Skin Flooding: Skincare for Dehydrated Skin

Darlings, when skin feels dehydrated, skin flooding may be the answer to your skincare wishes! Discover how skin flooding works, the best skincare products for flooding the skin with hydration, and why skin flooding could be the answer to rehydrating dehydrated skin.

What is Skin Flooding?

Skin flooding is a skincare technique where skincare products are layered to give the skin a deeply hydrating revival. The goal is to, in a sense, flood the skin with supercharged skincare ingredients including humectants like hyaluronic acid and polyglutamic acid and ingredients that strengthen the skin barrier like niacinamide. Skin flooding usually involves a cleanser, face mist, face serum, and face moisturizer, with each product being layered to increase hydration and efficacy.

How does Skin Flooding work?

The premise of skin flooding is that by layering hydrating skincare products, each product takes turns to flood the skin with moisture while helping to retain moisture over time. Layering is an important aspect of skin flooding; rather than washing away toner or serum before moving onto the next step, each product is left to absorb into the skin. This allows skincare ingredients to penetrate more deeply into the skin barrier while boosting the absorption of the skincare steps that follow. After skin flooding, your skin should feel drenched with intense hydration.

Which products should you use for Skin Flooding?

The core products that you will need when skin flooding include cleanser, face mist, face serum, and moisturizer. These products work together to add moisture back into the skin and help to strengthen the skin barrier for long-lasting hydration. Skin flooding is a more-is-more approach to skincare – the opposite of skin minimalism or ‘skinimalism’ – so products such as toner, face masks and face oils are wonderful additions to your skin flooding routine.

Whichever products you use for skin flooding, be sure to use hydrating formulas that don’t feel stripping on the skin. I recommend reaching for Magic Skin icons like Charlotte’s Magic Hydrator Mist, Charlotte’s Magic Serum Crystal Elixir, and Charlotte’s Magic Water Cream to flood the skin with healthy hydration.

Which skin types benefit from Skin Flooding?

Every skin type can benefit from skin flooding. The aim of skin flooding is to intensely hydrate the skin, and so those with dehydrated skin will get the most out of this skincare technique.

Skin flooding is skincare for dehydrated skin. Having dehydrated skin is different to having dry skin, although this is a common misconception. Every skin type can become dehydrated – whether it’s dry, oily or combination – and the key to rehydration is following a supercharged skincare routine that hydrates and revives the look of dehydrated skin.

Can you wear makeup after Skin Flooding?

Yes – you can apply makeup after skin flooding, but you’ll need to ensure that your canvas is perfectly prepped. Due to skin flooding being a maximalist approach to skincare, it requires a build-up of skincare products on your skin, and if these products don’t layer well, they can slide around and ball up on the face which is detrimental to makeup application. When choosing the skincare products you will be flooding your skin with, it’s important to make sure that they layer beautifully and won’t result in any pilling or bunching up on the skin that could interfere with your makeup.

Layering is at the heart of all of my skincare innovations, darlings. Whenever I create a NEW! skincare product, I’m mindful that it needs to work seamlessly with the other steps within a skincare routine. All of my magic skincare stars are designed to apply effortlessly alongside one another while helping to supercharge the steps that follow! They also layer beautifully underneath makeup and create a smoother-looking, glowing canvas that helps your complexion to look its best.

Skincare for Dehydrated Skin: Skin Flooding Routine

Darlings, discover the secret to skincare for dehydrated skin! This skin flooding routine breaks down skin flooding step-by-step, and is designed to drench and revive the look of dehydrated skin. Each of these products layer effortlessly with the next and are essential in my skincare kit for quenching thirsty skin!

Darlings, we are generation dehydration, and skin flooding is the skincare solution to dehydrated skin that we’ve been waiting for! Learn how to mindfully flood the skin with hydrating skincare ingredients and your dehydration woes will become a thing of the past!

Shop skincare for dehydrated skin and DRENCH. REVIVE. NOW!

*Tested on 33 people.

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