Glow Guide: How to Get Your Skin Event-Ready
17.10.2024
With summer approaching, so are all the exciting events that come with it! From Melbourne Cup to Christmas parties, end-of-year celebrations, and balmy summer soirées, it’s time to make sure your skin is prepped and glowing. The key to a flawless makeup look is all in the skincare, ensuring your complexion is bright, smooth, and ready to shine. Here’s your step-by-step guide to getting your skin event-ready, from the weeks before to the day of and beyond.
1. The Lead-Up: Creating a Smooth, Flawless Canvas
In the weeks leading up to an event, your focus should be on building a solid skincare routine that creates the perfect canvas for makeup. The goal is to achieve smooth, bright, and even skin that will help your makeup sit flawlessly and last longer. Exfoliation and hydration are your best friends during this time, helping to renew the skin and boost its natural glow.
The Peel by Scott + Sullivan: This at-home peel is a perfect starting point, combining 10% AHAs with activated charcoal and jojoba beads to exfoliate and deeply cleanse, revealing a fresh complexion. This peel mimics our go-to in clinic Blueberry Peel that we ALWAYS recommend before a big event for the ultimate glow!
Active Peel System by iS Clinical: This two-step treatment is ideal for increasing cell turnover and improving texture while keeping the skin hydrated for a radiant glow.
Perfect Skin Refiner by Teoxane: This multitasking exfoliator not only smooths skin with glycolic acid but also hydrates with hyaluronic acid, helping you maintain a balanced and plump complexion - the best of both worlds!
Body Therapy by PCA Skin: Remember to pamper your body too! This treatment exfoliates and nourishes to leave your skin feeling soft and smooth from head to toe.
P-tiox by SkinCeuticals: To reduce fine lines and create that coveted glass-skin effect, this peptide serum works wonders, leaving your skin looking youthful and radiant.
The Lip Mask by Scott + Sullivan: Don’t forget the lips! This mask hydrates and plumps your lips, making them smooth and ready for flawless lipstick application.
A gentle yet effective at-home facial exfoliant, that mimics our signature in clinic treatment, the Blueberry Peel. The Peel exfoliates your skin using AHA and activated charcoal, suitable for all skin types, to reveal the soft and smooth texture beneath...
The clinically advanced Active Peel System is a powerful yet gentle, fast-acting, two-step treatment designed to resurface and polish the skin while providing hydration, rejuvenation, and antioxidant protection. Designed to use every other day, this complete skin treatment helps to...
Provides a peeling action on the skin with 10% glycolic acid to effectively support skin renewal overnight1-3 combined with TEOXANE RHA resilient hyaluronic acid®. The daily gentle night care solution to reveal refreshed, new skin. Ideal for blemish-prone skin, this lightweight...
PCA Skin Body Therapy is a therapeutic formulation designed to not only hydrate the skin, but also improve complexion and texture. The use of lactic acid enhances the skin's natural moisturising factor, reduces cellular buildup and inhibits the deposit of...
P-TIOX: The Peptide-Powered Serum for Needle-Free Wrinkle Correction Inspired by the effects of anti-wrinkle aesthetic treatments, P-TIOX is a breakthrough serum clinically proven to reduce the appearance of 9 types of expression lines while unveiling glass-skin radiance. This non-invasive, wrinkle-modulating...
A luxurious blend of coconut botanical extract, rose hip oil, and antioxidants, this mask delivers intense moisture and nourishment, leaving lips soft, smooth, and protected. Coconut botanical extract soothes and hydrates, while rose hip oil restores suppleness and antioxidants shield...
2. Pre-Makeup Prep: Achieving a Flawless Base
On the day of your event, it’s all about preparing your skin for makeup application. The right pre-makeup routine ensures that your foundation glides on smoothly, lasts longer, and looks flawless all day or night. Think hydration, priming, and prepping the skin to create a smooth, radiant canvas.
Cleansing Balm by Scott + Sullivan: Start with a thorough cleanse using this balm, which not only removes impurities but also provides a smooth surface for Gua Sha to boost circulation and de-puff the skin. A must do before any makeup steps for a contoured and sculpted look.
The Must have Hydration boost: For a surge of hydration, use Hydracool by iS Clinical or The Daily Hydro Drops by Obagi. These lightweight serums provide a radiant glow while ensuring your skin is plump and moisturised.
The Moisturiser or The Oil-Free Moisturiser by Scott + Sullivan: Lock in hydration with a lightweight or oil-free moisturiser, depending on your skin type, to keep your skin smooth and balanced. These have quickly become a favourite among makeup artists, who rave about its ability to create the perfect base for makeup. They love how it deeply hydrates the skin while providing a smooth, velvety finish, allowing for flawless and long-lasting makeup application on their clients.
Aspect Mineral Primer: Finish with this primer to blur imperfections, even out your skin tone, and provide a smooth base for long-lasting makeup.
Introducing our newest skincare essential. Crafted with a luxurious blend of Chamomile, Sea Buckthorn, and powerhouse vitamins C + E, this balm-milky texture cleanser is a game-changer in your skincare routine. Designed to effortlessly melt away makeup, SPF, dirt, and...
