How To Get Your Best Summer Body
LESSONS:
HOW TO GET YOUR BEST SUMMER BODY
Sure, exercise is important, but achieving a better body by taking care of your skin is just so much more fun than pilates.
- Written by
- LENA RAFF
- Photography by
- ANNA PALMA
- Creative Direction by
- VICEN AKINA
- Makeup by
- LAURE DANSOU
- Hair by
- HOLLY MILLS
- Styling by
- COCO CASSIBBA
- Nails by
- HOLLY FALCONE
While we at VIOLET GREY advocate for body care all year long, summertime certainly brings an added focus to our largest (and most visible) organ––our skin. With significantly more sun exposure and dehydrating air conditioning (not to mention the conspicuous absence of clothing to cover some neglected areas), achieving smooth, glowing, taught, hydrated skin can feel daunting and next-to impossible. The excellent news is this: if you are at all familiar with best practices when it comes to facial care, the same “ground rules” apply to the body.
First, keep skin clean with a gentle cleanser like MUTHA’s The Nudist Exfoliating Body Bar (which happens to also double as a solution to the next “rule”). Next, exfoliate. This is usually the most overlooked, extremely critical (and easy!) step, but seriously, do it. By removing dead skin cells, you get rid of dullness-promoting flakes, speed up cell turnover (which helps skin look younger and firmer), reduce the look of fine lines, and pave the way for serums and moisturizers to work better by penetrating more deeply. Next, create soft, supple, bouncy skin by keeping it hydrated and nourished with a body cream like cult-favorite U BEAUTY’s The SUPER Body Hydrator. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, protect yourself from dark spots, wrinkles, sagging, dryness, and also you know, cancer, with a reef-safe, all-mineral SPF like the runaway hits from Isdin. These are the basics, and, as you can (hopefully) see, not terribly complicated or scary. To really simplify it, these are the steps to take when you are trying to keep skin clean, balanced, hydrated, and protected.
That being said, we’ve also got a few lifting, sculpting, and de-puffing tools for all of you aficionados who are ready to commit to your true best summer body, so without further ado, read on to learn about everything our Industry Experts recommend to support a body you can feel comfortable and confident in during the scorching summer.
