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Ring in the New Year With Radiant Skin: The Ultimate Guide
If you’re hoping to start the new year with a radiant, lit-from-within glow, you’ve come to the right place! Read on as Vine Vera shares the ultimate guide for achieving a bright and flawless complexion as you celebrate the year that has passed and all that is yet to come.
Begin With a Double Cleanse
While a single cleanse will usually be sufficient for most people, double cleansing can help to give your complexion even more luminescence. This technique provides a much more thorough cleanse, giving you a blank canvas to work from.
Never double cleansed before? It’s simple – all it takes is cleansing your skin twice instead of once. However, the key to success lies in the cleansers that you use. Your first cleanse should ideally be done with an oil-based cleanser. Oil attracts oil, so this will remove any oil-based impurities, such as sebum, pollutants, and SPF residue, from your face.
Once you’ve rinsed off your oil-based cleanser, it’s time to apply a water-based cleanser to tackle the water-based impurities on your skin, such as dirt and sweat. Since you’ve already cleansed your skin once, it’s best to go with a gentle formula for your second cleanse, just like what the Vine Vera Resveratrol Cabernet Mousse Cleanser provides. This cleanser contains a number of moisturizing ingredients, including aloe vera extract, argan oil, and moringa seed oil, to give your skin a soft and dewy finish.
Exfoliate for a Brighter Glow
While your skin will already feel quite fresh once you’re done double cleansing, exfoliation takes this to the next level. After all, an exfoliator is able to pull impurities out from deeper within the skin while cleansers only work on the skin’s surface. Exfoliating your skin before your New Year celebrations will ensure that your skin takes on a brighter and more rejuvenated finish. Plus, it will also help the rest of your skincare products to contribute to even more radiance!
The big question is…how should you exfoliate?
Well, seeing as you’ve just double cleansed, you won’t need a super-intense exfoliator. You don’t want to risk irritating your skin barrier as this may leave your skin red and irritated on this big night.
Instead, find yourself a gentle exfoliator, like those available from Vine Vera. The Resveratrol Vitamin C Peeling is one, with this formula packed with the industry’s favorite antioxidant to enhance your glow. Thanks to a gentle blend of mandelic acid and bamboo powder, it exfoliates efficiently without damaging the skin.
The Resveratrol Cabernet High Potency Cellular Peel is another good option. It’s brimming with antioxidants while coconut oil ensures that your skin doesn’t feel dry or dehydrated once you’re done.
Add Radiance With a Mask
While you may normally save face masks for relaxing evenings spent at home, they can be great tools to turn to when you’re looking for a way to boost your skin’s radiance. Sure, a mask will add an extra 10-15 minutes to your routine but this will pay off in a big way, so long as you pick a mask that will bring out your skin’s natural glow.
How do you know if a mask will do this? By taking a look at its ingredient list. Let’s use the Vine Vera Resveratrol Malbec DNA Magnetic Mask as an example. When it comes to quickly enhancing radiance, hydrating ingredients are key…and this mask boasts plenty. With an array of different plant oils, along with algae extract and peptides, it will leave your skin looking fuller and more voluminous as soon as you remove the mask.
The Vine Vera Chianti Thermic Mask would be another great choice. You’ll notice that kaolin clay sits near the top of the ingredient list. This indicates that the mask will be able to help with the feeling of congestion and clogged pores. Meanwhile, once again, it offers up several hydrating ingredients too while the inclusion of vitamin C, lemon peel extract, coffee seed extract, and resveratrol will leave your skin looking revived.
Rebalance With a Toner
Now that you’ve prepped your skin with two cleansers, an exfoliator, and a face mask, it’s time to turn to the skincare products that don’t need to be removed after they’ve been applied! The first on the list is a toner. While these watery formulas may not look as though they’re able to do much, this is where you’d be wrong. A toner can be a very capable product, so long as you pick one that’s aimed at boosting radiance as quickly as possible.
For this, we’d recommend the Vine Vera Resveratrol Cabernet Toner. It’s an extremely hydrating formula, which, as you know, will immediately give your skin a brighter and dewier finish. It also contains ingredients that soothe the look of inflammation. From aloe vera to chamomile, you won’t have to worry about your skin looking red and blotchy once you swipe this toner over your face.
