Black Skin Care and You!

Is it really mind over matter? Queen Latifah states, “It may sound like a cliché but beauty, for me, really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love. Then whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.”

Great attitude!  Some say “You are what you eat”. Nutrition and your eating habits play a very big role in what your skin looks like. Some think, It’s enough that you’ve gotten to what’s considered middle age.

Why not just consider it as aging gracefully. But it’s also no longer a stereotype to be a mature woman. I’ve met women in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s and just witnessed someone celebrating her 91^st birthday.

Still beats the face with makeup, puts on the hat to go to church on Sundays, puts that shawl around her shoulders and not just something that’s going to cap it off, it’s draped with style.

Age Ain’t Nothin But A Number

Age is just a number’s game and that’s all it is, if your mindset is right. The way you “think” has a lot to do with your habits, the way your skin looks, the way your body looks and all of this plays a very important role in how you nourish your skin internally and topically.

One of the things that happens with women in general, but in particular African American women as you mature, is you start to experience a certain dryness in your skin.

For some, so much so until your skin becomes dull, ashy and grey looking.

Some of you suffer from hyper pigmentation, discolorations and dark spots.  A lot of what’s happening with your skin is you’re experiencing hormonal changes.

Men-On-Pause and Black Skin

Hormonal changes typically mean that menopause is coming into play.  Your body starts going through certain discomforts, you’re losing estrogen and even the testosterone part can be escalated.  As maturing women, looking for a way to find balance, is key.

Not only are you looking for a way to find balance with your skin but once you find balance in your life your skin will benefit greatly.

With ashy dull grey skin, learning how to exfoliate your skin more often within your , is a good way to eliminate a lot of that grey and dull ashy look on your face.

What you will also notice is not only does your face take on this grey dull ashy look, if you will take a look carefully your entire body takes on this look.

In caring for beautiful black skin, just as you will use an exfoliating treatment for your face so should your body have an exfoliating treatment, at least once a week. It will start moving those dead skin cells that cause your body to have this dull grey ashy look and the cells aren’t reproducing as fast as they used to.

It used to be every 28 days you’d get new skin cells, but with menopause it might be 40 or 48 days before you’ve got new cell growth.  So what you want to do is eliminate a lot of the dead skin cells, in order for your new skin to shine through.

Black Hair Care and The Baby Boomer

The same applies for your hair. You will start to see your hair going through certain changes. Some of you may shed more. Some of you may experience split ends more.

Your hair may take on a dull lifeless appearance and it’s all about nourishing from within. Your food intake, the type of foods you intake (kale, broccoli, spinach, collards) will feed you from a cellular structure.

Your avocados, romaine lettuce and bib lettuce are wonderful for your regimen as well. When you feed yourself internally, you’ll be nourishing yourselves internally and you’re going to see a difference in how healthy your hair and skin look.

So yes nutrition plays a very important role in the way your skin matures and the way it looks as you mature and the same applies for your hair.

The more natural the product you use on your skin and your hair the better the result you’re going to get topically to enhance what you’re doing internally.

So yes you’re maturing as a woman and yes your skin will have a few hormonal challenges but it doesn’t mean you’ll have to lose that beautiful glow that you once had when you were much younger in numbers.

Dedicated To Your Beauty!

Juliette Samuel

Esthetician/Publisher

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