How to Avoid Blushing

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It seems like there's no escaping that embarrassing flush of the cheeks every time you look at your crush, hear an off-color joke, or make a mistake. However, there are ways to prevent and help such occurences. Read the steps below to keep yourself from going red in the face!

Steps

1. Try to prevent blushing in the first place. Find out when you blush. Is it when you're angry, or when you're nervous? Is it when you look at or think of a certain someone? Is it when you're put in the spotlight? Don't necessarily try to avoid whatever makes you blush, but realize that there is no reason to blush when it comes along.
   
2. Snap out of it. When you do blush, you can quickly fade it out by relaxing your muscles (particularly in your shoulders and neck) and thinking of something else. A smile is also a great way to fade a blush, and it will look more natural as our cheeks naturally redden when we smile.
   
3. Stop caring. Most people either find blushing to be cute or don't notice it at all. And if you stop caring about your random red times, you'll have less of them. Basically, being less tense creates less signs of tension. If you learn to be more relaxed and care less what people think of your blushing, you won't worry about it anyway, and so there will be much less reason to blush. Besides, it's probably much less noticeable than you think!
   
4. Don't try to hide it! It will just make it much worse. And make you blush more often. Just embrace it. Once you stop trying to cover it up, you'll stop caring and that will really help with NOT blushing.
   
5. Imagine jumping in an ice-cold lake. It'll help you cool down and relax you a bit.
   

Tips

• Breathe deeply. It helps prevent and disperse blushing.
  
• You can practice fading blushes in the mirror, if you can get yourself to blush.
  
• Blushing shouldn't be too much of a problem provided you keep a serious face if you're angry or a big smile any other time.
  
• Commenting on your blushing is an easy way to stop caring about it.
  
• Get an older friend of the opposite sex to say things that make you blush until you can deal.
  
• If all else fails, forget everything else and remember some people think blushing is cute. Even the most masculine men go weak at the knees when they see a girl blush. It's an asset, not a flaw!
  
• Try to make yourself blush--it's impossible to force a blush and you actually stop blushing!
  

Warnings

• Trying to hide your blushing too much will only make it worse.
  
• Don't be too calm, you don't want to fade out and ignore everything.
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Get Over an Embarassing Moment
  

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