Estilo Diario

By Kristle Jones

Maintaining your Latin beauty is vital for any Latina woman. Take care of your skin early to prevent future damage and premature aging, play up your Latin features with a few makeup tricks and keep your hair healthy with a few easy-to-do tips.

Make-Up
Latin beauty is unbeatable. The rich skin color, dark hair and eyes are unique and exotic. Play up your Latin beauty traits with tips from Salma Hayek's makeup artists, Matthew Vanleeuwen. He suggests playing up the eyes with dark colors and then making the rest of the face neutral by using colors such as caramel beige and pink-beige for blush and lip color. He uses Bobbi Brown Pale Pink Lip Color on Salma Hayek.

Skin Care
Because Latina women have dark skin tones, some falsely believe that they don't need sun protection. Though Latina women are less likely to develop skin cancer, if they do get it, it tends to be a more advanced version of the disease.

Be sure to preserve your Latin beauty by wearing an SPF of at least 30 everyday and more on days that you have more sun exposure. Many products for Latin beauty have SPF built right in. You can try one like Bare Minerals Natural Sunscreen SPF 30 which can be found at AOL's Stylelist.com.

Remember to use a daily sunscreen to protect your skin from the damaging effects of the sun such as premature aging, sun spots, hyper pigmentation and skin cancer.

Hair Care
Many Latina women like to have straight, sleek hair. To obtain this look they may damage hair by overusing flat irons and other heated tools. Protect your hair while straightening by using a heat protectant product and by limiting your use of heated tools. Allow hair to air dry until it is 75% dry and then use the blow dryer along with a paddle brush to finish drying.

Then apply a heat protectant product like Redken Smooth Down Heat Glide all over hair prior to flat iron. Keep your flat iron on the lowest possible heat setting that can be used on your hair to fend off hair damage even more. This will leave you with straight, sleek and healthy Latina hair.

All of these tips will help you to maintain your hot Latin beauty.

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