Tips for clear & glowing skin: improve the texture and tone of your skin.

 

Tips for clear & glowing skin

This blog is about five tips on how to get clearer skin and it's great for acne prone skin. Let's be honest we all want clear skin and some of us unfortunately are dealing with acne. Some of us are dealing with other skin issues. I really wanted to put together my top five tips on getting clearer skin regardless of whether you have kind of pigmentation or you feel that your skin is a bit congested or maybe you genuinely are suffering from acne.

I really wanted to give you my best tips that have worked for me and I hope it kind of works for you so we're going to go through each tip one by one. I feel like it's something that eliminates the need to go to a salon, you know you don't have to always go out and spend so much money on a salon, love being at home, I love being able to do beauty treatments at home for me, it's satisfaction to pamper yourself by own as you know which products you are applying and what sort of treatment you are working on.

I don't mind spending that money on something like this that I can use on a daily basis because if I were to go in and actually get this same treatment done at a salon, it would be way more expensive. Over the time as we get older we don't produce as much collagen as what we did, when we were younger which is why in babies you see super plump skin.

It's just so nice and plump and amazing and then as we get older that plumpness goes down because we're not creep, we don't have as much collagen production. It just decreases that as we get older and decreases more and more and more which is why you end up with Fine Lines, wrinkles, sagginess. So taking care of yourself at daily basis is really helpful. It really helps to boost that collagen production which I love, I genuinely do see that in my own skin.

Another thing I wanted to tell you guys, if you already have a severe skin issue that hurts to the touch, or a rash or you have anything which is like quite excessively wrong in terms of the condition of your skin, always consult your doctor before using any skin care remedies.

Products that we use on a daily basis (moisturizer, primer, BB/ CC cream) should be chosen very carefully as we are going to continuously use these. I cannot tell you, how much of a massive difference they made to the way that my skin looks especially when I was trying to recover, I would say recover, recover from acne and the congestion (the spots that you get on the underneath the skin), it's like tiny bumps.

Cleansing:

Washing your face in the morning and the evening it seems like a pretty Common Sense thing but I realized over time from speaking to people and hearing things online that not a lot of people do that. I've heard a lot of people say that they one do the worst thing ever which is sleep in their makeup which is really really bad. I would never do that, two like not really wash their face with a face wash in the evening and you've had that entire day's dirt and grime all over your face.

You need to get rid of it the way that I see it and once you start doing it, it becomes a habit. Just as with anything you do it for long enough, it becomes a part of your Lifestyle. Use a face wash use a face wash in the morning and in the evening just genuinely start with these steps and honestly it will make such a difference to your skin. If you do all of this in combination I can guarantee you are going to have better skin, use the correct face wash according to your skin type.

If you feel that you have very oily skin then use face wash which is tackling that oiliness and like really helping to draw out the impurities as well. If you feel that you have very dry skin then obviously use face wash which is hydrating for your skin too. My personal favorites what I actually use is the Kiehl's Blue Herb or face wash because it has salicylic acid in there so that as a daily wash that helps keep my acne at Bay. I even though my skin looks clear now I still do have those times where it just breaks out and if I don't keep using that I sometimes can see it creeping back up so it's one of those things where I feel like I've got control over it now.

wash your face

wash your face in the morning because you've got overnight rubbish is going on you can get rid of that build up, Grime, dirt you should get rid of that in the morning. Go through your entire day and you make sure you wash your face in the evening too. Cleansing also involve exfoliation, regularly, so make sure you do use a nice scrub. Using a mild face wash that include exfoliating particles is one of my favorites because it's not too much of a harsh scrub.

Exfoliating:

When you think of an exfoliator you traditionally think of the tiny beads and it's quite harsh on the skin. Don't think to yourself that the harsher it feels the better it is because it really is not. You really do still need to be gentle to your skin even though you're exfoliating it. Make sure that exfoliator is a gentle exfoliator I really love the micro beads because the beads dissolve and they're so tiny and it literally leaves your skin feeling like butter. After and usually when you use a scrub you'd traditionally would feel like your skin feels quite dry but this makes your skin feel like super buttery.

Whatever you choose make sure you use it on a regular basis, once a week is fine, you can even up it to twice a week. if you really feel that you need to because what an exfoliator does is it helps to get rid of any kind of dead skin and gives you a clean canvas ready for the rest of your skincare. Use your face wash and then exfoliate after you've washed your face because your face wash has got rid of everything all the dirt and the grime off of your face then you go in with the exfoliator because if you use an exfoliator before you've even washed your face.

Let the exfoliator really focus on getting that stubborn dirt pulling it right out of your pores so setting the tone for that exfoliator to really  get to work and get deep into those pores to suck out all of that nasty or whatever stuck into your pores which then is going to lead to spots and acne. You exfoliate in the morning or the evening I think that's completely up to you I personally like exfoliating at night especially when I've used makeup during the day. I really got out whatever dirt there has been like the build up throughout the day. 

While using an exfoliator please don't over scrub and again I know, I keep saying it but it really does come down to ensuring that you do opt for a gentle exfoliator as well because I can probably get away with a bit more of a harsh exfoliation. I've got quite thick skin that doesn't mean everyone does that so you might have quite delicate, sensitive skin, quite thin skin. So you're much better off using a gentle exfoliator even though I have thick skin I prefer using the mid exfoliator because I feel like it genuinely does hydrate my skin as well at the same time. It doesn't strip all the oils, moisture from my skin.

