Winter Beauty Secrets from FITNESS Magazine
Fitness Magazine’s Beauty Director, Eleanor Langston Shares Insights to Looking Your Best No Matter How Low the Mercury Goes
Winter can wreak havoc on our bodies and beauty routines, causing dry skin, dull hair and stuffy noses. Escaping the cold is often difficult, but there are beauty treatments and products that can help you survive the season and look your best. Fitness magazine’s beauty director Eleanor Langston shares her top beauty survival tips, from how to keep your skin glowing to preventing the winter colds from taking down your mood. Here’s what she has to say:
Winter can be so hard on our beauty routines. At Fitness, we hear from our readers that dry skin, chapped lips, dull hair, stuffy nose…winter can literally cause havoc on our bodies from head to toe. Although escaping this wintry weather is difficult, I’ve partnered with some great products to help you survive the season and look your best.
When your skin is exposed to colder temperatures and biting wind, it tends to get irritated and dried out. It can be really uncomfortable so you want to make sure you use a cleanser that can help moisturize your skin without drying it out. Bioré® Combination Skin Balancing Cleanser is a unique cleanser designed to sweep away dirt and impurities without stripping your skin’s natural moisture. I also like it because you can treat the oily parts and the dry parts of skin at once, bringing balance to your skin while deeply cleaning oily T-Zones. The innovative formula was developed with a revolutionary technology comprised of dirt-seeking cleansing molecules. The formula targets and cling to impurities, It’s also super affordable at under $8 at drugstores everywhere.
The state of your hair can have a direct impact on the way you feel about how you look so if you can lighten it, it could help boost you’re outlook during dreary winter months. I discovered John Frieda’s Sheer Blonde Go Blonder Lightening Spray which lets you lighten your hair even without the sun with its heat-activated formula, so you control how light you want to go, and where you want to go lighter. The point and spray formula lets you touch up roots, highlights, or just give your blonde an overall boost. After 3-5 uses you’ll see a visible difference. After you shower, spray the formula on your hair wherever you want to go lighter and style as desired. To activate the lightening agents, apply heat like a blow dryer, flat iron, or a curling iron to the places you want to go lighter—it’s that simple. The more you spray and the longer you apply heat, the lighter you go! Go Blonder has violet pigments in it that ensure you won’t go brassy or orange. It’s available at mass retailers for less than $10.
Staying healthy during the winter months is essential to looking your best. There are many ways to keep illness at bay, but none is easier and more effective than clean hands according to the CDC. Hand sanitizer gels can be effective, but many actually dry out your skin. Sani-Hands wipes I really like Sani-Hands because they sanitize and remove dirt from hands better than gels, but they’re also clinically proven to hydrate and moisturize skin so they won’t dry out your hands. They’re super convenient and portable so it’s easy to keep your hands germ-free and beautiful. Many of the Fitness staffers keep some on hand at all times - in the car, purse, gym bag, desk…anywhere you might need to protect against germs, especially in the winter. They’re available at Walmart and other mass retailers for under $4.
It’s so tempting to take really hot showers when it’s so cold outside but that can actually dry out your skin faster. Try to keep hot showers and baths to five minutes and make sure you exfoliate to get rid of dry flaky skin, and follow up with the conditioning body wash and a body oil as well.
For more helpful winter beauty tips, you can check out the current issue of Fitness magazine which has lots of helpful winter beauty tips as does www.FitnessMagazine.com
About the Talent:
Eleanor Langston is the beauty director of FITNESS magazine. Before joining FITNESS in December, 2009, Langston most recently served as the beauty editor of SELF, where she spearheaded the magazine’s front-of-book sections and annual feature stories from 2007 through 2009. Langston has appeared as a beauty trend expert on television shows including The Today Show, The Insider, Entertainment Tonight and WPIX, as well as radio shows such as Sirius/XM’s Doctor Radio, Fashionable Life Radio and Cosmo Radio. In addition, she has been interviewed as an expert source for the New York Times, WWD, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
