Daytime Summer Skincare Routine for Your Late 30s

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Daytime summer skincare routine – These are, at best, simple.

At worst – they can be complicated.

Whether you like to spend money on your skincare or you like to dabble in the drugstore skincare selections — this blog post is for you!

Simple skincare is the best skincare.

In this blog, all skincare products can vibe here.

I believe in chemicals within your skincare (I know, right) or going as natural as you like it. Do what makes you happy, boo!

I always joke that drinking Diet Coke is this violent drink that I love, where I can feel its poison and its burn, and yet I know that it is churning and burning into formaldehyde within my body – Do I care? No — let’s just start the embalming process now, shall we? Life is hard enough.

You know?

I feel the same way about skincare. Is it preventing what it says it prevents? Is the burn within reason? I say, go for it.

If you stop to think about it too much, you can put your brain through a series of questions that make you ask, “What if?”

Life is short, and the journey feels long, so we may as well enjoy it while we can.

Cleansers

I like a simple cleanser.

Remember Noxzema?

My mom used that in her twenties. I would watch her apply it in the morning and again at night. I remember thinking that the big blue tub was some kind of magic I would someday use myself.

By her thirties, she was into Mary Kay skincare, which I think is some of the best skincare on the market to this day. Like, every Mary Kay lady has the best skin – and that is not by accident. The products work.

In my own personal life, I have used tea tree oil cleansers, Mary Kay, Clinique, Cindy Crawfords brand (which actually is pretty damn good), and now I am mostly loyal to Cetaphil.

I love how inexpensive it is, how it does the job of cleaning deep within my pores, and how it generally is easy to get ahold of in any place I travel to.

That is like my main mission when using skincare. Like, if I have to go buy something in a drugstore in a pinch – what is the BEST product for me? That is my driver for loving drugstore. That, and I find it extremely important to have good products for every person who needs them, regardless of income.

A middle-class person’s skincare routine can go upwards of $800-$1,000 every four to six months (no med spa). When I realized that in my twenties, I thought that type of upkeep was nuts.

So, I try to keep mine under $400 (with an occasional med spa tool at the ready). That seems reasonable.

Cleansers I Love

Daily Moisturizer

I am a huge lover of all things hydration on my skin, especially as I get older.

My favorite creamy moisturizer is from the drugstore.

Disclaimer, I should probably be using a lighter moisturizer for my t-zone, and a heavier cream for the outer perimeter of my face (but I don’t).

Here are my top picks.

Moisturizers I Love

Sunscreen’s

The grand finale in summer skincare.

What is protecting your face, babes?

All the sunscreen.

As a “freckle faced” brown strawberry, I don’t use anything under SPF 50.

I refuse.

Here are my favorites.

Sunscreens I Love

This is one I want to try and have not.

As you can see, daytime summer skincare is pretty laid back.

You can of course add your serums, but I would save most of that repair for nighttime routines.

I have found this routine works well for makeup free days, skin tint days and more high coverage foundations days.

What is your daytime summer skincare routine?

Let me know in the comments.

xx,

Nikita

Daytime Summer Skincare Routine for Your Late 30s