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- Hey health nuts, welcome back to my channel
for another episode of Wellness Wednesday.
I thought for the month of self-love February,
we would talk skin care.
I feel like one of the number one questions
I get asked in all my videos is
what do you use on your skin?
How is your skin so glowy?
And although I really appreciate
all the lovely comments, I do think
the lights that I use make my skin look
much more glowy than it is in real life.
That being said, I definitely feel like
the routine now I have with my skin
has really helped with the texture,
overall brightness of my skin,
and the amount of breakouts I now have
are a lot less than before.
And for this video, I'm actually
collaborating with my favorite
skin care line, Luminance Skincare.
They are amazing and if you guys
are looking for an awesome natural
skin care line, kind of risk-free,
they actually have a free sample kit
that you can just get on their website.
Basically, you just head over to
their website which I'll link down below,
and after about 10 seconds, a pop-up
will show up to sign up for their newsletter
and you just gotta enter in your name
and email and then you will get
a coupon code that you can use
to check out with on their site
for the sample kit and you'll get it for free.
You just have to cover shipping costs,
which is pretty cool and, yeah,
it's just a really easy way to try
a skin care line without actually
investing a lot of money into it.
And I think the kit comes with the cleanser,
moisturizer, and their toner,
which I'll talk about in a second.
And then stick to the end, guys,
'cause I have an epic, awesome giveaway
for three lucky winners, so I'll talk
about that later.
And just to give you some background
on my skin, I never really had horrible acne
growing up.
I always had congested skin,
but I never had cystic acne in high school
or anything.
I used to use,
what's that one, Proactiv here and there
and it probably dried the crap
out of my skin.
But that's what I would use on occasion.
I was kind of using Neutrogena stuff
and all the drug store stuff.
And then Proactiv was just so expensive
and I don't think it was really doing
my skin any good.
If I stopped using it, the pimples
would come back.
And then over the last couple of years,
I've had two major
hormonal cystic acne breakouts
that literally changed my skin, the texture of it
and everything.
The first one was from, I can't say for sure
if it was the product, but that
it happened shortly after it, and it was
using the Dermalogica cleanse off oil,
and I remembered people saying, oh if you have
oily skin, oil is good for it.
So I used this oil cleanser from Dermalogica
and it literally made my skin freak out.
I had horrible
acne, cystic acne, all down my cheeks
and this is right before I was
going to Australia to move there.
So it could have been a combination of
stress and anxiety of the move
in combination with this
oil cleaner.
And then the second acne reaction I had
was from a rosehip oil product.
It was an all organic, 100% rosehip oil.
I was also thinking, oh, I'm just
gonna help my skin with some organic oils.
My skin freaked out, literally freaked out.
Same thing, hormonal acne.
At the same time, shortly after
I started using the oil I was like,
I'm gonna get off birth control
and I'm so happy I did, but
my skin freaked out.
It was the oil, getting off the birth control,
my hormones were out of whack.
So since then I've been super, super cautious
of what I've put on my skin, guys.
Even when I first discovered Luminance,
I was very careful, because I was like,
okay, they're all organic and stuff
and they have lots of oils in their stuff
and I just got really scared to use anything
on my skin that wasn't,
I don't know,
that wasn't something I've already been using
and I was comfortable with, so I really...
I put some trust into the company
and I'm so glad I did, guys, 'cause
three years later, I'm still using
their products.
They...
My skin care routine consists of 90% of Luminance Skincare,
because I just love their stuff so much.
It's high-quality.
It doesn't use any synthetics.
It's non-toxic.
It's, like I said, all organic.
It's amazing, it's handmade and you can
actually feel the quality of the products
when you use them on your skin,
because just me using them for the last three years,
my skin texture, glowiness, brightness,
has dramatically improved.
So I wanted to talk about that
in today's video.
This is gonna be a long video, I'm sorry, guys.
Okay, so first thing I do when
I'm starting my nighttime skin care routine is
I usually wanna take off my makeup.
I don't wear makeup every day, but
usually if I'm filming or going out
to something, I will usually put on
a little bit of makeup.
So I always like to take everything off.
And the first thing I like to use is
jojoba oil to take off my eye makeup.
And I've been using this stuff
for a very long time.
I just get pure organic jojoba oil.
This is one of the oils that my skin
actually really likes.
And I use this in my hair,
on my cuticles, it's an all-purpose oil
for me.
I take this a lot when I go for a massage.
I always get them to use this oil,
'cause I know my skin is not gonna breakout
from it.
