You might think it’s impossible to change your appearance and confidence within a week. But Let me tell you, it is possible. Although the changes may be primarily physical, a week of detoxing and self-reflection can also bring many positive changes to your mindset.
But first of all, what does it mean to have a glow up, and why is so important nowadays?
A glow-up is a series of physical and mental changes that will make you look and feel confident and happy with your own skin. It’s the best way to be comfortable and joyful with yourself and transmit that feeling to others as well.
Everyone has breakdowns and moments when we are at our lowest, but the important thing is that desire to get up and improve. Try to find that part of you that wants to overcome what it is that makes you feel that way and won’t let you move forward.
Why it’s a glow up necessary?
Having a glow up, it’s necessary to fall in love with yourself again, to look at yourself from the inside out and say: “I’m so freakin worth it.” Trying to show the best version of yourself and putting your efforts into looking the best way you can it’s important to build your confidence levels.
We all want fast results in life. Although building good habits can take time, some physical changes can be done way faster to make you look gorgeous without even trying.
Remember, you can’t do miracles in one week, but you can improve the way you look.
These are some ways you can glow up and shock everyone:
1- Cardio + Pilates for 2 hours a day
Did you know Bella Hadid trains 3 hours a day?
Exercising every day for one whole week can really make some changes in your life. If you feel like it’s too much, you can take one or two days off. It all depends on your metabolism and your will.
If your goal is to lose some pounds and get thinner, an intensive combination of cardio and Pilates it’s the best option. You don’t have to be an expert on Pilates. Even beginner classes can give you really good results.
Also, if you feel like you can do more than two hours a day, go ahead.
One hour a day of cardio it’s amazing for getting rid of the stubborn extra fat in your body. Plus, it can be an entertaining activity that motivates you even more. You can go running or do some dancing. Even a cycling class can increase not only your heartbeat but your mood as well.
Another hour of Pilates can also help you build and tone your muscles and to achieve that flat-belly goal, it can also help you improve your flexibility and posture and reduce pain in certain areas of your body.
An intensive week doing this 2-hour-routine will indeed help you reduce and improve your body appearance and health.
2- Use a strong perfume
The way you smell can really make a positive impact on other people. A strong and catchy scent can turn you into a classy unforgettable beauty. Smelling clean it’s the best way to make a good impression.
Start using strong, catchy scents that everyone, including yourself, cannot help but love. Use lots of your perfume in key spots such as the neck, shoulders, behind the ears, and wrists. You can also spray some on your clothes before putting them on.
This way, you’ll leave a mark everywhere you walk. People will get impressed and wonder what that wonderful smell is.
A wonderful, captivating scent is an excellent way to be remembered and to show how elegant and confident one can be.
3- Social media detox for seven days straight
In order to focus on yourself entirely, you need to avoid consuming any social media platforms for seven days.
This complex challenge can give you a new perspective and enough time to reconnect with yourself without social pressure and societal standards.
Seeing ‘perfect people with their ‘perfect lives can be difficult when you struggle with something. It can develop a frustrating scenario of guilt and devastation where you will blame yourself. A situation where you can only ask why you can’t have that life.
Besides, overconsuming social media only for fun can be a waste of time.
Even though some people find motivation in watching other people succeed, you must stay away from admiring those people’s results and do the work for yours.
Seven days can go fast. Be committed to staying away from the social platforms you consume the most for less than ten days. You’ll see later if it was worth it.
Spend time with yourself, organize your environment, and reconnect and talk with your close ones.
4- Improve your style
Buy or put on some clothing items you feel beautiful with and fit you correctly. Sometimes we dress in a certain way to hide our body insecurities. But the secret to wearing something that makes us feel good is knowing our body shape and how to make the most of it:
- Hourglass shape: If you have an hourglass shape, honey, you are blessed. You can have some fun improving your style, try some things you’ve never worn before and discover a new style you’ve never thought you’d love.
- Inverted triangle shape: If you have more of an inverted triangle body shape, try some new pants styles such as mom jeans, boot-cut, flare, and cargo pants. Keep the color of your shirts neutral and show your beautiful shoulders with an elegant off-shoulder shirt.
