7 Foolproof Ways to Achieve Perfect Skin–No Filter Necessary
Who needs Valencia, Mayfair, or Hudson when you’ve got these skin-perfecting products?
Among the Holy Grails of beauty, skin that you actually want to show off ranks right at the top of the list. Because “perfect skin”—whatever that exactly means to you—can be so damn hard to achieve. That’s what makes these seven simple makeup and skin products so remarkable. They create the kind of complexion many of us have been chasing for years: one that you’ll actually want to put on display, filter-free.
Perricone MD Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Eye Cream
You might just break up with your undereye concealer once you start dabbing on this awesome eye cream. Not only does it moisturize like a total champ, making even the driest skin look smooth and supple, it helps deflate puffy bags and reduce dark circles, crow’s feet, and fine lines. It even gives your whole eye area a little lift. It’s all thanks to powerhouse anti-agers like copper tripeptides, Vitamin C Ester, and omega fatty acids.
Flesh Beauty Ripe Flesh Glisten Drops
This lightweight highlighter is magic dust in liquid form. It brightens skin in the most natural-looking way, adding just a hint of luminosity instead of turning your cheeks into a matching set of disco balls. Dab it over your cheekbones, eyelids, and browbones for just a touch of brilliance, or blend a couple of drops into your moisturizer, primer, or foundation for a sheer, all-over glow.
Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Serum Concentrate
When you’re faced with a face-full of skin issues, this powerful, rich serum is like one-stop shopping in a jar. That’s because it totally (and we mean completely) reinvigorates your skin—boosting your natural (or long-lost) glow, evening out texture and tone, minimizing the look of gaping pores, fading dark spots, firming things up, and reducing redness, fine lines, and wrinkles. (Whew!) It’s all thanks to several gold-standard ingredients, like vitamin C ester, copper tri-peptides, and omega fatty acids, and one truly innovative delivery system that gets all the good stuff into your skin faster and more deeply.
Roll Things Out
Face rollers may seem like a total gimmick—that is, until you look at the radiant, refreshed face of a friend who has actually put in the time and effort to roll out her face each and every morning. The reason face rolling makes skin look so amazing, according to dermatologists, is because it stimulates circulation as well as the lymphatic drainage system (so last night’s wine IV becomes a distant memory as the bloat is flushed away). The trick is in the technique (and time–you’ll need a good five minutes). One simple way to roll? For cheeks, start at your chin and roll up and out toward your temples; under your eyes, move out and upward, again toward your temples; and on your forehead, roll horizontally from the center out, and upward toward your hairline.
Maybelline New York FaceStudio Master Prime Blur + Pore Minimize
Like a soft-focus lens for your face—or, say, how amazing your skin would look if you needed glasses, but weren’t wearing any—this sheer, moisturizing primer makes pores, blotchy skin tone, and fine lines a whole lot less annoying. As the name says, it blurs them out, using ingredients that essentially trick the eye into thinking they aren’t there (or aren’t as blatant and glaring as you’d thought). The illusion works whether you wear it under foundation, or on its own.
Perricone MD High Potency Classics Face Finishing & Firming Moisturizer
Everything your skin thirsts for in a moisturizer can be found in this decadently lush cream. Just to name a few of the superstar ingredients: There’s kukui nut seed oil to deeply hydrate, antioxidant vitamin E to protect against environmental damage, and DMAE to tighten skin. Slather it on and your skin is instantly flooded with moisture so it looks luxuriously dewy. And, over time, it starts to look smoother, with fine lines and wrinkles fading away; plumper (in the best way possible); and whole lot brighter.
Tan-Luxe The Face Illuminating Self-Tan Drops
There’s nothing like a self-tanner to put a wash of wonderful over your skin—and these drops are like tanner for control freaks. Depending on how bronzed and glow-y you want to be, add one, two, three, or four drops to your moisturizer, serum, or even face oil, and then watch throughout the day as your skin looks better and better (or do it at night and wake up to a totally reinvigorated complexion).
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