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Is The New ‘Skin Boosting’ Trend Better For Your Skin Than Skin Cycling?
TikTok is the place to discover trends, and it’s become the place for beauty experts and aficionados to share their tips. While questionable beauty trends like “sunscreen contouring” gained traction for all the wrong reasons, “slugging” and “glazed donut skin” became the powerhouses for glowing skin while protecting the skin barrier.
Regarding viral trends, dermatologist Whitney Bowe’s “skin cycling” could be the most popular beauty trend on TikTok, as the hashtag has accumulated an incredible 3.5 billion views and many dermatologists are on board with it. “The concept of skin cycling applies to a nighttime skincare routine, which involves using active ingredients only on certain days, and following them with ‘rest’ days,” dermatologist Alexis Granite tells Vogue. It works on the principle of using strong, active ingredients like chemical exfoliants and retinoids on the first two nights and then giving your skin two days off with rejuvenating products. Regular folks can’t stop raving about it as it simplifies their nighttime skincare routines, since using too many layers of potent ingredients can cause irritation and inflammation.
However, Manhattan’s top dermatologist Dr. Dennis Gross of Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare isn’t jumping on the skin cycling bandwagon and doesn’t think it’s the best for…
