You’ve bought your frock. You’ve selected your perfect ‘do. And you’ve picked out the perfect lippie. Yep, your New Year’s Eve look is sorted. Well, almost.
Clear, radiant skin is the key to looking – and feeling – great during the party season. Dull, drab skin is not. So, to ensure your complexion is looking absolutely radiant come New Year’s Eve, we’ve devised a brightening skin care regimen just for you. It’s simple, it’s effective, and it will leave your skin glowing from within.
5 STEPS TO BRIGHT, RADIANT NEW YEAR’S EVE SKIN
Step 1: use a brightening cleansing morning and night
Just like washing your hair with shampoo is the key to an immaculately finished ‘do, a thorough cleanse makes way for a healthy complexion. Make your twice-daily ritual work harder for you by making use of cleansers that contain ingredients to help lift dead skin cells, stimulate cell renewal and brighten the skin.
Try:Aum Anti-ageing Organics Brightening Milk Cleanser and shu uemura White Recovery Brightening Cleansing Oil Advanced Formula.
Step 2: apply a correcting toner after cleansing
Like cleansing, toning helps prepare your skin for the lotions and potions you apply next. A skin-tone correcting toner will go beyond that, though – it’ll provide gentle exfoliation to help breakdown clusters of pigmentation and contain ingredients to leave your skin looking more even.
Try: Clarins Gentle Brightening Toner ($70, 02 9663 4277) and Aveda Enbrightenment Brightening Treatment Toner.
Step 3: use a pigmentation-clearing serum twice a day
As far as radiance-enhancing products go, it’s the serums that are going to work the hardest and provide the best results. That said, it’s worth spending a little extra coin on this step if your hip pocket allows. Their lightweight texture allows them to sink deeper into your skin cells, encouraging them to renew faster, and breakdown your age spots that already exist, helping to restore luminous, glowy skin.
Try: NeoStrata Enlighten Illuminating Serum and Indeed Labratories pepta-bright.
Step 4: make use of a radiance-enhancing eye cream during the day
Your eye area suffers during the party season. Big time. So if you’ve found yourself sporting dark circles and puffy eyes after the Christmas season, you’ll love the results a brightening eye cream can deliver. By encouraging proper circulation and illuminating the skin thanks to carefully selected ingredients, they’re able to minimise the damage caused by your festive frivolities
Try:RACINNE Contour Brightening Eye Care and Avon Anew Reversalist Illuminating Eye System.
Step 5: wear sunscreen daily
When you’ve worked so hard to remove age spots and pigmentation with a solid radiance-enhancing skin care routine, you’d have to be an absolute goose to step outside without sunscreen on. (The sun is the main cause of pigmentation, after all.) Pick a sunscreen that works with your skin (read: is mattifying or hydration) and apply it every single day. No buts.
Try:Dermalogica ChromaWhite TRx Pure Light SPF30 and Cancer Council SPF 50+ Active Sunscreen.
Is your skin looking a little dull right now? Does your skin care regimen including brightening products? Which products would you like to try most?
