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- Hello, good morning.
It is sometime in the morning.
I have literally just got up.
This is what I look like when I first get up.
Today I'm going to be showing you
how I get ready in the morning
during the times that we're currently in.
(shower running)
I don't know what my hair is doing today.
It looks like a lot.
My hair care routine I have to admit
has kind of gone out of the window.
After I shower I blow dry it in a really particular way
that takes forever
and I use a bunch of products with my blow dryer.
I haven't been doing that
so it looks like what it looks like right now.
Can you see my outfit?
I've never worn this style before
but quarantine is a time to try out new things.
So there you go.
I normally go for things that are super fitted.
This definitely could do with an iron by the way.
- - sure you can tell.
Just to disclaim,
I'm currently staying at my parents' house.
So I packed a few things when I came here
but I don't have most of my stuff with me.
So this is how I've been getting ready
with a very limited supply of things.
First things first I need a multivitamin.
Giant.
(slurps)
Okay. (bell dings)
The only earrings I have with me are hoops,
I forgot to pack any others.
So I'm kindly weirdly worried about my ears closing up,
so I've just been wearing hoops like crazily.
So typically I would normally wake up about
one and a half to two hours before I would leave for work.
Now not so much.
My hair is definitely the thing
that's taken the biggest hit our of everything.
It's not looking really shiny or
moisturized in the way that I'd want it to.
The shape is not the same.
First things first,
it's time to cleanse.
Welcome to my bathroom.
Apologies if there's any echo in here.
So first things first,
I'm gonna go clean my skin.
I've decided to use this cleanser today,
the Mario Badescu one.
I don't actually know how to say that.
Mario Badescu.
I'm assuming that's what it says.
I feel like it's pretty good.
It hasn't done anything terrible to me.
I was particularly drawn by the fact
that it says it's for acne.
Not that I have acne but I don't know,
I just thought,
sometimes I get a bit of a break out here for some reason.
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This is an Australian pink clay exfoliator by Sand & Sky.
It says it's flash perfection exfoliating treatment.
I love this stuff.
I feel like it really gets in there and exfoliates.
My skin feels a lot cleaner after
so I use it probably about once or twice a week.
It is quite pricey for what you get
but I do feel like it works really well.
So your skin needs to be a lot moist when you apply this on.
It should be cleansed as well ideally.
And you kind of massage into your skin for about 30 seconds.
And then you leave it on for five minutes or so
and then you rinse off with warm water.
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Okay, so it's been about five minutes
so now it's time to wash this off.
(water running)
Okay, so now I'm back having
just exfoliated and cleansed my skin.
It is feeling smooth which is great.
I still have the remnants of something going on here
but it's almost surface level.
I don't really seem to be able to do much about it.
So the next thing I do in my skin care routine
is an under eye serum.
This is a very new addition to my routine.
Deciem, I think that's how it's pronounced.
Deciem, Deciem.
And it's called SubQ Eyes.
It comes in this tiny little bottle,
but you don't use a lot of it
'cause it's just for your eye area.
Right now I'm makeupless
so you can just see my face for all that it is.
I haven't been sleeping that well recently either.
I think most of us haven't.
So that's probably contributing to this.
So I decided to get this serum
to see if it makes any difference.
This is my first bottle.
Can't really say you've noticed much of a difference yet
but I need to keep using it I think.
I don't know if you're actually supposed to apply it up here
but I have been just because
it does say that it helps with fine lines as well
and they're kind of from smiling a lot
and from laughing a lot.
I have little lines here.
Was curious to see if this would do anything for it.
It's like a milky color.
Apply a little bit and then just rub it in.
As you can see it's a lot that comes out
so I usually can just apply it to both.
And apply it all the way around.
It's not that expensive either.
I can't remember how much it is but
it's known for being quite decent on price
so it's not too bad.
So look how many books I have bought with me.
So when we were,
it was looking like we were going to lockdown,
I packed a ton of books with me to
to take with me to my parents' house.
And these are the ones that I took with me.
I have lots more in my London flat.
So that's how many books I thought I would get through.
I have read none of these
and I'm still on the book
that I started reading when all of this happened.
I just don't want to read.
I cannot focus.
Yesterday I tried to read right before bed
and I only managed to read -- this chapter,
chapter three,
and I read probably about five pages,
six pages or whatever that was.
The point is don't feel bad.
If you're not feeling up to something don't do it.
That's my motto.
Now that the eye serum has dried
it's time to move onto the rest of the face.
So I have two serums that I use regularly.
Both from The Ordinary.
Now here's where the pronunciation gets a bit tricky.
Niacinamide.
Niacinamide, yeah.
