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Staying Up for the Olympics? Quick Fix Skincare for Tired Skin
The Paris 2024 Olympics will be held from 26 July to 11 August – on the other side of the world, which means most events will happen at night and past midnight for those of us in Hong Kong due to time zones. There’s plenty of reason to stay up and support our favorite athletes in this quadrennial major global sport event – but our skin won’t enjoy staying up late as much as we will.
To ward off eyebags, breakouts, and other skin problems that can arise from a lack of sleep, Pretties HK has curated a selection of high-performance all-in-one skincare that can quickly patch up your skin and give you a livelier complexion the next day. While there are no shortcuts to skincare, these emergency skincare can boost our skin resilience to ensure faster recovery.
Emergency Skincare Tip #1. Double Down on Hydration and Repair!
Staying up late may weaken our skin’s regenerative abilities, leading to a dry, sensitized state. To quickly replenish lost moisture, we recommend soaking some cotton pads in a soothing and hydrating toner to use as a topical mask, as well as using a moisturizing serum.
Moisturizing Skincare for Quick Recovery: Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water
Ginseng has been a cherished herb in Korean botanical history, with its deeply nourishing and hydrating natural power. This toner imbues tired skin with botanical energy with a resilience-boosting cocktail of ginseng and vitamin B3 (niacinamide). Its vegan formula is free from artificial fragrance and essential oils.
Moisturizing Skincare for Quick Recovery: Medicube Collagen Glow Booster Serum
Formulated with high-content milk protein, this elasticity-boosting serum quickly absorbs as deep as 4mm into your skin and improves skin density and elasticity from within, leaving your skin looking youthful and luminous. One pump is all you need to enjoy spa-grade treatment.
Moisturizing Skincare for Quick Recovery: Abib Jericho Rose Bifida Serum
A powerful firming serum formulated with Jericho Rose extract, a type of resurrection plant. Restores skin elasticity and vitality to tired, aging skin with hyaluronic acid, bakuchiol and other nourishing agents.
Moisturizing Skincare for Quick Recovery: numbuzin No.6 Deep Sleep Mask Serum
Made with 63% mineral-rich glacial milk from Iceland, numbuzin’s No.6 serum not only hydrates your skin but also replenishes nutrients. Its intensively hydrating formula also contains hyaluronic acid of 5 different molecular weights for deep moisturization to restore your skin’s water-oil balance.
Ginger6’s three-in-one vegan serum contains not purified water like your average skincare, but patented ginger water, which offers the anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties of ginger. Also contains 8 natural extracts and moisturizers such as peptide and glycerin to soothe your skin and keep it radiant and elastic.
Moisturizing Skincare for Quick Recovery: VT Collagen Reedle Shot 100
VT’s revolutionary Reedle Shot features microneedle-shaped ingredients that promote your skin’s absorption of active ingredients. Containing low molecular collagen and other elasticity boosters, the Collagen Reedle Shot visibly lifts and revitalizes saggy, tired skin.
Moisturizing Skincare for Quick Recovery: Jurlique Herbal Recovery Bi-Phase Serum
This herbal serum boosts radiance with farm-grown botanicals like Holy Basil, Iris Root, Echinacea and Black Elderflower. It energizes the skin for a smoother, softer, revitalized look and leaves skin feeling firmer and more supple.
Emergency Skincare Tip #2. Use Vitamin C Serums
Serums containing vitamin C can help with skin regeneration and patch up damage caused by a lack of sleep. Not only is the ingredient a powerful antioxidant, but it also stimulates collagen production to accelerate the repair process.
This Tiktok viral serum is rich in green tangerine extract full of vitamin C derivatives, niacinamide and arbutin, targeting dark spots, blemishes, acne scars, and fine lines. The hypoallergenic formula contains centella asiatica (cica) for low-irritation brightening care suitable for sensitive skin.
Formulated with 71.77% nutrient-rich Noni Extract, this anti-aging serum hydrates and revitalizes dry, dull and lackluster skin for a refreshed and healthy look.
Vitamin C Serum for Quick Recovery: Beauty of Joseon Light On Serum : Centella + Vita C
By using highly stable vitamin C derivatives, Beauty of Joseon keeps their vitamin C serum skin-friendly and hypoallergenic. The 68% cica extract in the formula also minimizes irritation and enhances soothing and hydrating effects.
