You can't prevent wrinkles at any age; wrinkles are the skin's natural way of aging. You can prevent frown lines by smiling a lot (but you may end up with laugh lines).

Hand lotion can do more than keep your hands soft—if you have sensitive or overworked skin, the right lotion can heal the little cuts and cracks that can make your hands hurt.

Oatmeal makes a nice facial, if you can get the lumps out first. If you use it as many beauty advisors say to, you wind up with clumpy, cakey oats clinging to your face like mud with straw mixed in.

If you want a natural glow, you can achieve it by using a facial scrub. Made with ingredients like almond or walnut shells, oatmeal or cornmeal, facial scrubs exfoliate the skin, scraping off the dead cells and leaving fresh ones gleaming.

Try using powdered mineral makeup instead of liquid or cream makeup. The layers of powder seem to stay put better and they deter shine.

Wipe it on, avoiding the eyes and the skin around your eyes because it's delicate and can get too dried out with a mask. If you have an oily T-zone, just use a drying mask on the oily area. If you have sensitive or dry skin, you may want to apply moisturizer right after rinsing or peeling off the mask, while your skin is slightly damp.

There are a couple of things you can do to get rid of redness and spots from acne. You want to treat the acne and also cover up the redness. There are about a zillion acne treatments on the market, but the one that seems to work really well without causing irritation is tea tree oil. You can buy the pure oil in health food stores, drugstores or online. Some companies are putting it out in little dab-on acne applicators, but you'll pay more for it that way. You can put tea tree oil directly on blemishes, and you can also put a few drops of oil into warm water and use the water to splash your face clean. Use tea tree oil at night because it's smelly stuff and you probably won't want to wear it to school or work, but if you're at home one weekends or something, use it morning and night to clear blemishes. Tea tree oil is anti-bacterial, but it's also easy on the skin.

Puffy eyes are more hereditary than anything, but there are some things you can do to alleviate them. First are the preventives: get plenty of sleep, drink lots of water and forego alcohol and caffeine whenever possible. These all target one issue: the skin under your eyelids can become puffy when your system is stressed, and one way to stress your body is to deprive it of water. Alcohol and caffeine are both dehydrating, and can affect your skin drastically. Sleeplessness wrecks the way your whole system behaves, and it shows up right away in the thin and delicate skin over the fatty layer of your eyelids. Replenish your moisture from the inside as much as possible, and you will help stave off the dark circles or puffiness.

The best skin care routine for oily skin is to be as gentle as you would if you had paper dry skin. The major mistake many people make with oily skin is in believing that you can beat it into submission with hot water, steam, toners, masks and topicals, when in fact what it truly wants is a little understanding. Oily skin is trying to protect itself from a harsh environment, and making its world even harsher through heat, cold or chemicals, will tend to make it produce more oil than ever.

There are all sorts of lovely massage oils. One favorite is sweet almond oil, although people with nut allergies should avoid it. Avocado oil is also considered delicious when rubbed between the shoulder blades. Sunflower oil, olive oil, even canola are fine for massage; just add a few drops of a favorite essential oils (sandalwood, patchouli, lavender) for a terrific scent.