How to Use Thirst Burst Drops: e.l.f.'s Brightening and Hydrating Serum
Pssst! Summer’s over and the fall season is nearly underway. Whether you’re looking to maintain that healthy, plump look, or searching for the perfect hydrating face serum for dry skin during the cold months ahead. Whichever way you and your routine are leaning, one thing is consistent: you don’t want to let that plump looking, dewy finish go. Finding a face serum that delivers both hydrating and brightening benefits can be challenging.
Enter Thirst Burst Drops, our newest member of the e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Skincare Collection. This deeply brightening and hydrating serum features niacinamide as its superhero ingredient, along with hydrating hyaluronic acid, hibiscus complex, and more. It will be your go to moisturized, juicy, and lit-from-within skin all winter long (and way after that, too). Ready to make room in your beauty cabinet for your new favorite hydrating serum?
How This Brightening Face Serum Works: The Power of Niacinamide
Like we mentioned, the powerhouse ingredient of Thirst Burst Brightening Drops is niacinamide. Niacinamide is a form of Vitamin B3 and boosts versatile skin-brightening properties that make it a beloved ingredient in a wide array of skincare products. So, what does it do? Niacinamide offers so many properties that can help improve the appearance of skin. Niacinamide helps to brighten uneven skin tone and reduce dullness, delivering an all-over radiant glow. Niacinamide (and Thirst Burst!) is also great for helping boost the hydration of skin and giving skin a plump, healthy-looking appearance.
This, plus a thoughtful selection of other hydrating ingredients, make our brightening serum a truly multifunctional gel serum that works as well as it feels—hydrating, quenching, soothing, and plumping!
Hydrating and Brightening Skincare Ingredients for Glowing Skin
When formulating our fragrance-free Thirst Burst Drops, our main goal was bringing the glow and achieving a juicy, radiant-looking complexion. We’ve already shared about the magic that is niacinamide (which we formulated at a potent 5%), so let’s get into two of our other favorite ingredients that star in our hydrating drops. First up, hyaluronic acid. You probably know it and love it, but here’s a quick refresher: hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring substance in the skin known for its ability to help retain moisture—holding up to 1,000 times its weight in water!
This makes it a hydrating powerhouse in our face serum, helping to keep your skin looking plump, healthy, and bright.
The other star ingredient in these hydrating drops is our hibiscus complex. The hibiscus can help to the appearance of skin look moisturized and hydrated, working to improve overall appearance and feel. It also helps to maintain skin's moisture balance so that it leaves skin looking soft and supple.
How to Use Thirst Burst Brightening Face Drops
The baseline how-to when it comes to Thirst Burst Drops? The more drops applied = the more glow you’ll get. This truly multifunctional serum plays well with other products, and can be used in lots of different ways to help achieve plump, healthy-looking skin. Of course, it can also be used alone and can be used during the “serum step” in your hydrating skincare routine. If that’s your game plan, we recommend using this brightening serum after cleansing and toning, but before your moisturizer or SPF.
Thirst Burst drops have a gel-like, fast-absorbing texture, so it’s effective as a hydrating and brightening primer under makeup. If you’re a multitasker at heart and like to keep your makeup routine simple and quick, mix a few drops of Thirst Burst into your favorite foundation and apply that way!
Skincare Products to Pair with Brightening Drops
Holy Hydration! Thirst Burst Drops paired with our Thirst Burst Pore-fecting Toner makes the perfect duo! We formulated these products to compliment each other and work well together to give you *all* of the skin benefits. Let’s take a look on how to use this pair, in order to get your skin feeling refreshed and glowing like new. After cleansing, reach for our exfoliating face toner to help remove any impurities from the skin. This toner helps to hydrate and gently exfoliate.
Formulated with 2% BHA and 1% hydrating hibiscus, this toner is pore-refining and will leave your skin looking glowy and feeling smooth. Then follow up with our hydrating brightening drops to offer a surge of hydration and leave your skin looking bouncy and radiant.
The Difference Between e.l.f. SKIN's Face Serums
If you’ve been around for a bit, then you know we have a handful of face serums in the e.l.f, SKIN family. While all can be a staple in your routine, each serum goes to work in a slightly different way and targets various skin concerns. Thirst Burst Drops, at its core, is a brightening and hydrating serum. This is because of its 5% niacinamide formulation as well as its hyaluronic acid and hibiscus complex additions. If you’re looking to simply flood skin with hydration go for Holy Hydration! Triple Bounce Serum, which delivers hyaluronic acid at three different molecular weights and reveals fresh, plump-looking skin.
For those looking to reduce the appearance fine lines and wrinkles and work on a long term overhaul of dull skin, Youth Boosting Advanced Night Retinoid Serum is your pick.
Our Blemish Breakthrough Triple-Acid Resurfacing Serum has an 8.5% triple-acid complex: salicylic acid, tranexamic acid, and PHA, to help resurface the appearance of skin to visibly improve the look of skin tone and texture.
Our Vitamin C Serum is incredible for skin in need of general brightening and skin tone improvement thanks to its high antioxidant content.
Bronzing and Hydrating Drops: The Best Skincare Duo
Now that you’ve got your brightening and dewy serum on lock, we’ve got yet another way to maintain that healthy-looking summer glow you don’t want to let go of. Mix Thirst Burst Drops with our Bronzing Drops in our Hottest Drops Duo Kit for a quenched burst of sun-kissed color. Together, these drops deliver all the hydration and bronzy glow you’ll need to get through winter. Shop our Hottest Drops Duo, mini versions of Thirst Burst Brightening and Hydrating Drops and Bronzing Drops that are sold together to keep your routine easy and your skin looking bright, bronzed.
