- Hey everyone, I'm Jessica Matlin,
the Beauty Director of "Harper's Bazaar,"
and I am taking you to bed with me.
Well, to my bedtime routine.
(upbeat music)
Okay, we are going to embark
on really a seven-step process.
Seven steps I don't think is that bad for a beauty director.
I think, you know,
it could go into the 12 steps if you wanted to
with the essences and the scrubs and the masks and all that.
I've really pared down as the years have gone on,
especially once I had a baby,
I was lucky if I got to brush my teeth and wash my face,
maybe a shower.
So I've gotten really good at a speed routine.
I think I'm kind of the last one to bed now.
I go into the bathroom and it's like (sighs)
the finish line.
And really, I just kind of,
I listen to maybe like a bit of a podcast
that makes me laugh.
If I think I'm gonna linger in the bathroom for a while,
if I got in there in time, I'll burn a candle.
I love this one,
Kobo Candles, they make great candles
with a big scent throw,
a little candle nerd lingo,
how much you can smell the scent from how far it is.
So where shall we begin?
Cleansers are my favorite.
I really love kind of a cold cream cleanser,
and I have to tell you,
this cleanser is probably one of my favorite things
that crossed my desk in years in the cleanser department.
Maybe just like one of my favorite products, full-stop.
It is by the brand called...
I really don't want to mess up this brand name.
Omorovicza,
it is so gorgeous, I mean,
this is like the texture of a butter
at the nicest restaurant on Earth.
Massage it in,
and I'm gonna warn you guys, it is luxury product,
so it's big bucks, but it feels like it,
and that's the thing with luxury products.
I really shop all across the spectrum.
I love products that are $5,
I love products that are $50.
My first experience of luxury products was, you know,
I wasn't an active consumer of them when I was younger,
but I used to go with my mom to, you know, Nordstrom,
Macy's,
my gosh, I'm really going to blow your mind,
A&S, if anyone else remembers that one,
and my mom would give me the little samples
of, you know, the Estee Lauder night creams
or, you know, Clinique night creams.
I was like, "Okay, this feels like something special."
And I still get that feeling
when I stumble upon a product like this.
Okay, I'm gonna go rinse this off.
Okay, that was truly a spectacular cleanser,
because I feel like I don't even need moisturizer.
I could just hop into bed and feel fine.
My skin feels plump, moisturized, awesome.
But I'm not going to just jump into bed.
I've got a few more things that I want to do.
That kind of treat product,
it's not something that we can all run and do and go get,
but whatever feels like a treat for you,
I think is, you know, that's why I got into beauty.
It's that feeling of "I'm gonna do something special
for myself."
So, then I move on to my serum.
This is the Guerlain,
I know that I'm not French,
and I probably didn't say that as beautifully
as a French person, (laughs)
but I'll never forget when I said "Guerlain"
when I was first into beauty
and nearly got laughed across a room so hard
that I will never say that ever again.
How beautiful is this?
This is like out of, if you've ever seen the movie,
one of my faves, "Death Becomes Her"
with the incredible Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis,
Isabella Rossellini, icon,
Meryl Streep.
If you love beauty and you love to laugh,
you love a bit of campy fun,
please watch it, it is hilarious.
This reminds me of something that should be in that movie.
I'd like to think that that has the secret to youth in it.
It does not have the secret to my acne,
so we're gonna get to that in a second.
Eye cream.
Everyone thinks an eye cream is going
to make their eye circles go away,
their under-eye bags go away,
it's not gonna do all that.
It's going to really hydrate your eyes.
I put this on,
and I think it just kind of, like,
makes it feel a little bit tighter
and gives it just a little bit of, like, luminosity.
So we did face wash, we did serum,
we did eye cream, now I'm going to add moisturizer.
I did a laser treatment two weeks ago called Fraxel.
Fraxel is a very serious laser treatment.
I don't do a lot of derm treatments at all.
