5 beauty behaviors that hurt your body

In pursuit of beauty, women who love beauty like to do detoxification, manicures, hair dyeing, etc. Little do people know that these behaviors in pursuit of beauty can cause great trouble to health and even make women who love beauty lose more than they gain. Below, the editor introduces 5 wrong ways to pursue beauty. If you care about health and beauty, don’t miss it.

1. Wrong detoxification

Many celebrities insist on colon cleansing for beauty treatments in order to remove stool and toxin accumulation from their bodies. Others choose to detoxify by fasting, which means not eating for one day a week and only eating fruits or drinking honey water. "Detoxification" has become a fashionable lifestyle.

Crisis explanation: Colon cleansing can easily make the intestines thicker, and long-term repeated stimulation can also paralyze the intestines, eventually leading to some man-made diseases. The fasting detoxification method also varies from person to person. People with heavy workloads who do not eat when they should will experience symptoms of fatigue, dizziness, and hypoglycemia, which will affect their health.

Expert Tip: Don’t detox blindly to avoid forming a dependence.

2. Manicure

Many girls like to pursue trends and fashion, and manicure has become a compulsory course for them every month. They change their style every month, either with crystal nails or various colors. However, girls will gradually find that their nails begin to turn yellow and become very fragile.

Crisis explanation: The surface of nails has a layer of substance similar to the "glaze" on the surface of teeth, which can protect the nails from corrosion. If the surface layer of the nails is filed off, the fingers themselves will suddenly lose their protective layer, and they will lose resistance to the corrosion of acidic or alkaline substances, which can easily cause the nails to break and turn yellow or black.

Some inferior nail polishes contain heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, and mercury that seriously exceed the standard, and even contain pigments and fluorescent agents that are banned by some countries. Long-term use can cause chronic poisoning and even the risk of cancer. Many informal nail salons hardly disinfect their tools, which increases the chance of fungal diseases being transmitted through the nails.

Expert tip: There is nothing wrong with loving beauty, but you should be more vigilant when doing manicures.

3. Network

"Surfing the Internet" is one of the modern lifestyles, and "net addicts" are standing at the forefront of the times. Internet addiction has been classified as a disease, which refers to a group of people who are simply unwilling to leave their computers and even regard computers as an important part of their lives. But they are still willing to sit in front of the computer and work tirelessly. We also throw away our health without realizing it.

Crisis interpretation: The Internet has become the spiritual home of many people. Spending a long time on the Internet not only causes damage to the eyes, but the computer rays accumulate in the body over the years and also cause damage to the blood system. Too much information on the Internet can not only easily cause visual fatigue, but also easily cause similar neurological diseases.

Expert tip: Increasing personal hobbies and interests and doing more outdoor sports can help relieve stress.

4. Hair Dyeing

Enjoying life and pursuing individuality is the current lifestyle trend of many young men and women. Hair dyeing is no longer just a need of the elderly. Having fashionable hairstyles of blonde, brown, or partially dyed hair has become a new pursuit for many middle-aged and young men and women after trendy fashions. However, frequent hair dyeing causes hair breakage, split ends, and dryness, which are unavoidable for the "fashionable hair dyeing tribe".

Crisis explanation: Hair dyeing uses the alkaline ingredients in the dye to open the hair scales on the surface of the hair (the scales on the hair open when they encounter alkali), allowing artificial pigments to enter the cortex of the hair and combine with part of the natural pigment to form the desired color. When dyeing hair, ammonia in the dye has a strong destructive effect on the hair scales on the surface of the hair. If not properly maintained, it will cause the hair scales to fall off, moisture loss, roughness and brittleness, lack of luster and inelasticity.

Many people are troubled by dyed hair that lacks luster or has difficulty maintaining color. There is no definitive answer as to whether hair dye causes cancer. Hair dyes generally contain toxic aromatic chemicals. Long-term use may damage the body's hematopoietic system or cause fetal malformations in pregnant women. In mild cases, it can also cause dermatitis, skin redness, swelling, itching, ulcers, etc.

Expert tip: For the sake of health, try to dye your hair less or not at all, natural beauty is real.

5. Body shaping

Many women, because of their unbalanced bodies and excess fat, start wearing so-called "body shaping underwear", thinking that this way they can lose weight and have a slim body without having to exercise or starve themselves. But this kind of "body shaping" leads to unhealthy results: swollen breasts, constipation... Why is this?

Crisis explanation: Most body-shaping bras use three or four layers of fabric to squeeze fat in areas prone to sagging, such as the inner thighs and buttocks, as well as in areas where fat easily accumulates, such as the back and abdomen. There are also many small scale-like springs arranged together on the "waist belt", which the merchants say can provide strong support.

This type of underwear will not cause harm to the human body in the short term, but if it compresses the organs in the body for a long time, it will cause damage to the female uterus, ovaries, urinary system, etc., and easily cause diseases such as vulvitis. Slimming clothes wrap the abdomen tightly, making the internal organs and their nervous system in a state of tension for a long time, resulting in reduced gastrointestinal function and weakened digestive system function, thus causing constipation.

In addition, slimming underwear can cause hypoxia in people, leading to breast swelling, pain, etc.