While your skin type, along with your main skin concerns, should always be prioritized when creating a skincare routine, it’s important to take your lifestyle into account as well. If the two aren’t cohesive, your skincare routine will fail to be as effective as it otherwise might have been.
So, how do you adapt your skincare routine to your lifestyle? Read on as Venofye shares some top tips!
Busy Mornings
Let’s start by talking about busy mornings – something that many of you probably experience! When mornings are chaotic and rushed, the last thing that you want to be doing is carrying out an elaborate skincare routine that requires more time than you have. Instead, simplicity is key – your morning skincare regimen should be quick, convenient, and easy to integrate into the rest of your morning routine. Don’t buy into the myth that a skincare routine needs to be intricate in order to be effective – this isn’t the case at all!
In fact, make clever choices when it comes to the products that you use, and you’ll be able to keep your morning routine to just a couple of products. The most important aspect of daytime skincare, after cleansing, is sun protection. Find a sunscreen that doubles up as a hydrating, antioxidant-rich moisturizer, and this is all you’ll need to use after cleansing your skin.
Case in point: the Venofye Orchard Bee Brilliance Cream SPF 30. This two-in-one product does the job of both a moisturizer and a sunscreen. Since it’s also filled with several antioxidants, you could potentially skip your antioxidant serum in the morning too, opting to just use this one formula.
While keeping your morning skincare routine so basic may mean that you aren’t catering to all of your skin’s needs, you can always make up for this in the evenings with a more comprehensive routine.
Leisurely Evenings
If evenings are usually quite leisurely for you, then this is a great opportunity to dedicate some extra time to your skin. In addition to your regular nighttime skincare routine, consider incorporating a few extras that will help take your skincare routine to the next level.
LED light therapy, for example, can really enhance your skincare routine if you’re able to spare an extra five minutes or so a few times a week. With LED light therapy able to help with the appearance of everything from wrinkles to dark spots to inflammation, it’s a worthy addition to any skincare routine. At-home LED light therapy products, like the Photonix-2 Eye Wand, make this tech so easy to use.
If low-tech skincare is more your style, lazy evenings are perfect for pampering your skin with a face mask. We’d recommend investing in a few different masks, so that you can tailor your masking session to what your skin needs most each week. For instance, if your skin looks congested and dull, reach for the Venofye Serpent Thermatox Masque. The following week, if your skin could do with a moisture boost, apply the Beehive Hydralift Mask. Having a selection of masks to choose from enables you to really adapt and fine-tune your skincare routine.
Late Nights
While some people have busy mornings, others tend to find that evenings are more hectic for them. Whether due to social commitments or working hours, regular late nights can quickly take a toll on your skin. The effects of this can be challenging to deal with when all you want to do at the end of a long night is crawl into bed, rather than carry out your skincare routine. This then makes those late-night-induced skin problems worse, creating a vicious cycle that’s hard to break out of.
If this is the case for you, work on creating a very simple nighttime skincare routine. Save the serums and masks for when you have more time, opting for a streamlined, two-step routine for those nights when your bed is calling your name.
What should this consist of? Start with a cleanse, before finding a night cream that focuses on hydrating and replenishing your complexion. The Venofye Blossom Bee Quenching Night Cream, which is infused with a blend of plant oils and butters, would be a great choice.
Of course, in addition to adapting your evening routine to your late nights, you’ll also need to adjust your morning routine so that it compensates for what your skin has missed out on overnight, while also dealing with the visible skin concerns that arise from late nights. An antioxidant serum can be helpful for this, as can the Venofye Royal Jelly Eye BeeLift. If your late nights leave you with puffy-looking eyes in the morning, this fast-acting solution will immediately give your eye area a smoother and firmer finish.
Sedentary Days in Front of a Screen
In today’s modern world, it’s common for people to spend a large part of each day staring at a screen. Not only can a sedentary lifestyle have health implications, but it, along with all of that screen time, can impact your skin too.
