Heather Marianna: How to stay cool, protect skin in brutal L.V. summer
Editor’s Note: After a glorious nearly month-long family vacation in the Italian and Sicilian countryside, Robin Leach is back and resuming his new daily columns today with the celebrity spotlight focused on super-sexy blonde bombshell Charlotte McKinney’s 23rd birthday weekend bash.
We’ll continue guest columnists in August while Robin works from the cooler climes of La Jolla near San Diego in advance of our newly designed website launching soon.
Today, Heather Marianna offers her Beauty Kitchen tips on how to deal with the blistering desert heat and summer sunshine’s assault on the skin. Here’s Heather:
By Heather Marianna
Hello, sunshine! Summer means warm weather, shorts, sandals and bronzed skin, but with beach hair and bathing suits come countless summer beauty woes. Las Vegas’ harsh heat is notorious for ruining our skin.
That doesn’t mean you should stay indoors. You just need to add a little extra TLC to your current skin-care regimen. Today, I’m solving your most common summer beauty blunders with simple DIY kitchen treatments to help you keep your cool all year long.
Dehydrated Skin
All of the ingredients in this mask are super hydrating. Avocados contain vitamin C, a natural skin brightener for sunspots and are extremely moisturizing without clogging pores. Honey is a natural humectant, which keep your skin’s moisture and hydration locked in. The lactic acid in yogurt acts as a gentle exfoliate to leave your skin with a natural glow.
1/2 avocado
1 tbsp organic honey
1 tbsp plain yogurt (the higher in fat, the more moisturizing it will be)
Mash avocado in small bowl. Stir in honey and yogurt and combine until mostly smooth. Spread thick layer onto clean skin. Let sit for 10-15 minutes or longer. Remove with warm washcloth. Finish with splash of cool water and favorite moisturizer.
Sunburn
Fun fact: Aspirin was originally derived naturally from the bark of the willow tree and has been used as a painkiller since 400 B.C.
1 small peeled cucumber
1/4 cup aloe gel
200 milligrams aspirin
Blend all ingredients in bowl or blender. Once thickened into paste, place in refrigerator for 15 minutes. Apply cooling mask to sunburned area. Leave on for 30 minutes. Follow with cool rinse.
Chapped lips
Few things are less attractive than going in for a kiss with somebody who has cracked lips. It is vital to pay close attention this time of year to one of the most sensitive areas of skin on our body.
1 tbsp raw organic honey
2 tbsp sugar
Mix ingredients together and apply paste to lips. Let sit for few minutes. Use fingertips to rub mixture around on lips to exfoliate dead skin cells. Wash off with lukewarm water.
Green Swimming Pool Hair
It’s Las Vegas, and, in the summertime, we go swimming or stay in the AC. Well, the lighter your hair color, the more susceptible it is to turn green from chlorine and chemicals used to treat swimming pools. Here’s a solution.
1/4 cup lemon juice
2-4 tbsp baking soda
1 tbsp liquid Castile soap
Apply mixture to wet, clean hair, massaging it in from roots to ends of hair. Let mask sit for 20 minutes. Rinse thoroughly, followed by normal wash and condition.
Hope you enjoyed my quick-and-easy Las Vegas summer survival guide. For more tips, tricks and to shop my array of all-natural Beauty Kitchen skin-care products (sugar scrubs, sheet masks, beard oil, collagen eye gels, monthly beauty boxes and more), visit HeatherMarianna.tv. Also check me out on the second Thursday of every month at 12:45 p.m. on KSNV Channel 3 where I demonstrate DIY beauty recipes every month, and keep up me with me on Twitter @HeatherMarianna, Instagram @BeautyKitchenJunkie and Facebook.com/beautykitchenbyheathermarianna.
Be sure to check out our other guest columnist today, Dee Dee Duffy, owner of Graceland Wedding Chapel where a slew of stars have married, remarried and renewed wedding vows. Robin also has the celebrity spotlight in focus on super-sexy blonde bombshell Charlotte McKinney’s 23rd birthday weekend bash.
