Spring Into Your Best Skin Ever
Spring has finally sprung! Longer days, warmer nights, and brighter moods give way to cleared-out closets, decluttered rooms, and refreshed linens. Staying in is out and going out is in. It is officially time to show some skin. It’s the season for love in the air, more highlights in our hair, and glow-getting skincare.
Whether a routine overhaul, a seasonal serum swap, or an upgrade to your SPF game tops your skincare shopping list, we’ve got you covered. Check out these standout products and step up your skin this spring.
When it comes to facial oils, look no further than the Seasonal Facial Oils from de Mamiel. Made in limited edition once each season, these bespoke botanical blends are formulated to support the skin as it transitions through the seasons. Blended by hand in the English countryside by founder and formulator Annee de Mamiel, the Spring Facial Oil is meticulously crafted with pure and potent botanicals to detoxify, brighten, and rejuvenate the skin. Elderberry and prickly pear oils, rich in essential fatty acids, restore elasticity, while Marshmallow helps maintain your skin’s natural moisture levels for a healthy, radiant glow. Literally, spring in a bottle!
Available: demamiel.com and goop.com.
Spring is the season of rebirth and renewal, so it should come as no surprise that exfoliation is on the menu for achieving smooth, soft, more even-toned skin. When we are young, our skin cells turn over every 28 days, ensuring a hydrated and healthy complexion. But as we age, that process slows down considerably, allowing the dead skin cells to accumulate on the surface, clogging pores and leaving skin looking dry and dull. Daily Dirt Exfoliating Balm from Mary Allan Skincare to the rescue! The super finely milled grains melt onto the skin to remove dirt and debris gently and effectively. Made with activated charcoal powder from coconuts, this abrasion-free daily polish buffs away dryness and dullness instantly, revealing your smoothest, softest, most radiant skin.
Available: MaryAllan
Spring “cleaning” does not just apply to cupboards and closets. Clean skin is the first stop on the road to a radiant, healthy complexion all year long. So, while you’re daydreaming of that long overdue vacation basking in the blue and white beauty of Greece, do yourself a solid and grab the next best thing. The Greek Yoghurt Foaming Cream Cleanser from KORRES is your nonstop flight to clean, clear, gorgeously glowing skin. Formulated with natural Greek yoghurt, rich in collagen-boosting proteins and balancing probiotics, this soap-free, creamy, dreamy foam removes impurities and dissolves every trace of makeup, leaving skin soft, smooth, and radiant. Next stop, Santorini!
Available: Sephora
Wouldn’t it be great if they sold fillers in a jar? Just pump it out and instantly plump up your skin! Enter the Barrier+ Triple Lipid-Peptide Cream from Skinfix, powered by a combination of triple lipids, peptides, and proteins to nourish, plump, and hydrate normal to dry, sensitive skin. This award-winning moisturizer goes beyond the surface, targeting the skin barrier to replenish the essential fats, lipids, and ceramides that protect the skin from damage. The result? Your best complexion ever! You’re welcome.
Let’s face it. Not all sunscreens are created equal. And the truth is, if you want to protect your skin from the harmful effects of UV rays that cause sun damage and lead to premature aging, sunscreen is a must. Periodt. Like many of us, if you despise the feel of sunscreen on your face, especially underneath makeup, you have just run out of excuses to skip the SPF. The Silken Pore Perfecting Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 35 from TATCHA will not only change the way you feel about wearing sunscreen, but it might also just become your favorite spring accessory. Formulated with Japanese Wild Rose to help tighten pores and smooth skin texture and Loquat Leaf Extract, a potent botanical to calm and soothe irritation. Smooth as silk and velvety soft, this weightless wonder is the stuff dreams are made of.
Lisa Blair, Founder BEAUTY VIKING, INC, A veteran of the beauty industry, Lisa has over 20 years’ experience as a global makeup artist, spokesperson, educator, and sales leader for prestige beauty brands such as Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Bare Minerals, Cosmedicine, Ole Henriksen, and Kate Somerville. With more than two decades of experience in the cosmetics industry, Lisa opted in 2016 to start a business that could do exclusively what she loved to do and had made a name for herself doing: create training and marketing platforms for category leading and emerging brands. What differentiates the Viking way is seeing every single component as crucial to the brand’s success. These components include sales team empowerment and development, education curricula, branding, and social media presence that precede trends, answer questions, excite, empower, and make loyal the audience. Lisa holds a B.A. in the History of Art from Ithaca College. She has certifications in all areas of education and training and has traveled the globe extensively in her career. Lisa lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Daniele and 13-year-old son, Luca.