Glo Skin Beauty Blog

We use our makeup brushes every day, but can we say the same for our makeup brush cleaning habits? Bad brush hygiene can lead to clogged pores, breakouts, and bumpy application, so there's every reason to brush up on your cleaning. Here's our DIY guide on how to clean your makeup brushes, and how often you need to do it...

Do you find yourself wishing you could apply the perfect eyeshadow look? Perhaps you find single shadow application a breeze but struggle with layered techniques? Or maybe you want to brush up on your eye makeup artistry skills generally. If any of this rings true, then this guide on how to apply eyeshadow like a pro is for you. 

Do you have under eye circles, shadows, or puffiness? Join the club! These are all very common eye concerns, affecting most of us at some point in our lives. Discover our guide to help treat and conceal any unwanted discoloration, dehydration, and puffiness, safely and effectively.

If you’re looking for game-changing results from your home treatments, the most effective product you can invest in will be one of our at-home peel kits. To help you find a peel that’s right for you, we’ll delve into each of our three peels and showcase some peel before and after pics too...

Equally as important as finding the perfect foundation shade is picking the right formula for your skin type. When your skin and base work together the end result is a flawless finish that lasts longer and looks more natural. Find your formula with our foundation guide.

As transformative and game-changing as they are, peels can be a polarizing topic. Unlike other skincare treatments, just the name itself can feel a little aggressive. But, spoiler alert, it may blow your mind to know not all peels actually make you peel. We're here here to set the record straight on these elevated exfoliation experiences and debunk a few peel myths…

For all the magic and sparkle of the season, winter also brings with it some less glamorous side effects for our skin. The drop in humidity, prolonged exposure to indoor heat, and freezing outdoor temperatures all combine to make this the season that’s hardest on our skin. Reassessing our routines, switching up our solutions, and changing our habits can go a long way to keeping skin soothed and complexions comfortable this frosty season.

There’s never been a better time to take your skincare ritual to a whole new level with at-home peels. Professional grade results you can take all the credit for, discover which chemical peel type and daily skincare ritual is right for you with this expert guide.

From mom jeans to platform sneakers, the '90s are back in a big way, and so are peels. Updated for a new generation in elevated, next-level formulations, forget any preconceptions about chemical peels you might have formed from comedy shows or that infamous SATC scene, and think safe, transformative at-home treatments delivering radical radiance to every skin.

Whether defending, restoring, or strengthening , in skincare there’s a lot of talk about the skin’s moisture barrier. Aside from its name being pretty self-explanatory, it’s not always that clear however why we need to pay so much attention to the moisture barrier. Here's everything you need to know about the skin's moisture barrier...

Finding the best makeup brush for your foundation will help your application technique and also ensure an even, flawless coverage, for a natural-looking base. To help you find your perfect makeup brush kit, we've put together this handy brush guide.

From blackheads to full-blown breakouts, acne is the most common skin condition in the U.S., affecting 85% of us at some point in our lives. Discover everything you need to know about how to treat and prevent acne with a little help from our dermatologist.

OK, so it might not be the most glamorous product in your skincare lineup, but did you know sunscreen is in fact the most important anti-aging product you can buy? Sun exposure or photo-aging is responsible for around 80-90% of visible signs of aging, but the good news is that this is actually preventable. By using sunscreen on the daily, you can shield your skin from harmful UV rays that cause premature aging and skin damage including fine lines, wrinkles, dark spots, collagen depletion, loss of elasticity, and rough texture. And, with so many different sunscreens to choose from, finding one that you'll use every day, that meshes well with your skin, and doesn't irritate or cause breakouts is key to ensuring you keep good SPF habits. But before you go down a rabbit hole of sunscreen advice, we'll let you into a big skincare secret, zinc oxide sunscreen is one of our all-time favorites.

When it comes to brightening, hydration, or anti-aging it’s likely your go-tos are vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, retinol, maybe even alpha arbutin too if you’re skincare-savvy, but have you heard of niacinamide? Loved by derms and beauty editors, the benefits of niacinamide make for an impressive lineup worthy of a place in your skincare ritual. 

Are you team cream or team powder blush? Or maybe you love to mix and match? Whatever your preferences, blush can actually be a make or break step in many makeup rituals. Designed to make you look gorgeously glowing and lit from within with a healthy flush of cheek-popping color, on the flip side, too much blush, not enough blending, or a formula that doesn’t work with your skin’s needs can lead to many a blush blunder. Whether bright, neutral, or just a hint of hue, wherever you sit on the blush spectrum, this handy guide will help you find your best blush, and learn some new tricks and techniques too.

