Does your skin seem to become more reactive during the holidays? You’re not alone – it’s a problem shared by many, and it’s an understandable one. Between the cold weather, late nights, holiday-related stress, and often copious amounts of alcohol, it’s hardly surprising that the skin can often struggle.
Wondering how to keep your skin calm during the festive season and, better yet, bring about a holiday-worthy glow? Keep reading as Venofye shares all of the tips you need to know.
Prioritize Hydration
Dehydration is one of the most common issues faced by the skin during the holiday season. From the lack of humidity in the air to all of the sugar-filled foods and festive cocktails you consume, so many different aspects of the holidays contribute to skin dehydration.
With dehydration quickly leading to dullness, dryness, and a whole host of other skin problems, prioritizing hydration is a must if you want your skin to look flawlessly radiant at every holiday event you attend.
Start by ensuring internal hydration. Make sure that you’re drinking plenty of water, especially if your alcohol consumption rises during the festive period. Herbal teas and fruit juices also contribute to your body’s hydration levels. These beverages also contain antioxidants that can help to keep your skin calm from within.
Then, turn your attention to topical hydration. There should be several moisture-boosting formulas in your holiday skincare routine, just like the Venofye Iron Bee Boosting Serum. This serum is packed with moisture-binding humectants, ensuring that your skin feels thoroughly quenched after every application.
Focus on Ingredients That Soothe the Feeling of Inflammation
Whether your skin has been looking red and blotchy or clogged and spotty, there’s one thing that these holiday-related skin concerns have in common: inflammation. Triggered by stress, weather changes, and several other factors, inflammation significantly affects the complexion in many ways.
The good news? If you want to keep your skin calm and prevent the feeling of inflammation, there are certain skincare ingredients that do this very well. Aloe vera is one, with this botanical revered for how it alleviates the appearance of inflammatory reactions in the skin. Bee venom – our signature ingredient at Venofye – acts in the same way, as do several other skincare ingredients.
If you’d like to squeeze a few of these complexion-soothing compounds into your skincare routine, give the Venofye Blossom Bee Facial Toner a try. Infused with aloe vera leaf juice, chamomile extract, cucumber fruit extract, and bee venom, it’s loaded with ingredients that will leave your skin feeling calm and balanced.
Keep Your Skincare Routine Simple
When getting ready for a holiday event, it can be tempting to go overboard with your skincare routine. It’s an understandable mistake to make. It’s easy to believe that the more products you apply to your skin, the better it will look for the next few hours.
While this may be true in some cases, the opposite can also occur, especially if you and your skin are already feeling stressed with everything that’s going on. You need to keep your skin barrier feeling supported and capable of working to its full potential. Apply too many products to your skin, and you’ll only end up overwhelming it.
So, when prepping your skin before a holiday party, keep your skincare routine simple. Cleanse your skin, apply just a couple of other skincare products, and then move in with makeup if needed. It goes without saying that this is also not the time to experiment with new formulas. You don’t want to find yourself suddenly dealing with irritated skin just as a big event is kicking off!
Double Cleanse After Big Events
Each holiday event that you attend will see your skin exposed to new germs, environmental pollutants (these are present indoors as well), and more. It goes without saying that you don’t want any of these to linger on your skin, which is why double cleansing after big events can be helpful. While a single cleanse is, more often than not, all you need, double cleansing gets the job done much more thoroughly, ensuring that not a single impurity is left behind.
Never double cleansed before? It’s simple. While it can technically be done with just one cleanser, the best results are seen when two different cleansers are used. The first should be an oil-based cleanser. Oil attracts oil, so oil-based cleansers are excellent for removing oil-based impurities, like sebum and makeup. This is then followed up with a water-based cleanser, like the Venofye Blossom Bee Clarifying Cream Cleanser. When it comes to clearing away water-based impurities, like sweat and dirt, water-based cleansers are the way to go.
Double cleansing in this way enables you to remove every type of impurity from your skin, ensuring that your holiday events don’t have a long-lasting impact on your complexion.
