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Today, I have five skincare secrets, hacks to help improve your skin care routine.
Now, don't worry these aren't things like
rub lemon and baking soda on your face
or you know, those weird hacks where they set fire to everything, that kind of stuff.
These are really just little changes
and tricks that you can do to help make the most out of the products you're already using.
Small changes like the timing of products,
mixing products to speed up your routine a bit
and ways to trick your skin into thinking it's better than it is.
We all need it. Let's be honest.
So let's get into it. Let's start with our cleanser.
Let's talk about how we can make the most out of our cleanser.
It sounds really easy, right?
You put it in your hand, rub in, do that and then wash it clean.
But no, it's actually really important that we're super gentle with our skin.
The last thing we really want to be doing is like doing this, like rubbing into our skin.
When it comes to being gentle with our cleanser
and making sure that all those nasties are actually washed away,
it's important that we do more of a massage on our skin rather than a rub.
This doesn't mean that you have to spend 15 minutes rubbing oils into your skin,
lighting candles and listening to whale music.
We just don't want to rub our skin.
With a cleanser, it's always very tempting to rub that into our face
and get a foam going.
But cleansers don't need to foam in order for it to work,
not that foaming cleansers are bad,
it just shouldn't be the ultimate aim of your cleanser.
This massage technique isn't only gentler on the skin
but it doesn't leave you with like red blotchy cheeks
and I get red in this area.
Does feel nice as well, it's relaxing,
So it's a lot simpler than it sounds.
All you're going to do is get some cleanser,
put it on to kind of these two fingers, rub that in between,
then you're gonna make a W on your face like this.
So that W for Welsh, look at that it's cute.
Then all we're gonna do with these two fingers,
is gently in and out, in and out,
like this going down the face, right to the chin all the way out,
applying a very, very tiny bit of pressure,
we're not like scrubbing into our skin.
We're then gonna do this again with the W,
but we're gonna go up our nose,
break up at the forehead then rub around.
Again, very, very gently the tiniest bit of pressure,
there's no need to scrub and try and like push that cleanser into your skin
and then just rinse away.
You'll find that your skin looks refreshed,
it looks all even toned.
You don't have those red blotches all over your skin.
Next up is the three second rule.
This has nothing to do with the five-second rule about food on the floor.
The three-second rule is all about going straight into your skincare routine,
within 30 seconds of coming out of the shower.
Sounds crazy, I know it sounds like a bit of a desperate rush
but your skin is actually more susceptible to skincare when it's wet.
And the quicker you moisturize your skin, the more moisture your skin retains.
This isn't to say the moment you turn off the shower,
you rub moisturizer into your skin
or that your skincare isn't gonna work if you don't do this.
But it's more the idea of leaving your skin wet as well,
so the moment you turn off your shower, make sure you have a hydrating toner at hand.
It's even better if this toner is in a spray bottle.
Just spray this all over your wet skin,
do not reach for the towel, whatever you do.
On your body fine but we're gonna leave our skin wet.
Start to gently pat that in and then you can go into your normal skin care routine.
Guys, you'll find that this gives your skin a really nice kind of radiance and glow to it.
It's a step, I can now not do without-- No, it's a step I can now not do.
One kind of weird thing, I've been doing
but I actually love is doing my skincare routine over a humidifier.
Gentle soft steam like the steam that comes out of a humidifier,
can have some really, really good benefits to our skin.
Especially, if like me, this winter destroyed your skin
and you're dehydrated or dry.
That's because in winter our skin suffers a lot
because of the kind of dryness and lack of moisture in the air.
So, creating that moisture around your skin can really help put
that moisture back into your skin.
Also helping soothe irritated and dry skin.
It gives your skin this amazing glow because of that added moisture boost
and it's really effortless as well, I got my humidifier for about £10,
I think from Amazon, super cheap.
All I do is plug that on, it works pretty much instantly
and I'll just let that steam fall into my face as I'm doing my routine.
Once my moisturizer is on, I'll turn it off, move on to my SPF.
And like I said, it's effortless, there's no extra time added here.
It's like, it's just the switching of a switch
and it does give your skin kind of that pump of moisture.
I've actually been sleeping with one next to my bed,
which you don't really have to do
but my forehead's been so dry
and dehydrated and I have really, really felt the difference.
Obviously, along with moisturizers and stuff.
Patting skin care is something I do in all my videos,
people always laugh about in the comments
but it's something that doesn't just look fancy.
I'm not doing it to be bougie and like kind of look all like professional.
There are quite a few reasons I do this.
Number one, when I rub skincare into my face as I mentioned with the cleanser,
I get blotchy redness on my skin
and after I've done my whole routine
trying to make my skin look even and one tone,
the last thing I want to do is to start rubbing stuff into my skin
and look blotchy, it just kind of ruins the whole 5 minutes I spend on my routine.
Number two, that redness is there for a reason.
The redness is due to an inflammatory response under the skin
that could potentially lead to rosacea and cystic acne,
if you're very unlucky.
There's just a lot of tugging and irritation there that I'd rather avoid simply by patting.
Number three, rubbing your skin can age you as well.
Now I think this is a bit of a fearmongering one.
But I'd rather, you know, avoid it.
So, if you think about when you're rubbing your skin,
your literally like pushing folds into your skin.
You're giving yourself wrinkles,
it's like you're setting up, where they're gonna go.
Look... Look at that.
So patting gently on the skin--
It kind of just doesn't do that
and the less I have to touch my skin as well the better.
The last thing I wanna do is be like doing this for ages.
I just want to pat, pat, pat, pat, pat
then also a more about just letting the products work on the skin as well.
So pat away with toners, essences, serums
but you can't really pat in your moisturizer, really!
So what can you do?
Here's a technique that will leave you of little to no irritation
when you have to rub in products.
Apply your moisturizer and a few little dots over your face.
Make sure you cover the whole face,
then much like a massaging technique we're going to take those two fingers
and rub incredibly gently, almost like you're not really rubbing it into the skin,
you're just kind of moving around the moisturizer,
then taking those two fingers, we're gonna start going upwards,
so you're smoothing over your skin upwards, upwards, upwards, upward
and then you give a pat towards the end.
Finally exfoliating, but the last step in your routine.
To speed up your skincare routine,
if you're in a bit of a rush or you're just not really that much into your skincare,
you can leave your exfoliator until the last step.
Kind of.
You can mix a chemical exfoliator like an AHA with your moisturizer.
This is especially good, if you have sensitive skin.
I know a lot of people with severe acne do this as well.
If you find that chemical exfoliators maybe sting your face a bit too much,
mixing it in with your moisturizer
can help you kind of eventually get to that stage ofusing a chemical exfoliator in a tone of stage on its own.
You can actually already buy moisturizers with built-in AHA, BHA, even PHAs
but I like having the two separate
because like I said if you eventually do get to that stage where you're not so sensitive to it,
you can use it at different stages
and you kind of reap the benefits of it more in its kind of own stage.
But yeah, mixing the two means
technically, you're kind of skipping a step in time
but you still get all the steps you need.
So yeah, they're my few little like tips and tricks
that I do all the time that I've kind of picked up along the way.
Again, these aren't like professional tips
but they are things I personally like to do
that I find generally help with the appearance of my skin.
So, I hope you like that guys.
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