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For most of my life, my skin’s undertones have been decidedly neutral.
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But in the last few years, it seemed like my skin had decided it was now pink.
And it wasn’t pink, per se, so much as red.
Even if I wasn’t experiencing the sensation of irritation, I was serving its telltale look.
My politely-fed-up-with-red-spotchiness face.
I think what really caught my interest was the two-tier approach to combatting redness.
“Ceramides are more for maintaining the integrity of the skin barrier,” says board-certified dermatologistDhaval Bhanusali.
“Think of it as the glue holding things together.”
Pretty in not nearly as much pink.
Both King and Bhanusali call out the niacinamide and turmeric in the formula as excellent anti-inflammatories.
But King says there’s more to it than that.
That hydration is among the other reasons I’ve been using it every day for a week.
You could say the serum literally puts it back in neutral.
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