- Pear shape: If you have more volume on your hips and legs, you must let your arms and upper body take the protagonism. Play with some V-neck and sweetheart tops that make you look hot but classy.
I’m sure there are more body shapes out there. You have to find what is yours, embrace it and learn how to dress it accordingly.
5- Get your nails done: light colors + gel nails
Your hands are an important part of your style, they are always in the public eye, and you do everything with them. A person’s nail care says a lot about them.
Getting your nails done is the perfect way to enhance your hands and look more sophisticated and mature.
If you want to play it safe, you can get some gel nails with light neutral colors like beige, pearl white, baby pink, etc. It’s about beautifying your hands without being too extravagant.
Besides, light colors go perfectly with every outfit and are never out of style. It’s more like old money, a simple but elegant kind of vibe.
If you don’t fancy gel nails, you can play with some fake press-on nails that are faster to apply, and they can look wonderful without damaging the natural nail underneath.
6- Add new things to your makeup routine: Lashes, freckles, eyeliner, and blush
Adding some new makeup tricks to your daily makeup routine can really change and improve your appearance. However, it has to be something that you feel comfortable with.
It’s time to enhance your face even more by adding new steps to your makeup routine.
For example: If you don’t fancy eyeliner, you can try some fake lashes that’ll look natural while opening and highlighting your beautiful eyes.
However, you can try to do your eyeliner with a brown shadow and a thin brush to have a natural cat eye and to get that beautiful almond eye shape that is hypnotizing.
You can also try the blush + freckles trend that is all over TikTok. Adding some freckles with a brow pencil and putting some pink blush all over your cheekbones and nose can give you the fresh sun-kissed glow that is so famous and loved right now, and it’s perfect for any season!
You can also try to improve your eyebrows makeup routine more, adding some gel or trying new shades.
If you are really in for a change, you can implement all these tricks and trends into your makeup routine and see how it goes. As long as you feel comfortable, you can try everything you want.
7- Get hair layers
Layers are the ultimate trend that has come back from the early nineties. They can give you a fresh look while adding different dimensions to your hair that will also beautify and style your face shape.
Layers can make you look young, confident, and classy. It’s a decision you won’t regret. Styling your layers can give you a whole different look.
Improving your hairstyle it’s essential to have a drastic glow-up. It’s refreshing and new.
It’s the ultimate fashion trend and works for all types of hair: For curly hair, you’ll get those amazing and romantic layers that will bring you more volume. For straight and, especially, thin hair, layers are a must-have to add life and texture to your hair.
So don’t think about it too much and get some scissors or get a hair appointment ASAP. You’ll love it.
8- Add some highlights to your hair
The fresh new layers are not always enough. We might have to make other slight changes to highlight those amazing layers.
Adding some subtle highlights to your hair can light up your face and give you a different but still beautiful look. You can go from adding some color to the ends of your hair to upgrading your base color.
It’s a healthy way to try and make some new changes without being too drastic. However, if you want to go and change your hair color, go ahead. But I believe you should always start with highlights and then decide if you wish to change your hair color entirely. It’s the best way to see what shades suit you the most and create a unique harmony with your hair and skin tone.
Play with some highlights and enjoy the process of beautifying your hair.
9- Add more jewelry to your life
Jewelry is the key to beautifying the most simple and basic body with clothes.
A set of three rings, a two-thin necklace set, a showy bracelet, and medium-thick hoop earrings are some essentials you should have to stand out and look prettier without even trying.
If you’re a gold person: Gold pieces of jewelry with some diamonds or pastel color details would suit you more than perfectly. You can also mix some gold jewelry sets with pearls accessories. This can match perfectly any outfit you have in mind.
If you’re a silver person: Shiny silver pieces of jewelry with some precious color stones can do great for any occasion. However, diamonds and polished details on a silver piece scream money and power. Play with the silver necklace and earrings, but keep the rings simple.
If you love both silver and gold pieces, you’ll only have to choose on what occasion each one suits you better freely.
