While there’s nothing wrong with following the same skincare routine day and night, this does mean that you won’t be fully giving your skin all that it needs. After all, your skin’s requirements during the day, when it needs protection from the sun, pollution, and other environmental aggressors, differ from its evening needs, which is when your skin cells focus on repair and rejuvenation.
This is why it’s wise to have two different skincare routines, each one tailored to the time of day. Don’t worry – this doesn’t mean that you need to have two completely different sets of skincare products. Instead, read on as Celestolite explains how to easily and effectively transition your skincare from day to night.
Add in a Second Cleanser
While cleansing your skin once is sufficient in the mornings, some evenings may call for a double cleanse. If you’re not familiar with this increasingly popular K-beauty technique, it involves cleansing your skin with an oil-based cleanser and then cleansing your skin again with a water-based cleanser, like the Celestolite Estrella Mousse Cleanser.
Why would you want to do this? Because it ensures a much more thorough cleanse. The oil-based cleanser takes care of oil-based impurities, like sebum and pollutants. Then, the water-based cleanser removes water-based impurities, like dirt and sweat.
It’s not necessary to double cleanse every night – over-cleansing can actually end up harming your skin. However, double cleansing every once in a while, when you feel like your skin would benefit from an extra cleanse, can make a huge difference to your skin.
Boost Hydration With a Toner
Toners aren’t considered to be an essential skincare product, meaning that it’s one that many choose to skip in the mornings. However, in the evenings, when you have more time, a toner can really help to enhance your entire routine.
How? Firstly, by rebalancing the pH level on your skin’s surface. This can often be thrown off by cleansing and can cause a number of skin problems. A good toner will also hydrate your skin, provide some extra nutrients, and leave your skin cells feeling more receptive to the rest of your routine.
With that said, make sure that you pick a toner that’s suitable for nighttime use. The Celestolite Estrella Facial Toner is one, with this formula loved for its super-hydrating effects. Thanks to its blend of aloe vera, cucumber, and chamomile extracts, it will soothe the look of inflammation as well, while witch hazel extract will keep your pores looking small.
Spend Time on Eye Care
Daytime skincare routines usually contain fewer steps and products than nighttime skincare routines. Why? Firstly, because mornings tend to be busy. Not many people have the time to follow 10-15 different skincare steps in the morning. Plus, between sweat, pollution, makeup, and everything else that settles onto your skin over the course of the day, you need to keep your morning skincare routine relatively light to avoid clogged pores and congestion.
The evenings, however, are the perfect time to add in some extra products, and eye care is a great place to start. The skin around the eyes is extremely thin and benefits from dedicated products, such as the Celestolite Estrella Eye Serum. This serum focuses on reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes while also brightening the look of the eye area. It’s filled with a number of noteworthy ingredients, including sodium hyaluronate, peptides, vitamin C, and licorice root extract.
Meanwhile, the Celestolite Estrella Hydrating Eye Cream is all about boosting the skin’s moisture content. Due to how thin the skin around the eyes is, it’s very prone to dehydration. With the peptides, plant oils, and plant extracts in this formula, your eye area will soon feel softer and beautifully supple.
Layer in an Extra Serum
During the day, you need to keep your skin feeling protected from the environment. This is why the best serums for daytime use are formulas that are loaded with antioxidants. These powerful compounds help to prevent the appearance of free radical damage while keeping the skin feeling strong and healthy. Vitamin C serums, like the Celestolite Estrella Renewing Vitamin C Serum, do the job beautifully, with vitamin C being one of the most-loved antioxidants in skincare.
Of course, antioxidants are beneficial in the evening too. So, go ahead and include the same antioxidant serum in your evening skincare routine as well. However, now would also be a good time to layer in an extra serum, such as one that focuses on hydration. Why? Because skin moisture levels drop at night. This means that your skin cells would really benefit from a moisture boost before you go to bed.
A serum like the Celestolite Cosmic Firming Serum, which hydrates with a combination of sodium hyaluronate, lactic acid, and glycerin, while also providing some antioxidant power with vitamins A and C, would be a great addition to any evening skincare routine.
