- I definitely made sure I filmed this video
during my fertile window.
When I knew that my skin would be the most balanced,
and naturally even as possible.
So, let's get into it.
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Hey, everyone.
I'm Hallease, endeavoring to persevere.
As always if you're new here,
I make videos about my chaotic good life.
Subscribe, follow, social media,
blah, blah, blah,
you know.
So as many of you have noted here on this channel,
my skin has definitely improved over the last, um,
I would say year or so.
And while I love a good ten step skincare routine
just as much as the next person,
slathering on layer, after layer, after layer,
after layer, after layer, the layer.
I definitely watch a lot of skincare videos.
I still can't tell you what an essence is exactly.
In this video I'm gonna go over my skincare routine,
and the products I use, but #notspon on all of that,
because I mean, who am I really here on Al Gore's internet.
I'm nobody, nobody.
More importantly I'm gonna talk about just
the technique I use, so that way if you're are someone
with oily skin and acne prone skin,
you can some tangible takeaways to think about
when approaching your own skincare.
Whatever products you decide to use.
My skin, I have very oily skin.
But I'm actually very happy that I have oily skin,
I don't have a lot of wrinkles on my face,
and that is because my skin is so oily.
The issue that comes with having oily skin,
is again, acne and keeping it under control,
so you're not just having a cesspool on your face.
I had a flair up of just sort of
adult hormonal acne in my 20's.
And now as I approach 30, I've definitely kind
of balanced that out, I don't really get breakouts anymore,
but I do have a lot of hyperpigmentation scars
from when I did have acne, consistently
and had bad break outs.
In the bulk of my videos, here on YouTube,
I usually don't wear any makeup at all.
And if I do, it's very minimal.
But don't get it twisted, I still hit that diddy bop
every time Jackie comes on, we can all hear it,
we can all hear it, right now.
Can she copyright her name,
and just saying it in a tune, is that copyrightable?
I feel like it should be.
Something I will say that really actually helped
with that is getting back on hormonal birth control.
For those of y'all who don't know, I was off of it for
a long time, and got back on it about 6 months ago.
And while I had already pretty much gotten my acne
under control, and things like that,
the hormonal birth control definitely played a role in that.
Also, none of us are doing these things, but I mean,
you know I wouldn't be doing my due diligence,
amen, if I didn't say them.
So, drink more water,
you know, eat your veggies,
you know what I'm saying,
take a vitamin,
do what your supposed to do, you know what I'm saying.
Can't say I didn't tell you.
Can't say I didn't say it, all right.
The other big recommendation I would give is go get
a consultation from either an aesthetician
or a dermatologist.
I did that very early on, in 2019,
it was a smooth $20,
and they had me fill out a questionnaire,
and then I came in and they examined my skin
and then they make recommendations to me.
Did I say you need to go buy that aesthetician's
product line that they will probably offer you?
I never said that, so don't say that I said that,
'cause I didn't.
Spending the $20 and getting an aesthetician's
just, recommendations on my skin based on everything
I was able to tell her, and it's their skillset
to know this, was the best $20 I spent.
And from there, I made appropriate
choices in my skincare that I knew were
sustainable and long-lasting.
It really is all about patience, consistency, and technique.
Unless you have serious coins and are getting
all sorts of lasers and things done--
No 'cause even then if you get laser treatments
and things like that it still takes time.
Every aesthetician I've ever talked to,
every dermatologist I've ever talked to,
if you're trying new products, trying a new technique,
set it an forget it.
Be consistent about it, but you're gonna have
to wait at least 3 to 4 months before you
see any sort of tangible results.
My advice on that, so you don't lose momentum
in keeping up with your technique,
is take a photo of yourself
right before you start
from many different angles, and then 3 months,
4 months later, take more photos and compare.
So that way you maintain that ability
to want to keep doing it.
There's not much difference between my daytime routine
and my nighttime routine, if anything it's just about like
my daytime routine has SPF, my nighttime routine, doesn't.
So, the first step is wash my face.
