🧐25 Genius Hacks for How to Look Younger

When you sleep, gravity pools fluid around your lower eyelids, where the skin is soft and elastic, causing under-eye puffiness. To avoid the bags and maintain a more youthful appearance, slip an extra pillow under your head. This will encourage gravity to drain the eye area.

Chilled spoons also work. They fit perfectly over your eyes, and the metal remains cold just long enough to be effective for about 10 minutes.

2. Put on an act.

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“People don’t remember facts and figures, they remember impressions,” says Karen Friedman, president of Karen Friedman Enterprises, which helps CEOs and celebrities become more effective communicators. To leave an impression of strength, youth, and vitality, be more animated. It’ll make you come across as commanding, credible, authoritative, and confident. Practice your delivery in front of a friend or a mirror, keeping these tips in mind:

• Project your voice. A booming voice sounds more youthful than a whisper. Imagine you are talking directly to the person in the back of the room.
• Speak slower. Quick talkers appear anxious. Pace your words at around 130 per minute.
• Straighten up. “The way you carry yourself sets the tone for how people will respond,” says celebrity voice coach Renee Grant-Williams. A hunched-over posture will make you look old before your time. In Voice Power, Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, and Command Attention, Grant-Williams recommends “the position of power,” a stance that radiates power and control:
• Stand and balance on the balls of your feet. Tuck under slightly for support. Keep your shoulders down. Arch up with the back of your neck. Keep your chin low. Look up from below.

3. Run and feed your brain.

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