Handmade

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

“The age of a woman, first of all, is betrayed by her hands and neck” - this peremptory statement has become almost a proverb that can be easily verified in practice: watch women! Let the most diverse representatives of the fair sex participate in your "thought experiment" - of different ages, social and professional status, you can add here the difference in the signs of the Zodiac …

Anything - your goal is to find out if your hands are really vulnerable to unforgiving time in the first place? And can careful hand care exclude an unpleasant moment when it becomes clear to everyone around: your hands betray your entire age, or even add a dozen or two years to you.

In the meantime, while you are busy with the serious theoretical part of your research, try to put into practice a few of the following tips for caring for your hands.

• Housework is the main enemy of the smoothness and softness of the skin of your hands. And if you cannot completely eliminate this harmful factor from life, gloves (rubber or thread) are an excellent way out! Of course, putting on gloves in order to rinse a couple of teacups is advice, to put it mildly, not intended for the realities of life. But … promise yourself solemnly that for the Big cleaning - washing - cleaning you will still use it. And for such a holiday, I advise you to purchase special rubber gloves on a cotton basis - they fit perfectly and do not cause discomfort, which ordinary rubber gloves are famous for. In addition, seeing you so impressively equipped for labor exploits (you can also put on a cap from a newspaper for greater effect), your beloved may not withstand the pangs of conscience. And she will join you, so as not to put the burden of work on such a sensitive girl.
• There are two types of hand creams - moisturizing and protective. Protective is best used during the day, as it covers the skin with a special film. By the way, "radical" protective creams can be bought at the pharmacy - these are the so-called professional products for doctors who have to wash their hands an infinite number of times a day. Use a moisturizing hand cream at night. In order not to forget about this obligatory procedure, place the tube of cream directly on the bedside table. Or next to the lamp switch - that is, where it will be reachable, even if you have already settled down and are terribly reluctant to get up for forgotten hand cream. Over time, applying cream to your hands at night will become as natural for you as brushing your teeth. By the way, just one regular, everyday use of hand cream will make their skin almost perfect.
• For the skin of the hands, you need to periodically use scrubs (a body scrub is quite suitable) or hard washcloths - by exfoliating keratinized particles, you help the skin to remain young (exfoliation stimulates the regeneration process). Regular use of exfoliating products (once a week is enough) will help you avoid the pigmentation that often accompanies aging of the skin on your hands. And it looks just awful!
• By the way, I suggest you set aside a day for your hands once a week: masks and peels, and then a manicure - in a word, everything that is a holiday for your hands, and real relaxation for your nerves. Even self-esteem such procedures are only beneficial: you can always remind yourself that "for yourself, beloved" you are trying with might and main! (And not only for this monster - a devourer of your time and energy … A monster, by the way, is not necessarily a husband, although he first of all comes to mind …)

So, hand skin masks

1. Add a little honey and sour cream to the rest of the brewed coffee. "Lather" your hands with this mass, massage and wash off.

2. Mix the grated raw potato with a teaspoon of honey and add a few drops of lemon juice. Spread the mask on your hands, hold it for five minutes and wash it off. Lubricate your hands with moisturizer.

3. If time is running out or laziness has completely overcome, simply wipe your hands with a slice of lemon.

• Each time making a hand mask, massage the skin, only very gently, trying not to stretch it. Cosmetologists advise to start the massage from the fingertips, then go directly to the fingers themselves, then to the palm. You need to finish the massage on the back of the hand. It is not necessary to do a massage every time with a mask, sometimes it is enough to smear your hands with cream, the main thing is to persuade yourself to find the time and perform this magical action! And then, convinced of its undoubted effectiveness, alternate massage with a mask and massage with cream. Reflexologists have long proven the fact that there are a lot of active points on the hands and directly on the fingers, acting on which (for example, massage), you can tone the body as a whole. So, if your mood is at zero, massage your index fingers properly. If magnetic storms are not an empty phrase for you, actively rub the nameless one. And best of all - massage of all fingers - it normalizes the functioning of internal organs and calms the nerves.
• The nails turned yellow from varnish are lightened with lemon juice. But well-known companies such as Revlon or Mavala have special lightening products. In order to avoid the hated yellowness, use a special base for varnish, especially if you are a lover of bright, colored varnishes. Each well-known manufacturer of nail varnishes has its own proposals on this score: and L'Oreal, in addition to excellent colored and transparent varnishes, has a whole range of varnishes specially for care for the beauty of your nails. This is a base for varnish; gloss varnish with which you cover your nails over regular varnish; varnish, "cementing" the usual, colored, allowing it to hold much longer; varnish that makes your nails hard, does not allow them to exfoliate and break … In short, there is something to choose. Did you know that a familiar metal file is the cause of split nails? This is a proven fact. From now on, use a special cardboard with the so-called "diamond coating". Drive it in only one direction, and not out of the "back and forth" habit: this file very quickly cuts off unnecessary things, there is a risk of overdoing it a little.
• Surely, you have heard that nowadays the alternative method of conventional manicure is "dry". "Dry manicure" is a hardware procedure when a softening solution is applied to the cuticles, and then the "excess", rough skin is removed using a special machine with various attachments. This method is becoming more and more popular because the risk of injury is reduced to almost zero, namely wounds and infections, in our "turbulent" time, and visitors to manicure salons are wary (and rightly so). By the way, such a machine for "dry manicure" can be bought for home use. If you prefer a salon manicure, pay attention to the fact that every decent salon has in the list of offers not only, in fact, a manicure, but also special procedures for caring for your hands with the help of professional cosmetics. You can sometimes pamper yourself!
• Hands are your main "production tool", both when you are engaged in physical labor, and when you "create" with a keyboard or ballpoint pen. And, for sure, after especially strenuous "labor exploits" you feel how tired they are … And working at a computer, in general, provokes the appearance of such a disease as repetitive stress injury (RTI) - your hard workers, fingers, though not much, but that's it. they beat the keys for a long time and without interruption! So, pauses in work are simply necessary.

And in between you can do some special hand exercises:

1. Squeeze and unclench your hands vigorously several times.

2. Rotate with your hands clenched into fists.

3. Shake your hands down and relaxed in the air.

Considering the general and useful hobby for yoga, take advantage of the advice of experts offering a set of exercises "Yoga for Hands":

1. Spread your arms out to the sides and relax your palms. Twirl the mime clockwise several times. Put your arms down and relax your hands. Repeat the exercise counterclockwise.

2. While standing, straighten your shoulders and spread your arms to the sides. Clench and unclench your fists with force.

3. Bring your bent arms together at chest level, as in prayer. Press firmly on the palms. Remain in this position for a few seconds with tense arms. Put your hands down and relax. Repeat the exercise several times.

These exercises increase blood circulation, strengthen muscles and rejuvenate the skin of the hands.

Someone likes to build giant silicone nails, you may well be a fan of neat French manicure - but in any case, the beauty and grooming of your hands are extremely pleasant and pleasing to the eye. In a word, as it is sung in the famous song "Everything is in your hands!"