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Why Everyone Wants Mirror Skin NowMirror, mirror on the wall, who has the brightest skin of them all? |
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Having a fantastic skin care regimen that's tailored to your skin and its needs is the starting point for any routine — mirror skin included. It's also essential to keep at it. "As with any sort of skin care, my number one advice is to be consistent with it," says Yamasaki.
It's also important to consider skin types and concerns. "Mirror skin involves double cleansing and exfoliation followed by multiple lightweight, hydrating layers," says Bryant. "This makes choosing the right products for your skin type particularly important so that you don't strip, overload or stress skin." Drier complexions generally benefit from nourishing, richer formulas such as creams, cleansing balms and oils while those on the oilier side can try gel cleansers and foaming ones. Check out our guide for double cleansing for every skin type.
No matter your skin type, know that mirror skin is very much attainable. Jung reassures, "Mirror skin can be achieved with any skin type, as long as you make sure you got the basics right."
Ingredients and Products
The main players are moisturizer and tried-and-true brightener vitamin C, according to Jung. Vitamin C is a hero skin care ingredient and its results are really highlighted with mirror skin. "[The] body is under constant attack from oxidative stress and so is our skin, so we need vitamin C to neutralize this stress," says Jung. "Vitamin C is known to make skin healthy and radiant by neutralizing the damaging effects of free radical activity from sun, stress, and pollution, and repairing visible signs of aging." With regular, prolonged use, skin can be brighter, smoother and clearer.
Since the mirror skin trend is focused on the health of skin, it's important to choose the best ingredients and products. That oxidized bottle of vitamin C in the back of the cupboard likely isn't going to give skin a reflective finish.
For example, Jung says that the Vitabrid C12 Face Brightening Powder, $60, uses a unique pure vitamin C that's stabilized and encapsulated between layers of zinc oxide. The product releases vitamin C continuously for 12 hours upon application.
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