today I'm going to share my morning skincare routine from a mature dry skin
hi I'm Schellea this is fabulous 50s a lifestyle channel that explores fashion
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relate to you today I'm going to share with you my morning skincare routine
it's simple and uncomplicated and I don't buy a whole lot of products and I
get a really good result so for the same as my evening routine I've reduced
everything by a lot I was buying loads of products layering
everything and getting a great result but I have learnt since that there's no
need to be spending all that money and layering all those products because I'm
not going to get that much of a difference and I strongly believe that
what we put inside our body and even inside our mind has a huge contributing
factor to what our skin looks like so if we're doing the right things internally
the job up here of making our skin look better and you know helping us get rid
of our dry skin or our flaky skin or our fine lines and wrinkles we don't have to
spend a huge fortune on our faces so I've reduced I've gone down to just a
few steps and the first step for any skincare routine is to cleanse because I
have dry skin and mature skin the oil cleansers work best for me and I use a
bio droga cleansing oil this is so beautiful and luxurious this cleansing
oil makes your skin very very clean it doesn't get squeaky which is what I used
to look for but I know now that that's a bad thing when you have dry skin and it
just keeps it moisturized so a good cleansing oil is perfect for us if we're
over 50 even if you have oily skin an oil cleanser is great and Shu Uemura
have a really great oily skin cleansing oil so I'll leave a link for that and
and I have a friend who uses it and it's very very good for oily skin in the
mornings I only cleanse once and then my first step is always hyaluronic acid I
put that on first before I put any other products and if you're used to layering
all your serums you'll know that you put hyaluronic acid on first and it preps
the skin and plumps it up and do you know that babies when they're are born full
of hyaluronic acid that's why their face is so plump and their whole body is
plump and everything's so smooth because they have a really high dose of
hyaluronic acid so just imagine how smooth baby is we are not that any more
because after the age of 40 hyaluronic acid stops producing in our body slows
right right down so that makes so much sense
babies are full of it and they're just plump and chubby and soft and beautiful
we got to buy that stuff and put it on but this is great if I'm feeling
particularly dry I'll add a little bit of squalene oil from the ordinary and
I'll just put it around my dry points I don't always use this but this is great
if you're someone who feels a little bit dry it's just another step that you can
add and then when I finished that I put on a barrier cream and moisturizer to
lock it all in and I'm using the Charlotte Tilbury magic cream at the
moment it's so moisturizing and so amazing if you've got very dry skin the
consistency of this is thick and nourishing but it doesn't feel heavy
when it's on your skin it Pat's in so beautifully and then when you put your
foundation on the top it just everything's smooth and beautiful and I
would really recommend this one because sometimes you put a moisturizer on it
feels greasy and your foundation will run and sometimes you put a moisturizer
on and it's just not enough and your skin still feels dry so pretty much it's
three products a cleanse a hyaluronic acid and a barrier cream to lock it all
in that's not much and then I'll use my
squalene oil if I'm feeling a little bit dry but that's it I was doing peptides
and I was doing growth factors and I was doing all sorts of things I was doing
vitamin C I've swapped my vitamin C out to nighttime yep
that's it it's super simple my skin has not suffered at all I've taken all those
products out and my skin is still equally as good as what it was when I
was doing all that I'm sure that all those products helped the one product
that actually probably I've noticed a difference is the peptides but I have
stopped using the peptides for now because I want to try this and I've been
so happy with the results because I'm spending a lot less money and a lot less
time and it's just less stressful having so much to do twice a week I'm going to
exfoliate and I just use an inexpensive gentle exfoliating scrub this is great
and that takes off all of my dead skin cells particularly at night time when I
use my retin a that can create some peeling this product just keeps that at
bay it gets ri d of the flakies on those two days I'll follow up with the Ren
flash rinse one minute facial this this is like a 1-minute brightening vitamin C
treatment it's very good so twice a week but you don't really need these steps
this is just nice to have but if you want to cut back or if you want to start
from scratch this is a really good morning routine that actually works you
get results because it's all about keeping the moisture in getting rid of
the dead skin cells and nourishing your body from the inside I did make a video
on what I do to get rid of my dry skin I'll leave a link up here but that's
some really good information as well if you suffer from dry skin and then of
course my morning routine is always finished off with a sunscreen sometimes
I put a sunscreen as my next step after I've finished moisturizing but of late
and particularly in summer I like to use a sunscreen zinc oxide powder that just
easily you can see the powder coming out so it's really easy to apply and that's
all you do it doesn't upset your foundation which some sunscreens can do
so I do have a couple of great sunscreens that I use under my
foundation but in summer this is my go-to and you can reapply it in the
middle of the day if you've been out in the Sun for a long time but because it
is a physical sunscreen which means it's sitting on top of your skin so as the
Sun comes down and the Rays hit your skin it reflects it back so you don't
need to reapply a physical sunscreen the same way you do need to apply a chemical
sunscreen this one doesn't need reapplying unless you've been swimming
or you've taken it off in some way so and this fits in your handbag but the
great thing about this as well is it doesn't get cakey like putting face
powder on it's not like that it's just the perfect complement to your morning
routine okay that's it it's really simple it's inexpensive I've reduced a
lot of products I haven't noticed a problem I haven't become any drier my
skin is still in very good condition I've stopped using eye cream because I
don't need it anymore these products are enough and I'm going
to continue doing this for another six months and slowly add back in some
products that I used to use to see if they make a difference please give a
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girlfriends who may be spending a fortune on skin care thank you so much
for watching and have a beautiful week