How to care for yourself in the winter and how to fill up a cosmetics bag
Masha Vorslav
The weather is not fast but it is getting colder, and, until we are completely covered with snow and not blown by icy winds, we suggest checking cosmetics bags and shelves in the bathroom for everything you need - and buy the rest.
The main trouble in winter is low temperatures and wind. Do not protect yourself with the last one with one makeup: you need to wear a hat, a scarf and gloves, like any adult - the weathered skin hurts and is restored for a long time. To move from the subway or car to the office, such simple measures should be enough, but if you are going to skate or ski, it is better to apply day cream to exposed skin (just don’t jump out onto the street right away and wait until it is absorbed) and even tone - the more on the face of all, so it is really more comfortable. Nevertheless, you do not need to strive to choose the densest tone especially for winter - you need to be bothered with picking a shade (for a rare person, the skin does not become lighter in autumn), and the texture should still allow the pigment to lie evenly and imperceptibly as far as possible.
Layers can and should be added if the skin requires it. Moisturizing or nourishing serum not only can, but should remain part of the care, if you came to her need even in the fall. If it is not enough, there is an option to buy butter: some modern ones can even be used as a day cream (or under it) - they are absorbed well and leave exactly that glow, due to which the skin looks healthy and not shiny. True, it is worth keeping in mind and take into account that the tonal tool may reluctantly or carelessly distribute the oil, so even the primer will not correct. By the way, about the primers: they are also able to protect from the wind and, of course, they are well placed and other cosmetics are held together.
As we have said, we see no reason to paint less in the winter - except in the most severe frosts, when the temperature difference between the street and the room is all fifty degrees. Then we would confine ourselves only to the tone (cream or oil and serum, primer, tonal remedy - throw out too much) and raised eyebrows: the eyes may water, the most resistant mascara - to flow, and lipstick on the lips will not linger even on the primer, only if it is not supermatted MAC Retro Matte, which is not in the frost is quite a test for the skin. We advise you to buy a lot of lip balms, focusing on their durability and effectiveness, and not smell, and spread them out everywhere, without paying attention to all the pockets and work tables. The same balms as a bonus can be used as a cuticle. In those days, when it’s not very cold outside, mascara and lipstick behave well, blusher, and highlighters too. They, by the way, can also be turned from decoration into protection if you choose cream textures.
In the heat, no matter how offensive it may be, the skin may not be all that simple: to the air conditioners that work almost all year round, heating is added which dries the air even more. The problem is partly solved: air humidifiers are inexpensive and do their job (we advise you to buy one in the office and home), and you can also call for help thermal or mineral water. Last, we note, it is necessary to use it not at random: if you leave it to dry out and not get wet, the skin, instead of being moistened, drags itself.
Of course, now is the time for moisturizing and nourishing masks, which are bought throughout the year and could not begin to use. They can be applied at least every day, if there is a need, time and patience. And although we are sure that everyone can find five minutes a day, you can make masks less often if you pick up a decent nourishing cream. There should be no problems with his search: manufacturers always distinguish them in their lines, and sometimes they make two versions of the same cream (the one marked “nourishing” or “rich” is the right choice).
Recall about the means with acids: there is no better time for them. It can be creams, masks, and peels (Baby Foot time also came up). It is important with them one thing: to listen to the sensations, especially if you enter acids in the care yourself, and do not forget about Sanskrin - those that seemed heavy in the summer are just right now. Cleansing from makeup and skin secretion out of season remains the most important ritual: we assume that there is a narrow circle of people who, for a comfortable state, simply wipe the face with micellar water, and the rest, definitely, should not forget about the usual skins, mousses, soaps and scrubs.
Care for the body in winter becomes a little more difficult. Every evening you want not only to lie in the bath, but to live in it, but care is needed here: hot water cleanses the skin so that the natural layer of sebum is washed off and the skin dries. Salts or bath oils can help, and then only partially. In any case, we advise you to get a nourishing body cream (butter), and it is better to put oil next to the bath: it is applied to wet skin in seconds and moisturizes better than other products. With hand creams, the same story as with lip balms: it makes sense to disperse them everywhere and not forget about the bathroom (whatever the cream, after a few handwashing, it will also be washed off). But it is recommended to put funds for legs in the most prominent and binding place, by the bed - and pick out some especially beautiful socks to put on them immediately after applying the cream and fall asleep to the princess with a sense of accomplishment (the latter is guaranteed if you buy special and gloves like The Body Shop).