You can start by first applying lemon juice. Then exfoliate the skin. After you can either apply a Gram flour lightening mask, an Almond oil massage, an almond powder and honey mask, Milk therapy, or combine Brown sugar and olive oil and rub it on the affected skin area.
Now let’s dive into do each remedy
Exfoliation. Exfoliate the skin regularly to remove the dead skin cells and the green tint shadow. You can take any homemade sugar scrub and start exfoliating the affected area. Doing this can help to keep clean and healthy.
Gram Flour Lightening Mask. Using this type of mask can help lighten the green shadow around your upper lip. In order to make the mask, you can take gram flour, mix it with lemon juice and turmeric. Mix them together. Now it’s a paste and you apply it on your upper lip area. Let it sit and dry for a while, then wash it off.
Almond oil massage. Take a small amount of the almond oil and heat it up. Then take the warm oil and massage it into your upper lip, face, or other body parts where there was a green tint, then wash it off.
Almond powder and honey pack. Almond powder has a few exfoliating properties in them. But the honey adds the moisturizing power to help heal the skin. Throw a few tea spoons of almond powder and put some honey in it. Mix it together and apply on your lip area. Leave there for a while and wash it off.
Milk therapy. Milk contains lactic acid that can help to lighten up the skin, while promoting healthy skin tone. If you have any chilled milk, put some on your lip area. I would leave it to dry and then wash it off. You can mix honey with the milk and apply it to your affected lip area. You can add this to other parts where a green tint has been left after shaving.
Brown sugar and olive oil. Mix together brown sugar and olive oil. Now scrub your affected lip area with the mix. But with this remedy you must use it regularly. 3-5 times a week.
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Ever noticed when looking at someone, and you can tell they recently shaved, they may have a slight stubble growing that appears in a greenish tint color. I bet the person with the greenish tint shadow is ask themselves “how do I get rid of a green tint after shaving?”
The color of the tint usually darkens depending on the individuals skin tone. People with shaved heads can get this problem also.
Now I don’t want to deviate from the initial topic. But I think you can get a better understanding as to why you may seem to have a green tint after shaving. There was an artistic effect around the 1800’s that can give you more of an understanding of why this color shift occurs.
The pointillism effects
Around 1886, a unique painting technique called pointillism was created. The technique would use individual dots, and not constant brush strokes to draw paintings. Now this is where our brain goes to work. The brain starts placing these dots together and it starts to create a larger picture. But when you see it from a distance, our brains tell our eyes to blend the colors in order to bring life to image in front of you.
But when you get closer to the image, it looks like individual placed dots of different colors, and when you step back far enough the dots in the image blend and you see different colors.
What causes the green tint after you’ve finished shaving?
The pointillism effect. There are old artists from ancient times such as Signac and Seurat that would employ the use of cluster of dots that would place an image in our head. Now take our brain, which employs the similar tactic. So, when your stubble grows, the hair appears as small brown and black dots on your skin. Then from a distance it gives the impression of a color that is mix together of the hair and skin color. Now it appears either green, blue, or grey.
Now the other explanation can be the hair is absorbing light. It can be of the longer wavelengths from the red and orange region, then the reflecting light from the green and blue region. This can give your stubble a greenish tint. This color may depend on the lighting but to a certain extent. When it comes to fair skinned people it is quite visible, but with darker skin people the skin doesn’t really provide the appropriate canvas, so to speak, in order to get the color.
Why is my mustache area green?
Your mustache may look green because the tips of your hairs are slightly poking out of the pores. When they poke out of the hair follicle which happens to be black. It can create a pointillism effect. This is when black dots of your beard can merge with your skin tone color.
How to reduce green after shaving?
Three ways. You can soak a napkin in water. Preferably warm water. Then cover your face with the napkin right before you shave. Doing this softens the hair and opens up the pores giving you a close shave.
You can use a good razor and don’t shave against the grain. Last thing, you can apply a good moisturizer when you’re done shaving, preferably something with witch hazel, shea butter, or aloe vera.