What is it that defines beauty as we understand it? Makeup and clothes can be fantastic, and can truly help you craft a look, indeed. However, it’s a mistake to think that being a wizard with the makeup brush or a genius in the wardrobe is a replacement for being confident in your natural beauty.
Here, we’re going to look at how you can ensure that you’re taking good enough care that you can better nail just about every look you try. Here are a few key tips on getting more confident in your natural beauty:
Exercise!
Yes, exercise sounds like one of those easy and all-encompassing tips that we can say is key to improving your life across the board. When it comes to your skin and your natural beauty, however, it offers a few specific benefits worth noting. It improves your blood flow, which helps get oxygen and nutrients to your skin to keep it young and healthy looking, such as antioxidants.
Sweating is good for your skin too, believe it or not. Our pores get full of toxins that can cause all sorts of skin issues, and sweat flushes them out, which is why things like steam facials are so good for the skin as well. Consider adding a little more high intensity aerobic exercises to your day for your skin’s sake.
Give Your Skin the Diet That It Needs
You are what you eat. However, you are also what you absorb through your skin. Whenever we use moisturizers or other skincare products, we are always feeding our skin with whatever nutrients and substances in those products. We should make sure those substances are good for us, such as hyaluronic acid, which helps keep the connective tissue between our skin and our muscles supple and moisturized, so that smiling and other expressions don’t cause sagging and lines of rest.
Coconut oil is another ingredient worth adding to your skincare diet and comes in makeup removes, shaving cream, face masks, and other products. Besides being a moisturizer, it’s also an anti-fungal and antioxidant, which helps it fight the signs of premature aging.
Take the Sun Seriously
It’s very easy to ignore the warnings about just how dangerous the sun can be to our skin, but it should never be ignored. Exposure to UV radiation is responsible for that vast majority of premature skin cell aging. This leads to wrinkles, sun spots and, of course, to a significantly increased risk of skin cancer.
It’s important that you protect yourself from the sun, making sure that your sunscreen has the SPF level you need to ensure total coverage. You shouldn’t just wear sunscreen when you’re at the beach, either. Put a little on any day that the sun is out, even if you’re spending most of your time indoors. UV rays go through windows as easily as a knife through butter, after all.
Make Sure You Stay Hydrated
One of the aspects that makes sunlight so dangerous to your skin is how much it dehydrates it. Few things are more important than moisturizing your skin. Without the right hydration, dry skin can lead to itchy, blotchy, and flakey skin, inflammation, and even chronic skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema.
All of this weakens your skin, so that you’re much more likely to be dealing with the signs of aging early. Naturally hydrating skin products are always recommended, and this doesn’t just mean moisturizer.
Look for products with shea butter and sunflower seed oil in them. Otherwise, stop the habits that dry your skin out, such as smoking and excessive drinking of alcohol.
Talk to Your Dentist About Your Smile
Besides your skin, your smile is perfect the key contributing factor to your natural beauty. When we don’t feel confident in our smile, we don’t feel confident in our look. There are a range of problems that could stop you from smiling with confidence.
Discoloration, crooked teeth, even damaged or missing teeth. But it’s important to be aware of how much easier modern dentistry has made it to correct these issues. Teeth whitening is becoming more and more affordable. Veneers can help cover up all kinds of chips and stains. Now, there’s even a permanent replacement option for your missing teeth that’s much more accessible.
If you feel like your smile is holding you back, don’t hesitate to get in contact with your dentist. No matter how bad things are, there is a route to improve them..
Feed Your Hair
Just as you absorb nutrients through your skin to help replenish, hydrate, and strengthen your skin, you do the exact same thing with your hair. Here, the primary ingredient that you need to be aware of is keratin.
Protein-rich foods can help reinforce the keratin in your hair, but there are shampoos, conditioners, and hairsprays that contain keratin as well. This strengthens the foundation of your hair and promotes the growth of strong, healthy hair, which is going to make it much less prone to problems such as breakage, split ends, and so on.
Keep Your Face Clean and Clear
In case it’s not already a habit of yours, make sure that you’re taking care to exfoliate your face. Our skin becomes covered in dry skin cells, sweat, dirt, and oils that can become a problem if they’re left there to block our pores. At the end of every day, you should ensure you take the time to exfoliate your skin.
If you’re having trouble caused by poor exfoliation, then you might want to look into occasional treatments like dermaplaning that can completely get rid of the dead skin cells that are harder to get rid of. It can help soften and improve the tone of your skin, and it has the bonus of reducing the appearance of wrinkles, as well.
From your skin to your hair and your teeth, hopefully the tips above show that there’s plenty you can do to protect and enhance your natural beauty. It will take time, energy, and effort, but the results will undoubtedly be worth it.
How do you take care of yourself to boost your confidence? Let us know in the comments below!
