10 Mistakes We Make in our Beauty Routine
We all want to look our best. You have a healthy lifestyle, good daily habits and you do your best to take care of your skin with your beauty routine while trying to keep your face natural. However, without knowing it, you sometimes make mistakes in your beauty routine that prevent you from obtaining the long-awaited results.
Watch or read, there are surely some of you who will recognize yourself in some of these errors.
Do beauty tips work for everyone?
You listen to advice from your mother, friends and sisters, as well as beauty tips given via social media, but the results are inconclusive.
Maybe their tricks work for them, but you don’t experience the same success. Or maybe you follow their advice to the letter, but your skin doesn’t seem to react like theirs.
Unfortunately, these reviews are often inaccurate. Sometimes they are a good indication, but some of them cause you to make mistakes that drastically diminish the results of your efforts to have flawless skin, incredible glow and a natural face!
Don’t worry, it’s never too late to do well 🙂
Do you have any idea how many people come into my salon who are worried about their wrinkles and the quality of their skin? People forget that small actions lead to big results!
Wrinkles, pigment spots, dull skin, blackheads, dry and sensitive skin; all of this can be improved and controlled with a daily beauty routine and regain flawless skin and a natural face. A beauty routine with simple gestures which, when repeated daily, make all the difference in the quality of the skin and the radiance of a natural face.
But beware, it is the same with the mistakes that we make repeatedly in our beauty routine. These can quickly cause us to lose the results of our efforts.
Mistake #1: Rinse only with water
People tend to rinse their facial skin like they see on TV commercials, by rinsing with water, only with their hands. It is very important to rinse your face with a towel or a washcloth to do a light exfoliation and make sure that all cleansers and dirt (pollution, dust, bacteria…) on the skin are gone. This also helps control the appearance of blackheads and stimulates microcirculation which oxygenates the skin and gives it a healthy glow.
Mistake #2: Not Exfoliating Enough
People underestimate the power of exfoliation in their beauty routine. Not exfoliating often enough suffocates the skin and slows cell renewal. It is recommended to exfoliate at least three times a week for normal skin, and twice a week for sensitive skin.
Of course, with an exfoliant, a scrub or a peel adapted to your skin type.
You will get much more results from your serums and creams because you apply them to fresh, clean skin that is ready to absorb the active ingredients. It will also keep your skin really well hydrated, which also keeps your complexion glowing.
Mistake #3: Using paper tissues
Some people use tissue paper, commonly known as Kleenex, to remove makeup, wipe their face, or apply lotion. It is important to know that most tissue manufacturers make them with glass particles which can irritate the skin.
In addition, the transfer of liquids to the skin is much better. With a Kleenex, the fabric absorbs all the liquid and does not let it pass on the skin. In comparison, with cotton pads, everything is going really well: no irritation, good application of the tonic lotion, perfect make-up removal and perfect hydration!
Mistake #4: Not washing your face in the morning
Do not wash your face in the morning thinking that your skin is not dirty from the day before because you took a shower, put on your cream and went to bed.
This is a big mistake in our beauty routine, because during the night, your skin secretes sebum, sweat and there is bacteria formation. The cream you put on at night oxidizes during your hours of sleep. This means that it is no longer active on your skin, and worse, it can clog pores, create irritation, completely prevent your day creams from having an effect on your skin and in the long term suffocate skin that does not will respond more to your general care. It is therefore very important to wash with either a micellar lotion or rose water or a mild cleanser in the morning and rinse with a washcloth or washcloth.
Mistake n°5: Not doing your beauty routine in the evening
Yes, we have done it at least once! There are people who go to take a shower, who are very tired, and who then don’t go to put on their serum, their cream and their eye cream at night because they think it’s good, they put it on. did in the morning.
Don’t forget that your morning beauty routine is intended above all to hydrate and protect your skin from external elements: cold, heat, sun, pollution, light and therefore the oxidation of the day.
At night, while you sleep, your skin regenerates all its functions. It therefore needs good and many active ingredients to help it regenerate, hydrate, make new skin fibers like collagen and stay young for many years.
Mistake #6: Applying your eye contour once a day
Do not apply your eye contour cream twice a day.
I often hear my clients tell me, “I put it on in the morning because I think it smooths out wrinkles, it helps my puffiness and then I thought that was enough”.
Well no! Even if it’s the same product you apply morning and evening, it’s important to apply it both times: in the morning it will work to smooth and hydrate the skin and in the evening, as I said for your evening beauty routine, it will regenerate, fill the skin with hydration and stimulate collagen rejuvenation.
Mistake #7: Saving the cream
Not using enough cream to save money. I sometimes hear people, whom I haven’t seen for six months, answer me “No, I have some left” when I ask them if they should renew their goat milk products.
Knowing that in a good beauty routine, a jar of cream that you use twice a day should last around 3.5 to 4 months and a tube of serum should last around 2 months, this means that they only use not enough of their products.
You need to understand that to be effective you need to apply enough of your cosmetics to get the hydration and results you expect in the short and long term. To get the skin boost, if you don’t put it on, if you don’t use enough of it, or if you apply it once in a while, it’s like you’re not using it at all or barely.
Your skin will not react, will not be stimulated enough and you will not get any improvement in your skin at any level. So it’s like you’re wasting your money doing it this way.
It is really important, to get the results you want, this is true for the face and the body, to put on enough products whether it be: anti-aging creams, lightening creams, cellulite treatments, creams moisturizers, eye contours, to use them regularly and in sufficient quantity.
Mistake #8: Forgetting your neck and cleavage
Since in your beauty routine you treat your face, why not treat the neck, décolleté and earlobes. I always tell my clients to treat the whole area because all of these areas age at the same rate. They are exposed to UV rays and outdoor elements in much the same way.
So, “kill four birds with one stone!”: face, neck, cleavage, earlobes. Treat them all the same: cleansing, exfoliation, serums and creams to prevent aging, dark spots and lack of firmness. It does not take more time and it pays off after over the years.
Mistake #9: Not wearing sunscreen
I say wear sunscreen every day, period.
So people ask me: Sunscreen even when it rains? Even when it’s gray outside? Even in winter, when I don’t go out much?
Sunscreen also protects your skin from pollution, cold and wind which means protection against dehydration, inflammation, sensitivity.
It’s a complementary element to your beauty routine that is necessary to keep your skin young, to have a flawless complexion, without dark spots and a radiant glow!
Mistake #10: Not changing your beauty routine
Always use the same beauty routine for months, see years, poor skin! I know some people love their products like goat milk soap so much that they use them all the time, and never change them.
Let me ask you this:
Do you wear the same clothes in spring, summer, fall, winter, indoors and outdoors, swimming pool and skiing?
Of course, your answer will be: no!
So, the same thing for your creams and serums, it is very important to adapt your beauty routine according to your age and your environment. Your skin evolves, your hormonal cycle changes, the environment in which you are every day too, depending on the season, your work and your activities.
Adjusting your beauty routine is extremely important for the best possible results. You’ll find that your skin stays permanently hydrated, glowing and looking youthful!
