Celebrate the Best Face Masks for Glowing Skin
Whatever the season, it’s nice to give your skin a little extra sparkle. Skip highlighter and strobing, and head right to the skin care aisle. The secret to gorgeous glowing skin lies in a luxurious mask. Click through for our top 20 picks.
Mega Mushrooms
This organic mask is packed full of mushrooms (a superfood on their own) and spices like ginger, basil and turmeric. Use it regularly to reduce redness and restore skin’s natural brightness.
Mega Mushroom Skin Relief Face Mask, $47, origins.ca
Magic Mask
This new-to-Canada line is one of the best when it comes to giving skin an extra boost. Created by a Taiwanese beauty editor, the sheet masks are the first to use revolutionary skin-repairing bio-cellulose material.
For Beloved One Melasleep Brightening Lumi’s Key Bio-Cellulose Mask, $63, tnt-supermarket.com
Fresh Skin
Packed with a concentrated blend of citrus fruits (including oranges, lemons, and clementines), this radiance-boosting skin mask is exactly what your dull skin has been searching for.
Fresh Vitamin Nectar Vibrancy-Boosting Face Mask, $80, sephora.com
Shine Bright Like a Diamond
They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and that couldn’t more true than when it comes to your skin. Infused with pink grapefruit, diamond powder and skin-tightening peptides, this sheet mask is the perfect party indulgence.
Rodial Pink Diamond Instant Lifting Mask, $90, beautyboutique.ca
Eggs-cellent Face Mask
This extra-brightening version of the cult-favourite Egg Cream Mask is crammed with coconut water, niacinamide, and other botanical extracts to enhance even the direst of skin.
Egg Cream Mask Hydration, $30, sephora.com
Amazon Woman
Formulated without parabens, paraffins, silicones or mineral oils, this three-in-one vegan face mask exfoliates, invigorates and brightens skin all at the same time.
Amazonian Acai Energising Radiance Mask, $28, thebodyshop.ca
Whip it Up
This innovative new face mask formula goes from powder to rubber with just a pinch of water. The intensive vitamin C formula brightens skin, while seaweed extract detoxifies and increases skin’s radiance.
Bliss Three-Pack Mask-a-Peel, $38, thebay.com
Coming Up Roses
Talk about a quick fix! This wild rose oil formula is rich in vitamin C and illuminates the skin in just 15 minutes.
Korres Brightening and Illuminating Mask, $60, beautyboutiqe.ca
Pretty in Pink
This water-gel mask is enriched with flowers (pink peonies!) and fruits (goji berries, cranberries and blueberries) to hydrate, revitalize and brighten dull, tired skin.
Pink Peony Overnight Water Mask, $58, esteelauder.ca
Skin Saviour
Aerin’s exclusive rose complex has become a favourite among beauty junkies for a reason – the extremely moisturizing mask refreshes skin with just one use.
Aerin Rose Night Table Cream Overnight Mask, $98, esteelauder.ca
Blowing Bubbles
Bursting with botanicals, including bearberry, mulberry, licorice, and vitamin C, along with the innovative cosmetic ingredient Fiflow, which helps carry oxygen into the skin, this mask brightens from within.
Peter Thomas Roth Brightening Bubbling Mask, $68, sephora.com
To the Root of It
Minimize the appearance of dark spots with this hydroquinone-free sheet mask, infused with orange extract and licorice root.
Masque Bar Brightening Sheet Mask, $10, Shopper’s Drug Mart
Living Luxe
This luxurious face mask (part of L’Occitane’s Immortelle line) has professional power, but with the convenience of an at-home treatment. Shea butter, immortelle essential oil and citrus extract help hydrate skin giving it a gorgeous glow.
L’Occitane Immortelle Divine Cream, $140, loccitane.com
Feeling Blue
This all-natural mask is packed with ingredients that will save even the most damaged skin, including murumuru butter to moisturize, silken tofu to soften, and ground rice to exfoliate.
Lush Don’t Look At Me Face Mask, $13, lush.ca
Getting Better
Give your skin some much-needed moisture with this intense cream mask. It hydrates skin, leaving it smooth and supple, and full of radiance.
Clinique Even Better Brightening Moisture Mask, $47, clinique.ca
Getting Dirty
Who knew getting dirty could be so good for your skin? Made with White Birch Leaf, which helps even out skin tone, and Reflectrum, a mix of brightening ingredients, this mud mask will leave skin looking the best it has in years.
FlashMud Brightening Treatment, $69, glamglow.com
Have Some Hope
This hydrating mask is packed with skin-nourishing ingredients, including three kinds of hyaluronate to help moisturize, three forms of AHAs to exfoliate, and Asian fruit extract for that coveted glow.
Philosophy Renewed Hope in a Jar, $42, beautyboutique.ca
Full of Energy
Called an “instant facial,” this radiance-boosting mask is made with cranberry and turmeric, ingredients known for evening out and illuminating skin tone.
Kiehls Turmeric & Cranberry Seed Energizing Radiance Masque, $45, kiehls.ca
Sleeping Beauty
Fake a good night’s sleep with this ultra-hydrating mask, which improves skin’s appearance in five ways: smooths, hydrates, plumps, softens, and increases radiance.
Dior HydraLife Jelly Sleeping Mask, $85, thebay.com
Hands of Time
This intense multi-talented face mask will do one thing: slow down the hands of time. Made with hyaluronic acid and soft focus micro-pigments, this skin treatment illuminates and nourishes, reducing all signs of aging.
Lierac Premium The Supreme Mask, $100, lierac.ca