The condition of your skin is critically important. A glowing complexion is attractive and youthful and is what healthy skin should aspire to be. So how can we keep our skin looking its best and maintain a natural look?
Beautiful skin is achievable by practising Healthy Habits.
1 Protect Your Skin From The Sun
It is vital to shield your skin from the sun, especially the midday sun when rays are at their strongest. The sun is the number one age accelerator that can cause wrinkled skin, pigmentation and skin cancer. A tan used to be seen as healthy but now we know enough about how the sun damages the skin to know it is definitely not cool to lie in the sun and bake yourself to a crisp.
2 Drink Tonnes of Water
Drinking lots of water a day is not just beneficial for your skin but also benefits your whole system. As well as helping to promote a flawless complexion it helps to do a myriad of other great things for your body such as aiding in removing waste, maintaining a healthy blood level and digestion of foods. It also helps to speed up your metabolism. Water helps the skin by improving its elasticity helping it to bounce back from sagging. Water is a cheap and easy option in your quest for beautiful skin with benefits.
Emilee Hembrew showcasing her flawless complexion wearing GoBlondie Bouncy Foundation Beige.
3 Wear A Good Foundation That Doesn’t Clog Your Skin
Most of us wear makeup and foundation is our base, so it is important that you pick the right foundation that can nurture as well as enhance your complexion. Some foundations will end up giving you a caked-on look which is not only unattractive but can also cause you to break out leading to a revolving problem of applying more product and then breaking out more. GoBlondie Cosmetics Bouncy Foundation was developed to help stop breakouts and is full of active ingredients such as hyaluronic acid which helps to keep your skin pimple-free and promote a healthy glow. You also only need a very small amount of Bouncy Foundation to achieve full coverage avoiding the dreaded caked-on look. It is also beneficial to wear a foundation that you know is treating your skin while you are wearing it as well as highlighting it.
GoBlondie Cosmetics Bouncy Foundation helps to stop the skin from breaking out
4 Cut Down On Stress
Didn’t think that stress affects your skin? Think again. As the body’s largest organ, your skin can reflect what is happening inside your body. The glands in your skin produce more oil when under stress and this can cause the skin to break out and look dull. Increased stress levels can also change the proteins in your skin, resulting in loss of elasticity and making it more vulnerable to developing wrinkles and other imperfections. Stress is in fact just a reaction to a situation in life. If we can start seeing bumps in the road in this way instead of seeing issues as a problem we can reduce our stress reaction. Great things to try to reduce stress are meditation, yoga, exercise and mindfulness. Living in the moment is the best way to cut down on stress and stop the cycle of worry from affecting our skin, our bodies and our lives.
5 Cut Out Sugar
An occasional treat is fine. However, indulging in a diet that is full of sugary snacks is definitely not going to help you gain a glowing complexion. Sugar is not the only culprit. High-glycemic foods that quickly morph into sugar are also bad news. These raise insulin levels and put unnatural demands on your body to cope with the food you just ingested. Dr Nicolas Perricone describes simple carbohydrates such as white bread, sugary drinks and many cereals as “a burst of inflammation throughout the body.” This inflammation is not only bad for your skin but for your entire being. This inflammation also produces enzymes that erode elastin and collagen which results in wrinkles and sagging skin. The sugar you digest can permanently attach to the collagen in your skin through a process called glycation. A 2002 study which was published in the Archives of Dermatology showed compelling evidence that particular foods can cause breakouts. Acne is known as a ‘Western Disease’ so the researchers studied 115 people in Eastern Paraguay and 1200 people in Papua New Guinea. These are people who eat a diet of lean meat they raised themselves and fresh plant foods and the study found not one single pimple. The correlation between sugar and skin is simple. Stay clear of it in your quest for a beautiful complexion.
6 Don’t Smoke
The general dangers of smoking have been confirmed. It is not only bad for your body and your skin, but it can also kill you. Smoking affects elastin and collagen which help to maintain the firmness of the skin It degrades collagen and promotes deep wrinkles. Second-hand smoke has been found to be just as bad if not worse than first-hand smoking. Smoking and being around smokers is a surefire way to age yourself and look older. It not only wrecks your skin it affects everything from your bones, fertility, the strength of your bones and of course your lungs. Lung cancer is a huge risk to smokers and those exposed to passive smoking. If you smoke give it up not just in your quest for beautiful skin but for the many dangers it poses and the high risk of an earlier painful death.
Beautiful skin is a matter of applying healthy principles into your daily life that will not only give you a glowing complexion but are beneficial to your whole body, health and mind.
