Top Beauty Secrets That Will Allow You To Beat The Summer Heat And Still Look Hot

by Asceline
(UK)

These are my top beauty secrets for the summer. With the arrival of summer and the nice weather, also brings problems as well when you consider how it will affect your makeup, skin and hair styles. The combination of heat, sunshine and swimming can make it very difficult to keep your skin and hair looking beautiful. In some instances, too much sun exposure can actually do damage to both your hair and skin.

These summer beauty tips will show you some terrific ways for beating the summer heat and still look wonderful.

Top Beauty Secret #1: Wear makeup That Absorbs Facial Oils
Since being outside and active will cause you to sweat. the additional oil produced from sweating will cause all kinds of problems with normal skin and makeup, ending up making you look worn. What you need to do is wear a type of makeup that has a greater matte effect on your face or another option is to just apply a powder. Either method will help to avoid having a shiny, sweaty looking face.

Top Beauty Secret #2: Protect Your Skin From Sun Exposure
The easiest way to protect your skin from harmful solar radiation is to simply wear moisturizers which already have SPF protection in them. An alternative idea is to apply the moisturizer with SPF in a thin layer beneath your makeup. On hot summer days, most experts are recommending at least using SPF 35 for maximum protection on your face. Don't forget to reapply the lotion several times each day especially after swimming. Not only are you protecting yourself from skin cancer by wearing proper sun block, but also from the less serious side-effects of too much sun exposure include painful sunburn, skin dryness and over time even the development of early age spots and wrinkles.

Top Beauty Secret #3: Protect Your Hair
If you are into summer highlights for your hair, then you need to ensure that you are using a hair product that has been developed for color-treated hair. If you take the time to shop around you can find special hair products that have been developed especially for protecting color-treated or bleached hair. Using these types of products will help to protect your hair from the summer damages associated with the sun, salt water swimming and even chlorine pools.

Top Beauty Secret #4: Waterproof Makeup
If you are a "water baby" or just love spending time at the beach then you will want to ensure that your makeup is waterproof. As mentioned earlier, even sweating can destroy normal makeup causing it to run all over your face. So even if you don't plan on doing any swimming, you still may sweat. To avoid runny makeup from either one of these situations make certain that you are wearing waterproof makeup.
Finally, since waterproof makeup is made to stay on your face without running due to sweating or swimming, it only stands to reason that it is more difficult to remove.
You probably know that it is bad to leave makeup on too long, especially when you are sleeping. So make sure you invest in a good quality makeup remover to ensure all your waterproof makeup is taken off at the end of the day or evening.

Top Beauty Secret #5: Go Natural
For the summer months, most women look their best if they go for the natural look. This can be easily achieved by using minimal make-up and a sheer lipstick and gloss. The effect will be a healthy glow that makes you look very fresh and attractive. Try to avoid using dark-colored lipsticks during the summer, especially during the daylight hours. You may find that using dark-colored lipsticks are more trouble than they are worth since you may need to be constantly doing touch-ups to keep up your appearance.

As you can see from my list of top beauty secrets, figuring out how to always look fresh and beautiful doesn't have to be that difficult.

In fact, you may find it easier to achieve and maintain your skin health and beauty during the summer than in winter. The key is going for a more natural look in summer which means less time trying to mix and match to see what looks best.