Whether you’re new to the world of skincare or your current routine feels muddled and ineffective, putting together a skincare routine that actually works can seem like a challenge. There are so many potential wrong turns that you could take, the results of which could be disastrous for your skin.
So, today, Venofye is going to make things easy. Read on as we share a step-to-step guide on putting together an effective skincare routine that’s capable of producing the changes that you’re hoping to see in your complexion.
Start With Your Skin Type
There’s no point even considering building a skincare routine if you don’t know what your skin type is. This will primarily dictate your choice of products, enabling you to pick formulas that help, rather than hinder, your skin.
Even if you think you already know what your skin type is, it would be worth reassessing it. Skin types change over the years due to everything from aging to hormonal fluctuations, so make sure that your knowledge of your own is still current.
How to Figure Out Your Skin Type
There are a few ‘tests’ that you can do to figure out your skin type. However, the easiest is to wash your face with a gentle cleanser and then leave your skin bare for half an hour. Then, take a look in the mirror and see which of the skin types best relates to you:
- Dry skin – leave this skin type bare after cleansing and it will quickly feel dry, tight, rough, and uncomfortable. This is due to how this skin type doesn’t produce enough sebum to keep the skin naturally moisturized and lubricated.
- Oily skin – this skin type will quickly start to feel greasy. It will take on a noticeable shine and pores often look large and dark. This is due to the extra sebum that this skin type produces.
- Combination skin – with some areas of the skin producing too much sebum and others not producing enough, combination skin shares characteristics from both the dry and oily skin types. Often, the T-zone is the oily area and the cheeks are dry.
- Sensitive skin – this skin type suffers from a damaged skin barrier. This allows irritants to enter the skin more easily, which causes the skin to react in the form of redness, inflammation, puffiness, and more.
- Normal skin – this skin type is almost perfectly in balance in terms of sebum production. As a result, you’ll experience very few, or even none, of the issues that the other skin types have to deal with.
Now that you know your skin type, what do you do with this information? Keep reading…
Gather Together the Basics
Before you start getting complex with your skincare routine, it’s important to have the basics in place. The good news is that this is easy. When it comes to daily basics, there are only three products that you need:
A Cleanser
A good cleanser is the first essential. This is where your skin type knowledge starts to come into play because it will influence the type of cleanser that you need. Dry and sensitive skin requires a gentle cleanser that will remove dirt without clearing away sebum or damaging the skin’s natural protective barrier. Meanwhile, oily skin usually needs a more powerful formula that will remove sebum.
If this sounds confusing, you’ll be happy to know that some cleansers, like the Venofye Blossom Bee Clarifying Cream Cleanser, can be safe and effective on all skin types!
A Moisturizer
A moisturizer is the next product that you should be using each and every day. This applies to all skin types, even those with oily skin. Fail to moisturize and you run the risk of dehydrating your skin. This will only cause it to increase sebum production, leaving you even oilier.
With that said, if you have oily skin, a lightweight cream, like the Venofye Iron Bee Transforming Cream, is a must. This will save you from clogging your pores and exacerbating breakouts. On the other hand, if you have dry skin, you’ll need a richer formula. The Venofye Apitoxin Collagen Cream, which is infused with a variety of plant oils and extracts, would be ideal!
SPF
The final daily skincare essential is SPF. After all, with the sun causing up to 80% of the wrinkles and discoloration that appear on the skin as you age, it goes without saying that you’ll want to block those UV rays as much as possible!
Again, keep your skin type in mind when picking a sunscreen. Mineral sunscreens have been popular lately but they can often leave oily skin feeling congested and even greasier. Meanwhile, chemical sunscreens can sometimes irritate dry and sensitive skin.
The solution? The Orchard Bee Brilliance Cream SPF 30 from Venofye. It’s an SPF moisturizer, making it a convenient way to add SPF to your skincare routine without the need for an additional product. It also works beautifully on all skin types.
