Your skin works hard every day. Cell turnover, processing stress, warding off dangerous sun rays, and protecting itself against pollution — all of these things can leave your skin looking tired and dull. Whether it’s busy balancing discoloration or fighting premature signs of aging, your skin never gets to take a day off. Give your skin all the help it needs with these little everyday skin saviors.
1. Fresh Rose Deep Hydration Oil-Infused Serum
What We Love
This lightweight serum for the face is infused with gentle, nourishing rose oil for dewy skin without a greasy sheen. It’s an incredibly simple application: a few shakes to blend the liquids in the bottle and a quick dab onto a clean, damp face, et voila! The hydration that this serum delivers lasts for a full 24 hours. The damask rose extract in the formula boosts your skin’s hyaluronic acid levels, which helps retain moisture for longer, and the rosewater soothes any irritated patches for a flawless complexion.
Application
Apply twice daily — morning and evening. Shake the bottle well, add a few drops to clean hands, and pat all over your face and neck. Allow a few seconds before moving on to the next step of your skincare routine.
To Note
This may not be for oily skin types.
2. Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex Serum
What We Love
This potent little serum offers you seven treatments in one bottle, so you’re getting a lot of bang for your buck. Not only is your skin left looking and feeling plumped and radiant, but it’s also protected by anti-oxidants for a full eight hours after application. Since your skin does its best repairing while you sleep, this evenings-only serum can really take its time and work hard for your complexion by strengthening your skin barrier and hydrating from deep within. After a few weeks of use, fine lines are less apparent, and your skin looks fresh and youthful.
Application
Apply a full dropper to clean hands, then massage the liquid into your face using heart-shaped motions.
To Note
This serum requires quite a substantial amount to be used daily, so you’ll have to restock sooner than many other products.
3. Byoma Brightening Serum
What We Love
If tone and texture are your main concerns, Byoma has you covered. Ceramides are a major brightener and tone evener, and this formula is packed with three different kinds. Byoma has had this product dermatologist tested and approved, so you’re testing your skin with a formula approved by skin care professionals. Expect intensely hydrated skin and a boosted skin barrier to hold that moisture for as long as possible.
Application
Apply four to six drops to clean hands or directly to your cleansed face, patting all over until fully absorbed.
To Note
May not be ideal for very sensitive skin types.
4. Peach & Lily Glass Skin Refining Serum
What We Love
Your thirsty, tired skin will drink this formula up in seconds! If you struggle with sensitive and dry patches that often become inflamed and need a little extra love, you’ve found the perfect product in this serum. Fight against dehydration, free radical damage, and that pesky redness with a combination of ingredients, including hyaluronic acid. Users say they saw softer skin, fewer dry patches, and a radiant glow after use.
Application
Apply to cleansed, toned skin before your moisturizer.
To Note
This serum may not provide enough moisture for severely dehydrated skin on its own. Using it in combination with a good moisturizer is a must.
5. MAC Cosmetics Hyper Real Serumizer™ Skin Balancing Hydration Serum
What We Love
Makeup fans, this one’s for you. MAC has designed this skincare to work with your makeup, so there is no pilling, smudging, grease, or shine. This product stays on your face for 12 hours, which means your makeup will also stay put. It’s a unique product — a serum/ moisturizer hybrid with a serum-like texture — that offers a glowy result and a petal-soft canvas to create on.
Application
Dispense two pumps onto your fingertips morning and night and apply to cleansed, dry skin, especially the face and neck.
To Note
The strong scent of the product may be problematic if you are sensitive to smell.
6. Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Vitamin C Serum
What We Love
The light-reflecting particles in this serum ensure you’re never without flawless lighting wherever you go. Live your best glazed doughnut life without the excess oil with just a couple of drops of this illuminating serum. Boost your mood with the banana and citrus scent that is powerful enough to make itself known. The formula helps your skin fight pollutant-based stress and minimizes dark spots at the same time — what’s not to love?
Application
Apply evenly all over your face and neck once daily.
To Note
The serum’s Vitamin C content may increase your skin sensitivity, so apply SPF accordingly.
7. Biossance Squalane & Vitamin C Rose Oil
What We Love
This serum’s beautiful grapefruit color will brighten your day before you even apply it. The product itself offers a trifecta of effects — brightening, hydration, and firming. Using a luxurious combination of shelf- stable vitamin C, Chios crystal oil, and Damascus rose petal extract, this serum restores your skin’s bounce and leaves it silky smooth.
Application
Shake the bottle and press a few drops over cleansed, dry skin morning and night.
To Note
If you have an oily skin type, you should apply this product to damp skin rather than dry.
8. Glow Recipe Guava Vitamin C + Ferulic Dark Spot Serum
What We Love
The texture of this serum is definitely worth writing home about. Where many Vitamin C serums can be sticky, this one is smooth and absorbs entirely into the skin, leaving a clean canvas behind. The level of Vitamin C in the product isn’t overpowering and harsh, so it’s suitable for all skin types and works hard on evening out dark spots and blotches.
Application
Squeeze two pumps into clean hands and apply to the face and neck, morning and night, after cleansing.
To Note
Some users struggled to get the full amount of product out of the bottle, so you may need to get creative.
A Bright Future
Leave dull and tired skin behind when you incorporate some of these products into your daily routine. Remember that consistency is the key to real results, so use your skincare the same way every day and never forget to layer on an SPF, especially when using Vitamin C or retinol products.
