How to Get Glowing Skin

Healthy skin has an irresistible glow and energy, no matter what a person’s age. We get a lot of questions on how to get glowing skin at goop (GP’s makeup-free selfies are at least partially to blame), so we approach the subject from every angle. Every little bit counts: Diet, exercise, supplements, skin care, and even a judicious bit of self-tanner, blush, or bronzer are all ways to increase your skin’s natural exuberance.

The goop Glow Essentials

1
SLEEP, DIET,
AND GOOPGLOW

We start with the inside: great sleep, clean diet, as much sweat as we can make happen, and an every-morning glass of GOOPGLOW, the antioxidant superpowder that supercharges skin with nutrients.
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GOOPGLOW
goop, $60

2
ONCE-A-WEEK OVERNIGHT GLYCOLIC ACID PEEL

Once a week, we start our morning
routine the night before—with a
knock-your-socks-off-powerful 15% glycolic acid peel that we swipe on overnight. The glow we get the next morning (and all through the following week) is better than any makeup.
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GOOPGLOW 15% Glycolic
Overnight Glow Peel
goop, $125

3
Morning Skin-Care Routine

Morning skin care—for both face and body—can make a huge difference. We start with a nurturing cleansing routine and follow up with topical antioxidants, powerful serums, and superhydrators. Start pre-shower with a skin-invigorating dry-brush; once your skin is wet, do a thorough exfoliation to reveal your softest, smoothest skin.

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Vitamin C

After you step out of the shower, smooth topical antioxidants onto your skin (if you’re not taking a shower/exfoliating, we love this as a first step). True Botanicals’ vitamin C powder mixes with any moisturizer, serum, or just plain water, and it wakes up your whole face.
True Botanicals
Vitamin C Booster
goop, $90

5
Face Oil or Moisturizer

A great oil or moisturizer comes next (wait a few minutes to let the antioxidants sink into skin, however). Rose hip oil, particularly in its most raw, unprocessed state, is super nourishing for skin—if it’s got a deep-orange color, it’s less processed. For face, Pai Rosehip BioRegenerate Oil is absolutely brilliant; so is The Youth Dew from May Lindstrom. And we made G.Day body oil with the rawest rose hip oil we could find, so it leaves your whole body feeling supple, deeply moisturized, and glowy.

If you prefer a moisturizer to an oil, the rich RoseGlow face cream from Living Libations is made with less-processed rose hip oil, too—hence its pinkish, luminous appearance.

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Nontoxic Self-Tanner

Depending on your skin tone, a subtle self-tan can warm up your whole look. The brilliance of the tanning water from Vita Liberata is not just its supreme blendability (it sidesteps streaks by turning into a delightful foam that’s especially easy to apply with the mitt), its total scentlessness, and its incredibly natural color; it also doesn’t transfer, at all. Truly, you can swipe it on and put on a white T-shirt afterward with no worry. The tan that develops in several hours is noticeable yet gorgeously low-key.

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Luminizing Highlighter

A luminizing step—we love the Glow Drops gel-serum from Dr. Barbara Sturm—can instantly brighten your whole face without going into full-on shimmer or glitter territory. Some of us use it alone, and others love it as a primer.

For more intense luminosity, highlighter—a pearlescent cream that comes in a variety of pale shades—is brilliantly versatile, in that you can use it under makeup, without makeup, mixed with moisturizer or foundation, or as a literal highlight on cheekbones, browbones, and even the Cupid’s bow. The ice-white cream from Tata Harper is gorgeous and especially amazing dotted at the inner corners of the eyes (you look instantly more awake). The rose-gold one from Kora Organics flatters just about every skin tone on earth, and the candlelit glow of the Peach Luminizer from RMS is pretty epic.

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Blush/Bronzer

Depending on your skin, a bright (but sheer) bit of blush and/or bronzer can amp up your glow significantly. The hot-pink lip/cheek balm from Olio E Osso is so sheer that it flatters practically any skin tone in the most subtle way; the hot-pink Lip2Cheek tint from RMS Beauty is even brighter, but still sheer, for a super flattering result.

If your skin needs even more warming up, a creamy bronzer creates a dewy glow that’s hard to match. (m)anasi 7 makes a light, fluffy cream one in a pot for gorgeous, subtle sun-kissed color.

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Finishing Touches

For minimalists (and for the makeup bag), the Pop Collection Palette from RMS gives you blush, highlighter, bronzer, and lip tint all in one brilliant compact; Juice Beauty Phyto-Pigments Flash Luminizer delivers three different highlighter shades in one kit; and Kosas blush/bronzer palettes are made with shades that work beautifully together to warm and enliven skin.

How to Get Glowing Skin

1

SLEEP, DIET, AND GOOPGLOW

2

ONCE-A-WEEK OVERNIGHT GLYCOLIC ACID PEEL

3

Morning Skin-Care Routine

4

Vitamin C

5

Face Oil or Moisturizer

6

Nontoxic Self-Tanner

7

Luminizing Highlighter

8

Blush/Bronzer

9

Finishing Touches

SLEEP, DIET,
AND GOOPGLOW