With so many anti-aging tricks and hacks, it’s not easy to decide which method to start with for a younger, fresher look.
Luckily, a 50-year-old woman who claims to look 15 years younger has taken to TikTok to share her “most powerful” beauty secret, but it’s not what you think.
The creator, who goes by the username Michelle Silva, currently has 72,000 followers and is known for embodying youth with a timeless beauty mindset.
Kicking off her video, titled “The Best Anti-Aging Secrets to Look 15 Years Younger,” she said: “The best anti-aging beauty secrets from a 50-year-old who has mastered a youthful look, and the last one is the most powerful of them all.”
The first tip she shared is quite common and well-known in the beauty world – stay out of the sun.
Michelle said: “One, stay out of the sun, get an effective mineral sunscreen and always wear a hat and sunglasses when you’re outside.”
Excessive exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays can adversely affect your skin, causing sunburns that can blister and peel the skin and in turn promote premature aging, resulting in leathery and wrinkled looking skin.
Her next tip is to get eight hours of sleep, she said: “Eight to nine hours of sleep, it’s called beauty rest for a reason. Getting eight to nine hours of sleep gives your skin the best chance to repair, regenerate and stay youthful. Prioritizing sleep is the simplest and most effective way to maintain a radiant, youthful skin.”
Michelle’s third step is skin care, she suggests using vitamin C, retinol, moisturizer and sunscreen. However, his final and “most powerful” anti-aging secret is to “block the dormant power of aging in your mind.”
He shared: “I call this the ageless mindset. Every thought or thought about getting older causes a physical reaction, your thoughts have consequences and they create chemical reactions in your body.
“Your brain and nervous system react to images of yourself, whether real or imagined, so when you worry about aging, you program an image you don’t want and your subconscious mind is a spirit. It says your wishes, my commands, so it fulfills the image you set.
“The beauty industry classifies mature skin as 40 years old, if you say so and believe so, then your wish is my command, your imagination and ability to see yourself younger, the belief that you can slow down the aging process is more powerful than any medical knowledge that can prove that it cannot be done .”
Michelle concluded: “I turned 50 yesterday and I can promise you that when you start adopting new beliefs you can prevent premature aging, slow down aging and even reverse aging and when you take all these anti aging secrets into account you can look better at 50 than you ever have looked like in his 20s, 30s and 40s.”
