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Everyday Luxury: How To Curate a High-end Routine on a Budget.
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Step 1: Choose Ingredients Over Hype
Step 2: Ritualize Your Routine, make it special and enjoyable
Step 3: Cleanse with a little TLC baby
Step 4: Tone & Treat
Step 5: Moisturize & Everyday Luxury Extras
Step 1: Choose Ingredients Over Hype
Check out my list: Best Pre-Makeup Skincare Tips for Glowing Skin for ideas and recs
Look for Niacinamide (Vitamin B3): Reduces redness, regulates oil, improves texture and gather for your skin care ritual later steps
Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% | 23% Off in Slowvember
Look for - Hyaluronic Acid: Deep hydration, plumps skin, supports barrier- gather for later steps in the routine
Is hyaluronic acid really the most hydrating ingredient?
Look for Squalane: - Benefits: Lightweight moisture, balances oil, non-comedogenic, Gather for later skin steps
100% Pure Squalane Oil for Face & Skin
Step 2: Ritualize Your Routine, make it special and enjoyable
Everyday luxury starts with intention. It’s not about what you spend, it’s about how you show up. It’s the little things that turn routine into a romanticized ritual
Set the Mood: Light a crackling candle that smells like the outdoors
Crackling Candles
Mist the room with your favorite calming scent. Choose scents that make you feel grounded, glowy, and like you're THAT B***h.
Lavender And Chamomile Spray
Cue the music. Pick out your favorite playlist and connect. Lo-Fi beats, Meg The Stallion, soft jazz, or even a Podcast to tune into that makes you feel joyful, inspired, relaxed, radiant, and ready to glow baby
Bluetooth & Wireless Speakers
Dress Down & Cozy-up. Slip into your comfiest, coziest robe, the one that makes you think about cancelling your plans to stay in it
Best Women's Robes
Clip your hair up with that claw clip, slide on your comfy head and wrist bands on
Headband Set
Lotion up those tootsies with an every day luxury foot cream
Earth Therapeutics, Foot Repair Balm, 4 Ounce
slipping into Aloe and Chamomile infused sockies to seal the deal
Purple Fuzzy Socks & Gloves with Aloe & Vit E
Step 3: Cleanse with a little TLC baby
Practice mindfulness as the water warms. Feel the water with your fingertips, listen to it fall, and let the moment ground you with a deep inhale and exhale. Use a gentle cleanser and massage it in slowly, there is no rushing this process
Fragrance-free and packed with apple, oat, and omega-rich vitamin F to support your moisture barrier while dissolving makeup and buildup
Green Clean Fragrance-Free Gentle Creamy Cleanser
Maybe you want a little extra love to wash away impurities
Powered Facial Cleansing Brushes & Devices
Reveal your glow with Trader Joe’s Nourish Microdermabrasion Scrub a thrifty skincare gem that combines finely ground pumice, kaolin clay, and soothing botanical extracts for a gentle yet effective exfoliation. Designed to mimic professional microder...
TJ's Nourish Microdermabrasion Scrub
Step 4: Tone & Treat
Tip: Layer Vitamin C first and allow 1-2 min to dry down. Next, niacinamide if you’re combining, then follow with peptides. Pat gently like you’re sealing in secrets, because your glow is earned.
Spritz on a gentle toner, this one is infused with rose, cucumber, and calendula. A toner is an everyday luxury essential as it floods your skin with hydration, rebalances your skins pH, preps your skin to better absorb serums, sooths and calms, refi...
Leven Rose Witch Hazel Alcohol Free Toner
Follow with a targeted serum: Vitamin C to brighten dull skin and neutralize free radicals, niacinamide for glow, clarity, and oil balance & peptides for bounce, firmness, and collagen support
Vitamin C Serum
Honorable Mention for targeted serum
Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops
Another quality targeted serum option
Multi-Peptide + HA Serum
Step 5: Moisturize & Everyday Luxury Extras
Lock in all of that moisture and hydration, plus your SPF
Seal in all that rich goodness with a barrier supporting and breathable moisturizer like this gal
Ceramidin™ Skin Barrier Moisturizing Cream | Dr.Jart+ Skincare
Another honorable mention for a delicious and clean feel moisture lock in
The True Cream Aqua Bomb
Feeling extra? Me too. She is affordable, gentle, infused with Persian silk tree and bakuchiol
Revitalizing Eye Cream
Facial oil for glow layering
Superberry Hydrate & Glow Face Dream Oil
SPF after you skin care, future you will thank you. A solid choice for layering over treated skin. It’s clean, reef-safe, mineral based, lightweight, sheer, and designed to play well with active skincare
Mineral Sheerscreen SPF 30