10 Beauty Tips to Swear By!

How do you look your best? What do you do to bring out your inner beau­ty and high­light your most radi­ant features? Every­one has their own per­son­al groom­ing secrets to per­fect their look no mat­ter what the occasion. Here we com­pile some of the most pop­u­lar tips for keep­ing your skin soft, smooth and glowing!

1- Eat a Healthy Diet

Ever noticed how healthy peo­ple glow? They always seem to have smooth, flaw­less, vibrant-look­ing skin. That’s because fol­low­ing a healthy diet and main­tain­ing good gen­er­al health is great for the skin. Fol­low a nutri­tion-rich diet that con­sists of fruits, veg­eta­bles, nuts, cere­als and puls­es. Increase the amount of raw or boiled ingre­di­ents you eat. Reach for sal­ads, smooth­ies and juices dai­ly. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy your­self from time to time, but food low in nutri­tion should be a rar­i­ty if you want to main­tain beau­ti­ful skin. Some peo­ple live by the sim­ple rule of con­sum­ing only healthy, nutri­tious food and bev­er­ages at home to treat them­selves when they eat out!

2- Drink The Right type of Fluids

In line with a healthy diet is the con­sump­tion of the right kind of flu­ids. Water is clear­ly the best flu­id. It hydrates us and helps to cleanse the skin from the inside. Der­ma­tol­o­gists rec­om­mend drink­ing half a litre of water every morn­ing to help bright­en, oxy­genate and hydrate the skin. If you are a cof­fee lover or relax with a teacup, it is all the more impor­tant to drink water reg­u­lar­ly because caf­feine dehy­drates the body. You can also pro­tect your skin by con­sum­ing fresh green juices with a lot of veg­eta­bles every day. Try drink­ing more water and fresh juices, and notice the dif­fer­ence in a short space of time!

3- Carry Lip Balm

Nev­er leave home with­out it. Lip balm is a won­der­ful prod­uct that can be a sav­iour in any sit­u­a­tion. While you know the ben­e­fits of lip balm for sav­ing you from cracked and sore lips, you may not be aware of the deep­er beau­ty ben­e­fits of the handy lit­tle tubes which lie in your bag. Lip balm can mois­tur­ize your cuti­cles; it can calm down frizzy hair or cowlicks to help high­light your face. What’s more, a tint­ed lip balm can add a dash of colour and vibran­cy to your face when applied as a blush to your cheeks. You could also light­ly pat a neu­tral lip balm into your cheek­bones and the bridge of your nose, and watch your skin glow. Final­ly, a lip balm can always be called upon to touch up any last-minute beau­ty blunders.

4- Always Remove Makeup

Always? Yes, always. You’ve had a long day, or maybe a big night. You worked and par­tied hard, and all you want to do is flop on the couch or straight into bed. The last thing you want to do is patient­ly remove your make-up. Please do it! Leav­ing make-up on overnight clogs the pores of your skin and leads to bad acne. Paste a mes­sage next to your bed, or in the bath­room, to remind you to fol­low this sim­ple rou­tine every time you wear make-up. Use a face wash but make sure to remove every last bit of make-up as well before you relax and sign off for the day.

5- Exfoliate

While leav­ing make-up on can lead to skin prob­lems such as acne, exfo­li­a­tion can pre­vent such problems. Exfo­li­a­tion offers end­less ben­e­fits to our skin and has been a trust­ed method in beau­ty regimes forever. Exfo­li­at­ing reg­u­lar­ly clears away dead skin cells and ensures that oth­er skin­care regimes work effectively. It would be ter­ri­ble to spend so much time fol­low­ing the oth­er tips men­tioned in this arti­cle, and hav­ing them prove inef­fec­tive because you failed to exfoliate. Thor­ough exfo­li­a­tion cleans­es your skin pores from with­in, ensur­ing it is spot­less. With­out exfo­li­a­tion, the dead skin cells form a lay­er on your skin. Fur­ther­more, reg­u­lar exfo­li­a­tion will guar­an­tee that your make-up is applied smooth­ly and does not appear cakey on your face.

6- Always Use Sunscreen

Sun­screen is not just for sun pro­tec­tion. Yes, it will pro­tect your skin from painful and unsight­ly sun­burn. It will pre­vent unwant­ed tan lines and help pro­tect you from skin can­cer con­di­tions or hav­ing sun spots removed. Sunspots are extreme­ly com­mon in coun­tries with hot sum­mers and strong sun, and sun­screen plus appro­pri­ate cloth­ing is the best way to pro­tect against sun damage. Don’t for­get, when sunspots have been removed, the dan­ger is gone, but the scar remains, and this is not what any­one wants, espe­cial­ly on more exposed parts of the body.

