How to Keep Your Skin Looking Radiant Throughout the Holiday Season
The winter months alone can really take a toll on your skin but once the holiday season rolls around, things can become even more of a challenge. Your regular routine will change to make room for those festive parties, binge-worthy (and often unhealthy) holiday meals, the stress of gift shopping, and more – none of which are kind to your skin.
As a result, it’s all too easy for your skin to retaliate in the form of dryness, flaking, breakouts, dullness, and roughness, making you look less than radiant in all of your holiday photos. The last thing that you want to be worrying about over the festive period is your skin, which is why a few adjustments to your skincare routine may be needed. Keep reading as Vivo Per Lei talks you through everything you need to know to keep your skin looking bright and luminous throughout the holiday season.
Always Remove Your Makeup Before Bed
With all of those festive events to attend, people often wear more makeup during the holiday season. There’s nothing wrong with this, so long as that makeup is fully removed each night before bed. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen, especially when you only head home in the early hours of the morning. Skincare will be the last thing on your mind!
However, going to bed with your makeup on is a surefire way to end up with clogged pores and acne breakouts. In fact, if you were particularly heavy-handed with your makeup application, you may even want to consider double cleansing to ensure that every last trace has been removed.
With that said, don’t take this to mean that you need to be using a super-strong cleanser. In the winter, it’s best to go with gentler formulas. At this time of year, your skin doesn’t produce as much sebum and is more vulnerable to damage. An overly potent cleanser will only end up harming your skin’s natural protective barrier. Keep it mild with a formula like the Vivo Per Lei Hyaluronic Acid Daily Facial Wash. Thanks to sodium hyaluronate, hemp seed oil, and amino acids, it will leave your skin feeling supported.
When you know that you have a late night ahead of you, keep some cleansing wipes, like the IntroLift Vitamin C Facial Wipes, beside your bed. Although cleansing wipes aren’t a good daily substitution for a cleanser, they’re a good option for when you’re too tired to do much else!
Prioritize Hydration
One area where your skin really struggles in the winter months is hydration. With the air around you lacking in humidity, the moisture from within your skin evaporates away at a much faster rate. This applies to indoor air too – all of that artificial heating sucks moisture out of the air. The fact that dehydrating foods and plenty of alcohol are also usually part and parcel of holiday festivities also leaves your skin struggling to hold on to its moisture reserves.
This then leads to the skin becoming dehydrated. This can show in a number of ways, depending on your skin type. If you have dry skin, you’ll likely notice that this becomes worse, with flaking and sensitivities becoming more of an issue too. Meanwhile, if you have oily skin, dehydration will increase sebum production, leaving your skin even greasier. This will then leave you more prone to clogged pores and breakouts.
While aiming to drink more water can help, this alone isn’t going to turn that dehydration around. Instead, your increase in water consumption should be combined with hydrating skincare products. Topical hydration reaches those outer skin cells that often miss out on the water that you drink.
The best way to keep your skin hydrated during the holidays is to apply a hydrating serum after cleansing. Look for a formula that’s packed with humectants, like the Vivo Per Lei Radiance Gold Facial Serum. These are ingredients that bind moisture to the skin, immediately giving it a brighter and fuller finish. You should then top that off with a hydrating moisturizer, like the Vivo Per Lei Marine Ultimate All Skin Cream. Not only will this provide hydrating ingredients of its own but it will also lock in the serum that you’ve just applied.
Invest in Antioxidants
All of those holiday festivities can quickly cause oxidative stress in the skin. Over time, this severely harms your skin cells, speeding up the onset of skin aging. Other than complete prevention, which is just about impossible, the only way to keep the appearance of oxidative damage at bay is with the use of antioxidants. These powerful compounds will keep your skin cells feeling safe and protected while offering up a number of other benefits too.
Ideally, you should incorporate antioxidants into every stage of your skincare routine. Serums make it easy to saturate your skin with multiple layers of antioxidants. These silky solutions are capable of holding high concentrations of active ingredients. The Vivo Per Lei 24K Gold Caviar Serum is one that’s perfect for the holiday season. Not only is it loaded with antioxidants but it also contains retinol to brighten and rejuvenate the skin, as well as several hydrating ingredients to give your skin a dewy yet non-greasy finish.
