New Year’s transformation: how to become more beautiful

New Year wishes are different for everyone. Some are limited to the concrete and mundane – buy a fur coat, fly to Paris and pay off the mortgage. Others pray to the Universe for marriage, children, health of loved ones. There are those who think globally: about world peace and the discovery of a cure for cancer.

But it is unlikely that the hundred of the most popular desires includes a request to learn how to take care of yourself. And this is so necessary for most of us! Although why disturb Santa Claus with requests for what we can do ourselves? After all, even a few small changes in the beauty routine will help to become more beautiful.

Makeup – get out of your comfort zone

Are you used to mindlessly spending 10 minutes preening? Do you use the usual stroke of eyeliner, use a proven gray-brown eyeshadow palette and paint your lips with beige lipstick? Try on a different look. Schedule a consultation with a make-up artist at the corner of your favorite brand and try to learn new tricks.

A fun activity, I must say. And useful: looking at yourself in different guises is a great way to increase self-esteem.

And yes, don’t forget to pick that perfect shade of red lipstick.

Believe it exists. Giorgio Forgani, lead makeup artist at Pupa, confirms: “Red lipstick looks great on everyone! If you have fair skin, use red in a cold range (closer to ruby, wine color). If the skin tone is warm and the face looks tanned, the red should be in the orange range. The ideal red is a shade between orange and ruby.”

Use foundation before going out

Always, even on weekends. In addition to an even tone, it provides skin protection from the harmful effects of the environment. Even if we discard all useful additives, the pigments of the product themselves work like micromirrors, reflecting ultraviolet light and preventing direct contact of dust with the skin.

Skin cleansing – twice a day

Yes, yes, an evening meaningful make-up removal is needed. But in the morning, the skin needs a decent cleansing and toning. It awakens and adds vitality.

“Many people omit morning cleansing, believing that the face is not particularly dirty during the night,” says Elena Eliseeva, Vichy medical expert. – Often, washing is replaced by “splashing water on your face to wake up.” Exactly the same thing happens if we suddenly spent the whole day without makeup.

In fact, the skin will stain itself beautifully. Because in addition to a great many functions, it performs one more – it releases sebum (sebum) and sweat. It’s great food for bacteria. At night, a little more sebum is produced (the main metabolic processes in tissues occur while we sleep), and during the day a fair portion of dust is added to it. This mixture cannot be dissolved with plain water. Sebum is a fat that does not wash off itself, and protects sweat components and bacterial flora from washing off.

Banal rinsing in the shower is not enough. Wash your face with foam or cream, wipe your skin with tonic. And exfoliate twice a week. Then the face will shine, and the makeup will stay flawless.

Make face masks as often as possible

Moisturizing and lifting products can and should be applied at least every day. Cleansing – a couple of times a week, depending on the type of skin. No time? Give preference to fabric products. They do not require rinsing, do not stick, and their price is more than democratic. Apply the mask while preparing breakfast or drinking coffee. 10 minutes – and daytime beauty is guaranteed.

Night cream two hours before bedtime

The body’s biorhythms switch to recovery mode around six in the evening. Therefore, the sooner you help them in the form of active beauty ingredients, the better. Don’t wait until the very end. Cleanse and moisturize your skin as soon as you get home.

Well, a lot has been said and written about the benefits of early lights out. “An hour of sleep before midnight is equal to two hours after” – do not forget about the popular saying. But if you can’t go to bed at 22:00, get a “smart” alarm clock that will wake you up at the most comfortable time in terms of biorhythms.

Make friends with scrubs and body creams

Rough feet and rough elbows look messy and reduce the quality of life. Few people like to cling to clothes and underwear with their skin.

Have detox days

Just do not confuse them with hungry. Turn the trendy healthy lifestyle today into a game where you dictate the rules yourself! For example, cut out sweets completely twice a week. The other couple of days – from pasta and potatoes. Or, in the morning, decide that today you will not eat fried food, and spend the next day without animal protein. This is how you slowly develop a healthy eating habit. And even at a party you will be able to keep yourself in check.

Bring fitness to life

If you don’t have the time, money or energy to go to the gym, start doing a simple complex: 30 squats, 50 swings with each leg, 20 sit-ups and the same number of push-ups. Yes, yes, these banal exercises. But hard every day.

After a month, you will notice obvious changes in your body and you will want to improve and complicate this set. Then there will be time for a fitness center!

10 steps is the mandatory minimum per day

This measure will save you from excess weight, heart disease and even depression. Many gadgets are equipped with a pedometer. This is a good motivator, stimulating you to leave the car a couple of blocks from your home or office, walk up the stairs and make an extra circle around the square or yard.

Look for your remedy

Once again, “drive in” to a cosmetic store. All these jars, bottles, lipsticks help to switch, become interested, feel like a woman, and only her.

You don’t have to buy something every time. But to get acquainted with new products and trends is sacred. After all, the world of beauty was created in order to make us better. So let’s join forces!