5 Ways To Prepare Your Skin For Summer

Summer is knocking on our doors, we are looking forward to it and we want to look perfect. It’s not our body we are most focused on it’s also our skin we have to think about. It has to look amazing and it has to look and stay healthy and young. Winter is over and spring is leaving us soon, so we have to heal the wounds that are left from the colder season.

Exfoliate your skin

Because winter is cold and much more different than the summer and it involves lots of layers of clothing and everything else. Exfoliation is very important for keeping our skin healthy. You should use a gentle scrub to exfoliate the dead skin and the dry skin on the driest parts of our body such as elbows, knees and feet. Don’t forget about your face too! Cloths, microdermabrasion kit and scrubs will help you a lot. You just need to take off the dead layer of your skin and afterwards, you can put the best moisturiser for your type of skin to get the glow you always wanted.

Exercise 

Exercising regularly will keep your body and skin fit and ready for the summer. It increases circulation and sweat is a great detoxifier and it will help in improving your system. If you have problems with cellulite, you can smooth and tone down the effects, and exercising can keep your skin look healthy. Also, nowadays you can apply the fake tan so it can hide all the irregularities that you don’t like. Go for longer walks, jog more go to the park and exercise outdoors because the weather is better and you will much better afterwards.

Sun tanning

You must know that during the summer your skin on your hands and face is most exposed to the sun. Sunscreen will protect your skin from dangerous ultraviolet (UV rays) and it can prevent the possibilities of getting skin cancer, sunburn, wrinkles, etc. The best way to choose the right sunscreen is to get the one without ingredients such as like ecamsule, avobenzone, oxybenzone, titanium dioxide, sulisobenzone, or zinc oxide. Water resistant sunscreens are also great especially if you like to swim a lot or exercise outdoors. Sun can also speed up the aging of the skin so if you have any problems with it there is a solution at skin rejuvenation clinic.

The Food

If you are on any kind of a diet the best way to help your skin is to add lycopene. This chemical will help your body to fight with the damages from the sun, as well as swellings, redness and blistering. And you can find lycopene in cooked tomatoes and tomato sauces as well as in other red fruits such as watermelon and pink grapefruit. It is also very important to stay hydrated as much as possible, so you should drink a lot of water. If you are going to the beach, don’t forget to bring a bottle of water!

After sun care

If you missed a spot while you were putting your sunscreen on and your skin gets red, the best anti-inflammatory cure is to take ibuprofen so that it can reduce the pain. You should take it 24 hours after the sun exposure and you can also take some kind of a cooling lotion or aloe which will keep the red areas moisturized and so it can speed up the healing process altogether. Also, you can apply any other cream that will help you with cooling and you can avoid the sun exposure just a little bit.

Don’t be lazy, start your preparations with exercising and healthy meals so you can focus on your skin while you are getting better. You will get a great tan and your skin will stay young and it will glow.

Author: Gabby Diesendorf
Contact: Gabriella@highstylfe.com 

Image credit: pixabay (2016) https://pixabay.com/ 

Celebrity Fashion Check: Don’t Get Arrested

We make good choices and bad choices, and sometimes suffer the consequence as a result.  That includes the world of fashion!  You can pick the right outfit and look amazing or you can make a bad choice in wearing the wrong colour, length or size. You can only be one thing when this happen, a fashion disaster! 

Most women love fashion and shopping, including me!  I love coordinating outfits and choosing matching accessories and shoes. Let’s not forget ladies, hairstyle is also a part of style and this should be considered when styling. It doesn’t get much better than that. I have always been a “girlie girl”, not a tomboy. I blame my mother.  When I was younger, my mother will dress me in cute outfits.  I had no choice in what I wanted to wear as the kids of today do. My mother made me wear dresses to school every day or wear dress pants, or back in my day, they were called dress slacks.  I was only allowed to wear jeans on gym days.  My mother was still making me wear dresses on the first day of school when I was in the 6^th grade. At the time, I hated wearing dresses but the damage had already been done by the time I reached high school I was hooked on fashion, making sure everything matched or I had the most unique outfit.  I wanted my outfits to be different from anyone else’s.  I am still like that today!  I am a fashion junkie and shopaholic!  And don’t get me started on shoes!   

People judge you by your appearance. We all do it….we sit with friends looking through magazines, online journals and even TV as we praise or critique celebrities on their fashion choices. True fashions divas do that. We just can’t help it!  But it’s a useful exercise to help fashion losers back on track. Why else would we do it?  Even the wealthiest of the stars who can afford to buy from the top designers, make terrible fashion choices. When that happens, they definitely need to be arrested by Fashion Police. I am here to help make that call.  Officer Cynthia is here to police celebrity fashion so sit back and enjoy the ride in the fashion patrol car! 

Let me start by saying Happy Holidays and Jingle Bells.  Speaking of Jingle, let’s start cruisin’ the fashion streets at the 2014 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball on December 12, 2014.

 

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift was definitely rockin’ that plaid!  Now if you were raised in the 1960’s or 1970’s and your mother always made you wear plaid, like mine did, you may be allergic to this outfit but Taylor looks cute!

Iggy Azalea

 

Iggy Azalea, cute boots!  That’s all I can say!  O.K., let me go a step further the belt was cool!  That is all!  She needs a fashion ticket for that fish net of a mess! 
  

Charli XCX

 

We drive by singer-songwriter, Charli XCX on the red carpet!  Is this a Fredrick’s of Hollywood outfit?  I’m not going to lie, I would wear this, but in the boudoir!  I’m not sure if the public should have seen her puffs!  I give Charli a Fashion Warning!  You may proceed with caution.

Pharell Williams

 

Pharell- What can I say?  He beats to his own drum and I respect that. Just not with this outfit!  I know men think it is okay to wear pink, but someone has lied to you. It’s not okay. Sorry Pharell, you are under fashion arrest for this mess!  I’m not even going to discuss those ripped jeans, hope you just ripped up some old jeans and didn’t spend money on those!  But I do like your hat though!

Nick Jonas

Nick Jonas, what a cutie pie!  He looks adorable!  Simple colours and a classic look!  Love the blazer and over the white shirt, casually dropped on his denim. Finally someone with some fashion sense! 

Hope you enjoyed the short patrol drive by the Jingle Ball! Let me know your thoughts via the comment box. Thank you....

 

 

Author: Cynthia Rogers

Image credit: Getty Images for iHeartRadioMedia