A Facial Plastic Surgeon’s Curated Skincare Routine for Day and Night
With so many skincare trends each year, there’s always a new product or device, and it’s easy to overlook proven skincare basics. That’s why we’re turning to the expert, Dr. Paul Nassif, world-renowned facial plastic surgeon, to break through the skincare noise and walk us through surgeon and dermatologist-approved skincare.
Today’s article will explore the skincare steps and evidence-based formulas that help Dr. Nassif’s patients and customers achieve radiant skin. Continue reading as we discuss:
- Why you should trust experts (not influencers) for the best skincare routine
- Morning steps for a skincare routine
- Surgeon-recommended nighttime skincare order
- How to personalize expert skincare tips
Why Expert-Guided Routines Deliver Better Results
Radiant skin is healthy skin. To achieve healthy skin, you can’t skip the science-backed basics that promote skin health. Whether you prefer a simple routine or a more complex one, or whether you follow skincare trends or not, your routine needs to include cleansers, serums, and moisturizers with active ingredients that penetrate the skin and stimulate beneficial changes in skin health
The products you choose need to contain active ingredients that achieve Dr. Nassif’s four tenets of skincare:
Building a routine around these actions can be tailored and personalized to your needs, but they must be in place to achieve healthy, radiant skin in the short- and long-term. Next, we’ll discuss simple, foundational morning and night routines that hydrate, exfoliate, nourish, and protect the skin with NassifMD® facial plastic surgeon skincare.
Essential Steps for an Effective Morning Routine
We can apply advanced anti-aging skincare tips through a simple morning routine. Follow these tips using dermatologist-recommended skincare brands, of which NassifMD® Skincare is a favorite:
- Step 1: Cleanse – Cleansing isn’t just for removing makeup at night; it’s essential in the morning to remove sweat, oil, dead skin, and impurities that collect overnight.
- Step 2: Serum – A daily serum (or two) is the perfect way to deliver active ingredients, such as antioxidants, to support daytime health. You can also use spot treatments such as eye creams.
- Step 3: Moisturize – Use a daytime-specific moisturizer for optimal support.
- Step 4: Sunscreen – Wear sunscreen every day as essential sun protection. Try NassifMD® Protect & Hydrate with tinting or NassifMD® Simply Hydration without. Apply sunscreen before makeup.
Must-Have Ingredients for Daytime Protection
If you’re getting started with your morning routine or need a simple refresh, NassifMD® Daytime Essentials 4 Piece offers the best skincare for your daytime needs with a done-for-you four-step routine, perfect for all skin types, including dry, sensitive, and aging.
Let’s walk through each product formulated by Dr. Nassif and its active ingredients.
- NassifMD® Pure Hydration Facial Cleanser – This gentle cleanser infuses the skin with hydration and antioxidants, making it the perfect first step in your morning routine. Active ingredients include antioxidants from matcha tea, squalene to prevent moisture loss, and a gentle cleanser derived from coconut.
- NassifMD® Undereye Anti-Aging Smoother – This spot treatment uses skincare peptides to improve microcirculation around the eyes, diminishing morning puffiness and wrinkles.
- NassifMD® Hydro-Screen Serum – This anti-aging serum packs in active ingredients and takes a 360-degree approach to skin health. Key ingredients include hyaluronic acid for hydration, ceramides for barrier support, and retinol for anti-aging and skin regeneration.
- NassifMD® Soft Focus Hydrating Day Cream – This moisturizer is specifically designed for daytime use and immediately blurs lines and boosts radiance. Key ingredients include hyaluronic acid, peptides, and red clover complex.
Nighttime Products That Repair and Rebuild Skin
In many cases, your nighttime skincare routine will look like your daytime one, but with some additions. First, add exfoliation to your nighttime routine to remove dead skin cells and impurities, promote skin turnover, and reveal younger-looking skin.
You can also include active ingredients to promote skin regeneration and repair; these processes occur overnight while you sleep. And finally, you can often use thicker creams and weekly treatments as part of your evening routine for deeper hydration, nourishment, and repair.
NassifMD® Nighttime Essentials 5 Piece offers five essential products for your evening skincare routine. When you use this kit at night and NassifMD® Daytime Essentials 4 Piece in the morning, you’ll have all the basics covered each day and will begin to notice benefits in as little as a few weeks.
Let’s walk through this done-for-you nighttime routine of dermatologist-recommended skincare products.
- NassifMD® Detox Pads – These facial detox pads offer cleansing, toning, and exfoliation in a convenient form. Just swipe after cleansing or in place of cleansing and move to the next step in your routine without rinsing. Detox pads contain salicylic, glycolic, and lactic acids for exfoliation, bakuchiol for skin restoration, ectoin for protection, and vitamin C for antioxidants.
- NassifMD® Age Defying Eye Renewal Serum – This eye serum smooths crow’s feet and fine lines, deeply moisturizes, and provides antioxidant protection with active ingredients, including advanced peptides, polysaccharides, and aloe.
- NassifMD® Deco-Lift Neck and Décolleté Complex – This lightweight cream targets the neck and chest to hydrate and lift, improving skin tone and texture. Key ingredients include skincare peptides, vitamin C, glycolic acid, and DMAE from the vitamin choline.
- NassifMD® Hydro-Screen Serum – This serum is so effective, hydrating, and nourishing that you can use it twice daily! With hyaluronic acid, retinol, and ceramides, it helps maintain moisture levels, promotes collagen production, and deeply nourishes the skin.
- NassifMD® Pure Hydration Night Cream – This moisturizer offers deep hydration and repair. You’ll notice immediate benefits and increased overnight rejuvenation from the active ingredients, including galactoarabinan, a natural polysaccharide from the larch tree, vitamin C, and aloe.
How to Personalize Your Routine
For effective skincare with long-lasting results, trust the experts. Dr. Nassif and his colleagues, surgeons and skincare dermatologists, will agree that you can’t skip the basics. You can achieve hydration, exfoliation, nourishment, and protection with a few well-formulated products, including a cleanser, serums, and moisturizers.
From this framework, there is plenty of room to personalize your skincare routine to fit with your lifestyle, skin type, and goals. Once the foundations are in place, you can experiment with additional treatments and skincare steps, but popular trends and fads won’t replace the core principles and products that promote skin health.
NassifMD® Skincare offers all the tools to personalize your routine. Begin with NassifMD® Daytime Essentials 4 Piece and NassifMD® Nighttime Essentials 5 Piece, and then have fun experimenting, branching out, and seeing how your skin responds. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions.
References
- Guan, L. L., Lim, H. W., & Mohammad, T. F. (2021). Sunscreens and Photoaging: A Review of Current Literature. American journal of clinical dermatology, 22(6), 819–828.
- Almeman A. A. (2024). Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Alpha-Hydroxy Acids in Dermatological Practice: A Comprehensive Clinical and Legal Review. Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology, 17, 1661–1685.
