June 03, 2019

Hello Beautiful,

It's Katie bringing you another week of tips, hints, styles, and trends to help you look and feel your best!

Everyone should be more on top of taking care of their skin this summer with sunscreen. The reality though is that not everyone does! Somehow, some way, the sun will find you-and it is going to hurt.

It's a long summer ahead. Prepare yourself for the worst by knowing how to treat a bad sunburn-and cover up the damage.

Until we meet again,
Katie

Questions? Comments? Email me at:katie@gophercentral.com

*-- How to Treat and Hide a Sunburn FAST--*

Treat your sunburn: One of the worst pains is stepping into the shower after a sun-filled day. It can feel like your setting your skin on fire, but this is actually the perfect time to fast-track the healing process. Before you do anything else, take an aspirin or Tylenol to immediately reduce inflammation and help with pain management. Then take a cool shower and wash the burn with an aloe-vera based cleanser to remove grime and any sunscreen residue on your skin.

Apply a cold compress soaked in a mixture of milk and ice cubes to topically ease your clean, sore, skin. As a matter of fact, the mixture of the cold temperature, protein in milk, and the pH level will have a soothing effect on skin and will draw out the heat. Try to do this immediately after a shower to combat pain before it really gets bad!

How to conceal sunburn and tan lines: It's important to know where your burn is the most noticeable. You'll want to apply a light layer of tinted moisturizer to further help tone down redness here first. It's better to stick with cream-based makeup instead of powders because powders are mattifying and could draw more attention to the areas you're hoping to hide.

A sheer tinted moisturizer with luminosity properties that's one shade darker than your original skin color, pre-sunburn, works much better than any full-coverage foundations.

If your sunburn is less of an allover situation and more of a spot-treatment job, dab concealer onto only the reddest parts of your face. So if you are one of the unlucky ones who fell asleep with sunglasses on at the beach, dab concealer around the red ring surrounding your eyes to blend it into the rest of your skin color.