Beauty

Skin cycling: A Comprehensive Guide to a Tiktok Trend Thats Here to Stay

The popular Skin Cycling exercise must have caught your attention at least once, either while scrolling through the FYP on Instagram or while listening in on a lengthy talk in your girl-gang group chat. The general public appears to be fixated on the proper things.

Skin Cycling, a four-step process for cycling through your nighttime skin-care products that ensures your skin doesn't only look better but feels better too, is the most recent trend giving the beauty world a run for its money. Do you have second thoughts about joining the bandwagon yourself? boo, we've got your back! Who better to explain it than Dr. Whitney Bowe, a prominent dermatologist and your new skincare bestie, who created the term that went viral and demonstrated what we have been missing out on.

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Here's how to implement Skin Cycling into your daily regimen. Skin Cycling is hailed as the beauty technique that maximises the benefits of each product to do wonders for your skin by enhancing its texture, eliminating breakouts and acne, and obtaining a complexion that goddesses would envy.

 

First night: Exfoliation

An exfoliating night usually marks the beginning of a skin cycle. Cleanse your face first, then use a chemical exfoliant containing AHAs and BHAs to help remove dead skin cells from the top layer of your skin. This will give you an immediate glow and prepare your skin to benefit from night 2 the most.

Retinol OR Retinoid on Night 2

Use a pea-sized dose of Retinol or Retinoid after cleansing the skin to aid with problems including acne, fine wrinkles, dark spots, etc.

 

3rd and 4th nights: moisturise

Nights 3 and 4 are all about giving your skin a much-needed break while they recuperate and rebalance. Start by gently washing the skin, then apply a moisturising lotion that is nourishing and free of the active chemicals you used the day before. The balance of your skin will be restored as a result, preparing it for when you resume using active ingredients.


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