3 Skin Care Tips For Summer
Summer Skin care tips
Stranger Things #17 in life after 49…
Summer skin care now differs from Winter, Fall, and now…when you use hotel soap.
Remember back in high school when you were trying to figure out which facial scrub wouldn’t dry out your face? {You’re envisioning St. Ives Apricot Scrub right now, aren’t you?}
Or, which moisturizer didn’t feel like you just smeared Crisco all over your face?
And then, when you finally found the holy grail in skin care routines, you reached your late-20’s and again had to switch up your routine because a 30-year face needed more than your 20-year face and you really needed to start taking better care of your basking-in-the-sun-face that you were sabotaging the decade before.
Hmmmm, I thought we were simply living + relishing the warm Summer days out from under those buzzing florescent lit cubicles. 🤷🏼♀️
Today is the Chapter 50 skin care tips for summer
Now presenting year 50 and the Stranger Things that happen with being a half-century-skinned woman. I really should give Stranger Things another chance, I think it’s starting to parallel real life.
I’ve made myself the test monkey for all things ULTA skincare related products for over a three decades. And now, I’m standing back in the Target aisle buying CeraVe again.
Can you relate?
Around year 49 my skin started to flake like a croissant and bring red rashes at new places on my skin. These little spots wanted the stage - to be seen by all I passed by - to rash up, redden up, itch, and pop up in strange places, as if to scream, “Look what else 50 can serve up to you!”
my eyelids - dry patch
the corner of one eye…blotchy, & red patch
top of my left hand…snake-scaly-skin {that’s certainly a Stranger Things episode}
on my left hip {don’t worry right hip, I’m share it’ll spread there soon}
Once my skin calmed {back in-check with magic cream the dermatologist prescribed}, she recommended purging all my natural cleansers, moisturizers and serums for the basic, drugstore brand CeraVe.
She clearly had zero idea how much product greeted me on my bathroom counter everyday. 🤦🏽♀️
But, I’m a good rule follower, and turned past ULTA and into the Target parking lot to peruse what CeraVe skin care they had in the aisle.
3 Skin Aging Facts
As we age, our skin retains less moisture {moisturizers with hyaluronic acid and ceramides help}
Retinoids {i use CaraVe Retinol serum} can also work in your favor for reducing fine lines
Love soaking up the sun? Use SPF in your moisturizer to keep the sun rays from doing more damage
Back To The Basics
52 and I returning to basics. Kinda refreshing actually. I’m keeping my skincare routine minimal this Summer by using a cleanser, vitamin C serum, and moisturizer {with my self-tanner drops}.
Thank the heavens –and aligning stars– my tanning drops weren’t the cause of my new skin rashes. I still want a summer skin tan, just not the skin damage.
Ghost-pale is not in my color-wheel.
With all that build-up + changeover
3 Skin Care Tips For Your Summer…
Skin care Tip #1:: Consistency
Not the wash your face everyday consistency, but the foam, lotion, and gel kind of consistency in your cleanser {for the love of all things clean I hope you’re not sleeping in your makeup - that goes nowhere good!}
Not all cleansers are the same, and I tried a few out to see which consistency my skin deemed worthy to touch my face.
The CeraVe cleanser I liked {and worked} best on my age-52-layer-skin was the renewing cleanser. The foam didn’t make my face feel clean with the lotion consistency and didn’t wash off my eye-liner in one wash-round.
The Renewing SA Cleanser won the consistency test {a gel that foams up and gives a soft, not-tight-skin feel after I use it}. Another good recommend is the hydrating cream.
First wash was Hydrating Facial Cleanser
Next up Renewing SA Cleanser {winner for me}
Want to try Hydrating Cream-to-Foam Cleanser
After my wash, I follow up with the Vitamin C serum on my face and neck {in the AM} and starting to notice a difference after a month of use. The topper is moisturizer that I use morning and night CeraVe Moisturizing Cream.
On the days I don’t wear makeup with SPF I swap and use the moisturizer with sunscreen.
Summer Skin Care Tip #2:: Scent + Feel
My nose is a candidate for the drug-smelling dog patrols. I’m nutty when it comes to the smells of my cleanser and lotions. You?
None of these three products I use bother my K-9 nose hairs and there’s no greasy, oily, or tacky-tape feel.
Tacky-tape…You know the lotions right? You think you have it all rubbed in and then step out into the summer heat and your hands stutter across whatever you touch like a post-it note would skitter across your desk.
We’re looking for gliding, not stutter-steps.
Skin Care Tip #3:: Packaging
You’re thinking, “What?”
The packaging I mean is how we get it from the bottle to our faces.
It’s a peeve of mine when I SEE that 1/4 of lotion left in the bottom but can’t GET to it.
I’d rate CeraVe at an 8 out of 10 for getting all of my cleaner, serum and lotion out of the containers. Granted, CeraVe is about half of what I was paying on other brands, but I still want all of it outta-there.
My Summer Skin Care Routine
Every day I…
Wash with the Renewing SA Facial Cleanser
Smooth on the Vitamin C Serum {NOT under eyes}
Follow with Moisturizing Cream {face and neck}
{Added CeraVe Retinol into the mix in last 4 months}
{I add my 2-3 oil drops of self-tanner into my morning moisturizer.}
I’m going to try the hydrating cream-to-foam cleaner in the Winter months to see if I can keep from getting a flakey nose this year. {More dry-patch-face-fun}
Summer Skin Now - Winter Skin Later
CeraVe is for all ages, not just the Stranger Things years of 50+. If you’re looking for a new, or less expensive, routine, give it a rub. 4 out of 5 dermatologists recommend it {maybe that’s a toothpaste commercial, but my dermatologist recommends it}.
Gone are the skin-tight Days {and that’s ok}
My tight, no-line skin is in the past, and that’s ok. I’m aging and my less-tight skin comes with me. I’m not trying to look forever young, but I do want to protect my skin. If it smooths out a few lines - BONUS! It’s my chapter of life and with each passing day, I’m aging.
I’ll take AGING over that other option.
If you’re still in that 20-30’s age range, START NOW in protecting your delicate skin. This post or this one has good recommends for you {or your daughters}.
I don’t want to spend hours, or even 20 minutes at the bathroom sink with an overdone summer skin care routine. This one has me out and enjoying summer in six!
These 3 skin care tips for summer are working great! Now let’s see what Stranger Things winter skin brings.
Have you tried CeraVe?
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I think we need to pitch Netflix for a 50’s version of Stranger Things. It’s our public service to the 20-somethings to see what’s comin’ ;)
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