In society and online and social media, you know, we all want to feel good without makeup,
and we all want to say, “No, you don’t need makeup to be beautiful,” which is so
true and I totally believe that.
But sometimes I feel hypocritical because I’m saying that online but then when I go to the
grocery store I want to put on a little concealer or something, which is okay.
To me, makeup is just art, and it’s a way for you to express yourself, it’s a way
for you to feel more confident about yourself, it’s a way just to, I don’t know, just
kind of have fun honestly.
So my nighttime skincare routine changes a little bit but overall this is pretty much
what I do every single night to take off my makeup.
I always put my hair up and I love using scrunchies.
And then use a little clip.
We have some makeup wipes.
I’ve used these things for years, I love them.
They’re the Neutrogena makeup remover cleansing towelettes.
Fun fact: if you store your makeup wipes upside down, the newest one you grab every time is
more wet.
So, it’s better.
I learned that like six years ago on YouTube, so bless the beauty community for teaching
me that.
I’ve always just loved makeup, more than I feel most girls do.
Like, in middle school I just remember I would wake up and I would beg my sister to teach me how
to do my makeup because I just found it so fun and I loved how I would get so much more
confidence out of it.
I actually started wearing makeup in seventh grade.
I went from wearing absolutely no makeup to wearing a full face including foundation,
eyeliner— thick eyeliner — eyeshadow, blush, everything.
And then it also became this thing where I felt like all my classmates knew what I looks
like with a full face of makeup, so it felt so weird not wearing makeup.
And I was in seventh grade, and I was 13 years old and — or 12 years old?
Yeah, I think I was 12.
Wow.
I don’t know what I was thinking.
My mom let me, totally fine.
But looking back, I wore such thick eyeliner every single day to where I looking back I
can totally see how that caused a lot of insecurity.
Because I felt like I couldn’t not wear makeup.
I would tell my younger self, and I would also tell, if I have a future daughter, to
maybe ease into it, You know, wear lip gloss, maybe wear a little mascara, like a clear
mascara.
Again, there’s nothing wrong with that but seeing how much it did affect me, I feel like
I could have saved myself if I could go back and say just to kind of ease into it and let
it be fun still.
So the next step in my skincare routine is cleansing my face, you know, we gotta wash
it now that we got all, most of the makeup off.
And my skin has always had such uneven texture, and this has helped so much.
This is the Kate Somerville ExfoliKate Cleanser.
So I always think about the fact that if I was in high school now, and if I was going
through middle school now, with the beauty standards that there are, I don’t know how
girls do it, or guys.
I don’t know how anyone does it because having Instagram, I’m going to age myself
so much, I didn’t have Instagram till I was a senior in high school.
And being able to compare yourself to so many people, and not only other people but unrealistic
beauty standards, I can’t imagine what people have to go through now.
So next we need to moisturize.
I am obsessed with the brand Drunk Elephant.
They sell it at Sephora.
This moisturizer has done wonders for my skin.
You just go like this.
Super cute packaging.
I do like one pump.
One of the main reasons why I stopped photoshopping myself was because these beauty standards
that I hate so much in the world that are unrealistic, I was doing to myself.
I was literally just as guilty of making these unrealistic beauty standards of the things
that I hated so much and I just kind of felt hypocritical, honestly.
The next step that I use, a girl from Sephora told me to use this and I used and I really
liked it, so I can’t really tell you too much about what it does, but it’s the Origins’
Mega-Mushroom Relief & Resilience Soothing Treatment Lotion.
But it kind of just soothes everything down.
I think when I start to get down on myself, or you know, doubting myself or just feeling
insecure, I try now to be more aware and see where that’s coming from.
I think that’s such a better way to kind of handle those things instead of just putting
yourself down the whole time.
And I think when you can kind of take a step back, it’s way less of a mountain to deal with
So the last step that I do, it’s grape water.
It’s just literally water in a can and you spray it on your face, and it feels really,
really good.
So I like to do it.
And if that’s the only reason why then, that’s why I should buy a $14 water in a can
Ooh, that feels so good.
Now my skin just feels so clean and hydrated.
It’s funny because when I think of beauty I think of natural, which is such the opposite
of how the world makes us see it.
But when I think of someone genuinely laughing, to me that’s beauty.
Or when I think of a mother - daughter relationship, or when I just think of a friendship of two
people who love each other and care about each other — I don’t know, maybe I’m
just getting older and my views are changing that way, but just something natural and genuine
and real, I think is what I think beauty is.
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