These 9 Products Will Change Your Skin After Only One Use. Promise.
by The Candidly Team
We’re instructed to do a lot of things for our long-term skin health: drink water, stay out of the sun, never sleep in makeup ever again, slather on SPF like it’s our job.
But motivating ourselves to continually commit to taking care of our skin is much easier when we can actually see the results of this hard work.
Enter: these 9 skincare products.
They all give us the instant gratification that we crave from our beauty products— dewy, glowy, clean, plump, soft, baby skin. Which motivates us to actually “do” our skincare routines.
1. Maelove The Glow Maker, $30
Look, they don’t call it the “Glow Maker” for nothing. With 15% Vitamin C, Vitamin E, ferulic acid, and hyaluronic acid, this serum brightens and truly, honestly, makes the skin actually glow instantly upon application.
Find out why we love it here.
2. Fresh Lotus Youth Preserve Dream Face Cream, $54
Fresher, bouncier, fatter, suppler (?), younger, more radiant skin overnight?
Uh, yes please.
This cream will instantly boost your skin’s radiance, and give a visible bounce to your cheeks. A plump suppleness that did, indeed, smack of preserving one’s youth. NOT THAT IT’S BAD TO BE OLD.
Find out why we love it here.
3. PCA Skin Hyaluronic Acid Boosting Serum, $120
After one night, you will notice an immediate difference in your skin. It will have a radiance that your dumb husband will probably even comment on. It will also feel extremely hydrated thanks to it its HA-pro complex—a proprietary blend that stimulates your own production of hyaluronic acid, something that slows down wildly as we age.
Find out why we love it here.
4. True Botanicals Resurfacing Moisture Mask, $65
ONE application of this mask completely upended our previously limited conceptions of the potential applications of a face mask. Because after 20 minutes, this mask will leave your skin noticeably softer. And brighter. And plumper. And more hydrated.
Find out why we love it here.
5. Weleda Skin Food Original Ultra Rich Cream, $19
There’s a reason this cream has achieved cult status— it’s plant-based, thick, slightly tacky, and sinks into the skin to deeply, instantly hydrate. And in addition to giving you a moisturized glow, it soothes with calendula and chamomile. Incredible under makeup, to boot.
Find out why we love it here.
6. Augustinus Bader The Cream, $300
We know. The price. BUT. No other cream has changed our skin in such a short period of time; one application, and it looked like glass. It also transformed our undereyes. Seriously, just look at the photos.
Find out why we love it here.
7. Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, $24
This strawberry-flavored gooey balm enrobes your lips in a protective barrier that hydrates and softens them in one night. It may also restore your lips to a plumpness that you haven’t experienced since high school.
Find out why we love it here.
8. Foreo Luna Mini 3, $179
Made entirely of silicone, and therefore ultra-hygienic, this unassuming cleansing device will make your skin that near-squeaky level of clean. Particularly useful if you haven’t seen your facialist in a year and you’re worried about all the gunk that’s been trapped in your pores.
Find out why we love it here.
9. Lancer Skincare The Method: Polish, $80
Comprised of pumpkin and pomegranate enzymes, this very finely milled scrub leaves your skin feeling so unspeakably soft, that for a moment you will vividly believe the hands of time have turned backward, and that you are now caressing the perfect, poreless, unpocked face of a pre-adolescent you, before worries of melasma and property taxes and control issues took hold.
Find out why we love it here.
At The Candidly, we try a lot of stuff so you don’t have to. We only recommend things we truly love, and that we think you’ll love, too. All products are chosen independently by our creative team, and all details reflect the price and availability of products at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission.
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