And this is actually something I got from
the aesthetician when I did my consultation,
wash my face twice.
My first wash is with African black soap,
I use Dudu-osun's black soap,
just because I've used it for years
and I like it and I know where to get it easily.
To wash my face,
I use the Foreo Luna Mini 2.
Is it life-changing,
did it radically alter my skincare regimen?
No, but just like you all, I get influenced too.
That's the only reason I have that product.
Then I follow up with Paula's Choice Clear face wash.
And I actually learned about Paula's Choice
from one of y'all, Davina.
She heard me talking about how I was trying
to invest more in my skincare regimen
and figure things out for myself,
and sent me all of Paula's Choice Clear line to try.
And it was, thank you so much,
I was really, I'm really grateful, thank you again.
And so because of that, I really fell in love
with the line, I really liked it a lot,
and after I was finished, I just kept buying it.
I will say, price point, it's a little high.
It's a little, it's a little high.
It's not aesthetician's original line high, but it's high.
And again, that's why I'm saying,
don't feel like you need to use what I'm using,
this is just what I have found that works.
It is a oil-free line, which is something else
the aesthetician that I consulted with, very much was about.
She was like, "You've got enough oil, "you don't need no
"more, that's just gonna clog you up, girl, don't do that."
Then, follow up with an exfoliator.
Again, I use Paula's Choice exfoliation,
it has 2% salicylic acid,
so it's a chemical exfoliator.
I just put that on my skin using my hands because
we trying to save the earth one cotton ball at a time.
And finally I follow up with a moisturizer.
Again, I use Paula's Choice's moisturizer,
if it is the daytime, I use the moisturizer that has SPF.
A lot of SPF moisturizers I've used in the past have
some sort of oil component in them,
and so I put it on in the morning and
by like, 12:30 I'm shining bright like a diamond,
but, like, not in a good way,
you know what I'm saying?
Not in a "Ooh, she so, ooh, she so flashy" way.
It's more like a, "Are you okay, do you want me
"to turn the fan on" kind of way and that's not cute.
And then if it's nighttime, I use the moisturizer
that doesn't have SPF,
and that's the regimen.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's, that's my skincare regimen.
In the morning, again, I do the same thing,
but I only wash my face once, because,
ideally I've just gone to bed
and I don't need to wash my face twice.
My skin really does enjoy exfoliation,
something else that the aesthetician recommended to me
was doing physical exfoliation every now and then.
And so, once a week
in lieu of a nighttime routine,
I will do a physical exfoliation.
I use a shea butter scrub.
I mean, after all, I am melanin-ated,
there has to be an oil somewhere in this video.
When I do a nighttime exfoliation,
instead of my full skincare regimen,
I use Nap's Butter's shea butter scrub.
It's awesome, it smells amazing,
she is a local black-owned business, so that's cool.
She actually sent me this scrub to try out for free
and I am grateful 'cause I love me a scrub.
And I also use a scrub on my hands and my feet.
To use the scrub I also combine it with amla oil.
I only use the amla oil with the scrub,
and supposedly the Ayurvedic folks be saying
that it helps with skin, it's supposed to have
vitamin C in it, this that and a third, I don't know.
After I apply the scrub to my face, and my hands
and my feet, wherever else I want to apply it,
then I rinse my face off continually with warm water
to kind of remove any excess oil that's still there.
And then go to bed, I don't do anything else afterwards,
I keep it really minimal with the scrub.
And that's really it, that's the whole regimen.
Four steps total if you count the scrub, it's five.
In the comments below, let me know
what you're skin type is and what kind of regimen
you stick to consistently so that way people who aren't
of the oily skin gang, like myself,
can see what other's are doing
with similar skin types to theirs.
And finally, thank you to my Patreon Producers,
if you're interested patreon.com/hallease.
There you get early access to all my videos
as well as private weekly vlogs from me.
If you're interested, again, that is patreon.com/hallease.
Again, I'm Hallease, and I'll see you when I see you.
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