On Style: Eyes...

Following on from yesterday’s article, your eyes can benefit from a variety of drops, rubs and creams.

Yeah, they work – in varying degrees – but they are ludicrously expensive for what they are and there’s a better way to fresh, sparkling eyes.

Sleep.

There can be no substitute for bag-free peepers. Even though I use Biotherm eye cream in the mornings when I’m rushing to make myself look anything less than zombified, but it is a quick-fix solution, the results of which incomparably unsatisfactory in comparison to good old mother nature.

Cucumber slices and used tea bags work well, I might add, and so does…and don’t laugh at me…staring at the sun.

Now this might seem contradictory to popular opinion, but staring at the sun for several minutes a day can have fantastic benefits for the appearance of your eyes, their and your general health. Vitamin D can get into your system through your eyes as easily as Sherlock Holmes can stroll through a locked door, right to the heart of a mystery.

One hour after Sunrise and one hour before sunset, the Sun’s position in the sky is such, that the harmful UV emissions are reduced to the extant that viewing the Sun without protection is possible and undamaging.

Okay, I know what you’re thinking – who in God’s name has two hours a day to kill…staring at the sun.

No one.

But make a bit of time for it and, if you aren’t a fan of standing there with nothing more productive being done, get a learn-to-speak French* CD on your I-Pod and work your way through that – now that is how to multitask, which, as it will become obvious, is the way to keep yourself looking your best.


* Any other language works as well, with the possible exception of Inuit and other tribal languages that occasionally involve blinking to pass-on information.


Pick up THE HARE newspaper at Night and Day, Bar Centro, Font or Tiger Lounge in Manchester town centre, or the Oakwood in Glossop.

E-mail theharenewspaper@hotmail.co.uk with questions, comments or contributory pieces.