Sun is the biggest culprit that makes the skin dull and dark. While high melanin content in dark skin naturally protects it against UV damage, fair skin is not blessed with any such natural armour. It is exceptionally hard to maintain your fairness without losing glow in all seasons. Fair skin needs additional protection that can keep the fairness intact while keeping the skin radiant. When exposed to sun, fair skin becomes dry that makes it darker. To help you keep your fair skin radiant and to further increase its glow, we bring forth our list of 15 amazing lesser known life hacks to repel sun damage.
1. Keep Your Skin Hydrated
By hydrating we do not mean drink litres and litres of water. Always remember, water alone cannot protect your fair skin from sun damage. Fair skin, when exposed to harsh sunrays, becomes dry, chapped, cracked and lifeless. This makes the cells old and the overall face looks dark. You can increase the immunity of your skin against sun by keeping it hydrated. And in order to repel the dryness caused due to sun, you need to drink natural nutrient rich beverages. Such beverages are loaded with the goodness of vitamins and minerals that are natural skin protectors and UV foes. A glass of fresh beverages like watermelon juice, orange juice, banana shake, lemon water, coconut water, grape juice and avocado juice can rehydrate the dry skin by increasing the formation of healthy collagen. It results in the formation of new cells that are not sun damaged and are glowing and fair.
2. Apply A Spray Sunscreen
While a high SPF normal sunscreen offers maximum UV protection, but this might not be enough for maintaining constant fairness and glow of fair skin. Instead, using a high SPF spray sunscreen is better. This is because, spray sunscreens are highly durable and water resistant. They also protect the skin from tanning after swimming. They need not to be reapplied again and again. Thus, you need not to worry about sun damage if you forget to apply the sunscreen every two hours. To reap maximum benefits, it is highly recommended to wear a thin layer of normal sunscreen below a spray sunscreen. This saves the fair skin from tanning. It also reduces the risk of premature skin aging. A word of caution though, UVA rays cause skin tanning. Thus, it is beneficial to buy a broad spectrum spray sunscreen that offers maximum protection against the UVA sunrays to protect your fairness.
3. Wear Waterproof Makeup
While most people would have advised you not to wear any makeup at all under sun, but waterproof makeup can actually be your unique sun damage rescue. Good quality waterproof makeup works as a protective layer between the sun and your skin. It doesn’t melt and offers the same benefit as melanin offers to dark skin. The only precaution is, remember to use high SPF, waterproof and non comedogenic makeup.
4. Apply Curd
You should always apply curd on your face and other exposed body parts half an hour before applying sunscreen and stepping out in the sun. Curd is rich in lactic acid, water and casein. Water replenishes the skin cells and makes them supple. Lactic acid has natural antioxidants that fight free radicals caused due to sun. And casein is a protein that triggers collagen formation. Increased collagen increases the formation of healthy and fair skin cells. All of this also increases the holding power of your skin. This increases the lasting power of the sunscreen. It also increases the sun fighting power of your sunscreen.
5. Ice Therapy
Fair skin is prone to maximum sun damage. Exposure to heat inflames the skin cells. It traumatizes them and can lead to sunburns and darkening. If you rub ice on your skin before stepping out in the sun and after returning home, it reverse the heat damage. It cools down the heat inflammation. This replenishes the traumatized skin cells and cools them down. It not just reduces the chances of skin darkening, it also protects the fair skin from chapping and wrinkling.
6. Apply Homemade Face Packs
You should always use fairness face packs. However, the best results are reaped when you use fairness face packs meant for reversing the signs of sun damage. The best option in this case is using homemade face packs. No matter you make a scrubbing or non scrubbing fairness face pack, always remember to add turmeric, sandalwood, fuller’s earth and henna in it. Henna cools down the heated and dry skin cells by reducing inflammation. It saves the skin cells from shrinking. Turmeric contains curcumin. Curcumin fights off free radicals caused due to sun damage. Thus, it keeps the skin safe from aging. Fuller’s earth improves the texture of the skin cells by toning the traumatized muscles and tissues. And sandalwood is a natural de-tan exfoliator that restores, increases and maintains fairness.
