How to Get Glowing Skin
If you’ve ever taken photos during sunset, you know exactly how perfect golden hour looks on our skin.
With the sun pouring late daylight all over our faces, for a moment in time, our skin tone and texture look radiant and even. A true glow that highlights your best features. What if those benefits weren’t limited to the golden hour? If you want to know how to get glowing skin all hours, don’t fret. We’re here to break down the basics and guide you into a skincare routine that supports your needs.
What Does It Mean To Have Glowing Skin?
Photo filters aside, when we strip down to our naked face, we’re all pores, fuzzies and texture. This is a totally natural canvas to work with. Some people like to utilize tools that can specifically address dark spots, dry skin, fine lines and skin tone.
Glowing skin can look and feel a little different to everyone, especially since we’re all working from a different blueprint.
The Definition Of Glowing Skin
To have glowing skin means to feel the radiance and brightness your skin is capable of offering. Glowing skin looks revitalized, dewy, awake and ready to take on the world.
To have glowing skin is to have your skin care routine dialed in. It means your sun exposure, diet and lifestyle skin care treatments and at home skin care routine, are all in tune and complement each other on the great balance beam of being human.
Attain Healthy Skin, And The Glow Will Follow
We can sit here and discuss the parameters for achieving glowing skin via facial massage, but without a healthy skincare routine, radiance cannot prevail.
Healthy skin has average cell turnover, is cleansed daily, exfoliated weekly and protected from harmful UV rays. Healthy skin is moisturized and knows that no make-up days sometimes are important to let your pores take a few deep breaths.
Things That Influence Your Skin’s Health
There are so many variables that influence the state of our skin and its trajectory toward a more consistent state of being. Having healthy skin looks different for everyone. And that’s part of what makes each person’s skin beautiful as it is.
Genetics And Health History
There’s more than enough data via published journals and peer reviewed studies that show us that genetics play a huge chunk of a role in our skin health.
Just because you have a certain blueprint, doesn’t mean you can’t prevent harmful exposure to your skin or build your own plan for skin success.
Lifestyle And Exercise
Our daily lifestyle choices can play a vital role in the health of our skin. Choices like smoking, alcohol, lack of sleep stress and anxiety can all affect your skin negatively.
However, if you’re looking for an anti-inflammatory measure that can also boost your blood circulation, we’ve got just the trick. Exercise has huge impacts on the vitality of our skin. In addition to transporting oxygen throughout the body to nourish skin cells, the blood flow also helps remove free radicals and waste products. The endorphin released during exercise can improve stress induced skin conditions such as acne and rosacea. If you’re not in the habit of applying sunscreen yet, stop everything you’re doing and pick up some SPF.
Protecting your skin from the sun's harmful rays is arguably the most important thing you can do to preserve collagen and keep your skin hydrated.
Diet And Habits
Keeping healthy skin also means proper nutrition and the habits surrounding it. There are certain foods that are high in antioxidants that bring walk-through or warmth to our cheeks through cell regeneration and oxygen flow.
Fatty acids like omega-3s can often be found in avocados, walnuts and other delicious treats. Being intentional about creating options for a healthy snack can help promote a substantial variety of gut flora, which is directly connected to every process in our body.
If you’re not in the habit of applying sunscreen yet, stop everything you’re doing and pick up some SPF. Protecting your skin from the sun's harmful rays is arguably the most important thing you can do to preserve collagen and keep your skin hydrated.
Steps To Have In Your Skincare Routine For Glowing Skin
Keeping your skin care routine simple but effective is easier than it sounds. With a couple key products, you can dial in your skin care set up to identify and treat your exact needs.
Use A Cleanser
Cleansers are the first line of defense when it comes to clear, supple skin. As your pores respond to the warm steam while you’re cleansing your face, they receive all of the ingredients your cleanser has designed to keep your oil levels in check and remove dirt and grime.
Cleansing in the morning and before bed can also be helpful in combating and loosening up blackheads. As long as you are using the right cleanser and not stripping your skin of its natural oils, of course!
Exfoliate
Exfoliation doesn't just get rid of dead skin cells, it also helps with other skin imperfections and improves the effectiveness of your regular skincare routine.
Moisturize Your Skin
Being consistent about keeping your skin moisturized means you’re offering a level of hydration and therefore supple, bouncy skin. Without moisturizer, and especially while you’re utilizing a specific cleanser, your skin can begin to dry out and accelerate whatever concerns you’re attempting to avoid.
Always Wear Sunscreen For Protection
Any esthetician or dermatologist will tell you that sunscreen is the number one anti-aging product on the shelves, and always will be.
Sunscreen keeps your skin safe from the damage of ultraviolet rays and balanced enough to not dry you out completely in the hot sun.
Personalized Products To Add To Your Routine
For the times where you may have a gap in scheduling, personalized products for at home are available and encouraged to be used at all times even more so if you are going more than a few months without facial treatment. Using the right products when dealing with an overbooked schedule or traveling can help maintain the consistency you’re seeing from your regularly scheduled treatments.
Professional Treatments That Promote Skin Health
Personalized skincare doesn’t have to be intimidating or out of your reach. Working with an esthetician who can help you identify your skin care goals is your biggest area for growth.
Bespoke Signature Facial
Offering exfoliation, extractions, vitamin infusions and more, the Bespoke Facial takes your skin type into consideration while your esthetician formulates the perfect concoction. Depending upon what you and your esthetician determine as your focal points, there are over five non-invasive modalities that can be utilized during this treatment.
Microneedling
Microneedling exists to induce collagen production and accelerate your body's regenerative processes. Microneedling gives way to levels that allow active ingredients to penetrate deep into the skin.
Fire And Ice Facial
Also known as the “Red Carpet Facial” this intensive treatment designed to rapidly and safely resurface the skin, reduce fine lines and wrinkles and improve the look of blemish-prone skin. What makes this facial treatment unique is that it doesn’t just improve the appearance of the skin’s texture, it changes the skin at the cellular level. If you’re interested in more treatments that are unique, affordable and effective this may be the exact option you’re looking for.
If you’re curious about how to get started, schedule your consultation with JE’DERM skin atelier today!