Niacinamide 10% plus zinc 1%.
And I also have alpha arbutin 2%
and HA which is hyaluronic acid.
These are some scientific names.
So I usually use the alpha arbutin first.
I feel like I always apply too much of this
and I have to wait ages for it to dry.
And sometimes I have a struggle opening it.
This is not opening.
So I have to get my towel and use that.
There you go, it's open.
It's open.
So yeah, just put it on the face.
Like I said I probably put too much on but --.
Yeah, definitely put too much on.
Okay, so that is now basically applied.
And now it's time to wait for this one to dry.
These two in particular are kind of
my holy grail products I would say.
I feel like they're really lightweight,
they're really,
they're inexpensive relatively to other skincare products,
but I feel like they do a lot.
(sneezes)
Now it's time to use the second serum.
It's a lot thicker than the other one.
It's kind of gloopy.
It's a bit weird, a bit gross,
but it works so
there you go.
I have no idea how you're supposed to apply these things.
I just kind of do it how I do it
which is directly onto the face.
But if there is a better way to do this
someone please let me know.
Okay.
One thing that is slightly odd about this one,
the niacinamide, however you pronounce it,
is that it does smell slightly
chemically. (records scratches)
I mean it is chemicals but it just smells like that.
When I use it religiously day and night
I find that it really makes a difference.
Okay, so now onto the next step.
This isn't something I do everyday
but it is something I do when I have some stuff left over.
So I actually have this face mask from Dr. Jart.
It is,
you can see it's kind of ripped off though.
It's like a clearing solution.
Yeah, so this is the actual closed packet of the mask,
it's a clearing solution mask.
And it says that it covers blemishes,
improves the tone of textured skin.
And then I also have this one which I haven't used yet
which is firming solution
and it improves the elasticity of your skin
and smooths lines so that's great.
But this one I used the mask
and there was loads of serum just left in the packet.
I feel like why not use it,
it's left over in the packet.
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And normally pre-lockdown I would then apply
some kind of primer or base.
I actually got this right before we started lockdown.
And because I'm not wearing makeup
it just feels like such a waste to use this,
so I'm sad about that.
One day I'll be able to use this again but not right now.
Skipping forward onto the moisturizer.
Now this is what really annoys me,
is that I ran out of moisturizer right before lockdown
so I had to use a backup moisturizer
that I had in my cupboard.
In an ideal world I wouldn't use this
because it's too rich for my skin.
I don't need that much moisture right now
given the weather that we're having
and given the season we're in.
In fact most of the time I don't need it.
Because I have it though I don't want it to go to waste.
So yeah, just the tiniest little amount.
I just don't want it to -- my skin.
Always moisture your neck.
Overlooked part.
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As you see can see I didn't apply too much.
It does already feel like a bit too much
but that's fine.
The final part of my skincare routine is suncream.
It's actually been really sunny here in the UK.
I know right now it looks very gray in my room
but I promise you it's been quite sunny.
But you should wear suncream all the time anyway.
It's by Thank You Farmer and it is an SPF50 water suncream.
And I really like it so far.
It's very lightweight, it smells great.
It does apply light
but when it comes out the bottle it's like,
it is like a cream if you can see that.
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As you can see it just goes on super lightly.
And it smells great.
It smells a bit like apples.
It's not sticky which is really crucial.
I think sometimes a suncream can get
really sticky on your face,
and this one isn't so that great.
In terms of makeup,
since we've been practicing social distancing,
since lockdown I haven't been wearing any really.
I'm so much more aware of waste,
and to me it feels like such a waste
to be using my expensive makeup products at home
when I could just be saving them
for when I actually want to use them properly.
So I haven't use it that much at all actually.
So that's it for me.
Thank you for watching me get ready in the morning.
I hope this has proved insightful.
As you can see,
really just skincare pretty much exactly the same.
Everything else just like blegh,
but we'll get there.
I think the thing that I've learned the most
is that there isn't a one-size-fits-all rule
in terms of how you want to do this
and how you want to get through the day.
So for me I find that
keeping some semblance of structure and routine
helps me feel better about myself.
Because when I don't get dressed and I don't do my skincare,
I don't feel that great about myself.
So I'm really curious to know
how your routine has changed since lockdown.
What are you ding differently,
what are you doing the same?
Especially in terms of skincare and makeup,
I'd love to know.
Have there been any major shifts
in how you take care of your skin
now that you're not going outside so much?
Also really curious
if you're someone who used to wear a lot of
and right now you're not really wearing that much,
has that made a difference to your skin?
Would love to know.
If you have any tips, any advice,
or just want to share your experience
please do so down in the comments
and thank you for watching.
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