Vitamin C Serum for Quick Recovery: RETURNU Vitatone Essence
A hypoallergenic brightening serum formulated with fresh tangerines from Jeju, Korea, which contain 10 times more vitamin C than regular tangerines! Helps to reduce dark spots and improves dull skin tone evenly while protecting your skin from photodamage.
Vitamin C Serum for Quick Recovery: LALARECIPE Yuzu Vita C Ampoule
An intensively brightening vitamin C serum that consists of 74% jeju yuzu extract, which is rich in vitamin C, and triple brightening ingredients: 5% niacinamide, bisabolol, and 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid (a vitamin C derivative). Also exfoliates and smooths rough skin for improved skin texture.
Emergency Skincare Tip #3. Special Mask Treatment with Eye Creams
“Panda eyes” – dark circles under eyes – may be one of our biggest concerns about sleep-deprived skin. One effective fix is to apply a layer of eye cream or serum on the skin around your eyes and cover with a hot towel or steam eye mask for 15 minutes, as a type of makeshift mask treatment to promote blood circulation and fade dark circles. Applying eye cream while gently massaging also helps to relieve puffy eyes.
These vegan collagen gel eye masks are moist and jelly-like to perfectly fill the curves of your skin with hydration and elasticity. Includes high-concentration rose of jericho extracts, deeply nourishing every layer of your skin while promoting collagen production.
A lifting and firming eye cream containing quadruple peptides developed by Medicube through rigorous research. With a formula of 7 kinds of hyaluronic acids, collagen and mini elastin, it improves fine lines, wrinkles and sagging skin not just around the eyes but all over the face.
Containing fresh green tangerines from the Korean island of Jeju, this vitamin C-rich eye cream brightens eye-area skin with a nutritious formula and keeps dark circles at bay while providing elasticity and wrinkle care.
This daily eye cream improves skin elasticity and fades wrinkles with the proteins, lactose and vitamins found in its main ingredient “Bifida Ferment Lysate”. Bifida Ferment Lysate is a type of valuable lactobacillus, in which only a very small amount is obtained from a variety of complex incubation processes.
100% vegan eye gel cream with a hypoallergenic formula and mildly acidic pH level comfortable on your skin. Rich in collagen and retinol to increase firmness in the eye area and smooth wrinkles, with added quartz water (1000ppm) and niacinamide for a brightening effect. Also contains 81% lavender flower water to moisturize and soothe your skin.
Emergency Skincare Tip #4. Sheet Masks for Quick Intensive Care
Sleep-deprived skin may turn dry, dull and lackluster; and what better way to instantly restore energy to tired skin than a sheet mask steeped in essence?
Masks instill active ingredients into your skin in a sealed environment under the mask sheet, which ensures that the essence penetrates your skin fully and rapidly to boost hydration levels in little to no time, restoring a healthier glow to your skin.
A cica face mask delivering instant calming effect and lasting hydration, designed with sensitive skin in mind. Contains 88% high-concentration cica of 7 types of core cica ingredients for refreshing soothing care. 60 seconds is all this mask needs to rehydrate, calm and strengthen weakened skin, perfect as a morning quick fix.
This calming and hydrating mask is enriched with Centella Asiatica (cica) extract and Hyaluronic acid for deep moisturization. It soothes unstable, fragile and irritated skin and relieves redness for a healthier complexion.
Heartleaf extract originated from Jirisan, a mountain in South Korea, forms the main component of this calming and anti-inflammatory mask. The soft and adhesive vegan collagen gel texture sits comfortably on fragile and sensitive skin.
Refresh tired skin with this instantly cooling, soothing and hydrating sheet mask designed for sensitive heated skin. Its botanical blend of cica, aloe vera and tea tree offers natural soothing and anti-inflammatory effects.
Hyaluronic acid, collagen and elastin – the 3 essential elements to restoring skin elasticity gather in this anti-oxidizing mask and replenish collagen, which aging skin gradually loses.
This bestselling sheet mask contains ultra-low molecular collagen and galactomyces, which help to strengthen your skin barrier for better resilience and ward off signs of aging. Deeply nourishes your skin from top to bottom with hyaluronic acid and collagen.
Soaked with the viral Goodal Vita C Dark Spot Serum, each sheet contains the same amount of ingredients as one whole bottle of the serum, delivering skin-boosting and revitalizing care. Its formula of 70% vitamin C derivatives has antioxidant, anti-aging and brightening effects.