What Exactly Is The Glazed Donut Skincare Trend?

Beauty trends change with the season, and what’s popular one day can be totally out the next. There was a time when matte skin was super in, for example. In 2013, P&G global creative design director Pat McGrath told Elle, “It’s all about matte, perfected complexions,” and it was all over the runways. While those with oily skin will always hold a soft spot in their hearts for the matte look, it looks like the tables have turned.

Now, it’s all about dewy and glowy skin. We can thank K-beauty’s glass skin trend for that, which took over social media and was “the most popular makeup looks at the autumn/winter 2019 fashion shows,” per Harper’s Bazaar. On this, makeup artist Nikki Wolff told the outlet, “When you think about glass, you imagine this even and smooth surface, so glass skin is that super reflective skin finish, like water, rather than anything that’s too metallic.” The point is to make your skin literally look like glass or as close as possible to it.

While it’s pretty easy to create a flawless look with zero pores on social media (thanks to filters), it’s almost impossible to have that in real life. Now, we have a glazed donut skin trend that went viral when model Hailey Bieber said, “My standard when I go to bed at night is if I’m not getting into bed looking like a glazed donut, then I’m not doing the right thing,” in a…