Wednesday 7 May 2014

Five ways sleep works wonders for your beauty

Who doesn’t like a good night’s sleep? But with deadlines, work overload and stress, sleep is the last thing on our minds these days and sooner or later, sleep deprivation starts showing its effects on our health and overall well-being, including our skin and hair. While you may be more concerned about your health than your beauty, remember, your skin shows the first signs. It is important to catch up on beauty sleep if you want to look beautiful for the rest of your life. Here’s how sleep helps skin and hair.

Delays premature ageing of skin
Wrinkles, fine lines, crow’s feet – if you wish to keep them at bay, it is essential you sleep regularly. Since women’s skins are delicate than men’s, it becomes all the more important that they catch their beauty sleep. These days, wrinkles appear earlier in one’s late 20s as opposed to after 35-40 in earlier days. The fast-paced lifestyle has brought about several changes and sleep deprivation is one of them.Quality sleep can lead to ageing of skin. Therefore, make sure you get 7-8 hours of shut eye every night.

Prevents under-eye dark circles
Now this one is a no-brainer! Have sleepless nights too often? Get dark circles complimentary with it. The blood vessels under your eyes become easily visible through your skin when you do not sleep. These appear as dark circles. Puffy eyes is another problem for sleep deprived people. You can conceal dark circles with make-up or even home remedies but understand the root cause of it is most often lack of sleep.

Keeps you looking youthful
When you get adequate sleep, your skin feels fresh and young. This is because, it is not under any stress and the skin cells are repairing themselves at night. When you miss out on sleep, they do not get a chance to do so and you appear tired and older than you actually are.

Prevents hair loss
Yes, sleep deprivation is a factor for you losing your hair. You may not realise it but to maintain a full head of hair, you need to catch up on sleep. You cannot renew hair follicles in a stressed out state of mind. And if more hair follicles die than new ones produced, you can end up losing hair at a fast rate. If you are losing more than 100 strands of hair on a daily basis, it is a wake-up call to sleep right.

Helps your skin rejuvenate
Research has shown that people who do not sleep well have skin which cannot rejuvenate as quickly as others who do. Our skin is exposed several external and internal factors which hamper its recovery process such as sun exposure, stress, pollution, etc. If you miss out on sleep, you are further hampering your skin’s rejuvenation process making it weaker and less elastic.

So do not compromise on your beauty sleep. Also remember, binge sleeping over the weekend will not do you any good. You need to follow a consistent sleeping pattern for your skin and body to stay healthy. Sleeping too much can also have a negative effect on your skin and your face can end up looking puffy and swollen. So, get the right amount of shut-eye i.e. 7-8 hours.

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