- Hi, I'm Nyakio Grieco, the founder of Nyakio Beauty
and co founder of 13 Loon and tonight,
I'm gonna show you my nighttime routine.
(upbeat music)
I love taking a bath and so I just got out of the bath
and most of the products that I use are from 13 Loon,
which is our new E commerce site,
where we celebrate, amplify and highlight
black and brown founders, people of color
who make products for all.
So last night was wash day, so I used this incredible
Forbidden Hair Mask by Bomba Curls
and it's so good, it smells delicious.
It's this yummy yellow color,
so I just applied this to my hair yesterday,
after shampooing, left it on for 20 minutes
and it just kinda gives you that silky glow,
so that was kind of pre-tonight.
And then before my bath today, I love a dry brush,
and this brush is by Gilded Beauty.
And a dry brush is just an amazing way
to exfoliate your skin and help you get
to that baby soft skin.
I always say that anti-aging is not just from the neck up,
we've gotta take care of our skin from head to toe,
so I use this all over my body and check our bath
and now my skin feels silky soft.
And my skin tends to run really, really dry,
so I love to use body oils and body balms after
and kind of give myself that extra love,
especially in these winter months.
This oil, I love, is by The Established.
It's so good, it's more of like a dry oil,
so when you put it on, it doesn't leave your skin
feeling greasy at all, your skin just kind of drinks it up
and it's just so divine and then I follow up
with this body balm, like how gorgeous is this packaging,
by Gilded, this body balm.
Look how thick it is, for us girls that are an extra dry,
this is my very favorite, so a little goes a long way
and I just take this and I apply it all over my body
and it just leaves my skin feeling hydrated.
It too smells delicious and all of these founders
just put so much love into these products.
So now we're going to move onto my face.
First, we're gonna start
with these Flaunt wipes by Laurent Napier.
I was never a big face wipe person
before I discovered these wipes
but I'm all about making sure that our pores
are completely clean before we start any treatment.
I'm gonna start with this and just kind of wipe off
the face and neck area, and then I'm gonna follow up
with our Nyakio Sweet Almond Cleansing Balm.
I believe in double cleansing.
It's borrowed from Korean beauty,
it's just a way to make sure, once again,
that we're getting our pores extra clean
before we start our treatment
but what I love about this balm,
is we use sweet almonds in it,
which are packed with antioxidants in the Nyakio brand.
So you're actually getting some hydration in your skin,
as you're also cleansing.
When you have makeup on, this really just tends
to like melt the makeup off your face.
Tons of makeup artists love to carry
this product in their kit, 'cause it's just
a really, really easy way to wash your face.
But I'm gonna make this even more of a treatment,
but taking a warm wash cloth
and kind of giving myself that spa effect.
Oh my God, I feel so good, and wiping it all off.
So if you have makeup, it melts off your makeup,
otherwise, it just kind of melts off
those impurities but it leaves your skin
feeling soft and hydrated.
Back in the day, we would think
that when we cleansed our skin
and it felt like dry and tight, it meant it was clean
and then you get a little older
and you realize, that's not the way to go.
So this leaves that like hydration and softness in the skin.
So now I can start treating.
So next, speaking of treatment,
I'm going to move onto the Joanna Vargas exfoliating mask.
This mask is so good.
I preach that we should exfoliate at least twice a week,
that really just helps to sloth off
all that dull, dry skin, help to reveal
that kind of baby soft skin, especially in winter months
and if you live in areas where you're going from hot to cold
and hot to cold, that's so rough on our skin.
So we just wanna be able to use a gentle exfoliant
and I love the color of this product,
it's gold, it makes me feel regal.
Joanna Vargas is an amazing esthetician
and she makes some incredible products
and this feels so good.
So, it's also cleansing too, but I can just feel
all of the extra dry skin will be removed
and will leave a glow.
So normally, I like to leave this on
for like 10 to 15 minutes, will brush my teeth
and it's still gonna have the effect.
I'm gonna rinse it off and reveal my glow, hold please.
So I'm back and I'm glowing like a light bulb.
