- [Kaina] It's kind of hard to stay motivated.
I'm trying to allow myself to give myself
some space and time because I was very busy
in the last year and a half.
I was gone all the time
and I'm gone be gonna for like another year
after this quarantine is lifted
so I'm giving myself the time and space
to have some free time and do what I like to do at home now
because I know I'm not gonna be doing much of it.
♪ Said little, you can't with me ♪
♪ If you wanted to ♪
♪ These expensive, these is red bottoms ♪
♪ These is bloody shoes ♪
♪ Hit the store, I can get 'em both ♪
♪ I don't wanna choose ♪
♪ And I'm quick, cut a off ♪
♪ So don't get ♪
Hey, (laughs) didn't see you there.
What's up, I'm Kiana Ledé and we're waking with up Elle.
Of course we're waking up during a little bit of
a weird time because we're quarantining
because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
My routine has gone out the window.
So I'm gonna do some random things this morning.
So first thing I do after I get up
is make my bed 'cause I'm a clean freak.
If my space isn't organized my brain isn't organized
so I just try to do the best I can
to keep everything tidy.
This is Tank, he's an elephant,
elephants are my favorite animals.
One of the most important parts of the day
that will probably happen at least three times a day
is coffee, I'm addicted to coffee, I love coffee.
This coffee maker is now my life.
We're gonna make some coffee now.
(humming)
We do miss you, Barack, we do.
Soy milk.
Wow look at that.
(machine whirring)
This is my favorite spoon, 'cause it has a heart on it.
I stole it from an airplane.
While it's finishing, we're gonna
get out our final ingredients.
Brain octane oil, I don't know if this works,
but my manager Jeremy said that's it's amazing.
I feel like maybe it's working too hard for me
'cause I've been overthinking a lot during this quarantine
so thank you, brain octane.
Maple syrup for the sweetener and clove
'cause I read something that said that it's good
to take clove during the quarantine.
(stirring)
So I love meditating for just like five to 10 minutes
just to clear my mind and make sure
that I'm clearing up space for my brain from yesterday.
'Cause I'm not one of those people that just wakes up
and is like, okay it's a new day.
So I kinda have to force myself to do it through meditation.
But it really helps.
I had a really crazy night last night.
I was up until like 4:30AM.
So banging this out, and I'm so close,
that's what she said (laughs).
But this puzzle is a puzzle of Joyce Rice,
she's one of my friends, she's another artist
and she did puzzles for her merch during the COVID-19
pandemic so that people would have things to do at home
and her face is really beautiful
so it's nice to put together the pieces of her face
and I'm just tryna get to that final picture.
I was tryna stay up all night to do it
and I was falling asleep while I was doing it
so I figured I would just leave the rest of it
for this morning.
So the first person I contact in the morning
every single morning is Jasmine because
she is one of my best friends
and also one of my managers.
I have so many reasons to talk to her every morning
and I love it.
(squealing)
- Good morning.
- [Jasmine] I believe I can, I believe I would.
- I believe I know my dreams are real.
- [Jasmine] That is what I do believe.
- All right, gotta go.
- [Jasmine] Have a blast.
- Have a blast.
- [Jasmine] See ya, your tasks for today
are nothing 'cause it's Saturday.
- Yes.
Oh that makes me so horny.
(laughs)
Okay, bye.
Okay so now we're gonna go into
my morning beauty/skincare routine.
Normally during this time I'm watching
Sex and the City or The Office
or Love Island or one of my other favorite shows.
I take a long time to get ready
and it's not even 'cause I do a lot of stuff,
it's just I like having this space and time to myself.
It's one of the only times that I get during the day
to just really focus on me and zone out
and be able to do whatever I want for like an hour
so no matter what the day has in store,
so I always like to take my time.
My handy-dandy headband that you typically
wear in fifth grade, I wear it to wash my face.
(faucet running)
Wash your hands, don't get the Rona.
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy Birthday dear me ♪
♪ Happy Birthday to me ♪
(upbeat music)
(crying)
Can you see the tears?
So we're gonna start with washing our face.
I use Epionce Lytic Gel Cleanser.
It's really refreshing and it's gives you
a little bit of exfoliation every time you wash your face.
But just really gentle.
I have pretty sensitive skin
so all this stuff is expensive.
