Makeup is a lot of fun. You can paint on a new personality for the evening and hide blemishes that you’d rather not have just to choose to accent your natural beauty. However great makeup is, there’s one better thing, and that’s skin so glowy and youthful that it doesn’t need makeup to look flawless. If you’re taking care of your skin and being faithful to a practical personalised skincare routine every morning and night, you’ll never need makeup – it’ll be a fun, optional extra. Knowing enough about your skin, type, and needs, you can hack your routine to get that youthful, rosy glow without the magazine airbrushing. So, how do you reach this magical goal? It’s simple: follow our advice, and you’ll get the glow-up before you know it.
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Know Your Skin
Before you purchase skincare products, it is important to get to know the best skin care products for your type of skin Every person’s skin is as different from the next as their personality, so you need to take a thoughtful and knowledgeable approach to your skin type and concerns to get the most out of your skincare. Here are the primary skin types:
- Oily – your skin overproduces sebum
- Dry – this can reference natural dryness or dryness due to environmental factors
- Combination – areas of dry/ oily/ sensitive/ normal on different parts of the face
- Sensitive – your skin is easily irritated and requires extra consideration
- Normal – well-balanced
Once you’ve figured out which of these umbrellas your skin falls under, you can proceed with a version of our glow-up that works for you. These are our recommendations for ingredients to look out for per skin type. Knowing what your skin needs and supplying that regularly will keep you looking smooth and fresh every day.
- Oily – strawberry extract, soapberry peel extract, soy proteins.
- Dry – vitamin E, hyaluronic acid, ceramide III.
- Combination – peach leaf, white truffle, and Uji tea extract.
- Sensitive – rosewater, squalene, shea butter.
- Normal – vitamins A and E, peptides, beta carotene.
Youthful Glow-Up Skin Hacks
Always Use SPF
The king of all youthful skin hacks, and one that will keep your skin looking sprightly for many years into the future, is always to wear SPF. Every day, whether you’re outside or inside, winter or summer, made up or barefaced. Free radicals are everywhere, as is the sun; you must protect your skin even if it’s cloudy.
Choose A Routine and Stick With It
You can have a simple, pared-down skincare routine and glean incredible results from it if it is well-chosen and executed consistently. Apart from wearing SPF daily, these are the basic steps you need to include:
- Cleanse
- Serum or Essence
- Moisturize
Each of the products you purchase for these steps will vary according to your skin type. It may also vary according to the time of year, especially if you live in a location that gets very warm and extremely cold weather over the year. As a general rule, choose lighter products that will be easily absorbed for the warmer months and heavier, more deeply nourishing products that protect during the cold months.
Exfoliate Carefully
This is where your understanding of your skin comes in handy. Exfoliating is essential for most skin types, even some sensitive skin, but you must choose your exfoliator carefully because you want it to help, not harm. Choose chemical or physical exfoliators and note the peel’s strength and the size of the crystals in a scrub. Start slowly when trying a new exfoliator and patch test before using it on your face. When you find the perfect one, you’ll be sloughing off dead skin and opening up those pores so that they can stay small and precise, which will lead to a skin glow like no other.
Drink Water and Eat Well
As the saying goes, “As within, so without”. If you’re looking after your body from the inside, your skin will show it on the outside with a youthful look that can only come from being well on every level. Drinking water and eating well is the ultimate skincare, so remember to get in your fruits and veggies and drink enough water throughout the day.
Minimise Stress
It’s a fact: being stressed out takes its toll on our mental and physical health, including skin health. Stress hormones can cause your skin to produce excess oil, resulting in breakouts. Lots of frowning due to stress can also exacerbate the growth of wrinkles, which adds to a more aged skin appearance. Finding ways to manage stress will avoid these issues and keep you as fresh and smooth as possible.
Youthful skin is attainable for everyone if you learn enough about your skin to know what it needs and follow through on your daily skincare routine. Take this “me time,” and your skin will thank you.
