THE calculations are soon done: 15 days until Christmas and 9pm on New Year’s Eve. If they seem few to you… get there in great shape, the answer is no. Set a timetable to arrive at the holidays in style, letting yourself be inspired by one of the beauty trends that according to the Mintel research institute will be protagonist in 2024. The name? Neuro-glow.
How to prepare for the holidays in style
More than a hypothesis, a certainty: the splendor of the skin also passes through the brain. And if other people’s caresses are a therapy for anxiety and depression, so much so that scientists from Columbia University have recently confirmed their beneficial effects on the nervous system and the entire organism, no less important is the massage. The caress we reserve for ourselves, too often underestimated.
Let’s rediscover it starting from pillars of morning skincare: cream and serum. Touches and acupressure will boost its effectiveness, shortening recovery times. Just follow the right techniques, applying a serum on your face, neck and décolleté with smoothing movements from the center outwards using the fingertips to “pull” vertically and horizontally.
Anti-tired skincare formulas with a light effect
In general, all products with a instant lifting effect can be defined as a “neuro-glow” effect. «They normally contain biomimetic peptidesso called because they take the structure of molecules such as botulinum or hyaluronic acid of which they mimic specific functions. They give immediate satisfaction by exerting a surface tension that lifts the oval and minimizes small wrinkles» underlines dermatologist Eleonora Bellani.
Regarding hyaluronic acid, another winter must especially in shock treatments, remember that «the quantity of active ingredient present in the formula does not matter so much as its bioavailability, that is, the percentage immediately available for the skin.” It’s no coincidence that the line Labo Transdermic of Labo Suisse has developed its own transdermal penetration technology which measures the percentage of absorption of individual substances, also indicating it on the packaging of all specialties.
The swelling goes away
You can make the night face cream penetrate better by using a ball or roller massager. «Exercising a lymphatic drainage action, which in addition to helping the penetration of the cosmetic, deflates and reshapes» claims Bellani.
Likewise, don’t wait until you have bags and dark circles to apply patch based on algae and caffeine or to use the specific eye contour to apply with an eye roller kept in the refrigerator.
And the body?
Even the body deserves to arrive in style at the parties. In the evening, alternate a bath with a regenerating essential oil to a hot shower preceded by one smoothing body scrub. Full of active ingredients. Don’t you already feel better? Now, go deeper by adding some more attention.
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The scrub, for example. Which this season must be delicate and have a rich and creamy texture, with micro-granules such as sea salts and sugar crystals which melt due to the heat of the skin.
A pop into the living room. For a facial
In Milan, it Skin Bar by Dermalogica proposes facial protocols that in one twenty minutes “inject” brightness. A session lasts a little longer oxygen therapy: the gaseous jet of micronized oxygen will penetrate the pool deeply anti-aging substances with glow effect.
Also the biorevitalizing treatment to undergo from the dermatologist confidence lifts the mood. «Hyaluronic acid combined with others anti-aging substances in this case it does not have a filling effect but rather a nourishment and stimulation of fibroblasts, the cells that promote the formation of elastin and collagen, restoring elasticity” concludes Bellani. And now, let the party begin.
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