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How to Get Back Your Lost Skin Complexion?

I have been receiving tons of emails (literally!) from the readers requesting for skin fairness tips! According to them, white skin is equal to fair skin. I somehow do not agree with it!

Many of you have emailed me for home remedies and product suggestions for tan removing, skin lightening and dark patch removing. I wondered how people are much aware about the ‘skin complexion’ thing than the health and smoothness of their skin! Not just women, men too equally queried about getting back their lost skin complexion. It’s reasonable if you want to brighten your skin after a bad tan, but I guess it’s unfair to change your natural skin color for any reason! For the nth time, paleness of your skin doesn’t decide it’s beauty. Smoothness and the firmness does.

Our day today life is often stressful these days making us experience the dust, pollution and harmful UV ways. There’s no way we could totally escape from them but we can protect our skin up to an extent to lessen skin damage, uneven tanning and darkening. People gradually lose their radiant baby complexion by staying in sun for a long time, playing outdoor games, swimming etc. When they look years back, they would have had very even soft skin but all left now would be that patched, unevenly dark and rough skin.

There isn’t really a magical overnight cure for this skin condition but you can gradually remove the tan and get back your baby complexion. All you need are patience and dedication for this. If you are still going to be under sunlight everyday, then these ideas below may not work effectively; so as the first step, avoid Mr.Sun and don’t show your skin to him (expect for a mild morning and evening sunlight)

Exfoliate Twice a Week

Being a athlete, I used to have very dark and unevenly toned skin 2 years back due to my everyday practice under sun in the stadium. I did not crave for fair or whiter skin that time but just wanted to have a clear, radiant and mainly that ‘even’ skin tone. When nothing helped much to achieve that, exfoliation helped me a lot. Believe me, it worked like a charm in clearing out the uneven tone of my body and facial skin.

It is better to exfoliate your skin twice a week with good exfoliating products or you can just simply make your own skin exfoliating recipes at home. For face, use the mixture of rice powder, gram flour and rose water to scrub and exfoliate the unwanted dead cells and for my body, loofah works best. Loofah is nothing but a dried fruit fiber which you can get from super markets easily. If your facial skin is extra dry, add few drops of olive oil to your scrub recipe. Remember, do not overdo exfoliation as it might turn your skin more prone to sensitivity. Twice a week is more than enough.

Moisturizer & Sunscreen

These two are the basic and still the most important steps of anyone’s skincare routine. These two should never be skipped if you wish for a healthy glowing skin. Use good face and body moisturizers with high SPF hence you do not need to layer up two different products (Moisturizer and sunscreen separately) on your skin. Whatever skin type you may have, moisturization is a must. I have been experienced this; regular moisturization made my skin smooth, clear and soft. Though moisturization doesn’t lighten or whiten our skin, it makes skin super healthy and soft. You have to try it to believe it; so do not skip moisturization at any cost even if you have the oiliest skin.

Oily skin types need light moisturization whereas the dry ones would need heavy creamier moisturizers to balance the skin dryness. If you are going to step out without sunscreen, then forget about getting your complexion back. Even one day out in sun without your sunscreen will spoil all your effort so make sure to wear your sunscreen everyday. If you are out in sun for more than 2-3 hours continuously, then reapplication of your SPF lotion on both face and body is a must as well!

DIY Tan Removing Facial Every Weekend

To remove facial tan and brighten your skin complexion, you can prefer weekend facials. This would remove any excess dead cells present on the surface your skin and helps to reveal the original glow. Performing a facial routine yourself isn’t that a tough task. All your need are a facial cleanser, a scrub, a face pack, a toner and a moisturizer. You need to choose of them depending on your skin type whether oily, dry or sensitive.

