Here are a few tips and suggestion to make your holi safe, joyous, and dangerous free. Play safe. Don't get to boisterous and do not let others to be rude on you.
- The best option would be to play with natural home made colors. Your skin and hair will feel tampered with the use of skin friendly natural products.
- Use more of red or pink colors which look good and can easily taken off. Gaudy purple, green, yellow, orange have more harmful chemicals in them and should be avoided.
- Make sure that your face is well creamed before and after the play.
- Apply thick coating of paint on your nails- both in fingers and toes so that they remain protected.
- Oil your hair well, so that color doesn't stick on your hair and can be washed off easily later.
- Cover your hair. Make use of hat or caps to protect your hair from being colored with hard-to-rinse dyes.
- Make sure that powder or any other product does not get inside your eyes. Eyes are extremely vulnerable on Holi because of their strategic place in body and also because of the use of harmful chemicals in colors these days. Please ensure that your eyes remain protected at all times. Use a sunglass to protect your eyes from a misfire of color filled darts or water jets.
- Use dental caps to save your teeth from any unwanted stains.
- Put on your worst clothes so that you won't have to take on the hassles of an immediate washing.
- If possible avoid going outside your home, at least for the peak hours of celebration. The premises of your home ensure that you are safe from pouncing hooligans, even friends who can be a little rough on the day.
- When traveling keep the car windows thoroughly shut, even if you don't have an AC car. Do not bump into the frenzied group of mob if you take to streets. Better you cross the road to the sidewalk across. Or, simply stay at a safe distance.
- Rotten eggs when thrown on your head, flying missiles from locality buildingsare still not too bad, will be smelly yet is a good conditioner for your hair. But tar, shit, Mobil, stones and all the rubbish that you can be hit with is not. Avoid being a prey to hooligans.
- If you are prone to skin allergies, avoid playing with gulal altogether. Going to a dermatologist (skin specialist) serves no purpose, after the damage is done.
- Avoid running on jumping on wet floors, so that you don't slip and injure yourself. Bones are especially vulnerable on this day.
- Avoid over indulgence in bhang, drinks or food... so that you don't repent later.
- Do not drive if you are high on alcohol or bhang.
- Keep handy pain killers, anti-oxidants, anti-allergic tablets if all the above tips have been disregarded.
