To wed in the height of summer is difficult. You have to beat the heat to look your best, impress your partner and make heads turn. Sounds challenging? Dont you worry, here you go ! Happy to provide tips on how to put your best foot forward – 7 easy but effective skincare tips for a summer wedding.
Summer descends with its own skin and beauty related issues, including dark spots, pigmentation, wrinkles, and tanning. A summer wedding is thus a bundle of challenges where you have to maintain the freshness and suppleness of your skin to look your radiant best at a time when the world around you is sweating and trying to keep cool.
Remember, all eyes will be on you and every moment of your Wedding Day will be captured in memory. Here are few skincare tips that will help both the bride and the groom outpace the summer challenges.
- Stick to the Vintage Tips
Drink a lot of water at regular intervals and adopt a healthy dietary regime comprising of fresh vegetables and fruits, particularly, those containing abundant Vitamin A, C and E. It’s not essential that you rely on expensive dry fruits like almonds.
Seasonal fruits like plump berries, juicy plums or aromatic cherries, cucumber, water melon, etc., can make a big difference to your skin and health and they are available at affordable prices too. Lemonade and coconut water that are easily accessible in summer also supplement your fluid needs. Besides, they nurture your hair and help you maintain a balanced body weight. Pear, which has the same fibre as an apple and comparable vitamin C, contains a lot of chromium, too – a mineral important for metabolising carbohydrates, fat and protein.
- Moisturize Your Skin
Extreme heat leads to dehydration which, in turn, makes your skin dry. The dryness intervenes with the proper functioning of the skin cells and tissues and your skin begins to lose its natural glow and looks dull. Moisturizing is absolutely essential. Remember, Rome was not built in a day. Start paying attention towards moisturizing your skin appropriately a few months, or at least 8 weeks in advance. The moisturizer also serves as a shield against pollutants, bacteria, and sunburn.
Though there is no dearth of moisturizers in the market, check the ingredients before purchasing one. Make sure it contains Vitamin E.
- Apply the Right Sunscreen
Sunscreen shields your skin from harmful UV rays and sunburns. You might have observed or experienced symptoms like bruises, peeling, swelling, redness, hives, and itching. These are signals that your skin is in dire need of a sunscreen shield. Wear the right sunscreen when you have to go out in summer. Choose a sunscreen with SPF 30, the Sun Protection Factor that decides the level of protection against the UV rays. Such a sunscreen is capable of shielding your skin against both UVA (long-wave ultraviolet) and UVB (short-wave ultraviolet) rays.
- Exfoliate to Get Rid of Dead Cells
Before you apply moisturizer or other skin care products, cleanse your skin thoroughly so that it is ready to absorb the skin care vitamins and minerals present in them. Exfoliation helps you get rid of dead skin cells and make it permeable by opening the tiny holes present on it for perspiration. Hence, it reinvigorates your skin, making your body and face look more radiant and healthier.
You have several choices: use a natural bristled brush, a loofah or a pair of exfoliating gloves, or exfoliation scrub paste.
- Use Sunglasses for UV Protection
Eyes complement your beauty and look. During spring and summer, the planet receives the maximum UV rays. Even though they make up only a small part of sunlight, they are extremely harmful to our eyes and skin as they not just cause sunburn but also alter the DNA inside. UV rays are strongest between 10 am and 4 pm. Avoid going out during this time. However, if it’s a must, then wear a pair ofgood quality sunglasses that offer protection against UV rays. These shades protect the retina of the eyes and also the skin surrounding the eyes.
- Raw Honey
Raw honey is a great natural skin cleanser and exfoliator. Honey contains six important vitamins including riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, folate and vitamin C that revitalize skin and make it look radiant. Honey reduces pimples especially the red ones due to its anti-bacterial properties.
Make a spoon full of raw honey part of your diet. Processed honey might not possess the medicinal value. Wondering how to differentiate between raw honey and processed honey? Here is a test. Take a glass of water and put a spoon of honey in it. Pure honey precipitates or settles down at the bottom and dissolves gradually, while processed honey starts dissolving without any delay.
- Turmeric
Before wrapping up, we must name one more magical skin care product, which is an inherent part of almost all Indian weddings. No prizes for guessing, it is Turmeric or haldi. In fact, we have got a complete ceremony called Haldi Ceremony named after it. It’s a great cleanser and anti-wrinkle formula. It’s also blessed with anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that reduce or check pimples.Turmeric is also known to make the skin fairer by inhibiting the synthesis of pigment melanin that imparts black color to skin.
Hope our pre-weddingskincare tips will help you beat the summer heat in an emphatic manner and leave your skin fresh, healthy and glowing be it the Bride or the Groom !
Beat the Heat, beat the Sun, Stay Shiny, Stay Glowing – It’s your Day !
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