When Wearing Emotions Wear You

Face it: your emotions affect your appearance. Spending $700.00 on Pipe Dream in a Pot isn’t going to change that fact. And it’s not just too much booze or how you normally schmooze your self-esteem. How you feel really does show up all over your face.   — BadWitch

Readers Are Spellbound & Perplexed…

Dear GWBW — I’ve been either super happy or super stressed lately. Normally, I’m a pretty balanced person, I’ve just had a lot of high drama situations the last month. I’m noticing my emotions affect my looks. Why?  — All Over My Face

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Dear Face Time,

My advice in a word, Sweetface: chlliax! The good news is you’re not alone during this challenging financial year and especially this holiday season. I’m big on the Wisdom of the Body a.k.a. somatic psychology, so it’s not a huge jump for me to know from personal mind-body-spirit experience and coaching that your mood (and lifestyle choices) do affect your looks both positively and negatively. But studies back this philosophy up.

During happier times, our hair and nails grow faster, and our skin “behaves” or even glows. These are in response to your brain’s serotonin and oxytocin production, or as we call them — the Happy Hormones — and their positive reaction and role in healthy, more optimal, body function. Studies show these good effects extend to the body’s other organs such as those involved in digestion, circulation, and detoxification.

Conversely, when we are facing life’s challenges of circumstances, health or mood, our brains create more of the stress hormones including cortisol and adrenaline. On the looks front, eczema and acne can flare up. Chronic stress forces the body to store fat at three (3xs) times the normal rate and contributes to obesity, and can also lead to heart disease and diabetes.

The key — as your Witches always say — is less stress, more life living. Not just the spike of new year’s resolutions. Go workout, have an orgasm, or chillax with friends and LOL, Gorgeous!, all surefire ways to better looks through better hormones and body and brain function. This is also the key to building and maintaining a lifestyle foundation of more health and emotional balance. Learn to express your emotions healthily (includes maturity) when you experience them — but if you can’t immediately get yourself to a better place, do your face a longer-term favor: avoid mirrors until you can!

Smiling is a free looks booster,

BW

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Dear All Over My Face,

It’s not just your imagination. Stress can negatively affect appearance. Sounds crazy? Well, it turns out stress actually causes an increase in the rate of aging, affecting skin elasticity. Of course that along with stress break outs, dark circles under the eyes caused by lack of sleep and puffy eyes are al part of the stress out facial package. What’s a hottie to do?

Give yourself a de-stress facial. You can use your favorite store bought mask or make your own. For a homemade facial sure to perk up your complexion and your attitude, start with a green tea steam. Place a tea bag (green tea) in a large mouth bowl of filtered water and heat in the microwave until steaming. Then lean over the steam and cover your head and bowl with a large towel, so the steam is trapped inside. Breathe deeply, relax and enjoy.

Once you’re done, take a break with a skin conditioning a facemask. For a great homemade mask combine the following ingredients a blender:

½ cup dried apricot

½ cup plain yogurt

2 tablespoon of honey

4 drops chamomile essential oil

When you mixed in a smooth paste, you can apply to your face. If, it seems a little runny, add oatmeal to thicken. Yogurt is a deep moisturizer for the skin and apricots are chock full of Vitamin A, which can revitalize dull, colorless skin.

As for your high drama, emotional life, take a no more drama vow. It’s not worth being right. Sometimes, it’s worth letting it go—for the sake of your skin, health and happiness. Take time to meditate each morning, even if it’s just for 5 minutes in the shower. Breathe deeply. Call back your energy from the rest of the world and allow yourself to plug into source to refill. You’ll have more energy for yourself, feel more balanced and, quite frankly, have radiant, glowing skin. After all beauty comes from the inside out.

Happy Shining,

GoodWitch

P.S. One final beauty recommendation—Glowelle, a beauty drink filled with the vitamins and nutrients that nourish the skin. You’ll feel more energized because you will be getting your vitamins and you’re skin will glow—hence the name.

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