Skincare is a journey, not a destination — and every face in Byrdie’s What I Put On My Face series proves it in a different way. The idea is simple: all skin is good skin, and the rituals, recommendations, and experiments that did not work out are all worth hearing about. In this instalment, the conversation turns to Paige Lorenze, 28, an influencer and the founder of Dairy Boy, who is now Paige Paul after her marriage.
The interview took place a few weeks before the wedding, while Lorenze was travelling to a final dress fitting, over a video call. Byrdie’s Sophie Vilensky, who had followed Lorenze’s engagement period closely, notes that Lorenze looked notably glowing on that call — and congratulates her both on the marriage and on her complexion. What follows covers Lorenze’s skincare background, her partnership with SkinCeuticals, and exactly how she prepared her skin for the wedding.
About Her Skin
Lorenze has been interested in skincare for a long time, and she enjoys the feeling of healthy-looking skin. Her mother kept a very simple routine, and Lorenze kept that same simple outlook as her starting point. She began experimenting with skincare in middle school, when she was advised not to use products that strip the skin — advice she has stuck to ever since, with a gentle foaming cleanser as her constant from that period onwards.
Her Wedding Skin Vision
For her wedding day, Lorenze wanted skin that looked hydrated, glass-like, and glowing, with a luminous finish rather than anything heavy or matte. In the lead-up to the wedding she leaned more heavily than usual into microneedling and laser facials, which she presents as the main drivers of that finish, supported by Botox and by SkinCeuticals products. The point she keeps returning to is the combination: treatments and products together, rather than any single step on its own, are what created the result.
Her Wedding Skin Prep
Microneedling sits at the centre of her preparation. She has it about once a month, on a regular basis, and reports a clear improvement in her skin from it. Resurfacing lasers and laser facials were increased in the wedding lead-up, and she credits them with making her skin look glass-like. Botox plays a supporting role: a light, surface-level forehead treatment, which she says adds to the glow, but which she treats as secondary to the microneedling and laser work.
Running through the whole preparation period were SkinCeuticals products, which she describes as strongly science-based and also gentle. Close to the wedding, she deliberately introduced nothing new. Her routine had been set up in advance and she felt prepared, so there was no last-minute change — apart from one further microneedling session planned shortly before the wedding, because some time had passed since her previous session. That timing worked, she notes, because she recovers from microneedling very quickly.
The Product She’s Been Loving Most
The product she reaches for most is the SkinCeuticals P-Tiox Serum. She uses it every morning, and sometimes as often as three times in a day, and describes its feel as similar to a hyaluronic-acid-type serum. She liked it enough to give it as a gift to her bridal party at her bachelorette. Alongside it, she highlights SkinCeuticals foaming cleansers for their gentleness, and the thicker SkinCeuticals A.G.E. Interrupter Advanced Cream, which she uses after microneedling because treated skin needs extra nourishment and care.
The Treatment She’s Been Loving Most
If one treatment stands out, it is microneedling. Done about once a month, it is the regular appointment she credits with a clear, visible improvement in her skin — the steady foundation underneath the wedding preparation, rather than a one-off fix before the big day.
Her Morning Routine
Her morning routine is intentionally lighter and simpler than her evening one, and it runs in this order:
- Rinse the face with water. Lorenze notes that some people avoid a morning rinse out of concern about stripping the skin, but she does rinse.
- SkinCeuticals foaming cleanser.
- SkinCeuticals P-Tiox Serum.
- SkinCeuticals SPF, with a small amount of moisturizer mixed into it.
Nighttime is when she sometimes applies more, or heavier, products. Her routine does not change in summer: it stays simple, and she presents a gentle cleanser as sufficient to solve many problems. She also extends her SkinCeuticals products down to her chest, which she considers important rather than limiting care to the face. Once a week, she exfoliates, which she considers important for glow and for skin turnover. And the ingredient she says made the biggest difference to her skin is peptides — with P-Tiox as her peptide example — at a time when peptides are widely discussed in skincare.
Her Evening Skincare Routine
Her evening routine is not fixed. It is assessed day by day, and it varies with how her skin is behaving. Her recent evening focus has been the SkinCeuticals A.G.E. Interrupter Advanced Cream, chosen because it is also healing, particularly after treatments. Evening, in general, is when she will sometimes use more products and work more intensively than in the morning.
One related habit belongs to her travelling routine rather than to any single evening: when she travels, she uses sheet masks more often, layering her skincare underneath them and wearing them during flights.
How Her Routine Changed (or Didn’t Change) Right Before the Wedding
Right before the wedding, her routine barely changed at all — and that was the plan. No new products were tried close to the wedding, because the routine had been set up well in advance. The one exception was the final microneedling session planned shortly beforehand, made workable by how quickly she recovers from it.
Her Wedding Day Skincare Routine
On the wedding morning itself, she planned a facial — something she describes as exciting and enjoyable. Facials are her favourite part of getting ready, because they are the one time she feels she can put her phone aside, close her eyes, and fully disconnect. Apart from that morning facial, her wedding-day plan was to keep exactly the same routine as usual, with no new products and no changes.
The Best Skincare Advice She’s Ever Received
Asked for the best skincare advice she has ever received, in a bridal-preparation context, Lorenze’s answer comes back to the same theme again and again: less, earlier, and simpler.
- Keep the routine minimal. The best advice she reports receiving is to use fewer products and steps, not more.
- Simplicity matters more than product quantity. She notes that at one point she used a large number of products, learned that simplicity works better for her, and advises readers against assuming more brands or more steps give a better result.
- Do not try anything new close to the wedding. Set the routine up well in advance so the skin is already in good condition going into the final period.
- For a glass-like bridal finish, combine treatments and products rather than relying on one step alone, with microneedling and laser work as her main examples.
- Use a gentle, non-stripping cleanser as a foundation. She presents a gentle cleanser as capable of solving many problems and as a product she has used since she first began experimenting with skincare.
- Exfoliate about once a week for glow and to support normal skin turnover.
- Extend skincare beyond the face, down to the chest.
- When travelling, pack exfoliating products — forgetting them is her own pet peeve — and on flights, layer skincare under a thick sheet mask.
- Consider peptides, which she identifies as the ingredient that made the biggest difference to her skin.
