- Hey guys, have you ever scrolled
through these videos' comments
and wondered who the hell is Susan Yara?
It's me and tonight I'm gonna show you
my nighttime skincare routine, so let's get ready for bed.
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So my skin type is generally dry.
It's been a little bit drier than usual.
It's cold outside right now, it's winter.
I also just had a baby a few months ago
so that really takes a lot out of you because,
especially if you like breastfeed and everything.
Doing my nighttime skincare routine is really important
because it's the time that I get to myself
especially with two kids, one is a toddler,
one is an actual baby, baby.
I wanna make sure I'm using products
that give me the most bang for my buck
and that are fixing problems that you have post pregnancy.
There's really not much you can do while you're pregnant.
You can't do major treatments,
you can't use really strong active ingredients.
So these are the things that I'm re-introducing now.
I'm going to use my scrunchie and my headband.
I always go for silk.
I have silk pillows.
I think silk is just really nice.
It's not just nice and gentle on your skin
but it's gentle on your hair.
So I'm gonna put this on first.
Something oil based
is how I typically start my nighttime routine
because I have makeup on,
even if I'm just wearing sunscreen.
So I tend to use something like this.
These are the two balms I've been using;
Green Clean by Farmacy and this is Clean It Zero.
It's by Banila Co
but today I don't wanna freak everybody out
because this is something different that I've been doing
and I do it for all of you guys,
I'm gonna be using this, essentially a micellar water.
It says cleaning water.
It's really fancy you guys like that?
It's really, really fancy
and I feel like cosmetic formulators
are really having a moment right now on social media
where they're really like seeing what's being put out there,
all the information and stuff,
and they're coming correct with it basically.
They're like no, no, no, no this ingredient is fine for you,
this product is fine for you.
And a friend of mine who is a cosmetic formulator
has been watching my videos.
So she sent me this
and she didn't want me to judge it whatsoever.
She said I was gonna love this stuff,
I could definitely use it as my first cleanse
and it was gonna remove all of my makeup
and be tough on my makeup but not tough on my skin.
And I've obviously been using a lot of it
so I can't wait to tell you guys what it is
'cause I don't even know.
I'm gonna use one of those microfiber kinda cleansing towels
just because it doesn't soak up too much.
I feel like it's gonna help just remove the makeup
so I'm going to just put a little on the edge of it
and I'm gonna hold it to my eye
just for a few seconds and then I'm just gonna gently wipe.
The reason why I'm pressing it to my eye first
is because you want it to loosen up the makeup, right?
And if you're not doing that part then you're just gonna tug
and you're gonna be like this doesn't work on my skin
because it doesn't actually remove my makeup
but if you just hold it there it will.
And so I'm just patting.
You can see, no makeup.
So remember this is just my first cleanse.
I'm not expecting this to completely remove
all of my makeup and the grime from the day
I'm just ya know using it as my first cleanse
that way my second cleanse
can get the rest of it off essentially
and get this off of my skin too
because you don't want it to sit on your skin.
It's like leaving a cleanser on your skin.
You wouldn't just leave your cleanser on your skin.
All right so around this time I'd probably be in the shower
and this is the cleanser I would use.
It's by KraveBeauty,
it's their Matcha Hemp Hydrating Cleanser.
This is a very nice cleanser.
It's a gel consistency.
It doesn't really foam up.
I don't tend to like foam cleansers.
There are some nice ones out there.
I think I'm just kinda old school
and when I think of foam cleansers
I think of like SLS and like really strong surfactants
and stuff that are gonna strip your skin.
This won't strip your skin
and it will definitely cleanse everything,
so this is the next step.
I think a lot of people don't realize
how important their cleanse is
when it comes to their skincare and this would normally,
again this would be a little bit more damp
so it would be lathering up a little bit more
but you can see that it has slip,
so my fingers are gliding over my skin really easily
and I'm just making sure I'm really cleansing
'cause everything that you had on your skin that day,
ya know it's just not good to leave it there
and go to sleep with it
'cause your skin is repairing itself at night
and I think of the nighttime routine, my friend Nina Desai,
she's a Board Certified Dermatologist,
she said it perfectly to me.