An inactive lifestyle can impede blood circulation, which limits the skin’s access to oxygen and nutrients. This leads to dullness, while also accelerating the skin’s aging process. Inflammation also tends to be higher in those living a sedentary lifestyle.
What about screen time? This can cause blue light damage. There are numerous studies out there that show how the blue light emitted by digital screens speeds up the skin aging process and triggers the development of hyperpigmentation.
What can you do about this? Make sure that there are plenty of antioxidants in your skincare routine. These powerful compounds will soon brighten up the look of your dull skin. At the same time, they’ll fight against the appearance of blue light damage, keeping your skin looking healthy.
When it comes to which antioxidants to use…
Vitamin C is one of the most popular, and rightly so. However, look for products that combine vitamin C with other antioxidants. This enables it, as well as the other antioxidants, to be even more effective. The Blossom Bee Vitamin C Serum from Venofye, which brings vitamins A, C, and E together with bee venom and a blend of antioxidant-rich plant oils,
Days Spent in Polluted Environments
While UV rays are known for being the skin’s biggest environmental enemy, pollution isn’t too far behind. Small air pollutant particles, as well as gases, penetrate the skin barrier, causing serious havoc in many ways. Inflammation, cell damage, premature aging, and even skin cancer are just a few of the consequences that your skin will have to deal with if you spend a lot of time in a heavily polluted environment.
This makes it important for your skincare routine to be very focused on cleansing. A single cleanse is unlikely to be enough for you. Instead, you’ll probably need to double cleanse to ensure that you’ve removed all pollutants from your face. This technique involves cleansing with an oil-based cleanser and then cleansing again with a water-based cleanser, like Venofye’s Blossom Bee Clarifying Cream Cleanser.
Exfoliation should be an integral part of your skincare routine too. While you don’t want to end up over-exfoliating, make sure that you’re exfoliating regularly to ensure that you’re removing pollutants that have managed to lodge themselves in your pores. However, opt for an exfoliator that’s on the gentler side, like the Venofye Blossom Bee Facial Peeling. The last thing you want to do is damage your skin’s natural protective barrier with an overly aggressive exfoliator. This will only make it easier for pollutants to enter your skin, speeding up the damage you experience.
High Stress Levels
Stress is a big part of modern-day life. It affects just about everyone. However, for some – almost half of US adults, to be more specific- stress occurs on an overly frequent basis.
Why is this a problem? Whenever you feel stressed, your body releases a hormone called cortisol. It helps your body and mind to deal with that stressful situation. However, chronic stress means that cortisol is constantly running through your body, which is when the skin problems start to occur.
Cortisol affects the skin in a number of ways. It triggers inflammation and increases sebum production, leading to redness, clogged pores, and breakouts. It also interferes with skin barrier function. It prevents your skin barrier from shielding your skin cells against environmental aggressors, meaning sensitivities soar. Your skin barrier will also struggle to retain moisture, leading to dehydration.
While it’s so important to work on lowering your overall stress levels, not just for your skin but also for other aspects of your health, you should also try to adapt your skincare routine so that it’s able to effectively deal with the visible impact that stress has.
How? Look for skincare products that counter the appearance of everything we’ve discussed above, just like the Venofye Iron Bee Boosting Serum. Thanks to a blend of sodium hyaluronate, collagen, and glycerin, it quickly hydrates the skin. At the same time, the duo of peptides in this blend, combined with castor oil, leave the skin barrier feeling thicker, stronger, and more resilient. Meanwhile, vitamin C and bee venom provide antioxidant power. They’ll lower the feeling of inflammation in your skin while repairing the appearance of the oxidative damage that stress can cause.
Regularly Adapting Your Skincare Routine
Your lifestyle will change as you progress through the years, and it’s so important that your skincare routine changes alongside it. Always factor your lifestyle habits into the length of your routine and the products that you use. This will ensure that your skincare routine is always able to meet your skin’s ever-changing needs and provide the results that you’re hoping to see.
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