Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel, where skincare is all about
progression over perfection. Because, perfection
doesn't exist, okay. Today, I bring to you my newly updated skincare routine. Yes,
it's changed again but remember a few things, it's my job to
review skincare. So I keep, I need to keep changing my products.
If I said I liked a product two months ago, and used in my routine, I
still like it, I just had to move on to the next thing, you know.
Because if I'm not experimenting with products, I'm not getting paid.
So this is my evening skincare routine pretty much, morning as well in some
cases, a few products I would change out but I'll do a morning
routine another time. There is a sponsored product in today's
video, that is the Dermatica Azelaic Acid 20%
cream. I've actually... where's the, hang on. So, I actually use this right at the end
of my routine, and I'll tell you why, I'm going to talk about it now but I've
actually been using this. So this is the lab sample they sent me, which I feel was
like, maybe before Christmas, I feel like it
was ages ago. Along with a few other things, which I don't think are released
yet either. But this is, this is it. This is it here.
So if you don't know who Dermatica are, they are prescription skincare service,
who work with a dermatology team. They help analyze your skin for free, and give
you a prescription formula that you can't get over the counter.
But this is their first ever over-the-counter product, and I'm,
I really love it. So Azelaic Acid is effective between 10 and 20%.
I've been using a 10%, and you can't get 20% over the counter. So this is
actually the first 20% Azelaic Acid over-the-counter product.
So this cream helps reduce the appearance of redness, and breakouts.
Helps fade dark spots, and blemishes, and also refines
skin tone, and texture. This is a high strength active but it's really,
really, it's not intrusive like, whenever I see 20% anything, I'm like I
don't need 20%, it's going to sting, it's going to hurt.
This doesn't at all. So not only is this great at reducing redness, which is why I
use it but it's also got barrier repairing
ingredients. So you've got Ceramides, and Glycerin in there as well, Glycerin
acting as a humectant, and keeping your skin nice, and hydrated.
A lot of the Azelaic Acid products, and creams I've used before are quite
mattifying, and I don't like that, so this is something different and
what I prefer for my, the finish of my skin. Also, this works as a very gentle
leave-on exfoliant, really helping, me personally, with those
like little, pustules that you get with rosacea, especially on the cheek area, and
on the tip of the nose, and that's why I initially
looked into Azelaic Acid for my rosacea, and I can see
like, I'm always in front of the camera, and I've got my big monitor here, I can see
the redness going. I have been using this for quite a few
months now, I would say alongside IPL but I've not had an IPL treatment
since I've, I've got this, you know. For Covid reasons, I've not been able to go
into London. And I have to say, I do feel like it's been helping with my flushing.
When I flush up it looks less red, and aggressive, and more like a
cute like, oh I'm shy, you know, like little,
little red cheeks, rather than just pure angry red flushing. So
I really like this. I will show you how I use it later. And
Dermatica have very kindly given us 25% off, and all you have to do to claim that
is click the link in the description box
down below. I might use it myself. So yes, okay, so...
what? So evening routine. I use my cleansing balm, and my cleanser. I have to
be honest, I'm just reaching for anything at the moment when it comes to either,
because I only have the Farmacy Cleansing Balm,
and the Deviant Skincare Cleansing Balm. Both of them I absolutely love. The
Deviant Cleansing Balm is a little bit more gentle in my opinion,
and I do find when I've been layering, and layering sunscreen
it does tend to, the Deviant Cleansing Balm, helps get rid of those layers a lot
easier, if that makes sense, with less massaging time.
Why was I out of breath? What was that? Cleanser I've been loving is the Fourth
Ray Beauty Cloud Bank Cleanser, this is just really
gentle on the skin, it feels like a watered down moisturizer,
that's how I would describe the texture, and the feel. Washes away very easily. It
leaves your skin feeling nice, and plump, and untouched,
which is what I always opt for in a cleanser.
It's got loads of humectants in, we've got Glycerin Hyaluronic Acid, what else
has it got in it... and a few oils as well. I'm kind of, I kind of feel faffy about
the cleanses at the moment. I've tried a few which I'm going to talk about in a
new video but other than the Krave Beauty Cleanser, I'm still to find a
cleanser that I'm like, oh wow this is perfect.
So, these go in okay. As always, I like to dampen my skin
between the occasional product. I've been using the Jordan Samuel Skin
Hydrate, The Mist. As you can see, I've been using
a fair bit of it, it's turning into an expensive habit
but I just mist my face with this.
So what I love about the whole of the Jordan Samuel Skin Hydrate
line actually, is that it's not just packed full of Hyaluronic Acid, like you
know, we, we've got five to seven different
versions of Hyaluronic Acid in this product,
is what usually, hydrating products are nowadays. This has some lovely
ingredients, like your Glycerin. Obviously, you have Hyaluronic Acid but
then you have Cucumber Fruit Extract. The Cucumber
Extract is really soothing, and this gives an instant cooling feel on the
face, and it's just got this nice like,
slight thickness to it, without being gloopy. So then I go straight into...
oh, this is a new toner I've been trying. Well toning lotion this
is. This is the Good Light Moon Glow Milky Toning
Lotion. So this has some ingredients we're familiar with, so Niacinamide
helping to even out your tone, brighten your skin, make it look more awake, and
alive, helps with redness. I personally use
it for redness, and helping control sebum production.