She was like your nighttime routine
is when you repair your skin
and your morning routine is when you protect your skin.
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Yes, clean skin, should never be squeaky skin.
All right so while my skin is still damp
I'm gonna try to get this on there.
It's by NuFACE.
It is their gel primer and I'm gonna leave it open.
I go through a ton of this when I'm using it
but I'm gonna start with one layer
and I'm gonna put it on almost like if it's a sleep mask
and I'm gonna go up my neck.
I know I have my necklace on guys, I'm sorry.
I just don't really take it off.
And I'm gonna use this.
This is the NuFACE.
I've had this for almost a decade, it's not a joke
and it's something that I come back to.
You wanna have your gel primer ready to go.
You can use an HA serum like, HA stands for hyaluronic acid,
but I find that this is a little bit thicker
and you might get a little zing here and there
if you don't have enough slip and you know like formula
between you and the device.
But what this does is it's microcurrent
and microcurrent helps to tighten your skin.
I couldn't use it while I was pregnant
because it's one of those things
that you can't use while pregnant so I have it back.
So what people don't think about with pregnancy
is you're literally gaining a ton of weight.
I gained, this last pregnancy I gained 40 pounds
and I've lost in just a few months at least half of that.
So I'm gonna start here right at like the collarbone
and I'm gonna go up with it really slowly
and you gotta make sure you have that slide.
You don't wanna tug.
Hold, and I can feel it.
And so when you're losing weight
you lose that elasticity in your skin
and people think about that in their bodies right?
Like you lose all of that elasticity
and your skin starts to hang.
The same thing happens with your face and your neck
and as you get older you start to really notice that again
and it's kinda like exercise.
So you wanna make sure that you maintain it
and you keep using it because it's helping,
it's helping to tighten all of your muscles essentially.
All right, so normally right after I've done the NuFACE
I will go right into a moisturizer
because the NuFACE is essentially a hyaluronic acid serum
and you wanna lock in that hydration
that you're getting from it because it's humectant
and you don't want to actually ya know take out the moisture
from your actual skin so you wanna lock it in
and that's what your moisturizer is gonna do.
This moisturizer is by Biossance.
It's their Squalane and Omega Repair Cream.
I've been using this for a couple of years.
I go back to it.
It's not fragranced which I think is super important
when you're doing especially treatments
like the laser treatment and everything
and also for the next step that you guys will see.
It's gonna be retinol.
I also just like squalane, I really do.
I think it works very well on my skin.
So I'm locking everything in.
I tend to like wipe and then pat
so I'm not just smearing it off of my skin.
And I don't really go up but I definitely pat it
and truly it's just so that it really goes on my skin
and I'm not wiping it off.
To me moisturizer is really important.
It is a non-negotiable for me and I know some people
with like oily skin will say that they don't need to
but the oil that you produce
is completely different than the moisturizer
that you're gonna use.
One of the big issues I find in skincare
is that people aren't patient.
They want to see results immediately
and they don't wanna go through like the steps,
like the baby steps that you're supposed to go through
and it's so important to have patience.
It's actually something I had to learn.
I didn't have any patience and what we tend to find
is that people will just go like balls to the wall,
like they're kinda like I'm just gonna go with this,
I'm gonna go from like zero skincare routine
to like a 12-step skincare routine
or I'm gonna introduce a really strong retinoid
into my skincare routine
but I'm gonna use it every single night
and not ya know watch how my skin reacts to it
and then they end up with this irritation,
their skin is breaking, it's dry, it's flaking.
They're getting breakouts.
Ya know half the time
it's usually what we're doing to our skin
that's making our skin have some kind of a bad reaction.
So my biggest advice to everybody is to be patient.
All right so I went out and bought this.
I actually have like a whole collection
of different retinoids
that I'm gonna start introducing into my routine.
This is kinda strong though so I don't need a lot.
