If you want to have beautiful and healthy skin, it is necessary to determine your skin type and make a detailed acquaintance with needs of different skin types, to apply desired cosmetic correctly.
Following skin types are the most common: normal, dry, oily, combined, sensitive, dehydrated.
What is T-zone
T-zone - is a T-shaped part of face: forehead, nose and chin. Skin of T-zone is sometimes significantly different from skin of cheeks and skin around eyes. In general, it is somewhat fatter. Sebaceous glands on forehead, nose and chin are very dense. They produce more fat for better protection from exposure to sun, wind and weather. If the ratio “fat-dry” is balanced and not obvious, skin belongs to the normal type, and care is easy. Difficulties arise only when the difference between fat and dry areas is so large that you do not know what drugs to use for care. Then we talk about combined skin.
* Normal skin has following features: same color and uniform pigmentation;
* Skin is clean, soft to the touch and flexible;
* Skin evenly secretes fat and moisture;
* Skin has no acne and pimples;
* No enlarged pores;
* Little or no wrinkles.
* How to determine type of skin: when determining type of skin, you need good lighting;
* Face must be clean;
* If face has makeup, pay attention to fat content of skin before makeup removal;
* Proceed to analysis of skin type about an hour after makeup removal;
* Ask questions and pay attention to answers: client knows her skin as no one else;
* Explore T-zone, and then skin of cheeks and around eyes;
* Do not hurry up and explore skin on following criteria: skin structure, size of pores, cleanliness of skin and fine wrinkles;
* Examining T-zone and skin of cheeks and around eyes, you will quickly determine that most people have either dry or oily, or combined skin.
Some client’s may have sensitive skin.
Sensitive skin does not belong to a certain type of skin. It is rather a skin condition that needs special care. The problem of these people is not in the fact they have dry or oily skin. The problem is to improve skin texture in general. No matter what type of skin your client has. Any skin changes during aging, in the process of changing seasons and lifestyle itself.
Natural sebum - the best way to preserve moisture, so its lack immediately affects humidity. Horn cells become dry, scaly, their mutual relationship is weakening, and moisture can easily evaporate. Harmful irritants can also penetrate inside, so dry skin often becomes painfully sensitive and ages faster.
Basic care for dry skin
* Dry skin needs: cleansers on oily basis, without removing its natural fat: cleansing cream or milk;
* Nourishing and moisturizing creams;
* Day cream should contain sun filter to avoid premature aging.
* Avoid: sauna;
* Sweating sports and swimming in chlorinated water;
* Scrubs and peeeling tools;
* Spirit-tonics;
* Fat-free gel preparations should be used only in combination with suitable skin creams.
Sensitive skin requires special care.
Pay attention to the fact that care is simple. This applies to both recipes and quantity of cosmetics. Expose skin to the sun quite rarely. During especially stressful periods give up anything that may cause skin’s excitement from the inside: coffee, tea, cola drinks. Be careful with alcohol and sharp spices. They stimulate blood circulation and increase nervousness, what can easily lead to spots and itching in sensitive skin.
Oily skin and features of its care
* Signs of oily skin: oily shine;
* Wide pores;
* Blackhead;
* Skin is thick;
* Gray face;
* Makeup lasts badly.
Keeping oily skin in good condition is not so simple. But oily skin has its advantages. It is quite insensitive, so it remains young long. Grease creates a good protective film, which does not allow moisture to evaporate and blocks penetration of harmful substances from the outside. By thirty years, oily skin turns into combined.
What is important for oily skin
Thorough cleaning in the mornings and evenings - the basis of care for oily skin, prone to inflammation.
* Fat skin needs: non-greasy moisturizer;
* Medicines that do not clog pores;
* Cleansers, which favorably affect skin and do not provoke adipose glands;
* Non-greasy cleansers, which thoroughly cleanse skin and remove excess fat.
How to remove oily shine
Beautiful skin with fine pores is most easily achieved by constant slight deoiling and supporting the stratum corneum thin. Proper cleansing masks can help here, they relieve skin from excessive fat and horny particles for several minutes. Tonics that contain mineral powder of fine grind provide a good effect. During the day, you can frost skin with tonic few times. Powder is an effective remedy against fatty luster. Loose powder, not containing pearl luster provides the best effect.
Combined skin care
* Signs of combined skin: oily T-zone, it may even have pimples and acne;
* Cheeks are dry.
In mature years, combined skin almost always changes in the direction of normal.
Features of combined skin care
Use moisturizers. If forehead, nose and chin become fatter than usual from time to time, do not apply cream on these areas in the evening. And vice versa: if usual cream does not eliminate the feeling of tightness in cheeks, add some fat cream. For different parts of skin, use masks of various actions. Do not use masks at the same time, alternate them.