Dermstore’s Anniversary Sale Is On—What I’m Buying to Restock My “High-Maintenance to Be Low-Maintenance” Routine

Call me vain, but you can catch me doing every single thing I can to look and feel how I do right now, in my early thirties, for as long as humanly possible. What does that look like? Daily and weekly rituals that not only make me feel good, but also serve as fun, less expensive mini versions of the spendy treatments I can’t do as frequently. (Think self-tanning instead of spray tans, an in-shower hair gloss in lieu of a pricey salon version… I could go on.)

Someone once told me one of the best things you can do to feel and look your absolute best is to dedicate one day a week (for me, this is Sunday) to any self-care and/or DIY beauty practices that A) make you feel good and B) help maintain the results of any pricier treatments you might like to do. For example, on Sundays, I whip on a hair and face mask, take an everything shower, self-tan, and tint my eyebrows. It might sound silly, but turning this into a slow, weekly ritual has made a huge difference in how I feel heading into a fresh week, and it’s also helped maximize the results of some of the big-buck treatments I get like hair color, facials, etc.