- Hi, I'm Minnie Driver.
And I'm gonna show you my evening skincare ritual.
I don't really have any makeup on,
but if I do have makeup on if I've been working,
this amazing camellia oil
from Tatcha gets it all off.
I can't really be doing with foaming cleansers
that feel like they strip my skin.
This turns into a sort of milk
and is really, really, really lovely.
Very hydrating, it feels very soothing.
And I feel like I've scrubbed my face for years
before I realized that you can actually
use these lovely oils.
Again, it is kind of amazing how it'll take off eye makeup,
it takes off everything.
(water splashing)
But it takes everything off very gently.
The next thing that I use,
that I've used for years and years and years,
is this amazing,
it's a rose lotion from Yon-Ka,
which is one of my favorite brands.
Super hydrating, very, very gentle,
not like an abrasive toner.
I pat that in,
and while my skin is still sort of damp
I use this magical
Biologique Recherche,
it's called an Extraits Tissulaires,
and don't ask me what's in it but look, I'm almost out.
That's how much I love it.
It's like this extraordinary base serum that
goes into my skin and feeds it.
And Joanna Czech, who is my facialist
and who has turned me on to a lot of these products,
she swears by this.
Because I think it really does,
it just feeds and nourishes your skin on a deep level.
I wish I could tell you why, but that would,
that would involve some biology that I don't have.
So the next product that I use
is this,
I don't know how you say it,
whether it's Environ or Environ,
but it's their C-Quence Vitamin C Serum.
And it's this really beautiful anti-aging line
that Environ, Environ, have.
And again, I don't really exfoliate with anything abrasive,
but I've found that this product seems to slough off
whatever needs to be sloughed off,
and keeps everything very sort of
tight and firm and plump.
Which sounds counter-intuitive potentially,
but it's not.
I always use the end of whatever I've used on my face,
I always try to remember to put it on my hands
as they're exposed more to the sun and to the elements than,
I'm always wearing a hat if I'm in the sun,
but I feel like my hands, my hands got a lot of,
a lot of trouble.
The next thing I use
is this really beautiful eye cream from Dior.
Again, I've significantly noticed
my fine lines and wrinkles around my eyes.
I would say they've significantly lessened
since I started using this.
I believe that it's all flower extracts.
That's mostly what is in this, this particular line.
And it's a really beautiful line.
I've listened at this point in my life as an actress,
I think I probably used every single product on the market.
All the snake oil and all the stuff that really works.
And this is genuinely the stuff I've found that is amazing.
The thing that I can't really live without,
well there are two things that I can't live without.
I'm sick of looking at my hair.
I should have done this at the beginning, but there we are.
I can't live without Augustinus Bader's Rich Cream.
There's a lot of hype about this and it's all true.
It is completely and utterly amazing.
But it also lives alongside my other favorite moisturizer,
which I use in the summer.
This I use in the winter and in the autumn,
and then come the spring and the summer
I need something a little bit lighter
and I use Charlotte Tilbury's Magic Cream.
I have very freckly skin that's quite uneven
in tone, not texture.
And I found that both these products
really, really, really, really, really even, they even out.
And I've seen a lot less of the dark spots that I get,
whether they're sun spots or age spots.
I mean, I don't know, they're spots.
They're grim, you wanna get rid of them.
I often do forget to do my decollete and my neck,
but I try to remember.
What I use on my lips, and I've used on my lips.
I use it at work and I use it at night.
And I've tried every lip balm
because I have quite dry skin and very dry lips.
This lip balm by Jack Black,
its the greatest lip balm in the world.
All day when I'm working
I'll have this mixed into my lipstick.
When I take my lipstick off at lunchtime, this goes on.
I used to get super cracked lips and I just don't anymore.
There, it's amazing.
The last thing I do before I go to bed,
'cause I'll brush my teeth and I'll read and do things,
is Barbara Sturm's hand cream.
Again, you know I have skin that tends to look a bit older
on my hands,
I think because of the freckles,
they can look like age spots,
but this hand cream has been lessening them
and has really helped my cuticles and my nails.
And I wake up in the morning
and my hands still feel really silky, smooth.
A product that I love that I highly recommend
that I've used since I was a kid
is Palmer's Cocoa Butter.
And you can get this from any drug store,
if you're in America,
or chemist if you're in England.
I use it on my elbows, my heels, my feet, my knees.
It's incredible for sunburn.
God forbid, you get a sunburn.
And it's just deeply, deeply hydrating.
It's super inexpensive and remarkably effective.
I believe in regular facials.
I wish that I lived in Joanna Czech's basement
so I could get a facial every day.
Maybe not her basement, maybe her attic.
She's one of the greatest human beings ever.
And she's taught me a lot about my skin
and a lot about the acceptance
of how as we grow older our skin changes
and we can do lots of things to support it,
but we should be kind and gentle with the process of aging.
So drink a lot of water,
get as much sleep as you can, have sex.
And that's actually my recipe for happy life.
And that's also the end of my evening routine.
Thank you very much.