I actually just bought a sample size
because I know I'm not gonna use it for too long.
It's 1% retinol, it's by Drunk Elephant.
It's their A-Passioni Retinol Cream
and what I want to show you guys,
this is the important part.
1% is kinda strong and it's actually,
that's more than I'm probably going to end up using.
So I wanna show you guys this.
When someone says use a pea size of your retinoid
truly, when you're just starting off
I'm only gonna use this once a week
for the next couple of weeks
'cause I'm just getting back into the retinoid game.
It's been over a year because I was pregnant.
It felt like I was forever pregnant
and I'm just gonna ya know smear it together.
I'm just gonna tap it into my skin
and I'm actually going to avoid my neck
because I've been getting these laser treatments.
The neck is really, really a sensitive area
and you don't want to make it too sensitive.
So I know that I'm still trying to get back into this
and I know I'm doing these laser treatments
and the skin is thinner in your neck area
so you don't wanna necessarily get it there.
I got my moisturizer there,
I got my ya know my HA serum there.
So it has some treatment and it's good to go right now.
I will eventually ya know use a little bit of retinol there
later on but I don't need to right now.
And I'm tapping around my eyes
because I don't use an eye cream at night.
I feel like I'm getting everything I need for my skin
in this whole routine
and it doesn't have to be an elaborate routine
for it to be an effective routine.
I'm always surprised when I see these routines
because especially celebrities.
You would think that they would be
on some kind of a retinoid
because it's really the only proven ingredient
to truly make you look like you're youthful
and have bouncy skin
that's like ya know even skin tone and everything.
I actually could not wait to get back on retinol.
People might ask,
do I put stuff on my chest area and everything
and I actually do believe
you have to bring your skincare down to like your nipples.
That's basically your face really,
but ya know we're on camera and everything.
I actually have a whole nighttime skincare routine
for my body as well but another thing people might ask
is why I put the retinol after my moisturizer.
I actually will let my moisturizer sink in a little bit more
and the reason why you want your moisturizer to sink in
is because when you're easing into it
if your skin is still damp
it actually helps the ingredient,
the active ingredient which in this case is retinol,
absorb into your skin and penetrate a little bit deeper
and so it'll work stronger.
So while I'm easing into it
I don't want it to be as effective.
I'm trying to like essentially I guess dilute it
and then get my skin used to it
and then eventually I'll start to pick it up and use I more.
Maybe I'll put it on before my moisturizer,
maybe I won't use a moisturizer.
So everything's gonna change
but this is where I'm at right now
because I only stopped breastfeeding just recently.
So I'm just getting back into this game
and then I always finish with some kind of lip balm.
This one is from Innisfree.
It's a sleeping mask and I just like my nighttime lip balm
to be something thick because ya know,
I'm gonna go to sleep
and I'm not gonna reapply it for hours hopefully
unless I wake up because of a baby, that does happen.
I guess a couple tips that I wanna leave you guys with.
One, if you're going to introduce some kind of an active,
especially retinol,
you absolutely need to use your sunscreen in the morning.
We don't get to see what people are doing in the morning
when we see their nighttime routine.
You have to use sunscreen anyway.
It is probably the most important anti-aging ingredient
you can use and product you can use
in your entire routine is protect yourself from the sun
and the UV rays
but especially if you're making your skin more sensitive
by using an active.
The second tip I wanna say
is this is my personal skincare routine.
I feel like this is actually a routine
that can work for most people but remember that your skin,
it's everything is personal, it's your skin
and you only get your own skin once right?
So you have to be careful with it.
You have to make sure
that this is a routine that's gonna work for you
and you probably have to experiment a little bit.
So you can see my hair stayed in place like I wanted it to.
That was my nighttime skincare routine,
my current nighttime skincare routine.
You guys can ask me any questions.
I'm probably gonna be answering 'cause that's what I do
late in night at bed on my phone.
I'm wondering who's gonna maybe potentially react
to my skincare routine, any takers?
Anyway, good night guys and thanks for watching.
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