Cleanse your face without any traces of oil, leftover makeup and such. Apply a good facial scrub and exfoliate your facial skin. This process would open up the skin pores and helps in better face pack penetration. After scrubbing, wash your face and smooth your face pack evenly on your face and neck. I highly suggest a tan removing face pack for this. There are many tan removing face packs available in the market today; choose one which suits your skin the best. Alternatively you can also combine a teaspoon of fullers earth with a teaspoon of sandalwood powder, half a teaspoon of tulsi (basil) paste, required rose water and few drops of glycerin to make a muddy tan removing face pack in minutes. This would do wonders on your skin! After face pack usage, dab the toner and moisturize your skin. You’re done with your quick and natural weekend DIY tan removing facial.

This facial should be followed at least once every week to get back your complexion soon. For faster results, you can even perform this twice every week. Applying a thin paste of sandalwood + rose water mixture on face for 15 minutes every night would ensure quick tan removal. This process would also calm down and soften your skin to help it stay young forever.

Eat in time, sleep in time and drink lots of water everyday. 3 liters of water a day would do wonders on your health and beauty if regularly followed. Not only in the morning, have a bath before your bedtime too to ensure dirt and sweat removal from the skin. Follow all these steps for a month or two and come back here with your results. Forget about chemical skin bleaches and other artificial treatments. Go natural and achieve the clearer skin tone. Get back your complexion by following a healthy skincare routine as instructed above. These remedies are also suitable for brides.

Hope you found this article on getting back lost complexion useful. Do share your comments below!
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24 thoughts on “How to Get Back Your Lost Skin Complexion?”

  1. Great blog :) could u suggest me a scrub for I have a super sensitive skin:( I apply honey lemon everyday and I’m 17.is that okay to apply everyday?

  2. Hi, I am already black and color tone of my face is darker than the other parts of body. After I had done a bleaching / facial from a saloon six months back, the color have got more black like severe sun burn. I visited a skin doctor and prescribed sun cream and one ointment for repair the skin tone and some vitamin tablets. I have been using it since last one week and feeling better too. But I believe it occured due to allergy of the facial which I have done but the medicine suggested was for sun burn as I forgot to mention about the facial to the doctor. Should I continue the medicines (I cannot contact the doctor again as I am out of station now) and please advice if there any effective medicine other than currently using to retain the color of face like other parts of body?

  3. I am from pakistan and i was born in karachi Hello lancy I was fair from my childhood but know from this summer my skin goes breakouts and gonna dull and I also blessed with pink chicks but know I have lost my fair complexion and pink chicks

    1. Hey Sid, I’m 21 and I’m from Karachi too, so I know how it feels
      use glycolic acid 10% poducts and you will see the results in number days .

  4. Hey Lancy, you’re a really generous person for doing this :) I’m black, I was light before I tried to use some products to get rid of black heads, and it first left a burn on my forehead, which then spread throughout my face. Now my whole body, including my neck, is unbelievably lighter than my face, I don’t want any products to harm my skin again, but I want to get my face to the same skin tone as my body, how it was before. Do you have any suggestion?

  5. Hi Lancy, that was a nice post.. Can u suggest me any products for my tanned hands as I was practicing sports for the past week and my hands are totally black:(.. Waiting for ur reply..

  6. Hey Lancy, Thanks for the post it helped me a lot im going to start trying it. i run track so im in the sun a lot and i have lots of sunburns and lost my skin color im trying to get my skin color back but sometimes i forget my sunscreen but thanks your tips helped alot. Also do you know if they hae lotions that help kinda like sunscreen? Please and thanks

  7. Hey I was very white in colour from my birth itself.But due to less take of vitamins there start appearing white spots so I consulted a doctor and he gave me a cream which should only be applied on the whiten spot.I was too busy in applying it carefully I just applied whole of my face now am extra dark but my whole body except face still has my natural colour do u have any solution for me

  8. Hi , I have recently started bleaching my skin and now I feel it has affected my skin badly and it looks all uneven and patchy. I’m going to try your regime and hopefully get my skin complexion back to smooth as it was earlier. :(

  9. Help me guys
    I have ceverlly damaged skin , it happened because of, i had been use a chemically enriched sandal on my face…for 2 years.
    I used this for reducing acene ,i had never pridict that nasty..
    , black layer over my face it look like a black painted face…….
    Give tips for recover it

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