Exfoliation: An Extra Essential
An exfoliator is another important product to have in your skincare routine. However, this isn’t one that you’ll need to use daily. Instead, exfoliate in accordance with your skin type. If you have oily skin, this usually means two or three times a week. Those with dry skin should exfoliate less – once, or maybe twice, a week. If you have sensitive skin, avoid exfoliating more than once a week.
Since many exfoliators are notorious for over-exfoliating the skin and causing long-term damage, go with a gentle formula. The Venofye Blossom Bee Facial Peeling is one that all skin types love!
Hone in on Specific Visible Skin Concerns
Now that you have the basics in place, it’s time to turn your attention to any specific visible skin concerns that you want your skincare routine to tackle.
Say, for example, you’re hoping to diminish the appearance of crow’s feet around your eyes. While a basic skincare routine will help to make those lines look a little softer, you’ll need a targeted product if you’re hoping to see them disappear. This is where an eye serum, such as the Venofye Royal Jelly Bee Luminescent Eye Serum, can be a useful addition to a skincare routine.
Dehydration is another issue that many people face. If this is the case for you, a hydrating serum, like the Venofye Iron Bee Boosting Serum, would work wonders on your complexion. This serum is packed with humectants – ingredients that have a moisture-binding effect on the skin.
Incorporating a vitamin C serum would be a good move too, no matter the visible skin concerns you’re hoping to eradicate. This is an ingredient that can help with just about everything. While some forms of vitamin C aren’t suitable for all skin types, you won’t need to worry about this with the Venofye Blossom Bee Vitamin C Serum. This serum contains tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate and ascorbyl palmitate. Both are stable and highly effective forms of vitamin C that won’t leave your skin feeling irritated in any way.
Consider Night and Day Variations
If you want to take your skincare routine even further, it would be worth considering day and night variations. After all, your skin’s needs change drastically throughout each 24-hour period. During the day, your skin cells are focused on staving off environmental damage. Once evening rolls around, those roles shift. Your skin cells will now be working on repairing daily damage. This is also when the majority of cell regeneration and protein production occurs.
How can you adjust your skincare routine to reflect this?
Start by investing in a dedicated night cream, just like the Venofye Blossom Bee Quenching Night Cream. In general, night creams are usually richer than day creams. They’ll contain everything that your skin cells need to feel supported as they go about their nightly tasks. Plus, if you’re using an SPF moisturizer as your day cream, you may as well go with a dedicated night cream formula for the evenings since SPF isn’t needed.
It’s also worth keeping in mind that moisture loss increases at night. While a night cream will help to counter this, your skin will also benefit from some extra hydration in your evening skincare routine. An overnight face mask, like the Beehive HydraLift Mask from Venofye, would give it just that!
Go High-Tech If Needed
Want to elevate your skincare routine even more? Consider adding in an LED light therapy device.
These handheld devices are worth having around because of how they can help with such a wide range of visible skin concerns. Go with a device that offers multiple modes, like the Photonix-2 Eye Wand, and you’ll be able to use it for years! Whether you’re struggling with the appearance of wrinkles, dark spots, redness and inflammation, or just about anything else, LED light therapy can help your complexion while making the rest of your skincare routine feel more effective.
Understand the Importance of Consistency
Now that you know how to build an effective skincare routine, it’s important to understand the importance of consistency. Sure, carrying out your skincare routine every now and again, whenever you happen to remember, might provide some temporary surface relief. However, this isn’t going to stimulate the deeper changes in your complexion, and these are what you need if you’re hoping to see a long-term improvement in the look and feel of your skin.
So, once you’ve finalized a skincare routine, work on sticking to it. Carry out at least the basics twice a day, morning and night. It won’t be long before you get into the habit of doing so, and your skincare routine will soon feel like second nature!
Creating the Perfect Skincare Routine for Your Skin
As you can see, there’s so much to consider when working on building an effective and powerful skincare routine. Pulling together random products isn’t going to cut it – if you want to see your complexion thrive, you’ll need to put plenty of thought and care into your routine.
Hopefully, the guide that we’ve shared above helps with that. Follow our tips from start to finish and you’ll find that you suddenly have a skincare routine that’s perfectly tailored to your skin’s specific needs!
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