What is Functional Beauty, Anyway?

There are hundreds and hundreds of different skin care brands out there, all reporting to have the answer to all of your skin care needs. But, with all of those brands and all of those promises, one of the main things that they’re missing is focusing on “functional beauty.” 

Functional beauty really is the wave of the future, and one of the best ways to help you feel beautiful as soon as your skin care products touch your face. 

The focus on functional beauty is the most important philosophy here at MiamiMD, and we’d love to share more about what it is and why we think it’s so important.

What is Beauty?

One of the hardest questions to answer is what beauty is. It’s a question that people have been trying to answer since the dawn of time, and one that is incredibly subjective. 

Likely, everyone that you ask will have a totally different answer… and that’s part of what makes beauty so interesting and incredible. Every culture has its own interpretation, as well. Hair color, makeup, body type, clothing, etc. — all of these vary widely depending on where in the world that you’re located. 

What it really comes down to is that beauty is mostly about how you feel about yourself, not about how other people perceive you. 

In the end, what other people think about you is just an incredibly small piece of the puzzle. If you don’t feel beautiful and if you don’t love yourself and love the way you look, you’ll never be able to feel beautiful despite everyone else telling you that you are. 

Beauty is happiness, beauty is self confidence, beauty is taking the time out to make sure you are taking care of yourself. In this way, beauty can be much more elusive and difficult to achieve than if it were simply a physical state. 

Beauty is self-love, and taking care of your physical beauty can definitely be a part of that. 

How Can Beauty Be “Functional”?

Functional beauty, as it relates to skin care, is one of the best ways to enjoy all of the benefits of skin care products right from the application. 

The way that we incorporate the idea of functional beauty into our products is what really sets us apart from the other skin care brands out there. That’s why MiamiMD isn’t the typical beauty company. 

Our brand was inspired and created for strong women all over the world, to help them feel as beautiful on the outside as they are on the inside, right now.

It was that drive to help that inspired us to focus so much on creating functional beauty products. All of our products were formulated to make you feel absolutely gorgeous while you’re actively wearing them, as well as providing you with lasting, deeper benefits. 

You shouldn’t have to wait to see results — you should be able to enjoy them as you’re also working your way toward better, healthier, more youthful skin.

Each of our products targets a specific concern or concerns, like reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles or smoothing out the texture of the skin. 

How You Can Feel More Beautiful

Aging can be an intimidating process. While, on one hand, getting older also means becoming wiser and more self-assured, it also comes with visible changes to your skin, and especially to your face. That can dramatically impact the way that we feel about ourselves. 

For many people, to help counteract the way that aging makes us feel, we turn to drastic, risky, often painful procedures. A lot of that has to do with instant gratification, wanting to see a change right away instead of having to wait for weeks or months to see if a product will work. 

When creating our skin care line, we wanted to be able to provide similar instant benefits without having to go under the knife or have needles involved.

One of our favorite products, and the perfect example of our focus on functional beauty, is our Instant Wrinkle Eraser. We created this product to help with one of the most common age-related beauty complaints that women have: facial wrinkles.

Instant Wrinkle Eraser visibly reduces the appearance of both fine lines and wrinkles as soon as you use it. The effect is so impressive that some of our customers have even referred to it as an “invisibility cloak” for the skin! It targets “senior shadows,” i.e. those hollows on the face due to a lack of collagen, that make pre-existing fine lines and wrinkles more visible and obvious. Results can be seen in just minutes — talk about functional beauty! 

However, while it is nice to be able to rely on a single, functional beauty product, an even better plan to work your way towards more beautiful, healthy skin and a massive boost in your self confidence level is to develop a skin care routine and put that routine into practice. 

Not only will it help your skin to reveal its brighter, more youthful self, it also guarantees that you are setting aside time for yourself, even if that happens just a few minutes at a time in the morning and in the evening. Those few minutes are for you and you alone, and can help you feel better about yourself both physically and mentally. It’s a real win win either way you look at it!

Cleanser

Start with finding and utilizing an appropriate cleanser. Every one of us has unique skin, whether that means it is oily, dry, sensitive, combination, or normal. Your specific skin type dictates the type of cleanser that you should be using, however, so that you can work with your skin instead of working against it. 

Think of cleansing your skin as a way to start fresh, whether that means getting ready for the day or washing off what happened during. If you have sensitive or overly dry skin, you may want to replace a cleanser in the morning with just using water. 

Cleansing your skin is especially important if you wear makeup. If allowed to stay on your face overnight, it has the potential to clog your pores and create a lot of different skin concerns. When you cleanse, you help your skin regenerate by removing all of the dead skin cells that can build up and make your complexion look dull.

Serums

Once your skin has been cleansed and patted dry, it’s time to apply any functional beauty serums that you may be using. Serums should always be applied directly onto fresh, clean skin before any moisturizer that you’re using, so that they have the most opportunity to be absorbed directly into the skin. 

You may also want to consider using a toner before your serum, as well, to help make sure all of the dead skin cells, debris, and makeup is really gone and the pores are as welcoming as possible for serum absorption.

We recommend our own functional beauty serum, MiamiMD’s Intensive Eye Repair Serum. You can use it both morning and evening, as it helps to quickly renew the eyes so that you can enjoy a more youthful look. It reduces the appearance of crow’s feet, dark circles, and fine lines and wrinkles, by firming and toning the skin under the eyes. It’s great for people of all different ages and skin types, and works in just minutes, taking years off of your appearance. 

Because so many people rate their under eye concerns as being at the top of their list of age-related issues that bother them, we wanted our serum to help right away. You deserve it.

Moisturizers

The final component of any skin care routine should always be moisturizer or a heavy cream (unless you’re heading out for the day, in which case you should always top that with sunscreen). Finishing with a thick cream not only can help to keep the skin hydrated but can also hold your other products on the skin longer so that they can deliver benefits for even longer. 

MiamiMD’s Age Defying Lift & Firm Cream is a great example of a functional beauty product that works this way. It provides instant tightness of loose and sagging skin, adding both volume and thickness. Whether you apply this before bed so you can wake up feeling good about your skin, or apply it in the morning so you can head into your day with confidence in your appearance, the end result is a functional beauty product that really works for you without you having to do anything at all.

In Conclusion

Functional beauty means looking your best, both in the short term and in the long term. 

When you apply skin care products that work immediately, showing you all that your skin can be, it’s a quick boost of self confidence. 

MiamiMD believes that every woman is beautiful, both on the inside and on the outside. All it takes is learning how to believe that, and using a few extra aids like an invisibility cloak for your wrinkles doesn’t hurt either!

Sources:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wrinkles/symptoms-causes/syc-20354927

https://www.allure.com/story/beginner-skin-care-routine

https://www.webmd.com/beauty/cosmetic-procedures-overview-skin#1