We all love the holidays. It’s the time everyone is waiting for, family reunions, get-togethers, wine, roasted chestnuts, and your charcuterie and cheese board.
While we enjoy the holiday revelry, if you’re not careful, stress can find its way to haunt you in the coming year. That is why, it is essential that you also take care of the most important person in the world, you.
Your skin is probably the last thing you will be thinking of. It’s not just what you have in your charcuterie board that has big effects on your skin, but also what you might not be doing. You can be at your most-sleep deprived moments during the holidays too, and a lack of sleep contributes a lot to your skin acting up.
While we are known to spend a lot more for others during this season, let’s not forget that the holiday season is also a time to pamper ourselves, be generous to our skin and indulge in some luxurious treatments.
Here are ways to have a totally stress free holiday
Eat a balanced diet
The holiday season is one of those times when we indulge in more than a few sweets, or sodium loaded food. We skip our usual diet and these are not good for the skin. Eat more foods that are rich in vitamins and essential fatty acids like fruits, fish, nuts and vegetables.
Choose high quality food with a diversity of phytonutrients and eat them to support metabolic balance and optimal nutrition status, rather than count calories.
The Core Food Plan provides a healthy balance of quality protein, fats, and carbohydrates with a diversity of beneficial and phytonutrient-rich fruits and vegetables to establish a baseline healthy eating plan.
Don’t forget your beauty sleep.
Sleep plays a key role in your health.
With all the gatherings you attend during this season, you might not get enough sleep. You need your beauty sleep like you need to eat. The goal is having 6-8 hours of quality sleep every night.
Lack of quality sleep or sleep deprivation comes at a great cost to our health in the short and long term. Insufficient quality and quantity of sleep in the short term leads to low energy, inability to focus and irritability. Long term effects can lead to obesity, Alzheimer’s, and will most certainly reduce your longevity .
One prominent review linked insufficient sleep to an increased obesity risk .Other studies conclude that less than 7–8 hours per night increases your risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
If you are aiming for optimal health and well-being, then you should make sleep a top priority.
Exercise
If there’s a time where you need exercise more, it’s the holidays. Working out increases your oxygen level and this is very beneficial to your skin, leaving it firmer and nourished. Physical activity is always a good stress reliever.
All of these activities are sure-fire ways of eliminating stress during the holidays.
Here are 10 beauty solutions
that will enhance what you already have so you can flaunt the best YOU this holiday season, stress-free!
1. Yllume White Caps
To have beautiful, glowing skin, you need to start from within. Makeup can only cover up your flaws but the glow in your face comes from inside you.
Yllume White Caps is a vegi brightening capsule for all skin types. It has sun protection to protect you from those harmful UV rays. The colorless carotenoid component have a direct effect on skin pigmentation by reducing the melanin content in the skin cell.
It contains PhytoflORal , an all-natural powder extract from non-genetically modified tomatoes will make you glow from the inside out while the potent antioxidants , vitamins and minerals effectively counteracts the signs of ageing.
2. Neostrata Intensive Eye Therapy
Sleepless nights can cause fine lines around your eyes. The Neostrata Intensive Eye Therapy contains peptides that help in the production of collagen and Neoglucosamine that makes the collagen structure strong. It lifts and firms the area around your eyes and smoothen fine lines. It also helps relieve your eye from puffiness and diminish dark circles. This is suitable for all skin types.
3. Biologique Recherche Lotion P50T
Let’s face it. The cool weather can make your skin dryer. A good toner with anti-inflammatory components comes handy. While this is suitable for all skin type, this is the gentlest exfoliator for sensitive skin.
Biologique Recerche is a French biological skincare line that has over 30 years of experience in developing the most powerful and effective skincare products in the beauty industry . P50t is a magic potion that does it all. Exfoliates, Hydrates, and Balances the pH of the skin, it’s a prep step before any skincare. It is more of a toner that balances the skin’s pH, protects and strengthens the epidermis, hydrates, while also exfoliating dead skin cells and impurities. It is a gentle balancing exfoliator recommended for Normal to Oily Skin.
4. Zein Obagi Oil Control Pads Acne Treatment
When stressed, your skin is prone to acne. If you have oily skin, this super acne treatment with 2% salicylic lotion is perfect for controlling your skin from having an acne breakout.
The ZO Oil Control Pads Acne Treatment is an invigorating acne treatment-prevention solution designed to be used with a complementary acne treatment program.
ZO Skin Health Oil Control Pads Acne Treatment contains 2% Salicylic Acid. It removes dead skin cells, removes dirt and oil from the pores. The salicylic acid provides acne treatment, targets oiliness and minimizes the appearance of pores. It also has a cooling agent that soothes skin irritation.
