Beauty Tips for Smooth Legs

Since spring is here us ladies will most likely be showing off our legs a lot more. Wearing our favorite Skirts, Shorts and dresses that will make our legs look fabulous! But, for our legs to be fabulous we must begin the hassle of removing hair from our legs... There are many ways in which this can be done through shaving, creams, waxes and lasers but I am mainly going to focus on shaving as that is what most females do anyway. I know that I think that shaving is a hassle and I try to make sure that keep my legs hairless and smooth for as long as possible before I must undergo the process of shaving again. Throughout my years of shaving I have come across some tips to make your legs look great and how to the most out of shaving for as long as possible. Here are just some tips to keep your legs looking toned, smooth and beautiful!

Tips***
1. Tone
Before you even start the process of shaving get your legs toned up for the spring and summer months! Work out your leg muscles by doing leg exercises like planks or simply just going for a long walk to help tone your muscles!

2. Exfoliate
Your legs are one of the driest places on your body and therefore they usually have a lot of dry dead skin cells on top of your skin. The best way to remove them is to exfoliate your skin with a good body wash that has exfoliate within in it. Removing the dead cells will allow your to get a closer and better shave.

Dead Sea Cosmetics Passion Exfoliate $13.00 Online

3. Shaving Cream and Gel
Now, I know that some of my friends use regular bar soap to shave their legs and this is a big NO! Regular bar soap does not have the proper moisture to protect your skin from the harshness of a razor and also does not add any moisture to your skin and sometimes removes the need oils from your skin. Always use s shaving cream or gel. These products add moisture and create a barrier from your skin and from the razor. This way you won't have cuts from the razor. The creams and gels also provide moisture to help keep your skin smooth and not dry or flaky. I use Skintimate

Skintimate Frosted Velvet $2-$4 General Stores, Drugstores

4. Razor
I never noticed if one brand of razors are better than others but I do know that the more blades the better and smoother shave you will get! Also to change your razor or your razor blades after 3 uses at the most. Dull blades can cause you to cut yourself and not get a clean shave. I prefer the Schick Quattro Trimstyle for women.

Schick Quattro Trimstyle $12-$14 Drugstores, General Stores

5. Lotion
After you shave your legs and at least twice a day you want to make sure that you moisturize your legs with a good lotion. If your like me and don't like to shave your legs you are going to want to try Jergens Naturally Smooth which a shave minimizing lotion that works to help slow down the speed of your hair growth on your legs so that you don't have to shave as much! I have yet to try this because I just found out about when I told my friend about this post. I will be purchasing it and doing a review for you all!

6. Steps
When you first get in the shower you are going to want to do your normal shower routine and exfoliate your body and legs. After allowing the warm water to soften the hairs you are going to want to apply the shaving gel and shave your legs. You wan to make sure that you use upward motions in clean strokes from your ankle up. Take your time don't rush and cut yourself. Then pat dry your body so that you do not remove the natural oils in your skin and apply your lotion.

Hopefully these tips help you out on your journey for smooth legs! Let me know what products you use or what tips you have!

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Shower Essentials

Something I rarely read or see about is what people use in the shower. Its odd piece of information to share but I think it would be quite interesting to know and see reviews about shower products. That is basically the reason behind this post. There are so many different shower products from shower gels, loofahs to lotions and I only know of a few of the products. So make sure you leave comments about what your favorite products are or what interesting products you use in the shower.

Caress Evenly Gorgeous Exfoliating Body Wash $5-$6 Drugstores and General Stores
This smells amazing! It is made with burnt brown sugar and karite butter. It smells sweet, creamy and delicious! Not only does it hydrate your skin but it also exfoliates to remove all those dead skin cell to reveal beautiful skin. The ingredients within the product also as mentioned by the name work to even out your skin tone. I think that this is an overall plus because with one product you can do so much with your skin and smell great at the same time. This has been one of my favorites for almost over year! It is definitely a by go to body wash.

Loofah's $0.50-$1.00 Dollar Stores, Drugstores, General Stores
I personally don't like to use a wash cloth to cleanse by body. I prefer a brightly colored loofah! Loofahs are very inexpensive and work well to remove dirt and oil from your body. The net material also helps to exfoliate your skin and remove dry skin. The colors range is huge you can just about find any color you want and even ones with glitter and metallic colors.

Loofah Sticks $1.00-$2.00 Dollar Store, Drug Store, General Store
This is my second favorite loofah product the Loofah Stick. These are used to get those hard to reach areas like your back. Yet, again I love to choose bright colors that make washing up fun and festive. Just like the Loofah these are inexpensive and a steal because they work really well for cleaning your body.

Schick Quattro Women Trimstyle $11.00 Drugstores and General Stores
This little shaver does wonders! The Trimstyle is quite the duo, it a razor on one end for shaving your legs and armpits and then the other end is a bikini trimmer. It only takes 1 little battery that comes with it to power it and you can trim and shave all hairs on your body. I love this and it is the only shaver that I use. The razor end uses a four razor blade head to ensure that it is removing all the hairs in a efficient way. The trimmer end is adjustable so that you can change the head to the length of hair you would like to remove.

Skintimate Moisturizing Cream Shave Frosted Velvet $2-$6 Drugstores, General Stores
What I truly like about this product is that it really does moisturize your skin so that your skin is not left dry or flaky like some shaving creams leave the skin feeling.

Vaseline Cocoa Butter Deep Conditioning Body Lotion $6-$12 Drugstore, General Store
This is one of the best deep conditioning body lotions that I have ever used. It is a thick cream feeling lotion but once you rub it into your skin it feels light and soft. It protects and gets rid of any dry skin. It also helps to even out your skin tone! It also has the nice cocoa butter smell!


These are all the items I use to take a shower minus face and hair products of course. Let me know if you would like me to do a post on those.

If you have used any of these products let me know or if you know of some other great shower essentials! and make sure to vote in the poll!