Don’t we all love Holi? The festival of colours, the days of bright hues everywhere. It’s one of the most beautiful festivals in India and it’s best enjoyed with loads of colours, sweets and thandai. As much as we love to say “Burra na mano, Holi hai”, we also dread the impact it has on our skin and hair. Don’t we? We tend to follow a lot of skin care tips post Holi to get back to our natural colors, but like they say, prevention is better than cure. Let’s talk about both pre and post Holi skin care tips that will keep you safe from the woes of Holi colors.
Pre Holi Skin Care Tips
#1 Oil you skin
Before going out to paint the town red on the day of Holi, apply oil all over your body, specially the exposed areas like face and arms. Light oils like almond oil or olive oil makes it easy by not being too greasy and providing nourishment for the skin.
The layer of oil will prevent colors from sticking to the skin and will make the washing part easier. You can even use baby oil.
#2 Coat your lips in petroleum jelly
Lips are sensitive and they tend to lose more moisture when you are playing with colors out in the sun for long hours. Apply a thick coat of petroleum jelly or lip balm to keep them moisturized and preventing colors to penetrate the thin skin on lips.
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#3 Don’t Forget the Sunscreen
Playing Holi outside under the sun will lead to sunburn. Ensure you are using a good sunscreen lotion on your face. Do not apply around the eyes unless you want watering and burning eyes! Take out your funky sunglasses to protect the eyes.
#4 Oil your hair
Colors both dry and wet, can damage your hair making them dry and frizzy leading to breakage. On the day of Holi, oil your hair from roots and keep them in braids or bun.
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#5 Wear Dark Nail paint
The nails tend to get coloured very fast during Holi. Protect your nails by painting them with dark nail paints – black, dark blue, dark purple – any dark shade works. Don’t forget to paint the back side of your nails too. Taking off colours then will be easy with the nail paint remover.
Post Holi Skin Care Tips
Post the Holi fun, the biggest challenge starts – “how to take off the color and be sober again?” Take a breath and stop panicking. It’s okay to show off at work or school how much fun you had on Holi with a little sneak peek of color on your neck! But these Holi skin care tips will help you to get the color off faster and keep the skin healthy.
#1 Use Olive oil to take off color
Olive oil is great for skin, instead of washing your fce over and over with face wash or soap, use olive oil to remove colors. Apply olive oil on a cotton ball like a makeup remover and work out over the colors on your face and neck.
#2 Use homemade face packs
Homemade face packs and scrubs will help you to scrub off colors yet nourish the skin. Make a paste with besan, turmeric and rose water and apply all over your skin. Scrub off when dry.
#3 Yogurt face mask
Yogurt has natural bleaching agents that will nourish and moisturize your skin and remove colors efficiently.
#4 Deep Conditioning Hair mask
There are tons of ways to deep condition your hair using homemade ingredients. Apply hair masks to bring the lustre back in your hair.
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Aren’t these some helpful pre and post Holi skin care tips. If you follow them, you can beat the beauty woes and maintain beautiful skin right after Holi. Be safe and have fun this Holi.
Holi hai.
