Behind the Mask: Another Step in the Journey to Beautiful Skin - Stylehive

Some of you are lucky ducks and have super-low maintenance skin. You just wash with a bar of Ivory soap once a day and call it done €“ and still manage to look like Anne Hathaway just the same. Blech! Others, like myself, are constantly fighting an uphill battle to try to keep our skin tame and glowing. So this post is about a little experiment I did involving face masks. I wasn€™t using one but I felt like I needed to, so I picked one up slathered it on and now I am going to tell you all about it.

Face masks can actually be sort of fun! Okay, maybe not the actual mask (unless you are using the Bior̩ self-warming mask, now those are neat) but what۪s fun is what you can do in one. A hot bath is fab while masking, the heat makes it seep oh-so-deep for an oh-so-clean result. Yummy! Then you can go the slumber party route and slap one on while your BFFs are over and scare people when they come to the door. Whatever the case, have fun because a mask is actually really relaxing.

I picked up Sabon€™s Mud mask (love Sabon stuff!), an all-natural clay mask perfect for my oily skin. Be sure to pick the right one for you, it makes all the difference in the world.

The real question I was trying to figure out, was how often should I use the mask? I knew every day wasn€™t the answer. After much experimentation, I came up with the solution €“ three times a week. Don€™t ask how or why, all I know is my skin felt best at three.

But don€™t just take my word for it. When I went back to see Esthetician X (read my post on medical facials) she was like, €œWhat are you doing to your skin? There is barely anything here to work on!€� I told her about the mask, and she responded with, €œWow. I am not into the all-natural stuff but keep doing this because it is working.€�

Case closed.