as much as i love makeup i equally love
taking it off
it just feels so good
so it's about 11 p.m in london and
for me the night is the young because
i'm a
typical night owl my daytime routine
skincare routine is very simple
and very low maintenance but in the
evening i find
i have a lot of time and i really make
the most of it so
my bathroom at night time is like a
complete
spa experience so i'm gonna use the
original
lancome eye makeup remover so give that
a shake
and i'm gonna soak a organic cotton wool
pad and actually gonna soak a second one
and the way i'll do this is to put it
underneath my eye because i'm wearing
mascara top and bottom
and then i'll take my pad place it over
the top and it's really soaked
and then i'm just going to let that
really soak
in so i'm just going to massage a little
bit just rubbing the lashes from the top
pad
and i think the key here is just to be
super gentle
i don't want to lose any lashes that
want you to go
because why would you want to do that
every lash is precious
just remove so that's taken off all of
my mascara
bye bye big eyes and it's also
removed my eye makeup
so i'm going to do the other eye you're
going to do exactly the same thing
so my mascara is all off and the next
thing i would do
is use a balm cleanser and i this is the
bare minimum that i would do so
if i was doing nothing else i would do a
double cleanse
with a cleansing balm so i'm going to
use this
evolve organic gentle
cleansing melt how good does that sound
so i'm going to start by using about
this much and this is for
my makeup removal so
and this is just really to dissolve the
makeup
and then just massage all across my
forehead
and eyebrows as well the next thing i do
and i have a big draw here with
every type of makeup
flannel and remover and cloth
so i'll use a really soft
either flower or cleansing
cloth and warm water remove all of that
makeup which is so good when you see it
all coming off i always do a second
cleanse
not just for the security of knowing
that all the makeup's off
but my second cleanse is my little
meditation moment
and this is my second cleanse and this
is my massage moment
the length of time that i do this for
will be different
this was taught to me by my mum when i
was growing up
and she used to kind of
she'd be sitting there watching the
television in the evening
doing this for like 30 minutes like all
these amazing kind of massaging
things on her face and then i thought it
was silly and then eventually
i noticed how beautiful
her skin was sometimes i'm really like
focusing on what my massage moves are
and i know which ones to do but
sometimes i just drift off and sometimes
i really go to town on the massage bit
okay that's it for tonight next i'm
gonna get some warm water
and i'm gonna go again with my cloth and
then once i've done that i'm actually
gonna rinse my face as well
with water i don't use like hot water i
don't use cold water
i'll use lukewarm water
so firstly i'll use the cloth again or
the mitt
it's just really nice to know that
you've got every little bit of makeup
off and now i'm going to rinse my face
with water
so that's my cleanse finished and my
face feels so nice and soft
now what i do next really depends on how
my skin is at the moment depending on
what my skin's been up to
and how short i want my routine to be
sometimes i will
feel like i need a bit of exfoliation so
i tend to never use anything harsh or
you know a physical
exfoliation so i would use something
like
this which is an aha peel mask
this one is by learnberger staffsing and
it's
a lactic acid and it also has different
other salicylic acid and things like
that so i might put that on for
five minutes or something uh just to
really clear out my pores
another one that i like actually is this
one by ren which is the glycolic mask
so i might just put them on and then go
and watch a bit of tv or read a book
if i haven't got time for that and i'm
rushing to bed one i really like when
i'm spotty is this one which is the
salicylic and retinol oil gel
by um sorry oil it is not gel by
dermalogica
whenever i'm having spotty moments
blemishy skin moments
i'll use this every night for bed for
about
five days and that tends to just clear
all of the spots away
other nights if i'm feeling like my skin
is
more on a dehydrated
feeling or it just feels a little dry or
it feels just good
i often use this which i really like
which is a fermented essence
from korea this stuff is so nice
i might just use this if i was doing a
very quick routine
and i'll just press this into my skin
this is like it's lighter than a serum
it is just a really light essence but it
feels so moisturizing
i always do my chest don't forget your
chest everything goes onto my chest
and then i would do maybe a light peel
and then i'm not every night this is
like
two or three nights a week and then i
would do my
new face before i use my new face i
would put on a mask
so sometimes i use a sheet mask
my favorites would be suman i like
philoga which is a lifting mask
and i like the genifique melting mask
i'll put that on and then i will take
the mask
