Why Taking Mental Health Days Level Up Your Life
Why Taking Mental Health Days Will Level Up Your Life
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How To Create a Clear Vision for Your Life
The power of a clear vision lies in its ability to provide focus, direction, and motivation for individuals, teams, and organizations. Clear visions are vivid, inspiring pictures of the future that outline the desired state and goals. Having a clear vision helps to keep you …
5 Unique Beauty Tips to Level Up Your Night-Time Routine
5 Beauty Tips to Level Up Your Night-Time Routine
A well-structured night-time routine can significantly improve the quality of your sleep.
Engaging in self-care activities before bed can help reduce stress and anxiety, which are common culprits of poor sleep. Relaxing activities can calm your mind and make it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night.
Practicing self-care before bed can also lower cortisol levels, the stress hormone. By reducing stress, you can prevent racing thoughts and emotional tension that might interfere with your ability to relax and fall asleep.
Many of us are following some type of skincare routine already – however, this blog post will give you unique beauty tips that you may be missing out on! These 5 beauty tips tackle skincare and aging, healthy hair growth, and oral hygiene.
Below are 5 unique beauty tips on how to level up your nighttime routine (that can also improve the quality of your sleep).
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5 Beauty Tips For Night-Time
1. Gua Sha Facial Stone Massage
It’s been said the gua sha stone has been used for over 700 years (that must mean it works, right!?).
Not only does using a Gua Sha stone give you an amazing facial massage, but it’s also an easy way to level up your night-time routine and improve the quality of your skin.
Gua sha facial massage can be a soothing and relaxing experience, helping to reduce stress and tension after a long day. The gentle and repetitive motions of gua sha can have a calming effect on the nervous system, making it an ideal pre-bedtime ritual.
Gua sha facial massage helps to stimulate the lymphatic system, aiding in the removal of toxins and excess fluid from the face. This can reduce puffiness and promote a more refreshed appearance in the morning.
Gua sha can help release tension in the facial muscles, especially around the jaw, temples, and forehead. By relaxing these muscles, you may experience improved facial flexibility and a reduction in tension headaches.
Some proponents of gua sha believe that it can help remove toxins from the body. By performing this technique at night, you might be supporting your body’s natural detoxification processes while you rest.
Retinol is an anti-aging serum that helps improve the appearance of the skin by reducing fine lines and wrinkles due to loss of collagen. Retinol also helps to even out and tone the texture of your skin.
sing retinol at night ensures that it won’t interfere with other daytime skincare products, such as sunscreen or vitamin C serums. Some ingredients can reduce the efficacy of retinol, so it’s best to keep it separate from your daytime routine.
Nighttime is an ideal opportunity to incorporate more potent and active ingredients into your skincare routine. Retinol can be a valuable addition to this nighttime regimen.
Retinol works over time, and consistent nightly use can lead to long-term improvements in skin texture, tone, and appearance.
Brushing your hair improves blood circulation in your scalp which promotes new hair growth. It also helps spread natural oils to the rest of your hair which helps keep the strands moisturized and together shiny!
Throughout the day, your hair can also accumulate dust, pollutants, and other debris. Brushing your hair before bed helps to remove some of this buildup, keeping your hair cleaner and fresher!
Leaving your hair tangled or in a tight hairstyle overnight can lead to more severe knots and tangles in the morning. Brushing your hair before bed reduces the chances of waking up with difficult-to-manage hair.
Lastly, brushing your hair is a relaxing activity that helps you unwind before bed. The repetitive motion of brushing can also be soothing and provide stress relief.
Beauty Hack: Try to count to 100 strokes when brushing your hair. That’s how you know your scalp has received some good and lengthy treatment!
Dry brushing your skin before bed can offer several benefits for your skin and overall well-being, and is also an easy way to level up your night-time routine.
Dry brushing helps exfoliate the skin by removing dead skin cells and promoting cell turnover. This can leave your skin feeling smoother, softer, and more radiant.
By exfoliating the skin’s surface, dry brushing can also help unclog pores, preventing the buildup of dirt, oil, and impurities that can lead to acne and other skin issues.
Dry brushing stimulates blood circulation, which encourages the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the skin cells. This improved circulation may result in a healthy and glowing complexion.
By removing dead skin cells and promoting circulation, dry brushing can enhance the absorption of moisturizers and other skincare products, making them more effective.
Using a tongue scraper before bed can offer several benefits for oral hygiene and overall health and is an easy beauty tip to include to level up your night-time routine.
Throughout the day, bacteria, food particles, dead cells, and toxins can accumulate on the surface of your tongue. Scraping your tongue before bed helps to remove these unwanted substances, reducing the overall bacterial load in your mouth.
Tongue scraping is an essential part of oral hygiene as it complements regular brushing and flossing. By removing bacteria and debris from the tongue’s surface, you can prevent bad breath (halitosis) and maintain better oral health
Some alternative medicine practices, such as Ayurveda, suggest that tongue scraping can help remove toxins that accumulate in the mouth overnight. This is believed to support better sleep and overall well-being.
Tongue scraping is a simple and quick practice that can be easily incorporated into your bedtime routine. It takes only a few seconds to complete but can have lasting benefits for your oral health.
Conclusion
The tips in this blog post are unique ways of leveling up your night-time routine, but of course, they don’t cover every way that might help you.
Other common ways people incorporate into their routine to level up their nighttime routine and engage in self-care include reading, meditation, or taking a warm bath.
Taking time for self-care allows you to process the events of the day and clear your mind from worries or unresolved thoughts. This mental decluttering can be incredibly beneficial for achieving a peaceful state before bedtime.
Be sure to check out our Ultimate Self-Care Guide For Better Sleep so you can make sure you get all the beauty rest you deserve!
Liked this blog post? Be sure to check out these simple and easy ways you can level up your morning routine so you’re covered for morning and night!
Want to keep leveling up your life? Check out these 50 easy ways you can level up your life today.
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How To Make A Vision Board On Canva
The 3-Step Vision Board
Making a vision board on Canva has never been easier. This blog post will tell you how to make the vision board of your dreams in just 3 steps!
Disclaimer: You will need Canva Pro to follow all the steps in this blog post. The premium subscription gives you access to the image effects tool (BG Remover) which is needed to crop images within your designs.
Step 1: Pick a Theme
This step can sometimes be overlooked, but if you want your vision board to have cohesiveness, it’s important to think of a theme. This could mean sticking to a specific goal/topic, color, or aesthetic.
Some common themes could include:
- Wealth and Fortune Vision Board
- Health and Fitness Vision Board
- Yearly Vision Board (2023, 2024, 2025)
- 5 or 10-Year Goal Vision Board
- Pink Aesthetic Vision Board
Step 2: Source Photos
My favorite search engine to browse for photo inspiration is Pinterest. You can also use Google, or other websites (even free stock image sites), but Pinterest, in my opinion, is the best.
Once you’ve found a collection of images for your vision board, save them all to your phone or computer.
Step 3: Design on Canva
Log into Canva and go to Create A Design.
Pick any size of canvas that you like. I typically go with a “Pinterest Pin” style template that’s 1000×1500 pixels.
Once you have your blank canvas in front of you, start uploading the saved images you previously collected.
Edit your images using the Canva Pro BG Remover tool.
This feature will remove the background of your images and turn the background white, allowing you to create a collage very easily.
Keep repeating this process until your vision board is complete!
Bottom Line: How To Make A Vision Board On Canva
Once you’ve finished adding in all your photos, you should be finished with a perfect vision board!
Need more than just this blog post? My TikTok video below will also give you step-by-step instructions on how to make the perfect vision board on Canva!