Where I live, it gets up to 120 degrees in the day time up until October. We just had a grand opening last weekend for a new business in my town and we had to cut short our performances because we were all getting sick from the heat and the people didn't provide enough water for us. And I get really overheated and my face gets red and sweaty. Is there a way that I can cool down and lose the redness quickly? I don't wanna look like a condensating strawberry at football games. Thanks!
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2007-07-30 12:39:41 · 12 answers · asked by Charlie Dawn 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Other - Skin & Body
Don't put on make up, you'll just be holding in more heat.
Bring a little ice pack in a cooler and a light cloth you can wrap around it and dab yourself with it now and then.
2007-08-01 03:24:17 · answer #1 · answered by Coach ~Jen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, it's 120 degrees and you aren't being provided water and frequent breaks?! Your advisor needs to make sure both are provided, and if she doesn't you should get a parent or six involved. Safe ways to help handle the heat and avoid heat flushes:
1. Drink lots of water... and at those temperatures, ice-cold water can be dangerous. Cool water is easier for your body to process and will help cool you down more safely and just as quickly.
2. Avoid greasy foods, and take your vitamins. All of that water flying through your system will wash the vitamins right out of you, which can cause fatigue, head-aches and other heat related problems. Greasy foods contribute to clogging of your pores and you want those open for best quick release of heat... which leads us to
3. No makeup. It'll likely melt at those temperatures anyway, and will also clog pores and sweat glands you NEED to have working at max efficiency to cheer safely. Take good care of your skin and you'll look fine.
4. Have cool-downs ready for each break, such as cool wet rags and spray-bottles set to mist. You don't want those rags ice-cold, either, but your mist bottle can be as cold as you like, as by the time it reaches your face it'll warm a little just from the air. You want the wet rags cool, but not icey, and you want to keep them rinsed out because they're going to pick up a lot of salt when you wipe down with them.
5. Stay in shape. You can get badly flushed much more easily at these temps if the cheer would leave you a little out of breath anyway.
6. Seek moving air and shade. The shade just helps keep you from heating up even more from sun exposure, the moving air carries that evaporating sweat away making room for more evaporation.
Be careful, have fun, and good luck!
2007-08-06 11:06:23 · answer #2 · answered by phantom_of_the_internet_01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was a cheerleader in Florida and Alabamba. This is good for the whole squad and really helps. Take some washcloths, get them really wet. Ring out, Roll them up like a cigar shape and freeze them. Put them in a cooler with ice for the game and you will be all set. Wipe you face down first and keep a misting bottle with you.
2007-08-07 05:31:27 · answer #3 · answered by tundragirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makeup will melt and run right off your face. As a team, you should probably take up a bit of money to buy ice packs and water to take with you to performances. If you cant do that, then you need to get your own ice pack to put against your face during breaks.
2007-08-03 18:27:51 · answer #4 · answered by BluhBluh 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
bring a small cooler with ice and water bottels and put some little rags in the ice and then when u get hot u drink the water and put the ice rags on the back or ur neck
(it rly is better if u put the rags in the frezzer the night be4 then straight to the ice in the cooler!!!!
2007-08-06 20:48:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to be drinking alot more water. You should be drinking half of your body weight in onces a day. So if you are 120lbs. you should be drinking at least 60 oz. it sounds like alot but after you do it for the firsy coupple of days you won't be as hot. And you'll be a lot healthier.
2007-08-07 18:33:14 · answer #6 · answered by yoshiyellow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you should bring your own watter and ask your adviser if you can have an acconial watter brake during the game. but don't ask alone that could cause to bad consequences. but get a group of people on your squad to ask her . if she doesn't let you then the water breaks that you get drink a lot of water and make sure its cold you should bring a cooler to keep you and you friends watter bottles in.
2007-07-30 19:53:03 · answer #7 · answered by rawrAshleyxx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
makeup may melt right off you. Try ice or a spray bottle with ice water in it...It will keep you cool during the breaks and maybe help you out....Good luck
2007-07-31 13:34:53 · answer #8 · answered by M J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take make up with you ....also hold up your hands ..palms facing you...then bend back your hand until you can see the veins in your wrist ...whenever you get hot put ice there...it'll take mb a min or so and you'll cool down again!
2007-07-30 19:53:22 · answer #9 · answered by Softball Cutie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like sun poisoning. thats what happens when you are exposed to the sun in long intervals, but I suppose you could have told me that... anyways, it will die down after 2-3 days, provided it isnt exposed to the sun too much.
2007-07-30 19:49:26 · answer #10 · answered by i <3 llamas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