off the remaining serum that i have on
i'll then use that to use my new face
or i would put on a nighttime mask
so something like this hydrating mask by
cora
because you need something to conduct
the
new face so it does come as well with a
hyaluronic gel but i tend to
mix it up a bit and then i'll do a five
minute routine
with this
i mainly do my jaw and
my cheeks and if you do this every night
i
actually swear by it i think it really
tightens up the
muscles in your face i'm not someone
that uses very heavy
um night creams i don't like that
feeling
but occasionally if i was very dry like
i think during the winter when i've got
the heating on a lot
and your skin just starts to feel a
little bit parched
then i might use something a little bit
thicker like i quite like this
firming night cream by welida um
pomegranate one
i would use a little bit of that all
over but otherwise i feel like
serums are really good for me at night
or essences
or something like this which is just a
gel sleeping balm
so the next thing that i would do is
sometimes i use a
led mask at night as well so maybe after
i've done that and this mask was all
completely sunk
in i would then go i use the light cell
on i use the
facial one from the lights alone i also
have one that's just for the chest area
so that's really good as well for like
your immune system i really like to kind
of
put that on sometimes if i'm doing my
new face and i'll put the um
led on my chest at the same time another
thing i really like using
are sprays
i love hydrating sprays this brand
cosmetic immunity
is one of my favorite skincare brands i
use their
they do a lightweight gel moisturizer
that i use during the day i may do a
ceramide moisturizer that i use during
the day if my skin is a little on the
dry side
okay the next thing i would use and i
would use this every night
is a brow serum and this one is called
new brow and i would just
wipe through my brows i've been using
this for about
two months now no longer
about four months i think my brows
are out of control they have grown
crazy it works so well i'm having to
pluck them most days because they're
just growing
like wildfire i also use the
lash serum as well by the same brand
new lash i've tried lots of different
lash serums and i find this one is the
best
because not only does it make the lashes
grow
it doesn't give me personally any
irritation
which with some of the other ones i've
had quite a lot of irritation
so i'll just do a thin layer of that
close to my upper lashes
actually keep this by the bed it's the
only way i can remember to use it every
night
so i keep a little mirror and both of
these products next to the bed
other things that i do at night would be
i do
always use hand cream or whatever i'm
using on my face i always put on my
hands
when i get into bed i usually do at
least
some body lotion this is my favorite
thing at the moment it doesn't smell
great but i think it's
such a good moisturizing cream and this
is a barn by cloris and this is their
cbd
heavy duty moisturizing balm so i'll do
a massage with that on my feet so my
feet just feel
so good the other thing that i'll do as
well is i will
always have some vitamin d and k2 drops
so i'll put about four or five of these
drops
under my tongue as i say i'm a night owl
but i tend to naturally get sleepy later
if i find that i'm really like my mind
is just going crazy the thing that i
love
using is the bark remedy rescue for
night time and i'll just put
like a whole pipette of that on my
tongue and i think it just
kind of chills out your mind a bit and
just helps you to relax
if i am feeling like i'm tired or i've
been standing up all day or been on a
shoot that's a really long day
i love love love to have
a magnesium bath so i use magnesium
flakes
that's like my favorite thing to do in
the whole world
having a magnesium bath for me is like a
big
big treat okay so i'm aware that this is
turning into the lord of the rings of
epic nighttime routines so i'm gonna
wind it up
another thing that i would do if i had
wash my hair
and my hair is frizzy before i go to
sleep i put on some of the
living proof and this is the frizz drops
to smooth through
otherwise i'll wake up tomorrow morning
with a great big
massive frizz so i twist
round as i've been taught by all the
famous top hairdressers i've worked with
and press it into the hair so i'd go
through in sections
and put that on and then that would help
me to wake up without a frizzy
head of hair my last thing to do is to
before i go to sleep
is i will wear a silk eye mask there's a
lot of natural daylight in the bedroom
which i don't like but now i've got to
the point where
i can't actually sleep without them i've
just got used to them
so i have a nice selection of really
pretty ones
all manner of beautiful sleeping masks
and i just
love them so i'll put my eye mask on
and that's it that is my epic nighttime
routine
to be honest some nights i will do all
of it and more
that's the benefit of being a night owl
i guess sleep well
and i'm wide awake so i'm gonna go and
read a book or something
lots of love bye