The New Year is the perfect time to shake up your beauty routine. These five routines will help you establish lasting habits that will transform the appearance and health of your skin throughout the year.
Why have a beauty routine?
Integrating a beauty routine into your daily routine is much more than a question of aesthetics. It's a true commitment to your skin's health and your overall well-being. Regular care helps maintain healthy skin and minimize the appearance of imperfections such as blackheads and excessive sebum production.
This beauty routine also consolidates your cutaneous barrier against external aggressors (sun, wind, dust, etc.). Moreover, the massages performed when applying the skin care products stimulate blood circulation, which contributes to the natural radiance of your complexion.
How to create an effective beauty routine?
Before moving on to the five skin care routines, let's find out how to establish a beauty routine. The first step is to understand your skin's specific needs. Each skin type, whether dry, oily, combination or sensitive, requires a personalized approach. Therefore, the key is to maintain consistency in your skincare routine and use suitable products that respect your skin barrier.
Is it the holidays, or do you have a special event coming up soon? Psst, we have the perfect beauty routine for you. Here are the five things to do the day before an event.
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Your daily facial routine
Cleansing your face twice a day may seem tedious, but this habit is essential for maintaining healthy skin. Morning cleansing removes sebum accumulated overnight, while evening cleansing removes make-up, pollution and impurities from the day.
Here are five essential steps to follow for a daily facial beauty routine:
- Cleansing: Use the appropriate cleanser to remove impurities and dead skin cells, then rinse your face with lukewarm water to avoid damaging your skin.
- Toning lotion: To rebalance pH and prepare your skin. Applying a toning lotion after cleansing also helps remove excess sebum and any remaining impurities.
- Serum: This product is to be applied according to your specific needs.
- Hydration: Nourishes your skin with the right formula.
- Sun protection: This step may seem like too much, but the SPF helps protect your skin from any sun aggression.
Did you know? Daily sun protection is the most effective anti-aging step in your beauty routine. UV rays cause up to 80% of premature skin aging, including wrinkles, pigment spots and loss of elasticity.
Don't forget the sensitive areas of the face
Carefully cleansing your face is good! But don't forget the delicate areas underneath... The skin is thinner there, and sebum-producing glands are scarce. They are therefore more vulnerable to aggression, more likely to dry out, and quicker to show the signs of aging.
Your neck and décolleté also deserve a customized routine! Cleanse them morning and night with a gentle product, exfoliate them once or twice a week to boost radiance, and above all, nourish them with extra-hydrating formulas, massaging upwards from the chest to the chin.
Profil Décolleté Firming and Line-Smoothing Cream, 80 ml
How to choose the right facial cleanser?
- Dry skin: Creamy cleansers or cleansing oils;
- Oily skin: Foaming gels or cleansers with salicylic acid;
- Sensitive skin: Fragrance-free, hypoallergenic formulas.
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Why not add some natural ingredients to your skincare routine?
As the Clean Beauty trend gains momentum, more natural options are popping up on store shelves For skincare and makeup alike, the trend is toward simplified formulas with low environmental impact and minimally processed ingredients. Incorporating some of these products into your beauty routine is an effective choice for your skin and kind to the planet. Everyone is a winner!
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Tip: Why not change your perfume every season?
When it comes to perfume, we tend to remain loyal to our usual fragrance. Why not break the routine this year? If you already have a signature fragrance that allows others to recognize you by your scent alone, explore the olfactory family to which it belongs to find other essences equally suited to you. This will allow you to build a wardrobe of fragrances that will change with the seasons and occasions, reflecting the many facets of your personality.
Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Parfum, 50 ml
Valentino Born in Roma Uomo Coral Fantasy Eau de Toilette, 50 ml
Are you familiar with the Korean beauty routine?
The benefits of Korean products are well established. They feature lightweight formulas with a high concentration of active ingredients and innovative textures for optimal absorption and deep moisturizing. We decode K-Beauty for you in our article.
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Support local Quebec brands for your skin cleansing routine
It's great to expand our skincare arsenal... especially with local products! And this year, there is no reason to hesitate: local brands offer an increasingly wide range of choices for every step of your facial and body care routine. Cleansing, moisturizing, exfoliating, targeted treatments, anti-aging treatments, day cream... whatever your needs, there's a gentle, effective formula created right here for you. All that's left is to discover your next favourite!
Intemporel Gel Eye Pencil, 1 unit
CC Creme Colour Corrector Multi-Perfecting Moisturizer, 40 ml
Pepti-Collagene 3D Smoothing & Plumping Serum Lip Gloss, 10 ml
You can use only Quebec-made beauty products for your beauty routine! We met this challenge with flying colours. Follow our 100% Québécois beauty routine.
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The essential skincare routine: Remove your makeup every night
When it's late and your bed is beckoning, you may be tempted to go to bed with your makeup on. But from now on, the decision has been made: you won't do that. Makeup removal is a crucial step in your beauty routine: by removing traces of pigments and impurities that have accumulated throughout the day, it unclogs your pores and allows your skin to breathe—an essential condition for reducing the risk of irritation and fighting blemishes. And your skin will thank you for applying a toner at the same time!
The key to thorough makeup removal: apply a toner or beauty water after cleansing your face with water. In addition to removing residual impurities, these treatments enriched with plant ingredients gently exfoliate the skin, making it more receptive to moisturizers. They also help restore its pH, which can be unbalanced by tap water.
Make-up Remover Wipes for Face, Eyes and Lips, 25 units
Sensibio H2O Micellar Water 500ml
What are the mistakes to avoid in your beauty routine?
- Using too many products: It is recommended to start slowly and gradually add new products.
- Changing too frequently: Give a product at least 4-6 weeks before judging its effectiveness on your skin.
- Neglecting to remove your makeup: Be careful, this is a common mistake that can have significant consequences for the health of your skin.
- Forgetting the neck and décolleté: These areas are just as important as your face because they also reveal your age.
For more beauty tips, your Jean Coutu cosmeticians are waiting for you at your nearest location. Do not hesitate to ask for advice. A beauty routine for the New Year is as good for you as it is for your skin.
