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Step 1: Free your skin from its rough texture
Your skin is a canvas. You can paint pretty on bare walls but you cannot “paint pretty” on skin ravaged by a rough texture. Thus, the first step to getting the fun, sheer look is to remove the dead, dry and all around ugly layers of your skin.
A cheap and painless way to do this is with a two-dollar bottle of cuticle remove. Yes, that’s right. You don’t always need a $90 facial to peel away the ragged layers of your skin when a makeshift “skin softener” will do.
Cuticle removers dissolve skin proteins while its detergents like sulfates lift and remove dirt. Additionally, some cuticle removers contain agents like sodium chloride to leave the skin moist. To soften your skin with a cuticle remover do the following:
1. Cleanse your face your favorite face soap, I’ll just suggest your basic glycerin soap
2. Pat your skin dry
3. Smooth on a layer of the cuticle remover to your face while avoiding your eye area
4. Allow the cuticle remover to act on your skin for one to two minutes.
5. Rinse off the cuticle remover
Step 2: Drench your skin with moisture
The true key to getting that moist, dewy look is actually having skin that is moisture rich. Dry, sickly skin will never have a vibrant dewy look. With that, our next steps on the road to “Operation Dewy Face” is to infuse the skin with serious moisture.
Step 3: Create a facial spray
My favorite thing to do in the morning is to spray my face with my own, customized facial mist. I created this mist for less than three dollars while I would have to shell out over $20 to buy a similar�facial mist at stores. Here%9�s how to mak� your o�n facial mist:
1. Get a 4 to 8-ounce bottle with a spray nozzle or go environmental and recycle one that you have lying around your home.
2. Go to the drug store and go to the skin care aisle. Grab a 4-ounce bottle of “Rose Water” with glycerin. This is a generic, and thus cheap natural skin care product. Do not let the price deceive you though. This steal has almost all of the items you need to make a high-class facial mist- a rose hydrosol and a moisture locking ingredient glycerin.
3. While you are shopping, get a bottle of witch hazel. It’ will run you between two to four dollars.
4. Now, mix two ounces of the “Rose Water” mix with two ounces of the witch hazel in your bottle with a spray nozzle. Now you have a wonderful facial mist. 5.You can customize this facial mist by adding a few drops of essential oils like ravensara, rose, lavender, geranium or ylang-ylang. Moreover, you can add a spring of rosemary, peppermint or citrus to your mist for added botanical benefits.
Step 4: Add on the layers of moisture to your skin
Now that you have smooth, clean skin, and a facial mist, you are ready to build the moisture layers that will create that darling dewy look. Here’s how you create those moisture layers once your have smoothed your skin with the cuticle remover:
1. Spray your skin with your facial mist. A light layer of visible moisture should remain on your skin. The proceeding layers of moisturizers will lock in the moisture this facial spray offers.
2. Now, this step may seem silly, but it makes a noticeable difference in the final look of your skin. Cleanse your hands. Then rub on a deep moisturizing hand cream to your hands. This step matters because you are using your hands to apply a moisturizer to your face. If your hands are dry and cracked, your fingers will absorb much of the moisturizer intended for your face.
3. Next, if it’s daytime, smooth on your sunscreen (even if your makeup foundation has a sunscreen). If it is nighttime, smooth on a light facial cream instead.
4. Spray your face once more with the facial mist, but use a lighter layer than you did earlier. This spray does not need to be visible.
5. Next, mix a pea-sized amount of your liquid foundation with a pea-sized amount of your facial moisturizer.
6. Smooth on the foundation and moisturizer combination onto your face. Dewy is done.
Step 5: Now do this daily
Now, daily, repeat step four, while making certain to soften your skin with a cuticle remover or compatible skin care product. This repetition is critical because each day that you infuse moisture into your skin, you prepare your skin for a fresh, healthy, dewy look. Enjoy the dew.
About the Author – Naweko San-Joyz is an author and health researcher. Topics she covers include: acne control for adults with severe cases, acne control for adults with severe cases, and weight loss tips for women.
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Interesting article. Has anyone here tried using cuticle remover on your face? I’ve heard of the witch hazel usage before, but the cuticle remover threw me.
Sounds interesting enough for me to want to give it a try.
I have never heard of cuticle remover either!! Makes sense though, cuticles are basically dry skin.
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I have never heard of cuticle remover on your face before. Very odd.
Some good tips here. I like to make my own facial spritzer, as I use mineral makeup. Not sure about using the cuticle cream on my face though.
These are great tips. I hadn’t heard of the cuticle remover trick, though. Softening can also be accomplishes with heavy cream from the dairy section in the grocery store or even mixing up some powdered milk that hasn’t been skimmed.
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I, too, hadn’t heard of the cuticle remover tip. I’m willing to try anything once, because you just never know! Afterall, I did read about putting a certain cream not intended for under eye use (ahem!) under the eyes to reduce puffiness. Then of course there is using toothpaste for a blemish. All sorts of tips and tricks are useful to know about. Then there are those who purport to have flawless skin with only the use of mild soap and water! Must be nice, as well as easy on the wallet!
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I like the idea of using heavy cream for facial softening. Would this also ex foliate the skin? Any recipe for the heavy cream? Perhaps adding honey?
Katharina, I know. It threw me off too. That’s why I decided to print it here at the Diva.
If you really think about it, cuticle remover takes away of all the hard on stuff around my nails with no problem. I can’t wait to take it out for a test spin sometime.
Diamondssaphire, exactly!
But you somehow have to wonder why the *rage* has never caught on ….
3Plus3, I am one of those women that get very *anal* about the stuff I put on my face, but I’m going to try this to see if it works.
I guess I just now have to figure out what is the best cuticle remover cream out there is. Anyone’s got an idea?
EviesEarth, how do you make your own mineral spritzer?
Samantha, I think *we* should just all start a trend, and we’ll laugh over coffee once we hear about supermodels using cuticle remover to smoothen their skin.
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EviesEarth, if you do find out the answer to that one. I’d like to know also.
My expertise goes as far as buying the made stuff at the local store.
Tiffany, I guess there are so many ways you can get that glowing skin.
You can try the ones suggested on this article.
I actually tried the cuticle remover for one minute and I was pleasantly surprised. Best thing I have uses for my skin ever. Next time I will try two minutes though. I used Sally Hansen brand.
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