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Skincare Tips for the Busy Holiday Season
The holiday season can often be busy and stressful, so much so that worrying about your skin during this time is a headache that you definitely don’t need! The good news? Skincare doesn’t need to be time-consuming and complex. Read on as OROGOLD shares some top skincare tips for keeping your complexion looking its best throughout the holiday period, without needing to spend hours on your skin.
Never Neglect the Basics
If your skincare routine currently consists of 10 or so steps, you may find yourself struggling to remain consistent with this throughout the holiday season, especially on busy mornings/nights. Fortunately, a long routine such as that isn’t essential. All your skin really needs on those hectic days is the basics – and those don’t take long!
What do the basics consist of?
Firstly, a cleanser. This is non-negotiable – there’s no point applying any other products if you don’t cleanse first. With that said, be careful when choosing a cleanser. Go with a formula that’s too harsh for the cold and dry winter months, when your skin will already be more sensitive and vulnerable to damage, and you’ll be left dealing with a multitude of skin problems that require even more time and patience. Instead, pick a gentle cleanser to keep your skin feeling calm and happy. A product like the OROGOLD 24K Mousse Cleanser checks all of the boxes!
Once your face is cleansed, skip straight to the end of your regular routine and apply a moisturizer. Again, be sure to choose one that’s suitable for the winter months. With your skin producing less sebum and easily veering toward feeling dehydrated, richer creams, such as the OROGOLD 24K Deep Moisturizer, tend to be best. If you’re applying it during the day, don’t forget to top it off with some SPF!
Invest in Multi-Tasking Products
If you want to establish a quick and easy skincare routine during the holiday season but don’t want your skin to end up missing out, multi-tasking products are what you need. Find products that are able to tackle a few of your visible skin concerns or problems and you won’t need quite as many steps in your skincare routine.
One such product is the OROGOLD 24K Skin Tone SPF 30. It’s so easy to forget about sun protection in the winter, yet it’s still so important. If you struggle to remember to keep your skin protected during the festive period, this SPF moisturizer will save the day. It’s rich enough to provide wintertime moisture, won’t leave your skin feeling greasy, and will ensure that sun damage doesn’t take a toll on your complexion.
The OROGOLD 24K Golden Dew Serum-in-Cream is another popular multi-tasker. As you may have guessed from its name, this one performs the role of both a serum and a moisturizer. Like a serum, it’s lightweight yet packed with a high concentration of ingredients, including several hydrating ones. However, it also moisturizes just as well as a cream, even in the winter months. Plus, with a blend of niacinamide, grape seed oil, vitamin C, and vitamin E, it will also work to reduce the appearance of skin aging.
Focus on Hydration
One of the biggest skin concerns that people face in the winter is dehydration. This is down to how the dry winter air pulls moisture out of the skin at a much faster rate. Even once you’re indoors, your skin isn’t safe. All of that artificial heating has the same drying effect, leaving the skin parched.
Incorporating hydrating ingredients into your skincare routine will help to counter this. Give your skin the hydration that it needs and it will respond with a fuller, plumper, and brighter finish. You won’t need to spend quite as much time on your skin because the extra moisture will allow your skin cells to naturally function to the best of their abilities.
How can you give your skin the hydration that it needs? Hydrating serums, like the OROGOLD 24K Termica Activation Serum, tend to be the fastest and most efficient way. This serum contains some of the best hydrating ingredients around, including sodium hyaluronate, collagen, and seaweed extract. Peptides and ceramides help with hydration too while also keeping the skin barrier feeling supported. Meanwhile, the vitamins and plant extracts in this serum provide antioxidants that will have your skin looking rejuvenated.
Know Which Ingredients Your Skin Needs
Skincare products often make some wondrous claims. Due to these, people sometimes purchase products solely due to the promises splashed across the packaging, without actually taking the time to learn more about the product itself. This is a mistake – not only because you may end up applying an unsuitable product to your skin but also because you’ll be wasting precious time using products that aren’t going to do much for your complexion.