Incorporate Targeted Products
Did you know that your skin is more permeable at night? This essentially means that topical products will have a much easier time penetrating your skin in the evenings than they would in the mornings. This is why experts always recommend saving targeted products for nighttime use.
How do you know which targeted products you need? By deciding which skin concerns you want to tackle, and then finding formulas that will help you to do just that.
Say, for example, you’ve been noticing dark spots appearing on your face. The Celestolite Nova Dark Spot Corrector is a specialized solution that has been specifically formulated to fade the visibility of dark spots. With a concentrated cocktail of proven ingredients, including kojic acid, arbutin, vitamin C, peptides, and plant extracts, it will soon have your skin looking brighter and more even.
Use a Thicker Moisturizer
As we mentioned earlier, it’s best to keep your daytime skincare routine relatively lightweight. This thinking needs to apply to your choice of moisturizer too. You need a cream that will hydrate your skin without weighing it down, just like the Celestolite Estrella Awakening Day Cream.
However, in the evenings, a richer cream can be helpful. Not only will this help to provide a thicker seal over your skin’s surface to ensure that all of those active ingredients you’ve just applied remain locked into your skin, but it will also combat the increased moisture loss that your skin experiences overnight.
This is why a dedicated night cream, such as the Celestolite Estrella Night Cream, would be a worthy purchase. This moisturizer is slightly thicker than our day cream, yet it doesn’t leave the skin feeling greasy. The fatty acid-rich ingredients in this moisturizer, such as shea butter, will also ensure that your skin barrier feels supported while you snooze.
Treat Your Skin to an Overnight Mask
One effective way to really enhance your nighttime skincare routine is to add in an overnight mask. These face masks take masking to the next level due to how they don’t need to be rinsed off. Instead, they remain on your skin, giving them hours to sink in and saturate your skin cells with all of their beneficial ingredients.
Just like with any face mask, overnight masks shouldn’t be used daily. However, including one in your evening skincare routine once a week could give your complexion a huge boost!
If you haven’t yet fallen in love with an overnight mask, turn your attention to the Celestolite Jade Spectra Mask. Not only will it hydrate your skin but check out its ingredient list and you’ll see an action-packed blend of superfood extracts. From pomegranate and goji to bilberry and acai berry, these fruits are all known for having a superior antioxidant content. They’ll leave your skin cells feeling recharged and ready to take on all of the tasks that they face that night.
Save Exfoliation for the Evenings
While some people prefer to exfoliate in the morning, there are a few benefits that come from saving this skincare step for the evening…
For starters, once again, you’ll save a few minutes. Exfoliating adds extra time to your skincare routine. Plus, exfoliation leaves your skin temporarily more vulnerable to sun damage. Exfoliate in the evening and you won’t have to worry about this. Finally, if you’re saving your potent active ingredients for your nighttime skincare routine, it makes sense to exfoliate then as well. Exfoliation will clear a path for those active ingredients to sink deeper into your skin. This will make your entire evening skincare routine more effective.
Of course, your choice of exfoliator will influence this too. You don’t want to end up accidentally over-exfoliating your skin so keep things gentle with a product like the Celestolite Estrella Facial Peel. It will exfoliate without irritating, paving the way for the rest of your skincare products.
Enhance Your Nighttime Routine With a Skincare Device
Have some extra time to spare in the evenings? A skincare device could be a helpful addition to your routine. There are now so many different devices out there to choose from. Each one is designed to assist the skin in its own unique way.
If you aren’t sure where to begin, give LED light therapy a try. It has been around for a while and numerous studies confirm its efficacy. It can help with the appearance of everything from wrinkles to dark spots to acne, so long as the device that you choose offers multiple modes.
This is where the Photonix-2 Eye Wand excels. It’s well-designed, easy to use, and will help with just about every visible skin concern that you may experience in your eye area over the years. From the appearance of crow’s feet to puffy-looking under-eyes, this device will quickly become your best friend!
Summary
While you don’t need to completely overhaul your daytime skincare routine to adapt it to your skin’s needs in the evenings, making a few tweaks to the products that you’re using, as well as adding in a few extras, can be very beneficial. This way, you’ll ensure that your skin is receiving everything that it requires to thrive while you sleep, leaving you with healthier-looking skin in the mornings.
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