And I basically just put this on my fingertips
and then I rub it over my eyes until
my makeup kind of just melts off.
It's amazing.
And then I will usually just kind of
rinse it off with warm water.
And then after that, I usually go in
with a cleanser.
And this is one I've just been using
for years, because it's one of those ones
when my skin was freaking out,
I used and although it has not done
anything amazing for my skin, it also
doesn't irritate my skin.
And it is this one from Laroche-Posay.
So Effaclar purifying foaming gel
for oily, sensitive skin.
I can't talk.
And then I use it with this little
konjac sponge thing.
I don't know.
It's this little facial sponge.
This is from Ecotools.
I will link everything I'm using
in today's video down below for you guys.
This is the one product I've been wanting
to switch to something more natural,
because it does have that SLS ingredient.
The sodium laureth sulfate ingredient.
Luckily, I'm putting a lot of moisture
back into my skin after,
but this has been something I wanna switch out.
It's just something that I've
kinda stuck with.
I'm just very cautious of what I use
on my skin, like I said.
So that's what I use to cleanse off my skin.
All right, and a new thing I've been including
into my regimen is this oil.
And it's funny that I've been staying
away from oils for so long and I'm already
slowly...
I've slowly introduced oils into my
skin care routine, because I find
oils can be really beneficial as long as
you're getting the right oils.
You gotta know your skin and test things.
Don't just pick an oil because someone else
said that it works for them.
I use the tiniest bit of this.
I rub it between my fingers, lather it up a bit,
and then I just work it into my face.
My face is a little damp at this point
from the cleanser, but it's not sobbing wet.
And I just work it in, at this point too,
I usually give myself a facial massage.
I've been doing this oil massage thing
about two,
one to three times a week, and I do this
for about a minute, just massaging.
And then, this is the best part,
is I actually remove it with,
I've been using these little facial cloths.
So I just keep these in my bathroom.
I have a whole bunch of them.
You can get them at the dollar store super cheap,
and I will just run one under hot water
and get it nice and hot.
I just lay it over my face and I let it
steam for a sec.
And then I just rub off
any excess dirt or makeup on my face.
And it's crazy, because after the cleanser,
there's still dirt on my face and makeup
and then you can just kind of look down
at the cloth and you're like, oh,
that was all on my face.
And I can't tell you guys how soft my face feels
after I use the combination of the oil
and the little washcloth.
It's like a little spa night.
It's really nice.
And since doing this oil cleanse
with the cloth, it's really helped to remove
and unclog a lot of blackheads on my nose.
So now that my face is squeaky clean,
I go in with a rosewater toner.
And you really wanna use a toner
that doesn't have alcohol in it.
You really want something that's just gonna
help hydrate and refresh your skin.
I love just misting this all over my face.
I also use this as a makeup setting spray.
It's amazing, all natural, organic,
and it just smells
like fresh roses are floating in it.
It's delicious.
I'm just gonna drink it.
After the toner, I like to go in
with a serum.
I think when your skin is still moist,
it will just soak up the serum even better.
I think I read that somewhere.
And so I alternate between these two.
One is a nourishing serum and then one
is an acne serum.
And these look pretty used.
You can tell the bottles are a little scary-looking.
I'll show closeups of pretty ones.
The acne serum has tea tree and matcha tea
in it and I find this really helps
combat redness in the skin.
I was using this as a spot treatment
but Luminance says that you can
just use it all over and it really helps
brighten up your skin.
So I used that last night and it's amazing.
So usually I use this as a spot treatment,
but it's not drying so you can use it all over.
And then the nourishing serum,
I use just most of the time.
This is I use 80% of the time and then
20% of the time I use the acne one.
But the nourishing serum is just,
melts into your skin.
It has tamarind seed in it
and it just feels really good
underneath your moisturizer.
Now for eye creams, I've been using
eye creams ever since I was little.
I felt like I wanted to
be proactive about those fine lines
and wrinkles and just making sure
my under-eye area is taken care of
and I've been in love with Luminance's
blue camomile eye cream.
This stuff is so soothing
and mine's almost done.
Luckily I have a new bottle, but
I've been using this one for literally
three years.
I use the tiniest little bit.
I use my ring finger to pat it in.
And it just melts into my skin.
I feel like it's brightened the area.
And then I follow up for a moisturizer
with their hydration moisturizer.
And this stuff, guys, you put it on
at night and your skin in the morning
feels dewy and soft and
it's just...
It feels like your skin's been drinking all night,
like drinking in the moisturizer.