This is why it’s always important to understand the various skincare ingredients out there and know which your skin really needs. If this seems like a daunting task, start by identifying the visible skin concerns that you want to target before determining which ingredients have been proven to be the most effective at helping with these.
Say, for example, you want to tackle the appearance of aging while brightening the look of your skin. Vitamin C is a superstar at doing this, especially when it’s combined with other potent antioxidants, just as we’ve done with the OROGOLD Vitamin C Booster Facial Serum.
Likewise, if you’re hoping that your skincare routine will banish the appearance of dark circles under your eyes, you need to be using an eye care product that contains the likes of peptides, licorice root extract, and vitamin C, just like the OROGOLD 24K Anti-Aging Eye Serum.
By prioritizing targeted skincare products, you’ll be able to regain control over your visible skin concerns so much faster!
Mask While You Sleep
Face masks aren’t just a way to pamper your skin. They’re also fantastic for improving various aspects of the complexion. Most masks contain a richer concentration of ingredients than regular skincare products, which is how they’re able to bring about such impressive results.
With that said, if you’re short on time during the holiday season, the 15-20 minutes required by most face masks may cause you to put masking to the side for a while. However, although this may save you a bit of time, it means that your skin will be missing out on all of the benefits that a quality mask can provide.
What’s the solution? A leave-on overnight mask. These don’t require you to set aside any additional time. Instead, they’re applied as part of your regular evening skincare routine and then left on your face, giving the ingredients all night to soak into your skin.
At OROGOLD, we have a couple of overnight masks for you to choose from. The 24K Nano Hydra Silk Mask is one. This formula partly focuses on hydration, with a blend of humectants enabling it to bind moisture to the skin. Meanwhile, it also contains a long list of antioxidants thanks to the numerous superfood extracts that have been incorporated into the mask.
The 24K Rose Gold Hydro Mask is another option. This one is also incredibly hydrating and features an array of humectants. However, it also focuses on keeping the skin barrier feeling strong and supported – a must in the winter months!
Look Into Fast-Acting Formulas
Want to give your complexion a boost so that it looks smooth and youthful in all of your holiday photos? Most people reach for makeup to do this but there are also a few skincare products out there that are able to provide the same instant gratification.
Don’t believe us? Check out the OROGOLD 24K Rose Gold Wrinkle Smoothing Solution. This innovative product brings together several high-performance ingredients, enabling it to quickly smooth away the look of fine lines and wrinkles. In just a matter of seconds, your skin will take on a firmer and more crease-free finish.
The 24K 60-Second Eye Solution works in a similar way. However, this product has been designed specifically for the delicate skin around the eyes. A few swipes of this specialized solution and you’ll quickly be able to banish the appearance of dark circles, puffiness, and crow’s feet. Your eye area will look perky, bright, and lifted in all of your holiday snaps!
Make the Most of Your Shower Time
Earlier, we talked about how useful multi-tasking skincare products can be. However, it’s not just your products that should, ideally, multi-task – this is something that you can be doing too!
The time that you spend in the shower is perfect for this. Rather than cleansing your skin before you hop into the shower, do so once you’re standing under the water. This is a great time to exfoliate too. You could even indulge in a face mask, leaving it to set on your skin while you cleanse and pamper the rest of your body. While a sheet mask would be difficult to keep in place while you’re showering, a clay mask, like the OROGOLD 24K Advanced Facial Mask, would be perfect for this.
Organize Your Products for Easy Accessibility
Last but not least, let’s talk about skincare organization. If all of your products are currently cluttered together in a drawer or a cupboard, this is only going to extend the time your skincare routine takes.
Instead, if the holiday season has left you busy and stressed, simplify your skincare habits by lining your products up in a way that allows for easy accessibility. Set them out in order of use so that you can just work your way down the row instead of having to scrabble about searching for each product that you need.
Caring for Your Skin During the Holiday Season
While you’ll likely have a number of different things to think about during the holiday season, make sure that your skin is one of them. Remember – skincare doesn’t need to take up too much time. Keep the above tips in mind and you’ll be able to give your skin all that it needs while still having plenty of time to enjoy all of the holiday festivities!
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