
Masking is the best thing you could add to your nightly routine. One of the highlights of a night mask is that you can literally lather it on your face before snuggling up in bed. They easily smooth your irritated skin while completely restoring your melanin glow. You are probably already exfoliating, cleansing, and/or moisturizing, so adding one more step to the mix will only make your skin as snatched as the rest of your life.
Whether you have oily, dry or combination skin, your skin will be forever grateful for this new addition to your beauty regimen. Just be sure to remember these 4 tips to overnight masking:
- Always wash your face before bedtime
- Apply the right moisturizer
- Gently exfoliate your skin
- Steam your skin
Are you ready to try some new masks? We have gathered some of the best of the best overnight masks just for you. Check them out below.
Tata Harper Moisturizing Mask, $115

Tata Harper Moisturizing Mask, $115
About the product:
Tata Harper's Moisturizing Mask is a rich, overnight moisture mask treatment that is extra hydrating for dehydrated or stressed skin. If you're looking for plumper, more youthful skin, this moisturizing mask is the answer. Plus, it leaves your skin glowing with a dewy, radiant look.
Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask, $63

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask, $63
About the Product:
The Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask is a luxuriously bouncy, breathable sleeping mask that smoothes and perfects skin, overnight. This pillow-proof formula acts as a radiance-boosting hybrid hydrator, formulated with soothing, amino-acid rich Watermelon Extract, hydrating Hyaluronic Acid, and pore-refining AHAs that work while you sleep to gently exfoliate and clarify.
The Body Shop Drops of Youth™ Bouncy Sleeping Mask, $32

The Body Shop Drops of Youth™ Bouncy Sleeping Mask, $32
About the Product:
The Body Shop Drops of Youth is a refreshing overnight face mask has been formulated to address the first signs of aging, for skin that feels softer and smoother when you wake up. As an innovative bouncy, memory-shape gel cream that molds itself like a second skin, Drops of Youth gives your skin an instant refreshing feel with a soft finish. This overnight face mask will have you waking up to skin that feels re-plumped, replenished, and renewed.
Dr. Brandt Hydro Biotic Recovery Sleeping Mask, $48

Dr. Brandt Hydro Biotic Recovery Sleeping Mask, $48
About the Product:
Dr. Brandt Hydro Biotic Recovery Sleeping Mask is a hydrating recovery sleeping mask that balances skin's naturally occurring flora and locks in moisture overnight to reduce redness and soothe the signs of irritation. This overnight mask is a great solution for issues with:
- Dryness
- Redness
- Irritation
Laneige Water Sleeping Mask, $21

Laneige Water Sleeping Mask, $21
About the Product:
The Laneige Water Sleeping Mask is the perfect method of overnight skin care for hydrated and bright skin. This holy grail product is great to use once or twice a week and like most overnight masks can be used after cleansing and toning.
Bliss What A Melon De-Stressing Overnight Mask, $15-30

Bliss What A Melon De-Stressing Overnight Mask, $15-30
About the Product:
This potent overnight mask creates a nutrient-rich veil to bring tired, stressed-out skin back to life. It removes dead cells and toxins for a refreshed, dewy complexion while boosting the skin's defenses against stress and the environment.
H20 Waterbright Color Correcting Mask, $42

H20 Waterbright Color Correcting Mask, $42
About the Product:
Supercharged with essential concentration of Vitamin C, this corrective face mask helps to fade the appearance of dark spots, improve uneven skin tone and increase radiance. With added Pomelo and Snowflake Flower extracts, it hydrates and softens, all while improving the look of surface dullness.
Origins Drink Up™ Intensive, $28

Origins Drink Up™ Intensive, $28
About the Product:
The Origins Drink Up mask is made of high quality material and contains mostly natural ingredients, including shea butter and rose water.
BeautyCounter Beauty Counter Cleansing Balm, $39

BeautyCounter Beauty Counter Cleansing Balm, $39
About the Product:
This multi-tasking balm is brimming with uses and benefits. It's a nourishing daily cleanser, a melting makeup-removing balm, and a deeply replenishing overnight mask.
Herbivore Botanicals Moon Fruit Superfruit Night Treatment, $58

