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Maintaining Your Glow In Between Spa Visits

ByAmber Ciociano

Maintaining your glow between spa visits is the secret to truly radiant, doll-like skin. Professional treatments create the foundation, but what you do at home determines how long your results last and how quickly your skin improves over time. Everything matters, your water intake, the ingredients you put on your skin, and how consistent you are with your routine. At DRIP Health & MedSpa in Miami Lakes, our goal is to help you look and feel your best year-round. These esthetician-approved tips will help you maintain glowing, youthful skin in between your professional facials, microneedling sessions, or chemical peels.

1. Be Patient. Great Skin Takes Time

Let’s start with the truth, skin changes slowly. With every treatment, your skin continues to improve, but because you see yourself daily, you may not notice the difference right away. That’s why clients often say they only realize how much progress they’ve made when they find an old photo. Be patient, trust the process, and follow your home care plan consistently. Long-term results come from a mix of professional treatments plus daily habits.

Having a good skincare routine is crucial for maintaining doll-like skin
2. Build a Solid, Consistent Skincare Routine

You don’t need a 10-step routine to achieve flawless, pretty skin. You just need the right steps.

Your Essential Routine Should Include:

  • Gentle Cleanser (AM/PM)
  • Exfoliator (1–3x weekly, depending on skin type)
  • Moisturizer (AM/PM)
  • SPF 30–60 (every morning, non-negotiable)

If you want to level up your results, add targeted serums, masks, and actives based on your skin goals. The right ingredients matter just as much as consistency.

3. Nourish Your Skin From the Inside Out

Your glow isn’t just topical, it’s internal. Hydration, nutrient-rich foods, and balanced meals help your skin heal faster, especially after treatments like:

  • Microneedling
  • Chemical peels
  • Laser services
  • Exfoliating facials

These treatments create controlled micro-injury to stimulate collagen and elastin. Your internal hydration plus nutrition determines how beautifully you heal.

Best foods for post-treatment recovery:

  • Water-rich foods: watermelon, cucumber, oranges
  • Healthy fats: salmon, avocado, nuts
  • High-protein foods to support collagen
  • Bone broth & berries for antioxidants

The more hydrated you are, the more supple, radiant, and youthful your skin will look.

Nourishing body from within helps with maintaining glow in between spa visits
4. Enhance Results with At-Home Treatments

Doing at-home treatments with masks for soothing, hydrating, and brightening is a great way to get your skin the way you want it to look more quickly. It is also a great way of maintaining your glow in between spa visits. This can enhance your results in between professional treatments. Look for ingredients such as hyaluronic acid for hydration, niacinamide for brightening, and colloidal oatmeal for calming irritation and inflammation. You have to avoid exfoliating right after treatments and ask your practitioner when you can exfoliate again. The preferred method of exfoliation would be chemical or enzymatic.

Depending on how sensitive your skin is and what problems you want to fix, lactic acid is great for dry, uneven skin. Papaya enzyme (with steam) is great for congested skin and is also very gentle for people with sensitive skin. Glycolic acid is for people whose skin has built a tolerance and also for mature and acneic skin. For acneic skin, I love a mixture of salicylic acid, glycolic acid, and/or mandelic acid. Okay, let’s continue because I am getting a little bit carried away. Can you tell that I am the esthetician at DRIP by how I am getting into it?

5. Manage Your Stress, Your Skin Feels Everything

Stress happens to everybody; it’s just inevitable. Now, you may be thinking, “how does stress management have anything to do with maintaining your glow in between spa visits?” Well, the answer is simple, how we handle stress is important when it comes to aesthetics. When stress is chronic, inflammation in the body increases, making it more prone to premature aging, acne breakouts, dryness, irritation, redness, etc. During hard times, we not only release cortisol but also adrenaline, which increases oil production. Yea, it is no secret that stress negatively affects the skin, but let’s talk about how to manage stress and calm your skin down.

Even when you are stressed, try to make the effort to look after your skin. Wash your makeup off at night with an oil cleanser, give yourself little treatments, and keep up with your routine. Personally, I feel much more confident with nice skin; having skin problems when you’re already stressed is like being kicked when you’re already down, you do not need that extra weight. No one knows you better than you know yourself. Find what you enjoy and what relaxes you. Read, take a hot bath, go on walks, take up meditation or yoga classes. Also, don’t be too hard on yourself, and express your emotions properly. If you don’t, it’ll make you even more stressed.

Final thoughts

Achieving and maintaining doll-like skin comes from a combination of professional treatments, at-home skincare, internal nourishment, and stress management. Your efforts at home will determine how well your skin responds to spa treatments. Be patient, nice skin takes time, and remember that consistency is key. If you treat your skin with the love and care it deserves, it will reward you. Your glow is a reflection of how well you take care of yourself, inside and out.

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