today i'm going to share with you my anti-aging skincare routine for mature skin
using the ordinary Hi I'm Schellea and welcome to fabulous50s today i'm going to share with you my
am and pm skincare routine using just the ordinary products this anti-aging routine was created for
me by the ordinary to address my concerns which is dry skin wrinkles and dullness and keeping in mind
it is the most complicated skincare range that i've ever found because there's so many products
and what i thought that i would do is get as many products as i could because they're so affordable
and layer them all on top of each other but that's the wrong thing to do it doesn't work
it's confusing it hurts your skin it makes your skin angry and it doesn't do any good at all so
this is simplified it's just taking the things that we actually need for our mature skin to
make it bright and alive and full of moisture and that's it we don't need to do a whole lot
of steps to get there it's very simple and i'm going to show you how i'd also like to mention
that i do use expensive skincare as well and i would buy whatever was the latest and the greatest
and i loved layering but when covert hit back in march i decided that i wanted to really
minimize all of the things that i was doing and i wanted to save money and i thought doing it
for six or seven months would give me a very good indication of whether it actually worked
and whether these products were as good as the expensive ones that i was using and i can honestly
say absolutely that my skin is as good as it used to be for sure but if these bottles were at 100
or more each i would think i was getting great results and because the higher price tag was on it
i would think it was doing even more for my skin so that's how marketing really sucks us
in it makes us think that we need to spend more to get great results well we don't first things first
for skin care for mature skin we need anti-aging element we need hydration and we need brightening
so those three things combined will give our skin the best benefits we can for where our
skin is at i'm going to break this down into an am routine and a pm step one is to cleanse your skin
so do that first every day anyway and then the first product that we're going to layer is the
buffet copper peptides one percent this product is anti-aging and it helps us build the protein in
our skin so we're going to build collagen so this is the number one seven days a week and we put
that on our skin and then let it set for a moment let it dry and then we follow that with the second
step which is matrixyl so i've got am that's for morning and this is the number two this is
the second step we take and this one is matrixyl 10% and this is also a peptide so that's going to
really contribute to the anti-aging benefits of our skin care both of these products are peptides
the buffet is going to be our general maintenance for fine lines and wrinkles and the matrixyl is
the more heavy duty peptide that addresses the wrinkles that we actually have always
start with the buffet and then follow with matrixyl so they're your two anti-aging serums
you put them on let them dry before you layer the next one and the next one we layer on top is the
amino acids b5 so this product is going to give us the moisture it's going to fill our skin up plump
and full of moisture and this is number three so a is am and three is it's the third product that
you apply and then the fourth product we apply on the top is our vitamin c serum now this one here
is an oil soluble vitamin c and we layer that on top that's our last thing that we do before
moisturizer and vitamin c is brightening and we can apply that to our skin and it makes it come
alive and it it really invigorates our skin and brightens it up be careful when you're choosing
a vitamin c product because this vitamin c which is the powder the pure vitamin c l ascorbic acid
can't be mixed with the buffet so be very careful to be using the right products together so these
four products applied every morning before your moisturizer in order is the perfect anti-aging
skincare routine for your morning okay now i'm going to take you onto my pm skincare routine
for mature skin and we're going to divide it into two parts so we alternate between protocols every
second day and i've got this all organized for you in a very easy to understand printable that
you can get at my website which is fabulous 50s dot co i'm going to go through the pm a days
first so your a days are going to be tuesday thursday and saturday first product on your
a day is the ordinary glycolic acid seven percent this is going to exfoliate it's going to get rid
of all of your dead skin cells and this one is an acid so think about it an acid is going to strip
away so it's going to strip away all of those dead skin cells and the ordinary has a lot of different
acids that you can buy but the glycolic acid is a really good one for anti-aging for the things
that we need other acids are good for acne and oily skin but the glycolic acid is what we need
for our mature skin and interestingly this product here is seven percent glycolic acid and when i
went to the dermatologist he made up a special um prescription for me and it's the exact same
ingredient it's glycolic acid at eight percent so i had to go to the dermatologist for this
and this was part of my nighttime regime and you can get it at the ordinary without a script and
it's so inexpensive and it does a really great job and if you've got very sensitive skin just
try using this once a week until your skin's used to it because it does tingle and that
lets you know that it's working and another thing we break our uh pm routine into an a and a b day
is because you can't mix this with any retinols or retinaes or retinoids so we use this on our a day
first and then we follow that up with our moisture and that is our amino acids b5 so we've taken
away and stripped away all the dead skin cells then we're adding moisture back into our skin
to make it plump so on day a which is tuesdays thursdays and saturdays these are the two products
you use and then you follow that up with a moisturizer to lock everything in so we're
adding moisture always at the end in the morning and in the evening so a day and now we're going to
go on to our b days of the week which is going to be monday wednesday friday and sunday those days
we're going to do these four products layered on top of each other starting with the first product
which is going to be matrixyl and this we use in the morning as well the matrixyl is going
to be our peptides it's anti-aging it's giving our skin a boost it's helping build collagen
so layer one wait a little while dry it and then we'll go on to our second product that we're going
to layer which is amino acids b5 again we're going to add moisture so this product we use as
the third layering product in the morning and we also use it as the second layering product
on the a and the b days on top of that we're going to layer our third product which is
the granactive retinol five percent in squalene this is what you would use as your vitamin a
type product so this one is anti-aging it's going to increase the collagen production in your skin
and it's what every anti-aging skincare regime will have in it which is a retin-a
a retinol or a retinoid so this one here is what the ordinary recommend
as the best one for anti-aging in their range this is a retinoid and it's less irritating on the skin
if this isn't available which sometimes it isn't you can use the one percent retinol which is what
they say probably a little bit more irritating for your skin and that one would be a step down from
going to the doctor and getting a prescription for a vitamin a cream which i have been using for 15
years so just another note i've stopped using my vitamin a cream for the last six months and
i've only been using this and i still am getting really great results i will go back to my vitamin
a because i'm doing this experiment just to show you that you don't need to spend a lot of money
to get really great results and in the last step of the evening routine is to apply the moisturizer
the ordinary moisturizer is great it's inexpensive and it locks in all the goodness so while you're
asleep all the work can be done i know that you're all very very clever but i just want
to show you just in case you're wondering for my the way that i label is i take some masking tape
and i just stick it on and take a morning color and an evening color so that it's not confusing
so i can look quickly in my cabinet and see okay it's evening so i'm going to go to the
red bottles and i'm going to go one two three or it's morning i'm going to go to the blue bottles
one two three four so easy and it's fun because it's affordable and it gets
great results i really hope that made sense to you i hope that it made you understand how to use the
ordinary in an easy non-confusing way for your beautiful mature skin if you enjoyed it please
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