(whooshing)
(bing)
- This is my nighttime routine.
(upbeat electronic music)
So, the first step in my nighttime routine
is these bad boys.
I know makeup wipes are not good for you,
'cause they rub and they scrub,
but I'm the laziest person when I get home from work,
and I just wanna take it off really fast.
As you can see, I have a lot of dark spots,
because I used to have a lot, a lot, a lot of acne.
I'm sure a lot of you go through it,
but puberty hit me hard, like real hard.
And I know I'm rubbing really hard,
but my skin is really strong.
I have African genes, so I can do what I want.
It's my face.
Ta da, clean face.
I don't usually like to cleanse because I've noticed
that when I cleanse it breaks out my skin,
and cleansing can be good for other people,
but my skin does not like the soapy,
it strips all the oils and I break out.
So what I do after, I take a little towelette,
one of these bad boys, and I wet it.
(water cascading)
And I just go like this,
and I press it down.
It's so refreshing when you do that.
It makes me feel like, who am I?
My face is so clean.
I'm looking all, ya.
I like, I can't do the whole soap, wash.
This is the only thing I do, and it just makes
my skin feel so good and so soft.
So, what I do after I take off all my makeup
and use my little towelette,
I use this Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mask.
My face is always dry and I need
lots of moisture and hydration.
I open it all the way up and I put it right on my face.
I know, beautiful, I know.
You don't have to tell me.
So, this is the Mizani Milk Miracle,
and I usually do this routine after I put my mask on
'cause I have a little bit of time.
I spritz it all over my hair, 'cause my,
African hair needs a lot of moisture,
and while that is sinking in there and marinating,
I take my trusty comb and I just pick my hair.
Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.
And I know I'm lookin' aggressive, but, you know, I'm not.
This is what I have to do.
It like a little massage with this comb.
So, it's been about 10 minutes now
and I'm gonna take this off before I finish
my hair routine and my face routine.
Whoosh.
And you can see that it came off with
some of the makeup that I left over here,
and what I do with this is I basically rub it and dab it.
I just make sure that all the goodness
that is supposed to be in the mask is in there,
and I'm looking flawless.
The mask is something that I do every night
because I basically work almost every single day
and my skin loses a lot of hydration
with all the makeup that's been put on.
After I take off my mask I use this
Tatcha Violet-C Brightening Serum,
because a lot of dark skin, people know this,
our skin scars very easily, and especially
if you had acne before like I did.
I use this to just brighten up the dark spots.
So, I don't like to put it on my hands
because I feel like I'm wasting the product,
and I only put it on the spot that I have dark spots.
So, I take the serum and I literally just
drop a few drops on my skin and rub it
on the dark spots right there,
and then I do the same on this side.
Rub, rub, rub.
And then I do it right here on the forehead.
And actually, a good tip that I learned
from a very good makeup artist.
Her name is Erin Parsons.
I work with her with Maybelline.
I take a few drops of this and I put it under my eyes,
because I don't want no wrinkles.
I know people are like, oh my god, you're a dark skin,
you're never gonna get wrinkles.
I see them coming.
So, I put it under my eyes.
I know I'm supposed to dab or rub,
but I again, my face, my rules.
While that is settling in, my favorite part
of my nighttime routine is my do-rag.
This is literally my favorite thing,
because I, first of all, pink is my favorite color,
and I just feel like, I don't know, I just feel like
my hair is just baking, it's just getting moisturized.
So, what I do is I...
This is actually a recent purchase.
I used to use a T-shirt, just like an old T-shirt,
but I realized that I'm just ruining a lot of T-shirts,
and I actually wanna wear my T-shirts.
So, what I do is I tie it
and I make sure I get the little side hairs,
and then, you know, just feelin' like a G.
(laughs)
So, what the do-rag basically does is it sets my hair.
After I moisturize it, after I picked it,
I wanna wake up with my hair looking good.
I don't wanna spend 45 minutes in the morning
doing my hair, so the do-rag basically
keeps it flat, the edges lookin' smooth.
You see this part in the front?
Makes the edges stay smooth and down
and it just doesn't create friction or frizz when I sleep,
'cause if I don't have this on, I wake up
and my hair will be like...
And I don't want that.
I just want to wake up, have flawless hair,
flawless skin, and this literally keeps my hair in check.
After, I'm letting this set my hair,
this Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist.
I go through this like crazy.
I spritz it all over when I have makeup on,
when I'm going to bed, when I wake up.
It's my favorite thing to do.
If you want dewy skin,
(slapping)
It's so good, I love it.
And what I do is I spritz it out into the air a little bit
so I don't get too much on my skin,
and then I try to do it on my skin
(squirting)
That felt like a skin care commercial.
I'm like...
But that's what I do, and it smells so lovely,
and my skin looks so dewy, which I love,
because I have really, really dry skin.
My next part of my routine is my
Tatcha Water Cream Moisturizer.
I know it looks like I'm using a lot of Tatcha,
but it took me forever to find a skin care brand
that works on my skin, because I have
discoloration and acne and different tones on my skin,
and it's darker, and then my neck is lighter.
It's just like, it took me forever to find
a good skin care routine, so once I found it
I tried to basically stick to it.
And I am almost out, literally.
And I generously lather this on my face.
I take so much of it.
And it has this little spatula situation,
but no one has time for that.
I take so much and I lather it on my face.
So, I lather and I let it sit there like a mask.
And I don't forget the neck because everyone says the neck.
And I let it sit there for about five minutes.
Like I said before, I suffer from acne,
and honestly, I know what it's like,
because you feel so insecure when you have
spots on your face, and you feel like
people are not looking at your eyes
when they're talkin' to you, they're lookin' at your skin,
but I realized that it's psychological.
No ones lookin' at your pimples.
No one is literally looking at your pimples
and being like, oh my god, she's not beautiful.
People wanna talk to you and they see your beautiful smile
and they see your heart, and that's all that matters.
And I learned to train my mind to think
that it's just pimples, everyone has them.
People are just good at hiding them,
but I'm good at embracing them.
So, my next step in my routine is
I take this tea tree oil, I take this
and, I'm supposed to use a Q-tip,
but like I said, I'm very resourceful
and I just use what God gave me.
I take my finger and I go like that,
and I apply it on the pimples, just a few.
And you don't really need a lot of this,
you just need a little bit, and it smells so good,
but it's also really good for acne
and that's what I use on the spots that I get.
Next on my routine is my trusted Aquaphor.
I don't want dry lips ever, and I shoot a lot of beauty.
Girl, I can not have dry lips on camera.
It just does not look flattering.
It just, I can't shoot a lipstick commercial with dry lips,
so I use Aquaphor, and I go through these all the time.
It's so great.
I love it.
The last step on my nighttime routine
is I take my vitamins because I forget to take them
in the morning, so I take them at night,
and usually I let them do whatever it needs to do
to my body when I'm sleeping.
And I take vitamin D3 because as a dark skinned woman,
I need a lot of sun, a lot of it,
in order to feel good inside and outside,
and vitamin D just literally makes me feel like
I've got some sun, and my actual doctor recommended this,
so I take this and other vitamins, but this is literally
the one that I always take every night.
Pop it in my mouth.
Skoal.
And that's about it.
Thank you so much for watching my nighttime routine.
I had so much fun doing this.
(lips smacking)