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- Wow queen.
Here we are in another gorgeous morning
where you get to thrive.
Let's bring in the positivity and let go of the rest.
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Uh!
Ah!
What a gorgeous day!
Ah, how d'you get there?
Hey everyone, it's me Jonathan Van Ness,
thanks for waking up with me.
We find ourselves in a gorgeous New York City,
like look at this view.
We're talking skincare, we're talking SPF,
we're talking life.
I mean if life isn't SPF and skincare in New York City,
I don't know what life is.
But we gotta now imma be late, bye!
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One thing I always start my day off with,
well, for the last like 28 days that is,
I meditate, like you inhale a mantra
and you exhale a mantra.
So I when I breathe in, I like focus on
breathing in patience,
and like, when I exhale I will focus on like
exhaling love to like envision myself like in a little
like bubble of like loving like white light energy
and I know it's really like uh
but it helps, it sets my mind up right.
Inhale patience,
exhale love.
And you really just do that for like six gorgeous minutes.
Well I do six minutes because like you know,
it's a practice.
If you're feelin' particularly scattered,
you can rest your palms face down because it's grounding
or if you're really tired and you like need to be open
to some like positive energy, you go palms up.
So palms up to be receptive to energy,
palms down to like calm yourself down.
But, also, here's the thing about meditation
and those gorgeous sirens in the background,
part of meditation in yoga is this action called pratyahara,
focusing on something in spite of the distractions
in your life and that's actually like the point
of meditation and that's really like the point
of taking your meditative or yoga practice like off the mat
and into the world so let the siren go off queen,
let the phone ring, you are like focusing
on your breath and actually like, "What siren?
"I'm focusing on my breath," you know.
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Coffee?
Check.
Now it's time for a shower and you gotta go.
You know, privacy's great, we love boundaries,
Tan taught me that so, bye!
(water flowing)
Uh, what a gorgeous shower that was!
I love to just do a little bit of this
Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist.
She's very gorge.
(water being sprayed)
Then, I'm going to come in
with my Biossance Squalane + Marine Algae Eye Cream
which we love, apply on my under eye
on the little bone and then above.
I'm gonna let it sit there.
Then I come in with my
Biossance Squalane Phyto-Retinol Serum.
Put it straight on my face
and I rub it in everywhere, bringing that down
onto your neck and around your collarbones.
I like to layer the Squalane Peptide Eye Gel
because I feel like she's more of like my hydration station
and she's more of my like deep plump.
I really do like to use both,
especially if I'm gonna put on make-up.
'Cause it just really like tells those bags
to like calm down, it's like I love you
but I just need you to sit down for the day,
you've been working so hard.
Then I take my gorgeous Peter Thomas Roth Eye Patches,
it's gonna help to drive the ingredients
that I just put on with these like deeper into the skin.
Come here eyepatch, I feel like Adam Sandler
when he can't get the ball to go in the hole.
- That's your home!
Are you too good for your home?!
Answer me!
- Yes bless!
Okay.
I take my hair out, now,
this product is amazing by Oribe, it's foundation prep mist.
I'm gonna spray the brush with it,
and I'm just gonna give my hair line
a little bit of that love.
I'm gonna use these clips
to put my hair into place
and this just helps my hair dry without frizz
and not needing to use heat
and then you can't see where the clip was
because of this cool thing, it like doesn't dent your hair.
Then to rehydrate my hair, I take a little bit
of Oribe Foundation Prep Mist and I spray it into my hand
and I also add Squalane oil
and put it on my ends
and I'm gonna do
a braid.
And I love braids because they help set your hair
with a little bit of a wave and it lets me not have
to put so much heat on my hair.
I like to braid my hair like where it's gonna sit.
So don't braid like away from your body,
no!
Yes, yes, yes.
Now that my hair is setting, which we love,
I'm gonna take these little baby eye patches
because they've been sitting for some time
and I'm gonna take them off.
Press in any remaining eye stuff
also you wanna do gentle tappys with your eyes
'cause this is the most sensitive skin on your face.
So gentle, gentle, gentle.
Then, I'm going to make a little baby homemade concoction
that I'm obsessed with.
Well, it's not homemade, it's kind of like
that lady on the Food Channel
that does like some homemade stuff
with the store brought stuff except for this is
all store brought stuff but I'm mixing different companies
which I think is fun.
The first one is our gorgeous
Biossance Squalane Omega Repair Cream.
