All or Nothing?
Last week I was hanging out with my aunt and my mom when my mom commented that my aunt's feet looked really dry. It turns out that she scrubs them with a foot buffer every time she is in the shower, but then she skips the lotion afterwards. This led to a conversation about how tired and busy she was, and how she doesn't have the energy to tackle her beauty routines. It seems she had fallen into the All or Nothing Trap.
I am also prone to this trap, so I completely understood. I decide that the ideal skincare routine for me involves 17 steps and 37 minutes, and since I don't have the time or energy for this, I go to sleep with my makeup on and skip skincare entirely. I may be exaggerating, but not by much. I struggle with viewing beauty routines as an all or nothing proposition. Either I indulge in elaborate time-consuming routines, or I skip my morning shower and go out with greasy skin. But there is a middle ground - a practical, common-sense, sane way to approach beauty. And it involves paring down your routine to something manageable, and doing it religiously, consistently. That's how you see results. Keep it simple. Here are a few timesaving tips:
1. Keep Skincare Simple: Find a great, multipurpose multi-ingredient anti-aging cream. Bonus points if it has sunscreen for daytime use, and a non-sunscreen version for nighttime use. Look for a cream that's packed with skinsavers like antioxidants, hydroxy acids, and retinol.
2. Try a moisturizing body wash like Olay Moisturinse. It saves you the step of moisturizing afterwards.
3. Use a single cream for your entire body. Who says you need a separate hand cream, foot cream, etc.?
4. Keep a bottle of hand lotion next to every sink in the house, and sunscreen next to every door in the house, to make taking care of your skin as convenient as possible. (Of course, the sunscreen on your way out should be a supplement to the sunscreen you already applied in the morning).
5. Save a step by using a sunscreen in place of a hand cream or a body lotion every morning. Pick a moisturizing formula. It's often less expensive to buy a sunscreen that moisturizes, as nearly all of them do, then to buy a moisturizer with sunscreen. One exception: Lubriderm with SPF15. It's light, fresh-smelling, non-greasy, and pleasant to apply all over.
I am also prone to this trap, so I completely understood. I decide that the ideal skincare routine for me involves 17 steps and 37 minutes, and since I don't have the time or energy for this, I go to sleep with my makeup on and skip skincare entirely. I may be exaggerating, but not by much. I struggle with viewing beauty routines as an all or nothing proposition. Either I indulge in elaborate time-consuming routines, or I skip my morning shower and go out with greasy skin. But there is a middle ground - a practical, common-sense, sane way to approach beauty. And it involves paring down your routine to something manageable, and doing it religiously, consistently. That's how you see results. Keep it simple. Here are a few timesaving tips:
1. Keep Skincare Simple: Find a great, multipurpose multi-ingredient anti-aging cream. Bonus points if it has sunscreen for daytime use, and a non-sunscreen version for nighttime use. Look for a cream that's packed with skinsavers like antioxidants, hydroxy acids, and retinol.
2. Try a moisturizing body wash like Olay Moisturinse. It saves you the step of moisturizing afterwards.
3. Use a single cream for your entire body. Who says you need a separate hand cream, foot cream, etc.?
4. Keep a bottle of hand lotion next to every sink in the house, and sunscreen next to every door in the house, to make taking care of your skin as convenient as possible. (Of course, the sunscreen on your way out should be a supplement to the sunscreen you already applied in the morning).
5. Save a step by using a sunscreen in place of a hand cream or a body lotion every morning. Pick a moisturizing formula. It's often less expensive to buy a sunscreen that moisturizes, as nearly all of them do, then to buy a moisturizer with sunscreen. One exception: Lubriderm with SPF15. It's light, fresh-smelling, non-greasy, and pleasant to apply all over.
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