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How to get a ‘glass skin’ without having to spend a fortune? While this beauty routine, supposed to guarantee a fresh, luminous and crystal-clear complexion, is based on numerous steps, a TikToker has been working to show for several weeks that natural and affordable ingredients can be enough to achieve very good results. Explanations.
The ‘glass skin’ is today no longer considered as a simple beauty routine, but as a goal in terms of skin care. And for good reason, consumers now prefer to focus on skincare rather than makeup, for everyday use at least, with the aim of obtaining skin that is as radiant as possible. Initially, ‘glass skin’ consists of adopting a beauty routine made up of at least six steps (double cleansing, exfoliation, toner, serum, moisturizing cream, and sun protection) to achieve this famous ‘glass skin’, like fresh and radiant, without visible pores or imperfections. Born in 2022, the craze for ‘glass skin’ is not waning, to the point that the hashtag #glassskin has already exceeded 4 billion views on TikTok – without counting its numerous derivatives.
Throughout the videos highlighting this beauty routine, and by extension this baby’s skin, we discover tutorials, the products considered best suited, or even simplified routines. This is the essence of the user’s account @glassskinsecretknown on YouTube as MehGlow, followed by nearly 800,000 subscribers, who daily shares her do it yourself (DIY) beauty secrets to “obtain Korean glass skin at home”. We will have understood, the young woman shares a host of homemade recipes that are easy to make, but also affordable, to enjoy healthy and radiant skin.
Simple and natural ingredients
While many content creators and users focus on cosmetics that are undoubtedly effective but expensive – or which require a significant monthly budget, the young woman focuses on natural ingredients within everyone’s reach. Among the recipes most popular with her followers is a mask that the young woman considers “better than botox”. Something to dream about! And yet, the latter only requires two very well-known cheap ingredients: a teaspoon of aloe vera gel and the same amount of virgin coconut oil. Leaving such a mixture on your skin regularly would, according to the main person concerned, allow you to obtain firm, smooth and plump skin.
It must be recognized that this mask is based on two natural ingredients with many virtues. Aloe vera, very popular throughout the world, is not only known for its moisturizing properties, but also for its soothing and restorative action. As for coconut oil, it is unanimously praised for its nourishing and calming properties. A double shot of hydration in short, one of the keys to ‘glass skin’.
The TikToker offers another recipe, again “better than botox”, aiming once again to give the skin a plump and firm appearance. This time it is based on a mixture of milk and cornmeal, which the young woman enhances with a touch of olive oil. If the ingredients differ from the previous recipe, here we stick with products that can easily be found in stores, at low prices, or even that are already in your kitchen. A simple way to obtain ‘glass skin’ without having to go through extended formulas.