As the monsoon season ends and winter begins to set in, the colors in every wardrobe change from bold to mellow colors, and from bright to pastel colors. You can use winter beauty and fashion tips for dressing up and looking good during winter season. It is celebration time. As the dry northerly winds brings in bad things for your skin, you must get ready with your army of moisturizers, cold creams and cleansing milk. For these can help you to fight away the elements that can make your glowing skin into a dry and parched piece of dirt.

A youthful and healthy skin enhances beauty. It also makes your personality very attractive. Who would not like to be called as star of the evening! With winter beauty and fashion tips, you can get an attractive look for yourself.

Winter Lip Care

Be sure to keep them covered with a good lip balm applied several times during the day. Warm sesame oil will also soothe your lips.

Avoid licking your lips and don’t bite the skin on the surface of your lips. The skin will never have a chance to heal if you chew on it. This is a hard habit to break but well worth the effort. Lip balms are nowadays commonly available and some with a SPF factor as well to protect them from the harmful rays.

Exfoliating Your Lips Easily

If your lips are dried out and flaking, try rubbing a little petroleum jelly into your lips and then rubbing gently with a wet face cloth to remove the dead skin cells. You won’t want them to dry out any further, so be sure to cover them with a lip balm to hold the moisture in.

You can also exfoliate your lips with just toothbrush and a little Vaseline. Brush the lips gently and be sure that you don’t ingest any of the Vaseline. Rubbing lemon juice will also exfoliate the dead skin cells from smoking, cold weather or whatever has robbed your skin of smoothness and color.

Get rid of those dry patches by rubbing the lips with an anti-wrinkle cream. If you are in a habit of licking your lips, this will break the habit. The cream won’t taste like a flavored lip balm.

During the winter, you might be tempted to apply a layer of lip balm followed by a layer of lipstick. Lastly during the winter months, it would be wise to stay away from the lipsticks that claim that they are long lasting. Often they can dry your lips out and cold weather will do that fast enough. Instead look for creamy formulations.

Oil Those Nails

Nails take quite a beating all winter long so here is a little tip for keeping them at their best. Every few days, brush them with cuticle/ nail oil and if you can’t seem to find any then petroleum jelly will do just fine. And if you really want to care for those cuticles. Then make it your nightly routine to massage petroleum jelly into them to soften them up. If you don’t have petroleum jelly, cocoa butter or a vitamin E capsule was also suggested. Petroleum jelly seems to be a product that we should stock up on.

If your nails are weak, splitting, fragile etc, the problem could be traced back to an inadequate water intake. Most people don’t drink nearly enough.

No Red Noses

If your latest cold has done a number on your nose, get out that tube of concealed and apply a little to the tip of your finger. Dot it carefully until the glow has lessened and then set it with a bit of translucent powder. No one will ever know.

Satiny Smooth Winter Skin

If you are hoping to keep your skin satiny smooth this winter, here is a recipe that should help. All it involves is mixing equal parts of olive; mustard oil and sesame oil and then massage it all over the body.

Take an hour or so for yourself perhaps this is the perfect time to pick up that novel and then jump into the bath. This oil is very good for the skin and leaves it smooth and free from blemishes.

Winter Foot Lotions

The summer foot lotions often contain menthol to cool the feet but at the same time, these lotions can be drying. So, to keep feet soft in the winter, look for a lotion that contains petroleum or glycerin to soften the feet.

Dry Legs

In order to avoid those dry, dry legs during winter. Just remember, after each shower be sure to leave your legs just a little damp and slather on the moisturizer. Your legs will thank you!

Are Bath’s A Good Thing?

As much as we love it, taking a hot bath during the winter is not a good habit to get into especially if they are long in duration. As they rob your skin of natural oils so try to limit the time spent in the bath and don’t use hot water.

Lower the temperature to something just nice and comfortable. Water that is too hot isn’t good for you anyway. Switch to a shower, that is even better. And don’t forget a good body lotion and slather it on.

Here’s an excellent recipe for a Blissful Winter Bath

Step One

To make the mixture, mix equal amounts of oatmeal and dry milk powder and then display in a nice glass jar that can displayed right in your bathroom. For each bath, add 1/2 cup of oatmeal/ dry milk powder to your bath. The starch in the oatmeal is a super skin softener and the milk contains lactic acid, which smoothes away dull skin.

Baby Your Hands This Winter

This winter give your hands a much needed break. Stop using harsh soaps on them, as they strip the moisture from your hands and since the hands have very few oil glands. They can easily develop cracks. Try creamy bath gels as an alternative.

Chapped Hands

One of the most obvious reasons for chapped hands is over exposure to cold weather. The first step is to apply moisturizer and lots of it to those reddened hands.

It should also pointed out that it is not a good idea to go outside during the winter with damp hands as this would further aggravate the condition, be sure to dry them thoroughly.

Earring and Cold Weather

If you are going to be spending a few hours outside this winter, take out your pierced earrings and leave them inside. The cold is attracted to the metal posts and you feel colder than is necessary. Leave the earrings inside.

Summer Foundation vs. Winter Foundation

Something interesting to keep in mind is you will no doubt find that the shade of foundation that matches your skin color will change with the seasons.

You might want to invest in a Bronzing Liquid that you can mix into your “winter foundation” so that it will match your tan. And don’t mix it in the bottle. Pour a little into your hand and mix it there.

Sunscreen and Winter Use

It is just as important to wear a sunscreen during the winter as it is in the summer. The temperature has nothing to do with it other than how often to reapply.

Heat causes you to sweat, which means that the sunscreen needs to be applied more often. In winter, it is still important to use the sunscreen and don’t forget your ears.

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