How to Soothe Dry Facial Skin
Winter causes dry skin. Even normally humid places like Minnesota get incredibly dry in colder months.
Dry skin on your face can interfere with your makeup. Foundation and powder will stick to dry skin, making you look patchy.
Luckily, there are things you can do to soothe your dry skin and make your face look just as smooth and luscious as it does the rest of the year.
1. Exfoliate!
Dry skin sits right on top of nice, soft skin. Before your face can look better, you need to get rid of the offending skin cells.
Use a facial exfoliating lotion whenever your skin is feeling dry or scaly. Get your face wet, then rub the lotion into your skin, paying extra attention to areas that are most dry (for me, it’s around my nose and on my forehead).
Consider using it every other day to keep your skin on track. During your skin care routine, exfoliate first, then use a cleanser.
Try Luzier Gentle Exfoliating Scrub or Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant.
2. Moisturize Regularly!
During the winter, you may need a heavier duty moisturizer than you use in the summer.
Cover your freshly cleaned face and neck in a heavy moisturizer every night before bed. It’ll penetrate your skin while you sleep so you wake up with smooth, supple skin in the morning.
In the morning, use a lighter facial lotion. Do this step before adding any makeup so your skin is soft once you add foundation.
Try Lavera Faces Aloe Vera Night Cream before bed and Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Moisturizer during the day.
3. Avoid Drying Face Makeup!
Some makeup dries out your face regardless of what you do to your skin. Typically, cream and liquid foundation works better than powder foundation, but that isn’t always the case. Most translucent powders will soak up skin moisture and make you look dry as the day goes on, so avoid them.
Highly rated mineral makeup, while technically in powder form, often works best during the winter because it doesn’t clog pores.
Search for face makeup that works well for your own skin type. Test out face makeup until you find the right one for you.
Try RAWMinerals Foundation (use DISCOVERY50 coupon code to get half off) or Vital Radiance Rehydrating Makeup.
When you employ all three of these steps, your skin should be back to peak form in a matter of days.
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Some excellent points. The last thing you want to do is over do it in the harsh cleansers ad dry your skin out like a prune. Throw on top of that the effects cold whether can have an your post is most timely indeed thanks for taking the time. Merry Christmas
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