With holiday parties in full swing, our skin takes most of the beating. Actress Maxene Magalona can certainly attest to this. “There [are] definitely so many parties to go to, so many different events,” she tells the select guests at Flawless’s 12^th Anniversary party at Cravings, Shangri-La Mall. The Kapuso actress, who looks every inch the perfect endorser with her barely-there makeup and glowing skin, says that she has to put on a good amount of makeup for all of them, of course, but that it all boils down to how well you take care of yourself.

“I always remember to take off my makeup. [I] never sleep with my makeup on kasi syempre (because of course) when you're sleeping, your skin needs to breathe din as well, 'di ba?”

Taking care of our skin also has a lot to do with what we eat. Maxene, who also owns the healthy restaurant Yellow Halo Guilt Free Kitchen in Ortigas, has her cheat days, but says, “I eat as healthy as I can kasi di ba, 'yung skin natin, the healthier we eat, mas gumaganda pa siya (I eat as healthy as I can because isn't this true for our skin, that the healthier we eat, the more beautiful our skin becomes?)?”

Seeing Maxene up close, we couldn’t agree with her more.

(Photo courtesy of PEP.ph)