Skincare Habits to Bid Goodbye
by Skincare-news.com team
Head into spring with a skincare bang-skincare resolutions which are easy to initiate and even easier to keep. With just four simple changes to your daily routine, you can streamline your skincare routine and protect your skin!
Now that the New Year has come and gone, we are all busy keeping resolutions and making plans for the spring days ahead, but what about with our skincare? Winter is the perfect time to re-evaluate your skincare habits and embrace 4 simple new ones that are just good skincare!
Take It Off
Do you wake up a few too many times to raccoon eyes and yesterday’s makeup? This year, make your #1 skincare priority a commitment to cleanse the face each night before bed-no matter how tired. Start with a gentle, non-irritating eye makeup remover such as Pevonia Eye Make-Up Remover. To get eyes their cleanest, soak a cotton-pad with a small amount of eye makeup remover, and then hold it gently over the closed eye lid and lashes to loosen eye shadow and mascara. To completely remove every last trace of mascara, soak one end of a cotton-swab in remover and gently rub the lash line to remove any leftover pigment.
Follow up by washing the rest of the face with a cleanser specifically tailored to your skin-type. Oily? Try a formula designed to help normalize the skin and reduce shine: La Roche Effaclar Foaming Purifying Gel. For skin that is acne-prone or blemished, a cleanser with salicylic or glycolic acid is a good choice: Murad Clarifying Cleanser or SkinCeuticals Clarifying Cleanser. And normal skin-types will enjoy the creamy lightness of Yonka Lait Nettoyant, which is also mild enough to remove eye-makeup. Massage a small amount of cleanser between wet hands until foamy and then rub the cleanser carefully onto the skin, avoiding the eye area. Rinse well with lots of warm water, pat dry and follow up with appropriate skincare treatments and moisturizer for the most restful sleep ever!
From Hair to There
From ponytail elastics, to over-zealous brushing to hats, headbands and barrettes, hair takes an awful lot of abuse. And with winter settling in for earnest, now is a great time to make a weekly dose of good old hair care TLC a beauty habit that will not only be easy to implement, but reap big rewards.
Used to be that the most extra-care you could give your hair outside of the hair salon was messy to use, cumbersome to apply and left hair feeling oily and weighed down. Not so today. Hair masks and treatment creams come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes and smells and, they are designed for specific hair types such as: curly, straight, over-processed, dry or coarse.
Regardless of hair type, a weekly hydrating hair mask is a new beauty habit that can be embraced by everyone. These hair masks take only minutes, restore shine, strength and flexibility to hair, and protect against environmental and UV damage. For a fragrant and hydrating treat, try: Oscar Blandi Trattamento di Jasmine Smoothing Hair Treatment, which will strengthen hair and defeat cold-weather frizziness. Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Hair Masque is another great choice, which utilizes caviar extracts and anti-oxidants to revitalize over-processed or dry hair.
Nick of Nail Time
If you haven’t been making time to keep your nails and cuticles neat, clean and tidy, make time for them now. Winter weather is particularly cruel to hands and nails: dry, brittle cold air causes nails to split and cuticles to crack and peel. Beat the weather by treating the whole hand with special conditioners specifically designed for cuticles and nails, and wave goodbye to unsightly dryness. A few extra minutes each night spent applying this hydrating nail treatment to the nails will keep them glossy and strong all season: NeoCeuticals Nail Conditioning Solution. Keep cuticles from peeling with L’Occitane Shea Butter Nail & Cuticle Cream. Simply massage a small amount of this rich, shea butter cream into the cuticles every day to protect against dryness and cracking. And for the most luxuriously soft hands, let nighttime be the right time: tuck your hands into Bliss Glamour Gloves and reveal smooth, radiant and hydrated skin and nails.
Jeepers Sunburned Peepers!
Keeping the skin protected against sun damage and environmental aging is part of almost everyone’s beauty routine these days, but what about your eyes? Using a specific eye cream with SPF is vitally important. The skin around the eyes is thinner and more delicate than the rest of the face, making the use of an eye-area specific SPF critical. For a lightweight formula that features SPF 15, as well as vitamin-C, keep Murad Essential-C Eye Cream, SPF 15 on hand all year long. Simply pat a pea-sized amount gently around the entire eye area (avoiding the lid) and up over the brow bone each morning for protection against sun damage and to ensure the skin stays hydrated. If you have dry skin and need a bit more moisture in your eye cream, Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Plump Perfect Eye Moisture Cream SPF 15 is a perfect choice. With ceramides to hydrate, Argireline to plump and smooth fine lines, and encapsulated SPF 15, this eye cream is ideal for even the most delicate, sensitive eyes.
Adopting new skincare resolutions might seem like a lot of extra work, but your skin will thank you for it. Start with minor changes, and slowly work your way up to incorporating all four of these skin-sparing habits into your daily routine, and you will be on your way to fabulous skin in no time flat.