How to cure dry and dark elbows at home ?

Mostly, we all are focusing on our facial skin and do proper care of it but forget about our elbows. An even fair skin tone adds to your beauty and having dark dry  elbows can detract from it. This is very embarrassing situation especially for women, this makes you self conscious and decrease confidence about wearing short sleeves or sleeve less dresses.

The skin of our elbows is usually thicker and folded more than its surrounding skin. The elbow skin tends to be drier due to absence of oil glands in it. These dry elbows already serve up discomfort and becomes dark due to deposition of dead skin cells on it. In this situation , never neglect to cure these dark and dry elbows as this will not harmful but it will spoil your beauty and affects your personality. 

While dry elbow skin is thin and serve up discomfort. Disposition of dead skin cell become darken over time and even exposed to the sun. This problem needs proper care and nourishment. If you do gentle treatment and daily moisturisation. This will remove dead skin cells and makes your elbows softer , lighter and even skin tone again. 

How to cure dry and dark elbows at home ?

Home treatment requires a proper care of skin on regular basis.

This treatment includes these following steps:-

• Scrubbing 
• Cleansing 
• Moisturizing  
• Lightening.

Scrubbing or Exfoliation :-

Exfoliation or scrubbing is helps you to remove dry and dead skin cell from your elbows. 

First, take a little amount of scrub and apply on each elbow. Gently rub in circular motion for 5 minutes. Rinse with water.

You can purchase a fine-grained scrub from a market or your made it at home by using natural ingredients.

Take 1/2 tbsp wheat germ, 2 tbsp oats, 1 tbsp coconut oil, 1/4 cup of cream in a bowl and mix it well. Apply this scrub on your elbows. Use a scrub twice a week before showering for best results.

Cleansing :-

For providing hydration to your elbows skin, cleanse your elbows skin with a nourishing shower oil on a shower puff to soften elbow skin. Rinse with warm water.

Add fragrance free hydrating cream to your cleansing routine for maximum absorption. You can use petroleum Jelly or creams on dry elbows which provided hydration. Coat your elbows with a thick layer of petroleum jelly or cream while dry and rinse it off in the shower to help lock in the moisture from your creamy cleanser. 

Avoid creams with chemical moisturizers and heavy fragrances, they can irritate the skin.

Moisturizing :-

Moisturization of skin is also very important, lack of moisture in skin causes dryness or flacky skin. Elbow skin is generally hard from our other skin, So use of regular moisturizer not very effective. You can use moisturizer which contains Sunflower-seed oil and lanolin emollients. Creams with Emollient create a barrier on your skin to keep hydration intact and protect it from drying skin. 

Take a small amount of thick emollient cream and apply over each elbow while damp, to allow it to absorb deeply. Apply moisturizer daily after showering and at night before bed.

Lightening :-

Dryness and deposition of dead skin cell cause of black and dark skin of elbows. You  can   choose a skin lightening serum which   contains vitamin C, glycolic acid, kojic acid or licorice extract. 

Take a quarter-sized amount of lightening serum into each elbow and massage it on circular manner. These help to remove dead and dry skin and prevent over production of melanin pigments.

Always use a sunscreen on elbows when going out for the day, it keep sin exposure.

Note :- If you still find dry, patchy dry elbows after a couple weeks of this treatment, see your dermatologist.

How to choose best LIPSTICK for you ?

LIPSTICK is a beauty product that every women loves to wear it. Lipstick is used to enhance the beauty which give the perfect finishing touch to your face. The college going girls to working women or homemaker to old women , we all of us have a bunch of lipsticks. But in a bunch of lipstick, some shades you love to wear all the time and some are not even you used. You know the reason? Yes, you all know that we all fallen love with the lipstick when we go to the store for buying. 

Sometimes, we buy wrong shade which does not suits us and shade clashes with our complexion.The million of shades are available in the market with different textures, which becomes confusing that lipstick colour is perfect for you and which is not, at time of purchasing.

Choosing the perfect lipstick colour can be a tough job but it became easier when you choosing a lipstick shade according to your skin tone, shape of lips and mouth. Every women have different skin tone and lip shape.

So, These are some advices that can help you to avoid making expensive mistake with lipstick:

Identify Your Undertone

Identification of our undertone is very easy and based on two colour of skin. Every women has undertone of either yellow colour or pink colour. Yellow colour is warmer undertone and pink is cooler undertone.
 

The easy trick to identify your skin undertone is :-

First,you look at veins on your arms , if the veins of your arm is blue and skin colour is pale means you has cool skin and pink undertone. If your veins is green and less obvious means you has warmer skin and yellow undertone. If you feel it confusing than try the second way.

Second, hold a gold and silver jewellery near to your face. Which one is lights up your complexion and suits you ? The best reveals that you have warm or cool skin tones. Gold looks better on warm yellow skin tone while silver enhances cool pink skin tone. Knowing your undertone is very helpful when you are trying to select best lipsticks shade for you.

Choose shades according to you undertone

After you have identified your skin tone, apply that to lipstick. If you have warmer or yellow undertones than you suit a warm colours or shades like cappuccino, caramel, browns with gold and bronze. If you have cool or pink undertone you look for shades with blue or purple tones , light pinky reds and blue-toned reds and beige's.
 

If you are in Doubt than you can also stick to the shades that are typically suit olive, fair and darker skin tones.

Best lipstick shades according to skin tone

Fair Skin Tones

Women with fair skin tone can use medium toned lipsticks like pinks, corals along with deep reds, plums or browns, caramel or brick brown shades.You can look fantastic in bold red and deep colours but avoid too light shades. This skin tone look best in cool blue-based shades.Lipsticks with gloss is often recommended.

Medium or Olive Skin tone

 

Women with olive or medium skin tone look beautiful in warm shades that are yellow based like brown, coffee, caramel, brownish red ,peach and deep pink. But always avoid using light colours like mauve shades or orange-red because they not suits you. If you have medium skin tone you go with golden shades, all shades of red, sherry berry, coral brown and brown based mauves.If you have pale skin, you can use nudes, beige, light shades as light pink, light corals and peaches tones.

Darker Skin Tones

Women have darker skin tone should follow one rule is that the deeper your skin tone, the deeper the shade of lipstick can be used. Best shades are brown reds, rose pink, plum shades, red, dark red, brown, chocolate,orange and pastel. You can use almost all shades and colours of lipsticks.But only try to avoid bright and neon shades of pink, pastels and orange because it will make your lips look too loud.
 

Tricks To Keep In Mind

• While choosing your lipstick shade it is best to try it on our palm under natural light.


• Check the texture according to your lips.


• You can blend two similar shades till you get a shade that suits you the best.


• Before applying lipstick, use a lip balm as it helps to increase the staying power of the lipstick.


• Press tissue paper between both lips after applying the lipstick to get Matt effect.