hello everybody my name is james welsh
and tonight i'm sharing with you my
evening skincare routine
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so before i get into my routine i need
to let you know of course
i am a skincare reviewer it's my job to
try so many different skincare trends
and products so
the routine i'm about to do isn't like a
normal
normal routine there's probably maybe
one or two
too many products and it's definitely
not for everyone but my evening routine
is the only time in the day where i
really really get to
not think about work despite my work
being about skincare
but it's like that i usually take an
hour to do my evening skincare routine
just concentrate on myself
i treat as a real self-care moment the
first thing i do
is put these little patches in my hair
these are just like little velcro
patches that stop
any hair falling onto my face i break
out very easily from hair product
um so when i cleanse i don't want any of
that product touching my face
so i am a religious sunscreen user i use
it every single day
no matter what day or time of the year
inside
and outside so i have to take all that
off i always double cleanse
so of course a cleansing balm or
cleansing oil for me is the best way
to really really just melt everything
away and clear off before i go in and
cleanse my skin
so this is the deviant skincare
cleansing concentrate
as you can see it's this weird mix of
like cleansing balm and cleansing oil
and this amazing color here this is
formulated with loads of
kind of acne safe oils so it's pretty
good for
skin types to be honest with you but
i'm not gonna go to ingredients with
this one too much because
sometimes skincare is just about liking
a product because it feels good and it
just
does the job it needs to do and this is
the perfect example that for me it feels
super luxurious on the skin and i really
take my time to take away all that
all that sunscreen as a teenager i had
pretty
temperamental bad skin i had acne but
for me it was the dark spots the
post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation that
was left
after that you know whilst the doctor
could give me something for my acne he
couldn't really give me anything to take
away that those dark spots
here in the uk i don't think
dermatologists are as popular
in a way as they are in the u.s so if
you've got skin care issue you go to a
doctor and they
immediately pretty much immediately just
seem to prescribe you with
you know prescription skin care that's
how it was back when i was a teenager
a long long time ago so i kind of had to
do my own research
into how to get rid of those dark spots
when i was like 17 when like
the internet was just invented and that
just kind of got me obsessed with
skincare and ingredients and
what works and what doesn't and just
seeing it as like a hobby instead of
trying to
perfect my skin for me i say skincare is
about
progression over perfection it's about
um
products being functional but fun as
well i think there's nothing worse than
having
um boring products that make you feel
like your skincare is a chore
okay so i'm gonna emulsify this i'm
gonna add a bit of warm water to make it
into this milky texture then rinse away
i'm gonna do that off camera because it
doesn't look very good
i rushed into this so quick i forgot to
say my skin type so i'm oily and my
t-zone very oily
and i have very dry-ish kind of cheeks
here with mild rosacea and some
irritation down the side
my skincare routine today i'm going to
be concentrating on
um repairing my skin and calming my skin
and soothing it
there's gonna be not many actives i'm
not gonna be exfoliating
no retinoids anything tonight or for the
next week or so
whilst my skin recovers and repairs so
my next product is another cleanser this
is the matcha hemp hydrating cleanser
this is a ph balanced cleanser it has
some lovely humectants and moisturizing
ingredients in to
um basically not strip your skin
of all its natural oils and hydration i
think for me as somebody with
combination skin i look for ph balance
cleansers and gentle cleansers because i
need something that
will cleanse enough of my oily t-zone
but it's gentle enough on my rosacea
and drier patches ph balanced skincare
is like a trend that we saw a lot last
year within skincare
and we see a lot of trends in skincare
used to be like makeup right
like all the different trends but as
skincare has become more and more
popular
we've been seeing loads of different
trends and i think like along with ph
balance
new actives and brands trying to find
the next big
best ingredient was a real trend last
year and now those same brands are
telling us that we need to calm down
this year and we need to repair our skin
skin animalism i believe they're calling
it which is just a basic skincare
routine basically with like
a couple of actors but i feel like the
next big trend is
bringing everything back to basics
calming down active selecting one or two
and really looking after our skin
barrier like i'm doing today
okay i'm gonna rinse away and then go
into my next step
one thing i do do after i rinse away my
cleanser is
i take a washcloth and i just kind of
like if i got cleanser in my hairline i
just pat that away because
especially my beard as well any left on
cleanser
seems to irritate my skin when it dries
down so
i tend to just remove that very gently
so onto damp skin i'm gonna go in with
my advanced nail radiance dual essence
from cosrx
i do this on damp skin because the idea
is that
when your skin is damp your skin can
kind of accept
ingredients better into the skin but
really i just like the way doing a full
uh skincare routine on just like your
damp skin makes my skin looks it gives
it this kind of like really
dewy plump hydrated look
what i love about this product is the
dual side so you have your uh snail
mucin in here
which is it's basically hydrating
