Sunscreen question

the problem is that when im walking home from the train station sometimes it quite sunny and my sunscreen from the morning is probably doing nothing to protect me…

I wear a hat and sunnies walking home from work…sure I look like a nerd but I look like a YOUNG nerd…always get mistaken for a 21 year old and am 27. I thinks it due to wearing suncream and a hat from the age of 15 as I was on a pimple cream that would peel my skin if I was in the sun. Got into the habit and it’s already paid off as my sister 3 years younger who isnt sun concious looks older than me.

the problem is that when im walking home from the train station sometimes it quite sunny and my sunscreen from the morning is probably doing nothing to protect me…

Is it possible to keep some makeup wipes in your bag and take off your makeup when you leave work, and then you can reapply the sunscreen on the train? If you’re going home maybe that could be an option if makeup isn’t totally necessary anymore

Or as Beautygeek15 mentioned seeing as you are on your way home anyway it probably wouldn’t hurt just to slap some on over the top, just to be safe, you can still get burnt even late in the arvo 🙂

the problem is that when im walking home from the train station sometimes it quite sunny and my sunscreen from the morning is probably doing nothing to protect me…

Is it possible to keep some makeup wipes in your bag and take off your makeup when you leave work, and then you can reapply the sunscreen on the train? If you’re going home maybe that could be an option if makeup isn’t totally necessary anymore

the problem is that when im walking home from the train station sometimes it quite sunny and my sunscreen from the morning is probably doing nothing to protect me…

I think as long as it is SPF 15 then you are getting adequate coverage, not sure why some products have SPF as low as 5 which I would think would be deemed pretty much useless, haha. As long as you reapply it every 2-4 hours when in the direct sun you shouldn’t get burnt. I find I can go all day with a zinc based physical block just going about my daily affairs, as I have never been burnt with it on and I don’t usually re-apply. However if I was outside for an extended period of time I would still reapply it to avoid any possibility of getting burnt 🙂

Ive been thinking about this for a while, so i thought about posting it up here- hopefully someone will have a solution for this
Sunscreens all say to reapply every 4 hours(some even say every 2 hours), but if you’ve got makeup on- how are you supposed to do that?
I put my makeup on at around 7.30 in the morning. That means that by 11.30, I dont have any more protection and the sun isnt even its strongest yet.
How do I protect my skin from the sun then?

I honestly think don’t worry about it to much. Most people always say makeup doesn’t provide enough protection but some of the foundations I know of provide spf 50! The lowest I have seen has been spf 4. Generally foundation, blush, powder ect all contain some kind of spf content.

There is no such thing as SPF 50 in Australia, SPF30+ is the highest rating possible. It should be taken seriously though if you want to avoid getting burnt, reapplication is essential if you are going to be getting anywhere that you could get burnt, that included driving in your car. I use Invisible Zinc and I have never gotten burnt, on a daily basis I don’t need to reapply, if but if I am going out into the direct sun I will re-apply it. 🙂

there is legislation in Australia preventing anything to be labeled above spf 30+ they have done this to encourage reapplication. Avene’s sunscreen is actually a 50+ spf. Sunsense daily face as well as the ultra and sport milk are all 100+ and hamilton quad block is 165+ spf protection.

But at the end of the day even the SPF 165+ is not going to give you any more protection than the 98% that you get from the SPF 30+ it is just misleading consumers. The SPF 50 in the US is probably not even equivalent to our SPF 15, which Natrissara is right in saying is only a few % less than the SPF 30+ anyway. I would stick to the Australian guidelines and products because at least you know exactly what the % of protection you are being covered by, rather than being ripped off with a product that claims to be SPF 50 and might only be giving you say 80% protection (that is just a guess btw I have no idea how much their SPF equates to)

I agree with you melmeko, I wasn’t even aware that spf 50 was just the same as our spf 30. I just think of it as well there’s some sort of spf in it and that’s better then nothing (of course besides my moisturisers/sunscreens I make sure they are definitely spf 30+)

Ive been thinking about this for a while, so i thought about posting it up here- hopefully someone will have a solution for this
Sunscreens all say to reapply every 4 hours(some even say every 2 hours), but if you’ve got makeup on- how are you supposed to do that?
I put my makeup on at around 7.30 in the morning. That means that by 11.30, I dont have any more protection and the sun isnt even its strongest yet.
How do I protect my skin from the sun then?

I honestly think don’t worry about it to much. Most people always say makeup doesn’t provide enough protection but some of the foundations I know of provide spf 50! The lowest I have seen has been spf 4. Generally foundation, blush, powder ect all contain some kind of spf content.

There is no such thing as SPF 50 in Australia, SPF30+ is the highest rating possible. It should be taken seriously though if you want to avoid getting burnt, reapplication is essential if you are going to be getting anywhere that you could get burnt, that included driving in your car. I use Invisible Zinc and I have never gotten burnt, on a daily basis I don’t need to reapply, if but if I am going out into the direct sun I will re-apply it. 🙂

there is legislation in Australia preventing anything to be labeled above spf 30+ they have done this to encourage reapplication. Avene’s sunscreen is actually a 50+ spf. Sunsense daily face as well as the ultra and sport milk are all 100+ and hamilton quad block is 165+ spf protection.

