Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel where skincare is all about
progression over perfection. Because, perfection
doesn't exist. I don't know what that is.
I cannot pinpoint the day that I became actually, genuinely, officially obsessed
with Glow Recipe. No, that's a lie, I remember seeing an
interview with BlackPink's makeup artist where
she said that she uses the Pineapple Serum on BlackPink before shows, because
it gives a nice dewy glow. I was like right, that's it, I need to
give them another chance. I remember one of the first products that I
started to experiment with was the Watermelon Toner, and I fell in
love with it. And then after that, it's just started spiraling
and spiraling out of control and I just fell in love with every
single product. And to be honest, I'm yet to not like
one of their releases. There's a part of me deep down that's like, release
something I hate, just so I can, you know, I don't know.
Just so I can stop talking about you for once. They are
everything that I love in a skincare brand. They are a skincare brand with, not
just functional products that actually work
very, very well, but they are a personality. They, the
brand feels like a person. Great feeling products, amazing to look
at, great ingredients, just everything I love in my skincare.
And what I also love about their products, is that the majority of the
products you see that instant change. A lot of their products
have a temporary look to them, they give you this instant
glow whilst also working kind of like behind the scenes,
deep in the skin, to make those results permanent. Today's video is sponsored by
Glow Recipe. Listen, I'm not gonna lie Glow Recipe, I
don't know why you've done this. I talk about Glow Recipe non-stop so I
really appreciate today's sponsor. For a brand that I already talked to
death about, you didn't have to do this. It's not too late to back out now.
And whilst I think their Niacinamide Dew Drops were
probably, not just my favorite Glow Recipe
launch of the year but I think one of my favorite skincare launches of all
time, we will be talking about this a little bit later. But I want to talk
about their newest launch, and not surprisingly, a product
that I was not let down by. This is the Watermelon Glow
Hyaluronic Clay Pore-tight Facial, pore refining
and exfoliating, swindle visage. This is an extremely innovative clay
mask but bear with me. You know I hate clay
masks, a lot of you probably dislike clay masks.
This product is formulated with non-drying Kaolin Clay.
We've got some lovely chemical exfoliants in here, as well as the iconic
Watermelon and, of course, Hyaluronic Acid. We'll talk ingredients in a bit. Now, when
I first received this, I'm not gonna lie, I was like, this is it. This is the Glow
Recipe product that I'm not gonna like. I do not like clay masks, I hate how they
dry down quick, I hate how they dry down, they dry so
quick and dry so much that your skin is left
feeling tight and almost a little bit itchy. And you know, people like to crack
their skin when they have a clay mask on. I, I hate it. I hate it. And the faff of
like waiting for it to dry and having to then wash it off, then making
sure it's completely off your skin. Typical clay masks, for me, just are not
an enjoyable experience. This mask does none of the above. Every
point that I dislike about clay masks, this doesn't do. It was a relief, I'm not
gonna lie. So, let me walk you through their latest
launch. Being oily skinned I'm very prone to congested looking skin, that means
enlarged pores, blackheads, a lot of breakouts, excess sebum production,
especially in the Summer. Uneven skin tone and uneven texture as
well. And truthfully, a clay mask is a great way to reduce the appearance of
the vast majority of these things, it's just a shame I hate them. So, as I
mentioned this is a completely different clay mask,
you apply this onto dry, thoroughly cleansed skin.
I like to feel really fancy and apply it with one of my extra fancy skincare
brushes. So whilst I'm applying the mask, let's
talk about the ingredients. So this mask contains
PHA, it's kind of like the gentler sister of
AHA, so giving you an effective exfoliation. It works a little bit slower
meaning it's gentler, sweeping away dead skin cells but also helps retain
moisture and trapping hydration, because PHA's are actually great for your skin
barrier as well. The mask also contains a natural alternative to BHA which you'll
see in a lot of K-beauty, Willow Bark Extract, which I
personally love. As someone with more easily sensitized skin,
I do opt for the K-beauty BHA's that all contain Willow Bark Extract, and
usually, Betaine Salicylate. Because, it's a lot gentler on the skin,
and I don't react as quick but it's, for me, has proven to be just as effective as
Salicylic Acid. So again, as well as providing a gentle
exfoliation it helps decongest pores, reduce the appearance of those pores, and
could also help regulate sebum production as well. But
that's also something Glow Recipes stress with this launch and a lot of
their products, is that they are not after poreless looking skin.
