Keep Makeup Minimal in Extreme Heat

The Only Makeup You Need During Extreme Heat

By Emily Kate Warren

Living in California has many benefits: rare rain showers, a temperate climate, amazing produce! But that beautiful ball of fire in the sky that makes all this possible is constantly beaming down.

Trying to keep my makeup from sliding down my face is not easy friends. Here is what I discovered to be the best, bare-bones makeup routine for extreme heat. Keep your makeup light and simple.

1. Skip foundation. Use sunscreen or SPF tinted primer (see my pick below) all over and only conceal spots that are worthy with a non-oily concealer. Good ol' Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage will do the trick! Since it's so concentrated, you only need a tiny bit to cover redness. Leave the rest of your skin bare. Use blotting papers or one-ply tissues to mattify your T-zone. If you are desperate for added coverage, try mineral powder.

2. Liquid cheek stain is your friend. Dot a cheek stain with real staying power on your cheeks. Liquid formulas won't slide down your face the way cream and powder formulas will. Benefit Benetint is always my go-to.

3. Apply mascara sparingly. Avoid applying it on your lower lashlines—you don't need hungover raccoon eyes all day! I recommend Make Up For Ever Aqua Smoky Lash because it's waterproof.

4. Forget goopy gloss. Sheer tinted balm won't suffocate your lips. I like Cover Girl Lipslicks Smoochies Lip Balm.

And while I think we all like to look a little sun-kissed, those smooches aren’t invisible. They come in the form of sunspots, freckles—even cancer. I don’t like the idea of slathering sunscreen on every body part, but I love being outside in my garden, at the beach and on location for shoots. So I have found a few ways to sneak sunscreen on that aren't greasy, smelly or globby. I hope you’ll adopt them too!

Makeup artist sunscreen picks:
Neova DNA Damage Control SPF 40 is a lightly tinted primer that protects and corrects your skin. It’s not greasy and it’s super lightweight so you can layer anything over it.
Colorescience Sunforgettable Mineral Powder SPF 50 is a great way to mattify and cover redness since it comes in three shades. Layer over your SPF primer for extra coverage.
A long-time favorite of mine, Shiseido Refreshing Sun Protection Spray for Body & Hair Broad Spectrum SPF 16 is lightweight, smells great and while protecting your scalp, it incidentally smoothes frizzies.
And though this is a tad off-topic, I have to throw in that my favorite line of defense is my big-brimmed UPF 50+ hat from Coolibar. If I forgot any of the above, this covers well enough!

What are your favorite ways to sneak on some sun protection?

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Skincare should start early

Skincare should start early

All your skincare and beauty problems answered.

My daughter is nine years old and is required to attend school activities most of the time. I’ve noticed recently that her face is getting drier and darker. May I know, at her age now, is it advisable for her to apply moisturizer or sunblock everyday? If not, when is the best time for her to start? – Teresa

Product trainer Regenn Lee says that external aggressors such as pollution and the harshness of the sun do not recognize age. These will harm and damage the skin, regardless whether you are a child or an adult. Outdoor activities and excessive exposure to the sun are bound to cause UV damage, which appears initially as merely a darker skin tone and dehydration.

The darker skin tone is due to the overproduction of melanin. In between the epidermis and dermis, there are cells called melanocytes which, when exposed to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, will produce melanin.

This is absorbed by keratinocytes, which use it to protect themselves from the UV rays as a form of “sunshade”. This melanin response to UV becomes a natural sunscreen, providing protection to the keratinocyte cells by absorbing UV radiation, resulting in a visible tan.

This explains why your daughter’s skin gets darker after her outdoor activities. In the long run, overexposure to the sun will lead to hyperpigmentation which will be more prominent later when she becomes an adult. Prolonged exposure also causes water to evaporate from the surface, reducing the water and natural oil content in the skin.

Children may be too young for more intensive or targeted skincare. But a proper skincare regimen is recommended as soon as the child is able to be take ownership of taking care of her own skin. At different stages of our lives, our skin requires very specific needs that evolve over time.
At the tender age of nine, a child’s skin is still healthy and able to exfoliate naturally. The key is giving them the correct products to use, and this should be basic, water-based, light textured, non-comedogenic, gentle on the skin, yet able to meet her skin’s needs.