I love this product so much,
if I'm not gonna go be on camera
or like at nighttime, I would just use this alone
but since, I'm gonna be on camera right now
I'm gonna do my camera thing.
Once I have my little mini lake
of Squalane + Omega Repair Cream, I'm gonna come in with my
Algenist Reveal Color Correcting Radiant Primer
which I love, 'cause really, the Omega Repair Cream
was a little bit lonesome and so I wanted them
to have a friend so now they're friends.
And then, I was feeling like they were really lonesome
so I put in just a little bit of concealer
so then the concealer just lives right there.
And then, they were like honestly Jonathan,
we could even use one more friend,
our really good friend SPF.
Instead of absorbing radiation into your skin,
and like bouncing it around in there,
mineral sun screen just reflects it completely
so your skin's just like, "Bye, radiation,
"you're not my friend, I don't need you anyway,
"I never did."
Chemical sun screen kind of I feel like she keeps
it too close.
You know, boundaries.
I take all my four best friends, you know it's almost like
Moulin Rouge "Lady Marmalade" and you know I just take them
all together and I'm gonna mix them up into
a gorgeous little new mixture.
Now my make-up artist friend, does this in a little
like paint mixing easel which is probably better
because I am aware that I'm giving you know
this part of my hand a great at home beauty treatment
you know I could invest in that but I'm busy.
Okay, and I'm gonna go ahead and apply everywhere.
Gotta get our ears, those ears are exposed to sun.
You always really want to protect
this part of our skin, she is like the first thing
that will start to really tell you how many you know
moons we've seen, upward motions on our neck
not heavy and down because gravity is heavy enough anyway.
You know, just upward, gentle.
Now, I'm gonna come in with my gorgeous
cover-up x concealer by itself,
what I do is just kind of treat my face like with
area rugs versus carpets right?
I wanna see my freckles, I wanna see my skin texture,
so I really only put the concealer where I feel
I absolutely need it.
And I distribute the product right on my under eyes,
it's eyes, right?
And then you wanna like blend it out into nothing,
so I just take my fingers and I'm just pressing
and if you're wondering who this is,
this is Bette Midler in "First Wives Club"
when she dresses up in disguise to go to the auction
and this is Goldie Hawn.
- Just someone very, very glamorous.
- Probably euro trash.
- Now, I'm gonna take a little, tiny bit of that concealer
that's left on my fingers,
then I'm gonna take it on my upper eye area
'cause I do feel like she's a little bit
giving me too much veins.
Okay, honestly, like I can't believe how beautiful I look,
I see myself every morning but I am continually shocked
which is a great place to be in.
Here's one more thing, I swam into this coral reef in Hawaii
and it scarred the sh (beep) out of my face
for the last year so sometimes I gotta just
put a little more concealer there too.
Uh, minding my own business trying to be Ariel in the ocean
and I swam into a coral reef like who does that?
Blend, sometimes I get too excited with the amount
of concealer that I put there.
Then, I'm gonna take a little bit of our gorgeous
Biossance Rose Vegan Lip Balm
and I'm gonna take it on my lip,
then I take it for my brow.
Best kept secret for brow gel honey,
'cause I want huge, gigantic, old person,
reckless, abandoned eyebrows like the bigger the better,
I honestly want the top of my eyebrows to come up
to my hair.
Like I just want huge eyebrows, every make-up artist
I've worked with is like please let me trim them,
I'm like get away from my eyebrows!
They're huge and I want them gigantic.
I love that trick, this brow gel is next level!
Oh, do you see how long that brown hair was?
Oh no! (dramatic religious music)
(dramatic religious music) Such a good long one!
Look at these brow hairs!
They're next level.
Look at that!
Gotta make a wish.
(blowing)
Sit you on there, okay.
(blowing)
Waste not want not queens, take the excess lip balm,
rub it on those cuticles, they're thirsty,
okay, they're begging for you to moisture them.
(clap) And then I'm done!
'Cause this has to dry a little bit more
and then I just take it out right before I leave
and I'm not leaving right now
so get away from me, I gotta go, uh.
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Thanks for waking up with me gorgeous Elle.
You know this is my final look,
it's incredible if I do say so myself.
You know, I gotta go enjoy this gorgeous day
in the city, so subscribe to Elle for more gorgeous content
and really just thrive queens, you know what I'm saying.
Uh, bye!
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