[calm music]
- Hi Vogue, it's Princess Nokia
and today I'm going to be doing
my goddess morning skin routine.
This isn't something I do every day
but this is probably something that I do like weekly
just to preserve my skin and make sure
that I'm always doing and adding things to my regimen
that prevent aging and prevent dry, or lackluster skin.
So let's start the [snaps] routine.
I'm going to use my Mario Badescu Seaweed Cleansing Soap.
Just a little bit.
A lot of people go to sleep with their makeup still on
or halfway on and not taken off properly
and that is probably like the biggest mistake
you can make with skincare.
So you always have to make sure
that the dirt in your pores are properly removed.
I don't care if I've been out till like 7:00 in the morning,
you best believe I'm taking this makeup off.
Okay, so now my skin is [speaks foreign language], honey
my skin is clean!
After like a really crazy night, I wake up
with a puffy face, my face look like puffer fish, like.
So usually when I wake up, I take ice
and I de-puff my skin and I specifically
go under my eyes and on my eyelids 'cause that's where
I get puffy the most.
So I've got my Aztec face mask clay,
this is for deep pore cleansing, and I use
a paintbrush to distribute it,
and I'm gonna take a little bit of this powder.
You really don't need a lot, you just take
like a little bit, add a little water.
Some people add apple cider vinegar,
you mix it up.
I love doing routines like this, like if it's cooking
or doing my makeup, it makes me feel closer to,
you know, myself as a person, as a woman,
and I'm a Caribbean person, so anything
with a bowl and a spatula, you can
pretty much find me doing.
You make a little paste and now you put
a little magic into it.
So before that, you gotta bust one of these out.
Honey, you're doing yourself a service.
Collagen helps maintain and preserve
the elasticity in your face.
The more collagen the better.
There is such a thing as too much collagen,
we won't get into that.
Honey, you will catch me on a plane with these,
on a train, on a bus, I've been in first class
with these on like.
Yes, I will have a wine.
And then I let this dry for about 15 minutes.
If I'm at home, I'll put this on and I usually
will probably clean my house, listen to salsa music,
probably cook a nice, healthy, vegan Caribbean meal.
That's like my me time, like Saturday,
wake up, play salsa, clean the whole house,
you know I love to dance while I clean,
it makes me feel happy, it makes me feel good,
and I've got my little broom and I'm like.
[vocalizes]
Azucar, all of that.
So we're gonna peel them off, you see it's dried.
The value of a woman is not based on
her outward appearance, so if you have acne,
if you have lines, girl I've got 'em too.
Embrace your lines, embrace the wrinkles,
you know, embrace the discoloration,
because what else are you gonna do,
are you gonna keep hiding it, you can't.
I like to always refresh myself
and my face with my sprays, and I happen to like
the Mario Badescu, this is the lavender and chamomile
and this is the rose and aloe.
I suffer from severe skin discoloration
and I suffer from eczema so my skin
gets really patchy in the winter,
especially on my body.
I'm very lucky, thank goddess and Beyonce
that I haven't really had it on my face.
But I have to spray this on my face
and around my body, so I don't scratch,
so my body is relieved by chamomile and lavender
and aloe which are natural plants and herbs
that aid in discoloration and inflammation.
So I do that and I do like a nice little rose one.
Hmm, the rose helps make me feel all delicious
and juicy and fertile.
So a big part of my beauty routine is
steaming my face.
If I'm especially drunk or hungover or I really need
to snap my face back into cuteness,
I get one of these steamers and I hold it to my face.
All your stress, maybe all the bad food
that you've eaten during that week, it will all come out.
So if you're Caribbean or Puerto Rican,
you probably know Cafe Bustelo really well,
it's an espresso coffee and it's a really dark roast
and your grandma probably makes it in the morning for you
and in my country, in Puerto Rico it's considered
a very neighborly thing to drop by people's homes
and always offer or have a cup of cafe.
So coffee is an integral part of the Caribbean
and of the islands and of my culture
and I take this into my beauty routine.
So I'm gonna just use a little bit,
the grains in the espresso are a really great
exfoliant for my skin, and I'm gonna use
the special jojoba oil that I got from Morocco,
just add a little bit.
So you don't wanna overdo it with oil,
so it's not too abrasive and then you add a little water
to the mix to neutralize the oil
so it's not as harsh.
All this, then I'm gonna distribute it around my skin.
You can use any type of like textured grain,
so you can use sugar, you can use other things
of the nature.
All the dead skin, all the dry skin,
all the patches you just, you get her out.
But not too hard, 'cause then you're gonna
make yourself red and nobody needs that.
That neck is really important, you start catchin'
that gobble-gobble, girl, and it's over for you.
I do this before any like big makeup application,
'cause you don't want cakey, dried up skin
under that fab beat.
The queens will read you.
I even like to do a little bit on the eyelid,
you know, like the eyelids get really dry.
