Your eyes are your window to the world

 Simple tips on how to achieve stunning and beautiful eyes.

They say that eyes are the windows to the soul, but your eyes can also speak volumes about your general health, your physical and mental well-being. We smile, laugh, and cry with our eyes. No wonder the most important human contact is called eye contact. Maybe that’s also the reason why eye creams often cost three times as much as facial creams? Our eyes cry for more care, and not necessarily in the form of cucumber slices after a heavy night out or yet another slick of eye cream in a desperate attempt to erase those lines. How can we expect our eyes to look bright and beautiful if we deprive them of the most important things required for their health: sleep and good humor?

The skin surrounding our eyes is the most fragile on our bodies. Just as the rest of our face, the eye area is constantly withstanding the aging effects of the sun, pollution, smoke, and poor diet, but unlike our facial skin, this skin area hasf ewer oil glands to remain soft and pliable and fewer blood vessels to remain nourished. That’s why you need to double your efforts to nourish your eye area from inside and outside. Taking care of the eye:

1. The eye area is very sensitive, so if there’s one product you can afford to buy organic, make it your eye cream. You can try using… To add extra nourishment to the eye area, set aside a lightweight, “dry” skin oil such as jojoba, chia, cucumber, or argan oil for the use around eyes only. To enrich your eye cream, apply a few drops of the oil of your choice to your fingertips and gently massage (do not pull your skin!) along the eye socket toward your temples. Gentle eye massage also promotes lymph circulation, which helps reduce puffiness and dark circles.

2. Go chic with sunglasses as long as it’s not raining cats and dogs. Large sunglasses not only look glamorous, they also protect your sensitive eye area much better. Make sure your sunglasses are protecting from all types of sun rays (UVA and UVB). But most important, choose the ones that look and feel nice. You must love your sunglasses, otherwise you won’t be wearing them as often as necessary. Stick to one brand if their frames feel comfortable all day long.

3. Always remove eye makeup before cleansing your face. The simplest eye makeup remover is thin oil such as jojoba, sweet almond, or grape seed, but you can use any oil you have in your kitchen cabinet (as long as it contains no chili peppers!). Saturate a cotton pad with some oil and rub gently aiming toward the temple. Use a fresh pad for each eye—and feel free to use clean sides to remove other long-lasting bits of makeup such as lipstick. Whichever eye makeup remover product you use, take care not to not pull your skin. If you wear waterproof or long-lasting makeup, repeat the procedure before using your regular face cleansers, which will take care of any makeup remover residue.

FEED YOUR EYES

As your skin needs nutrients to remain resilient and bright, so do your eyes. There is solid scientific evidence that you can protect your vision from age-related degradation by enriching your diet with lots and lots of eye-specific antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. The best way to obtain antioxidants is from fresh fruit and vegetables—the more colorful, the better.

Eye-nourishing antioxidants are abundant in purple fruit and vegetables— for example, eggplant, red cabbage, dark grapes, blackberries, and blueberries. They contain flavonoids lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants responsible for sharp vision. Zinc, copper, and vitamin C which helps protect your vision from age-related changes such as glaucoma. Luckily, these supplements are also known to protect your skin from premature aging and to generally improve your immunity.

Essential omega-3 fatty acids are some of the most important supplements for your skin and eyes. The retina has a high concentration of omega-3, particularly DHA . Omega-3s protect eye cells from inflammation, free radicals, neurotoxins, and environmental aggressors. All good reasons to eat more fish or invest in a high-quality omega-3 supplement.

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