Herbivore Botanicals Moon Fruit Superfruit Night Treatment, $58
About the Product:
Herbivore Botanicals Moon Fruit Superfruit Night Treatment is the other worldly multi-tasking night treatment that feeds skin with superfruits, gently resurfaces with fruit enzymes, and hydrates deeply with a blend of exotic butters and bio-identical vegan hyaluronic acid all while you sleep.
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Luxury is often defined by someone else’s standards. But what if the finer things in life looked different through the lens of those crafting and shaping Black culture?
In Redefining Excellence, a two-episode short-form video series presented by Will Packer Media in collaboration with Lexus, we dare to broaden how we think about luxury. Here, it’s not just about the price tag. Luxury is a practice.
At its core, Redefining Excellence is a celebration of intention woven into every detail of how we live: our joy, our spaces, our craft, but also our rituals of care. These are the Black creators who not only give the best to themselves in what they build, but also pay it forward to the communities around them.
Through their vision, they embody the same precision and artistry that Lexus embraces when in pursuit of a higher standard, the Standard of Amazing.
In Episode 1, “Ingredients of Success,” the series follows chef, restaurateur, and Lexus Culinary Master Kwame Onwuachi, whose artistry is imbued with rich cultural storytelling. We see him wander purposefully through a garden, gently testing the ripeness of fresh fruits and vegetables. “Luxury isn’t about exclusivity. It’s about being intentional with your choices and craft,” he says.
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“Now, because of my work and the ingredients I use, luxury means something different. I am boldly setting a new standard of amazing and innovation.”
As he chops vegetables, plates vibrant dishes, and loads the finished product into the sleek Lexus LC Convertible, he continues, “For me, luxury means ingredients that carry memory… dining experiences and locations that honor the stories that raised me and feel like us.”
In Episode 2, “The Texture of Luxury,” the lens turns to founder and CEO of CurlyCon LA Ava Pearl, whose ingredients take a different form. As the trunk of her Lexus LX 700h lifts, she says, “When I think of luxury, it isn’t expensive, it’s expansive.” The scene shifts, and we watch Ava lay down a bouquet of fresh flowers upon entering her home before using aloe vera leaves to prepare gel by hand.
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“When I was younger, I thought luxury was something you bought. Now I know it’s about living up to a higher standard… Black women have always defined what’s next, setting the standard for beauty, luxury, and excellence.”
Like Kwame, she builds with intention, pouring care into the details, believing, like Lexus, that “luxury isn’t just a finish, it’s a standard. One that’s built to amaze.”
Through these stories, Redefining Excellence serves as a reminder that the journey is not just about the destination, but also the ingredients you choose along the way.
Watch both episodes now and learn more about how Kwame and Ava set their own standard of amazing.
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Cree Summer Opens Up About Her Sex Evolution: From Performance To Presence
Cree Summer is considered by many to be the voice of our generation. Beyond her iconic turn as Freddie Brooks on the cultural staple A Different World, she's managed to breathe life into countless animated characters throughout the decades, adding soul and technicolor to our collective Black girl childhoods.
These days, the decorated entertainer has been using that same voice to speak openly about intimacy and reminding us that our sexuality only grows richer with age.
On a recent episode of the rewatch podcast, ReLiving Single, hosted by former series co-stars Erika Alexander and Kim Coles, Cree got candid about how her relationship with sex has evolved in recent years. And according to the Ironheart actress, the sex has never been better.
Cree Summer On Her Sexual Evolution
"I'm having better sex now than I've ever had in my life," she said on the podcast. "I think I enjoyed sex when I was younger but it was performative many times. Something had to get me loose or to set me free. And at this age, everything is where it is...I breastfed two babies. And I've been through some shit, and nothing--it doesn't look like it used to, but it feels better because I don't have the ability to put on a performance.
"I don't have the ability to pretend. You get the honor to be alive for this long. Who the fuck wants to do all that?"
Menopause As A Turning Point
When Kim asked what flipped that switch for her, Cree shouted out menopause as the real MVP in her sexual evolution. "Honestly it's going to sound crazy. I think it was when I went into menopause because my body became out of my control... When your body starts behaving in a way that you have no control over then you don't have that 20-year-old control where it's like, 'Oh I'm going to pose like this,' and 'I'm going to moan like this.' And it's all just a 'Hollywood handjob' in the end.
"But now I think it's just delighting in how present I am... I feel like I want to try all kinds of things and I'm becoming less shy. I used to be quite shy."
This isn't the first time the 56-year-old has talked about the liberation that comes with sex after menopause. In her appearance on Shannon Boodram's podcast Lovers By Shan earlier this year, she also reflected on how her relationship with intimacy has deepened with age. "Now in my 50s, I just don't care anymore. I'm feeling things I've never felt before and trying things I've never felt before," she shared with Shannon in the April 29 episode.
Intimacy Beyond Performance
"There's a freedom now that I never had, not even in my 40s." She even revealed some of her newly discovered turn-ons like taking things slow, maintaining eye contact, and in her words, "I like to be choked a little bit."
Hearing her speak so openly and lovingly about how menopause has "freed" her sexually offers a reframe we don't hear often enough.
Because in a world where hot flashes and vaginal dryness are often the loudest parts of the menopause narrative, Cree's POV is as refreshing as it is potent in reminding us that this chapter doesn't have to be an end for pleasure and feeling good in our bodies. For many women, it can also be an awakening to parts of yourself you didn't know were waiting to be explored.
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