Hey guys! Sorry for the too many baby pics uploaded lately, but while I was in the hospital I only had my cell phone to connect to the web from, and I wanted my family to see pics of the baby, and as it was easier than sending mms' to everyone, I thought I would upload the pics to my blog. I will move them to the My Baby page as soon as I get the time, and continue with my usual beauty blogging! Being a new mommy is a hard job so it might take me a while to addapt and organise myself so I can do other things than changing diapers and feeding the baby, but I promise I will be back!
oxoxox
Roxana
Edit - 7th of July:
I put pics of the baby and of me and the baby in the *My Baby* page of the blog, for anyone that wants to see them :)
Monday, June 27, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
What I think about how SPF creams work - logical explanation
Allright so I heared all these oppinions about how SPF works, and I also heared some gurus on YT talking about it, and I feel the need to try and give a logical explanation here! I don't say I am 100% right but I feel this is the only logical and true explanation for this matter!
So, there are 2 oppinions on how SPF creams work. First, they are saying that the SPF number indicates the time after which you have to reapply it! Now, this, in my oppinion, is not only wrong but also funny! Imagine that we have a foundation with SPF 15 (as the foundations mostly have). How would that be, that after 15 minutes after applying it, we would have to reapply another layer on our faces.. let's say we already went outta house, and we are walking on the street to work, we'd have to take the bottle of foundation out and eventually a mirror too and splash! put on another layer and so on till we get to work, every 15 minutes! We would have a super cakey weird face, let alone that on top of the foundation we might have had blusher too, concealer, etc. Let alone the other makeup!
Or, again, let's say we are using a SPF cream UNDERNEATH the foundation or of whatever makeup we are wearing. If it is a 30 SPF, let's say... we go out and after 30 mins we have to re-applythe damn thing, but how, if its under the makeup? Everyone knows what happens if you apply the cream ON TOP of the makeup! lol Freakin funny! Cream on top of powder, for example! LOL! Even at the beach, when wearing no makeup, or even for the body, if we get a SPF of 15...who the heck re-applies that every 15 minutes? We'd need at least one whole bottle a day and that would be making our vacation too expensive! haha!
So get real, girls (and boys), no company would be producing SPF creams anymore if it would be such a pain in the butt to use them! They would become completely useless as noone would use them like that!
The second oppinion is that the SPF number indicates how many times that product INCREASES your skin's natural protection. That is, for example, if you have very light skin, and you get burned in like 15 minutes of being exposed to sunlight, if you are using a SPF 20, the time untill your skin starts getting burnt will be 15 x 20 = 300 minutes, that means 5 hours. So after 5 hours you will only have to re-apply that! Of course, there are other factors here that influence the cream's power of protecting you, for example, if you go swimming in that time, it will probably come off, most of it, so you will have to re-apply when you come out of the water and dry your skin, or if it is really hot outside and you sweat alot, also, you will have to re-apply the SPF to make sure that you are still protected. That's why on the leaflet of the SPF creams you find a description of the skin types, usually, with an explanation of which SPF will be needed for each. I believe this is the good oppinion and this is how the SPF creams actually work!
If anyone can prove logically that I am wrong, please debate me! :-p
Hope some of you find my post helpful, tho!
oxoxox
Roxana
So, there are 2 oppinions on how SPF creams work. First, they are saying that the SPF number indicates the time after which you have to reapply it! Now, this, in my oppinion, is not only wrong but also funny! Imagine that we have a foundation with SPF 15 (as the foundations mostly have). How would that be, that after 15 minutes after applying it, we would have to reapply another layer on our faces.. let's say we already went outta house, and we are walking on the street to work, we'd have to take the bottle of foundation out and eventually a mirror too and splash! put on another layer and so on till we get to work, every 15 minutes! We would have a super cakey weird face, let alone that on top of the foundation we might have had blusher too, concealer, etc. Let alone the other makeup!
Or, again, let's say we are using a SPF cream UNDERNEATH the foundation or of whatever makeup we are wearing. If it is a 30 SPF, let's say... we go out and after 30 mins we have to re-applythe damn thing, but how, if its under the makeup? Everyone knows what happens if you apply the cream ON TOP of the makeup! lol Freakin funny! Cream on top of powder, for example! LOL! Even at the beach, when wearing no makeup, or even for the body, if we get a SPF of 15...who the heck re-applies that every 15 minutes? We'd need at least one whole bottle a day and that would be making our vacation too expensive! haha!
So get real, girls (and boys), no company would be producing SPF creams anymore if it would be such a pain in the butt to use them! They would become completely useless as noone would use them like that!
The second oppinion is that the SPF number indicates how many times that product INCREASES your skin's natural protection. That is, for example, if you have very light skin, and you get burned in like 15 minutes of being exposed to sunlight, if you are using a SPF 20, the time untill your skin starts getting burnt will be 15 x 20 = 300 minutes, that means 5 hours. So after 5 hours you will only have to re-apply that! Of course, there are other factors here that influence the cream's power of protecting you, for example, if you go swimming in that time, it will probably come off, most of it, so you will have to re-apply when you come out of the water and dry your skin, or if it is really hot outside and you sweat alot, also, you will have to re-apply the SPF to make sure that you are still protected. That's why on the leaflet of the SPF creams you find a description of the skin types, usually, with an explanation of which SPF will be needed for each. I believe this is the good oppinion and this is how the SPF creams actually work!
If anyone can prove logically that I am wrong, please debate me! :-p
Hope some of you find my post helpful, tho!
oxoxox
Roxana
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