My advice: gold pieces can match perfectly if you want to look amazingly elegant and rich at Brunch, lunchtime with girls, shopping day, running some daylight errands, etc. On the other hand, silver (especially with diamonds or shiny stones) suits perfectly any night event you can imagine. From dinner to a party.
Using jewelry is an excellent way to highlight yourself by adorning your body. It is also perfect for helping you boost your confidence and to feel more sure of yourself and your looks.
10- Reduce the sugar intake and eliminate the junk food
If you really want to lose some weight in one week, you have to make some HEALTHY changes in your diet. Reduce all the sugar in your meals every day until you feel comfortable without it.
And, of course, Zero junk food for one week. No drive-thrus, no burgers, no pizzas, and no ice creams. Stick with a balanced, mostly homemade, healthy diet. Eliminate what it’s really unhealthy from your meals and add other more beneficial things.
PLEASE: Don’t make crazy extreme diets that can damage your metabolism and your well-being. It’s about improving and reducing what’s excessively unhealthy, not cutting out everything you eat on a daily basis.
For example, reduce or eliminate the sauces and dips for one week. It may be hard, but they are not necessary. They are extra calories that you don’t really need.
Challenge yourself, and you’ll see that you won’t need those things you eliminate from your diet.
11- Facial + massage to take the tension out
Your body, especially your face, is the reflection of your emotions and your problems. That’s why You have to take care of it every now and then.
Your face can get really messed up with stressful situations and non-going negative feelings. For that, a facial can be an amazing solution to take care of your skin and heal it. A facial will give you a rejuvenated and clean look, removing all the stress and dirt deep down in your pores.
On the other hand, A massage is essential to taking the tension out of your body and improving your energy, mood, and physical capacities. It can be so relaxing you may fall asleep after one single massage session.
After a relaxing, long, and full massage, you’ll be a whole other person. It’s like being reborn in the same body but better.
12- Sleep 7-8 hours a day.
Sleeping is essential to maintain healthy stability both physically and mentally.
If you want to improve your appearance quickly, you need to start taking some rest if needed. Seven hours is more than enough hours to avoid dark circles in the eye area, prevent acne spots, and improve your image.
You can’t be too tired to put yourself together again. You need the natural energy your body provides to work properly and to look stunning.
The lack of sleep keeps you away from your short-term goals, and it’s a physical disadvantage for those who want to look clean and fresh.
Not sleeping can put you in a bad mood, increase your laziness levels, and give you the tired and sick appearance you want to avoid.
Try to sleep at least six hours for one week, and you’ll notice a couple of positive changes. However, try not to sleep more than 9 hours. Remember, you have work to do.
13- Drink more water
You’ve probably heard this one a million times. But drinking water is important to keep your skin radiant and your body functioning.
If you want to lose some weight even faster, drinking the proper amount of daily water will help you and your metabolism reach that goal faster.
I bet you are bored of hearing the same thing, and I don’t really think I should keep explaining more benefits of drinking water. In general, we can all agree, It’s crucial to stay hydrated and to look and feel good.
I’m not saying you should sleep in the bathroom peeing all the water you’ve excessively drunk throughout the day. It’s about increasing the daylight amount to see the benefits boost.
14- Follow a simple skincare routine for both your body and face
It’s not about doing too much. It’s about forwardly doing more without wrecking ourselves on the way.
Every skin it’s unique and has all different types of necessities and lacks. That’s why before trying everything you think your face needs, you should stick with the basics. A simple skincare routine it’s important to take care of our face without oversaturating it.
Cleaning, exfoliating and Hydrating. These are the basic things your skin needs. You can add any other things you want, but you can never let out these three important steps above.
And DON’T forget your body. We tend to take so much care of our faces every day that we forget to do the same with our bodies. It’s important to take some time to care for our bodies. Hydrating our body it’s crucial to keeping our skin’s elasticity and making it glow wonderfully.
Also, DONˋT forget to use sunscreen every day.
I hope these ideas have helped you. Don’t forget: It is not about pretending to be someone you’re not; it’s about improving your own essence.
