Day Off For Your Skin

If you all desire gleaming skin, you must invest a bit of work into your rest days.

In late evenings, too many tips and too many bland foods may combine to make you feel less than your best.  Add to the mix of strong winds and minimum sunshine and your skin is not surprised to suffer. But don’t worry, since forewarned is forearmed this year. We have spoken to three experts on the best method to get clean skin. Your gun secret? Days off. Days off. Here’s how you may maximize the ‘detox’ potential of makeready days to make you feel your best.

Relive your teeth

Take advantage of a day off to keep your face free of makeup, advise Chelseé Lewis on her skincare regimen, and try her DIY. Exfoliate and massage in serum with your fingers – up and out – for at least five minutes to promote blood flow after your skin has been cleansed. Lewis advises that serum with vitamin C be used to enhance the skin complexion and hyaluronic acid. Follow with a sheet mask – let it on and then massage the residue with fingers for at least 15 minutes.

Don’t have complete face time? If it’s not a day for hair-washing, Lewis advises that you apply a face mask before you shower so that it does its magic when you wash your body.

Do this the night before or at the beginning of your following day wearing Pyjama if you need to eliminate facial hair. This gives your skin 24 hours before any creams or make-up may be applied to the region. And Lewis recommends that it’s at least five days before major events to remove any skin redness period.

On the morning of the event, the top tip of the event is to fill a sink with cold water and ice cubes, then sprinkle your face 20 times before you make up.

Treat your hair in a Day Off For Your Skin

Like your free days of make-up, Karine Jackson advises that you have a gunk-free day off for your hair. That means no silicones, which sit on the hair; and no hair sprays, which can cause dryness and scalp irritation.

Concentrate instead on items that soak in and feed your hair. Wash first thing if you have dry hair, then apply a moisturizing mask. Then hop in the shower for the day when you’re at home securely and no one can see you look like Gollum. The exception is if you’ve got extremely fine hair – let it 20 minutes before washing out, advises Jackson.

Using your yearly vacation? Take advantage of a day off for a haircut – a week before Christmas, whether you wear a jagged style, or whether you’ve cut straight a day earlier.

Take your life

Start with vitamin D and B12 pills, which assist to keep the skin clean and hair healthy, as soon as possible, advises the nutritionist Jenna Hope. Both are difficult to obtain enough through food (mostly if you follow a herbal diet) or, in the case of vitamin D, when sunshine is limited. ‘Everything from two to three weeks may take supplements to work, so be patient,’ said Hope.

On Day Off For Your Skin, offset these sofas and evenings of mulled wine with a nutritious diet. Eggs and avocados breakfast will settle your vitamin A levels while nibbling almonds and hazelnuts will increase vitamin E throughout the day – both nutrients are essential for skin health. Terminate the day with a healthy supper full of fresh produce, beans, pulses, and milk, such as a lens curry with yogurt topping, helping to avoid inflammation in the body.

Hope recommends: ‘Build on reducing your sophisticated sugar consumption since excess sugar binds to collagen, a protein in your skin which gives softness and smoothness leading to dullness. For the benefit of your skin and your general health.’ Ditto fried food, having the same effect.

She recommends taking dairy thistle pills all year round to help heal the impact of alcohol on your liver. Finally, drinking water has an almost immediate impact on skin, at least two liters a day. ‘Adequate hydration should be OK for a day or two,’ adds Hope.