Morning Skincare Routine That Boosts Radiance
Want your skin to look fresh and radiant throughout the day? Try this morning skincare routine from Vivo Per Lei. It will give your skin exactly what it needs at the start of the day to ensure a luminescent glow that lasts until evening.
Start With a Glass of Water
While topical products are undeniably a good way to care for your skin, true radiance can only be achieved if your whole body is hydrated. So, the first thing that you should do for your skin soon after waking is to drink a glass of water. Since the body loses a lot of fluid overnight, this has a big rehydrating effect, not just on your body but on your skin too.
For even more benefits, infuse your morning glass of water with some fruit, such as lemon. This will give your body, as well as your skin, an extra boost of antioxidants.
Gently Cleanse Your Skin
When it comes to your morning skincare routine, the very first step to take is to cleanse your skin. However, this needs to be done gently. So long as you’ve thoroughly cleansed the night before and you’ve slept on a clean pillowcase, there should only be a small amount of sebum and dead cells on your skin’s surface. A gentle cleanser is all you’ll need to remove this. Go overboard with a more aggressive formula, and your skin will likely only feel irritated for the rest of the day.
What do we mean by gentle? Go for a sulfate-free cleanser that contains plenty of skin-loving extracts and other ingredients. You’ll also need to match the product that you use to your skin type. For example, if you have dry or sensitive skin, pick a cleanser that caters to this, such as the super-hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Daily Facial Wash from Vivo Per Lei. With amino acids, sodium hyaluronate, jojoba oil, and hemp seed oil, it will leave your skin feeling stronger. On the other hand, the Vivo Per Lei Collagen Foaming Cleanser would be a better choice for oily or combination skin. Foaming cleansers work particularly well at lifting excess oil. With this one infused with the likes of collagen, vitamins, and peptides, you won’t have to worry about it being over-drying on your skin.
Exfoliate If Needed
Exfoliation isn’t something that you’ll be doing every morning. It should only be carried out between 1-3 times a week, depending on your skin type. In fact, exfoliation might not need to be in your morning skincare routine at all. Many prefer to do it in the evenings, so that their skin has all night to recuperate before facing any environmental damage, which exfoliation leaves the skin temporarily more vulnerable to.
However, there are some benefits that come from exfoliating in the mornings. The way in which exfoliation removes dead skin cells can really brighten up the look of the skin. This newfound radiance can then be enhanced even further by the use of the right skincare products. There’s nothing quite like the glow that comes from freshly exfoliated skin!
If you decide to exfoliate in the mornings, follow the same guidelines as when choosing a cleanser: keep it gentle. Over-exfoliating will only irritate your skin and damage your skin barrier, causing redness and inflammation that will detract from your skin’s glow.
Splash on a Balancing Toner
While a toner isn’t essential after cleansing or exfoliating, it can make a big difference if you’re hoping to achieve a more radiant complexion. Toners work to rebalance the pH level of the skin’s surface, which can often be thrown off by cleansers and exfoliators. Putting this right helps to keep the skin feeling healthy, while also boosting the absorption of other skincare products.
Plus, many toners offer additional benefits too. From hydrating the skin to minimizing the look of large pores to reducing how greasy the skin feels, pick a toner that has been designed to help with the skin concerns you’re dealing with, and you should see better results from your entire skincare routine.
Apply an Antioxidant Serum
During the day, your skin has to deal with so much environmental damage. Yes, it has its natural defense system to help keep some of that damage at bay. However, it’s difficult for this to hold up to modern-day life. Pollution, blue light damage, and more all trigger free radical damage in the skin. This accelerates the onset of skin aging, causing wrinkles and discoloration to appear much earlier in life.
The best way to prevent and fight the appearance of free radical damage? Antioxidants. This is why experts always recommend incorporating an antioxidant serum into morning skincare routines, which is exactly what you should be doing too.
Our recommendation? The Vivo Per Lei 24K Gold Caviar Serum. It contains retinol, which is not only a powerful antioxidant but also a game-changer when it comes to brightening the complexion. This serum is infused with several antioxidant-rich plant extracts too. Algae, snow mushroom, fig, and chrysanthemum come together to provide an array of phytochemicals that keep the skin feeling even better protected against environmental damage during the day.
