the beauty tip to plump up the skin and smooth fine lines from dehydration (perfect for summer)

You’ve probably noticed that your skin tends to be a little drier in summer. Causes: exposure to the sun, heat, repeated swimming in the sea and also often a great lack of hydration. To prevent this unpleasant sensation of tight, tingling or peeling skin, it is important to reinforce the moisturizing power of your skincare. This will also ensure you have a longer-lasting tan and much healthier skin at the start of the school year.

Inspired by Japanese and Korean beauty layering, the “skin flooding” (very trendy on social networks) is an ultra-effective method for filling the skin with moisturizing active ingredients and strengthening the skin barrier. The result is ultra-hydrated, plumped skin and smoothed dehydration lines. Here’s how to make this ideal beauty routine for thirsty skin.

Skin flooding instructions for use

Skin flooding therefore consists of superimposing different layers of products on the skin, to plump and deeply hydrate the epidermis. “This routine allows you to prevent water loss and of reduce dehydration linesnot. Start with liquid formulas richer in water, then apply macromolecules like hyaluronic acid and glycols. Finally, seal in hydration with emulsions that contain a waxy fatty phase, which acts as anti-evaporation protection. Protecting hydrating compounds is essential to maintain and push hydration into the skin and prevent osmotic leakage of water out of the skin” explains Madie Fanguin, Marketing and consumer experience Pierre Fabre project manager.

More precisely, the ritual consists of spraying a hydrating mist on cleansed and makeup-removed skin. Then apply a hyaluronic acid serum on the face and neck, leave for a few seconds then repeat the application of the mist and serum. Hyaluronic acid being a molecule capable of retaining up to 1000 times its weight in water, it is very interesting to combine it with a hydrating mist. Then apply a niacinamide serum then apply your usual moisturizer. To avoid overloading the skin with active ingredients, apply products in small quantities and respect the recommended application times.

With which products to perform the skin flooding technique?

• Mist : you can use a hydrating mist enriched with hyaluronic acid, like The Mist Have from the Yepoda brand, or simply a thermal water mist. The important thing is that the product is rich enough in water to properly moisten the face.

• Hyaluronic acid serum : opt for a formula that combines low-weight and high-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid to hydrate and plump all layers of the epidermis. You will find them in pharmacies and parapharmacies: the 3-in-1 serum with hyaluronic acid from the A-Derma brand or the Booster AH serum from Uriage.

• Niacinamide serum : ultra-effective in restoring the barrier function of the skin, reducing redness and scars, niacinamide also has anti-inflammatory properties. It can be found at Typology in the L36 Niacinamide 12% Unifying Serum, or at Aroma-Zone in the Niacinamide 10%, Copper & Zinc Concentrated Serum.

• Moisturizing cream : it must be quite light and, ideally, have a sun protection factor. We recommend, for example, the Ictyane Hydra UV Light Face Cream SPF30 from the Ducray brand or the Hydra Vizor Moisturizing Cream With Niacinamide + SPF 30 from the Fenty Skin brand.

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