- Hey, Harper's Bazaar.
It's Kesha.
You wanna go to bed with me?
(uplifting music)
So I'm in New York City
for New York Fashion Week and I'm about to go on tour.
So I'm very used to living out of a suitcase.
So I just bring the essentials, which is very hard for me.
My skin type has always been really dry.
Two months ago I started getting pimples,
so that's really awesome.
So I've completely had to readjust my routine,
and it's really annoying when you're just hyper-focused
on your one flaw and then you get to shift to the next one.
Awesome to be 36 with pimples.
So let's get into my routine.
First off,
I have this cleansing balm that really helps the lashes come
off and all the makeup, to be honest with you,
I don't know where this came from, but it's great.
It's Crystal Hearts.
I have no idea,
but someone sent it to me and it's phenomenal.
So now I like lube up the eyeballs.
As much as I love makeup,
it's one of the funnest parts of my job.
I can't wait to get it off my face at the end of the night,
my God.
So that I wash this off, and then we'll wash again.
(water faucet running)
Okay, we have naked eyeballs.
I feel like I look like a baby hamster with no eye makeup.
Now I have naked eyes, but I need to wash all over,
like get all the makeup off.
And I've been working
with a facialist and a dermatologist
just because I've had a lot of problems in my life, honey.
But pimples were never one of them.
So they're like my new friends.
So they've told me to try different cleansers.
This one, Dr. Dennis Gross.
My new cleanser, melt away cleanser.
I like to have my face kind of damp
when I wash, and I just like to be really lubed up,
and then I roast under an LED light.
But I just put it on dry.
I think we're covered.
We'll rinse this off.
(water faucet runs)
When I've done a lot of makeup,
I sometimes will wash a third time.
So after I clean my face, I usually do a mask of some sort.
So this mask I love.
I also sometimes do a sheet mask.
That's really my me times, doing the sheet mask.
But for tonight, feeling kind of lazy.
So I'll go straight into a toner.
I love this toner.
It's beauty secret hack, this toner rules.
Everybody, you know,
and if you don't, you gotta try it.
It's next level.
It smells horrible, but that's when you know it's working.
You know it's good when it kind of smells
like cat pee and gasoline.
Love it.
And I'll use it on a pad ideally,
but I resort to toilet paper in certain hotel rooms.
I'm not above saying that,
and it kind of tingles a little bit.
Oh, it's so good.
So I started getting into skincare when I was younger
'cause I had freckles and a lot of people
would cover them up in posts,
like Photoshop them out and blur them.
So I started feeling really insecure
that I had not only some freckles,
but a ton of freckles.
Then I decided to lean into it and kind of make it my thing.
And now I love my freckles.
I think they're so cute.
And I have friends that get them tattooed on now.
So everybody else wants to erase and delete.
I'm making this pretty as possible.
And then I started touring.
Every night it would be like full drag makeup,
so intense, face tapes, wigs, you name it.
And then I would pour glitter on top
of my face with beer because that was a good idea.
I don't know, don't do that.
I got a very bad skin rash from doing that.
That was a terrible idea.
But I then found adhesives.
I think that part of my new routine
of letting my freckles and my face shine and not covering up
with so much makeup has been an acceptance of self,
and what I look like and feels more raw and vulnerable now.
Okay, the next step in no particular order
I just always need to moisturize my lips,
after I've been putting a bunch
of matte lipstick on all day.
So this is inde wild, a dewy lip treatment.
Let's dewy up our lips.
Like flying and living on a bus is so dehydrating.
The fashion week moment today was matte lip,
but that could be very drying.
But then at the end of the night,
I just drench, give my skin back all the goodness.
So next I do one of two things.
It's a mashup, right?
We never know.
This is Oak Essentials, just feels really good.
Look at the color.
It's so blue, sucker for it.
Film, oh that smells so good.
But then here's the wild card.
I got this.
And this is fun.
If I do a lip treatment,
then I'll just put her on while I bullshit around
'cause it also looks cool, I kind of love it, right?
Hot.
So this is an LED mask.
Again, Dr. Dennis Gross, love him, rules.
And the LED is supposed to help create collagen production.
So I have one like this.
I have a full face one, and then I have a body one.
It's called a Celluma light
and I travel with it everywhere.
People ask me if it works, I don't know,
but just in case it does, I use the shit out of it.
So I'll wear this, do my lip treatment,
or just kind of hang, make some phone calls.
So this I'll usually leave on for 10 minutes,
but 'cause you're getting ready with me,
I'll speed up the process.
Now I just go hardcore moisturizer.
So I have a couple different ones,
and I mix in a little retinol.
So this is the moisturizer.
I use, Augustinus Bader.
I'm not stingy with it.
I love this cream
because it's rich, it's thick, it's super-moisturizing,
and my skin is historically just so dry and from travel,
it does dry you out.
My facialist recommended this cream,
and I just am addicted to it.
So next I would mix
in a little bit of retinol with another moisturizer.
Rescue retinol with ultra repair cream right now
'cause I'm super extra dry.
I get like a big chunk of it.
Here we go.
Oh yes, that's what I bought.
And then I just am lathered.
Oh yeah, I just want it to sit.
I want it to soak.
I never, ever, ever sleep
in my makeup because it's a slippery slope.
If I start sleeping in my makeup,
I'll just be sleeping in my makeup all the time.
I get so lazy.
But skincare is the one thing,
I don't even need to brush my teeth,
but like you better believe I'm gonna wash out that makeup.
Your gorgeous face, your money-maker, wash her.
Bathe her, drench her in goodness.
Whoo.
So I let this soak until it kinda
doesn't look totally insane.
And then I'll add an eye cream.
So right now I have my buddy, Dr. Dennis Gross.
This one has a little retinol again.
Swear by retinol, hyaluronic acid, and the LED.
Those are my go-tos.
And a sheet mask.
I didn't wanna make y'all suffer
through a 10-minute sheet mask
of just watching me do a sheet mask.
But I try to do one every day.
And now that I'm like super wet and moist
and my skin feels so much happier, now I go bake
under my Cellum light like this,
and I'll turn on to be honest with you, trash TV.
And if I had a calm day, I'll read a book.
Makes no sense.
So that's it, that's my nighttime routine.
Thanks for watching and be sure to come check out my tour,
The Only Love Tour.
I just changed the name
because I really think we gotta celebrate.
We gotta celebrate life, honey.
So I'll see you out there,
and hopefully I'll be glowing like a mother (beep).
Goodnight.
(uplifting music)