The face is our facade and there is an objective standard for beauty. A good face skin care can make your face smooth, delicate and elastic. Women should all know about skin care knowledge, but do you know what are the right face skin care steps? Techniques pile up as techniques, and this post aims to share the correct steps for skin care.
1. Cleanse Your Face Skin
Cleansing is the very first step of face skin care, the first step of basic maintenance. Take some cleanser and hit some water to start cleansing your face with a foaming cleanser that will cleanse those wastes that we expel from our pores but are still attached to the surface of our skin to get rid of the dirt on the skin. Massage the cleanser clockwise on your face and then rinse the foam off with water.
Inadequate cleansing often results in clogged hair follicles, which can lead to acne, blisters or other skin problems, making the skin look lackluster and rough. Then even the skin care products can not function as they should, and may even make the skin worse. Therefore, it is very important to choose the right cleansing skin care products and the right way to cleanse and face skin care in order to maintain a healthy and beautiful facial skin.
2. Exfoliation
The stratum corneum gradually builds up as we metabolize it, and being too thick can leave the skin without adequate nourishment from skin care products. In the long run, it will make our facial skin dull and lusterless. However, the stratum corneum cannot be completely removed, after all, it is a layer of protection for our facial skin. So, after doing clean face skin care, we occasionally need to do softening keratin treatment, 1 or 2 times a week is enough.
3. Hydration
A very important but often neglected step in the process of basic maintenance is the use of skin care products. When we have cleaned our skin, we can use a cotton pad with good permeability dipped in skin care water to replenish the basic moisture of our face and strengthen the sebum. Hydration can make our face more hydrated and younger looking.
There are three additional functions as follows:
- Cleanse again: In the cleansing step, it is possible to wash not thoroughly enough and leave clean products on the skin, using a balancing and softening product can achieve the effect of cleansing and face skin care again.
- Astringent skin: In the process of washing the face, the pores are slightly opened due to stimulation, using the toner to hydrate the pores can effectively astringent.
- Balance the natural pH: The sebum film secreted by the skin protects the skin from bacteria and microorganisms, but washing the face may destroy the pH of the sebum film and make the skin less able to resist foreign objects, so it is necessary to use toner to restore the natural pH of the skin.
The correct way to use toner:
- Correct: Pat the toner with a cotton pad. Moisten a cotton pad with toner and pat your face and neck from the inside out and from the bottom up. Then wipe in a horizontal motion with your nose in the middle. This will wipe away dead skin cells and make the face skin care cleaner.
- Mistake: Using your hands to pat the toner directly on your face will affect the skin care effect of the toner if your hands are not clean.
4. Applying Serum
Serum can accelerate the metabolic function of the skin and promote the absorption of nutrients. It is also used after hydration. The amount of serum is usually dipped into the size of a soybean grain and gently massaged onto the face.
5. Applying Eye Cream
Eye cream is a relatively easy face skin care step to neglect. After hydration, we should choose the right eye cream according to the age of our skin. 20-ish ladies can choose the refreshing and moisturizing type, while 25-ish ladies need to choose the anti-aging efficacy type.
The correct way to apply eye cream.
- Correct: finger pointing method. To apply eye cream, squeeze a small amount of eye cream onto the ring finger and gently press it onto the eye area. From the outer corner of the eye to the inner corner of the eye, press the cream onto the eye area with a dabbing motion. Be careful to keep the pressure low and light to prevent eye skin damage. This will help the cream to absorb and improve the blood circulation of the skin, eliminating dark circles.
- Mistake: pushing eye cream horizontally. Pushing the eye cream horizontally can easily damage the eye skin due to friction, and also increase the chance of fine lines around the eyes.
6. Applying Lotion
Lotion can be a very comprehensive way to replenish the face skin care with the nutrients it needs and promote cell regeneration. Because skin care water is easily evaporated away, the skin’s required nutrients are not enough, and lotion can supplement these problems and also lock the moisture firmly in our skin. Note that different people should use different lotions (skin care products) to ensure that their skin needs are properly met. Lotions should be used after serums.
The correct way to apply lotion:
- Step 1: Take an appropriate amount of lotion and put a little bit of lotion on each of your forehead, nose, cheeks and chin. For people with dry skin, the amount of lotion used can be more.
- Step 2: Use your fingertips to push out the lotion. When pushing out the lotion, remember that the technique must be from the bottom up and from the inside out.
- Step 3: The cheeks are especially prone to sagging (this is an easy to ignore face skin care problem), so you can increase the massage force when applying it, using the power of your palms to push from the jaw to the cheeks.
- Step 4: When applying to the forehead area, start from the eyebrows, push from the bottom to the top with your fingertips, then push from the center of the forehead to the sides, and finally stop at the temples.
7. Applying Cream
The last step of the skincare routine is to apply a day cream (or night cream). The cream is the thickest texture of the skin care products and has the effect of locking in the effects of the above skin care products. In the morning, the day cream is the end of the skincare routine and the beginning of the day’s face skin care work, because if pretty girls need to wear makeup, the day cream can reduce the burden caused by makeup on the skin. And the night cream can nourish the facial skin, skin After a long day, it needs to be repaired by the night cream.
These are the basics of skincare, mainly for the morning routine. If it is night time skin care, you can put on a mask after cleansing and then proceed with the rest of the face skin care steps. As for the knowledge of mask efficacy, mask selection, etc., we will present it in another article in the blog. Welcome to subscribe to the blog to follow the latest skin care knowledge.