If you head over to their website you see
really truthful before and afters, they aren't these crazy like,
oh my god I completely changed, before and afters. They're truthful, they're
realistic, you see the natural progression of the
skin improving. They know the importance of pores, it's not that we want to get
rid of them it's just that we want to care for them.
So over time these exfoliants are going to help reduce the appearance of dark
spots, post inflammatory hyperpigmentation, even
tone and texture. I've, I had this about a week pre-launch,
and then it's been a couple weeks now that I've been using it, and I've
been using it in place of my other general exfoliants.
So I've been using this about three times a week. As I mentioned, you use this
just like a clay mask however it doesn't dry
down. The Kaolin Clay in this mask is whipped and infused with Hyaluronic Acid
preventing that horrible tight, dry feeling
that you're often left with, with normal clay masks. So you have the clay
purifying those pores, while Hyaluronic Acid keeps that
hydration in your skin. Glow Recipes say, you should leave this on from anywhere
from two to five minutes, depending on how
sensitized your skin can get. I leave it on for about two to three,
and I just apply it to my t-zone where I'm oily, where I get those
enlarged pores, and congestion, and blackheads. After that, you can add a
little bit of warm water and massage the mask gently into your skin,
and what you're gonna feel is a bit of physical exfoliation as well. We have
Blueberry Seed Powder, and I didn't know blueberry had seeds,
did anyone else? You got Blueberry Seed Powder, oh wait, how do they grow...
oh my god, cut that out, maybe cut that out. I don't know. The Blueberry Seed
Powder in here is so fine, it's like a very, very soft physical
exfoliation, and then you can just rinse or wipe this away, effortlessly.
Absolutely effortlessly. it doesn't stick to your
skin like a clay mask, it doesn't get all caught up in your facial hair or
hairline like a normal clay mask, it just rinses away because it doesn't
dry down. Once you rinse it away you are left exfoliated,
glowy, not dewy, we'll get there with dewy. And that's because, in typical Glow
Recipe fashion, they've concentrated on hydration in every step of your skincare
routine. It's the Korean trend of never stripping, never drying, just hydrating in
every step possible. And you know I'm all for hydration. I absolutely love
it. I follow this up with, of course, the Glow Recipe BHA PHA
Pore-tight Toner. Contains the same
exfoliating ingredients, and to be honest, I can use these, I use this product
pretty much nearly every day because of those really gentle
exfoliating ingredients. But that's because I do feel like I built up a
tolerance to BHA's overtime, and these are gentler versions
of BHA and P... you have a PHA which is inherently
gentle anyway. This toner has such a nice bouncy... what, I don't know how to... just
like, it's not slimy, it's like bouncy and almost soft texture to it. It's very, very
strange but it means you can apply it to your palm, and apply onto the skin
because it's not dripping all down your arms and dripping down into your eyes.
It leaves you looking bright, and bouncy, and dewy on the skin.
I absolutely love this, I've never used anything like this before and that's
kind of like the the theme with Glow Recipe. And again,
this product is really for tighter, clearer, decongested looking
pores. We've got Watermelon in there for that boost of hydration,
Cactus Water to retain moisture, and Hyaluronic Acid to hold it all in. Tea
Tree, which is great for breakouts. I love a bit of Tea Tree for my skin.
And we have Cucumber, which I feel is like the main smell here, I don't think
it's watermelon. It's got like a fresh cucumbery smell to it, with that undercut
of sweet watermelon. But Cucumber contains some antioxidants, it's calming,
it's soothing, it's refreshing. This is just such a nice toner that I've
stocked up on a lot. There's one there, no, where is it?
