I wanted to make a video about this but far I never really did, so I'll just write about actual helpful beauty tips, specifically about skin and hair care bc I feel like people keep being swindled.
Pretty much the only things you need for long healthy hair is the following: drinking the amount of water you're supposed to drink, healthy foods consisting of chicken and fish and veggies, FRUITS.
(I highly suggest taking a look at dishes from countries that are really really old, I personally have been told by my yt friends that the dishes from my country have helped them strongly with things like period cramps and general iron and vitamin issues.)
But the thing that is pretty much guaranteed to help is drinking milk and tightly french braiding your hair overnight or often. If you generally don't like your hair in your face then great, bc covering your hair with a thin headscarf made from simple fabric is actually fantastic bc the less your hair is exposed to the elements the better.
Milk is great for the bones, nails and hair because it has CALCIUM. So definitely add more milk to your diet.
Use BARE BONE shampoo and conditioner and I'm talking BARE BONE. The simplist thing you can find that doesn't promise more than dandruff control. Those usually don't have perfumes, silicones, etc.
Hennah is dried and finely powdered leaf and works similarly to matcha. It's a great alternative for black or red hair dye AND it cools down the scalp by "pulling out the heat", is what I was told by my granny.
Take a big bowl, and I mean a big bowl, add the powder, boiling hot water and mix it until the consistency is between clay and watery bc if it's too dry it's gonna get clumpy when you go to apply it and if it's too watery it's gonna get you drenched.
Mix until it's luke warm and apply it to the hair with gloves like normal hair dye BUT DON'T BE AFRAID TO GET IT ON YOUR SCALP IT'S OK, matter of fact I think you should. I personally find that too messy so I just use a big bowl and carefully stick my hair and head in it and essentially carefully but thoroughly rub it everywhere the henna needs to be.
Make sure to use it like a thick mud mask then you have to SECURE IT TO YOUR HEAD with plastic foil, not aluminum foil/tinfoil. Don't wrap it in a way that will give you a headache though.
To tell when the henna did its job and you can wash it out, just touch the top of your head, if it feels hot then I recommend waiting a little extra then washing it out with Luke warm water and don't forget to scrub your scalp carefully and thoroughly.
I'm personally a little extreme, so I put it on in the morning and wash it out at 8 PM or something. So if you do spa days at home I recommend it.
Instead of using jells I often use oil to do sleek backs.
Skin care is mostly a lighter diet (less sugar and fats) and Washing your face and hands.
If you break out easily EAT YOGHURT. Some foods, drinks and seeds actually help reduce your body temperature. Reduce fatty or sugary foods, fruits, meat and milk products usually have enough sugar, fat, iron, calcium, Omega 3 and protein to accommodate us but for more sweets you could switch to dates, reasons and HONEY. Honey is also an antibiotic and sometimes used for wounds but also as an old feminine hygiene product and even used as a contraceptive. I still know a lot of people who use it as such too.
INSTEAD OF GETTING PRODUCTS WITH ROSE WATER IN THEM GO GET ACTUAL ROSEWATER.
It's been a practice very common in the middle east. It rejuvenates and smells amazing, on top of it it cools down your face. It's especially good if you break out easily, however washing your face with clean hands and cold water whenever you sweat does wonders.
If you're someone who touches their face a lot try methods to reduce doing that and keep a good hand sanitizer on yourself and use it whenever you come home, sit at your own desk at work or school and definitely after exiting public transportation, door handles and all that stuff. Believe me, you don't wanna get sick bc of a door handle.
If you wear makeup just don't forget to wash your face with warm water until your face feels warm and your pores open up, then use a cleaner every morning/after taking your makeup off. Your pores need to be clean to breathe.
I personally use a fast wound healing cream that's not greasy under my makeup and after I clean my face for bed or any time after a shower/doing a peeling.
Chemical peels are both expensive and are annoying to figure out which one you can use at all so I recommend a lufa to get rid of the skin you shed.
Sometimes when you rub your skin you rub off dead skin, usually after trying to apply a cream or body oil.
Use a LUFA. and no, not those cloud looking shower sponges. A LUFA is often found at Turkish, Arab, Afghan or Persian grocery stores, it's a blue rectangular shower glove and with it you also need SEFIDAB. SEFIDAB usually comes in a pack the size of the same loofah and looks like a chunky white disk with a blue verification stamp on each (don't get discouraged if they look lazily made, they're fine.) BUT it's not supposed to be hard to rub on the loofah, if it is then I'm pretty sure it's expired. It's not super soft but if you struggle to break it in two or rub it on the loofah then it's not good.
You can look up how to use it online, I was told my great granny used to use it with body oil instead like sugar/salt scrubs we have today so if you try it w oil I heavily recommend jojoba oil or rose oil if you want to touch heaven or amtg.
All these things can be found at the stores mentioned and you can ask anyone working at these stores for guidance too.
