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Skincare Essentials for Your Makeup Bag This Party Season

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What’s in your glittery gold beauty bag this holiday season? As you party hop from one celebration to the next, you probably have your basic makeup items covered, plus a few other tricks up your sleeve to stay looking fresh. Night Cream It’s a busy time of year for merry-making, so to give you that extra-special seasonal glow, consider stocking your makeup bag with the following skincare items too. Here are a few must-haves for the holidays. Radiance-Enhancing Primer Makeup isn’t meant to stay on your face forever, but if you want it to last through the day and night, you’ll want a game-changing primer that provides a lovely base for the rest of your makeup. Your primer should be moisturizing and help smooth the look of redness and uneven toned skin . Seek out natural, skin-loving ingredients such as turmeric, chia seeds, and probiotics. As a bonus for the holidays, look for a primer that gives you a special warm, yet subtle, glow. Chia seeds are a prebiotic tha

5 Tips for Keeping Your Skin Looking Great Through the Holidays

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As we celebrate our way through the holiday season with friends, family, and coworkers, it’s easy to push aside our usual skincare routines in exchange for fun and festivities. At the same time, we want to look and feel our best throughout the holidays. Can we have it all? With a few simple strategies, you can make sure your inner glow is radiating outwardly too. Be merry and have great skin with the following skincare tips. Cleansing Oil Remove Makeup Before Going to Sleep Before your tired face hits the pillow after a soirée, do yourself a huge favor and gently remove your makeup. Cleansing your face before sleep is the best way to avoid breakouts and clogged pores. Try a silky cleansing oil to gently remove stubborn makeup and leave your skin feeling soft and nourished. Look for a probiotic-packed formula that will not leave your skin feeling greasy, but clean and hydrated. Repair While Getting Beauty Rest Renew and protect your skin with an overnight cream

Gift Ideas and Stocking Stuffers for Skincare Lovers This Christmas

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For the skincare lovers on your Christmas list—or even yourself—you can’t go wrong with gifts that give a little extra holiday glow. Just be sure to get the good stuff! Even though everyone’s skin is a bit different, you can still find products that are formulated for all skin types. Here are some ideas that will make you a skincare hero this gifting season, whether you’re shopping for your best friend or treating yourself. Dry Skin Brightening Masks When your face needs an extra boost of hydration, nothing feels better than applying a face mask and letting it cool your skin for 10 minutes. The glow afterward might be the best part though. Hydrogel face masks make great stocking stuffers. Help the recipient treat themselves by gifting high-quality face masks with skin-loving ingredients—such as papaya, a natural exfoliator; and vitamin C, an antioxidant to help brighten the appearance of skin. If the person you are buying for has dry skin , they will especially lo

How Do I Take Care of the Area Under and Around My Eyes?

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Crow’s feet, dark circles, puffiness—they can all appear right before our eyes — but you can lessen the appearance of them by finding the right skincare routine for the delicate area around and under your eyes. It doesn’t need to be difficult or time-consuming, either. In your search for the perfect eye bags treatment , be sure you also include a whole routine dedicated to your entire face with a focus on the eye area. Here are a few tips to consider. Eye Cream Cleanse Find a gel cleanser that gently cleanses your skin and naturally exfoliates to reveal the radiant-looking skin you desire. Wash your face twice a day with a high-quality cleanser that’s packed with skin-loving ingredients, such as lactic acid, blueberries, probiotics, turmeric root, and chicory root. The combination of these effective ingredients will help boost the look of firmer skin, reduce signs of inflammation, hydrate, and help lock-in moisture. Serum Who doesn’t love a good serum? A litt

5 Products for Glowing Skin Even During Dreary Months

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If your skin is beginning to lose its summer luster and becoming noticeably drier at the same time, fear not—you can get a healthy and glowing complexion in no time. Nourishing and natural ingredients, like antioxidant-rich superfoods, in your skincare products will help even the most lackluster complexions perk right up. Add a few clean, effective products to your skin care routine to encourage a more hydrated, dewy look—check these five out. Luminous Eye Balm Get a lit-from-within glow by applying a brightening and cooling eye balm under and around your eyes and on the higher points of your cheekbones. It’s a simple and quick way to reveal a dewy and natural complexion. Hydrating and softening ingredients with antioxidant protection should be high on your list of requirements for the best brightening balm. A few to look out for include aloe, blueberry, watermelon, apple, caffeine, rosehip oil, and rosewater. Also, consider using a high-quality eye cream undernea

4 Ways Stress Can Affect Your Skin

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Stress happens. Sometimes we can’t avoid it and other times we let it get the better of us. The best thing we can do is learn to manage stress and take good care of ourselves by trying to sleep more, eat better, exercise regularly, and care for our skin. If not, signs of stress may start to show up physically. Stress is not just something that manifests in your mind and stays there. It can affect your skin, hair, and nails, to name a few. So, let’s look at a few things stress can do to skin and how to get yours back to looking healthy and glowing. Dark Circles and Lack of Sleep In an ideal world, we’d all get a solid eight hours of sleep a night. Unfortunately, even minor stressors over time can add up and impact your quality of sleep. You may notice puffy eyes and dark circles as a result. (Some people have those issues regardless of stress and lack of sleep, but it can certainly be exacerbated.) Caffeine applied topically can help brighten the eye area, so get y

Natural, Powerful Acne Fighters to Look for in High-Quality Skincare Products

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You probably know what happens when your pores become clogged with oil and dead skin cells: acne. Acne is a skin condition that can occur at any age and that many struggle to understand how to best treat, as you don’t want to scrub your face too hard or over-wash your face because it can become too dry. As such, choosing acne skin care and blemish control products carefully and reading ingredients contained in the formulas are super important considerations. So, let’s look at a few ingredients that you may find beneficial whether you experience breakouts regularly or occasionally. Salicylic Acid Salicylic acid works by gently exfoliating dead skin cells and dissolving excess oil. Salicylic acid also has anti-inflammatory properties to help with inflamed breakouts. It is derived from the bark of the willow tree. Be sure to choose a face wash or toner gel with 2% salicylic acid, which is an FDA-approved acne fighting ingredient to help clear up breakouts. Glycoli