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hello everybody welcome back to my
channel where skin care is all about
progression over perfection because
perfection doesn't exist like skin care
had a huge boom in the last two years
right and during that time there was so
many like influencers and brands and
experts
saying the do's and don'ts of skin care
and we learned some amazing stuff from
real experts as well and then kind of
came in like the science skincare lot
who who i love they're amazing and
basically taught us that like everything
we think about skincare isn't as black
and white as we think it is there's
basically nuance in everything so i want
to share some tips tricks hacks skin
care rules that we were basically told
we had to follow that we don't really
have to and i definitely don't follow
any more let's start off with the first
one which i used to be quite a um
uh advocate for and that's not cleansing
in the morning so the idea of not
cleansing in the morning is that you
leave your skin alone if your skin's
irritated dehydrated stressed all that
kind of stuff skipping that morning
cleanse and leaving your natural oils
sebum whatever during the night has
grown on your face leaving that on your
face allows your skin to kind of heal it
stops putting that hydration off your
face and you kind of leave your skin
barrier alone and that is great it's
still a good idea like you absolutely
don't have to cleanse every morning
however as somebody who uses a lot of
kind of like heavier creams ointments a
melange of products that you know my
evening routine is the one i enjoy and i
layer up whether i need to or not i love
that i like going to bed like looking
like that glazed doughnut that does mean
i wake up and sometimes that product is
still my skin and what i actually found
out is i was breaking out a lot more
than usual just kind of washing my face
and layering in more than layering on
more skin care this by no means mean
that you have to wash off skincare that
you've used the night before who was it
who said like you have to wash your wash
actives off your face in the morning if
there's still actives on your face in
the morning like eight hours later
you're using the wrong products so i
personally like to give my skin a nice
cleanse in the morning whether that's
cleansing water not so much in micellar
water but you could use micellar water i
personally if i've used heavier products
in the evening like to use a gentle
cleanse that's where the sponsor of
today's video comes in make you you know
i love make they've sponsored me a
couple of times i'm non-stop going on
about their products i think their
cleanser wasn't my last video i think as
an empty and is that cleanser as the
perfect type of cleanser to use for a
morning cleanse the succulent skin wash
serum weight cleanser is a super
lightweight ph balance cleanser that
does a really good job at cleansing your
skin without leaving it feeling stripped
this actually contains amino acid packed
surfactants which i've never heard of
before to help maintain a healthy skin
barrier it's usually the surfactants
that a lot of people like to avoid
because they find them over drying and
stripping this isn't always the case of
course it's down to formulation but the
fact that you've got something in here
in something that could be potentially
drying that actually moisturizes i think
it's such a clever idea and you can feel
that on your skin this has sodium
hyaluronate a great hydrating ingredient
niacinamide as well skin barrier caring
i feel like not a lot of people kind of
see it as that kind of product but it is
aloe which is soothing and calming
glycerin again hydrating but we also
have prickly pear extract in here which
i love i'm noticing in a lot more
products nowadays and cactus extracts as
well hydrates the skin one to two pumps
i usually just use one pump in the
morning and it's more than enough to
kind of like glide over your skin and
then rinse away speaking of using heavy
products on the skin let's talk about
slugging now slugging is the idea of
putting a super kind of occlusive layer
over the skin helping to trap in all
that moisture and hydration so it really
is about creating that protective shield
over your face i
love this i absolutely love this and
when i was doing it i noticed my skin
was plumper it looked happier it worked
particularly well for areas like around
my nose up here um around these bits i
forget what they're called areas where
my skin would usually suffer from
dryness flakiness and even rough
textured skin the the products i used to
use like vaseline which works absolutely
fine cerave healing ointment again works
absolutely fine i started to find them
feeling like i would start dreading
doing it because it started to feel a
little bit like
like slimy like sluggy a bit slimy and
my face would start sticking to the
pillows and again i'd wake up obviously
with that product on my face because
it's not going anywhere and then i was
starting to break out more
so
and you really need to cleanse your face
before you do this and you know make
sure you apply your spot treatments um
all that kind of stuff before you then
put this exclusive layer over the top so
i found that it would still be on my
face and then you know i'd do my water
rinse in the morning and then um i'd
start breaking out eventually so so one
thing i'd like to think about is what is
the key components of this slugging and
as i mentioned it's just any kind of
occlusive kind of layer it's any kind of
product that forms a protective sealant
over the skin this doesn't have to be
vaseline or cerave healing ointment one
product i absolutely love again is by
today's sponsor from make this is their
newest product this is the hibernation
capsule overnight recovery balm and this
is essentially its job is to do slugging
so it's got this more hydrating kind of
feel to it though even though it goes on
the skin and you can still feel a very
slight layer on the skin nothing like
vaseline or healing ointment it's very
very light not greasy not sticky it does
have this almost like watery feel to it
it's very hard to explain in this kind
