5 Tips for Maintaining a Butter Skin Glow During Vacation

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You have a good butter skin routine, but here come the holidays and suddenly, you find yourself in a drier or more humid environment, and your skin is struggling to adjust to the change in atmosphere.

In short, summer can put our skin to the test. Yet, this is precisely the season when we want to feel beautiful and healthy.

Rest assured, with a little knowledge and preparation, you can save your lovely skin by adopting the Butter Skin trend in your vacation spot. Enjoy a luminous, supple, and smooth complexion like melting butter that glows.

While the Korean Glass Skin trend has taken off in recent years with its translucent and almost wet appearance, Butter Skin embodies a softer, more comforting, and above all, more realistic version for vacations. The idea is not to hide but to enhance. Here’s how to achieve it, even between two swims.

Until then, we wish you a wonderful vacation!

1. Focus on Deep Hydration

In the summer, we often think of sun protection (and rightly so, you need to do it, but you already know that). However, we forget that the skin dehydrates twice as fast when the air is warm and dry, as is often the case when temperatures are high. The key to successful butter skin is hydration that works from the inside out.

To drink: a large glass of fresh water right upon waking and throughout the day (adding lemon juice for a detox touch).

To apply: a serum with hyaluronic acid and a cream rich in ceramides to maintain skin elasticity.

Vacation tip: apply your skincare right after the shower, when your skin is still slightly damp, to seal in hydration. And for a firming trick if you’re spending a few days in the sun: glide an ice cube over your face morning and night, the result is stunning!

2. Protect Without Suffocating

The sun remains the number one enemy of well-hydrated skin and a butter skin routine. I recommend choosing a sun protection with a milky texture or gel-cream that leaves a velvety rather than sticky finish. The velvety texture is definitely the best option if you’re sunbathing on the beach, as we all know the feeling of sand mixed with sticky sunscreen: not cool. New lightweight formulas are forgettable while preventing sunburn that completely ruins the butter skin effect.

3. Play with Melting Textures

The secret of Butter Skin is the material. We set aside powders that freeze the features to embrace cream textures:

• A cream blush applied with fingertips for a fresh effect.
• A stick highlighter that captures light without visible glitter.
• A tinted balm for the lips that can also be dabbed on the cheeks.

Everything should seem to melt into the skin, never staying on the surface, plus these materials have the advantage of being more hydrating.

4. Nourish After the Sun

Vacations often rhyme with sea baths, chlorine, and prolonged sun exposure; in short, not the best for the skin, nor the hair for that matter, but that’s another story. To keep skin supple, it needs pampering in the evening, especially after sunbathing. Vegetable oils (jojoba, marula, sweet almond) work wonders with a gentle massage. They soothe, repair, and enhance the “peach skin” effect upon waking. You may have seen natural skincare recipes with butter circulating on social media. If your skin is very dry, now is the time to try new beauty experiences!

5. Let It Breathe

The butter skin trend is not a magic recipe; it’s more of a vacation philosophy. No need for a beauty kit that resembles checked luggage: just a good SPF, a moisturizing cream that does the job with buttery, rich but breathable textures, perfect for summer. And, if you want to give a little Italian movie star vibe, a touch of oil on the cheekbones.

And if your skin shines a bit after swimming? Good; it’s the effect of mozzarella di bufala under the sun of Capri. In reality, the true glow comes mainly from slowing down, sleeping without an alarm, and letting the skin live at the rhythm of summer. In short, Butter Skin is less a beauty goal than a perfect excuse to sip a spritz on the terrace, without foundation and without guilt.

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