Day Cream vs Night Cream: What's the Difference?
Learn the difference between day cream and night cream so you can perfect your moisturising skincare routine for day and night.
- 13th August 2021
- By Charlotte Tilbury
3 minute read
Learn the difference between day cream and night cream so you can perfect your moisturising skincare routine for day and night.
3 minute read
Research-powered, moisturising skincare is the secret to any magic makeup look! Day cream or daily moisturiser is vital to keep your skin looking in perfect condition before you apply makeup, whilst a night cream helps nourish and rejuvenate your skin overnight.
Discover the difference between day cream & night cream so you can get the best instant and long-term results for your skin.
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Never apply makeup without applying a day cream! Day cream allows you to apply your magic primers, foundations, concealers, colour correctors and powders onto a super smooth-looking, hydrated complexion!
It’s important to have separate day and night moisturisers due to the different ingredients, formulas, benefits, and textures they tend to have. Instead of using your daily moisturiser in the evening, save it for your morning skincare routine.
For example, ingredients that protect your skin from external aggressors, like SPF against UV rays and CITYSTEM™ for pollution defence, are wasted if apply them to your skin before you sleep, and brightening-effect ingredients like Vitamin C and Camellia Oil help to create a glowing, dewy-looking complexion that’s perfect for a daytime radiance!
So, when shopping for your day and night moisturisers, embrace the ingredients that work best for each! Day creams tend to be full of hydrating, defence, brightening, and smoothing effect ingredients for a gorgeous fresh-looking complexion and perfect canvas for makeup application!
Originally created backstage to prep and transform the look of models’ skin before fashion shows, this rich, supercharged moisturiser became so iconic Charlotte had to bottle it! The REVOLUTIONARY, RESULTS-DRIVEN FORMULA floods your skin with moisture for a glowing, plumper looking canvas!
Enriched with Charlotte’s ‘magic 8’ matrix of oils and ingredients, including plump-effect BioNymph Peptide, hydrating Hyaluronic Acid, SPF 15 and nourishing Camellia Oil, this is the secret to MAGIC SKIN every day!
IN 1 HOUR, HYDRATION INCREASES BY 226%*
If you prefer a lighter-textured day cream with TRIPLE PROTECTION, discover Charlotte’s Magic Cream Light! Inspired by Charlotte’s award-winning original Magic Cream, this light-as-air lightweight moisturiser provides INTENSE HYDRATION and COMPLEXION-ENHANCING benefits plus TRIPLE PROTECTION against UV rays, blue light and modern pollution!
Expertly formulated with HIGH PERFORMANCE ingredients including REPLEXIUM™, Vitamin E and CITYSTEM™ to deliver up to 24-hour HYDRATION, modern POLLUTION defence, SPF20 and a satin smooth finish, it’s the perfect day cream for warmer climates, the summer months and beauty-lovers who love a light-as-air formula or have oily/combination skin!
In user trials for Magic Cream Light, 92% agree skin LOOKS YOUNGER and 98% agree skin feels NOURISHED & HYDRATED**
At the end of the day, think about how much your skin has gone through; it could be exposed to polluted air when commuting, harsh weather conditions, damaging blue light from digital screens and the sun, and even topping up your makeup.
A night cream is designed to help revitalise your skin overnight, and the formula is usually much richer and thicker than a daily moisturiser, for a pampering, balm-like boost of magic ingredients that your skin absorbs through the night so you can wake up to gorgeous, smoother, plumper looking skin by morning!
BEAUTY SLEEP IN A CREAM ELIXIR!
The rich, firming and plumping effect formula includes Winter Daphne Stem Cell Extract, which helps to strengthen the skin's barrier function to keep skin moisturised, plus Vitamin E, Co-Enzyme Q10 and Retinol to transform the look of your skin while you sleep.
SKIN APPEARS PLUMPER BY 223%!***
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Both day and night moisturisers have magical benefits thanks to different research-powered ingredients and nourishing formulas! Make sure you use both a day and night moisturiser for 24 HOURS of MAGIC SKIN!
*Tested on 16 people
**Tested on 211 people over 4 weeks
***30 people tested over 8 weeks using once daily
****Discount based on total value of products if purchased separately
CITYSTEM™ is a trademark of Sederma
REPLEXIUM™ is a trademark of BASF Beauty Care Solution
With over 30 years experience, Charlotte Tilbury MBE is the world's number 1 makeup artist and British beauty entrepreneur. Charlotte established Charlotte Tilbury Beauty in 2013, which is now a record-breaking beauty brand that has won over 400 awards.
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