MAKE YOUR EYES BEAUTIFUL
Eyes, soft like flowers, passionate and filled with magic, attract everyone. Everyone looks in the eyes first. This is the most essential and influential part of the body.
Though beautiful eyes are a blessing, normal eyes can also be made effective with care, make-up and intellect.
Ladies understand the importance of the eyes. Still, they become careless in preserving beauty. Neither do they give them proper rest or nutritious food.
HEALTH
If you want your eyes to be attractive, keep yourself healthy. When you have good health, the eyes will naturally shine and glow. Take food full of proteins and vitamins. Food with vitamin A is incredibly beneficial. Take a lot of green vegetables, apricot, plum, date and carrot too. Take half a lemon in warm water an hour before breakfast; it is very beneficial.
PROBLEMS
Tiredness: Regular and enough sleep is necessary for the eyes. Your eyes will look dull and tired if you don’t sleep enoughfor at least 8 hours daily. If you go to bed late and don’t have enough sleep, for some reason, you will have a headache and pain in the eyes the next day. The skin around your eyes also turns black if you don’t have sound sleep. Thus, choose a peaceful, lonely place to sleep so you can sleep welland feel fresh the following day.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO?
• Wash your eyes with rose water; it will cool the eyes.
• Remove make-up from the eyes portion and keep two slices of cucumber over them to give rest.
• Rub a piece of ice on your face and keep flocks of cotton soaked in ice-cold water on the eyes. Your face and eyes will feel relaxed.
• Keep both of your feet on the wall (at some height ) and rest in a dark room for about 10 minutes. This way, blood circulation to the heart will increase, and your whole body will feel fresh.
• Cover your eyes with your palms for some time. Sprinkle cold water and cotton flocks in Eau-de-Cologne and keep them on the eyes.
• Wash your forehead, temple and eyes with cold water a few times to give your eyes a rest.
• Don’t let your eyes get very tired as far as possible. Tired eyes give you pain and make the face dull and unattractive.
• Hard sunshine and dust are detrimental to the eyes, so keep them safe. If you have to go in the sun, put on goggles. The goggles’ lens must be of good quality, or ,otherwise it will harm your eyes.
• Give up reading on a moving bus, train, etc.
Reading a fine print will stretch the muscles of the eyes and weaken your eyesight.
• The room should have enough light where you are working. Don’t read the book from very near the eyes. When lying, reading a book is not good, as it puts stress on the eyes and the sight weakens.
• We have T.V. in all homes, but who watches them appropriately? Watching T.V. is a stress on the eyes. So never sit very close to it. Switch on some light in the room while watching T.V. so the pressure on the eyes will be less.
• If you have had enough sleep, still you have a headache, and your eyes remain tired, consult an eye specialist; if he says, put on spectacles without hesitation. Wash your eyes with a good eye-lotion once or twice a week. Never use any medicine in the eyes without consulting a doctor because it may cause blindness. Your repenting for the mishap later will not solve the problem.
HOME TREATMENT
CIRCLES UNDER THE EYES
• An excellent and straightforward remedy is to gently dab around your eyes with a pad of absorbent cotton soaked in warm tea.
• Add half tsp. Juice in it 1 tsp. Of almond oil and apply it around the eyes at night. Blackishness will reduce.
• Apply the juice of tomato around the eyes after washing your face in the morning before you bathe.
• Put flocks of cotton, soaked in hot tea water, on the eyes; the blackishness will vanish.
• Using dark sunglasses also brings blackishness, so use light shades.
FOR THE EYELIDS
Touch the lids with a drop of sweet almond oil. This keeps it supple and smooth.
FOR EYES
Please close your eyes often, blink frequently, and give them eye baths.
SWELLING
Eyes look red and swollen due to tiredness. Add salt in warm water, soak cotton flocks in that and keep them on the eyes. This will give warmth to the eyes, and the swelling and reddishness will reduce.
Your stomach can be set in order, and swelling of your eyes can be reduced by taking some 8-10 glasses of water daily.
EXERCISES
Eyes get tired when you keep on working. A few exercises are being suggested here. You can do these exercises while doing your work.
• Stare at the top of the room for some time. Start looking at a thing, kept near your hands, and repeat it 20 times; the eyes will feel better.
• Move eyeballs right and left, left and right. Do it ten times. Stop for a while and then repeat it.
• Move eyeballs left and up and then down ten times. Now start from the right. This will improve blood circulation, and the eyes will gain the power to work again.
• Keep your palms on them lightly and see the darkness.
• Close your eyes, count for two, open them, count for two, close them again, and do it 20 times.
• Look upwards and blink at a uniform speed (20 times); now, look downwards and do it.
• Keep your face straight and close your eyelids tightly; now, open them as wide as possible. Be careful; your face should not move.
• Keep the tip of your finger and gaze at it. Increase the duration of the exercise slowly. Eyes will get rest.
Your eyes are not tired in the morning, so this should be the ideal time for exercise. However, you can do them during the time of working too.