Pre-Holi preparation: 8 Useful tips about how to protect your skin and hair before playing holi!

Holi is the festivals of colours. This popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of colours and love and spring. This is a celebration of welcoming the spring, the season of colours. Puli tells the stories of the love between Radha and Krishna. There are many legends about their love hich started the Holi celebration. Holi is not only the festival of colours, it is a wholesome story of Gunjiyas, pichkaris, gulal, thandai and laughter. In older days gulal was made with natural ingredients like flowers, turmeric, beetroots etc. but now, unfortunately Brighter, toxic chemical colors and dyes are often used to make gulal and according to the experts, these can cause serious skin infections, eye injuries and even hair loss too. So, today we will talk about such tips which will help you to protect your skin and hair when you play Holi this year!

Tips to protect your skin and hair so that you can enjoy your holi this year!

Renowned dermatologist and cosmetologist Dr. Shefali Trasi Nerurkar has said, “The use of synthetic colors during Holi often causes severe skin irritation, dermatitis, burning and redness that can be very distressing. In some cases, the irritation is so severe that it leads to irreversible pigmentation.” then what can be done? How to protect skin and hair before playing Holi? Should we stop playing holi? Never, by taking some precautions, we can enjoy Holi and take care of our skin and hair too.

1.  If you want to protect your nails from those chemical colours of gulal, before you start playing with gulal, send your nails with nail paint. The court of nail paint will help to protect your nails from damaging.
2. Protect your hair from all those chemicals, do a thorough oiling on your hairstyles and scalp. Yes, a champi can protect your hair from all those chemicals.
3. For an extra layer of protection, you can use some kind of scarves and bandanas too. You can try protective hairstyles like buns or braids too.
4. Our skin gets most effected by the chemicals of gulal. If you want to protect your skin from those harmful chemicals, where are thick layer of moisturizer and try to wear full sleeve shirts and full pants.
5. To protect your teeth from those chemicals, where dental caps or try to keep your mouth shut while playing Holi.
6. If your eyesight is weak, and you use contact lens, try to wear spectacles  while you play Holi. Wearing lenses whole playing holi can cause severe damages to your eyes.
7. You can buy many types of fun sunglasses during Holi season. Try to use one, so that your eyes can get a layer of protection.
8. To protect your lips, first were a layer of lip balm and then use a layer of liquid lipstick. This will prevent colours to get on your lips.