Come winter—and we do mean winter, when weather.com issues bare skin warnings and tears stream down your cheeks from the cold—we tend to reach for different products in our medicine cabinets. When your skin’s screaming for moisture and your hair’s whipping around in the wind all day, it needs a little bit of extra love. Below, three editors share their cold weather secrets.
Emily Hebert, Beauty Editor
1. Fresh Twilight Freshface Glow
I wear liquid foundation every day, regardless of the season (I’m obsessed!). While foundation helps even my skin tone and camouflage acne scars, however, it also enhances dry patches. To avoid this problem during the winter months, I prep my complexion with Fresh Twilight Freshface Glow prior to applying makeup. With ingredients like meadowfoam seed oil and vitamins A, C, and E, the moisturizing primer ensures a smooth canvas. Bonus: Its dewy texture has a light-reflective quality that brightens even the dullest complexion.
2. Mario Badescu Seaweed Night Cream
I used to avoid super-emollient night creams because I was afraid they’d make me break out. But ever since I started using Mario Badescu Seaweed Night Cream, I’m hooked! With pore-tightening seaweed and wrinkle-fighting hyaluronic acid, elastin, and collagen, the oil-free formula moisturizes without causing irritation or blemishes. I especially like this product for winter because it drenches my skin with moisture without leaving any unwanted residue.
3. La Mer The Eye Concentrate
Packed with La Mer’s signature “miracle broth” (the name says it all!), La Mer The Eye Concentrate is a luxurious treat. My eye area tends to get pretty dry in winter, and massaging this cream over and around my eyelids imparts instant moisture. It also minimizes the appearance of pesky fine lines. Score!
Sydney Wasserman, Fashion Editor
1. Aquaphor Healing Ointment
My best friend is a nurse and said she and all of her coworkers live on Aquaphor for curing dry skin since they have to wash their hands so much during the day. I put this on everything from my face to lips to hand during the winter.
2. Nuxe Multi-Usage Dry Oil
I’ve been using this dry oil on the ends of my hair this winter especially after being in a freezing wind storm. I don’t know how much it heals over time, but it smells amazing and gives my ends a nice shine.
3. Dermalogica Skin Hydrating Masque
Whenever my skin looks worn out from the cold, I use this masque from Dermalogica—it only takes 10 minutes and is oil free which is great for my combo skin. I’ve even left it on overnight as an eye mask.
Britt Aboutaleb, News Editor
1. Clinique’s Moisture Surge
After a 24 hour journey home from the Middle East post-Christmas my face was a mess. I slathered this all over it and have used it every night since; I’ve almost reclaimed by summer glow.
2. Oribe Apres-Beach
Most surf sprays are wet and work best in summer’s humidity. Oribe’s Apres-Beach is like a dry spray that miraculously supports my beachy curls, even in a snowstorm.
3. Sunday Riley’s Juno Transformative Lipid Serum
This is to winter what Tata Harper’s Serum is to summer. It’s thicker (and doesn’t smell quite as good) but the word “transformative” isn’t hyperbole. After one week of nightly use my skin looks and feels totally different.
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