Merry Masking: Our Special Guide to Maximizing Your Winter Facials

How to Turn Skincare Trends Into Holiday Traditions:
Our Special Guide to Maximizing Your Winter Facials 

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. With all the parties for hosting and marshmallows for toasting, what about our skincare? Masking is the easiest way to take your regimen to the next level and keep your post facial glow all month. Using a mask regularly will promote new turnover, brightness, hydration and circulation, which are all the keys to radiant skin. With so many masks out there, from sheet to homemade recipes, it’s hard to know what works. Before you go putting eggnog on your face, Skin MPLS is here to show you some real solutions for keeping your skin merry and bright through all the holiday cheer. Just find your perfect occasion and get to masking! 

The Office Holiday Party = Sulfur Clay Mask

We all get pimples. Even those who aren’t acne prone still get the occasional spot. And while the myth of chocolate causing breakouts has been debunked (thank you Dr. Fulton, Vivant creator), stress is very much a culprit in acne flare-ups. Of course work can be stressful, but seeing coworkers in a social setting can be intimidating. Vivant’s Sulfur Clay Mask is the best mask to keep you clear for the company sponsored holiday party. 

Annual Ugly Sweater Party = Raspberry Resurfacing Peel

Blinking holiday lights, glistening snowflakes, tinseled trees, red-nosed Rudolfs, and festive plaids – how to pick? Choosing your ugly sweater should be the hardest part of prepping for your friendly annual get-together. So don more than your gay apparel and wear Arcona’s Raspberry Resurfacing Peel for just two to five minutes on your face before heading out. Because, while your gaudy sweater may be bright, you don’t want it to out shine your face. The lactic acid, enzymes and berries will have you looking lit from within and your fellow partygoers will assume you came straight from a facial treatment.

Cookie Exchange = Algae Soft Mask

The key to any good bake (other than binging The Great British Bake Off) is a professional baker trusted recipe and quality ingredients. Same things go for a face mask, don’t rely on DIY when a dermatologist with a Ph.D. in biochemistry already whipped up the perfect formula for your face – the Algae Soft Mask. Perfectly festive, this green mask is moisturizing and nourishing. It will fill your skin with the holiday spirit so those holiday cookies can do the same for the recipients.

Secret Santa Gift Exchange = Essential Oxygen Mask

There’s nothing like getting together with old friends to receive give presents and holiday cheer. It’s even better when your friends are dying to hear what you’ve been doing to your skin (shout out to your favorite aestheticians at Skin MPLS!). Karin Herzog’s patented oxygen formula mask will literally breathe life into your skin so you can rock your favorite cozy sweater, those “I woke up like this” beach waves, and minimal makeup thanks to your skin’s revived natural glow.

The Family Holiday Gathering = Ormedic Balancing Mask

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts thrown in. So we can all use a little balance (and a little patience) when it comes to spending those precious moments with those so near and dear to our hearts. You’ll love this mask because it’s formulated with healers like organic aloe vera and German chamomile, as well as antioxidants. The fruity and relaxing aromatherapy of this mask will round out your family time nicely. This mask infuses the skin with hydration and helps restore a healthy balance.

New Year’s Eve = Brightening Gommage

With 2020 right around the corner, who has time for a 30 minute masking session? We have to make the most of 2019 and get to our NYE party so that we can party like it’s 1999… errr, 2019! Take a few extra minutes before you put on your makeup and apply this mask for a couple of minutes and then massage it in for two more minutes. The jojoba beads, daisy extract, and peppermint oil will invigorate you (and your skin) so that you can usher in the new decade with bright, luminous and polished skin.