- Stay out of the sun. The sun makes your skin darker. Even when your suntan fades, your skin becomes darker and ruddier over time, not to mention burned, damaged, blotchy, and susceptible to skin cancer.
- Whenever you’re outside, wear a hat. Choose a wide-brimmed one in the summer months to keep the sun off your face and a baseball cap with a long brim in the fall and winter months. Even indirect sun exposure is detrimental to fair skin.
- Use sunscreen every day. Make sure it has a UV factor of 30+.
- Fake it. Use a light makeup base one shade lighter than your natural color, then dust on translucent powder to keep skin fair and radiant. Don’t slather on the makeup or your skin won’t look natural or fair. In the summer, choose a makeup base with sunscreen for extra protection to ensure fair skin.
- Follow a good skin-care regimen. Cleanse your skin regularly and gently with facial cleanser, and follow with a light moisturizer to keep skin hydrated.
- Even out a bad complexion. Is your skin uneven? Try using these home remedies to restore a smooth complexion:
- Sandalwood oil: Sandalwood can help remove pimples, red blotches, prickly heat, lessen the effects of sun exposure, fade freckles, soothe rashes, eliminate spots, and heal swelling. Pricey but worth it, sandalwood might be your ticket to fair skin. Add sandalwood to every facial cleanser, scrub, toner, moisturizer, and product you use to achieve and maintain a fair complexion.
- Almonds: Grind almonds into rosewater and apply the paste to your skin.
- Eggs and honey: Whip an egg white with honey and a squeeze of lemon juice, and smear on face for a super-nutritious skin treatment. Wash off after 15 minutes.
- Radish: Apply grated radish and radish juice to skin to make it fair.
- Tomato juice: Bathe your face in tomato juice. The antioxidants provide a good skin treatment for fair skin.
- Oatmeal: Serve breakfast to your skin: Mix tomato juice and oatmeal to use as a facial scrub, then rinse.
- Milk powder may also help you achieve your goal of fair skin. Mix with warm water to form a paste, spread on skin, let sit for 30 minutes, then rinse with cool water.
- Papaya has been used for centuries in many cultures to help women get fair skin. Cut a papaya in half and rub all over your face every night.
- Bleaching creams: There are creams that can help you get fair skin. Some are safer than others, so use with caution, and apply to a small, inconspicuous spot on your arm before slathering on your face to make sure you don’t have an adverse reaction. Always consult your dermatologist before using any bleaching cream.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
FAIR SKIN
FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS
LION:
Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
A lion feeds once every three to four days.
An adult lion's roar is so loud, it can be heard up to five miles away.
TIGER:
All tigers have a similar marking on their forehead, which resembles the Chinese symbol Wang, meaning King.
A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.
Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
DOG:
First place for the country with the greatest dog population goes to U.S. Second place goes to France.
World-wide, unvaccinated dogs are the number one transmitters of the rabies virus.
Police dogs were first used in 1816 in Scotland.
COWS:
A group of crows is called a murder.
The average cow produces about 2,305 gallons of milk each year.
Cows can detect odors up to five miles away.
ELEPHANTS:
An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more.
The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.
An elephant's tooth can weigh upto three kilograms.
An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period.
BIRDS:
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
All birds have 3 eyelids, an upper, a lower and and a nictitating membrane which protects the eye without eliminating sight.
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