For starters, a smile will make you look ten years younger. It will also increase and deepen the wrinkles around your mouth area. So that's a double edged sword for you.

I would suggest for starters to avoid baking your faces under the sun. Tanning looks good and hides blemishes and even panda eyes, but the after-effects of prolonged tanning on your face and other skin areas of your body will lead to wrinkles developing faster and earlier in age. So if you must tan, then go with the spray-on ones that have less side effects and carcinogens. Unless you look English and have a pasty white complexion, I believe you should just look the way you do and be happy with that.

For blemishes, I do suggest salicylic acid because this stuff works wonders on acne. It promotes the deadening of the top layers of skin and new skin layers appear. The drawback to this is that once you start using the acid, you must keep on using it until the blemish is gone. For acne, you must use it around the area of the acne too.

A great secret, well it really isn't a secret, is to make sure you drink plenty of water each and every day and just urinate out all your toxins. Eight cups of water is the standard and it really makes a difference. Youthful skin is full of collagen and moisture and that moisture is nothing other than water. Treat your face to a spritz of water everyday, it just feels good and your skin has to drink too, right?

As for sleep, if you want to look beautiful long-term wise, make sure you catch those zzzs and sleep early to wake up early. Make sure you get yourselves in bed at around 10 and wake around 8. Why? Why must you waste your days? During the midnight and beyond hours, for many, the brain just stops working. Unless of course this is how it works for you... college students mostly who sleep at 4AM to wake at 4PM. Sleep has been shown to help one burn more fat... Doesn't that sound wonderful?

With products, I don't believe in the expensive ones found at department stores. They do seem to smell prettier but do they actually work better? I believe in Vitamin E, Coenzyme Q10, and Retinol A.

Keep your fruit and vegetable intake levels high and make sure you have enough fiber. If you keep toxins in your body, it will show. The effects of constipation will make you look nasty and feel nastier. Have lots of protein and oils high in HDL and Vitamn C and other antioxidents.

All in all, if you take care of yourself, it will show on your face. There are twenty-year olds who look like they are forty and vice versa. If you smoke, go clubbing til the mornings on a frequent basis, drink like there is no tomorrow, and tan yourself til you become a prune, you will become an LOL in no time. Little old lady as my professor fondly calls them.