Helpful guide to Summer Proof your Hair

Though, skin care is important in summer, but to protect your hair from the harsh rays of sun, summer hair care is equally significant. The scorching sun rays cause extensive damage to hair which can only be overcome by proper summer hair care. With our easy to follow summer hair care tips, you can surely summer proof your hair and enjoy healthy and shiny hair throughout the summer. The damages that can be caused by UV rays are hair color fading, cuticle damaging, and brittle and dry hair. Following are some important summer hair care tips to take special care of your hair during this season.

Trim Split Ends:
Since summer can steal away all the moisture from your tresses, our summer hair care guide will suggest you to get your hair end trimmed every 4-6 weeks during the hot months. When you ends are fizzy, it’s a clear sign of inappropriate summer hair care and damage or split ends.
To summer proof your hair, make sure to trim your split ends and damaged sections off. The only preventive summer hair care method to deal with frizzy hair is to get rid of split ends.

Ditch the color:
During summer months, reduce the use of harsh chemicals of bleach and hair color. Due to being deprived of moisture, hair colors can cause extensive damage to your summer hair care routine. Instead of using artificial hair colors, summer proof your hair by going as natural as possible.
If you want to color your hair in summer, our summer hair care guide will advise to apply natural color and conditioner of Henna (Mehndi). Henna will not only play a positive part in your summer hair care routine, but will also provide you cooling and soothing. 

Put a pause on heat stylers:
Normally, women use hot styling tools like blow dryers, hair irons, rollers to get themselves stylized. Putting a pause on heat stylers in the hot weather.

To get the maximum benefits of summer hair care guide, you should give your hair a rest from the torture of chic heat stylers during summer months. If the use of heat styling tools is necessary for some special occasions, you can summer proof your hair by using a leave-in conditioner before using the hot tool on your hair.

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Apple Cider Vinegar - your beauty kit to flawless skin

Every girl dreams of flawless skin, ‘a universal truth’ and to live that dream you spend thousands of rupees to get various chemical-laden products from the market, but have you ever thought a bottle of Apple Cider Vinegar placed in your kitchen cabinet, that your mom uses to make delicious salads is actually a little beauty kit to flawless skin!

And what’s even more amazing is that it’s cheap and totally natural! Apple cider vinegar is made by crushing fresh apples and allowing them to ferment. The best quality apple cider vinegar is made with organic apples, allowed to mature in wooden barrels to make vinegar. The best brand is Braggs Natural Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, which is not available in Pakistan; the most commonly available in Pakistan is American Garden Apple Cider Vinegar, which is the next best and can do wonders on your skin.

Apple cider vinegar contains natural enzymes, vitamins and minerals and is rich in antioxidants.   It contains Vitamins A, B and C, beta carotene, bioflavonoid, calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, copper, iron, sulfur, iron, fluorine, silicon, boron and pectin.  It naturally balances the pH balance of the skin and the entire body.

This little beauty secret not only cures acne; mild and severe, but also improves skin tone, blood circulation, oxygen delivery, maintains elasticity, purifies and revives. It’s the best anti angling natural ingredient that can make you look years younger. Plus it is a natural anti-fungal and an antiseptic.

Apple Cider Vinegar can be taken internally and externally for best results. For internal use, a teaspoon of Apple Cider vinegar diluted in a glass of water can be taken first thing in the morning and in the evening before meal. It will not only cleanse your system but will also boost your metabolism reaction and immune system for effective working and healthy body.

For external use, mix Apple Cider Vinegar in water in equal quantities and apply it on face directly with a cotton ball as a toner and let it dry naturally. You can use it 1-3 times a day or you can even use it before sleeping and rinse in the morning.

And I bet, it will not disappoint you, within a week or two, your skin will look tighter, younger, soft, dewy and above all acne and blemish free. So go grab this little beauty kit hidden in the darkest corner of your kitchen and place it on your dressing table for flawless skin.

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Homemade Masks, the Best Summer Cosmetics

Summer makes you skin rough and oily, so definitely during summer we all relish the chance to stay clear of the heavy layers of foundation or the concealor to get flawless complexion. The slight sun kissed glow can only be attained by the use of the cosmetics that suits the skin during the summer. Some of the essential summer cosmetics consists of UV rays protective products. May it be the day cream you use or the foundation you use, the foundation should obviously be non-oil based.

For a clearer skin that glows in the day time you definitely have to have a balanced diet with the proper intake of water. Water is the best cleanser may it be for washing purpose or for drinking purposes. Anyone of you who cannot have plain water can always slice a lemon or two in water to add flavour to it.

Along with healthy eating habits we have to have a healthy skin careroutine despite of using the summer appropriate cosmetics. One of the best homemade facial cosmetics would be the cucumber moisturising mask, since cucumber is refreshing, its revitalizing mask will renew your skin with a new breath of life. For this mask, you will need 1/3 cucumber1 Egg yolk,2 tablespoons ground almonds,2 tablespoons honey,2 tablespoons ground rolled oats. Blend all these ingredients into a blender and use the mask for 10 minutes and rinse with hot water.

This particular homemade makeup mask will be a very mild cleanser for the dirt and a refreshing during the summers. Summers season brings along these beautiful sunny days but while we enjoy the sunlight we should not forget to protect ourselves from the harmful sun rays. For this we need to use the cosmetic products that are specifically for the summers. And the cosmetic products that are homemade will be the best, since they will be made according to the need of the user, you can use whatever natural product suits you best. For those who have a problem of pimples can try using alovera extracts as a gel to dry the pimples. This is an absolutely amazing cosmetic product for people who have oily skin.

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