Dream Big, Sleep Right, Glow Bright: The Hidden Secret to Radiant Skin
What’s up world? It’s your favourite beauty concierge Slay Beauty multimillionaire entrepreneur, and unsurprisingly – your sleep sensei for the day. While you may know Slay beauty for makeup tutorials and super expensive wigs, let’s expose the less spoken aspect of the dominance slay persona: sleep. Yes, you heard it right—sleep and its underrated power on maintaining that enviable glowing skin and unleashing the phenomenon of lucid dreaming.
Skin is the human body’s largest organ. It’s your frontline warrior, daily weathering the storms of harmful free radicals, solar radiation, pollution, toxic fumes — you name it. But when does this steadfast soldier get its well-deserved TLC, rebuild, and regenerate? During sleep, baby! Let me break down the science for you.
While you are tucked in your blanket, dreaming of your next supercar or kickboxing bout, your skin is hard at work. The growth hormone HGH (Human Growth Hormone) is at its peak production, kick-starting the vital repair and regenerative processes. Lack of ample shut-eye can lead to insufficient HGH, translating to slow cellular turnover, dry skin, wrinkles, dark under-eye circles… get the picture?
Speaking of dreaming, let’s tap into the intriguing world of lucid dreaming. This is not sci-fi gibberish; it’s an avant-garde mental state where one is consciously aware of dreaming and can often control the dreamscape. Your dreams, your rules — imagine the possibilities there for solving problems, developing new ideas, rehearsing for success! Who wouldn’t want to be the Queen of their dream realm, right?
Sleep is not just critical for your dreamy complexion; it also sets the stage for lucid dreaming. REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, when most dreams occur, intensifies through the night, with the lengthiest episode hard-hitting in the last third of your sleep cycle. Mess with your sleep, and you are tampering with your chance of being a lucid dream navigator. Why would you do that when the benefits are enormous?
But here’s my cue: quality over quantity. A solid 6-8 hours of sleep should be your aim. More importantly, get it at the right time! Noon naps can’t replace a good night’s rest; your body isn’t designed that way. Alongside imposing a smart and disciplined sleep routine, make sleep hygiene non-negotiable. Blackout curtains, cool bedrooms, minimizing screen time pre-sleep – small tweaks for a massive payoff.
To put it straight – If you want the gaze of a Queen, the mindset of a champion, and the skin that reflects your power – take control of your sleep. Understand its power over your health, beauty, and cognitive prowess. Use this downtime wisely to encourage lucid dreaming, and watch as your horizons expand in ways you never thought possible.
It’s easy to embrace the grind culture – early mornings, late nights, little to no sleep – especially when it feels like your chase for success should leave no time for rest. But flip the script and understand this: true champions know the real secret weapon lies in quality slumber.
So, folks, it’s time to stop neglecting sleep. Chase dreams, yes, but also ensure you’re chasing quality sleep to provide your skin the gorgeous glow it deserves and your mind the lucid dreaming it craves. Be the Queen of your reality and dreams. Let’s conquer the day—and the night.
Now, go to sleep!
Dream Big, Sleep Right, Glow Bright
