Getting your beauty sleep is not a fairytale, it is a widely established cure for looking and feeling your best. We all know that sleep is one of the best remedies for tired eyes. What we may not realize is how truly vital sleep is for our skin’s long term career. As we lose much needed sleep, night after night without making up for it, our body is not given the chance to renew itself and rebuild cells that keep our skin healthy and firm.

That adds up over time and your lack of sleep may lead to premature wrinkles, advancing well before their time. Here’s a challenge: if it is difficult for you to get yourself in bed, set an alarm to go to bed! Now that may not make you fall asleep instantly, but it will trigger your mind into an eventual habit of at least starting the process of going to bed. After you train your body to fall asleep at the time you’re suppose to, you’ll likely be able to ditch the alarm clock at night because you’ll find that you are getting tired anyway.

Of course there will be nights when you have to burn the candle at both ends, but make sure to not let that throw you off course. Reign yourself in the very night after a late night and go to bed at the time you previously designated for yourself, so that you keep the sleep rhythm you’ve worked so hard to develop, and so as to not drift that rhythm into a later and later time, just from being up late one night. This means your skin will thank you the next morning, as well as the next year down the road.