Pssst! Summer’s over and the fall season is nearly underway. Usually that means one of two things: you’re wondering how you’re going to maintain that healthy, plump look, with the effortless glow you got this summer, or you’re prepping to ensure dry, dull skin isn’t in your future with cold, wintery months around the corner. Whichever way you and your routine are leaning, one thing is consistent: you don’t want to let that plump looking, dewy finish go. Finding a product that delivers radiant, dewy skin is hard to come by. Some are too harsh, some aren’t potent enough, and others don’t deliver the skin-quenching hydration your skin craves when you’re handling dryness.
Enter Thirst Burst Drops, our newest member of the e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Collection. This brightening serum features niacinamide as its superhero ingredient, along with hydrating hyaluronic acid, hibiscus complex, and more. In other words, it’s going to be your go-to for capturing moisturized, juicy, and lit-from-within skin all winter long (and way after that, too). Ready to make room in your beauty cabinet for your new favorite hydrating serum?
What Does Niacinamide Do For Skin?
Like we mentioned, the powerhouse ingredient of Thirst Burst Drops is niacinamide. Niacinamide is a form of Vitamin B3 and boosts versatile skin-brightening properties that make it a beloved ingredient in a wide array of skincare products. So, what does it do? Niacinamide offers so many properties that can help improve the appearance of skin. Niacinamide helps to brighten uneven skin tone and reduce dullness, delivering an all-over radiant glow.
Niacinamide (and Thirst Burst!) is also great for helping boost the hydration of skin and giving skin a plump, healthy-looking appearance. This, plus a thoughtful selection of other hydrating ingredients, make our brightening serum a truly multifunctional gel serum that works as well as it feels—hydrating, quenching, soothing, and plumping!
How to Use Thirst Burst Drops
The baseline how-to when it comes to Thirst Burst Drops? The more drops applied = the more glow you’ll get. This truly multifunctional serum plays well with other products, and can be used in lots of different ways to achieve a plump, healthy look. Of course, it can be used alone to help improve the overall appearance of your skin and it can be the “serum step” in your skincare routine.
If that’s your game plan, use it after cleansing and toning, but before your moisturizer or other heavier products like SPF. Thirst Burst drops have a gel-like, fast-absorbing texture, so it’s super effective as a hydrating and brightening primer under makeup. If you’re a multitasker at heart and like to keep your makeup routine simple and quick, mix a few drops of Thirst Burst into your favorite foundation and apply that way!
Making Sense of our Serums
If you’ve been around for a bit, then you know we have a handful of serums in the e.l.f. skin family. While all can be a staple in your routine, each one goes to work in a slightly different way and targets various skin concerns. So, let’s get into it. Thirst Burst Drops, at its core, is a brightening and hydrating serum. This is because of its 5% niacinamide formulation as well as its hyaluronic acid and hibiscus complex additions. If you’re looking to simply flood skin with hydration go for Holy Hydration! Triple Bounce Serum, which delivers hyaluronic acid at three different molecular weights and reveals fresh, plump skin.
dFor those looking to reduce the appearance fine lines and wrinkles and work on a long term overhaul of dull, lackluster skin, Youth Boosting Advanced Night Retinoid Serum is your pick. Our Blemish Breakthrough Triple-Acid Resurfacing Serum has an 8.5% triple-acid complex: salicylic acid, tranexamic acid, and PHA, to help resurface skin to visibly improve the look of skin tone and texture. Our Vitamin C Serum is incredible for skin in need of general brightening and skin tone improvement thanks to its high antioxidant content.
Bronzer and Hydrating Drops: The Best Skincare Duo
Now that you’ve got your brightening and dewy serum on lock, we’ve got yet another way to maintain that healthy-looking summer glow you don’t want to let go of: mix Thirst Burst Drops with our Bronzing Drops in our Hottest Drops Duo kit for a quenched burst of sun-kissed color. Together, these drops deliver all the hydration and bronzy glow you’ll need to get through winter.
Keep an eye out for Hottest Drops Duo, mini versions of Thirst Burst Drops and Bronzing Drops that will be sold together to keep your routine easy and your skin looking bright, bronzed