The important of sunscreen

The sun is a powerful enemy to our skin and beauty ( I always hate it when it comes to summer ... even though we get to wear more sexy clothes)

The UVB is just a minor concern because it does not cause damage to your skin as the UVA rays do. The UVA will cause you to get sunspot, potential skin cancer and it accelerate your skin aging. In the shorter run you will not be able to feel the 'pain' that UVA is causing you but in a longer run you will suffer the most. 

My primary concern before anything about beauty was SUNSCREEN

The most friendly tool for us of all time

No matter how much time and money you spent on nourishing your skin , it will be worthless in the longer run. Also to some people who are suffering acne, it is a must for you to use sunscreen because the sun will exacerbate your skin condition. 

So sunscreen is a MUST 

Some sunscreen benefits that I can think of:

1. Prevent you from getting dark (well most of Asian girl like us do not like dark skin! at all!)
2. Slow down skin aging
3. Potentially prevent skin cancer
4. Prevent sunspot 
5. Sooth acne skin 

I have tried and changed a lot of sunscreen overtime, mainly due to the oily and sticky feeling that some sunscreen 'offer'. When it becomes too oily, it will cause a horrible break out ... don't even want to talk about it.

So my tip for choosing a good sunscreen are:

1. non-oily and non-sticky 
2. SPF 50+
3. PA ++++ or BroadSpectrum

The higher the SPF the longer your sunscreen can fight UVB rays and now the maximum is 50+ so you would be able to stay away from UVB rays for roughly 8 hours +

PA is a Japanese measure of the effectiveness of a suncreen to fight UVA rays, this label was used long time before but now the official US sunscreen label is just BroadSpectrum ( I personally do not like this label because it does not give a good indication of how effective is the suncreen against UVA rays)

Therefore I prefer Japanese suncreen, they are still using PA label,  the most effective is PA ++++ which is the strongest in current market. I have tried several US sunscreen but I think they are very oily and sticky in summer time ( but I would recommend Neutrogena ultra sheer sunscreen, it is good enough for the price).

I best reference is always the Japanese sunscreen, the produce very nice sunscreen which is effective, non-oily, reasonable price and non-sticky. 

Below are the one that I really love and would like to recommend to you guys:

Skin aqua UV super moisture essence spf 50+ with PA ++++

Skin aqua UV super moisture essence spf 50+ with PA ++++

Skin aqua 

1. Provides very great sun protection 
2. And absolutely non-sticky 
3. And non-oily feeling
4. Good to be used under makeup and reasonable price

Shiseido medicated sun protect SPF 50+ with PA+++

Shiseido 

1. Gives an adequate sun protection 
2. Non oily
3. Non sticky 
4. Also good to be used before makeup 
5. The price is at a medium level
6. I would recommend this for people who are suffering acne because I can feel that it has a little effect in healing acne.