- Hi, everyone.
Welcome back to round two of
skincare mistakes you might be making
or may have been guilty of making in the past.
There is a part one to this video,
so go and check that out up here,
if you haven't seen it already.
But today we're going to be talking about
four more mistakes that you might be making.
I know I'm guilty of one, maybe two of these mistakes.
So I'd love to hear in the comments,
if you've made them too.
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Mistake number one,
in this part two video,
is not washing your pillowcase regularly enough.
I know that a lot of people will be guilty of this one.
At a minimum, you should be changing your pillowcase
once a week,
and if you are experiencing concerns like
persistent acne or breakouts,
you've got congestion, you're experiencing irritation.
I would say change it every couple of days,
or it may be worth getting a new pillow.
If you've had that pillow for a while,
a lot of bacteria builds up in our pillows, obviously.
So it's important to change over that pillowcase really
regularly so that none of that builds up on your skin.
The other thing that's really important to clean regularly
is your phone.
So grab some alcohol swabs from the chemist,
do a once over front and back of your phone,
every couple of days.
that'll help reduce bacteria buildup that can transfer to
your face when you're on the phone,
which is really gross.
A lot of people take their phone to the toilet.
So make sure you're cleaning that regularly as well,
because a lot of bacteria can build up on that too.
The next mistake is only using stripping ingredients to
treat breakouts.
Now, this is where you run into even bigger issues.
So you might've thought your breakouts were the worst of it.
Once you disrupt your skin's barrier with all those
stripping ingredients,
it's going to take longer for those breakouts to heal.
They're going to be more persistent.
You're gonna to experience things like inflammation,
redness, flaking as well.
You need to also be using barrier supporting ingredients
like niacinamide and panthenol
just using that stripping stuff thinking,
"oh my skin's oily. My skin's congested."
It's not doing you any favours.
Make sure you have a well-rounded routine
that can address those concerns,
but is also supporting your skin's barrier as well,
which is what is going to keep the skin healthy
As well as having a product with salicylic acid in it
if your concern is around congestion or breakouts.
And on that note, a lot of people overdo it on
the spot treatments.
Now I always get asked
"what spot treatment do you recommend?"
I don't actually recommend them
because I don't trust anyone.
You give them a spot treatment and they use it once
and then they get addicted to it.
And they come back every couple of minutes to re-apply.
A spot treatment is very concentrated
and it has the potential to
really stuff up the barrier where you've applied it.
So that can then lead to that area of flaking
becoming really sensitive,
taking heaps longer to heal.
So it can end up having the opposite effect of
what you wanted the spot treatment to have.
So it is really important if you're using a spot treatment,
use it very sparingly and don't go overboard with it,
apply at once, give it 24 hours to see what happens.
It's not going to work miracles in an hour.
That's not how skincare works.
So be patient with spot treatments and
make sure that you aren't overusing them
because that's not going to do your skin any favours.
Now to our third mistake,
not washing your brushes regularly enough
or thoroughly enough.
My brush is definitely drew for clean right now.
I haven't cleaned them in,
oh, I don't even know when the last time was
that I cleaned them, which is really bad,
but a lot of dust and bacteria builds up in your brushes,
especially if you've got them out in an open space
and not in a cupboard,
they will gather a lot of dust.
A lot of bacteria builds up on them from
using them regularly.
I probably wear make up once or twice a week,
so I wouldn't need to clean my makeup brushes as often as
someone who was using them daily.
Even so, I'd probably want to clean my brushes
every three weeks at a minimum.
And then in between those deep cleans
using like an alcohol spray to just disinfect
those brushes between those deep cleans,
it's a really good idea,
especially for the health of your skin
to keep those makeup brushes as clean as possible.
And it's important to note as well,
makeup sponges
very, very hard to clean efficiently.
So I would recommend replacing them every three months.
They're just really hard to clean
and it's almost impossible to squeeze
all the product out of them.
And because they're often used damp,
they tend to harbour more bacteria.
So I would check them after three months
and just wash them in between that period as well.
Now for our last mistake of the day
it's neglecting your neck and chest or your decolletage
I also find that people neglect their hands as well.
So I would recommend if you're on the bandwagon of wearing
SPF on your face daily,
take it down your neck and chest
and put it on the backs of your hands too.
Those are the areas that are often the most exposed.
So if the rest of your body is covered, that's all good,
but just pop some SPF on those areas.
I see this all the time where people have taken really good
care of their skin on their face,
but then towards their neck and chest,
you start to see a lot of sun damage.
So you can bring down ingredients
like your vitamin C's, vitamin A, vitamin B.
There's lots of different ingredients that you can use on
those areas as well,
just by bringing it down your neck and onto your chest.
And I also like to use AHA's there because I tend to get a
few little breakouts on my chest too.
So try and keep those at bay by speeding up cell turnover.
And that can also help to reduce signs of sun damage,
which luckily I don't have at this stage
because I've been pretty sun smart,
but a lot of people do forget the decolletage area.
So just make sure you're taking as good of care of that as
you would of your face.
That was a hard thing to say.
Did I even say that right? Is that English?
Anyway, that is all for today.
If you have any more skincare mistakes or
myths that you want busted,
leave them in the comments below.
I'd love to see how many of you are making these mistakes.
That last one is definitely me. I wear fake tan regularly,
and I don't always bring the products
down to my neck and chest
which I should get better at.
But I'd love to hear if you're guilty
of any of these mistakes
and I'll see you next time.