Layer On a Hydrating Serum
While antioxidants should be a key part of your morning skincare routine for the sake of defense, hydration needs to be considered too. The antioxidant serum that we featured above contains some excellent hydrating ingredients, but if you really want to enhance your natural glow, an extra layer of hydration would be beneficial. Sandwiching moisture into your skin in this way will immediately leave it looking plumper. This will allow it to better reflect light, giving it a luminescent finish.
The best hydrating serums contain plenty of humectants. These are ingredients that bind moisture to the skin, meaning that they bump up hydration levels very quickly. Hyaluronic acid is one of the most famous humectants around, mainly because of how effective it is! You’ll find sodium hyaluronate, an even more hydrating form of hyaluronic acid, in the Vivo Per Lei Aloe Soothing Facial Serum. It’s joined by a few other humectants, while its short ingredient list makes it easy to squeeze into a morning skincare routine without overloading your skin.
If you’re worried that an extra serum in your morning skincare routine will leave you dealing with clogged pores all day, give the Vivo Per Lei Radiance Gold Facial Serum a try. Again, it brings together a selection of different humectants. However, it also contains salicylic acid. This beta-hydroxy acid is revered for how it keeps the pores feeling clear and clog-free!
De-Puff With an Eye Cream
For many, puffy under-eyes are part and parcel of morning times. While some people only experience them after a late night, they’re a regular occurrence for others.
The good news is that it’s pretty easy to de-puff your complexion, so long as you have the right eye cream. Many ingredients have a smoothing and soothing effect on the look of the skin. This enables them to quickly lower the look of swelling and puffiness.
You’ll find several of those ingredients in the Vivo Per Lei Collagen Eye Firming Cream. If your eye area needs some TLC at the start of the day, this is a great eye cream to add to your morning skincare routine. Not only will it do away with puffy-looking eyes, but it will also give your eye area a brighter and more radiant finish.
Moisturize Your Skin
Moisturizing is a crucial part of any morning skincare routine for a few reasons. Firstly, it provides another layer of hydration, which everybody would benefit from. The seal that a moisturizer creates over the skin’s surface works to lock that hydration in. It slows down how quickly moisture from within the skin evaporates, meaning that your skin remains hydrated for longer.
Some moisturizers offer additional benefits too. The Pumpkin and Collagen Day Cream from Vivo Per Lei, for instance, will leave your skin looking smoother, plumper, and firmer. This enhances its light reflection capabilities, leaving you with a more radiant complexion.
Of course, it’s also important to keep your skin type in mind when choosing a moisturizer. While our Pumpkin and Collagen Day Cream works for most skin types, the Marine Sensitive Facial Hydro-Gel is a much lighter option that won’t leave your skin feeling heavy or greasy.
Don’t forget to also switch up your moisturizer depending on the time of year. The winter months call for a much richer day cream than the summer months require.
Finish With Sun Protection
Last but definitely not least: sun protection. Many would say that this is the most important part of any morning skincare routine. With the sun believed to be responsible for up to 80% of the visible signs of aging that develop on the face over time, keeping the appearance of sun damage at bay can do great things for your complexion.
Experts generally recommend going with an SPF 30 sunscreen. Make sure that it’s a broad-spectrum formula, so that you receive protection from both UVA and UVB rays.
One thing to keep in mind is that incorporating a sunscreen into your morning skincare routine isn’t going to be enough to keep your skin protected all day. Most sunscreens only provide adequate protection for a couple of hours. After this, you’ll need to reapply the product to keep protection at an optimum level. This means that a few applications a day will be needed if you want your skin to truly glow.
Creating the Perfect Morning Skincare Routine
Everyone’s skin is different, meaning that your morning skincare routine needs to be tailored to your skin’s unique needs. The guidelines that we’ve shared above will get you off to a great start. After this, you can then work on making any necessary adjustments to your routine to ensure that your skin is receiving everything it requires.
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