Generous. generous amount. We then also have Ceramides as well
again, just helping to repair, restore, and keep that skin barrier extra healthy.
This also has Snow Mushroom, which a lot of brands are putting in now but
it's really, oh god. But again, it's kind of like
Hyaluronic Acid in the sense that, it's a humectant,
and holds on to hydration. I would describe this as almost like
Laneige Cream Skin Refiner but kind of like, all skin friendly. Like
sometimes, I can find the Cream Skin Refiner a little bit
heavy, or a little bit oily in a way. Even though, even though it's not oily, like
it's not an oil, it's just on my oily skin, can feel a little bit... I'm gonna put
more on. It can just feel a little bit heavy,
whereas this is super, super light. Milky lotion it was like the
perfect way to describe it but yeah, I love it. I've been using this non-stop
for about a week now, so still in the first impressions
kind of phase, it's got like a few natural kind of exfoliants in there as
well but very, very gentle. So whilst my skin
is dewy, and hydrated still, I'm gonna go in
with the AXIS-Y Artichoke Intensive Skin
Barrier Ampoule. Again, still concentrating on skin barrier,
all the kind of like, not damage I do to my skin, but I just tend to
want to look after it with all the products that I use,
just in case, you know. AXIS-Y is a brand I never knew existed until they
gifted me some of their products, and I'm breaking out a little bit as well on my
forehead. So this actually has a little bit of Tea Tree in, which is good for
those pesky breakouts. For me, I know a lot of
people don't like them, Tea Tree for me, is one of those products that I
personally kind of rely on, for when I have a breakout but saying that, I don't
go and put like Tea Tree oil all over my face, you know.
When it's nicely formulated into a serum. We have Licorice Root Extract as well,
so helping to even out that skin tone. Everyone seems to be really getting in
on Licorice at the moment, and I like it, I'm here for it. What else do
we have. We have Centella, we have Glycerin,
Aloe? We have Aloe, we have Allantoin. Just nice, soothing, gentle
ingredients. And there we go, it's not sticky, it's not heavy. This is gonna be
like a nice Summertime serum, I can tell. Before I
apply my moisturizer, I'm gonna go back in with the Jordan Samuel Skin Hydrate,
The Mist. This is the Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow
Pink Juice Moisturizer. They do actually do a night mask,
like an overnight mask, however I don't
find it's as good as this, at keeping in, and locking in hydration for some reason.
I don't know. But yes. So obviously the Watermelon they
boast is an antioxidant, we have the usual
hydrating suspects of Sodium Hyaluronate, and Glycerin. Oh, it smells so good. People
always say that the Glow Recipe products smell
sickly sweet but I don't think they do, I personally think they smell like a
flavoured water like, you know, the scent is there but it
smells very diluted, and the smell goes pretty quick as well. Again, we have
Licorice Root Extract, so soothing. So yeah, we've got some nice
emollients, and hydrating ingredients in here but not
any like heavy occlusives or anything. So I don't know why
my skin always wakes up so plump, and dewy after this. Like, I feel a
lot more cared for than when I use the sleeping mask, it's weird, I don't
know. Okay, and finally, as promised we are
going to go with the Dermatica Azelaic Acid 20% Cream. So I'm
putting this over the moisturizer, as you probably guessed, to buffer it slightly.
I've used this not buffered, and it doesn't hurt my skin, or irritate in any
kind of way. There is a slight tingle, which I expect
for slightly higher actives but I just want to be super gentle with
my skin. So you'll notice that I haven't used a lot of actives at all, and
when I do, I usually do put it over over a moisturizer in general,
because my skin is very temperamental, it can love something one
day, then be like, what the hell is this the next, and just
freak out. And as you can see, it's not mattifying,
I've still got that dewy glow, so yeah. As I mentioned, I
mainly use this for my rosacea, so I concentrate on my cheeks. So, you're
meant to do one pump twice a day, if you want to but
I kind of use just like, the occasional like little
pump, like that, and then put it on where I feel I need it the most.
So in those rosacea, pustule areas. So yeah, this tingled when I put it onto
bare skin, it didn't hurt, it didn't do anything bad, it just
tingled slightly. But I don't get that over the
moisturizer. My skin's so reactive, do you see how red my nose goes, just
when I touch it. Just a little bit there. So I kind of break that one, one pump
into loads of little bits, and just concentrate on those little areas.
As you can see, I still have my dewy glow, there we go.
If you want to know more about Dermatica's Azelaic Acid 20% Cream,
everything will be in the description box, top of the description box down
below. But yeah, I love it honestly, for me I
know no product is really, really gonna heal rosacea over time but so, yeah. The
difference I've seen in the flushing, and the just permanent
redness on my skin has been very, very good compared to the
10% Azelaic Acid I used to use, and as I mentioned, those little white
heads that I feel make my rosacea 10 times obvious, and
just kind of annoys me to be honest with you. And then last thing I do, I got
laminated eyebrows, so I have to
brush them up. I'm going gonna do that off camera. But thank you so much
for watching, let me know if you use any of these products, what you think about
them. I'm still in the early stages with quite a few of these but this is my
current lineup, with a few extra things thrown in
here, and there throughout the week. But check out more skincare routines here,
and some general light entertainment here,
and I will see you over there, bye.