It's a part of the skin that people never pay
any attention to, get them eyelids, girl.
Get them eyelids like your life depended on it.
Okay, I'm ready, cool.
Okay, now I've washed the scrub off my face,
and then I just finish it up with my daily moisturizer
which is the Mario Badescu Buttermilk Moisturizer.
Herbal Hydrating Serum.
And that is my skin regimen.
I wasn't allowed to wear makeup or nail polish
growing up so I actually didn't start
experimenting with like good makeup
until I was about 25, and I have really learned
and studied how to do my makeup properly.
So I'm gonna add a little primer to my face
just in case I want to put any type of product around it.
I like using the Elf hydrating face primer,
there's a lot of primers on the market but,
this one's my favorite, it doesn't have that
like off-white color that kind of looks
just a little weird to me sometimes.
Usually when I wake up and put on my makeup
for the day, I don't like to do foundation
because I feel like that should be saved
for nighttime or for shows.
I really like, just like having an actual face,
so, that's cute.
And I usually take a shade that is
three or four shades lighter than myself
because I like to get like a really crisp,
like under eye fresh look, and be very careful
how you do the rest of your makeup
because if you got too much concealer under your eye,
you get a flash photo honey, you gonna look like Casper.
I know 'cause I have been there.
Right now I'm using the BECCA Shimmering Skin
Perfection Liquid, it was recommended to me
by a sweet friend who does makeup and I said listen girl,
I just wanna have like this nice, bronzy,
golden glow every day.
I don't wanna look too done up,
I like looking natural, I like looking like myself,
and I just wanna look like juicy, fertile, and fab,
that's all, so I take this, and I come around here.
Just make sure that it's really blended in,
get into the right light, try to see your makeup
in natural lighting, bathroom lighting,
fluorescent lighting, and on your phone,
'cause different lightings, like this,
it looks good to me now but I could go
into a different light and it could look absolutely mad.
So just make sure that you blend perfectly, honey,
blend until you can't blend no more.
Then I've been experimenting with my eyebrows,
I know that I've had this ridiculous relationship
with the history of my eyebrow upkeep,
so as of the last year, I've been having
some good brows, I can't lie, I've learned
how to do my brows really good.
I have been really inspired by this like
brushed up natural brow look.
I use Anastasia's Soft Brown Brow Pomade
and I just come in with an angled brush,
very lightly and I just, I fill in what's not there.
Boom, gorgeous, and natural, you don't need nothing else.
So I like coming in with a little glossy blush,
so I like using this Flesh red colored gloss pot
and it's good for your cheeks and your eyes.
I do like a little nice highlighter.
I really like this palette from Juvia's Palace,
it's a black-owned business.
It caters to women of color and I think
that this is really beautiful to see
on the cover of makeup.
So I'm gonna come in with a little contour,
just to really give me a gorgeous cheekbone.
So I come in, we start from the top and just come down
just a little bit.
And then you blend it out in your face.
[clicks tongue]
Just real quick, give you a little touch of color,
you know, you know.
I've actually been preparing for my new album
so I've been doing a lot of working with my team
for the last few months and that requires
a lot of running around New York City
and a lot of meetings and a lot of
meeting of different people and I've always had
a problem with tardiness and you know,
that's not nice, no matter how famous you are,
so it's always important for me to just have
a quick beauty routine, just really quickly
so I can look cute, I can look presentable,
I can look good enough but I'm not
taking too much time on myself and making people wait
or just making my morning longer than it should be.
So I take this little highlight and I sculpt my face
just a little bit.
Okay, I've done almost everything.
I'm gonna draw on my famous freckles.
I have a lot of freckles on my nose,
on the outskirts of my cheeks.
What I do is I come in with a regular brown pencil,
and I like to highlight my natural freckles
and just make them a little bit more visible.
There's so many great beauty girls and makeup artists
and regular people that they do like a full face,
they do light, they do different colors,
people use like up to four colors for their freckles
so there's like an actual like range of color.
I'm kinda basic so I'm just using a natural brown.
They're probably gonna get rubbed off
within a few hours so who cares anyway?
It's like a constellation on your face.
I love a nice, gorgeous full brown lip.
I'm still trying to figure out
how to keep my lip liner on all day.
You women are witches, I don't know how
this stays on all day.
Honey, I'll talk and it's gone.
I just do alight line.
So I'm gonna, naturally blend it and it's gonna
just look like all one shade.
I got this nice nude.
And then I end it with some lip gloss.
So then I get my little tub of gel.
Listen, if you're one of the girls, you know
about Eco Gel.
You know about the Eco Style Gel,
so you get your gel, you get your edge brush.
Sold exclusively at beauty supplies
around the hood everywhere,
and I come in and just do a little edge,
a little edge control.
Sometimes my edges be playing games with me.
I can't get them right.
So I got my little edges out,
and this is my look.
I've done my face, I've done my makeup.
Bye, Vogue!