So, do use a moisturizer and sunblock every day for your daughter. She also needs to clean and tone her skin properly to keep a healthy skin.

A very mild and gentle cleanser helps to remove impurities and dirt, without drying the skin, and soften skin’s texture.

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Stress and Pimples

Ask a Scientist: Why Does Stress Make Me Break Out?

By YouBeauty Editors 

The Scientist: Claudia Aguirre, Ph.D., a neuroscientist working in the skincare industry

The Answer: Your body is wired for “fight or flight.” When our caveman ancestors encountered danger, a flood of stress hormones prepped their bodies to do battle or hightail it to safety. The same neurochemistry is at work today, but you can’t run away from an angry boss—or punch her in the face—so the stress hormones go at their business in new, and unfortunately less productive ways.

Stress kicks off a chain reaction, starting with the release of corticotropic releasing hormone (CRH) in the brain. From there, CRH triggers corticotropin, which stimulates the release of cortisol, the main hormone associated with stress. Now you’ve got all these stress hormones amassing in your body, preparing to help you escape from danger. But you’re at your desk, or stuck in traffic, or otherwise sitting on your duff, so the hormones end up doing more harm than good. They cause inflammation all over the body, suppress the immune system, and bind to specific binding sites on cells in the skin that produce oil, or sebum, which gets the sebaceous glands pumping. (Why our skin gets oily in response to stress is an unsolved mystery of evolution.) The excess oil clogs up inflamed pores, and acne causing bacteria—that your immune system isn’t up to killing off—collect inside. Result: acne.

This can all happen within a couple days of being seriously stressed out. To combat the pimply effects, it’s important to drink extra water, because psychological stress dehydrates the skin.

Meanwhile, you want to blot generously to sop up the excess oil on your face, or apply a clay mask to clear clogged pores. You can help prevent a nasty breakout by pre-treating with salicylic acid, which reduces inflammation and gently exfoliates skin. If a zit crops up, spot treat with a product that contains benzoyl peroxide, sulfur or salicylic acid.

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Beauty's Next Big Ingredient: Your Toilet Cleaner??

Researchers find surprising anti-aging powers in a popular household disinfectant.

By Grace Gold 

From sanitizing bathrooms to revitalizing dingy whites, most of us have relied on the potency of bleach at some point. But a November 2013 study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that the next place you may consider applying the DIY hero is on your face.

Dilute bleach baths have actually been used for decades to treat aggressive cases of eczema and recurrent abscesses. And the keyword is dilute—the prescription is typically a quarter to half cup of bleach in a full bathtub of water for a weekly 10-minute soak.

“Eczema patients commonly develop skin infections, and bleach baths can help reduce bacteria on the skin to minimize infection risk, as well as reduce itch,” explains Joshua Zeichner, M.D., director of cosmetic and clinical research at Mount Sinai Medical Center’s department of dermatology.

Scientists have previously attributed the medicinal effect to antimicrobial activity in bleach, but study senior author Seung Kim, M.D., Ph.D., and professor of developmental biology at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, had an intuition that bleach did more than just sterilize skin cells.

In the experiment, the researchers exposed both human and mouse skin cells to dilute concentrations of bleach, then evaluated the response of inflammatory pathways controlled by a molecule known as NF-kB. The bleach was shown to reduce NF-kB-related inflammation, which is associated with UV light exposure and can have premature aging implications.

Next, researchers tested the effect of a bleach solution on mice that had radiation dermatitis—a common sunburn-like side effect that cancer radiation patients can experience during treatment. These burns can be so painfully raw that therapy may be interrupted for skin to recover, which can impact the efficacy of treatment. Incredibly, mice that received daily 30-minute dilute bleach baths had less severe radiation dermatitis and better healing and hair regrowth than those bathed in just water.

Finally, the group tried the science on elderly mice. When bathed in the dilute bleach solution, the animals’ skin began to look younger, “from old and fragile to thicker, with increased cell proliferation,” describes Thomas Leung, the study's lead author. The effect wore off when the baths were stopped, implying that regular treatment is likely required to maintain the youthful results.

If shown to work similarly in humans, this cheap and widely available household chemical could provide a new way to treat skin damage, but until further study, all we ask is that you refrain from any sort of DIY bleach baths.

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