The Skin Nerd: TikTok skincare trends to try or skip

Icing your face, blackhead extraction and hydrocolloid bandages are trendy right now, but are they truly beneficial to your skin?

Facial icing — as in with ice, not buttercreaming your visage — is very popular on TikTok, with many users crediting it for their glossy, glassy, tight skin.

TikTok isn’t just for the teens anymore and, if you download the app (do, I can barely take my eyes off it sometimes) and type in ‘skincare’, you’ll see that it’s a very active community. 

Gen Z, those in their teens and early 20s, are incredibly in the loop when it comes to skincare — they won’t leave the house without sunscreen and the only cleanse they know is a double-cleanse. However, TikTok is a social platform and, like all others, it can be swept up in trends quicker than you can say “coffee scrub”.