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How to elevate your skincare routine with multi-masking

Beauty expert Mishal Cazmi shares mask combinations that address multiple skin concerns at once.
November 19, 2020 2:39 p.m. EST
November 20, 2020 1:42 p.m. EST
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We all need to take some ‘me –time’ during this pandemic, and especially with winter weather right around the corner, that means skincare! We're about to change your skincare game today, though, because beauty expert Mishal Cazmi has an amazing way to elevate our routines to the next level. That's right - multi-masking! Wearing more than one face mask is a great way to tackle multiple skin issues at the same time, says Mishal.She revealed four pairings that will make a huge difference for your skin health! Find them below, and watch the video above for even more great tips from Mishal.

FINE LINES AND DULLNESS

You want to look for hydrating masks with ingredients that will add moisture back into the skin like hyaluronic acid and shea butter, along with brightness-boosting masks. To fix this skin issue, try combining the two masks below!

Fresh Black Tea Instant Perfecting Mask

A hydrating mask famous for its cloud-like whipped texture that leaves skin super-smooth and dewy. This advanced antioxidant treatment melts onto skin and instantly softens with a cooling sensation (the tingle tells you it’s working!) to reveal a luminous complexion. It's powered by Fresh's black tea complex, skin-smoothing polysaccharides, and moisturizing hyaluronic acid spheres.Sephora | $120

Dehiya Beauty Aya Restorative Goddess Mask

A hydrating mask comprised of skin-soothing, nourishing and healing adaptogenic herbs and roots.Dehiya Beauty | $68

SENSITIVE AND STRESSED OUT SKIN

These two options are great for sensitive or reactive skin that’s easily prone to redness. We are also dealing with stress pimples and blemishes, so you want to look for a mask with soothing ingredients and another one that you can use to spot treat blemishes. Combine these three masks to counteract your stressed out skin!

Avéne Soothing Radiance Mask

The Soothing radiance mask offers a cocoon-like texture rich in Avène Thermal Spring Water and in hydro-nourishing active ingredients to soothe and repair the skin during a moment of gentle, comforting care.Shoppers Drug Mart | $29

Antipodes Aura Manuka Honey Mask

Suited to most skin conditions, especially blemish-prone.Deeply cleanse your skin with this luxuriously hydrating face mask, which helps leave skin soothed and intensively hydrated. Manuka honey has potent antibacterial properties to cleanse and help clear blemishes.Well.ca | $53

Tata Harper Clarifying Mask

A complexion perfecting treatment that targets impurities to restore healthy, balanced, and clear skin. Best for uneven texture, redness, or blemish prone skin.Tata Harper | $72

COMBINATION SKIN

Combination skin will usually have an oily T-zone (your forehead, nose and chin) and dry areas on the cheeks. Hydrating masks with emollient ingredients for the cheek area and masks with ingredients like salicylic acid and clay for the T-zone. Try these two masks to address dry and oily skin!

Oily T-zone: Olay Pore Detox Black Charcoal Clay Face Mask Stick

This amazing face mask removes skin-dulling impurities through exfoliation, without drying your skin out!Walmart | $13

Teaology Happy Skin - All in One Beauty Balm

This do-it-all beauty balm nourishes, soothes and illuminates stressed-out skin with 95% natural ingredients, vitamins, ceramides and the antioxidant blue tea infusion. Its vegan formula can be used to nourish, hydrate, and firm the face, neck, eye contour and lips. Use it as an intensive SOS treatment mask for young, glowing and radiant skin, or even as a primer, before applying makeup. The blend of plant ceramides, olive oil and shea butter, as well as delicate exfoliating agents and vitamins, smooth, illuminate and soften signs of stress and fatigue. Niacinamide, a potent vitamin B3 derivative helps minimize fine lines, pores and blemishes.Teaology | $50

OILY SKIN AND ENLARGED PORES

For treating oily skin and enlarged pores, you want to remember that face masks with alpha hydroxy acids like glycolic acid, beta hydroxy acid like salicylic acid and clay to help slough off dead skin cells and clear impurities from the skin. Check out these two masks that will get rid of your oil skin and enlarged pores!

Biossance Squalane and Glycolic Renewal Mask

A triple-change peel, exfoliator, and mask in one skin-renewing, smoothing, and hydrating formula.Sephora | $90

Caudalie Instant Detox Mask

A detoxifying clay face mask to keep pores clean and tight.Sephora | $47[video_embed id='2079125']BEFORE YOU GO: Rockefeller Christmas tree getting mixed reaction[/video_embed]