For the best results, apply this toner to your skin while your skin is still damp from the face mask. This will enable it to lock in the moisture that your mask has provided, preventing it from evaporating away.
Hydrate With a Serum
We’ve mentioned hydration a few times now because it’s key if you want to ring in the new year with a glow. While the toner featured above will provide an initial splash of hydration, your skin needs a few more layers of moisture in order for that radiance to last all night.
This is where serums come in. They’re the perfect follow-on from a toner – only slightly thicker but so much more concentrated when it comes to active ingredients. Look for one that focuses on hydration and your skin will thank you!
Need some recommendations? Try the Vine Vera Resveratrol Pinot Noir Longevity Serum. This formula is all about ramping up the skin’s moisture levels while giving it a more illuminated look. It brings together sodium hyaluronate, lactic acid, vitamin C, and resveratrol. This combination isn’t just ideal for your new year festivities – it’s one that your skin will appreciate year-round!
Add Another Serum for an Extra Boost
Do you really need to be using two serums? No, but doing so can sometimes be very beneficial. Layering serums is a common practice in K-beauty routines because of how each new layer helps to push the previous one a little deeper. Using more than three in one go is a little much but two is ideal!
It’s always wise to choose your serums with your intended skin goals in mind. Since looking radiant for your New Year celebrations is your priority, pick a serum that can help you to achieve this, like the Vine Vera Resveratrol Chianti Revival Serum.
This serum features some very impressive ingredients. Once again, it hydrates the skin. This time, with peptides, soluble collagen, seaweed extract, ceramides, and sodium hyaluronate. All of those ingredients are also revered for how they leave the skin barrier feeling stronger. At the same time, licorice root extract and kojic acid will even out your skin tone to make it look brighter while witch hazel extract will ensure that your pores look invisible.
Illuminate the Look of Your Eye Area
With your eyes being the focal point of your face, it’s important to pay a little extra attention to your eye area. If the skin here looks tired, creased, or dull, then this will make the rest of your face look the same.
So, what can you do to revitalize the look of your eye area?
Since you’re looking for fast results, turn to the ever-reliable Resveratrol Cabernet 60-Second Eye Solution. As you can see from its name, this product works in less than a minute. It quickly smooths away the visibility of eye wrinkles, diminishes the look of puffiness, and gives the eye area an illuminated glow.
The Resveratrol Cabernet High-Potency Eye Serum would also be an excellent choice. Thanks to the hydrating ingredients in this formula, you’ll be giving your eye area an extra boost of moisture that will keep it looking fresh and youthful.
Finish With a Moisturizer
You’re almost ready to start your New Year festivities! However, before you do, there’s one last skincare step that you need to take; applying a moisturizer. This is essential for a few reasons. Not only will it give your skin one final layer of moisture but it will also form a seal over your skin’s surface. This will keep all of the other products you’ve applied locked into the skin. If you don’t moisturize, it won’t be long before they start evaporating away.
With that said, you don’t want a moisturizer that’s too thick or heavy. Whether you plan on applying makeup over the top or you know that you’ll be sweating while you dance the night away, New Year celebrations call for a lightweight moisturizer, just like the Vine Vera Flawless Finish Silk Capsules.
Each capsule contains an application of a silky, hydrating cream. Rather than making use of the heavier ingredients that are commonly found in moisturizers, this cream keeps things lightweight with a combination of sodium hyaluronate and vitamin E. Like all Vine Vera products, it provides plenty of antioxidants too. Szechuan peppercorn extract and paracress extract are loaded with them, with these ingredients also revered for how they quickly soften the look of wrinkles. Meanwhile, resveratrol and lavender extract are also brimming with antioxidants that soothe the look of inflammation.
Ring in the New Year With Vine Vera
If you want to ensure that your skin looks as radiant as possible for your New Year plans, the steps that we’ve detailed above won’t let you down. They’ll give your skin all that it needs for the night ahead, enabling you to start 2025 with a gorgeous glow that you’ll be so proud of!
