after all the excesses and indulgences of the festive and holiday season heres how to get that angelic glow back just is time for christmas and new year partiesall the festive cleaning shopping cooking eating and celebrating leads to too little sleep and a lot of stress making your skin dull and lifeless sugarloaded mithai fried fatty foods and highcalorie sodabased drinks and alcohol that you consume at festive soirees are other major culprits that sap the sheen off your skin and lead to weight gain moreover firecrackers furthur contribute to the pollution in the urban air impacting your lungs and hence your skin too the chemicals in the polluted air can be potent skin irritants they cause dryness of the skin and disrupt the normal acidalkaline balances they also affect the eyes causing burning or redness wash your eyes with plain water several times says beauty expert shahnaz hussainwhile youre dressed in your favourite lbd you certainly do not wish to look worn out hence during the days preceding christmas and new years eve cleansing of the skin becomes utmost important to get rid of the impurities deposited on the skin and save your skin from the abuses you hurl on it due to over indulgence a good day time and night time routine can help the simplest way to start your detox is by consuming dark coloured fruits and drinking a lot of water every morning after your shower apply a moisturiser with a soothing fragrance to freshen up remember this isnt the time to try out new products or experiment with your skin also visit your salon for a hydrating facial at night use a light scrub to remove the dead cells before you go to bed says skin specialist dr rashmi shetty another notsodesirable thing festive season leaves you with is lustreless hair that looks like frazzled mess to soften the hair and add some shine give it a conditioning treatment take two tbsp honey one tbsp sesame seed til oil and one egg yolk mix them together apply on the scalp and leave for half an hour and then shampoo your hair for an oily scalp egg white works as a powerful cleanser apply on hair before shampooing after shampoo add the juice of a lemon to a mug of water and use as last rinse says beauty and skin expert jamuna paiwrite down your goals for the next two weeks this way youre more likely to stay committed keep them handy by making a note of them in your cellphone pinning on your workstation board or sticking to the fridge you can also keep some inspirational quotes in plain sight it always helps start a food diary by creating a file on your personal desktop and make a note of everything you eat spicy junk often leads to skin eruptions so decide to have homecooked light meals start your day by having a hearty breakfast also pack lunch from home atleast for these two