- I wash my face with soap in the morning.
Is that bad?
It's like, home brand soap as well, oh my god.
- [Producer] Isha!
- Ahhh!
I'm sorry!
- [Producer] Why?
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- At the moment, my kind of skincare routine,
if you can even call it that, is pretty simple.
I have this rose hip base cleanser, that I use once a day,
and I've just started using moisturizer with SPF 15 in it.
So that's really good.
- I love skincare routines.
I do have one right now.
One of my really good friends got me on to
a bit more of an involved routine.
- I think my skin is combination.
It gets really oily around, like, the T-zone,
but then I also get quite dry.
I've also got hormonal acne, I would say.
- I've always had really oily skin.
Because of that, I was using a lot of products that were
oil free, reduce oil, you know, oil reduction.
Every single one of my products was mattifying my face.
It was drawing all of the oils out of my face,
and my skin was like, 'what the hell, guys?'
like, and it started producing more oil.
Ever since I started giving my skin a bit more moisture,
which has only been the past, probably, couple of months,
my skin has really reacted very well.
So, I've been on a journey,
and I feel like I'm in a good place right now.
- One of Korea's most popular beauty brands,
it's called Innisfree,
and I think it's now available in Australia,
which is really cool.
- All of their products use natural ingredients,
they're eco-friendly.
- Their green tea range is super popular.
- Drinking green tea is really good for your body,
so I feel like obviously it'll be good
for your skin, right like?
Okay guys, let's do this!
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- Okay, day one, here we are.
- This is the part where I would usually use
a literal bar soap
to wash my face.
Um, but today, gonna try
the Morning Cleanser.
- Double-squeezed green tea from the Jeju island.
Sounds fancy.
So it's like a clear liquid,
which you can kinda see there.
It feels like really
jelly-like and light,
and like hydrating.
It's not too thick.
Okay, so the texture of that cleanser felt really good.
I probably didn't need as much product as I put on.
I probably could go with a little bit less
to make the product last longer.
- It felt kind of quite oily, and really heavy,
but it has made my skin feel really nice and soft.
Definitely feels like it needs, um, some moisture.
- The next step is the toner.
Okay, already that feels a lot more gentle
than the toner I use at the moment.
And it smells better.
(laughs)
So step three is the serum.
- This smells so, so good.
Oh my gosh.
I feel like I'm in a spa.
- Have a look.
I mean, I don't know what you can see,
but my skin doesn't feel tight anymore.
We're starting to get that moisturizing-ness.
Now we've got the lotion, which is next.
A green tea balancing lotion.
Okay.
This one's white.
Put it on my face.
Puttin' the lotion on my face.
Oh my god, it is just so hydrating.
I've never used an eye cream before, and I was like,
I don't actually know how much product to use,
so I thought I'd look at the instructions,
but it's all in Korean,
and I can't read it.
But I'm gonna assume it's like,
a pea-sized amount per eye, maybe?
Do I just put it like, here? I don't even know.
This consistency is a lot more solid,
a lot less runny,
and it feels like it's gonna
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(sniffs)
- This has no smell to it.
I thought it would smell like green tea,
or something like that.
- Ah, oh my god, this is great.
- I just wanted to show you guys a close-up of my skin.
It feels pretty good.
But, day one, or I guess the morning of day one,
is done dusted.
Yay!
- [Sohan] Does my skin look amazing?
- Um, it looks incredible.
Its so even.
- Yeah!
- The texture looks so smooth.
- To me it looks like you came in
- yeah
with different make up today.
- Yeah.
- No, I mean I normally wear lipstick.
I'm about to put my lipstick on.
- Oh, that'll do it.
- Maybe that's it, maybe that's it.
- Maybe you're like, 'she's glowing,
why'?
- Yeah.
- Okay, stand by.
- [Sohan] you're looking good.
- Thank you.
- This looks right, mostly my right, let's flip this around.
- Day one
- [Colleague] Looking good.
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- So its seven pm, I just got back home from work
because I've got a face full of make up
so Micellar Water.
I'm pretty familiar with Micellar Water
so I think this will be an easy one to use.
Bye bye,
make up.
Wow, it's getting a lot of product off.
Okay, for one little cotton pad,
this has gotten off so, so much.
I'm just gonna use one more maybe
to get off any excess but that was pretty damn good.
It doesn't sting my eyes which is good
and I'm trying to get all my mascara off.
Make up off, skin feels soft.
I don't feel like I need moisturizer right now.
I'm not gonna do the rest of my skin care routine
until I have a shower and I'm about to go to sleep.
So for now this is it while I have dinner.
My skin feels pretty good, um, and also
my cat is here.
What do you think?
Is it glowin'?
I know you're glowing.
You're definitely glowing.
You know what, I've got my PJs on.
Now its time to do the deep clean part of my routine.
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It is Sunday night, um,
so I have a few days
with my new skincare routine from Innisfree.
Overall, my thoughts are, I like how it makes my skin
feel in the moment.
It makes my skin feel really refreshed
and hydrated and moisturized.
As you can see, I'm like glowing but
as you can probably also see I'm breaking out
a little bit.
I've noticed that it feels a little bit like
I'm just putting multiple layers of things on my face
that are the same consistency,
if that makes sense.
I feel like the sleeping mask and serum
are kind of a similar texture.
The sleeping mask that I used to use
in my old routine was like, thick.
Another thing I've noticed is that I wasn't sure
if there was any SPF in any of these products.
Um, luckily, I do have a sunscreen that I use
at the moment.
I actually got it when I went to Japan.
It's Biore UV.
