Get Beach Body Confidence With These Top Tips
Learn how to be more confident with your body when you go to the beach
Are you the type of person who gets worried when going to the beach is mentioned? Do you lack confidence in yourself and your body?
If so then the following tips may help you embrace the beach instead of fearing it.
If you have to read just one tip out of all these then check out the last one. This is all about your attitude and how life is short.
Read and share any other beach body confidence tips that help you
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Get a fake tan
If you can be bothered, slapping on some fake tan before you head to the beach will hide a multitude of blemishes and can be a good confidence booster. To ensure it doesn’t look patchy, exfoliate and moisturize first, paying special attention to the elbows and knees. Wear latex gloves to apply the tan as bright orange palms are a dead giveaway. Dabbing Vaseline along your brows and next to your hairline will prevent tide marks. There has been some suggestion that a chemical called dihydroxyacetone (DHA) found in many self-tanners may cause cancer. If you’re worried, choose one without.
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The last tip is one you should read
Stand up tall
You’d be surprised how much difference simply standing up tall can make. Good posture instantly changes the way your body looks, making you appear more streamlined, graceful, and importantly, more confident. In fact, walking tall will affect how you feel. Studies have shown that faking confidence leads to the real thing. Lift yourself from the rib cage, keep your shoulders back, chin up and imagine you own that boardwalk.
Get a good cover-up
No, we’re not telling you to hide yourself away, but if you’re going to be out in the sun all day, some sort of cover-up is essential. Invest in a wrap, kaftan or sarong that you can throw on when needed. Not only will it protect you from the sun, it’s reassuring to have something to throw around yourself when you totter from the sand for an ice-cream run. If you’re confident enough to hit the shop in your bikini, good for you, but for lots of women, a strategically-placed cover-up is essential.
Change your attitude
The bottom line is, you are ready for the beach this minute. You could ignore every single piece of advice we’ve just given you (apart from the sun protection) and stride down to the ocean right now and you would be absolutely beach perfect. Life is short, we all have a finite number of trips to the beach in our allotted time, and society’s narrow beauty standards are as irrelevant as grains of sand in the big scheme of things.
But words are easy and the painful reality is that many of us find it unbearably stressful stripping down to a bikini. There are some psychological tricks you can employ if this is you. One of them is to consciously phase out fat talk from your conversation. "Women are notorious for passing the baton when it comes to body image," body image expert Robyn Silverman told Women’s Health magazine. "If a woman says 'I'm so fat,' the other woman might feel like she has to say 'no, I'm the fat one. Have you seen my thighs?'" Silverman says that, by following this pattern, everyone ends up feeling worse.
And finally, be kind to yourself. How would you feel if you heard someone criticizing a friend the way you criticize yourself? Remember, one day this trip to the beach will be a memory; don’t look back and regret spending the day worrying about your cellulite. This life, this time on the beach, belongs to you.
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