Scorching heat and heavy daylight in summer can have a chemical effect on your beauty products. Heat and dampness can result in breaking the composition of your beauty products. Wax, oil, and water tend to crack, resulting in damage to the product. So imagine what impact they can have if applied on the face? Do not worry as you can still manage to wear your makeup safely with the following make-up tips & tricks for summer.
Basic Makeup Tips & Tricks For Summer Every Woman Should Know
Changing weather has a direct effect on your skin. Summer is the season to retain the natural moisture of your skin, which you lost in winter. The dust, excess oil, and summer warmth can cause skin breakouts. Preparing your skin for summer helps to detoxify your skin. It keeps your skin fortified, nourished, and very well-hydrated. The summer skincare routine helps you keep your skin young and smooth.
1. Prepare Your Skin For Summer
Cleansing, Toning, and Moisturizing
Proper cleansing is necessary to keep your skin look bright, youthful, and healthy. Cleansing works as an anti-aging agent and a pore minimizer, that also hydrates your skin efficiently preserving natural oils in your skin. Skin toner maintains the pH of your skin, cleans skin pores, and minimizes the appearance of open pores. Moisturizing every day can reduce the risk of developing severe dryness of the skin. Also, Moisturizer can help reduce the appearance of blemishes.
A regular CTM (Cleansing, toning, moisturizing) skincare is important to scrape out all dust, oil, pollution particles, and other impurities from the skin to prevent acne and breakouts. These steps are crucial for skin vitalizing and improve the quality of your skin.
- Regularly wash your face with a gentle face wash twice a day to clean off any dirt from the skin. Before going to bed adopt the habit of cleansing and moisturizing.
- Let your natural glow shine through, especially when it’s summer. If you do need to wear makeup, stick with everything waterproof, and try not to overdo it.
2. Begin With The Following Makeup Tricks For Summer
- The first step to maintain your makeup intact is proper summer skincare and CTM routine.
- In summer, refrain from using heavy makeup. Just use a tinted moisturizer, lip balm, eyeliner, and mascara.
- To avoid makeup breakdown in summers prepares your T-zone with a light antiperspirant product.
- Apply a very light primer followed by a light foundation. It’s better to combine a small amount of your liquid foundation with an amount of moisturizer. It will thin it out and provide you a lighter coat which is required for summer.
- Avoid the use of concealer instead apply a little foundation to conceal if you have got any spots on your face. Don’t use a compact powder in summers it will make your skin patchy.
- In the summer instead of wearing a heavy, foundation, you can also use a BB cream or tinted moisturizer to set a base on your face. Foundation won’t allow your skin to breathe and will make it more sweaty and sticky.
- If you still want to use a foundation, use a light sweat-proof foundation with higher SPF.
- Always apply first an eye primer before starting eye makeup. Then use a soft shimmery eyeshadow on your lids. To get that glow on your lids goes for a colored eye gloss. Do not use cream-based eyeshadow as they can melt on the face in summer. Apply long-lasting and waterproof eyeliner of the color you like and then curl your eyelashes. Apply waterproof mascara later then.
- Avoid contouring and highlighter and highlighting your face.
- For cheek, apply a gel or fluid base blush for it to stay longer.
3. Apply A Sunscreen
The reduction of the ozone layer in the earth’s stratosphere has raised the risk of ultraviolet radiation from the sun reaching the earth. Because of this reason, it becomes mandatory to wear sunscreen every day not just in summer. Sunscreen may greatly prevent these UV rays to cause damage to your skin. A sunscreen with higher SPF can protect your skin from harmful ultraviolet sun rays.
- Make sure that the sunscreen is applied at least 30 minutes before you step out. To protect your skin all through the day, don’t forget to apply the sunscreen every 2 hours of the time interval as the sunscreen gets off, sweats off, and rinses off when you step out in the sun. According to skin specialists, an SPF-30 should be used during summer.
- If your skin is prone to redness especially when out in the sun, it’s best to keep your products in the refrigerator. The coldness will reduce the dilation of the capillaries and help in subsiding the redness.
- The skin is oilier during the summer and all the oil and bacteria get caught up in the bristles of the makeup brushes which result in clogged pores. Wash your Makeup Brushes at least once a week with baby shampoo or a makeup brush cleaner and leave them overnight to dry.
- Use a facial cleansing brush or a makeup remover to gently wipe off all your makeup after you return home. This will allow your skin to breathe and dwell back to its natural form.
4. Stay Hydrated
A well-hydrated body is disease-free and stress-free. Staying hydrated prevent dryness of mouth, lips, throat, and skin, and reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. It helps flush out toxins from the body. Drinking enough water every day is essential to control body heat, proper functioning of body organs, joints, metabolism, and nutrients distribution to the body cells.
- Drinking a lot of water (15-20 glasses a day) and liquids will help the skin stay soft, hydrated, and moisturized as well.
- Drop a slice of lemon or simply squeeze out its juices into your water bottle and sip throughout the day.
- The citric acid in lemons helps to keep kidneys healthy and is high in vitamin C, which means they will improve your immune system.
These were some basic skincare tips and makeup tips for summer that everyone should know and try to follow. For a perfect makeup look, you must take care of your skin first and follow a rigorous skincare routine to attain natural beautiful glowing skin that doesn’t require makeup. Remember beauty is from within.
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