Cristina, who is 54 but looks decades younger, shared the hack via a video posted on her TikTok account where she boasts nearly 300,000 followers.
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In the video, Cristina said: “Let me tell you what I do in my skincare routine, that 99% of ‘skin-tok’ will tell you not to do.”
She continued: “At 54 years old, my skin is a flex”.
Cristina said that until seven months ago, here skin was “not a flex” until she made a simple change to her skincare routine.
The beauty pro said that her number one tip is exfoliating every single day, sometimes in the morning and sometimes at night.
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She said: “If tretinoin is your King, exfoliation is your Queen.”
Cristina said the changes in her skin since she started exfoliating every day are drastic.
She said: “Think about your skin as a garden of geraniums and the geraniums bloom and then you have to deadhead them.
“The exfoliation is the deadheading process and it allows for healthier, bigger blooms”.
Cristina then explained the different methods of exfoliation she uses.
She said she sometimes exfoliates using a toner after she cleanses, sometimes uses it as part of her face wash, sometimes exfoliates using peel pads or an overnight peel and sometimes uses “good old fashioned gloves”.
The beauty whizz explained that you have to work up to exfoliating every day and recommended starting off by doing it twice a week.
She said: “Never get to the point where you’re overdrying your skin. Make sure that you’re doing it one step at a time and adding in one extra exfoliation per week.”
TikTok users rushed to the video’s comments section to share their thoughts on Cristina’s hack.
One user said: “I do this and it’s amazing”.
Another added: “Exfoliation is key for anyone under 40”.
A third added: “I exfoliate every day without fail“.
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