How to Care for Sexy Legs

Taking care of sexy legs requires a total body maintenance program. In order to keep legs looking sexy, you need to maintain a healthy weight and fitness level. Additionally, you have to take steps to keep the skin on your legs and your entire body healthy. Sexy legs are a great attribute; but they can go south quickly if you don't take care of them. Read on to learn more.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Exercise regularly. Combining aerobic exercise with targeted strength training moves is a great way to maintain strong, lean muscles–-a must have for sexy legs.
2. Stick to a healthy diet. A healthy diet will help you maintain a healthy weight and can keep your skin in good shape.
3. Consider taking supplements to help reverse skin damage and keep skin healthy. Vitamin C and vitamin E have been shown to help improve skin damage from sun exposure, while vitamin A, vitamin K and vitamin B complex have additional benefits for the skin.
4. Remove hair from legs by shaving, waxing or using depilatory creams. Shaving is the easiest way to get rid of unwanted hair, but it has the shortest lasting results. Waxing lasts the longest, but it's also the most expensive, time consuming and painful.
5. Moisturize legs often. Frequently apply a liberal amount of a quality lotion or cream designed to deliver extra moisture. You should moisturize every time you get out of a shower or bath and before you go to bed.
6. Exfoliate your legs once a week to remove dead skin cells and revitalize the look of your skin. Sea salt and sugar scrubs are great exfoliators, but there are many products on the market you can choose from.
7. Give your legs a healthy bronze glow using self-tanner or professional sunless tanner. Tan legs look slimmer, and skin appears visually smoother and blemish free. Exfoliate thoroughly before applying sunless tanner for the most even and long lasting results.
8. Take care to cover legs in sunscreen whenever they are exposed to sunlight. Sunburn not only looks horrible, it can cause the skin on your legs and the rest of your body to prematurely age. This can lead to unsightly wrinkles, freckles, discoloration and spider veins.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep the muscles in your legs long and flexible by including pilates and/or yoga in your workout routine.
• Keep legs elevated whenever possible if you have a problem with fluid retention, varicose veins or spider veins.
• Avoid crossing your legs when sitting. Believe it or not, crossing your legs regularly can lead to varicose and spider veins.
• Limit your salt intake. High salt diets can cause water retention and make your legs swell.