- Hey, Glamour.
I am Tina Chen Craig, founder of U Beauty.
So excited to be here with you today.
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This is my five-minute fast polished makeup look.
I start with Elaluz 24-karat gold eye treatment.
I keep this in the fridge.
I like to keep a lot of things in the fridge.
You just dab it in.
Also, it gives you a little bit of that glow
from the 24-karat gold.
I'm obsessed with this.
Like shake it up.
ILIA.
This is a tinted skin tint SPF 40.
SPF, sorry.
It's a skin tint.
I just dot, dot.
Try not to touch your...
I don't want to contaminate, but my skin is clean.
Then I go in there with Jenny Patinkin.
I love this makeup sponge.
Once it's blended in,
I go in because it's not a heavy coverage, it's so light.
Then I grabbed my Jones Road Beauty.
I live by these face sticks.
I go between number five to number eight,
five being the lightest.
So five goes right under the eye
'cause I like to be lighter.
And here's my trick, I learned this on TikTok.
Pull it out, and then I do this.
And then I do this.
And then anywhere you have little spots, which I do have.
That's actually a mole.
And then I blended in.
And then I also take the five and go right under my brows.
And then for my brows, a quick brow,
this is Charlotte Tilbury brow lift, and it's dual ended.
I love this one because it's angled.
And what's great about the Charlotte Tilbury
is it's refillable and I'm using a natural brown.
It's called natural brown.
Another Jones Road product.
This is the Miracle Balm in dusty rose.
Just to give a very healthy glow.
This is Gucci Westman, Westman Atelier lip oil
that just launched.
This is a drugstore Air Volume L'Oreal.
This is good.
Okay, I think that was five minutes,
even with my jibber jabbering.
My fast polished face.
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Before I shower,
I give myself a rigorous brushing
with Joanna Czech's body brush.
And she says to always go up and inwards towards your heart.
So not only is this great for skin health,
cellular regeneration,
exfoliation,
but great for blood circulation.
So you wanna go towards the heart.
I always wear sunscreen.
And so to remove the sunscreen or any makeup,
I use a cleansing oil.
This is like my makeup remover step.
This is a very gentle from Tula, probiotic cleansing oil.
After I washed with my oil cleanser,
I go in there with any gentle gel cleanser.
I do like this one from iS Clinical.
I get the big size.
This is a gentle gel complex,
and it just really deep cleans.
This one bottle, U Beauty Resurfacing Compound
will replace six to eight other products in routines.
So after you cleanse,
there was always this confusion.
"When do I use my retinols?
When do I use my vitamin C?
When do I use my lactic acid, multi-hydroxy acid,
glycolic acids, antioxidants, peptides?"
I mean, it's so much confusion, right?
So this takes all the guess workout.
Now the body compound we have is the SCULPT Arm Compound.
So I like to go in there with my resurfacing compound first.
Joanna Czech taught me that,
'cause it's gonna exfoliate the skin,
prep it for the SCULPT.
The SCULPT is my dream product.
Creams are super hydrator,
is the most luxurious and intuitive,
amazing moisturizer you'll ever use.
I like to give myself two to three pumps.
Is a luxuriously rich cream base
with squalane and shea butter
that allows your skin to be protected
with this moisture barrier.
I use a couple of different sunscreens depending on my mood.
This is a Supergoop! Unseen.
It's a 40, which I really like because it's invisible.
And then I also love the Clé de Peau 50,
this like heavy duty, if I'm gonna be out in the sun.
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My top three skincare do's and don'ts.
Okay, first, let's be positive.
Let's do's.
Do use
a water filter.
Do your research and find a smart strategic products
that really work.
Don't follow skincare trends that you see on social media.
Don't pick at your face.
Don't wash your face with scalding hot water.
My hot hair must haves starts with the goop G.Tox.
This is a Himalayan salt scalp scrub shampoo.
It's an experience like no other.
Gwyneth Paltrow told me I'd become obsessed with it
and she's right.
Okay, my favorite fragrance, that is the scent of me.
If I tell you, you're gonna smell like me,
but it's okay, I like to share.
I like to layer
my Lys 41 from Le Labo
with my Kai Gardenia oil.
My biggest beauty indulgences
have to be my facial treatments.
I love Joanna Czech facials.
I don't even think of that as an Indulgement,
I feel like that is a necessity of life.
My best advice to aspiring beauty entrepreneurs
is learning that pushing and persevering
is different from never giving up.
I never say never give up
because I feel like if it's the wrong thing
you should pivot, right?
So instead, I say push and persevere,
I read that somewhere years ago
and I just thought that was so incredibly smart.
And you can push through hard times.
You can persevere through the rough patches.
That was so much fun.
Thank you, Glamour.
I loved being in your Beauty Spy.
Hopefully, next time we can do this in person
in London with a cocktail or two.
Bye.