6 Summer Beauty Basics for Keeping Skin Soft and Healthy
BY ALLIE BAUMAN
Summer calls for low maintenance beauty tricks to keep your skin looking and feeling great! The lower the maintenance the better! It’s natural - even better! How can we stay effortlessly, beautiful all summer long? Here are 6 basic beauty tricks that can help!
1.Gently Exfoliate. Depending on your skin type, you can do this daily or once a week. This will help get rid of dead skin cells that can build up throughout summer and keep your skin soft with a nice glow.
2.Moisturize Daily. If you don’t already do this on a regular basis, you might consider doing this throughout the summer months. Your skin needs to soak up some vitamins and moisture after a long, hot summer day. This will help skin stay fresh and soft.
3.Buy self-tanner. Stop going to the tanning bed or laying out! You are only aging your skin and causing damage. A good self-tanner will leave you perfectly bronzed and looking toned without damaging your skin with harmful UV rays.
4.Invest in a good mascara and a bronzer. All you need is a little bit of bronzer on your BB Cream and a lot of mascara on those lashes and you’re ready to go! Who needs all that eye make up and eye shadow? Give your eyes a break.
5.Wash your face. You would be surprised at how many of us don’t do this! It’s important to wash your face daily especially when you’re sweating from the summer heat. Also, please wash off your make up every night! This too can clog your pores. If you wash your face and use a light exfoliating face wash, this will help reduce your pores getting clogged. Which will minimize breakouts
6.BB Cream or CC cream – Ditch your heavy foundation and grab a lightweight coverage like one of these creams. Here’s an added benefit look for a cream that has SPF.
You won’t only get coverage, but you will be protecting your face from those harmful UV rays too! Often times, we layer up our bodies with sunscreen, but we leave the skin of our face unprotected. If you prefer to keep your normal routine, invest in a daily moisturizer for your face with SPF. Don’t forget about getting a chap stick with SPF too.
Recomendations – Cetaphil, Aveeno, Neutrogena
Mascara – Benefit, Tart – flash mascara, Two Faced Mascara
Self Tanner – Loreal or Jergens
BB cream – Garnier or Benefit