The winter holidays are here, bringing festive gatherings and memorable moments. While the cozy atmosphere is certainly something to look forward to, the change in weather can also take a toll on your skin. Dryness, flakiness and dullness are common skin concerns during this time of year. So how can you achieve that radiant holiday glow? Let's find out!

Welcome to your ultimate guide to men's skincare! Whether you're sporting a stylish beard or prefer a clean-shaven look, maintaining healthy skin is easily within reach. This guide will help you learn everything from selecting the perfect moisturizer to incorporating simple, effective habits into your daily routine to ensure you look and feel your best.

Maintaining a strong skin barrier is essential for radiant, resilient skin, but it's easy to make a few skincare mistakes during your routine that unintentionally compromise it. Let's explore missteps that damage your skin barrier and simple, powerful solutions for skin barrier support!

Whether you’re training outdoors in the elements or sweating it out in the gym, people with active lifestyles face unique skin challenges. Luckily, using tailored skincare for athletes can be a game changer. Discover how to maintain your skin’s health and vitality, ensuring you feel confident and refreshed after any workout.

Your skin faces many challenges as seasons shift from cool breezes to warmer air. Understanding how to adapt your basic skincare routine is key to maintaining a glowing, healthy complexion year-round. In this guide, you’ll learn effective strategies and tips that empower you to protect your skin from seasonal stressors, ensuring it remains vibrant and resilient no matter the time of year.

Summer is filled with sunshine, beach days and outdoor activities. However, as much as everyone loves the warm weather, all that sun and heat can take a toll on your skin, leaving it in need of some serious recovery in the fall. Luckily, you can use the best summer skincare tips and tricks to give your skin some much-needed love as the season draws to a close.

As summer ends and transitions into fall, it's the perfect time to start incorporating peels into your skincare routine. But what exactly are the different types of chemical peels, and how do these professional treatments improve your skin?

Exfoliating is important for maintaining healthy, glowing skin. However, just like anything else in skincare, too much of a good thing can be detrimental. So how do you know if you have over-exfoliated skin? Here are some signs, symptoms and solutions to determine if you need to decrease the intensity of your exfoliation routine.

Fall is around the corner, which brings the beginning of autumn festivities and holiday-themed treatments! It's an ideal time to cocktail our products to drive those results and maximize a product’s efficacy.

Fall requires a transition in your skincare selection to accommodate the drier and colder weather. Choose products that focus on hydrating, exfoliating and brightening for every type of treatment you offer clients and for yourself. 

Cocktails to try this FALL

Lips

Peptide Micro Scrub + CBD Hydratherapy Masque + Hydrating Lip Balm

This lip cocktail works wonders to exfoliate and hydrate the lips. Massage a pea-size Micro Scrub onto the lips for 1 – 2 minutes. Remove with a warm towel. Apply a pea-sized amount of the masque, let it sit for 5 – 10 minutes, then remove with a warm wet towel. Finish with the Hydrating Lip Balm and re-apply as needed.

Lip Enhancer + Cellulite Corrector Cream

Amazing combination for a temporary lip plump. Apply and mix equal parts of each. Be sure to stay inside the vermillion border to avoid redness outside the lip line due to vasodilation. Follow with Sonophoresis or Microamp on your DermaSound^™ Ultra for an extra boost!

Face

CBD Hydratherapy Masque + Hydrating Masque

This ultimate hydration masque combination feels like luxury on your skin. The CBD Hydratherapy Masque brings increased hydration, reduces inflammation, plumps and smooths the skin, while the Hydrating Masque will help to exfoliate, detoxify, energize, and moisturize dry, dehydrated skin. Combine at a 1:1 ratio.

Ultra Hydro Gel + Professional Oxygen Booster

Boost hydration and help reverse dull, tired skin. Mix equal parts with a fan brush. Apply to face, neck and décolleté and allow to sit for five minutes. Gently massage excess into the skin.

Oxygen Deep Pore Masque + Professional Tightening Protein Booster

Tighten, brighten and lighten the skin with this duo! Apply ½ teaspoon with 3 – 4 pumps of the oxygen deep pore cleanser. Make sure the brush is wet, and mix the two. Leave on the skin for 10 – 15 minutes and remove with warm towels.

