The skin on your legs gets looser with age and even the tiniest bit of weight gain that you might have. There’s nothing worse than when beach season arrives and you don’t have the confidence to show off your legs.
However with the right persistence and techniques you can restore the tightness of your leg skin and make them look young again.
Here‘s just a couple of steps you can take to help your legs regain their youth.
Stimulate your legs
This is the most important thing; your legs need to stimulate regularly to ensure that cellulite and other nasty things don’t appear. You can achieve this through regular exercise, massages or friction. You’re aiming to get the blood flowing through your body better to promote the skin healing properties that increased blood circulation brings.
Regular massages or simply using the shower head to blast your legs with hot and cold water are both effective techniques. If you opt to have a massage at home either from yourself or you partner make sure that you go from the bottom to top direction. Push the blood towards your heart and get it flowing.
Fluid and food intake
Managing your fluids is important when it comes to maintaining healthy skin. Make sure you are drinking plenty of still mineral water and aim to eliminate any excess fluids in your system. Massages are a great way again to eliminate fluids from your body.
Making sure you have a balanced diet is also important for your skin. High levels of insulin in your diet can cause cellulite due to the increase of fat that your body produces. To avoid the potential risk of cellulite a diet that is low in net carbs and high in healthy fats Travel is a great way to combat and prevent cellulite as well as diabetes.
Skin up-keep
Make sure that you are always moisturising and massaging your legs to make sure that they look young. Exfoliating every day and applying skin tightening cream can result in some drastic changes.
Removing any dead skin promotes healthy skin growth as well as giving your skin a certain glow to it. When applying any type of product make sure that you once again rub it in from bottom to top pushing everything towards your heart.
Consult medical advice
There are just some conditions that can’t go away from home remedies such as varicose veins. This nasty condition doesn’t just affect geriatrics but young adults and even teenagers as well. The bulging blood vessels really take a toll on your legs and make you look older than you really are.
There are ways to reduce the effects at home but none to actually get rid of it. Luckily there is something you can do to give your legs back their aesthetics. Professional varicose vein clinics can reverse the effects if you get on to them soon enough. The procedure can give you back your confidence when going to the beach next time.
Even celebrities can be affected by varicose veins, including the 2012 Miss England. Being diagnosed with the condition in their early teens is hard for anyone especially an aspiring model. However she sought vein treatment and was able to regain her confidence and go to the beach without covering up.
You can gain your confidence back as well by following some of these simple techniques. Have a look at what is holding your legs back the most and develop a plan of attack. Set in an exercise and diet routine that can transform you both physically and mentally and get you ready for your next beach visit.
Remember that things take time as well. The big thing is persistence to make sure that you can recapture the youth for your legs.