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The Link Between Your Health and Your Appearance

August 4, 2020 //  by Marian Mitchell//  Leave a Comment

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What you look like might not be as important to you as your health (or maybe it’s the other way around), but your appearance and your health are more interlinked than you might think. Your health can have an impact on the way you look, and your image and perception of yourself can also influence your health. Whether you’re physically healthy or not can be reflected in the way you look, while your physical appearance can also affect your mental and emotional health. Let’s look at some of the ways your health and appearance are linked to each other.

When You’re Healthy, You Look Healthy

Your physical health affects the way that you look. When you’re not healthy or your lifestyle isn’t healthy, it can show in a number of ways. For example, it’s often easy to tell if you haven’t been sleeping well. If you’re a smoker, it affects the health of your skin and hair. When you lead a healthy lifestyle, you often look more outwardly healthy too. Your body is getting the nutrients it needs and is able to heal itself better. Even stress can have an effect on your appearance, so looking after your physical and mental health can help you look better.

Good Mental Health Means You Look After Yourself

The state of your mental health can make a difference in how well you look after your appearance. When you’re not feeling at your best, it can be difficult to practice self-care and even to do the most simple tasks. Although you might be able to do the basics like washing and keeping hair neat, you might feel less inclined to do anything extra to look presentable. Better mental health can make it easier for you to care for yourself, and you might want to do things like choosing stylish outfits or putting on makeup too.

Feeling Good Gives You Confidence

The way you look can have an effect on the way that you feel about yourself. When you feel like you look good, it can boost your confidence and self-esteem. Making yourself look good can help to lift your mood and make you more confident long-term too. If you’re losing your hair, you might choose to have hair transplantation to restore your full head of hair. Some people have various beauty treatments to change their looks permanently or temporarily. You also might just enjoy dressing up sometimes to boost your mood.

Physical Health Improves Emotional Health

It’s not just your surface-level appearance that can affect how you feel. When your physical health is better, helping you look healthier, it can also improve your emotional health. Mental and physical health are linked, and when one is in good condition, it’s easier to keep the other in good condition too. When your physical health is poor, it can have a big impact on your emotional health, but better physical health can mean better mental health.

Your health and appearance are tied together in several ways. Looking after both of them can improve your life.

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