Hydra-Cool Serum is formulated to rejuvenate, hydrate, and visibly soothe the skin. This refreshing, powerful, penetrating serum combines superior antioxidants with essential botanicals and bio-nutrients. Hydra-Cool Serum is designed for all skin types and for all ages, and is gentle...
Daily Hydro Drops is an advanced hydrating serum that not only delivers deep hydration but also strengthens and revitalises the skin's natural barrier. Powered by a unique blend of active ingredients including Glycerin and Niacinamide, this serum helps diminish the...
Experience ultimate hydration without any oily residue with our newest edition, the Oil Free Moisturiser 50g. Specifically designed for oily and acne prone skin, it features antibacterial and barrier fortifying properties that replenish skin's moisture barrier and control oil regulation....
Developed by The Clinic's co-directors Kaye Scott and Lisa Sullivan-Smith after 20 years of treating a range of skin conditions, This cult favourite Moisturiser nourishes and protects all skin types (Except the really oily), leaving you with a firm, hydrated,...
Apply a pearl sized amount to face and neck to prime the skin prior to application of Mineral powder or liquid foundation.
3. Top-Ups: Keeping Your Look Fresh All Day Long
Even with the best skin prep and makeup application, you’ll need some touch-ups throughout the day to maintain that fresh, glowing look. These products will help you stay radiant, hydrated, and picture-perfect for the entire event, whether you're at a sunny rooftop party or dancing the night away.
Copper Firming Mist: Set your makeup and refresh your skin throughout the day with this mist. Its copper peptides help improve skin firmness while providing a hydrating boost every time you spritz.
Lumi Lips Crystal Hydrator by Cosmedix: Keep your lips looking luscious and hydrated with this crystal-infused lip hydrator. Perfect for adding shine over your lipstick or wearing alone for a subtle, glossy finish.
3D Lip by Teoxane: If you’re after fuller, more defined lips, 3D Lip is the perfect choice. It hydrates while enhancing lip contours, leaving your lips plump and smooth all day.
This refreshing treatment mist provides potent antioxidant protection and defends against the visual signs of ageing while instantly hydrating, smoothing and firming the look and feel of skin. Copper Firming Mist helps support the skin’s natural balance by featuring a...
Meet Opti Crystal's lip-loving sister - Cosmedix Lumi Crystal Lip Hydrator. Inspired by the best-selling eye serum, Cosmedix Lumi Crystal Lip Hydrator instantly transforms the look of lips and deeply conditions for a rejuvenated, softer-looking pout. Formulated with a 90%...
The lip care solution to ensure continuous hydration and lips appear plump with a mirror-like shine. Its melt-in and non-sticky texture together with the cooling applicator give comfort to dry lips. The ultimate product to keep in your handbag to retouch your...
4. Removal: The Essential Double Cleanse Method
After the excitement of the event, it’s just as important to take care of your skin by thoroughly removing your makeup and impurities. The double cleanse method ensures that your skin is cleansed properly, preventing breakouts and ensuring it stays healthy and glowing.
Cleansing Balm by Scott + Sullivan: Start with this luxurious balm to gently break down makeup, oil, and impurities without drying out your skin. Massage it in, allowing the rich formula to dissolve everything, then rinse off with warm water or a damp cloth.
Gentle Exfoliating Cleanser: For your second cleanse, choose a gentle yet effective option to remove any remaining residue and remove impurities from deep within your pores:
- Active Cleanser by Scott + Sullivan: Hydrates while thoroughly cleansing the skin, leaving it soft and refreshed.
- Simply Clean by SkinCeuticals: A mild, exfoliating cleanser that removes impurities without stripping the skin.
- Teoxane AHA Cleansing Gel: This AHA-infused gel gently exfoliates while cleansing, promoting brighter, smoother skin.
By using the double cleanse method, you’ll ensure that your skin is not only clean but also nourished, leaving you ready to rest and recover with a glowing complexion.
Introducing our newest skincare essential. Crafted with a luxurious blend of Chamomile, Sea Buckthorn, and powerhouse vitamins C + E, this balm-milky texture cleanser is a game-changer in your skincare routine. Designed to effortlessly melt away makeup, SPF, dirt, and...
This luxurious lathering soap free AHA formula exfoliates effectively & gently removes impurities & dead skin cells, with anti-inflammatory properties leaving the skin refreshed, hydrated and soothed without stripping the barrier. Daily use restores a clear complexion and reduces congestion that...
Simply Clean is a powerful yet gentle makeup-removing cleanser featuring a 6% blend of sulfonic acid, glycerin, chamomile, aloe extracts, and citric acid. This advanced formula uses an amino acid surfactant system to effectively cleanse and exfoliate rough or uneven...
The gentle exfoliating solution to cleanse and improve skin clarity.This multi-benefit foaming gel perfectly cleanses and purifies the skin.Formulated with a cocktail of glycolic and fruit acids to help remove impurities and dead skin cells, combined with TEOXANE RHA resilient...
