem, self respect, a woman that is secure within herself.
 

True Beauty is a woman who embraces who she is and does not try to be something different or someone else.
 

True Beauty occurs when she recognizes what makes her unique.
 

True Beauty does not exist until she embraces it, integrates it and owns it as a part of who she is.
 

Treasure your beauty - your beauty within.