Here. There's one on my vanity, I've got two up there, then I got one
there. Oh actually, there's one up there, in like a travel kit.
And again, the perfect example of a Glow Recipe product in the sense that it
gives you an instant dewy glow, whilst the ingredients work to
give you that long term dewy glow, I love it. Just like the
Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops, I went crazy
for this, I am still about this product, I think it's one of the best products of
all time, I think it's so innovative. I, I just think it's such a good idea.
If I made a skincare product this is the kind
of product I want it to be, that instant, temporary glow whilst
Niacinamide, Hyaluronic Acid, and Glycerin help to even out the skin
tone, hydrate the skin, hold on to hydration, and even help with a damaged
skin barrier. It helped lighten dark spots as well, as
well. You know the checklist of Niacinamide,
right, it does everything. Regulate that sebum production. I absolutely love this.
And then of course, I finish off with the Watermelon Glow Pink Juice Moisturizer.
Another super dewy moisturizer. They actually have like a a night mask as
well but I find this moisturizer enough, both day and night. It's lightweight, and
refreshing, and hydrating but still feels like it gives you that
nice kind of locked in hydration, and moisture.
We have Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein in here, Glutamic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate,
Glycerin, and antioxidants and Licorice Root Extract to help even out skin tone.
It's just so, so nice. It's just so like, I hate the word nice but when you
use this you are like, oh my god this is really nice. And when you listen about
layering up these products, you think with each one being so dewy and glowy
and hydrating, you think that you're going to come out a bit looking
like, very oil slick, and very greasy but you don't, they all just work
so... how do I explain this? They, you know when you use a gel moisturizer, right, and
it sinks into the skin and it's kind of gone and it's like, oh okay.
These products are light but also enough for the skin. You, you are left with a
dewy glow, not a greasy heavy combination sheen of products just piled
on top of each other. Again, it's about that glow from within
rather than, I've just got it over my face.
I then of course spritz for absolutely no reason.
I made a comment in one of my other videos that recently I used, or bought up
nine Ultra-fine Mists in the space of the month. Let me explain,
some of them were gifted, some of them I bought myself, and I didn't buy them all
but I use them all up because they are everywhere. I think I
mentioned in that video there's one, there's a limited edition one there that I
bought, there's one in every room. There's one in
my bathroom, one in my office, one in, over by my vanity.
And I'm just misting all the time because it's, for me, it's a moment to
kind of like break away from what I'm doing, calm down,
regather myself, regroup. I spray this on my body as well,
if anything particularly dry on my face. However, if you do use this
mist like a normal person, you know, like a
toner or to finish off your routine, or to refresh a couple times throughout
the day, these mists are gonna last you forever. You definitely don't need nine
in a month. I'm just obsessed, I mean that. And it's not just
because this is a sponsored video, if you look back
you know this is how I feel. But yes, I'm so,
so happy that I have a mask that I can treat myself
a little bit with, that doesn't take a lot of time, doesn't take a lot of effort.
Two minutes on the face, wipe it away. You don't have to spend ages rinsing it off.
These are the kind of products that I'm glad they've launched, because they've
reinvented, they brought something new to the table.
It's reinvented an old classic that people do tend to need and love
but improved upon, it, it's not just another throwaway product
that you think, what's the point in this one? You know., it's the same as
everything else. This is now available at Cult Beauty
along with the rest of the Glow Recipe products which I will link all
in the description box down below. Again,
thank you so much to Glow Recipe for sponsoring today's video, as I, I know I
joked about it but you you didn't have to because you, you got
so much... I talk about Glow Recipe non-stop, so it really is
fully appreciated when a brand supports back an influencer who talks about
their brand all the time, and supports their brand all the time. It's,
it's just, it's so so nice, and it just makes me love the brand even more. So
thank you so, so much. You can check out some more
product reviews here, and also some general light
entertainment here, and I will see you over there.