I had to use that today, um, when I was going out
cause I knew I was going to be in the sun a lot.
Yeah, those are my initial thoughts.
It is still early days.
- So I've just finished up the morning part
of the skincare routine
and my skin is feeling nice and soft,
refreshed, hydrated but low and behold,
we have this guy.
We have a pimple.
We are breaking out.
I'm not too surprised about that
but hopefully over the coming days,
my skin will either, like, maybe settle.
Fingers crossed anyway.
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- So I just got home and its super late
but I'm still taking my make up off
with this Micellar Oil Water,
which I'm actually finding really nice to use
to take make up off cause of the oil in it
but it's midnight and I'm doing my routine so,
go me.
- By week two, I felt like I was really
getting into the groove of using all these products
every day and every night.
At this point, I couldn't see a huge difference
in my skin but it was only the second week.
My eyes did start to look a little less puffier
and I do have like quite dark circles
but they started to look a bit less intense.
My favorite product for week two was
definitely the cleanser.
Its kind of oil based and it was just really nice
to wash your face in the morning
and feel really awake and alive.
Oh, wow, ignore all the mess in the background
but I've just moisturized
and I feel like my skin is looking really fresh
and glowy today.
One thing that has actually been really key
with these products is the amount
of moisture my skin is now getting
on the daily.
Its been really important because
I am actually going through laser hair removal
on my face and neck at the moment
which does leave your skin quite dry.
Especially since between the sessions,
you use these little face razors to kind of
just touch up your face so yeah,
here's to hopefully more good skin days
where I feel like I don't need to wear like,
a face full of make up as often.
- In week two, I started to get really frustrated
with the amount of things there were involved.
So, I'm just packing to go to yoga tomorrow
and I'm really not loving that I have to carry
a bag of skincare with me every time.
Like, its a little bit a lot.
Normally, I'd be like fine with it
but also the bottles and the products themselves
were not portable.
Um, especially not the daily lotion.
It was a pump bottle and I couldn't seal it.
My bag got really full with, just like,
all of these products.
I feel like this isn't sustainable for me, like
I'm doing it and I'm dealing with it because
I know that its like a month that I have to do this
and its already leaking.
You can see.
I also started to scar a lot,
the pimples that I had, like,
which you know, I suppose is more of
an issue of my skin scaring quite easily,
especially when I get pimples
and now the scars won't go away.
Eeeeeewwww!
The other thing that I found in week two
was I was not loving the lip balm as much
as I was in week one.
While it feels really good when you put it on,
it actually like dries up during the night
and the lip balm that I used to be using every night
never did that and this one just kind of,
I wake up in the morning with super dry lips
and I'm not a fan.
Also I feel like it runs out quite fast,
like I'm already all the way through this much.
Is that normal?
I don't know.
So I'm not like super sure this is
a good lip balm to have.
I don't know if I would buy it again.
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- When you do your skin routine so many times
that you actually forget what comes next
cause there's way too many products to follow.
By the time week three hit around,
I felt like my skin was on a winning streak.
- I was getting used to the routine.
I was used to bringing all the products.
I was like, this is my life now,
I'm just gonna deal with it
and my skin was actually having a very glowing moment.
I'm actually really happy with how my skin
is looking right now.
I don't have any make up on right now at all.
Finally we're actually having some progress after
like, over two weeks of being like,
is this working?
Is this not?
I feel like, yes.
- Is it just a placebo because I want something
to work but you be the judge,
like my skin, its looking really, really pretty.
- So it was a good week. I enjoyed week three.
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Ready for bed!
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- By week four, I felt like I had a really solid routine.
I'm feeling good, feeling confident
but then suddenly, a breakout!
I've a breakout here.
I've got a breakout here.
My skin is breaking out
which is kind of disappointing
because I feel like I've been moisturizing my skin.
I've been hydrating it.
I've been washing it.
I've been giving it everything it wants
and its still being really moody
and I don't think that was necessarily
the products fault.
I think its more a deeper issue that I probably have
to figure out with my skin.
- When week four came around, I really started to feel
like my skin had plateaued like it wasn't
getting any better.
It just kind of stayed where it was.
Skin update.
Yay!
I started to kind of be really keen to get back
to my old skincare routine because I missed it
so I was kind of like, eh, week four.
I'm glad this is over.
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Incorporating these products into my routine,
like I kind of just scraped my other routine
and brought this one on board
and it was a change.
It was a lot more effort for not much more reward.
- I did really like having a skin care routine.
I think I did see an improvement in my skin.
It was kind of hard to see it week by week
but there were some really small changes
like my eyes seeming less puffy
and my breakouts not being as drastic.
- I did see improvement in my skin but only
because my skin got really bad in the first week
so I feel like had I know even done this at all
my skin would have just stayed the same.
I feel like it got worse before it got better.
However, the eye cream, I did love that product.
I have never used eye cream before
so it really opened my eyes up to the world
of eye cream.
- The serum is so good at just hydrating
my skin and I really like the feeling.
I wanna keep on using that.
- Overall, I did enjoy the experience
because it really got me out of my normal routine.
I was so stuck in my ways.
I did feel like I miss my old routine
to me this is brutal but I feel like there
was nothing special about this routine.
Its just a routine.
- For me personally, this was a really exciting
but challenging experience.
I think I learned a lot about skin care,
especially considering that I've never had
a skincare routine before.
- I feel like these products are really good
as individual products.
I don't really see a benefit to using them
all in one, as like a holistic routine.
I feel like what would be better for everyone
is just to kind of try them out
and see what you like and then just use
what you like with what you've already got.
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