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With the holiday season almost upon us, it’s time to give your skin some extra TLC so that it glows with radiance throughout the festivities. No matter your skin type or the skin concerns you’re dealing with, read on as VouPre explains how to prepare your skin for all of the merriment that awaits it!
Establish a Winter-Worthy Skincare Routine
It’s common for people to make a few adjustments to their skincare routine as the seasons change. If you haven’t done so yet, now is the ideal time. After all, you don’t want to have to be dealing with new skincare products and potential skin reactions during the festive period.
Why is it so important to change up your skincare routine as winter approaches?
Because the environmental changes that this brings alter how your skin functions. For starters, the skin doesn’t produce as much sebum in cold temperatures, which can leave it drier. This is why it’s worth swapping your lightweight summertime lotions for richer face creams. The VouPre Revitalizing Night Cream would be a great choice for winter weather due to the numerous moisturizing ingredients that it contains. From shea butter to vitamin E, they’ll help to counter the feeling of dryness to keep your skin looking supple.
Since your skin won’t be quite so oily in the winter months, you should go with a gentler cleanser too. Look for a formula that contains several hydrating ingredients, such as the VouPre Radiance Facial Cleanser. As you’re about to find out, hydration is key if you want your skin to look flawless for the festivities…
Hydrate, Hydrate, and Hydrate Some More
With the air around you rapidly becoming drier, your skin will experience an increase in transepidermal water loss. This refers to how quickly moisture evaporates out of the skin. It’s not such an issue in humid conditions but numerous studies have confirmed that it happens to a concerning extent in the winter months.
Chances are that you don’t want to be dealing with flaky, dehydrated skin while you’re trying to enjoy the holidays. So, prep your skin by giving it some extra hydration from now. This way, you’ll be sporting a naturally plump and bouncy complexion at all of the holiday parties you attend!
The best way to ramp up your skin’s hydration levels is with a hydrating serum. Humectants, which are ingredients that bind moisture to the skin, are what you need, with sodium hyaluronate and glycerin being two of the best. You’ll find them both in the Aqua Hydration Serum, which is in the VouPre Aqua Collection. They’re joined by collagen and lactic acid, both of which also offer humectant properties to ensure that your skin feels deeply quenched.
Work on Evening Out Your Skin Tone
The summer months can be harsh on the skin, with many people emerging from the season with dark spots and discoloration caused by sun damage. If you want your skin to gloriously glow throughout the holidays, spend some time working on evening out your skin tone. Discolored skin struggles to reflect light, whereas a clear and even complexion will have so much more natural radiance!
There are so many ingredients out there that can help to lighten the look of discoloration. Vitamin C is known for being one of the best, which you’ll find in our Vita C Serum.
With that said, topical skincare can take a while to have an effect on the visibility of discoloration. To speed things up, consider incorporating an LED device into your skincare routine too. The L’Rae Beam, for example, offers three LED wavelengths to efficiently eradicate the appearance of excess pigmentation. Combined with electric muscle stimulation, radio frequency nodes, and stainless steel chillers, this device can also help with the look of inflammation, wrinkles, puffiness, and dullness. It’s the perfect tool to have to hand if you want to look radiant for the holidays!
Mask Up
If you’re looking for a way to give your complexion an instant glow in time for a special event, a good face mask is what you need. Ideally, look for a formula that’s hydrating while also capable of targeting the visible skin concerns you’re dealing with.
The VouPre Hydra-Glow Revitalizing Face Mask is one that will immediately have your skin looking illuminated. It’s infused with a blend of lavender, collagen, and Irish moss powder, which will work together to hydrate, soothe, and brighten your complexion.
Another great mask to turn to is the Cannabis Caviar Transforming Mask. It gets its name from how it changes color once it has been sufficiently massaged into the skin, after which you leave it for ten minutes to work its magic. It’s a clay mask, making it effective at absorbing impurities and rejuvenating the complexion. At the same time, it’s packed with several hydrating compounds plus ingredients that will even out and brighten the look of your skin tone.