7. Cover Your Face With A Bandana Scarf
The maximum protection you use, the better are the chances of maintaining and restoring your fairness. Thus, cover your face with a bandana scarf instead of a cotton scarf. This is because a bandana scarf is much more than just a basic scarf. It is resistant to UV rays to an extent. Top it up with a hat and an umbrella. This will prevent the skin from tanning and will help the sun damaged skin to recover its natural fairness.
8. Use Night Serums
Reparative serums are very essential for fair skin. Fair skin easily tans under the sun. It damages the cells and make them itchy, dull, inflamed, flaky and wrinkled. This makes the skin dark and dull. Reparative night creams and serums cool down the inflammation. They hydrate and moisturize the sun damaged skin cells. They are loaded with skin essential vitamins and minerals. These vitamins and minerals remove dead skin cells and reduce tanning. They also trigger the formation of healthy skin cells. Thus, they transform the sun damaged fair skin and makes it more fairer and radiant than before.
9. Use De-Tan Scrubs
Tanning and wrinkling are two major side effects of sun damage. Your skin can lose fairness within a day when exposed to sun. Healing sun damaged skin is an altogether different task and maintaining the fairness of fair skin is another. De-tan scrubs are two-in-one solutions to protect and restore fairness against sun damage. They keep your fairness intact by protecting your skin against UVA and UVB sunrays.
10. Use Fairness Facial Kits
Fairness facial kits contain vitamin rich massage creams, scrubs and packs. Such facial kits gently exfoliate the upper dead epidermal cells and give room to new cells. They nourish the skin and makes it sun ready. They also increase fairness by improving blood circulation. In short, they improve the skin’s health so much so that it gets a chance to stand against tanning and darkening under the sun.
11. Apply Used Green Tea Packs
This is an ultimate way to protect and heal fair skin from sun damage. Used green tea bags contain activated antioxidants. Activated antioxidants kill free radicals not just from the epidermis, but from within the underlying skin layers. They detoxify the skin and maintains its pH level. It makes the fair skin stronger against sun damage. Activated antioxidants also increase blood circulation. Increased blood circulation hydrates the skin cells and supply enough oxygen. This maintains and restores fairness. Thus, your skin gets better immune to UV damage. Used green tea bags are also anti cancerous.
12. Undergo Dermatological Treatments Once In Awhile
Various dermatological treatments like laser skin resurfacing, C peeling and laser toning makes fair skin healthy and sun proof. The healthier the skin cells are, the better are the chances of sun protection. Skin treatments for fair skin make the cells healthier and boosts the collagen elasticity. Flexible collagen is the key to sun proof, fair and young skin. In fact, these treatments are not just sun proofing remedies, they also repair the sun damaged skin. They restore fairness and maintains it.
13. Eat A Healthy And Balanced Diet
You are what you eat. Your skin is a reflection of your lifestyle and food habits. Vitamin, mineral and protein rich diet makes the cells stronger. They improve digestion and circulation. This cleanses the cells and flushes free radicals out of the body. They supply skin boosting nutrients. These nutrients make the fair skin healthy. They effectively fight against harmful sunrays and prevent tanning. They also increase the efficiency of your sunscreen and serums that keep your skin fair and damage free.
14. Wear Tight Weave Clothes
Tight weave clothes are made of exclusive fabric. They filter UVA and UVB sunrays to an extent. They keep the skin comparatively cooler by reducing heat absorption. It is better to wear full sleeve tight weave clothes. This reduces the chances of tanning. It also keeps the skin safe from premature aging. You can also use tight weave scarves to add an extra layer of protection against face tanning caused due to sun damage. The best way is to avoid wearing light coloured clothes. Dark colours absorb heat and light colours absorb harmful UV rays. It means, dark coloured clothes filter ultraviolet rays. It protects the skin against dryness, wrinkling and darkening.
15. Do Not Bleach The Skin
Yes, you read it right. Exposing bleached skin to sun causes maximum damage. Bleaching makes the skin defenceless against UV rays. This is because, melanin is the only agent that can protect the skin from sun damage naturally. And fair skin is already short in melanin. Bleaching further reduces the melanin content of fair skin. This exposes the skin to sunrays that results in tanning and dullness.
All the above listed simple tips can not just protect fairness, but can restore fairness as well. Though, never forget to moisturize your skin again and again. It helps in reaping maximum benefits from the above listed simple hacks for maintaining fairness against sun.
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