I do stuff once a year and then I'm out,
maybe twice.
Fraxel I do once a year,
it really helps with dark spots, discoloration,
plumps up your collagen,
but I also, for eight weeks, I was using this.
I love this, I used it before too,
but I really went to town, as you can see.
There's no fancy actives.
It's not going to like rock your world in terms of like,
anti-aging,
it doesn't have any crazy claims
that it's going to turn back the clock,
but does it make my skin feel really nice?
Absolutely.
Oh, I should also be doing this,
but I just want to keep it clean for you guys.
From the hairline to the bust line is where we need
to be applying product,
'cause the skin around here, very thin,
it's gonna age faster than up here,
but I don't want to have any situations. (laughs)
You may have noticed,
I've got two big buddies up here.
I have some adult acne right now,
I'm talking to my dermatologist about it.
We're coming up with some solutions,
but in the meantime,
I've been using my Neutrogena Rapid Clear Benzoyl Peroxide.
You know, it's like I noticed one, I got stressed out,
and then the more stressed I get,
the more they come to play,
so I do find that sometimes good old BP,
benzoyl peroxide from Neutrogena can nip it in the bud
if you get it right on time.
But acne is a puzzle.
I would never claim to say that I have the silver bullet
to end it all.
If that wasn't sexy enough,
let's talk teeth.
Love my Oral-B Glide Pro-Health Deep Clean Floss.
There's no other brand I will mess with.
This doesn't shred, it's nice and flat.
I floss almost every night with my Oral-B.
Then I'm doing Invisalign,
I think I'm over a year now, I don't know,
but because it's such a commitment
and because your teeth need to be clean
and you wear these retainers all day,
it's, you know, I get funny about it,
I like to keep them nice and clean,
and while I'm doing my skincare,
I'm letting them soak in these fancy crystals.
They're like denture cleaner,
but it's for your fancy retainers.
Then let's talk about hair.
My skin is done basically, well, up here.
We're gonna get to the body in a second.
Jennifer Aniston did a hair line.
LolaVie is her hair line.
I love that she didn't come out with a big old brand.
It was very edited.
It's all about this detangler spray,
which, I haven't used a detangler
since Johnson & Johnson No More Tangles,
I can remember the bottle.
And I know there are other detanglers,
but she came on hard to just come out and be like,
"Yeah, I'm doing a detangler."
It's a great product.
If no silicones are important to you,
this doesn't have silicones, but it has a great slip.
I have very long hair, it gets knotted like a little girl.
And when you go through those knots, you get breakage,
and then it looks like, you know,
an old broom at the bottom.
And I got this probably a month ago and I'm almost done,
and for a beauty editor to like blaze through a product,
that means something.
And then, finally, body lotion.
I have to remind myself to put out body lotion,
'cause it's like a whole ordeal.
By this point, I just want to get in bed.
But you know, we pay so much attention
to how much, you know, everything up here.
We've got 45 products for up here
and maybe a tub of body lotion,
but this ages too, and we want this to feel nice too.
There are two products that I love.
One, Beekman 1802 Pure Goat Milk Body Cream.
A masseuse actually taught me about this.
This is really nice.
Very like, it's thick, but not too thick.
And then another one,
if you want something a little bit more dramatic,
one of my favorite launches of the year,
and that's big, is this La Perla.
How gorgeous is that top?
It looks like it's carved.
This has a scent that really could just double
as your fragrance.
So you could wear it in the morning if you wanted to,
but at night it's very, very sexy.
It has like a very musky scent,
like a white musk scent.
It's beautiful.
It's one of my favorites.
So I'm glad we started and we ended
with two of my favorite launches of the entire year,
probably like longer than that,
they're just gorgeous.
So anyway, I'm off to bed.
I'm exhausted.
Congratulations to making it to the end of the night,
the end of the routine,
and I hope you all have sweet dreams.
Night night.