15 Things You Didn’t Know About how to even out skin tone on face without makeup?

Let met teach you 15 WAYS How to Get an Even Skin Tone without Makeup

Foundation and face makeup are quick fixes that conceal problem skin. However, makeup just covers a poor skin tone without addressing the underlying skin issues. Learn how to get an even skin tone without makeup by implementing a regular skin care routine and an occasional deep cleansing.

Cleanse – Cleanse your face twice daily: once in the morning and once right before bed. Use a gentle exfoliant to remove oil and dirt. Choose fragrance-free cleansers rather than bar soaps, which can dry your facial skin.
Exfoliation – Once a week, scrub your face with an exfoliant. Dampen your face with warm water and then apply a dime-sized exfoliant to a clean, damp cloth. Rinse your face after one minute. Scrub your neck too and rinse.
Toner – Dab the toner onto to a cotton ball. Rub the cotton ball over your face to remove oil and dirt. Avoid sensitive eye areas when using an astringent toner. Use toner daily after your cleanser for additional oil absorption. You may wish to skip this step if you have dry skin or patches of dry skin.
Moisturize – Moisturize your skin twice daily after toning. Use an oil-free moisturizer that contains some SPF protection. A good protection is at least SPF 15. You will need some sun protection if you go outdoors without makeup.

Diet for Even Skin Tone

An attractive, even skin tone may not come in a bottle but on your plate. Making some changes to your diet will give you healthier and younger looking skin.

1 Vegetables

Increase your vegetable intake, namely leafy green vegetables like spinach, kale and lettuce. Green foods help produce new cell growth and keep your skin looking moist and supple. In addition, red vegetables, like sweet potatoes, carrots and tomatoes, are loaded with vitamin A, which can give your body beneficial beta carotene.

2 Seafood

Seafood benefits many areas of your body, including your body’s largest organ: your skin. Loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, seafood, such as fish, oysters and shrimp, helps the body fight acne and breakouts. Skip the fried selections; choose broiled, steamed or boiled seafood instead. If you are allergic to seafood than increase the amount of nuts you eat, such as walnuts and cashews. These have similar beneficial oils.

3 Whole Grains

Eat whole grain pasta and bread rather than processed white flour based products. White flour foods are responsible for increasing insulin in the body, which is proven to lead to acne. Besides making skin look more even, you may lose weight and curb the onset of diabetes.

4 Foods to Avoid

Skip the fried snacks like French fries and chips. Coffee and tea, which are heavy on caffeine, dehydrate the skin, making it flaky looking. Cut down on your alcohol intake. Alcohol thins the blood and reduces the natural oils in your body.

5 Vegetables

6 Seafood

7 Whole Grains

8 Foods to Avoid

9 Exercise for Even Skin Tone

Any exercise is good for the body, but circulation-boosting exercises will give your skin a nice glow. Try going for a brisk walk or a morning jog to get good skin color. In the evening, a 10 to 20 minute cardio routine will stimulate skin capillaries. Capillaries in the skin carry blood to the skin’s surface, making it look warm and rosy.

10.Get Your Glow On

Do you notice that after exercise your skin looks better?

This is because the movement has helped drain the toxins from your complexion by stimulating your lymph glands and flushing out all the yucky stuff that can create a dull complexion. If you don’t get much exercise (I’m guilty of this!) then you might want to try facial massage. This will help reverse a tired, dull or that greyish tinge to the skin, BUT, only if done daily.

Getting the circulation moving by using simple massage techniques will improve the blood flow around the body, bringing new cells and nutrients to replenish the radiance and improve the brightness of the skin.

When you apply your moisturiser, massage into the skin using your fingertips with a firm pressure upwards, then outwards in light-pressured, circular motions. Your skin may take on a slight redness where you’ve been massaging and this is the blood flow already getting to work on the skin!

If you need a helping hand, invest in a facial massager. They’re pretty inexpensive, I use one by ‘Sarah Chapman’ give it a ‘Google’!

Drink plenty water…I know you’ll probably yawn when you read this part, but, seriously you are crazy not to. If your wee looks yellow, you’re dehydrated and the water that you do have in your system goes to keep your vital organs working. Only when your organs have enough to keep you alive does the water go to benefit skin. Yikes!

By drinking water you’re effectively making your skin look plumper and more opaque, plus it will flush out toxins. Think of water as Mother Nature’s beauty elixir. That’ll make you drink it! HA HA!!

I too get so bored of drinking water, so I’ve now reverted to drinking hot water, boiled first in the kettle. Try it, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

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11. Try Light-Reflecting Magic

Dull, tired skin could be caused by the protective lipid barrier in the outer layers of your skin becoming damaged, creating an uneven surface which doesn’t reflect light well and can make your skin appear worse.

Using an organic, cold pressed oil such as Jojoba oil at night under your regular serums and moisturisers will help strengthen and repair the barrier to protect the skin and give it back its luminosity. Jojoba oil does an incredible job of mimicking the skin’s own sebum, making it an excellent choice to help repair even the most sensitive skin. After 6 weeks of continued use, skin is softer, more radiant, light reflective and fine lines also soften.

12. Reduce Pore Visibility

Let’s get one thing straight first: pores are good. They allow your skin to balance itself with natural oils. The more oily your skin the slower it will age. High five my oily skin friends! However, pores do stretch and can look big.