5. Tizo3 Primer/Sunscreen SPF 40
TIZO3® is a sheer, tinted facial mineral sunscreen that offers cosmetically elegant sun protection with a matte finish. TIZO3® layers invisibly under makeup to replace one’s foundation primer. It is tinted, with physical broad spectrum protection. It is gentle enough on all skin, even the most sensitive skin. It is photostable and will not degrade in sunlight. It is free of chemical sunscreen filters, dyes, fragrances, oils and preservative. Moreover, it is nature friendly since it is Reef friendly.
While the holidays can have cooler weather, it is still essential that you go outdoors with SPF. This is lightly tinted primer with antioxidants and Vit. C & E disappears into any skin color It also comes with an SPF 40 to make sure you get your dose of sunscreen while enjoying outdoors.
6. Kamedis Sebo and PSO Dandruff Kit
Because the cold weather can aggravate dry scalp and dandruff, here’s an amazing product for irritated, itchy scalp. Made with a botanical formula (without harmful ingredients), this shampoo and scalp lotion is a complete solution for dandruff. This is also helpful for people with atopic dermatitis and psoriasis.
Kamedis SEBO & PSO Dandruff Shampoo is a rich, lightly foaming shampoo that soothes and purifies your scalp, cleanses and improves flaky and itchy scalp. It is enriched with Kamedis’ purified botanicals and active ingredients which are ideal for flaky, itchy, red dandruff-prone scalp.
The primary botanicals included are Soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi), a natural detergent known to have anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties, and the other is Indigo(Indigofera tinctoria). This formula displays the vivid natural color of its featured botanicals. Kamedis products for dandruff are clinically proven to reduce dandruff by 50% in just 2 weeks.
7. Luscious Lips by Infractyte
Plump up those lips for your holiday look. This lip plumper is all you need to have that pouting, seductive lips without needles. It is a lip plumper, volumizer, anti-ageing and moisturizing premium lip therapy all rolled into one. Perfect for any skin type.
Luscious Lips is an anti-aging and volumizing lip product that gives you fuller, shapely, and more youthful looking lips. It decreases the appearance of lip creases and fine lines around the mouth. It increases collagen levels to redefine lip contours and volume instantly without irritation. It restores the youthfulness and plumpness of the lips by increased strength and resiliency.
Components of this product are powerful antioxidants such as Vitamin C and E , Plant extracts and super fruit berries. It also contains organic moisturizing oils and hyaluronic acid.
8. Biologique Recherche Amniotique E.
The Biologique Recherche Amniotique E is a hydration serum, and is a must-have for all dehydrated skin, from sensitive to sensitize to oily tendency. With cellular extracts of amniotic fluid and embryo extract, this highly concentrated serum will leave the upper layers of the epidermis feeling intensely hydrated, smooth and relieved of tightness. It is ideal for stressed, devitalized, dehydrated and/or sensitive, sensitive skin.
This renewing, regenerating and repairing serum is rich in soothing active ingredients for mature skin. This serum penetrates deeper into the skin to deliver active ingredients. Using serum regularly can make your skin firmer, smoother and make the pores smaller. This is a highly concentrated serum that leaves the skin’s upper layer hydrated.
9. Neostrata Bionic Face Cream
No beauty regimen is complete without the face cream. As we age, the skin loses its natural hydration and suppleness. This is anti-ageing face cream provides intense hydration to help restore your skin’s suppleness and moisture. It also calms and soothes devitalized skin. This is good for dry, sensitive skin.
10. Biologique Recherche Crème ADN Elastine & Collagène Marine
As we age, collagen production decreases. Collagen production starts to decline at age 25. Collagen is important in slowing down ageing. This premium intensive rejuvenating cream plumps, tones, and restructures the skin. This is ideal for mature and fragile skin. This is something even your mom can’t resist.
The Crème ADN Elastine & Collagène Marine is a rejuvenating treatment for all skin types. With all-natural, revitalizing ingredients such as Yeast Extract and Marine Elastin Extract, Biologique Recherche’s Creme ADN Elastine Marine Collagene Marin intensely hydrates the skin to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines linked to dehydration. This hydrating formula nourishes the top layers of the skin’s epidermis to leave you with younger looking skin.
It is a powerful anti-aging face cream that plumps and tones while creating a barrier against external, environmental aggressors to protect against future damage. Using patented DNA technology, this anti-aging face cream repairs and regenerates the skin. At the heart of this unique, small batch formula are concentrated doses of Marin Elastin Extracts which create a powerful and potent cream that is effective for maturing and mature skin.
Make this year’s holiday season different. Redefine your beauty regimen. Glowing starts from within. As the holiday lights glow, so will your skin. Visit this page for our complete line up of holiday skincare solutions.
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