of bouncy textured product so you don't
have to dig in there either you're just
having to glide over the top and apply
this over your skin so yeah this forms
that layer in order to keep in all that
hydration because usually at night trans
epidermal water loss is at its peak so
i'm just going to read from the product
description it says it's formulated with
oligopeptides upcycled apple saccharide
and fermented marine
microorganism basically allowing this
product to work while you sleep and you
do wake up more radiant plumper dewyer
looking naturally without that thick
kind of like
wanting to rinse off immediately feeling
of product on your skin you know i would
usually wake up the next morning when i
use the healing ointment looking like
greasy because then i just have to go up
and go straight for a dog walk and i'd
be out in public like dripping all down
here and be like hey guys whereas this
is super light and you wake up the next
morning like you just supplied a normal
moisturizer in the evening and that's
what it does feel on the skin like a
normal moisturizer i've got on now and
you can barely tell i'm not like
and shiny so the marine of
microorganisms in here actually help the
uh reduce the appearance of enlarged
pores we have a vegan lanolin
alternative so lanolin is what you'll
find in these balms and heavy lip balms
so this is basically a blend of
triglycerides that derive from
vegetables whilst the upcycled apple
extract works as a humectant this is
really interesting actually a byproduct
of cold pressed juice so they're
literally using waste product in here
which i think is amazing i find that so
interesting but yeah slugging still
something i do
but i feel like it's evolved a lot so
thank you to make for sponsoring that
segment of today's video you can find
all the products linked in the
description box at the very top let's
talk about cleansing so last year the
year before there was a trend of the 60
second cleanse using an oil cleanser
which is a popular technique
estheticians are taught in esthetician
school and you know it kind of made its
way onto the internet it got popularized
and everyone's like trying it a lot of
people got it wrong and started doing it
every night it's not an every night kind
of thing but this is basically the
process of getting like an oil cleanser
a cleansing balm oil cleansers work best
rubbing that over the skin and then you
get all these little oil plugs
blackheads whatever come out with your
skin and not from that but kind of about
around the same time people are saying
no you have to cleanse for two minutes
you have to cleanse for one minute one
minute 30 seconds so i used to be in my
bathroom religiously cleansing for a
minute like this like everywhere making
sure everything got off my face which is
fine but also you don't have to do that
and i used to be so like so into it like
i used to time it and be obsessed with
it whereas now i just kind of do what i
think is best for my skin for example i
double cleanse in the evening i don't
need to be cleansing for two minutes
altogether whilst i usually do because
i'm like on my phone or i'm watching a
video i just take my time you can oil
cleanse for 30 seconds you can use your
second cleanser for 30 seconds but the
key here is to make sure you are
cleansing of course michelle from lab
muffin beauty sites who probably has
more credits on this channel than i do
right now she mentions in a blog post
and i think a video as well that whilst
one minute is probably a decent time to
cleanse you don't have to do this it's
cut a very interesting long story short
i'll link to her blog post down below
basically as long as you're moving
around as long as you're massaging and
getting in all those areas my 30 seconds
of cleansing will be absolutely fine is
there any con to cleansing for
one minute no other than it's probably
like for me the most boring step of the
routine i kind of want to get from my
bathroom to my vanity and in as little
time as possible but you know and
there's certain days where maybe i will
cleanse for a minute if i've been
outside i've been laying up my sunscreen
which isn't something i often do in the
winter or the colder months then yeah
i'm going to take longer cleansing but
if i've been inside all day
working i'm not going to be doing like a
full two minute cleanse there's just no
point quick one two three four five six
seven eight nine ten eleven twelve
thirteen see that already feels too long
and i wasn't even halfway through a
thirty second cleanse you know i'm
rigorous with a cleanse but a lot less
obsessed with the amount of time that
i'm cleansing for after being told we
must cleanse for one minute i talk about
this so often so so often but i want to
go a bit more in depth with this i don't
use vitamin c anymore there was a time
where i felt bullied into using vitamin
c not bullied i felt pressured pressured
is the right word into using vitamin c
because like retinol you kind of hear
all this stuff from the experts that
it's the one of your must use products
every morning use alongside sunscreen to
boost those antioxidant benefits clear
dark spots even out skin tone all that
kind of stuff it's like a must do and i
felt guilty for not having it in my
routine but myself and my skin it we
just don't get along with vitamin c but
the benefits of vitamin c the
antioxidants the evening skin tone the
lightening of darker spots on your face
are all very very um
important they're all things that i want
in my routine you know i do use one
vitamin c i've got it here actually this
is the peach lily transparency pro spot
treatment but this is a spot treatment
for dark um dark spots post inflammatory
hyperpigmentation which i absolutely
love and works amazingly but all over my
face i wouldn't be able to use that
you're not meant to but i wouldn't be
able to use something like that all over
my face basically serums for me sting a
little bit my skin feels a bit fizzy i
seem to flush a fair bit of vitamin c
even with the lower percentages so i
don't use it i don't use it i'm not
gonna i'm not gonna
but like worry myself into using it
there are some great alternatives maybe
not all in one encompassing product like
