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 struggles to adjust to the change in atmosphere.

In short, summer can really test our skin. Yet, it’s 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. You can achieve a glowing, supple, and smooth complexion like melting butter that shines.

While the Korean Glass Skin has made a name for itself in recent years with its translucent, almost wet look, Butter Skin embodies a softer, more comforting, and above all, more realistic version for the holidays. 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 summer, we often think about sun protection (and rightly so, you should do it, but you already know that). However, we forget that the skin dehydrates twice as fast when the air is hot and dry, which 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 as soon as you wake up and throughout the day (add lemon juice for a detox effect).

To apply: a hyaluronic acid serum 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 a firming tip if you spend a few days in the sun: glide an ice cube over your face morning and night, the results are stunning!

2. Protect Without Suffocating

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

3. Play with Melting Textures

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

• A creamy 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 tapped onto the cheeks.

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

4. Nourish After the Sun

Holidays often rhyme with ocean baths, chlorine, and prolonged sun exposure, which is not the best for the skin, or hair for that matter, but that’s another story. To keep skin supple, it needs to be pampered 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 magical recipe; it’s more of a vacation philosophy. No need for a beauty kit that looks like checked luggage: a good SPF, a moisturizing cream that gets the job done with creamy, rich but breathable textures, perfect for summer. And, if you want to add a touch of Italian movie heroine flair, a dab of oil on the cheekbones.

And if your skin shines a bit after swimming? All the better: 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 allowing the skin to 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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