If you’re searching for an antioxidant-infused cream, it doesn’t get much better than the Vivo Per Lei Pumpkin and Collagen Day Cream. Once again, it’s loaded with a blend of antioxidants and hydrating ingredients. In the evenings, turn to the Snow Mushroom Night Cream. It will keep your skin cells feeling strengthened and supported as they work hard on rejuvenation while you’re asleep.
Make the Most of Masks
Just like serums, face masks are products that are capable of offering so much. The right mask in your skincare routine can really work wonders on your complexion. When times get tough for your skin, such as during the winter holiday season, a carefully chosen face mask will give your skin the TLC that it’s craving.
So, what sort of mask should you be looking for when dealing with common holiday-time skin woes? That depends on exactly what your skin concerns are…
If the appearance of congestion and acne has been getting you down, the Vivo Per Lei Activated Charcoal Facial Mask is what you need. Charcoal is renowned for its ability to draw out excess sebum and toxins. It’s a great ingredient for brightening the complexion. In addition to charcoal, this mask also contains a number of other noteworthy ingredients. These include vitamins A, C, and E, plus collagen, sodium hyaluronate, and several botanical extracts.
On the other hand, if your skin could do with some extra moisture, consider the Marine Revitalize Leave On Hydrating Mask. This mask works its magic while you sleep. It provides a blend of ingredients that will have your skin looking illuminated in the morning.
Sunscreen is Still a Must
Think that you can put your sunscreen aside now that winter is officially here? Think again…
Not only do UV rays stick around all year, even on those dreary winter days, but they can actually be enhanced by snow and ice. In these conditions, your skin becomes even more susceptible to UV damage.
Chances are that you don’t want to be dealing with the wrinkles, dark spots, dullness, and increased risk of skin cancer that UV rays cause. This is why sunscreen is still a must, even during the holiday season. Find yourself an SPF 30 formula that you enjoy using each day. Then, force yourself to remain consistent with your sun protection efforts right through the winter.
Pay Attention to Your Eye Area
The eye area is usually the focal point of the face. This means that paying some extra attention to your eye area to make sure that it’s not being darkened by dark circles or puffy bags can go a long way in making the rest of your face look perkier and more radiant.
Of course, the holiday season usually means late nights and stress (which we’ll get to soon). The eye area tends to be the first part of the face that’s affected by this. This is why it always helps to have one or two eye care products that you can turn to in these times of need!
The Vivo Per Lei Collagen Eye Firming Cream is one that’s worth having around. It’s a multi-purpose product that tackles a few common visible skin concerns surrounding the eyes. Not only will it leave your eye area looking smoother and firmer but licorice root extract will lighten the look of dark circles, sodium hyaluronate will plump up the look of your skin, and hemp seed oil will give your eye area a gorgeous glow.
Manage Your Stress Levels
Last but not least, let’s talk about stress. This is often abundant over the holiday season and it can have a very detrimental impact on your skin. Research shows that stress disrupts skin barrier function, increases inflammation, causes itching and sensitivities, and will trigger flare-ups of any skin conditions that you happen to be suffering from. It also leads to an increase in sebum production, which then brings on clogged pores and breakouts.
If stress is usually common for you during the holidays, make an effort to change that this year. Find a few stress-busting methods that you can turn to when things get too much, whether this involves going for a jog, writing in a journal, chatting with a friend, or anything else!
It’s also important to set aside some ‘me-time’ as much as possible. This is especially so if your holiday festivities involve plenty of socializing. While this is all well and good, give your mind, body, and skin time to unwind in between all of this too.
Holiday Skincare With Vivo Per Lei
While there’s no denying that the holiday season can be a challenge for your skin, there’s plenty that you can do to ensure that your skin looks bright and radiant throughout the festivities. Follow the tips that we’ve shared above and you’ll be sporting a glow that lasts you throughout the winter months!
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