“If I’d purchased every product from my old routine at the same time (which I never did, because I couldn’t afford it even with my old job), it would have cost well over $500”
Photo: Artfully79/Getty Images/iStockphoto In my early 20s, I was proud of myself if I washed my face at all before going to bed. I knew people had skin-care regimens, and I was aware of the intimidating sections at Sephora where $100 creams sat in heavy jars. But for years, I assumed these things weren’t for me. And then came skin-care Twitter.
So, I went back to Twitter and asked people to recommend their favorite skin care under $30. The resulting thread was full of fantastic, funny, kind advice, and helped me to feel like it would be possible to downsize my routine while still treating my face like a precious newborn cinnamon roll. Two brands that came up again and again were the Ordinary — which I had previously never tried — and CeraVe, a drugstore brand I’d used and loved when I was younger but ignored more recently.
The Ordinary’s website advised not having more than three serums in your routine, which is clear and simple advice I hadn’t realized I’d needed and helped a bit with my generalized sense of serum FOMO. I was able to focus my routine on targeted, effective products that address specific needs. $7 at The Ordinary Buy Vitamin-C Serum Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12% Vitamin-C serums are currently very trendy and legitimately pretty effective. But you don’t need to spend a zillion dollars to try one. Instead of Drunk Elephant’s C-Firma Day Serum , I’ve been using the Ordinary’s Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12%, which has so far been just as effective for brightening and evening skin tone.
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