moisturizing and then you have your
niacinamide
kind of actives in here niacinamide for
me is
one of the best ingredients i've ever
used in my whole life because it just
does so many different things
but for me it's about controlling the
sebum production regulating it
but it can also help with um barrier
repair as well
i forgot to say i do usually do my neck
and all the way down to blow my nipples
but um
it doesn't look good on cameras the
logistics of it don't really work
one question i always get asked is if
i've ever seen a dermatologist or an
aesthetician or had a facial or anything
like that
and the answer is no because it scares
me a little bit um i scared to go to a
dermatologist in case they tell me to
stop using too much skincare because i
won't have a job
but then i'm also scared to go get a
facial because
i don't think i'd be able to relax
through it i think i'd be so interested
in what they're using i want to know
i'd want them to talk me through
everything and i just don't feel like it
would be a nice relaxing experience for
me
that sounds really weird i don't know
one day maybe
i don't know i'm gonna re-dampen my skin
because i like to do
a whole routine damp and usually when
i'm not filming
i just leave my skin damp after a
cleanser and then i'll go into every
step
and then i'll spray my skin before
moisturizing apply moisturizer but
because i'm filming it takes a bit
longer
i'm gonna dampen my skin between each
step with the cosrx centella water
alcohol-free toner my next product is
the even prime barrier repair
serum um this just has some like
essential fatty acids ceramides
what people consider the building blocks
of your skin so when my skin is
kind of like impaired after
experimenting a bit too much i do tend
to go
completely fragrance free i cut out all
the actives i think a lot of people
think i love fragrance from my videos
but
you know i'm not against it i just know
there's a time and place for it but this
serum is just so nice of light it um
it's like nourishing and moisturizing
enough for my cheeks
but it's light enough for me to use on
my t-zone and layer with other products
without it being heavy and greasy and
oily
the serum stage is a stage where i would
invest a little bit of money as well i
think that serums
about 40 maybe a little bit less
but for me that's the one stage where i
have a very affordable cleanser a very
affordable moisturizer
um and the serum is the one stage where
i feel like i can get all my treatments
for me
really really makes a difference and to
the look and feel of my skin
so again i want that glowy dewy look so
i'm going to spray this
incentella water again which is again
just water with centella so it's kind of
like soothing and calming
my next serum is the cosrx pure fit
seeker serum
this is really just to calm down any
redness and irritation and inflammation
one two three that's a bit more than i
need a super lightweight serum that kind
of just
calms down any irritation
okay so what i'm gonna do now again is
re-dampen my skin not a surprise
and i'm going to use this
avant-garde reusable sheet mask from
experiments
um and this is i love sheet masking i
used to do it
every single day um but i think the more
you
use sheet masks the more you realize how
much waste comes with the sheet mask and
i'm not
i'm not like the most environmentally
conscious person
like i'm now i'm trying to do like
little but enough
when it comes to saving our planet so i
didn't sheet muscle for the longest time
then i saw this this like silicone
occlusive layer that just traps in all
that hydration
all your skin care and when you take it
off you're left with that same
dewy glow that you get from sheet masks
and what's great about this one
is once it's done you take it off you
rinse it with your normal cleanser
and then your skin is left glowy and you
can reuse it and reuse it and re-use it
for as long as you live
so yeah i'm gonna give myself 10 minutes
and then i'll be back
okay it's been 10 minutes let's take
this off
see i just love like that bit of a glow
and what i love about all the products
i'm using
is they're hydrating but they're not
greasy and heavy and oily so my oily
t-zone
can have a nice glow without feeling
bogged down with oils
so damp and skin again and then
quickly into my moisturizer again this
is cosrx i love cosrx i feel like
they're a more modern take on like
cerave this is the moisture power
enriched cream
this is just a nice hydrating occlusive
layer to help trap everything in
i think like with the rise of skincare
in the last two years and kind of like
the rise of cerave being one of the
best-selling skincare brands
other brands have noticed that people do
often just want simplicity within their
skincare
and i think in drugstores you really do
find those simple but effective products
at a good price as well i think a lot of
people kind of like look down drugstore
products because
they're affordable but i think we have
to get over this idea that expensive
skincare is better
and that more affordable skincare isn't
because that's not true
at all the final product to use is the m
cosmetics lip cushion this is in clear
quartz
just a lip balm is all can't forget your
lips
so there we go that's my evening
skincare routine what i hope
people take away from myself and other
skin influences
it's just inspiration on how they can
create a skincare routine that's perfect
for them whether that's two products
whether that's
10 or you know whatever a perfect
skincare routine
is to me is going to be completely
different to you but as long as you're
having fun with it and it's working for
you
stick with what you do stick with what
works for you
so there we go i hope you enjoyed that
that is my evening skincare routine
thank you so much for watching and i'll
see you soon
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