Don’t over scrubbing your face, do it gently, don't go too close to the eye area. The skin around your eye is very thin, you don't want to aggravate that area. Now make sure you do it on the areas that you need it, if you don't feel that you need to do it all over then don't so. Hopefully that helps that's really going to help to clean your skin.

A Clean Pillowcase:

Moving on to the next tip which is tip number four this is a really important one I actually cannot begin to tell you how much this has changed my skin a clean pillow case. I'm not saying I used to sleep with a dirty pillow case but I used to sleep with a cotton pillowcase. I never used to really think about the fact that you don't wash your clothes every single day. Let's be real, right, whatever is on your face, whatever's on your hair is transferring onto that pillowcase. I changed over to a silk pillowcase that really did help me it's something that is much quieter to my skin.

It's not so rough my skin has genuinely improved since using it for every single one of these steps but also think about this you get up in the morning you do your hair if like me you maybe use some gel you maybe use like your olaplex you maybe use some hairspray or whatever you use in your hair then you go to sleep at night. You've washed your face, you've done everything else the right way but what about your hair because your hair, don't necessarily not all of us wash our hair every day.

Product buildup is that you used on your hair yesterday and maybe you've even used it today as well which means you're adding to it that stuff. We move around a lot on our pillow that stuff is not just staying touching our hair, it is going to touch our face so you imagine what that does. Would you really spray your face with hairspray would you really let hair gel over your face? You know it's going to be bad for your skin but the thing is we don't think about the fact that when we go to sleep that's what we're doing.

We're basically letting all those products touch our skin and that can actually make you break out and that can build up, it's dirt, it's bacteria on your face which could cause breakouts. We feel that we're always kind of congested around this area, we don't think about the fact that it could be the dirt from our pillow. Anything your skin touches needs to be clean including your pillowcase because you spent how many hours on that pillowcase like six to eight hours. 

I flip my pillowcase so to the part that I slept on is at the top now so that when I go to sleep tonight it's the clean part. Just be more aware of those things and if you start becoming more aware about it then you're gonna naturally be looking after your skin, without even realizing, think about that because honestly, it's not just your hair, it's the buildup of skincare. Remember at night you put on your skincare then you get into bed, you touch your pillow, all that skincare is touching your pillow, it's going to be transferring onto your pillow. Make sure that when you sleep every night it's on the clean part of the pillow.

Eating simple food:   

Moving on to tip number five and lastly we are going to be talking about eating clean I am probably the best person to speak to you about this because I feel I can genuinely tell you that I don't eat clean 24 /7. I have times in my life where I may not be mentally feeling like I can eat clean or that I want to eat clean, (clean means simple food). We don't get to eat, we can't eat clean all the time with all these things around us, having a social life and having friends and it's just impossible to just eat clean 24 /7. 

I don't really want to do that 24 /7 because it's gonna be boring to me, doing that 24 /7 and not having a day where I can just eat whatever I want. I'm not going to be unrealistic with you guys and say stop it completely, don't eat this because you have to be realistic about it. Now I will be honest about what my diet is it doesn't mean it's going to work for you this is just what works for me so please don't take this as if I am recommending this to any of you guys. 

It works for me I personally like to intermittent fast, I think it's something that makes me feel great. I have mental Clarity from it I feel better, inflammation goes down in the body. For the last three weeks haven't eaten clean and I haven't been in too much at fasting and that's because I ended up getting a chest infection, chopped throat infection. I need to eat so usually I do a 16 hour fasting window and then I eat for eight hours. I still eat whatever I want, I just make sure it's clean food so I don't look at calories or anything that works for me. 

It doesn't mean it's going to work for you but the biggest piece of advice I can give you which I felt worked for me and I think is going to work for more or less. Most people is really trying to cut out the processed foods and sugars personally, again if you have some kind of medical condition then you need to listen to your doctor first. I'm not a doctor at all, I just can speak to you about what I feel has worked for me. Just want to tell you something about sugar. Sugar in any form influences the formation of acne through your hormones and through inflammation. 

I personally think sugar is the end to me, I hate the things that it does to your body.  I do it in different time interval (periods) where I feel like I need to detox and it's more seeing what fits in with my lifestyle. I don't fit my lifestyle around my diet, I fit my diet around my lifestyle. I feel like that's become more of that happy medium place for me cutting sugar out or reducing the sugar in my diet even just reducing it massively has helped my skin so much. It triggers your hormones, inflammation, you can have hormonal acne. I suffered from it quite a while ago and I genuinely I felt the only thing that helped was all of the tips I've discussed. 

The biggest part was probably kind of like reducing uh processed foods and sugar because there's so much sugar in even processed foods that has hidden. We don't even know about we just don't read the labels, we really should do. Even if we do half the time we don't know what certain things mean that's a big thing I would really recommend that also see. I have a fizzy drink and I have to be honest that I started from a teenager, I cut fizzy drinks out so I've just never been really like into fizzy drinks.  

We should be aware about what and how these things are bad for us. You don't need to cut everything out completely but if you want to have the bad stuff have it in very minimal quantities, it really does help your skin. It just looked awful, this make a massive difference for me going back many many years. I would say reducing the sugar and realizing that just trying to think about what I put into my body, really does help my skin. 

I'm not a doctor, I'm not a dermatologist, I am just good at what I do and all I can do is give you the best advice that I feel I have learned from and that has helped me. It doesn't mean it's going to help you 100% but hopefully if something resonates with you or you feel that your lifestyle may be as similar to mine or your skin is similar to mine, if you feel like you're connecting with me then you're probably gonna take away some of these tips and tricks and try them.