New Mom, New Wrinkles?

Did you get that glowing lovely complexion with no wrinkles that you read about when you were pregnant?

Whether you did or not I can tell you that it is all gone now! Especially if you breastfeed.

Breastfeeding together with lack of sleep will make your skin dull and dry. Your hair will also get dry and you might drop quite a lot.

Sounds great, huh?

Well it passes!

Hair and Skin Care Tips for New Moms

Try to sleep

I wonder how often I write this? Well it is super-important for all aspects of your well being. Without some sleep, your skin will look dry, dull, wrinkled and you might get pimples. Not so nice!

Water

Drink a lot of water. This is always important, but even more so if you breastfeed. Your baby might drink as much as one liter of milk a day. If you don’t drink that extra liter of liquid you’ll get tired, get a head ache, get even drier skin and your stomach won’t work all too well either.

Peel those wrinkles away

Being tired makes your skin looks grey. A peeling once or twice a week is nice.

A common peeling doesn't actually take away wrinkles unless you make a real chemical peeling with the help from a skin therapist. Still even a simple home peeling makes your skin look much better and less dry. And less dry means less dry wrinkles...

See a skin therapist

If you can find the time and the money, go see a skin therapist. You might need completely other products now than you did a few months ago.

Also, if you are like most moms, you probably focus a lot on your baby and less on your self right now. Add being dead tired and imagine how many new moms actually do all the skin care stuff right in the evenings… No wonder you'll add a few new wrinkles!

A skin therapist can get you a quick fix as well as some products that will make you look and feel better.

Good skin care products

Honestly, I’ve never tried any better skin care products than the brand DDF! And quality becomes all the more important when your skin needs some extra care. DDF stands for Doctor's Dermatologic Formula. You can shop their products at really good prices from SkinStore.com, but only if you live in the US. Hmmm! (Well you can by almost any other brand from Skinstoer.com almost no matter where you live, but DDF can only be bougth if you live in the US.)

Now, Skinstore.com is a wonderful site to buy skin care products, so there are plenty of other good brands to choose between. Some other brands that I really like are dr.brandt and Murad.

Concealer - my rescue!

Can this be called skin care…? I guess not. But it is still worth mentioning! Use a good concealer to hide the dark circles around your eyes. Do it for yourself!

The best one I’ve found is Touche Eclat by YSL. It’s way too expensive, but I continue to buy it, because it is so good! It comes in two colors, one light for Caucasians and a darker for everybody else.

(How does that work..??)

Anyway, Touche Eclat does not make wrinkles more visible, as some other concealers do!

Hand care

You are also likely to get dry hands from all the washing. Remember to use a really good hand lotion often or you might even develop eczema as I did. Nothing helped for almost a year until I bought Borago oil ointment for my baby’s cradle cap. I tried it on my finger and within a week, the dry eczema was gone. Just like his cradle cap. Amazing!

Cut your hair often

Ha, ha! This is one advice I sure didn’t follow when our daughter was a baby. I waited 8 months… Not a good idea!

If you breastfeed you might get really dry, boring hair and some new moms experience quite a bit of post pregnancy hair loss. This will all get back to normal later on, but to look and feel nice, it is a good idea to cut the hair often.

It is also a great moment!

Dye your hair

I just tried it! I dyed my blond hair for the first time ever. It made such a great difference to how thick and shiny it looks.

Highly recommended! Again, don’t do it yourself! Go to a hair dresser and have your spouse stop by with you baby if you have to feed him.

Magic drops for shine

My hair dresser also had me buy some magic drops for my hair, called Sassoon Diamond Polish. Who could ever guess that my hair really is blond, dull and flat? With my new darker color and the drops, no one could guess that I am breastfeeding and that my hair is suffering badly from it. Yippee!