Adeeba Sajjad

Can Wearing Everyday Makeup Harm Your Skin? Makeup is an important asset for every woman to make them up: fresh, clean, beautiful, and to hide all their insecurities. Since it hides their insecurities, it makes them feel more confident and enchanting. Makeup lets women and even men represent themselves in whatever way they want. Putting on makeup is a regular activity for most women. But have they ever wondered, applying regular makeup can harm their skins? Well, in this article all the effects of carrying this activity, and ways to overcome the occurred problems have been told. SUMMARY Effects of wearing everyday makeup. Should I stop wearing makeup? (+ healthy makeup habits to adopt) Ways to overcome the effects of everyday makeup. Effects Of Wearing Daily Makeup Taking anything on extreme proves to be dangerous, so is the case with makeup. Using too much makeup can harm your skin in heaps of manners. Below shows the most common effects of wearing everyday makeup: ● If you start leaving makeup on your skin for a long time and keep putting it daily, your skin pores can be clogged. Clogged pores mean breathless skin. It won’t let your skin breathe, resulting in bumps that you might notice near your eyes, acne, and your eyes may also get irritated. ● Forgetting to apply sunscreen before putting on makeup is one of the reasons, people’s skins get vulnerable to sun damage. This causes wrinkles, fine lines, and age spots like signs on their skins. ● Makeup like mascara is used in the area near your eyes. This area is thin and fragile. Eyelashes already contain bacteria on them and when a makeup brush or the mascara wand is used on your eyelashes, it becomes contaminated. Just as soon you put the infected brush back with other cosmetics stuff that becomes a breeding ground for bacteria. And chances are that you get an eye infection. Should I Stop Wearing Makeup? Figure 4 NO MAKEUP?? Seeing all the drawbacks, you might start thinking, “should I stop wearing makeup?” but there is no way to completely stop wearing makeup. You can still keep carrying on your makeup routine if you start applying some of the below mentioned healthy habits: Never sleep with makeup. This might be a little challenging to wash off your face at night, but to get natural, and acne-free skin, you got to do this! Don’t forget that everyone has a different skin type. Finding the correct product that fits ‘your’ skin is necessary because your skin can be dried out and become oilier by using certain products. Yes, you will have to go through trials, but once you do them, you will get the best products that wholly fit your skins. It is recommendable to use makeup products that are based on minerals as they can be less harsh on your skin. Wash off your brushes and sponges deeply, in a superfluously perfect way, at least once a month. This will keep your brushes and sponges, free from bacteria. So, make it a monthly habit right away, promise? Make it a daily task to use sunscreen and moisturizers on your skin before applying makeup. Using sunscreen will protect you from sun damage, and the usage of moisturizers will take away your skin’s dryness. Sharing is a good habit, but when this habit comes to makeup, Don’t Share It With Anyone! Or else, their bacteria or germs will fall upon your cosmetic products. So, retain in mind here that ‘sharing is caring’ does not at all work here because here sharing is not caring, but a call to a disaster on oneself! Ways To Overcome effects of everyday makeup Until you didn’t know and you didn’t implement healthy makeup habits, you kept applying makeup regularly. And now you are prone to its side effects. Now, how can you get rid of all its side effects, like acne (most commonly), wrinkles, age spots, eye infection, etc.? ACNE: Once you got acne, the best ways to get rid of it, are benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, or niacinamide like treatments. Since the treatments can be a bit expensive for some, so you can also go for alternative home remedies. There are tons of home remedies out there that work well for it. WRINKLES: Aged people get folds on their skin, these folds are wrinkles. But if you are young and don’t use sunscreen, you can also be prone to it. Therefore using sunscreen with moisturizer, confining the level of your sugar intake, washing your face regularly, stop smoking, and sleeping on your back instead of compressing your face, will protect you from getting wrinkles: a premature aging sign. EYE INFECTION: If you have got an eye infection, it is better to first consult with your doctor rather than applying any home remedy as some eye infections prove to be dangerous. One of the best natural ways to fight an eye infection is using cooled tea bags on your eyes. This will relax your eyes and will help fight an eye infection. Well, these were some of the ways that YOU can work on not to make yourself prone to the makeup’s side effects. Written by, Adeeba Sajjad.