Accelerator Gel + Diamond Bright Skin Illuminator

Lighten and brighten stubborn pigment! Mix equal parts and apply to the skin. Follow with your favorite moisturizer. Best if used at night due to sun sensitivity.

Essential Serum + Daily Skin Clarifier + Restoring Fulvic Elixir

This antioxidant-packed trio helps fight free radical damage, promote healing, increase hydration, reduce inflammation, and provide antibacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties. Mix equal parts of these serums and apply them to the face at the same time. Follow with your favorite moisturizer.

Hydrating Masque + Professional Exfoliator with 30% and 50% Lactic Acid

Enzyme exfoliation from the Hydrating Masque combined with the Professional Exfoliator with 30% or 50% Lactic Acid delivers amazing lightning, brightening, and moisturizing properties. Mix equal parts and leave on for 5 – 15 minutes. Remove with warm towels.

Body

Cellulite Corrector Cream + Anti-Aging Exfoliant Masque

Great for anywhere you are trying to target cellulite. Mix equal parts and exfoliate into the skin for 3 – 5 minutes. Leave on the skin for an additional 10 minutes. Remove with a warm towel. We especially love this for a booty treatment!

Professional 5 Berry Solution + Hydrating Hand & Body Lotion

This duo is targeted to lighten, brighten, and tighten the skin. Mix one part of the body lotion with ½ part of the peel. Leave on the skin for 3 – 5 minutes to neutralize. This cocktail can be used as a facial treatment by substituting the lotion with your favorite moisturizer! We love the comfort cream for the face.

These cocktails are safe for all Fitzpatrick Skin Types!

GlyMed Plus products cocktail options are endless and this is only a sampling of what you can do. There are a few ways you can look out for new ones, follow our social media, chat with other GlyMed estheticians or reach out to your Account Manager for more!

Tips and Tricks to maintain that glow!

If you’re anything like me, you may be disappointed to see our warm sunny months come to an end. With the changes in seasons, we need to make some adjustments to our home care regimens to accommodate the cold weather's effect on our skin. 

I am just going to address the elephant in the room that fall and winter weather leaves our skin drier than an overcooked cake. I don’t know about you, but I like my skin and my cakes the same: moist. This time of year is ideal for bumping up those moisturizers for a formula that’s slightly richer to combat the dry air and harsh winds we tend to experience during these months. We must maintain the integrity of the skin’s natural barrier against the outside world during this time. We can accomplish this by using a moisturizer packed with ceramides and lipids, as this helps to lock moisture in the skin. 

Just as our skin needs ceramides and lipids, it also needs hydration. Oil and water help to make up our skin barrier, so it only makes sense to make sure we supply the skin with plenty of each. We can boost the hydration in our skin through products like skin mists, serums, and hydrating masques! I love to look for ingredients like hyaluronic acid, aloe vera, and glycerine to contribute and maintain hydration in the epidermis. 

To achieve the best penetration of products that support your barrier, one must keep their skin exfoliated. That’s right; this is a year-round gig. Your products will have much more success penetrating further into the epidermis if they don’t have to make their way through any dead skin cell build-up. Exfoliating the skin is going to ensure that during these months when our skin tends to be drier, ingredients that provide moisture and hydration combat this issue with ease. Consider a gentler exfoliant such as enzymes if your skin tends to be more sensitive in the fall and winter months.

There are many things we should be doing for our skin daily; applying and reapplying sunscreen is the most important. Did you know that UV rays can penetrate through clouds and even reflect off surfaces and snow? That means when you are out building a snowman, snowboarding, or even driving on a cloudy day, you absolutely should be wearing and reapplying SPF! Sunscreen is an essential commitment to maintaining the health of our skin.

Our number one goal when caring for our skin is to maintain its health. We are all unique, and with that comes individual skin care journeys and goals. We each have our own set of circumstances, ranging from skin types, lifestyles, environmental factors, and so much more. If you are unsure what products and ingredients your skin could benefit from as the seasons change wherever you are located in the world, please reach out to your skin care professional for further guidance.