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Over 40 Skincare for Glowy Skin ✨🧴
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items Somewhere after 40, glow stops being automatic and a bit more strategic. These are the products that brought mine back. We’re focusing on hydration, skin barrier repair, and glass skin instead of a temporary shine.
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Toners
Night Creams
Serums
Wrinkles
Volumn
Eye Cream
Toners
Both exfoliating and hydrating toners improve skin texture and brightness!
This is a HYDRATING toner and gives me the best glow. I’ve gone through 4 bottles of it. I use it to “skin flood”. With damp skin, I pour a little bit into my hand and “flood” my skin. My skin texture has improved since starting it, which is essentia...
ACWELL Licorice pH 5.5 Balancing Toner 5.07oz
I also use this exfoliating toner 3 times week, or on the nights I don’t use a retinol. Exfoliating toners improve texture and brighten your skin. I use this before using my hydrating toner.
Glycolic Acid 7% Exfoliating Toner
Night Creams
You need a hydrating night cream! Hydration is everything for glowy, healthy skin.
I’m a Ceruve stan due to how gentle it is for sensitive skin and the price! I used to work for a dermatologist and this brand is frequently recommended. I love this night cream because it has hyaluronic acid and doesn’t contain retinol in case you do...
Skin Renewing Night Cream
Over 40, peptides are your bff. I’ve used this one in the past and loved this one for how it gives my skin that “bounce”.
Peptide Night Cream
Serums
Serums have so many helpful functions for a youthful glowy appearance.
On the note of Ceruve, they also have a fantastic retinol serum. You can use this under your night cream that doesn’t also have retinol in it. I found this one to be very hydrating and did not irritate my skin.
Skin Renewing Retinol Serum for Anti-Aging
Peptides are your bff in your 30’s and 40’s. This is my current favorite multi peptide serum and the price is great. My skin immediately looks glowy after applying it. I use it right after my hydrating toner to lock in more moisture.
The Ordinary - Multi-Peptide + HA Serum
Ceruve Vitamin C serum is my favorite vitamin C serum because not only does it brighten my skin, it absorbs beautifully and wears well under my moisturizer and makeup. I use it after my hydrating toner and multi peptide serum and before my spf moistu...
Skin Renewing Vitamin C Serum for Anti-Aging
Wrinkles
We can’t completely prevent wrinkles forever, but we can slow them down alot!
The Ordinary’s Retinol 1% in Squalane is a higher potency over the counter retinol serum that targets fine lines and wrinkles and I’ve found it doesn’t dry out my skin because of the added squalene. I only use this every 2 or 3 nights!
High-Strength Retinol 1% in Squalane for Fine Lines & Texture
This cream has consistent 5 star reviews for good reason. Even though it’s marketed as a rich cream, it absorbs quickly and leaves a luminous glow and firmer skin. It feels divine on!
RETINOL CORREXION® Deep Wrinkle Rich Cream
Volumn
If you’re hesitant to get filler but want to try something for volume loss, give these recs a try!
I am IN LOVE with this serum. You do have to use it consistently! Volufiline is adds volume to skin by stimulating fatty tissue to grow, so you ONLY apply this to areas that are hollow or on your lips! I use it in my chin shadow, nasolabial lines, an...
Volufiline 92% + Pal-Isoleucine 1%
Volufiline 100% is potent and effective! The best way to use this is to mix it with an eye cream. I’ve seen someone take a tiny pill container, put a small amount of eye cream and about 4 drops of this into it and apply it where they wanted it and it...
Volufiline 100% Firming Serum for Sagging Skin
This is one of my new favorite “youth” serums because it gives me immediate glass skin without making me oily. It absorbs so well and wears well under my moisturizer. I put it right over my multipeptide serum.
Deep Collagen Cream In Serum
Eye Cream
The skin around our eyes will give us away every darn time. Try these recs for smoother skin around your eyes.
My whole eye area was looking ROUGH when I turned 40 and this cream made a huge difference in my “glow up”. It’s a retinol designed for your eye area, so it targets fine lines and wrinkles but think it’s improved my eye bags and dark circles also. Yo...
3% Retinol Eye Cream for Fine Lines & Wrinkles
Ok hear my out on this one, because it is pricey. But it was worth every penny. Also, I’ve been using it for 6 months and I’m not even halfway through the tiny jar. It’s specifically for dark circles and puffiness, and combined with my eye retinol cr...
A.G.E. Advanced Eye Cream for Dark Circles
The Ordinary Caffeine Eye Serum is wonderful on those mornings I wake up with puffy eyes from allergies or from a kid that woke up in the middle of the night 😅 It only takes a tiny bit, pat it over your entire eye bag, and give it some time time to ...
Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG Eye Serum
SPF
One of the easiest ways to protect your face from premature aging is to add an spf!
This is my favorite daytime moisturizer with spf and I’ve been using it for about 2 years. If you don’t want age spots on your face, please use an spf moisturizer! Even if you don’t burn, the sun on your skin with no protection can age you faster. Th...
AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30
Super Goop sunscreen goes on smooth like butter and it wears so well under make up. This is my go-to when I plan to be outside in the sun all day.
Supergoop