I would always steal my mom's skincare cause
she always had the good stuff.
But now I have all the good stuff,
and she always begs me for.
Hi, Refinery29, it is Patrick Ta.
I know that we've all been stuck in our homes
the last couple of months and I've been getting
all these messages on Instagram asking me
for my skincare routine, but I'm just gonna
show you what I normally do on a day-to-day,
what I've been trying out.
So everyone's skin type is different.
Mine is sometimes oily, sometimes dry, just
depending on the weather.
I'm sure that yours changes all the time.
So I have all my stuff in this little bag.
And what I like to do first is wash my face.
I normally use this La Mer cleansing foam,
but right now I've just been washing my face
with water, just because my skin was getting
so dry, especially my mouth and my chin.
It's been like three weeks since I've actually
used a cleanser,
and I swear my skin's actually better.
I always want to look bright.
I always want to look even.
I hate when there's discoloration.
So this is my La Mer brightening lotion.
Take two drops of this and put this right
after you wash your face.
The reason why I do this is because I always
like to start from thin to thicker.
This is the La Mer revitalizing serum.
This is basically a moisturizer.
It's okay if my face looks super, super, super,
basically greasy.
It's good for my skin.
I feel like whenever I wear this at night,
I will wake up and my skin is looking really,
really, really good.
So I've been working with La Mer now for almost
four years, so I'm really lucky enough to
be able to have amazing products.
But also, there's a lot of great drugstore
brands like Neutrogena, Cetaphil.
I really like Cetaphil, just because there isn't too much in it,
so it's great for someone
who has really sensitive skin.
So this is the La Mer Concentrate.
I put this on basically my neck and
everywhere on my face.
I love it because it takes away redness,
it helps with fine lines, it helps with dark spots.
Now, let's put on a little bit of lip balm.
I really love the La Mer lip balm just
because it's not shiny.
I also like this Smith & Cult one.
It feels more of like a mask.
Now my skincare is done, I'm going to go
into my foundation.
When I'm looking for a foundation, I want
a foundation that is going to give me coverage
but look natural and basically blend into my skin.
So I think the best way to color match is
when you're in a store, you want to try two
to three shades on your skin.
And you should be that annoying customer.
Like, if you feel that the foundation just
disappears into your skin or if you can't
really see a difference, that is when you
know it is the right shade.
I'm gonna use the La Mer Soft Fluid Foundation.
And I like to use, seriously, so little.
And I'm using the Huda Beauty
foundation brush.
And I like to put this just like right into
the areas that I feel need a little bit of coverage.
I want to look like I don't really have any makeup on
and that my skin naturally looks like this.
This guy that I'm talking to right now has literally no pores.
His skin is so beautiful.
He uses this yellow machine that...
It's like, it looks like a jade roller, but it vibrates.
He says that it does something, but I don't know.
Now I'm going to put on just a tiny bit of blush.
This is She's Seductive from my
Monochrome Moment Collection.
For me, I'm not going to put too much on the
apples of my cheeks.
I'm going to put it into where I would
basically put my contour.
I feel like this makes me look so young.
It makes me look, yeah, just young.
Young is what I want.
So what I want to do now is my brows.
I have coarse brow hair that grows down.
All my Asians out there, you probably understand
what I'm going through at the moment.
I just launched Major Brow.
You want to spray a little bit of a setting
spray into the pan, activate the product by
putting the spoolie back and forth.
So I'm gonna really just coat my brow hairs
with this product, just so it can give me
that laminated, pushed up, feathery brow.
You can see that it's leaving this residue.
But don't worry.
Once it dries, it's going to be gone.
Just make sure your eyebrows are clean.
Otherwise, you're not giving this product
the chance that it deserves.
I swear it's so good.
I'm so happy with it.
And then what you want to do is just wait
for them to dry.
I want to put on a little bit of this, Tower
28's blush, while I'm waiting, just because
I like blush.
Maybe I'm putting on too much.
But it's okay if you put on too much of anything.
You can always just clean off your brush and
then just kind of blend it away.
For me, if I ever did that on a client,
I would freak out.
But since it's myself, I know my face.
I can just move things around.
So now that my eyebrows, I think, are dry,
I'm going to laminate them.
Take the other side of my dual-ended brush
or any other brush and press down and laminate
the skin.
So you can see how it's flat to the face.
Maj, not maj.
Comb the brow hair up.
I like to kind of keep the front flat, just
because that kind of gives me the shape that I want.
If you are to use this product, if you use
a brow pencil, I would fill in your brows before.
I would use the wax then fill in if you use
a pen or a powder or pomade.
I like to look dewy.
Not everyone likes to look dewy, but for me
I'm going to do a little bit of setting spray.
So, guys, this is my finished look.
I know that we are all stuck at home.
So if you have zoom meetings or if you're
working from home, if you want to just look
a little bit more fresh, done up, "I didn't
look like I did anything to my face, but I'm
so beautiful," this is it.
Three take away from this video.
If you are someone who doesn't want to do
too much to their skin, cleanse your face
if you wear makeup.
Moisturize before you are putting on foundation
just because it's just going to really plump
your skin up.
And I think use brows.
Thank you so much for spending time with me.
I hope you guys learned a little bit.
Stay safe everyone.