Face Spots, Face Skin Age Spots Cover Up Tips

What is the best way to cover-up age spots?


The high tech answer to age spots is to visit your friendly dermatologist and let him or her zap your age spots away with a laser. That's the easiest way to deal with age spots, and you won't have to worry about covering them.



There are creams that fade age spots by the use of bleaching agents, usually some kind of peroxide, but creams take time and persistence, and they may not always do the job you hope they will. Depending on where the age spots are located, you may cover them with your foundation or with a heavier concealer. For hands, backs and other locations, you may want a waterproof, smudgeproof concealer. On your face, you may get by with an extra dot or two of a lighter foundation, followed by your regular color.

oily skin care

What is the best skin care routine for oil skin types?

The best skin care routine for oily skin is to be as gentle as you would if you had paper dry skin. The major mistake many people make with oily skin is in believing that you can beat it into submission with hot water, steam, toners, masks and topicals, when in fact what it truly wants is a little understanding. Oily skin is trying to protect itself from a harsh environment, and making its world even harsher through heat, cold or chemicals, will tend to make it produce more oil than ever.

Wash your face with lukewarm water—never hot and never sold—and a cleanser for oily or even normal skin. Don't scrub or rub, just lave with water, the way you would delicate lingerie. Follow with a light, oil free moisturizer. That's right; your skin needs moisture, as in something water based, preferably with skin soothing components like calendula, aloe vera and lavender oil. If you can find products with significant amounts of green tea extract (look in the first six ingredients), you'll also be doing nice things for your skin cells.

The best makeup for oily skin is mineral makeup, which goes on lightly, can be easily layered for more coverage, minimizes pores, contains no irritants and absorbs oil. It won't clog your pores, and it has a natural SPF, too. At the end of the day, take off your makeup with a lukewarm splash of water and a light cleanser, followed by a toner that contains no alcohol. Alcohol irritates the skin. If you want to make your own toner, use a combination of green tea you steeped yourself and cucumber juice, which you'll want to keep in the fridge. Just make a cup at a time, to keep it fresh.

For blemishes, use straight tea tree oil, preferably at night, so the smell won't bother anyone else. You can buy tea tree oil in dab-on anti-blemish tubes at most drugstores, or just get a bottle of your own and touch it on with your finger. It's a powerful antibacterial, and clears up pimples like nothing else can.

Hand skin softness and care looking young

How can I keep the skin on my hands looking young?


Our great grandmothers knew that to keep hands looking young, one needed several pairs of gloves. Anytime you're even tempted to do housework, don a pair of rubber or vinyl gloves to protect your skin from dust, cleaners and water. If you're gardening, put on your gloves before you even touch your pruning shears. In fact, put on a layer of hand cream and then your gardening gloves, and don't settle for the cotton kind that let the dirt rub through: get some lines ones. At night, before bed, rub on the thickest hand cream you can find (some people use Crisco), and slip on a pair of white cotton gloves. Basically, the more time you spend moisturized and gloved, the less time will affect your hands.



Aside from age itself causing hands to look aged, sun is the major culprit. Lots of women who wouldn't dream of leaving the house without SPF 30 on their faces forget to put it also on their dainty little paws. There's nothing more aging than sunlight, so anytime you get ready to go outside, rub a nice layer of sunscreen on your hands as well as your face and neck.