Is your face a glazed doughnut or a dewy dumpling? I don’t mean which of these foods are stuck on your face. Instead, these are all recent skin care trends, which, despite some key differences, share a similarity beyond their gastronomically delightful nomenclature: the popular belief that skin should glow. It should be radiant, lustrous, luminous — and even, as the aptly named glass skin trend implies, almost translucent.
In the effort to go for glass, however, it’s important to remember what skin really is: a barrier. “It’s not there just to hold everything in place,” says cosmetic chemist Valerie George, who is the CEO of Simply Beauty Group