K-beauty has enhanced our skincare routines (and forced us to buy bigger vanities) with the onset of trends like the 10 step routine, glass skin, and serum mocktailing. There’s a new K-beauty trend in town and this one scales back on pretty much everything. Skipcare encourages us to regress from our product purchasing madness and ask ourselves, do we really need to use three different serums, two eye creams, and more oils than days in the week every single night? If your answer is yes, we get it, but keep reading anyways.
With the onset of sustainable beauty practices focusing on minimalism, skipcare’s practical approach to skincare fits the bill. It’s no longer necessary to combine a hyaluronic acid with a vitamin C serum and add a skin-soothing serum on top of that. Forget the days of being your own skincare chemist mixing and matching ingredients (which by the way, can really irritate skin). Many skincare brands are now featuring products with an improved blend of ingredients. You can truly find one potion that does it all.
Drunk Elephant’s C-Firma Day Serum (Dhs308, Sephora) uses a cocktail of ingredients to deliver multiple skin benefits. With ingredients like vitamin C, pumpkin ferment, pomegranate extract, and hyaluronic acid, this serum brightens and hydrates skin while also exfoliating and reducing pore size.
Eye creams are also venturing into the do-it-all territory. Say goodbye to purchasing multiple eye creams to treat all your concerns. Skinceuticals A.G.E. Eye Complex (Dhs439, BasharaCare) targets puffiness, dark circles, and fine lines with its impressive ingredient list. Flavonoids and peptides help to firm the skin in the under eye area, minimising the look of dark circles and the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Blueberry extract also helps to strengthen the skin and prevent further wrinkles from developing.
Face creams are now targeted at doing so much more than simply moisturizing the skin. Ole Henriksen’s Goodnight Glow Retin-ALT Sleeping Creme (Dhs240, Sephora) retexturises skin with alpha hydroxy acids and minimises fine lines and wrinkles with backuchiol. It also conditions skin with a plethora of plant extracts.
Next time you shop for skincare, keep your eyes open for skipcare alternatives. Your wallet, the planet, and your shelf space will thank you.
