10 Common Night-time Beauty Habits You should be Doing

Your body does a lot recovery during the night. Are you helping it? The beauty rituals you perform before going to the bed are essential for having healthy, glowing skin and making your hair smooth and silky. Here are some of the most important things you should get in the habit of doing before going to the bed, in case you are avoiding these vital beauty steps. 

1. Remove your make-up—all of it. The most important thing to do to wake up looking fresh is to remove all of your make-up before bedtime. That means leftover mascara, lip colour—everything. This ensures that your pores will be clean and your eyes free of leftover gunk

2. Use two pillows
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Prop your head up on an extra pillow to prevent puffiness. You can also prop up the head of your bed on 2- to 4-inch pieces of wood. This is a time when gravity helps you with lymph and blood flow so fluids won’t accumulate under your eyes and in your face.

3. Do a spot treatment…with a purifying mask.


You can use it to target acne and rosacea pimples, and leave it on overnight. The extended skin contact time brings much better results.

4. Turn on a humidifier.


A barrier repair moisturiser, combined with an air humidifier in your bedroom produces durably hydrated, plump skin which is more resistant to irritants and allergens but also to appearing dry and fine-lined.

5. Go to town with hand cream.


Moisturising your hands with a thick, plain, somewhat greasy hand cream will keep your hands and fingernails looking their best first thing in the morning. Hands get dried out throughout the day with exposure to dry air and excessive washing, and few of us apply hand cream with every water exposure as we should. Night is a chance to try to undo some of the damage, which will also keep cuticles and fingernails moisturised so they will grow longer and stronger and break and peel less.” 

6. Sleep on a luxe pillowcase
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Wash your hair with a silicone-free shampoo and use a silk pillowcase—sleeping on a silk or satin pillowcase also helps your hair’s overall health. Fibers on most cotton pillows are rough against the hair cuticles. Don’t want to splurge on silk? Changing a cotton or linen pillowcase every one to two days can also bring an improvement.

7. Pin your hair back
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Your hair contains oils and dirt that can get on your face and pillowcase and cause breakouts. Braid your hair or pin it up into a bun to keep it off your face as you sleep.

8. Get eight hours of sleep.


Catching a good night’s sleep can really effect the way you look. Sleep can reduce dark circles because a lack of sleep compromises your body’s circulatory system and you get stagnant blood in the vessels under the eyes because it hasn’t properly drained. 

9. Try a leave-on exfoliator
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While you sleep, the skin is working its hardest to repair itself. It’s the best time to apply leave-on exfoliators, to give the ingredients time to absorb and correct daily damage to the skin caused by UV exposure and environmental aggressors.

10. Use eye cream
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No doubt you've heard it a million times, but eye cream is important. Start using great moisturisers and eye cream at night (even if you’re in your 20s). When the morning rolls around, your skin will be plump and hydrated.