When our skin starts to look and feel dry, our first instinct is to slather on heavy face moisturizers. The tightness and dullness may go away for a few days or so, but then we find ourselves back at square one trying to solve the problem. After a recent spa visit, we learned that the issue isn't so much what we're putting on our skin but how we actually see our skin.
"It may be hard to believe but dehydrated skin is actually far more common than dry skin," says Elena Arboleda, the head aesthetician at Mario Badescu Skin Care. And it turns out there is a pretty big difference between the two skin types.
