Well, ok, it’s not so much a “secret” because Heather Locklear revealed this anti aging beauty secret in an interview I read a while ago, and it’s something that quite a few women are aware of now, and one of the practices I have instituted in my own personal anti aging regimen. It’s a very simple, and free thing to do. Some people may not prefer it this way, or like to do it in other ways. Give up?
It’s the way you sleep at night. What I mean is, what position you sleep in at night. Do you sleep on your side, or on your back? If you sleep on your side, you’re doing it wrong. Simply sleeping on your side can actually accelerate the wrinkling process, and can make the skin fold in unnatural ways that will make themselves evident in permanent wrinkles if you continue to sleep in the same position.
Think about it, if you sleep on your side, you’re essentially scrunching your face one on side for 8-10 hours in a 24 hour period, so of course your skin is going to eventually form in that way. A perfect example of this is when I started to notice that when I was a side and back sleeper, the nights I would sleep on my side, I would wake up with a crease down the side of my face on the side I slept on. Not only that, but there was a crease between my breasts, from them pressing together.
If I had continued to sleep that way, those creases would have taken longer and longer to go away, and eventually they would become permanent. Sleeping on your side can not only result in additional random creases on the facial area, but also can make crow’s feet worse.
Heather Locklear disclosed in an article for a beauty and health magazine (can’t remember which) that one of the biggest beauty secrets her grandmother taught her was to sleep on her back, and that’s part of why she feels she’s remained so youthful looking. Hey, if sleeping on my back will help me age as gracefully as her, I’m all in!
