- By Calypso Cavallo
- September 29, 2022
- Skincare
Taking care of your skin is essential if you want to be beautiful naturally. Having beautiful skin is everyone’s dream: a smooth, pimple-free complexion with tight pores is the best beauty asset. Many people struggle with skin problems: pimples, scars, flakiness, redness… Each skin type has its defects! Practical advice helps avoid the recurrence of skin problems. Let’s see together the gestures to adopt, as well as the gestures to avoid taking care of its skin daily.
Taking care of your skin by adopting the right gestures
There are three main rules to remember when taking care of your skin daily:
- Adopting a healthy lifestyle,
- The choice of quality care products,
- Adopting a beauty routine that suits your skin type.
A healthy lifestyle for beautiful skin
The best makeup accessory is a good night’s sleep. Sleep repairs the skin cells and helps them to perform their functions properly. It is essential to sleep at least 7 hours a night, ideally 8 hours, to have beautiful skin.
The quality of our skin also depends largely on our diet. An excess of sugar has a very rapid effect on the skin, favoring the appearance of pimples, particularly on the nose. An excess of animal fats will encourage the formation of pimples on the forehead and around the mouth. The driest skins should ensure that their diet is sufficiently rich in fatty acids, by eating, for example, one fatty fish per week (salmon, tuna, mackerel), and by regularly consuming oilseeds (almonds, walnuts, cashew nuts). To moisturize the skin from the inside, drinking at least 1.5L of water (excluding soft drinks) per day is essential.
If you smoke, keep in mind that you’ll have to work twice as hard on cosmetics if you hope to have beautiful skin: tobacco dulls the skin, giving it a greyish appearance. By obstructing the bronchial tubes and lungs promotes the appearance of pimples on the cheeks and at the base of the nose. Smoking is not only harmful to your health: it also harms your beauty!
Choosing the proper care products
Choosing quality products is essential for skin care. Beware of cheap, mass-market products with long-winded formulations that contain too many chemicals. For example, “purifying” or “purifying” products often dehydrate the skin and increase the sebum secretion of oily skin, which overreacts to these aggressions to protect itself.
It’s a shame to choose low-quality products to get the opposite effect of what you want. If your beauty budget is limited, you prefer to use a few excellent products rather than multiplying the use of low-end products. You will feel the difference.
Follow a routine adapted to your skin type
Contrary to popular belief, regularly changing products is a bad idea. Your skin will prefer to have a specific routine and stick to it rather than constantly adapting to new products.
Your skincare routine should be tailored to your skin type and strictly followed for optimal results.
Mistakes to avoid when taking care of your skin
Skin care requires avoiding certain pitfalls that can temporarily or even permanently alter the quality of the skin.
Popping pimples or blackheads: a bad idea
The temptation is great, but you must resist. Piercing buttons have several harmful effects:
- It leaves the second layer of the skin bare and encourages the entry of new bacteria, which will feed a vicious circle,
- It destroys skin cells and accelerates skin aging,
- It favors the appearance of scars, sometimes very difficult to eliminate.
If, despite this warning, you can’t resist the temptation to pierce your buttons, be sure to :
- Have very clean hands and nails,
- Drill with your fingers, not your fingernails, to avoid marks,
- Proceed with the piercing in the evening to benefit from the repairing action of sleep on the skin cells.
Abusing sun exposure
Exposure to the sun is necessary for our mental balance and physical health, as it is the only way to synthesize the vitamin D we need.
To avoid the appearance of pimples after the summer, but also to protect your skin from aging cells and the risk of cancer, it is nevertheless essential to follow specific rules:
- Never expose yourself between 12 pm and 4 pm,
- Never expose yourself for more than 4 hours in a row,
- Systematically apply sunscreen before exposure, and reapply it as often as necessary during exposure.
Forgetting to remove your makeup before going to sleep
The makeup removal stage is crucial for skin care. Repeatedly forgetting to remove makeup clogs the skin and prevents it from breathing properly. By clogging the pores, you prevent the skin from regenerating, dulling the overall appearance of your skin and encouraging the appearance of pimples.
If you’re coming home late from a party, wait a few extra minutes before going to bed to take the time to remove your makeup. If you’re exhausted and only have one beauty routine to choose from before you fall into the arms of Morpheus, this should be it!