9 Most Common Beauty Myths Busted, Think Before Believing Them!
Kritika Mishra
Updated At 09 Dec 22
As our lives have been governed by the ‘beauty advises’ that have been forwarded from generations to generations, often the line between the reality and myth gets blurred.
We all are guilty for believing these myths blindly due to the fear of the outcome associated with it! Yes, right? It has been followed like a blind faith. But, many of these so called beauty myths are way too far away from reality once they are explored and researched!
Hence, we bring to you top beauty myths that have no connection with what they have been told around since time immemorial! As the 9 most common beauty myths get busted, you will know why one shouldn’t believe them.
It is time to shoot some timeless beauty myths!
1. Don’t use makeup, you will get Acne!
Frequently told by our elders and the people around about makeup causing acne and breakouts, the myth needs some truth spotlight on it!
Reality: Makeup doesn’t cause acne, it is the dirt and sebum trapped in your skin pores that leads to breakouts. If you are not good at removing makeup everyday, it is obvious that the makeup sediments are going to get trapped , clogging skin pores leading to pimples. Acne can easily happen to people who have never touched makeup too, due to unclean skin and a not so good skincare regime.
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2. Use skin products made for your age
As the fancy commercials recommend to use skincare products as per how old are you, the beauty stores get hoarded with products categorized on the basis of 20s, 30s, 50s etc.
Reality: The need of your skin has no connection with your age. You can be 30+ needing same skincare as of a 25 year old. The need of the skin has to be found first. Know what your skin wants. SPF? Moisture? Anti-ageing? As per that, explore the best product specialized in fulfilling that particular need of your skin effectively!
Ensure to keep noticing signs of skin needs in order to act as per it as quick as possible!
3. Use cleansing milk to get your pores cleaned
Often told to dip a cotton ball in cleansing milk and clean face to get clean skin pores which are not achieved as effectively by other products.
Reality: All the facial cleansers and soaps are very well formulated to clean the clogged skin pores and cleansing milk has no special impact as such. The results of soap v/s cleansing milk are same.
4. Brush your hair in 100 stroke every night
One of the most popular saying to achieve healthy and shiny hair is to brush your hair with 100 brush strokes to enhance blood circulation.
Reality: One must brush hair properly to get rid of tangles and achieve enough circulation of blood. Excess brushing of hair can lead to frizz, dryness and static!
5. Shaving leads to growth of thicker hair
This one is the most common and often leads to fear amongst ladies when it comes to hair removal; “Shaving leads to enhanced and thicker hair growth.”
Heard this one too often, right?
Reality: Shaving body doesn’t lead to thick hair produce on the body. The hair is basically cut close to the skin and not rooted deeply from follicle as in case of waxing. This causes the quick growth of hair as stubble that looks thicker but it isn’t.
The growth of hair on your body depends entirely on your genetics and isn’t affected at all by hair removal methods!
6. You can shrink your skin pores
Multiple masks and products claim to shrink skin pores with continuous usage of it.
Reality: The skin pores can be shrunk but only on a temporary basis. No product can lead to permanent reduction of the size of your skin pores.
7. Do not pull the Grays
Do not pull the gray hair, it will turn your head filled with more of gray hair!
Reality: When you pull out hair from its follicle, it has no effect on the nearby follicle at all. Similarly, if you pull out a gray hair, it cannot by any chance turn the other hair gray too. So be free to pluck those grays out!
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8. Dry skin leads to wrinkles
Dry skin is often related to wrinkle prone skin! It is believed that dryness can lead to occurrence of wrinkles due lack of elasticity.
Reality: Wrinkles can happen to any skin type. It occurs when skin stops producing collagen that rejuvenates new skin cell growth. Dry skin has no connection to wrinkles, it only needs a proper hydrating skin care!
9. Natural ingredients v/s synthetic ingredients for your skin
It is highly believed that the skin products having natural ingredients are much better for your skin than the artificial synthetic ones.
Reality: Multiple companies claim themselves to be natural by using extracts that are processed too. So unless we are sure that a Natural product doesn’t use artificial ingredients, we cant expect to get the desired outcome.
Wasn’t this an eye-opener!? It is time already that we ditch these overrated myths and embrace reality which is far much simpler! Bust them beauty myths with truth!
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