But at the end of the day even the SPF 165+ is not going to give you any more protection than the 98% that you get from the SPF 30+ it is just misleading consumers. The SPF 50 in the US is probably not even equivalent to our SPF 15, which Natrissara is right in saying is only a few % less than the SPF 30+ anyway. I would stick to the Australian guidelines and products because at least you know exactly what the % of protection you are being covered by, rather than being ripped off with a product that claims to be SPF 50 and might only be giving you say 80% protection (that is just a guess btw I have no idea how much their SPF equates to)

Ive been thinking about this for a while, so i thought about posting it up here- hopefully someone will have a solution for this
Sunscreens all say to reapply every 4 hours(some even say every 2 hours), but if you’ve got makeup on- how are you supposed to do that?
I put my makeup on at around 7.30 in the morning. That means that by 11.30, I dont have any more protection and the sun isnt even its strongest yet.
How do I protect my skin from the sun then?

I honestly think don’t worry about it to much. Most people always say makeup doesn’t provide enough protection but some of the foundations I know of provide spf 50! The lowest I have seen has been spf 4. Generally foundation, blush, powder ect all contain some kind of spf content.

There is no such thing as SPF 50 in Australia, SPF30+ is the highest rating possible. It should be taken seriously though if you want to avoid getting burnt, reapplication is essential if you are going to be getting anywhere that you could get burnt, that included driving in your car. I use Invisible Zinc and I have never gotten burnt, on a daily basis I don’t need to reapply, if but if I am going out into the direct sun I will re-apply it. 🙂

there is legislation in Australia preventing anything to be labeled above spf 30+ they have done this to encourage reapplication. Avene’s sunscreen is actually a 50+ spf. Sunsense daily face as well as the ultra and sport milk are all 100+ and hamilton quad block is 165+ spf protection.

Ive been thinking about this for a while, so i thought about posting it up here- hopefully someone will have a solution for this
Sunscreens all say to reapply every 4 hours(some even say every 2 hours), but if you’ve got makeup on- how are you supposed to do that?
I put my makeup on at around 7.30 in the morning. That means that by 11.30, I dont have any more protection and the sun isnt even its strongest yet.
How do I protect my skin from the sun then?

I honestly think don’t worry about it to much. Most people always say makeup doesn’t provide enough protection but some of the foundations I know of provide spf 50! The lowest I have seen has been spf 4. Generally foundation, blush, powder ect all contain some kind of spf content.

There is no such thing as SPF 50 in Australia, SPF30+ is the highest rating possible. It should be taken seriously though if you want to avoid getting burnt, reapplication is essential if you are going to be getting anywhere that you could get burnt, that included driving in your car. I use Invisible Zinc and I have never gotten burnt, on a daily basis I don’t need to reapply, if but if I am going out into the direct sun I will re-apply it. 🙂

Oh really? Must of been my eyes then or something because when I was in myer’s once loreal had a chart of how high the spf was in there foundations and the true match roll on was about 35 or 50 spf, and lots of hissy fit’s products are spf 50? I do recall I purchased some items from over sea’s and they had spf 50 but that’s not in australia, but I may of read in wrong, not exactly sure :

The US has really high SPF ratings but their highest is still the same as our SPF 30+. The only time you see them here is on imports 🙂
I think SPF30+ blocks out about 98% of suns rays, nothing can be any higher than that apparently 🙂

Oh okay that must of been why I got confused aha!

the jump from SPF 15 to 30 and then 50 removes ever more tiny amounts of the UVA and UVB rays, like smaller than 1% so its really not making much diff.

the more useful thing is to put some on that actually GOES ON EASY and wont feel like rubbing a glue in, coz then it doesnt affect the products ur already wearing.

Ive been thinking about this for a while, so i thought about posting it up here- hopefully someone will have a solution for this
Sunscreens all say to reapply every 4 hours(some even say every 2 hours), but if you’ve got makeup on- how are you supposed to do that?
I put my makeup on at around 7.30 in the morning. That means that by 11.30, I dont have any more protection and the sun isnt even its strongest yet.
How do I protect my skin from the sun then?

I honestly think don’t worry about it to much. Most people always say makeup doesn’t provide enough protection but some of the foundations I know of provide spf 50! The lowest I have seen has been spf 4. Generally foundation, blush, powder ect all contain some kind of spf content.

There is no such thing as SPF 50 in Australia, SPF30+ is the highest rating possible. It should be taken seriously though if you want to avoid getting burnt, reapplication is essential if you are going to be getting anywhere that you could get burnt, that included driving in your car. I use Invisible Zinc and I have never gotten burnt, on a daily basis I don’t need to reapply, if but if I am going out into the direct sun I will re-apply it. 🙂

Oh really? Must of been my eyes then or something because when I was in myer’s once loreal had a chart of how high the spf was in there foundations and the true match roll on was about 35 or 50 spf, and lots of hissy fit’s products are spf 50? I do recall I purchased some items from over sea’s and they had spf 50 but that’s not in australia, but I may of read in wrong, not exactly sure :

The US has really high SPF ratings but their highest is still the same as our SPF 30+. The only time you see them here is on imports 🙂
I think SPF30+ blocks out about 98% of suns rays, nothing can be any higher than that apparently 🙂

Oh okay that must of been why I got confused aha!