How do you get glowing skin?!

[Greenland21]

How do some people always just looking really healthy?! With glowing skin and minimal make up?! Tell me your best skin secrets!?

Prescription Retinoid (Tret) from Dermatica or Skin and Me :)

Both do great offers for discount on the first month.

Sundscreen is a must.

The vitamin c products from the body shop are really helping my skin.

Green smoothies with coconut water or almond
oat milk etc.

Mostly genes. I've had phases where I've done loads of exercise and had a good diet and drunk lots of water, and phases where I've not bothered. Phases when I've used expensive skin care and phases when I have used super cheap stuff. My skin didn't really change tbh. I have pale, sallowish skin, quite oily when I was younger, less so now. I just don't have a very nice complexion. The only thing that changes that is make-up!

No alcohol. Now that I'm older I've noticed a single drink makes a massive difference to my skin the next day. Sorry!

Have to agree with the no alcohol thing. Since I more or less stopped (nearly a year ago! ) my skin is much better.

@Greenland21 you've had lots of good advice so far but I would say it's about having a great skincare routine. Glowy skin is harder in the winter however.

How do you cleanse your skin? This makes a big difference and I would follow Caroline Hirons' advice and use oil or cream cleanser, NEVER wipes or Micellar water as they dry skin. Coconut oil with a flannel is lovely for first cleanse and then I use a hot cloth cleanser for my 2nd cleanse. Two are not necessary unless you are wearing lots of make up or SPF.

It doesn't have to be genes, I wanted glowy skin a few years back and now have it. I do have a good routine though and don't deviate from this mostly.

Thank you for all of your tips! To give you a rough idea of my routine which I’ve been doing for a while - Of a morning I wash my face with clean and clear morning energy or something similar, then I used temple spa toning Essenes or a Clinique clarifying liquid, I use temple spa be still settling moisturiser and vitamin c detox skincare brightening eye gel ... but I don’t feel I have bright/glowing/awake skin!! So feel free to tell me where I’m going wrong lol!

Hmm I'm not sure about that cleanser. Caroline Hirons goes on and on about using an oil or cream cleanser and removing with a warm (not hot) flannel. She is a guru and I would always take her advice.

Also you don't have any actives in your routine such as acids. You really need some. Email The Ordinary and tell them you need a routine for glowy skin. It's all cheap as chips and really good. Stick to it for a month and then come back to this thread to tell us how you got on. Good luck!

Sun cream and water

Caroline Hirons is just one person.
Superdrug natural radiant foaming cleanser (I can see Hirons fans gasping in horror at “foaming”) is the best thing I’ve put on my face for years. Oil and cream cleansers bring me out in spots.

I have glowing skin. I love love skincare.

I would say:

Good cleanse, exfoliate acid serum (and vit c) and hydrated with moisturiser. Plus a lovely facial oil

I don't wear foundation I use Erborian CC cream which is brilliant!

I drink lots of water, get good sleep, eat fruit and veg

Personally, I don't rate TO at all. It's sticky and overly complicated. Deconstructing skincare is a fad. It does the exact opposite of what it claims because you end up buying 4539 different bits to use every second Wednesday if the moon is full. (But not if you also use VitC on that day) It takes over your life!

Temple Spa is an MLM.

@PurpleDaisies yes she is "one person" but she is very very good at what she does and experienced in skin care. Not everyone has to agree with her though so 

I think if someone is doing something other than oil or cream cleansing and they are getting good results-brilliant, keep doing it, why not? But the OP isn't getting good results which is why I am giving advice.

@Nohomemadecandles Again, if a regime doesn't suit then fine, carry on doing what you are doing. However the skin does need different chemicals to counteract fine lines/dehydration/dry skin (not the same thing) etc etc. TO is good because it's decent but cheap as that's what the owner wanted to achieve.

Also @PurpleDaisies, I love that Superdrug Range and use their hot cloth cleanser

I've started using la roche posay vitamin c serum and that's definitely made a difference. Also wearing less make up, using blotting sheets instead of powder has helped clear my skin.

Can anyone recommend a good gentle acid toner for rosacea prone skin? I tried liquid gold a few years ago and it ruined my skin so have stayed away since then!

Pixie Glow tonic (the original) is quite good,
I found it gentle enough. Have you tried it?

I love Caroline Hirons but my skin really, really hates any heavy creamy balm or oil cleanser. It makes me feel greasy and itchy.
I find it weird as everyone else seems to love them and get great results. I use the smallest amount of a minimal-foaming gel cleanser. My skin has to feel clean.

Pixi glow tonic or Paula's Choice BHA are both quite mild I think

I have a glowing skin question. About makeup! I have to use a setting powder for my oily forehead and because I want to set my concealer. This always takes away any glow I have but I don't know what else to do!

(I don't use foundation or tinted moisturiser - just concealer and a matte powder on eyelids, under eyes, forehead, nose and chin.)

Tret, vitamin c serum, spf 50, a healthy diet with lots of veg and oily fish twice a week.

Apart from eating good fresh healthy food (and as I said eating fruit on an empty stomach) also drinking plenty of filtered water. Everyone's skincare\beauty routine will of course be different because we are all different!

I only ever use luke warm flitered and or softened water to splash to wake up then moisturising with almond oil\ or cocoa butter and basil\ or rosemary essential oil (that's good for oily skin it's called oil but it isn't oily .
I don't buy the over the counter stuff ,it's plugged full of additives, petroleum oil ,preservatives etc. (even when expensive).

Drink lots of water, cleanse tone moisturise every day, get vitamins and cut down on carbs. And the right foundation - nothing too matte - go for something with light-reflection in it to give you a glow. Hate seeing women with unearthly, matte, 1-tone faces.

Genes play a role too.

Supplements, like evening primrose oil, omega oils and biotin, no alcohol, lots of water, good diet.
It really does come from the inside

Genetics
Sunblock
Vitamin C
Don’t smoke
Minimal alcohol
Water
Astral moisturiser
Don’t use too many products