Holiday Beauty Secrets with ohmygoff!

With the shopping runs, holiday performances and family feasts, it’s no wonder that we feel run over this time of year!

Our skin reveals all: pimples or dryness, wrinkles or ruddiness, our faces are like a roadmap for all we have survived!

Speaking of survival, here’s some killer skincare secrets I recently shared on the ohmygoff podcast with co-hosts Angie Goff and Brittany Johnson! Most of these products are natural, organic and pure, and among my favorites. The goal is to glow throughout the season with a healthy skin as your foundation—rather than dim when the last seasonal light is unplugged!

ohmygoff Podcast Village studios with superstars Angie Goff (left) and Brittany Johnson (right)

TATCHA SILK TREASURES

Founded by Victoria Tsai on the principles of Japanese skincare rituals, it’s pure beauty with anti-aging super foods at its core. Plus, she’s a San Fran/Kyoto gal, and I’m Japanese American from the Bay Area, so what’s not to love?

Tatcha’s Silk Treasures holiday collection is a trio of silk infused products for younger-looking skin that includes:

The Silk Peony * Melting Eye Cream: this luxurious cream that feels slightly like a balm uses liquid silk to blur the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while Japanese white peony drenches the skin with deep hydration. Make sure you find the secret flower on container’s top!

The Silk Cream: gel cream moisturizer that melts into skin and makes it lustrous. It smells amazing too!

The Silk Canvas: a makeup primer that Angie Goff loves because it doesn’t crease, that’s a velvety balm of pressed silk. Traps skin’s smoothness within while makeup sits on top.

Tip: The purchase of every product gives back to Room to Read.

$140, Silk Treasures, tacha.com

ALPYN BEAUTY CALMING MIDNIGHT MASK WITH MELATONIN & WILD DANDELION

In Japan, we believe in shinrin ryokoor forest bathing. You walk through the forest, breathe in nature and feel restored from head-to-toe.

But who has time for that during the holidays?

Alypn Beauty “Wildcrafted Actives” is like forest bathing for your face! It’s crafted in Jackson Hole, Wyoming from meadow and mountain plants bathed in healing pink forest light (known as Alpenglow) and other clean ingredients.

I love products that work while I’m resting! Use a small amount of this mask before sleep, for the restorative effect of plant power that will calm, repair and hydrate skin while you snooze, so you can look fab for your holiday hoopla in the morning!

Tip: to work the mask into a glossy glow, warm between fingers prior to application.

$68, Calming Midnight Mask, alypnbeauty.com

JAPANESE HAND MASKS, $1.50 – 3.29

When we are running around taking care of everyone else, wrapping presents, cleaning the house and making everything else JUST PERFECT…our hands suffer. Dry cracks? Prone to papercuts? Even bleeding?

I mean, wrinkly hand skin makes us look old.

Take 10-15 minutes to do a hand mask to quench the skin with moisture and make your hands look years younger. Slip on the application filled gloves, watch your fav holiday movie until the commercial break, slip off the masks and done!

Tip: after application don’t wash your hands! Take the extra mask ingredients and blend into skin for further penetration.
$1.50-$3.29, Japanese Hand Masks, Daiso

$5, Asian-Inspired Vegan Hand Masks, sephora.com

MYCHELLE DERMACEUTICALS G2 FIRMING SERUM

Skin looking tired, creppy and dull? Consider adding serum to your skincare routine to help boost tone and texture the natural way.

G2 Firming Serum works immediately using the power of peptides from the Gogi Berry and Pomegranate extract to rejuvenate skin and eliminate the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Tip: Apply a couple of pumps onto cleaned skin, followed by your fav moisturizer.

$60, G2 Firming Serum, mychelle.com

For instant hydration, use Ultra Hyaluronic Beauty Mist under or over makeup and let the plant stem cells refresh and hydrate you.

Tip: don't forget to spray your neck!

$16, Ultra Hyaluronic Beauty Mist, mychelle.com

SAVOR BEAUTY

Savor Beauty is of my favorite go-to’s for holistic, organic skincare in the Korean Tradition. Small batch, and women-brewed and owned, founder Angela Jia Kim is transforming K-beauty one sweet dollop at a time.

Ever feel like your pores let you down? Oily, clogged and gross…especially after eating holiday goodies?

Well here’s a sweet twist. Brush on this Sweet n Glow Kit thatincludes Chocolate Truffle Face Cake Mask and a Mask Brush (not pictured),to your face! Packed with a detoxifying clay mask to minimize pores, it also leaves skin with a buttery-soft, glowy texture!

Tip: when allowing the mask to “bake,” don’t dry until hard, just until lightly dry—and rinse off!

Face-Cake for a Cause™!
They donate a portion of Face Cake proceeds to women’s shelters.

$45, Sweet n Glow Kit, savorbeauty.com

Traveling during the holidays? Hotel rooms and plane rides leaving you dry? I permanently keep this Truffle Face Cream in my travel kit, and it helps with anti-aging on the road with its intoxicating White Truffle formula for intensely deep hydration and fine line mitigation.

Tip: this formulation is decadently rich and suggested for mature to dry skin types.

$74, Truffle Face Cream, savorbeauty.com

Prices reflect time of publication; product samples were received for editorial testing.