Hi, my name is Tia Ward and you are tuned into my series the model's corner.
Today's video is going to be about bedtime beauty, and then things that we do before
we go to bed to make sure our skin is clean, prepped, and ready to roll for the day after.
[music] At the end of the day when I come home and
I have makeup on my face and I have been on the tube and I have city grime all in my pores,
when I get home I like to cleanse and at the moment I am using the Clarins.
It is in French, so I am not going to attempt to pronounce it.
But it is the cleansing milk and it is for combination oily skin.
It looks like this and it is a great cream.
It is really light weight and I just slather it on, almost like you would do your moisturizer
really.
I just get right up in there.
This takes off the first layer and loosens up all of your makeup and makes it a lot easier
to dissolve.
To remove this, I use a muslin cloth.
I am as gentle as I can be.
It has just been dipped into some really warm water.
Nothing too hot because you do not want to irritate your skin too much.
You are trying to calm it down, rather than making it aggravated.
So that is the first layer, but a trick that I would like to share with you is that I always
cleanse twice because the first time never really gets the grime off.
So we do that again.
I take it down to my neck as well on the second cleanse a little bit.
So the next stage is the toning.
Now this is the counterpart for the cleanser.
I try to use the same toner and cleanser from a duo pack if I can because the ingredients
are formulated to work together, and to work at their best, and to optimize each other.
So this is the toning lotion with iris.
It is alcohol free.
Soak a cotton pad in a little bit.
Again you do not need a lot, and just in swooping motions, I just swipe it all over my skin
and as you can see, the cleanser does not get rid of everything.
So the toner is like the second part of the step to really clean your pores and make sure
that there is nothing left clogging them and I will repeat this step until there is no
more product on the cotton ball so I am going to give it one more shot.
We should be good after this.
I will make sure that I list all of the products below in the description box as well.
So for me, I like to remove my eye makeup with an oily cleanser.
Now this one is from Clarins and it is the instant eye makeup remover.
It has two different layers to it and you have to shake it to activate it.
I unscrew the lid and I douse another cotton ball pad in it.
First I would just hold it over my eyelid just to loosen up the product especially if
you are wearing like a waterproof mascara.
It is nice just to leave it on there to soak in so that it makes the product easier to
wipe away.
So again with the other eye, I would just hold it over and soak the lashes for a little
while and then pull down gently so as not to aggravate my under eye skin too much.
Once I have removed my eye makeup, I just go in again with a little bit more of the
toner and I just remove some of the oiliness that is left over from the product.
The reason why I take off my eye makeup after I take off my foundation is that I find that
when I remove my mascara onto my foundation, it is harder to get the black off of the under
eye skin and I do not want to pull too much.
When your face is completely clean and you have finished cleansing and toning and removing
your eye makeup, the next step, for me personally, is to use an oil.
Now I love this midnight recovery complex by Kiehl's.
It is a really light weight oil formula and it comes with a little pipette which you load
the oil into.
I put it on my hand first, a few drops.
Rub it into my palms and press it into my face.
Then I take my fingertips and just give it a good rub in.
The thing I like to do now is to apply something to my lips.
Now I am an avid fan of Elizabeth Arden's eight hour cream.
It is the original lip salve and it is a skin protectant, I think, by nature.
But over the years makeup artists have put them in their kit and they use them religiously
for models who run around backstage with chapped lips from the cold.
So that is just to keep your lips hydrated overnight.
I also love Estee Lauder's advanced night repair which is more of a serum.
They call it a recovery complex, but it is more like a serum and this also comes with
a pipette lid and I, again, put that in my palm.
Just a little squeeze.
This stuff is a bit expensive so I try and be sparing with it.
I have rubbed them into my palms again and I just swipe gently over the top.
I always lift up from my neck with these products and in a sweeping motion outwards and upwards
because you do not want to drag your skin down and help gravity along its process.
Another thing I use, which is my secret weapon, is Strivectin's advanced night repair.
Now this is a retinol cream and it is like a miracle worker.
It has two purposes.
Firstly, it tackles signs of aging so if you are in your mid twenties and you are getting
the first signs of fine lines or sort of starting to see dehydration, then this cream is incredibly
good for you.
I also use it because, suffering from bad skin, it has retinol in it which is a derivative
of vitamin A and this really helps blemishes.
It helps to even out your skin.
It helps pigmentation.
It is a brilliant all rounder.
So I will use the tiniest amount and again just pat it into the sockets around my eyes
and just rub it gently into the rest of my skin.
You can get this in Space NK, which is an incredible little boutique with lots of different
cool products in.
So these are the products that really work for me.
I love them and I always come back to them because they really do work.
Just be aware that everyone's skin in slightly different and what works for me may not necessarily
work for you.
It is all about trial and error so go out and try things.
If they do not work, it is not the end of the world.
If you have any products or you know of any great products that would be valuable to anyone
who is struggling with their skin or who just needs a great bedtime routine then feel free
to leave them in the comment section below.
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