Wake Up To Healthy Skin With The Ultimate Night Routine For Oily Skin

Are you also confused about what your skin really needs? Sometimes it feels oily, and on other days it feels dull. What should you treat first? The enlarged pores or hyperpigmentation? If you are boggled by the way your skin behaves, it is because you haven’t identified your skin type and what skin concerns you are dealing with, for example, if you have dull skin, and oily skin. Does this mean you have two skin types? No.

Oily skin is just one of the 5 main skin types (including dry, normal, combination, and sensitive), but this does not mean everyone with oily skin has the same skin concern. Skin concerns are different from skin types. Some of the common skin concerns include acne, enlarged pores, hyperpigmentation, and dullness. This means that you can have any skin type and skin concern, resulting in a highly specific solution that addresses your unique skin concern.

After scouring through social media platforms and online forums, we identified four skin concerns that bother the internet the most: dullness, acne, pigmentation, and enlarged pores. So, what’s the wait? If you have oily skin (which is also one of the most common skin types in tropical and humid weather like India), along with other skin concerns, this article is for you. Think of it as a cheat sheet that you can keep revisiting for yourself or share it along with your girlfriends, because this is the only nighttime routine you will need to keep handy.

Now we all know why a nighttime routine is more effective than a daytime routine when it comes to problem-solving. A night routine restores skin health, regenerates skin cells faster, prevents moisture loss, and slows down premature ageing. If you are just starting out or are a skincare enthusiast, there are only three steps that you need to remember: cleanse, repair, hydrate. These three steps make sure that your skin deserves all the love and care it needs to #WakeUpToHealthySkin. So, what’s the wait? Let’s understand your skin concern and explore the best products for your night routine!

Night Routine For Oily Skin With Dullness

The right nighttime routine for dullness that comes with oily skin lies in the right active ingredients. You want something that hydrates your skin to remove the dull, tired appearance while keeping excess oil in control. Active ingredients such as niacinamide, ceramides, and peptides are great humectants that provide moisture to reduce dullness without aggravating excess oil production. Nykaa recommends a simple routine of cleansing, repairing, and hydrating to treat dullness and oily skin.

Cleanse

Repair

Hydrate

Night Routine For Oily Skin With Acne

Oily skin and acne often go hand-in-hand. When there’s too much oil buildup, it can get stuck in your pores and cause an acne breakout. The best way to repair acne with an oil-prone skin is to look for anti-fungal and anti-bacterial ingredients that attack acne-causing bacteria and curb excess oil.

Cleanse

Repair

Hydrate

Night Routine For Oily Skin With Pigmentation

When excess oil gets clogged in your pores, it attracts dust, dirt, and grime that creates a patchy, uneven look, leading to hyperpigmentation, where some parts of the skin look pigmented than others. Acne and inflammation, along with melanin production due to excess oil, also cause hyperpigmentation. You need ingredients that will hydrate and increase the cell regeneration process to promote new cells with reduced pigmentation.

Cleanse

Repair

Hydrate

Night Routine For Oily Skin With Enlarged Pores

Oily skin is the number one cause of enlarged pores. Excess oil gets trapped in the pores, and it attracts other impurities such as dirt, dust, sweat, and grime. This causes the pores to widen and thus appear more visible, open, and large. The best way to repair enlarged pores is to double cleanse, one that removes all impurities, and the second that removes any residue. Following this with a toner that tightens your pores will ensure no more impurities settle in these gaps.

Cleanse

Repair

Hydrate

Parting Thoughts

A night routine is the absolute best way to wake up to healthy skin every day. It repairs, heals, restores, and nourishes your skin overnight, when it is away from impurities, sun damage, and other environmental stressors. Nykaa’s 3-step simple night routine, vis-a-vis cleanse, repair, hydrate, is the only routine you need for that undeniable glow and youthful skin every morning.

FAQs

1. Should I have a night routine?

   Yes, everyone should have a night routine. At night, our skin and body is resting and away from environmental stressors, this is when our body naturally restores itself, gets rid of dead skin cells, and improves skin barrier function, this makes it a perfect opportunity to aid it with the right ingredients and products to wake up to healthy skin every morning.

2. How to build the easiest night routine?

   The simplest night routine includes cleansing, repairing, and hydrating. Now we all know not to sleep with makeup on, this is because at night our skin works twice as hard to restore itself, and double cleansing at night effectively lets our skin breathe and repair itself. It aids this process of recovery, use a night serum that improves collagen production and cell regeneration, and finally hydrate your skin with a night cream or a moisturiser to lock in the hydration.

3. What are some products better used at night?

   There are some products that are better suited for the night than during the day. These products are made to nourish and repair the skin rather than protect and fight during the day. Some products that are meant for the night are heavy moisturisers and night creams, under-eye creams, overnight collagen masks, and retinol-based serums.