So next, I'm going to use the Nyakio
Maracuja and Yangu Rescue Oil.
This oil is naturally colored green,
so it helps to alleviate redness in our skin.
This really helps to balance out our skin
and as some of you know, I learned all
my beauty secrets from my grandparents.
My grandmother was a Kenyan coffee farmer,
so I work with things like coffee extract in my products.
My grandfather was a medicine man,
so I learned about the power of restorative oils
from my grandfather.
He went out in nature to extract oil,
to treat the skin and ailments
and so these family beauty secrets were passed down to me
and now I'm sharing them with you.
We're born with a certain amount of oils
and then as we age, we lose those oils,
so we have to feed that oil back into our skin,
in order to maintain our ageless glow.
So, one of the ways I really love to use this product
is by using this new magical wand by Shani Darden.
Shani Daden is my esthetician and dear friend
and this might be one of the best tools
I've ever used in my life.
This is her new sculpting wand and it's so great.
I'm gonna show you how I use it.
So I've just applied the oil.
She's got a gel that she sells
with this product as well, but I like to use my oil.
And basically, I mean it feels so good.
You just use this to sculpt and tighten the skin
and it uses sound therapy, so it's like so relaxing.
And you do this, you can go up from the jawline,
from the chin to the jawline.
You do this three times on either side,
I'm gonna finish this off when I actually get in bed,
but I'm just showing you just the wonder of this wand.
Also, I would say, don't neglect the neck.
I'll just show you, you can start at the collar bone
and move up and this helps to sculpt the neck
and jawline as well.
It also comes with another disk that you can use
under the eye area.
It's a little ball here you can use around the lip area.
So this is one of those things I love to do
right before I go to sleep because it's so relaxing,
so I'm gonna finish that later.
But then we've also got this vitamin C serum by Buttah.
This brand was founded by a model, Dorion Renaud.
He's so incredible, his products are so good.
And you know, I say don't be afraid of oils.
It's like I said before, as we age,
we loose those oil, we gotta feed oil back into your skin.
A lot of people think, oh I've got oily skin,
I don't wanna put oil on my face.
I tend to think you might need oil even more,
because that means your skin's working too hard
to product the oil, so you gotta feed oil
back into your skin to help it relax.
But this vitamin C serum, and at night,
sometimes I use moisturizers,
but I often like to use a serum even over my oil,
to just kind of help seal in that moisture
and this vitamin C serum is so great.
Packed with antioxidants, just helps your skin
when you're going into that repair mode as you sleep,
to wake up with that natural glow.
It feels so good and I even like to add
a little bit here under the eyes.
And speaking of eyes, my next step
is using this Joanna Vargas Bright Eye hydrating mask.
And so I like to apply these, leave them on
for like you know, 10 to 15 minutes.
Kind of freaks my husband out but I love it.
(laughing)
But it feels so good, look, I'm like a skincare superhero.
Oh my god, that feels so good, feels so good
and it's got a serum in it,
so it really helps to kind of hydrate that under eye area.
I love that it's not like your general
like under eye patches, that you get the whole eye area.
So what else, what else, I think we're almost done.
Don't forget your lips.
You know that people are always concerned
and think that the under eye area and the crows feet
area's where we show age first.
No, no, no, it's all around the mouth.
So you wanna make sure that you're keeping
your pout hydrated and this Dream Slip
by Sara Happ, is so good.
You literally wake up in the morning
and your lips are still hydrated.
I keep one in my purse, I use this before bedtime.
It's hands down, best lip balm.
And then my last step, is I like to add
a little extra hydration into my hair
and so I'm gonna use the Charlotte Mensah Manketti Oil.
Manketti Oil is also an African oil
and I'm very partial to African oils.
And this oil is so great, a little goes a long way.
But this gives your hair that little extra piece
of hydration and love that you need before bedtime
and viola, that's it, I think it's time
for me to go to bed, let this eye serum
soak in a little bit and thank you all.
I love sharing my nighttime routine with you
and sharing all of our wonderful tips and tricks, goodnight.