True story: I remember when my husband asked me why I had holes in my face for mouse whiskers?? Whaaaaaaaaaaat!!! ‘HA HA’ manic ROCK IN CHAIR TYPE OF HA HA!! Believe me, I didn’t laugh at the time!! Boof!!

Here’s the thing; poor cleansing and the resulting dirt, oil and dead skin cells that often build up can also make pores look bigger. Pores are generally clogged with sebum and dead skin cells, which naturally slough off from the side of the pore. If a pore becomes clogged, that will temporarily stretch the pore and make it more apparent.

Excessive clogged pores can lead to another unwelcome skin condition: blackheads and whiteheads. And if your pores seem to be getting bigger as you get older, you’re not imagining things: ageing and sun damage also contribute to pore size. As the skin around a pore loses its firmness when we age, the pore may appear larger because of the lack of support from the surrounding tissue.

The important bit: You can’t banish big pores completely, but with the right skin care, you can make pores less noticeable. You can make pores look smaller by removing excess sebum, debris and makeup from the pore.

Changing your skin-care routine will help reduce these pores remarkably. Here’s what you do:

Exfoliate with a facial scrub every couple of days, will help reduce pores and improve the skin’s texture.
Try using an overnight serum that works on your skin while you sleep, ingredients to look out for are AHAs (alpha hydroxy acids), Retinol (my personal favourite skincare ingredient) and Glycolic Acid; these promote exfoliation of the outer layer of the skin, reducing pores and fine lines. Double bonus! Give it some research on the old ‘Google’ – you’ll soon be loving these ingredients too!
Try changing your regime around to see which results work best for you, ask for testers at the beauty counters and trial sizes before splashing out on the more expensive products. If your skin ever becomes irritated using any product, try using it every 3 days until you build up tolerance.

13. Exfoliate To Even Out Skin Tone

As we age, our skin becomes drier and less elastic, which can result in lines and wrinkles. You also may find your skin is more rough in texture than it used to be. This is because of the multiple layers of dead skin cells that accumulate over the years. Exfoliating aids your skin to maintain its luster and shine as you age and is also the perfect solution to lighten and brighten both age and sun spots.

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Exfoliation also gives better absorption of your skin care – serum and moisturisers are better absorbed into skin that’s not blocked by layers of dead cells and dirt. Exfoliating prepares your skin to become properly moisturised and stay healthy! This is also true for applying makeup and sunscreen; regular exfoliating of your face will help your makeup go on smoother, absorb more evenly, and will also allow your sunscreen to better protect your skin.

Aim to exfoliate 3 times a week; I like to use an electrical exfoliating device, but there are plenty other options out there.

14. Be Breakout and Blemish Free

It’s hard to go without makeup if you have a breakout or blemish and they can certainly dent confidence too. I know first-hand how this feels – I have suffered from acne in the past.

It’s important to identify the cause of the skin problem and know the correct treatment – here are some ways that will help:

Always make sure your hands are clean before you touch your skin, cleanse your face twice a day, this will remove excess oils that can increase bacteria, it might help to also include regular exfoliation in your routine.
Wash your foundation and powder brush (or powder puff) daily. Seriously, you wouldn’t believe how many pimples dirty brushes are responsible for.
Squeezing spots without a head should be avoided, proceed with caution, if you must, by applying a clean tissue first and follow with a spot treatment to calm the redness and prevent further infection.
If your problem is oily skin, then Jojoba oil used morning and night will help regulate your skin oil production by tricking the skin into believing it’s produced enough. Click Here to see it in my boutique. Jojoba oil has the similarity of the sebum that the skin generates (oily skin produces more of this sebum). It tricks the skin into NOT producing more sebum and as a result positively controls and re-balances the oil production. What’s more, Jojoba oil also helps heal acne and slowly clears the blemishes, thus providing the all the moisture and hydration the skin needs. Jojoba oil contains vitamins C and E, known for their anti-ageing properties, it doesn’t clog pores and is great on sensitive skin.

15. Block Ageing Daily

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I’ve worn UVA & UVB protection for the past 20 years and as I near 40, I hold this responsible for keeping my skin relatively line-free. It’s never too late to start.

We’re all made well aware of the damage the sun’s harmful rays can do to our skin. It is important to remember that these harmful rays are present all year round and can be just as damaging on a cold and cloudy day, or even through a window, if unprotected skin is exposed.

Many UV protectant creams only protect against UVB and provide little or no UVA protection from the sun’s powerful rays, UVB causes surface skin burning and UVA causes deeper skin damage such as lines, wrinkles and sagging skin.

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I swear by Heliocare 360° Fluid Cream, I’ve worn it every day on my face, eyes and neck for 18 months and for me, it’s my skin’s insurance. I love it so much I bought it in to sell to share with you. You can see it in my boutique here.

Heliocare 360° Fluid Cream has exceptional UVA and UVB protection with SPF 50. It is remarkably high in antioxidant properties; including Vitamin C, E and green tea to help neutralize free radicals and block out photo-ageing that damages skin every day even in winter.

If you wish to dramatically slow down ageing, this Heliocare 360° Fluid Cream is one of the best creams on the market to gift your future skin. It features a revolutionary age-fighting ingredient Fernblock®, found in the Amazon Rainforest and scientifically proven to protect skin structure, immune response and provide daily defence against environmental and UV ageing processes.

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