Therefore, Wear Sunscreen

Choose a sun­screen with a high SPF or sun pro­tec­tion fac­tor, and if you’re not sure which sun pro­tec­tion fac­tor is right for your skin type and lifestyle, con­sult a dermatologist. Beau­ty experts rec­om­mend apply­ing appro­pri­ate sun­screen indoors and out­doors, regard­less of the sea­son. They advise us that sun­screen pro­tects the skin from harm­ful UV rays and can also serve as an anti-age­ing tool and help reduce wrin­kles, pig­men­ta­tion, and dark spots. Search for a non-come­do­genic for­mu­la to avoid skin break­outs and use a non-oily and hypoal­ler­genic for­mu­la suit­able for all skin types.

7- Layer Skincare Properly

You know that lay­er­ing is impor­tant, but did you real­ize it was so impor­tant, and are you doing it properly? When apply­ing skin­care prod­ucts to the face, it is vital to fol­low these sim­ple steps for lay­er­ing correctly. First­ly, imag­ine your skin is a sponge. The sponge wants to soak up all of the pos­i­tive ele­ments of the skin­care prod­ucts you are using. How­ev­er, if you want your skin to absorb every prod­uct apt­ly, you must lay­er correctly. Start by apply­ing the thin­ner, watery tex­tured prod­ucts. This will form a base. Always apply the thick­er, creami­er prod­ucts at the end because the heav­ier creams will seal any prod­uct that has been applied previously. By lay­er­ing skin­care prod­ucts in this order, you can ensure that your skin­care prod­ucts per­form as best as they can and that your skin looks as good as it should.

8- Avoid Touching Your Face

Please stop it. Just stop it! Think back to your child­hood and remem­ber your moth­er telling you to keep your hands away from your face. She was right. Keep­ing your hands away from your face is anoth­er method that will pro­tect your skin. On an aver­age day, your hands col­lect a lot of dirt, dust and grime from var­i­ous sur­faces. Each time you touch your face, the dirt, dust and grime can be left behind, and your skin will auto­mat­i­cal­ly col­lect a lot of unwant­ed ele­ments, which can lead to skin con­di­tions like acne. Try as much as you can to stop touch­ing your face or wash your hands reg­u­lar­ly with antibac­te­r­i­al soap to make sure that you are not trans­fer­ring any germs when you touch your face with­out think­ing. Keep in mind that hand wipes and san­i­tiz­ers are not as effec­tive as antibac­te­r­i­al soap.

9- Use a Setting Spray

Do you use a primer? It would be hard to imag­ine that you don’t. Primer is one of the first tips we are given. Do you use a set­ting spray? If not, we sug­gest you start using one. A set­ting spray sup­ports the work done by a primer and should become part of your beau­ty regime. When prepar­ing your skin for a long-wear­ing make-up appli­ca­tion, a set­ting spray is extreme­ly useful. After you have applied your make-up, give a few spritzes of set­ting spray to your skin to help keep every­thing in place. Anoth­er bonus of using a set­ting spray is that not only do they keep make-up in place, but they offer ben­e­fits such as skin cool­ing, hydrat­ing and bright­en­ing, and help your skin glow.

10- Double Cleanse Your Face

Did we say dou­ble cleanse? Sure­ly a sin­gle cleanse is enough of a chore. Per­haps, but dou­ble cleans­ing your face cre­ates enor­mous ben­e­fits for your skin. Dou­ble cleans­ing is vital for achiev­ing soft, glow­ing and flaw­less skin. Start with an oil-based cleanser that removes all traces of make-up, dust and grime. Then, cleanse with a water-based cleanser, remove stub­born grime that often stays behind after the first cleanse. Dou­ble cleans­ing may seem like a task, but it will leave your face clean and elim­i­nate clogged pores and the emer­gence of acne.

Last But Not Least

You can always shine. Bring out your inner beau­ty by wear­ing sun­screen and always keep­ing lip balm on hand. Fol­low a healthy diet, remove your make­up before turn­ing in of an evening, and cleanse your face twice. Exfo­li­ate and lay­er your skin­care prod­ucts cor­rect­ly, and be sure to keep your hands away from your face. Use a set­ting spray and main­tain your gen­er­al health and well­be­ing, and you will be on your way to achiev­ing true beauty!