To have a beautiful and glowing complexion, you have to know how to care for it properly. Caring for your skin properly begins with knowing what type of skin you have. Until you know your skin type, you don’t know how to make it look its best. The first step to beautiful skin is finding your skin type. Here’s how you do it.

First, don’t evaluate your skin right after you’ve washed your face. When you’ve just washed your face and put cleansers and moisturizers on it, your skin reacts to these substances and it will affect the outcome of your evaluation. To get a correct evaluation, you need to wait for four or five hours. By waiting, you will give your skin time to reach its normal state and recover from the cleansing. Doing your skin evaluation on a day when you don’t have to wear makeup is also because you skin absorbs your makeup and it affects the quality of your skin.

Next, press a clean piece of tissue paper on different areas of your. Hold the tissue up against light. If you see blotches of oil, you have oily skin. By not having makeup and moisturizers on your skin you can be sure that the blotches you see are from oil your skin has produces not from you makeup. If you see patches of flaky skin or it feels, you have dry skin. Of course, you may have patches of dry skin and oily patches which mean that you have combination skin.

Another important factor in having a beautiful complexion is recognizing any skin diseases. Do you have bumps and blemishes that aren’t pimples? How about fine lines or capillaries on the surface that are sensitive to touch? If so, you more than likely have Rosacea. Patches of irritated, dry, red to white scaly and crusty skin around the hairline, nose, eyes and cheeks, indicate you may have a skin disorder called Psoriasis. In either case, you need to see a dermatologist.

With these evaluations, you can develop a more effective skin care routine that will help maintain your skin’s health. The important thing to remember is that your skin type won’t remain constant for a long period of time and you need to evaluate your skin on a regular basis. Re-evaluate your skin every four to six months so you can give it the proper attention and care that it needs to be truly beautiful.

Jason Ladock

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