Boost Your Winter Beauty Routine

Revamp your routine to revive skin and hair

From the LifeMinute Team

February 10, 2015

Yes, it's freezing outside and it still gets dark at 5:30pm, but that's no excuse for letting your beauty routine go into hibernation. Now is the perfect time to introduce a few new products into the rotation to reignite your excitement about beautifying when your instinct is to crawl under the covers and wait until things thaw out.

The Luxury Spot's Bryce Gruber suggests skin care is the place to start. "I am so obsessed with the Clarins daily duo routine, and it's really great for your skin because you're starting with a serum that's so easy to use," she tells us. Clarins Double Serum is like taking a multivitamin for your skin because it's packed with pore-refining plant extracts and vitamins that you can seal into your skin with any one of Clarins' moisturizers. "I love the night cream," says Bryce, "I've been using it since I was about 17 years old and heading off to college, and I'll probably use it forever and ever and ever. It is so good and velvety and smooth, and it keeps everything totally refined and beautiful, and you feel great after using it." You can find the Double Serum and moisturizers at Clarins.com or at Clarins counters everywhere.

But winter skin care extends far beyond the face, so Dove's latest innovation, a dry antiperspirant spray, will have your underarms covered. Bryce explains, "They have a really fun social media campaign that you can look up, #TryDry. So basically what it is, is it's a dry antiperspirant spray that goes on and doesn't give you any of that sticky feeling that most deodorant does." Plus, it still has Dove's signature one-quarter moisturizing formula so it's kind to the skin, comes in a variety of beautiful scents and offers 48-hour wetness and odor protection. "That's the really key amazing part of this product. So you're going to have perfect underarm skin, but you're also going to have real protection that's going to make you feel fabulous and confident throughout the day," adds Bryce.

And now for your hair... Bryce suggests that here is where you can really take matters into your own hands with at-home hair color. "If you're like me, and you like to color at home, coloring at home isn't always the easiest thing," she explains, "But Vidal Sassoon Salonist has the most amazing product for coloring at home. You're treating the roots to the tips of your hair, the roots to the lengths, totally separately by having a real mixing bowl in your own home that comes in the kit." The kit, only $15 at drugstores, lets you play colorist by letting you do your own hair color in a multidimensional way so it won't look flat or dull or brassy. "You're going to have really natural gorgeous-looking hair just from using this product," says Bryce.

So face the wicked winter weather head on with glowing skin and fabulous hair, and for more tips from Bryce, visit TheLuxurySpot.com.

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