Be Prepared For Holiday Breakouts
The way in which the skin produces less sebum in the colder months often provides some much-needed relief for those with oily, acne-prone skin. However, while this may be the case, there are other factors that can send sebum production soaring once again, with stress being a big one. Unfortunately, for many, the holidays are synonymous with stress, meaning that holiday breakouts are common.
What can you do about this?
Ideally, work on keeping your stress levels down. This way, sebum levels will remain consistent. You won’t have a sudden surge of oil blocking up your pores each time you feel stressed.
With that said, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever be able to eliminate holiday-related stress completely. This means that it’s also important to have a plan of action in place for when breakouts do happen to arise.
Adding the VouPre Deep Renewal Facial Peel to your skincare routine can be helpful. Its exfoliating powers will make clogged pores far less likely. This then means that you won’t be as susceptible to the appearance of acne.
The Detoxifying Thermal Mask can also be a useful asset. It’s a clay mask that gently heats up on the skin, making it even more effective at clearing the complexion of impurities and excess oil.
Derma Roll Your Way to Radiance
Derma rolling, which is also known as microneedling, is a proven way to brighten up the look of the skin and give it a gorgeous glow.
It involves rolling a special device over your skin, with that device fitted with lots of micro-sized needles. This can help with a wide range of different visible skin concerns, including the appearance of discoloration, a rough skin surface, acne scars, and wrinkles. It’s also fantastic for rejuvenating the overall complexion, with regular sessions leaving it looking positively radiant!
That’s why we’ve included a derma roller in each VouPre collection set. They’re all the same size – 0.2mm. This is short enough to be safely used at home by someone who has never handled a derma roller before. At the same time, it’s long enough to provide noticeable effects. For best results, use your derma roller before carrying out your skincare routine as it will also help to increase the absorption of your skincare products!
Give Your Skin the Gift of a Spa Treatment
In addition to buying gifts for your friends and your family this year, why not treat your skin to something special too? A spa treatment is a wonderfully indulgent way to pamper both yourself and your complexion, with the results of this me-time often being apparent straight away!
The treatments available at the VouPre Spa are particularly decadent. Each one incorporates specialized techniques and products to revive the complexion. Whether you opt for Microdermabrasion to reveal a brighter and plumper appearance or the RF Aqua Experience to soak up the benefits of a radio frequency treatment, these spa services will quickly get your skin into shape just in time for the holidays.
Don’t Over-Indulge on Festive Foods
For many people, festive foods are one of the highlights of the holiday season. Indulging in all of those festive feasts has become a tradition that many cultures share. However, it’s one that your skin isn’t a big fan of.
Why?
For starters, all of those holiday plates tend to be filled with fried, salted, or sugar-filled treats, none of which do your skin any favors. In fact, they can have the opposite effect, causing everything from acne to accelerated skin aging.
The pure excess of food that’s consumed over the holiday season can be a problem too. This sudden increase can interfere with digestive function, causing gut inflammation that can manifest as a variety of skin concerns.
Of course, all of the alcohol that’s consumed during the holidays is detrimental too. Alcohol has a very dehydrating effect on the skin. This is even more devastating during the winter months when your skin is already prone to dehydration.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying all of the delicious goodies on offer during the festive period, but keep your skin in mind while you do so. Avoid over-indulging as much as you can. Instead, consume everything in moderation while also ensuring that you’re balancing all of those foods out with healthy choices so that your skin is still receiving all of the nutrients that it needs to thrive.
Stick to a Sleeping Routine as Much as Possible
It’s easy for your schedule to fall off kilter during the holidays. With time off work and all of those holiday parties to attend, late nights can become the norm for a while.
However, if you want your skin to look its best throughout the festivities, it needs you to get enough beauty sleep each night. Nighttimes are when it repairs damage and creates new cells, with these functions peaking while you’re in a deep sleep. Even just one night of sleep deprivation can have a negative effect on your complexion, so doing this for a few weeks in a row can really mess with your skin.
To prevent this, make an effort to stick to a regular sleep schedule as much as possible. When late nights are unavoidable, give your skin a little TLC before going to bed with an overnight face mask.
Summary
The holiday season can really take a toll on your skin, making it important to prepare for this as much as possible. Follow the tips above and your skin should have no problems making it through the festivities with a radiant glow!
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