And this is just an awesome moisturizer.
It's not too greasy.
I can use this under my makeup in the morning
and my makeup just sits really nicely on it.
It doesn't
slip around or anything.
And it just sinks into your skin
within a matter of minutes.
I love it.
And then even though I'm talking
a lot about organic skin care in this video,
I do wanna talk about things that
I've also used that maybe aren't
the most natural, but just to be
really honest and open with you guys,
when I do have a spot and I feel like
it's a big one or it's gonna be a big one,
I do have, as an emergency backup,
this little...
This is like a benzoyl peroxide treatment,
I think.
It's called Tactuo gel.
I don't know, I'll link it down below.
I got this from my dermatologist
when my skin was freaking out
and this has really helped with spot treatments
just for big ones that you know, like,
oh my god, it's gonna be something.
But to be honest, guys, I rarely
have to use this anymore.
I really feel like my skin has found
a great balance with the products
that I'm using that I don't have to
go for the emergency toxic
benzoyl peroxide lotion.
But I just want you to know
that I do use this sometimes.
So I will link it down below, but you have
to get this through a dermatologist, I think,
or your doctor so...
And I just wanna give a quick overview
on some awesome face masks that Luminance carries.
Not that I do masks all the time.
I wanna do them more often.
So last night, I treated myself
to an amazing, relaxing, Epsom salt bath,
and then I put on this clarifying French
green clay mask.
And it's the brightest green color, guys.
I'll do a closeup.
Anyways, so I just used it once last night.
This is a new bottle and
I loved it.
It just, I don't know, I just put it on
and I just sat back in the tub,
closed my eyes, listened to a podcast,
and it was so relaxing.
I really like this one.
This is the first time I used this one.
And then if you want something very hydrating
during the colder winter months,
their rosewater facial mask
is so soothing, guys.
Anytime my skin just feels dry
or red, or irritated, I put this on
and it just calms my skin right away.
I love it.
And it just smells really nice too.
It's halfway done.
And then last but not least, I always
have to have a good lip balm at night
before I go to bed.
And there's two ones that I'm using right now.
This Hurraw one.
This is the coconut lip balm.
Their key lime one is really good too.
And then this one is just from my friend,
Joy McCarthy from Joyous Health.
And this is her lip treatment lip balm
and it has peppermint in it
so it tingles a little bit.
But I will always have one or two of these
in my purse at any given time.
And at night before bed, I just slather
my lips with it and it's funny,
'cause Matt and I always kiss each other
goodnight before we go to bed and I'm always
like, I have so much lotion on my face
and lips and I don't want him to rub it off.
So I'm like.
And, I know, very romantic.
So, yeah.
Lip balms are amazing.
That is everything I use for my nighttime
skin care routine.
I hope you guys got some good skin tips
out of the video and hopefully discovered
some new products that you're gonna
try out for yourself.
I will list all the products I talked about
down below in the info box.
And then for the giveaway, I'm so excited,
Luminance is gonna be giving away
three $100 gift cards.
Yes, $300 gift cards.
Three $100 gift cards.
And it's gonna be open worldwide,
so it doesn't matter where you live,
you can enter into this giveaway
and it's super easy, guys.
All you have to do is give this video
a thumbs up or down.
If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up,
if you don't then, I'll probably have to
delete you from my channel.
No, I'm kidding.
But if you guys liked this video,
be sure to give it a thumbs up,
it really does help.
And leave a comment down below,
if you could ask any skin care question,
maybe something you're struggling with
or something you wanna know, leave it down below.
And Luminance is actually gonna come over
in the comment section this week
and answer your questions.
Maybe recommend a product, or just
give you some great advice.
I know even when I talked to them,
they can always obviously recommend
their own products, but they're not about that.
They just wanna make sure that everyone
is well-educated about skin care
and what products do for your skin.
So they're gonna be answering your questions
and stuff and that is how you enter.
So super easy.
I'll have all the information for the giveaway
in the info box and I'm gonna be
picking a winner on March 1st.
So it's gonna be running for one week starting today.
So get your entries in, good luck,
and I hope you guys try out Luminance.
They are seriously the best.
I love them.
And if you wanna purchase any of your own products
on their website, you can use my coupon code,
Healthnut15 to receive 15% off.
And I really, really am obsessed with them
and they know that and (giggling) that's
just why I recommend them time and time again
on my channel.
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I will see you guys below in the comment section
and have a fabulous day
and I'll talk to you guys later.
Bye.
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