(faucet running)
I heard that if you wipe,
you're creating a lot of tension on your skin
which makes you more prone to wrinkles.
Especially on your eye area.
Dabbing is just gentler on your skin.
Next, I'm gonna use this YSL Pure Shots Serum for the face.
This was just supposed to keep you bright,
pretty anti-aging.
And I'll move onto my medicated products.
Let's get real for a second
while I rub this into my face.
Women a lot of times choose to be on birth control.
And I'm on birth control, I chose the IUD,
I've been through so many birth controls
and none of them worked for me
until I got IUD.
Once I got the IUD though, after like six months
of the trial period,
I started breaking out on my face
and I noticed that I love that I was getting
a lot of period, I had all these great symptoms,
the only thing was I getting all of these bumps on my face.
In order to get the bumps on my face to go away,
I went to a dermatologist, they told me that
it was a hormonal reaction from the IUD.
It was basically like do you wanna change your birth control
or do you wanna just take this
and we can do some preventative things
so that the acne doesn't come back?
So I chose that because that was
the best birth control for me.
So I have to take this, Aczone gel,
every day I put it on my face,
it's a topical cream.
And then I take Spironolactone,
it's just like a little pill form.
And I just take it everyday
and it makes the bumps not appear.
And then I use Obagi Medical Hydrate Luxe
moisture rich cream.
The one downfall of taking that medication
that I take everyday for my face
makes my face really dry
so I like to use something that's really moisturizing.
And then I always finish it off
with some Vitamin Nectar anti-oxidant water.
It has some vitamins that are really good for the skin
and it's just extra moisturizing.
(misting)
(mumbles)
And that's my morning skincare routine.
So now that my skin is glowing,
we're gonna make it glow some more
with my beauty routine.
Because we're in quarantine and we're social distancing,
I still like to do my very minimal beauty routine
just so I feel sane as a person.
It's mostly just about skin.
Glowy skin for me and my eyebrows, and that's it.
And if I'm going on camera then maybe some lipstick too.
I put on this moisturizer, vegan milk moisturizer.
Then I put on this moisturizer
(in French accent) soin visage preparateur.
It's French.
Then I put on this.
It's really good for bags.
It's cooling so it wakes you up.
It's just a cooling water stick.
And then this watermelon brightening serum.
I love this 'cause it's so easy to apply.
(upbeat music)
And then I take this hydrating oil
just to get that extra glow.
And then my final step for my skin
is this Future Dew oil serum by Glossier.
It's just really beautiful.
Exactly how it looks on the bottle,
that's how it looks on your face.
Typically I would do a little bit more
with myself if I was going outside
but because we're quarantining,
we're not seeing a lot of people,
right now I'm just gonna my eyebrows,
do my baby hairs and just let my hair be free
and do its thing.
This is the Eyeko gel.
I'm all about my brows and I never
want anything to hurt them.
This is my favorite thing to use
because it's more of a serum than like a brow gel.
It's really light so I'm not damaging my brows at all.
I'm a little sad because normally I have my brows
laminated so they're really pokey and straight up
and I haven't been able to do that for two months.
So I'm kind of going through withdrawal.
But, this keeps me sane.
I use this to fill in all the extra hairs,
the little hairs, so it doesn't just look like one line.
And then just add a tiny, tiny line underneath
to define one of my favorite features about myself,
is that my eyes are huge so I like to
make them look even bigger.
This is my favorite gloss to use
while we're inside, it's called Persona.
And I love it 'cause it's really natural to my lip color
but it's also really moisturizing
and it smells really good.
Smells like vanilla Play Dough.
Don't ask me why I like that, I just do.
My quarantine beauty routine on my face is finished
now I just have to do my baby hairs.
(whispers) Blank Panther come through.
24 hours of edge control.
As soon as it starts wearing out,
it turns into oil rather than that white flakey (bleep).
That's it for the bathroom.
(upbeat music)
We've only made three holes in this wall so far, so.
There we go.
Wow, look at that.
Wow.
Usually I'd get dressed but because I'm gonna
be in my house all day, I think I'm just gonna stay
in this sexy grandma outfit.
Thanks for waking up with me on Elle.
Make sure you guys stay inside,
and stay healthy, stay safe.
I gotta go I have a really important puzzle to do
but make sure you check out my day with Keke
and subscribe to Elle's channel.
(soft music)