Great skin

So your skin isn’t glowing like it’s plugged in? There are probably about seven reasons. We have bright ideas on how to deal with each one.

ican’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” This famous dictum was uttered by the late supreme court justice Potter Stewart upon hearing a case about radiant skin. (OK, maybe he was talking about something else, come to think of it.) Anyway, you get the point: skin with that magic glow is hard to define. It seems to come from eight hours of sleep, a balanced diet and inner beauty. But good news for those of us short on any of the above: it also comes from a few great products and excellent advice on how to use them. We’ve identified every saboteur standing between your skin and that elusive lit-from-within-ness – and come up with a very concrete plan to unseat it. (And by ‘we’, we mean us and top dermatologists.) Whether you need a simple at-home solution or more intense professional backup, here’s your guide to fixing whatever is dimming your epidermal wattage.