LED masks are one of the most popular beauty tools at the moment, with Google searches and queries about them constantly going up. They're also one of the products we on the Mirror beauty team get asked about most – so much so that we've put together .
While red LED light is known for its ability to calm irritation and boost collagen products, blue LED light can instead be more beneficial for spot-prone skin, as it helps to kill acne-causing bacteria. And I've been trialling that has, I think, noticeably reduced my blemishes.
At-home beauty tool brand is a clever stick-on gadget that targets specific areas of the face – ideal if you only get breakouts in certain patches. Usually priced at £63, it is at the time of writing reduced down to £44.10, saving you 30%.
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As someone with persistent blemishes on my chin but with skin on the rest of my face that's actually alright, I like using a red LED mask over my whole face (), but I felt the need to use blue light just on specific areas of my face – my chin and my jawline – so really appealed to me.
To start, you stick a strip of double-sided medical adhesive tape (the box contains 30 strips) to the ClearSkin SOLO, and then stick to the device onto your skin, over the problem area. When applied to clean skincare-free skin they're actually very sticky and don't fall off during the device's 20 minute programme, but they also remove easily too, without irritating the skin.
; it leaves you hands-free, it doesn't interfere with watching TV like I find some full-face LED masks do, and gives a handy beep when it switches off. If you're skin's not too oily I found that the strip remains sticky, and you can reuse the mask a couple more times on your face.
I'm notoriously bad at sticking with skin tools for long enough to see results so I'm not going to pretend that I used this every night – I'd say about three times a week, for 2-3 weeks – and afterwards . I definitely had , and the ones I did still have were less angry and inflamed.
I'm not saying that it was all down to using this mask – I'd also been taking a brilliant new probiotic and was back on my favourite , which I think also helped – but the results were enough to convince me to stick at using going forward.
A couple of downsides to consider: you will have to keep repurchasing the sticky strips (or find some other strong-but-skin-safe ones), and the change only lasts a few uses. But for me, .
If you want to tackle multiple areas of acne at once, LUSTRE also sells – usually £149.90, they're now down to £104.93.
And for an all-in-one approach, there are a number of masks that deliver both red and blue LED light, such as the popular , £299.99, and the , £399.
