Skincare for Burnout, Breakdowns & Bare Minimum Days

🪞Your Skin on Life: The Real Routine for Real People

From me, a tired woman who still cares deeply about skincare

Let’s be honest — your skin doesn’t care that you can pronounce “niacinamide” when you’re crying into a tea-stained hoodie at 11pm, rage-texting your ex, or recovering from a toddler-level emotional breakdown (yours, not the toddler’s).

Real life is messy. Your skincare should hold space for that.

This is for the overstimulated. The under-slept. The hormonally possessed. The ones who can’t do twelve steps right now — or ever.

Because skincare shouldn’t be a punishment or performance.
It should be a soft place to land.

🔥 When Your Nervous System’s Cooked, So Is Your Skin

Stress, grief, hormone chaos, too much wine, not enough joy — it all shows up on your skin. Your nervous system and your skin are besties. They talk constantly.

That’s why:

• Panic spirals = rosacea flares

• Grief = dull, dehydrated skin

• Burnout = barrier damage

When you're in survival mode, your skin’s basic functions slow down or glitch. The result? Flaky texture, inflammation, breakouts, sudden sensitivity, and that "Why do I look like I aged 6 months overnight?" moment.

You’re not imagining it.
Your skin is reacting to your life.

✨ The Bare Minimum That Still Actually Works

When I formulated these three products, I had one goal:
Make something that works when you’re too tired to care, but still want results.

Here’s what I use when my life’s on fire — and I need my skincare to do the heavy lifting for me.

🧴 Whipped Glow Moisturiser

What it does: Rebuilds the skin barrier, deeply hydrates, and soothes inflammation- even in hot, sweaty chaos or hormonal hell.

Why I made it:
Because I was tired of choosing between rich creams that suffocate my face and light ones that vanish in 5 minutes. This does both: comfort and breathability.

Key ingredients:
🍯 Organic honey → hydrates + helps skin repair
🌼 Chamomile → soothes redness + irritation
🥑 Avocado oil → strengthens the barrier
💧 B5 (panthenol) → locks in moisture

Light-as-air texture. No grease. No drama. Just that soft, hydrated, “I’m coping” kind of skin.

👉 Perfect for: sensitive, combo, post-crying, post-sun, perimenopausal, menopausal, or “I’m not okay but I want to glow anyway” skin.

💧 Radiance Booster Serum

What it does: Wakes up tired, uneven, stressed-out skin with a potent blend of botanical actives. This is your no-joke, get-it-done serum for serious glow restoration.

Why I made it: Because when your skin looks dull, flat, or downright exhausted—you need a power move. This formula is stacked with hard-working, clinically tested oils and actives that hit the gas on glow, barrier repair, and tone correction.

What’s inside (and why it slaps):
🧡 Sea buckthorn – ultra-concentrated in omega 7s, it targets damage and dullness fast
🖤 Black sesame oil – rich in zinc and fatty acids to rebuild elasticity and resilience
❤️ Red raspberry seed oil – antioxidant-heavy and brightening as hell
💥 2% Vitamin E – high-dose, naturally derived, works overtime to fight fatigue + oxidative stress

This is a potent skin revival treatment—not a nice little oil. Use it straight up on clean skin, or mix a few drops into your moisturiser when you need backup.

👉 Perfect for: Fatigue face. Hormonal havoc. Post-burnout. Post-holiday. Perimenopause. Menopause. Breakouts. Texture. Uneven tone. That “Somebody help me” vibe.

Intensive Care Skin Balm

🔥 What it does:

Heals, seals, and shields—like a botanical bandage for when your skin is furious and your heart’s a little cracked too.

💛 Why I made it: Because I’ve been there.
Skin so raw you want to cancel your plans, avoid mirrors, and curl into a blanket. Whether it’s eczema, stress rash, cracked hands, or emotional overload showing up on your face—I needed something that actually worked.

This balm is for when your skin’s throwing a tantrum and you kind of are too. It’s my go-to when everything else stings, flakes, or fails. Like a calm whisper in a tin.

🧬 What’s inside (and why it works hard):

• Calendula & chamomile — soothe and speed up healing

• Rosehip & apricot oils — rich in fatty acids to repair the skin barrier

• Extra virgin olive oil — deeply nourishes and locks in moisture

• Beeswax — seals everything in with a protective, breathable shield

No petroleum. No filler. No synthetic anything.
Just 100% potent plant medicine for skin (and souls) in crisis.

👉 Perfect for:  post-retinol regret, angry red flare-ups, grief rash, hormonal or peri/meno meltdowns, cracked hands and lips, winter windburn—literally SOS in a tin for skin and soul.

💛 Want In?

If this resonates — stay tuned. I’ll be posting a new “Real Life Skin” blog every Thursday for the next few weeks plus a podcast episode where I talk through it all. Sometimes with science. Sometimes with unfiltered honesty.

You’re not alone in this. Your skin is allowed to struggle. You are allowed to not be fine.

Need a starting point?

Try the 3-product ritual I use when I feel like absolute garbage.
👉 The Skin SOS Squad

Coming Up in the “Real Life Skin” Series:

1. Crying All Night and Waking Up Puffy as Hell

2. Hangover Skin: Dehydrated, Dull, and Slightly Ashamed

3. PMS Skin Rage (and Other Hormonal Crimes)

4. Postpartum Skin is Wild — Here’s How to Soothe the Storm

5. Breakup Skin: You Deserve Better, Babe

6. Burnout and Skin That’s Given Up Too

7. Grief Face: When Your Skin Mirrors Your Sadness

8. Menopause & Skin: Dry, Hot, Itchy, WTF?!

9. The ‘Too Lazy to Function’ Skincare Routine

10. Skincare for Sick Days, Flu Face, and General Ugh