Wear Sunscreen

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Protect yourself by wearing a sunscreen with SPF. If you are going to spend long periods in the direct sunlight, use a sunscreen product with an SPF 15 to 30. Re-apply your sunscreen lotion every couple hours throughout the day, or even more often if you go into the water.

A moisturizing sunscreen can also help protect the skin from premature signs of aging, including fine lines, wrinkles, age spots, and uneven tone and texture. But protecting yourself isn’t just about your face and body, your hair and eyes need protection from the sun’s harmful UV rays too.

Protect Your Hair

Your hair also can be protected in a variety of ways. You can put on a hat or scarf to cover your hair completely, or use haircare products that contain sunscreen. You can also apply sunscreen lotion directly to your scalp before spending extensive time in the sun.

After you come home from a day at the pool or beach, rinse your hair right away to flush out chlorine and salt water. Follow up with a deep hair conditioner, as the sunlight and other elements can lead to dry, damaged hair.

Protect Your Eyes

To protect your eyes from the sun’s rays, select a top quality pair of sunglasses that are stylish and also provide 100% UV protection. Wrap around sunglasses offer extra protection. Rather than purchasing trendy sunglasses, choose a style that you are going to be able to wear year in and year out. You don’t want to drop several hundred dollars on a pair of fad sunglasses just to wear them for a few months.

Here are a few of my favorite sunny essentials:

• BullFrog Sunblock Surfer Formula – 8 hours of waterproof protection!
• Eric Javits Squishee Hats – Stylish, packable and don’t lose their shape
• Armani Exchange Oversized Sunglasses – Retro look without a big price tag

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As soon as the summer heat arrives, my children get to air out their favorite hats. My son has all kids of hats ranging from Nascar, hockey(Hurricanes), cartoon characters, movie characters and of course Yankees. My daughter loves her own hats. We actually have to avoid the hats section from Wal-Mart coz she’ll grab all of them. Right now she’s rockin’ the Disney Princesses hat, and a reversible fisherman hat in pink. One print is polka-dot while the other print is floral.

Not only are my babies protected from the sun, they’re also looking cute in their hats, respectively .

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