Be Careful Not to Over-Exfoliate
There’s no denying that exfoliation can give your skin an instant glow, which is exactly what you want to see when you’re getting ready for a festive party. This is why you may be tempted to exfoliate a little more aggressively or more often than you usually do. However, this will only lead to over-exfoliation – a problem for a few reasons. Over-exfoliation will not only do away with that gorgeous, post-exfoliation glow, but it will also leave your skin red, sensitive, and dealing with an array of other issues.
If you want to keep your skin calm yet radiant throughout the holiday season, be careful not to make the mistake of over-exfoliating. Ideally, in the winter months, you should be exfoliating slightly less than you do in the summer, so bumping this up purely because of a holiday party won’t do your skin any favors.
When you do exfoliate, use a gentle, winter-suitable exfoliator. The Venofye Blossom Bee Facial Peeling would be a great choice. This peeling gel effectively removes dead skin cells, pore blockages, and other deep-seated impurities to leave the skin feeling refreshed yet not irritated in the slightest.
Turn to Complexion-Calming Face Masks
All of those holiday events can take a toll on your skin, making it important to give it some TLC in between festivities. Face masks are a great way to do this, so long as you choose a mask that has been designed to soothe, rather than stimulate, the complexion.
The Serpent Thermatox Mask from the Venofye Serpent Thermatox Collection does exactly that. Being a thermal mask, it gently heats up once applied. This immediately leaves the skin feeling relaxed. Meanwhile, the infusion of sweet almond oil, arnica montana extract, and vitamin E contains multiple complexion-calming properties that will quickly have your skin feeling happier and less stressed.
The Venofye Beehive HydraLift Mask would be another great addition to your holiday skincare routine. Its leave-on format makes it so convenient to use, even after a late night. This provides extended contact with your skin, enabling the mask’s numerous hydrating ingredients and antioxidants to absorb into your skin even more effectively.
Embrace LED Light Therapy
Skincare devices can be a clever way to give your skin a pick-me-up without overloading it with yet more topical products. LED light therapy devices are particularly effective at doing this. Depending on the LED wavelength that you use, you could soothe, tighten, and brighten the look of your skin to give your complexion a youthful glow in all of your holiday photos!
Not sure where to begin? The Photonix-2 Jade Eye Wand is a good place to start. This handheld device has been designed with the eye area in mind. With the skin here being particularly thin and prone to wrinkling, it’s a useful device to have around. It comes with two modes, red and blue. This enables you to tailor your use of it to the visible skin concerns you’re currently experiencing.
Don’t Overindulge
Festive meals tend to be high in simple carbohydrates, unhealthy fats, and refined sugars. Combine this with the extra alcohol that people often drink at this time of year, and it’s hardly surprising that the skin can take offence! All of those food groups have their own detrimental impact on the skin, resulting in everything from redness and inflammation to dryness and flaking.
If you want to keep your skin calm throughout the upcoming holiday events, try not to overindulge too often. By all means, feast on those festive treats, but do so in moderation. Balance out any unhealthy meals with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. This will ensure that your body is still receiving plenty of antioxidants.
Stress Management is Everything
There’s no point trying to keep your skin calm this holiday season if, at the same time, your stress levels have gone into overdrive. Whenever you start to feel stressed, the cortisol that your body releases severely impacts your skin. This hormone triggers inflammation, breaks down the skin’s protein fibers, increases oil production, and more.
This makes stress management essential over the holidays, not only for your mental health but also for the sake of your skin. Start by making sure that you don’t over-commit yourself – focus on who and what is most important.
You should also be prioritizing self-care throughout the holiday season. Make time for yourself, get plenty of sleep, and try to stay active. Add in some deep breathing or mindfulness exercises whenever things start to feel hectic, and you’ll find it much easier to stay in control of your stress levels.
Summary
It’s never fun to have to deal with irritated and inflamed skin, especially during the holidays. However, follow the tips that we’ve shared, and you’ll be able to keep your skin calm throughout the festivities, ensuring that you’re always rocking a radiant glow!
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