vitamin c but if i want the antioxidant
benefits i'm going to use for example
like niacinamide not quite the same
thing but you've got those benefits in
there azelaic acid my poorest choice
azolic acid is one of my favorite
products of all time as for niacinamide
the galactomyces and nice in my serum
from toon
toon 28 this is a gift from yes style
absolutely love it with azelaic acid for
brightening you have so many things in
every product again niacinamide is great
for that your exfoliations your ahas
alpha arbutin from the ordinary is an
amazing product that can help even out
skin tone um light and dark spots and
you know green tea is a great
antioxidant as well so whilst i don't
get all the benefits that one vitamin c
serum can give you i kind of get those
benefits not just in serums but from
pretty much combined lots of steps from
my skincare routine without even having
to make an effort so retinol was the
same kind of thing vitamin c i don't
feel pressure to use products that you
know science hugely hugely recommends
people using the skincare routine i
don't feel that pressure to use it every
day in my skincare routine or have to
use it like i used to so the next
product that i really used to be not
against but i had my own kind of like
thoughts and opinions about it that's
eye creams i absolutely love eye creams
now i used to be under the impression
that the majority of eye creams were
essentially moisturizers the same thing
repackaged you know they take this
moisturizer then put it in like a tub
that big and call it an eye cream which
some brands definitely do i just think
just what a waste of money i could just
bring my moisturizer up to my under eyes
and i'll be absolutely fine and yes that
did work then i used to experience like
really weird things like obviously i'd
get those little like um
milia under my eyes my under eyes would
feel greasy because the moisturizer
wasn't quite taken to under my eyes like
it did the rest of my skin or if i was
using a lighter weight moisturizer it
would just feel drying under here for
some reason especially around here as
well so then i just kind of stopped
using it all together
and then you can see you can see the
difference where you're not applying any
kind of hydration or moisture under your
eyes so while some eye creams and some
brands do tend to just repackage
moisturizers and up the price and call
them eye cream there are some amazing
eye creams out there that have
ingredients in that are specifically
used for under the eyes the brand you
skin recently posted a video on their
instagram literally i saw it this
morning before i was filming this video
with the co-founder joyce lamos at joyce
de lemos i believe her name is who is a
cosmetic chemist answering the question
are eye creams a load of or are
they just fancy moisturizers or are they
actually good so again very interesting
long story short what this means is that
a lot of brands will take one of their
very popular moisturizers but then
they'll add in ingredients that are
specifically targeted for under the eyes
the issue here is that a lot of those
ingredients are a lot more expensive i
thought this was the same post but i
read somewhere that the problem with not
the problem but why eye creams can
sometimes be more expensive is because
they have ingredients in like caffeine
this is i'm i'm saying this work like
verbatim to someone i saw this morning
if i see their thing i'll credit them
here but caffeine is a good example of a
ingredient that is very effective under
the eyes but also expensive in a
formulation so yeah sometimes a brand
will take their like award-winning
formulations like a very popular product
a very popular moisturizer from their
range put some actives in it like some
specific under eye ingredients
and then it will become an eye cream in
my experience um when there's like an
eye cream version of a popular product
the majority of the time the formulation
is also a lot lighter
under the eyes it has a different
texture and remember we can't just read
an ingredient list and then match them
and be like well they're the same
product formulation is a whole thing so
i do use eye creams the one thing that
has really made a difference for me is
the do a skin um forever under eye mask
i like disposable eye masks you use
these with your everyday eye creams eye
creams that you love you kind of put
them on your skin don't fully rub them
in so they're a little bit tacky you put
the eye mask over the top then this
allows for maximum absorption of your
eye products under eye products and you
can see you can see there's like a
brightness to it there's like a dewy
plumpness to your under eyes that i
don't often get from just using a uh eye
cream alone and i'll do this in the
morning or before an event or something
like that to be honest with you i'll use
it all the time i do all the time but
it's not a necessity i like to do it in
the evening as well i tend to not do it
so much i just use an eye cream but the
difference i see under my eyes by making
sure i'm
efficiently moisturized and hydrated
under there by using the right thing
that's the thing as well like sometimes
i just can't be bothered to find a
moisturizer that works under my eyes
because more often than not it doesn't
work under my eyes so i'm just going to
spend that little bit extra eye cream
and there are some really affordable eye
creams out there as well they don't all
have to be expensive so i'll link some
of my favorites down below as well
variations of prices so those are some
skincare practices rules must do's that
i don't do anymore you don't have to do
it no one has to do it no one's forcing
you only you know your skin and what it
wants and what it needs so if something
doesn't work for you but everyone else
is doing it don't stress don't stress
like i used to just let it happen let
other people do it and find alternatives
and things that work for you let me know
in the comments down below if there's
any rules that you used to swear by or
convinced you had to do that nowadays
you're just like i'm not gonna bother
leave those in the comments you can
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