A Gentle Glass Skin Routine for Sensitive Skin

What is sensitive skin?

Sensitive skin is more vulnerable to external aggressors, such as potent skincare ingredients, soaps, fragrances, cosmetics, and environmental factors. While individual triggers will vary, sensitive skin types tend to share common characteristics: including redness, dryness, tightness, tingling or prickling sensations, and general discomfort.

Compared to more resilient skin types, sensitive skin is more susceptible to water loss and a compromised skin moisture barrier, which can exacerbate the skin’s responses to triggers.

Can sensitive skin types still achieve glass skin?

Yes! Armed with gentle products and a tailored approach to skincare layering, you can still achieve glass skin – even if you have sensitive skin.

The key lies in a ‘less-is-more’ mindset, focusing on products that nurture the skin’s natural defences and ingredients that comfort and fortify, rather than overstimulate, the skin.

For this reason, we recommend limiting your use of potent actives – such as retinol – to maintain a robust skin moisture barrier. You may also want to tread lightly with chemical exfoliants and always patch-test new products first.

Glass skin for sensitive skin: key ingredients to look out for

While many popular skincare ingredients can be too harsh for sensitive skin, there are many tried-and-tested ingredients that can still deliver visible benefits – without causing discomfort.

Glass skin and hydration go hand in hand, so our biggest piece of advice is to incorporate moisture-boosting ingredients into your glass skin routine for sensitive skin. These include:

• Hyaluronic acid: A natural humectant, hyaluronic acid works by attracting water from external sources (deeper skin layers and the external air) and binding it to the skin surface. It is also gentle and well-tolerated – making it ideal for sensitive skin.
• Glycerin: Functioning similarly to hyaluronic acid, glycerin also boosts hydration. Glycerin reinforces the skin moisture barrier to help prevent the dryness and flakiness that can diminish a glass-like glow in sensitive skin.
• Ceramides: Natural lipids that make up your skin moisture barrier, ceramides play a vital role in preventing moisture loss in the skin and making sensitive skin more resilient against external aggressors.
• Niacinamide: A form of vitamin B3, niacinamide is a star ingredient for sensitive skin. It works by unifying skin tone, fortifying the skin moisture barrier, and diminishing the appearance of facial redness. This helps create a smoother, more even surface that reflects light for that quintessential glass skin finish.

A step-by-step glass skin routine for sensitive skin

The cardinal rule for how to get glass skin as a sensitive skin type is consistent, intense hydration. As sensitive skin is especially prone to water loss (which can exacerbate feelings of discomfort), it’s important to populate your routine with gentle, nurturing products that support your moisture levels. Well-hydrated skin looks plump, supple, dewy, and luminous – the very foundations of glass skin.

Read on for our comprehensive glass skin routine for sensitive skin.

1. Wash your face with a gentle cleanser

Cleansing is fundamental for skin clarity. But those with sensitive skin need to prioritise gentle, comforting formulas that remove dirt, makeup, and other impurities – and avoid leaving the skin feeling tight and dry.

Our pick is the Revitalift Filler Hyaluronic Acid Smoothing Cleanser, which imparts a dual-action blend of salicylic acid (to refine and smooth skin texture) and hyaluronic acid (to hydrate and plump skin).

2. Use a hydrating serum

With hydration being such a major focus of a glass skin routine for sensitive skin, you can turn to serums to impart powerful moisture-boosting ingredients to your complexion.

The Revitalift Filler 1.5% Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum is a lightweight yet effective anti-ageing serum that delivers intense, lasting hydration to all skin types – including sensitive skin. This gentle formula leaves skin looking fresh, dewy, and radiant with diminished visible fine lines and dark circles.

Ensure that you apply your serum onto damp skin to maximise efficacy and help with moisture retention.

3. Prioritise eye care

The eyes often show the first signs of fatigue, visible fine lines, dehydration, and discolouration – all skin concerns that work against glass skin.

That’s why we suggest making eye care a part of your glass skin routine for sensitive skin. Use the Revitalift Filler 2.5% Hyaluronic Acid Eye Serum on the undereye and eye contour area. This formula delivers a blend of hyaluronic acid and caffeine to re-plump tired-looking eyes and improve radiance around the delicate skin of the eye.

4. Lock in nourishment with a moisturiser

After applying your serums, it’s time to lock in hydration with a moisturiser.

This step is crucial in preventing water loss in the skin, protecting the skin moisture barrier from harmful stressors, and ensuring the complexion stays supple and dewy to give your sensitive skin that glass-like finish.

A moisturiser-serum hybrid, the Revitalift Filler Glass Skin Liquid Cream represents next-generation skincare. Devised with a liquid cream texture but concentrated as a serum, the formula infuses hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, niacinamide, and panthenol up to 10 layers deep into the skin. The result? Up to 100 hours of hydration and glow.

Apply as a standard moisturiser, smoothing over the face and neck.

5. Protect your skin with SPF

Always complete your morning glass skin routine for sensitive skin with sun protection. UV rays are a common trigger for sensitivity and hyperpigmentation, so it’s important to apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF50 at least 20 minutes before sun exposure.

If you’re seeking a touch of coverage alongside your sun protection, we recommend the Bright Reveal Tinted Daily Fluid SPF 50 Light, a lightweight formula that offers a supercharged glow in a non-greasy formula.

6. Bonus: apply a face mask for a dewy, plumped-up effect

For an added dose of hydration and a plumped-up, glass skin effect, we suggest incorporating a face mask into your skincare regimen once per week.

Infused with star humectants – glycerin and hyaluronic acid – the Revitalift Glass Skin Hydrogel Glow Mask helps counteract water loss to support clearer, radiant-looking skin.

Start with dry, cleansed skin. Then, apply the bottom mask first, followed by the top mask, taking care to align with your eyes. Leave on for 90 minutes until the mask becomes transparent, then remove.

Ceramide-rich skincare products for sensitive skin can be instrumental in achieving glass skin. Next, explore how ceramides and a resilient skin moisture barrier can help you attain that glass skin finish.