Jan 24, 2025

Top 5 Skincare Resolutions for Radiant Skin this New Year

It’s 2025: don’t forget your skincare goals when making resolutions! Prioritizing skin health by consistently nourishing, exfoliating, hydrating, and protecting the skin is a recipe for radiance.

In today’s article, we’ll take you through the top five skincare resolutions from NassifMD® facial plastic surgeon skincare for effective skin improvement, superior hydration, and visible anti-aging effects. Bonus: these beauty resolutions are cost-effective and user-friendly. Keep reading as we explore:

Start with the best daily face sunscreen
A nighttime cleansing and Skin exfoliation routine
Hydrate from the inside out
Start using retinol (or up your retinol game)
Add in weekly at-home treatments

Are you ready for the new year, new skin? Let’s go!

Start with Consistent Sunscreen Use

The first of the skincare beauty resolutions are to commit to sunscreen every day, year-round. Yes, wear sunscreen in the winter, on cloudy days, and indoors. Wear sunscreen if you also wear makeup.

SPF sunscreen protects the skin against harmful UV radiation and sun damage, which accelerates skin aging, contributing to crepey skin, wrinkles, increased fine lines, dark spots, and skin cancer.

Wearing daily sunscreen on your face doesn’t have to be greasy or leave a white, chalky layer; NassifMD® Skincare offers hydrating skincare products that double as the best daily moisturizer with sunscreen.

NassifMD® Protect & Hydrate is a daily sunscreen moisturizer with a universal tint. SPF 44 from minerals (zinc oxide and titanium dioxide) protects against harmful UV rays while hydrating, brightening, and nourishing the skin with hyaluronic acid and vitamin C. It’s lightweight, waterproof, and can be worn instead of foundation or underneath additional makeup.

NassifMD® Simply Hydration is our other daily sunscreen for the face in an un-tinted, sheer formula with SPF 40 and hydrating ingredients, including hyaluronic acid, antioxidants, and vitamin E. Consider it an everyday essential and a non-negotiable step in your morning routine.

Commit to Double Cleansing at Night

Cleansing is the first step of your skincare routine and the first step to radiant skin in the New Year. If you’re already cleansing and using products for your skin type (cleanser for oily skin vs. a cleanser for sensitive skin) and try double cleansing at night.

Double cleansing is how it sounds: cleaning your skin twice with two different cleansers. At night, this method helps remove makeup dirt, debris, sweat, and impurities that build up over the day more than a single cleanser can. It also prepares the skin to receive the nutrients in the rest of your skincare routine that promotes hydration, repair, and healing overnight. Bonus: exfoliate the skin as part of this routine.

Start double cleansing with NassifMD® Pure Hydration Facial Cleanser, a gentle hydrating formula suitable for all skin types. It contains antioxidants, including matcha, and squalane to help reduce redness and inflammation while softening and brightening the skin.

The best skin cleanser for the second step of double cleansing is NassifMD® Detox Facial Pads. Each pad is a convenient deep cleanser + exfoliator with hydroxy acids, bakuchiol (a retinol-like molecule; more on retinol below), ectoin, and vitamin C.

After double cleansing, continue with your nighttime skincare routine and lock in the hydration and nourishment with NassifMD® Pure Hydration Night Cream for the best hydrating skincare, start to finish.

Prioritize Hydration from the Inside Out

Hydration is a key tenant of healthy, radiant skin. So far, we’ve mentioned the best skincare for hydration from NassifMD® Skincare. However, let’s not overlook the importance of internal hydration.

Inside-out hydration starts with drinking enough water, eating hydrating, anti-inflammatory foods, and avoiding dehydrating foods and beverages.

Focus on:
Filtered water
Sparkling water
Herbal teas
Fresh green juices
Lemon and lime juice
Fresh berries, apples, pears, melons, and other fruits
Fresh vegetables, including lettuce, celery, cucumbers, greens, peppers
Avocados, nuts, seeds, fish, and other healthy fats

You can also support hydration with targeted skincare supplements. NassifMD® Collagen Gummies and NassifMD® Biotin Gummies provide support.

Collagen, the primary structural protein in skin, promotes firmness, elasticity, and hydration. Unfortunately, it declines with age and sun damage, but replacing collagen through supplementation can help slow the decline and rebuild structure. Collagen supplementation is associated with improved skin hydration, density, and elasticity.

Biotin is an essential B vitamin to support hair, skin, and nail health. For the skin, it supports dry and irritated skin by supporting natural hydration processes, especially in those with deficient levels of biotin.

While hydration is an inside-out job, combining hydrating skincare with diet, lifestyle, and supplements is the perfect approach for radiant skin.

Introduce a Retinol Product Slowly

Retinol is one of the most essential active skincare ingredients for radiant skin, yet it takes some attention to introduce it effectively into your skincare routine.

What does retinol do? Retinol is an active form of vitamin A with unique benefits for skin health, including minimizing fine lines, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation. It helps increase brightness, skin barrier function, and cellular turnover for younger, more radiant skin.

However, too much retinol use too quickly can leave your skin red, peeling, and irritated. It’s best to start slowly and increase over time as your skin allows. The goal is to use it as often as your skin tolerates, up to twice daily.

We recommend starting with NassifMD® Hydro-Screen, a retinol serum with a synergy of active ingredients, including hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and antioxidants, to help improve retinol tolerance and keep the skin hydrated and nourished as you begin to use it and over time. With so many retinol creams and products on the market, we think Hydro-Screen is the best retinol serum.

Don’t Skip Weekly Treatments

This year, you’re going to commit to sunscreen, double cleansing, hydration, and retinol. Let’s add one more skincare goal to the list: weekly treatments. Weekly treatments transport professional skincare spa treatments into the comfort of your home conveniently and affordably. You don’t need to do them every day, but once or twice weekly as part of your resolution.

NassifMD® Micro-Spa Radiance Resurfacing Peel is the perfect weekly treatment for anyone who wants glowing, radiant skin. In this two-step treatment, The Radiance Resurfacing Mask resurfaces the skin with gentle exfoliation from vitamin C crystals. The second step uses the Radiance Activating AHA/BHA gel for cleansing and exfoliating. It’s like hitting refresh on your skin for immediate skin improvements.

As you enter your new year, new skin era, focus on the skincare foundations and take steps to nourish, hydrate, exfoliate, and protect the skin each day. You may need only a few tweaks or additions to your routine to take your skin health and radiance to the next level.

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