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- Let's take all this down, shall we?
I've always been a product junkie,
whole life, my mom used to sell Avon products,
so I'm talking like six-year-old DeWanda
really investigated you know, moisturizer
and Skin So Soft.
I don't wear makeup every day.
I only started wearing it for my job,
so this first thing I'm using, it's Estee Lauder
Take It Away Makeup Removal Oil.
They recommend breaking up your makeup with oil
before you actually use soap to wash it off.
Fun fact, I learned how to put on lashes
for a play in 2013
so that I could dramatically do this.
And then I wept, it was great.
I did it before Viola, I'm just gonna say that,
I love you Viola Davis, just kidding.
And this, I try to be a little courteous,
especially when I'm at a hotel or out of town,
this is like just a makeup towel,
so I don't destroy their white washcloths.
You know, I come from a family of cleaning ladies
so courtesy is contagious, guys, be considerate.
Okay, so the next thing I do even though it looks
like my face is completely clean is actually
clean my face.
And I found out about this cleansing gel
from working on set, you know.
A lot of the makeup artists who work on these sets
kind of have to be experts so they spent a lot of time,
trial and error, seeing what works for actors,
what doesn't break them out the next day.
Usually the stuff is vegan, it's not tested on animals,
so you know, I usually stick to a kind of,
a gentler formula.
And now, I'm going to use this aggressive thing.
This is my brush.
So I got this, I feel like it was only a couple
of months ago, again, product junkie.
Anytime there's a new fad or new thing,
I'm into it, I'm gonna try it.
Sometimes it works out, sometimes it does not,
but I have found that in terms of a daily exfoliant,
it's really effective, you know.
My skin, especially going from New York to L.A.
Can be a bit finicky, and I have less drying
and flaking if I make sure I exfoliate,
and I don't do this every day, I do this
about every other day, so like Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
So I rinse my soap off with hot water,
because right after I rinse, I prefer to do a mask
and a steam.
This is a mask I picked up at Target.
Again, I don't have sensitive skin
so I just try whatever I'm interested in.
This one is ginger, vitamin C, it's supposed to be
really good for dark spots and tones.
A lot of times I try to find one that's really good
for inflammation, because traveling
and also all the makeup and you know,
when I decide to not eat well,
it can wreak havoc and really inflame the pores.
So I cut the middle so that it can really get
under the eyes here, you know?
I try to moisturize here a lot
'cause I get dry here, and my noise
and like this area.
I got this guy on Amazon, as you do with everything,
you know, it's the best worst so it'll get there
the next day but at what cost?
And my esthetician, 'cause how else would I discover
that I should get a steamer, says that you're supposed
to put the mask on first so then everything in the mask
can actually penetrate into the skin
when you steam, it makes sense.
You know, it's science.
So this steam is hot steam, it heats up super fast,
it's actually way too close to my face right now
so be careful of that, and I think you're not
supposed to do, you don't really need to do
more than 10 minutes of steaming.
This one's self-timed.
All right, so now we're done with the steam.
Ideally, before you take the mask off,
especially if you use hot steam,
you take like ice or an ice roller
and you just gently close the pores back up.
This is a daily hydration overnight face oil.
Use an oil first or some kind of serum,
you know, whatever brings you joy.
And after your oil, you take your favorite moisturizer,
good old fashioned moisturizer.
You don't need too much because obviously
the oil does the trick.
And you finish it all off in upward motions.
Can you tell I go to get facials a lot?
And of course, because I never tell lies,
before hitting bed, duh.
Gotta protect that hair.
(sighs)
Self-love at its finest.
All right, thanks for joining me.
I am going to sleep.