Hyaluronic acid is one of the tried and true skincare ingredients that you’ve probably seen everywhere over the last few years. We’ve all heard how it’s one of the most hydrating ingredients in skincare, but let’s dive into why you should be incorporating this powerhouse hydrator into your skincare ritual.

Whether dryness, redness, reactivity, itching, or just general inflammation, sensitive skin comes in many forms, and can present challenges when it comes to finding a targeted skincare and makeup ritual that’s right for your unique skin. And, while skincare is often the focus in soothing, calming, and repairing irritated, sensitized complexions, your nourishing practice doesn’t end with your skincare ritual, the makeup you choose matters too.

Serums are the strategists in your skincare ritual. More advanced, concentrated formulas than any other product, they’re designed to solve for specific issues in a super targeted way. Loaded with powerful actives and other uber-effective ingredients, serums are served in fast-absorbing, lightweight formulations, delivering all that good stuff directly to your skin quickly for visible results. 

Hailed as one of skincare’s all-time superheroes with most dermatologists wielding it as their top skincare tool (- along with SPF, of course), retinol is one of the most effective ingredients in the modern skincare kit. It helps accelerate skin cell turnover, reduce inflammation, diminish hyperpigmentation, and stimulate collagen production, promoting smoother, firmer, brighter skin. In short, it’s one of the best ingredients to use in all anti-aging skincare rituals.

Blue light is a hot topic right now, but it’s not a new issue. It’s actually been around ever since we started engaging with anything that has a light-emitting screen. What is new, however, is the amount of time we’re exposing ourselves to it. According to a recent survey, the average American spends 19 hours per day looking at some sort of digital device. Whether that’s working on your laptop, binge-watching Netflix, or doomscrolling Instagram before bed, all of these activities which are so important to our daily connectivity and sense of community, are unfortunately having detrimental effects on our wellbeing - and that includes our skin.

One of the least glamorous parts of our skincare ritual, but actually the most important, did you know that choosing the best cleanser for your skin can really make or break the rest of your skincare system. Choosing which cleanser is best for your skin doesn’t need to be difficult. Take a look at our easy to follow cleanser guide and let's get cleansing.

If you’re looking for a brighter way to diminish skin discoloration such as dark spots, hyperpigmentation, melasma, or even just to amp up your dull complexion, there’s an under-the-radar hero ingredient that’s about to seriously revolutionize your skincare ritual. Step forward alpha arbutin - nature’s answer to an Instagram filter. This powerhouse ingredient effectively treats pigmentation issues and boosts brightness safely without the unwanted side effects of its former counterpart, hydroquinone. Nature-approved, dermatologist-recommended, alpha arbutin is beauty’s best kept brightening secret and we’re here to spill.

First of all, what actually is inflammaging? Inflammaging or inflamm-aging is a beauty buzzword to describe the combination of two of our least favorite things, inflammation and aging. Inflammaging is the perfect storm of inflammatory factors converging, leading to accelerated signs of aging and generally an unhappy, uncomfortable complexion. 

Dreaming of fresh, glowing, dewy, lit-from-within skin? Let’s face it, this is our collective complexion goal. For some of us, there may be a few more obstacles (aka dead skin cells) in our path towards achieving that brightness, that luminosity we all crave. The good news is there are some likely culprits contributing to your dimming complexion wattage, and some easy ways to course correct. And, in the meantime, you can always faux your glow with foundations and highlighters, but getting that natural radiance IRL all starts with your skincare approach.

As we move into multitasking times, we’re looking for more from our moisturizers. Rather than slathering on layer after layer of product to repair and protect our moisture barrier or target our key concerns, we’re taking a less is more approach, opting in on high-powered formulations that offer a boost of benefits in one go. And, what better place to solve for an array of complexion goals and conditioning needs than via an elevated, next-generation moisturizer. These treatment moisturizers offer all the usual good stuff but now are infused with amplified actives for all the skin-love. 

If 2020 was all about the discovery that skincare is vital to our self-care, then for 2021, skincare trends pick up pace with an array of innovations, ingredients, and intelligent formulations. Stacking our shelfies full of cute-but-ineffective products is firmly out, replaced instead by our new work-smarter-not-harder, skinimalism mood. Think personalized protocols, multi-tasking formulas, authentic clean and clinical skincare, and impactful, performance-packed products.

Cleanses, intermittent fasting, green juices - we’re all familiar with those kinds of detoxes, but sometimes our skin needs a little extra targeted TLC too. Celebrations, stress, dropping temperatures - can all take their toll on our skin. And, as our largest and most visible organ, our skin can often be the first signal that something is out of balance. Step forward the skin detox. Taking that cleansing mindset to both body and beauty can go a long way to improve your skin’s overall health and vitality.