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☀️ Summer Skin, Curly Hair & Freckles: My Honest Glow-Up Survival Guide with Gin Hammond
So it’s summertime and things happen.
One of the main things that happens is humidity. If you have curly hair, I would say, give into it. You know, we spend so much time, money trying to fight what is natural during the summertime.
Especially if it's hair, you can find something where you can let your hair be your hair and tell other people just to back off if they're going to give you a hassle about it, right?
But if you want some more options, then I do love the Ouidad product. Climate control, anti-humidity.
Something that a lot of us with what I call ‘potential melanin’ struggle with is that we can change color and get all kinds of different spots real fast.
Now, part of me loves that. I wish we all had like stripes and spots and stuff. I would like to look like a jaguar.
But, you know, things come and go and whatever.
But for you youngins out there, note all the freckles and sunspots and things that usually go away during the winter and come back. After a while, they stick around, especially on your chest.
So, if that is not something that you want, use that sunscreen, you know, 50, 70 + sunscreen. There are UV protection shirts out there, especially if you like to go swimming in lakes or in the ocean. It's so much better for the environment than putting on sunscreen.
And if you got the spots and you wear stripes and you want your tiger to change its stripes and even out, there is a thing called Skin Better, Even Tone that slows down the spots and can even them out with a lot of patience and applications.
It's spendy, but it does actually work.
I know with my face, too. I always have to wear glasses when I'm driving and the places where the glasses come in contact with my nose, I get two spots right here and here.
If I rub it there, then the spots go away. But I get a cluster of dark spots. Aquaphor, even Vaseline goes a long way.
Just slather it on before you go to sleep. It's non-commodogenic, it doesn't clog your pores and you will wake up with softer skin.
And that's a lovely thing, right?
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