Surviving NYC in summer (includes essential beauty products!)
It's HOT.
This is my first summer living in NYC and it's quite different than Portland.
It rains. It's cloudy. It thunders. It's like you're trapped under a blanket of heat that you can't escape. And when you go underground to the subway, it's even worse. Plus it stinks. Like a mixture of homeless people who haven't showered in months, old food, piss, and garbage.
Unlike Portland, where it's sunny and beautiful when it's hot, NYC is nasty and your skin instantly becomes sticky and makes you want to take 10 cold showers a day.
Since I work crazy hours (around 60 a week) and have no days off, I'm hardly outside in the sun. But my shoulders are showing a nice tan and my feet have tan lines just from my commute. Either my commute is too long or I tan THAT easily. I think it's the former.
By the time I get to the subway I have sweat dripping down my face and it takes the whole subway ride for me to cool down and stop sweating. It's disgusting. It probably doesn't help that I'm usually speed walking to the subway so I'm not late.
My apartment is an oven. Which means it's even worse to use the oven. I've given up styling my hair or using any foundation. I now swear by BB cream (Beauty Balm) that's like a tinted moisturizer with SPF and evens skin tone. I use Garnier Skin Renew Miracle Skin Perfecter BB Cream for light coverage since I'll just sweat away foundation.
Since it's too hot to even think about blowdrying my hair (it's dry in like 5 minutes anyways with this heat) or styling, I generously spray a sea salt texturing spray all over my hair for texture and beachy waves and head out. (I use Not Your Mother's Beach Babe Texturing Sea Salt Spray). Although it usually ends up in a top knot, the added texture is better for making a top knot.
And thank god for my ceiling fan.
This is my first summer living in NYC and it's quite different than Portland.
It rains. It's cloudy. It thunders. It's like you're trapped under a blanket of heat that you can't escape. And when you go underground to the subway, it's even worse. Plus it stinks. Like a mixture of homeless people who haven't showered in months, old food, piss, and garbage.
Unlike Portland, where it's sunny and beautiful when it's hot, NYC is nasty and your skin instantly becomes sticky and makes you want to take 10 cold showers a day.
Since I work crazy hours (around 60 a week) and have no days off, I'm hardly outside in the sun. But my shoulders are showing a nice tan and my feet have tan lines just from my commute. Either my commute is too long or I tan THAT easily. I think it's the former.
By the time I get to the subway I have sweat dripping down my face and it takes the whole subway ride for me to cool down and stop sweating. It's disgusting. It probably doesn't help that I'm usually speed walking to the subway so I'm not late.
My apartment is an oven. Which means it's even worse to use the oven. I've given up styling my hair or using any foundation. I now swear by BB cream (Beauty Balm) that's like a tinted moisturizer with SPF and evens skin tone. I use Garnier Skin Renew Miracle Skin Perfecter BB Cream for light coverage since I'll just sweat away foundation.
Since it's too hot to even think about blowdrying my hair (it's dry in like 5 minutes anyways with this heat) or styling, I generously spray a sea salt texturing spray all over my hair for texture and beachy waves and head out. (I use Not Your Mother's Beach Babe Texturing Sea Salt Spray). Although it usually ends up in a top knot, the added texture is better for making a top knot.
And thank god for my ceiling fan.
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