Every morning is the same. As soon as my alarm goes off I diligently head to the bathroom to embark on my 10-step, 20 minutes long, skincare routine.
Prepping the skin first with a cleanser, toner and essence; layering up with eye creams; acids (hyaluronic, salicylic, azelaic) that promise to prevent future blemishes and heal past ones; before lastly sealing with moisturiser and SPF. At night, I’ll simply swap my sun cream for an anti-ageing retinol and twice-weekly throw in a sheet or LED face mask for good measure. It’s fair to say, if not entirely obvious, I am a skincare maximalist. These days I appear to be in the minority, according to the latest TikTok trend doing the rounds. Enter: skin fasting, a low-key practice garnering over 346.7k views on the video sharing platform.
