Caroline Hirons.

"My mom and my aunt bought me the Clinique Three-Step System and taught me how to cleanse, tone, and moisturize. It was brilliant marketing from Estée Lauder, really worked well. I mean, it's not entirely true, but I suspect it was probably not as bad for my skin as some of the stuff they sell to teenagers now. It was soft enough for my skin, so I kept up with that. Depending on which clarifying lotion they gave you, clarifying lotion number one, fine, clarifying lotion three and four."

"One thing I do do religiously that's not very me is I am devoted to my ZIIP Halo 2.0. I have been doing this for six, six, seven months. I love it. I use it like four times a week, [...] with caveats. I know loads of people work with them, I do not, they have approached me about it and I have said no, and even though I love it so much, the reason I have said no is I don't buy the long-term claims of any nanocurrent electric current device. However, if you want to look better today, you will look better today for the whole day. I can look at pictures and I know if I've done it that day or not. So yes, I absolutely love it. They sent me one, I lost it, I thought I'd left it in a hotel, I bought myself another one, then I found the original like six weeks later, so now I've got two, so I do them simultaneously to save time. [...] I do it before cleansing in the morning, so I do it on a dirty face, [...] not that it's dirty, but because the gel [...] comes off anyway."

"I bought this on a whim in my hairdressers after I'd been for a blow dry a few months ago. Unite 7 Seconds Detangler, I love it. I love it more than the original Evader Cescon spray. It smells lovely and it works a treat. The London water is hard as a brick so you have to go in with something that's a bit more detangling. I spray it with this and I brush through with my big yellow dry by paddle brush then I put a bit of this on and I'll go in a bun and I'm done."

"So we actually launched it with the complexion clarifying accelerator. This was the accelerator, so you have a kit and you have the serum and then you have another product which is an accelerator which, you know, it kind of accelerates that process of fading high pigmentation marks, sun damage, and retexturizing the skin as well. Now this has a fantastic brightness that works on melasma, and there's a lot of clinical studies supporting these actives. Nothing is just taken off the shelf in that sense. A lot of research has gone into which ingredients we've selected in these products, and it is a sort of enzyme acid blend that is beautiful that works fantastically overnight to resurface, retexturize, and fade dark marks. Once you pair the two together, double whammy."

"I'm obsessed with the L'Oreal Paris Voluminous Panorama Mascara and I have to say although I work with L'Oreal Paris, this is an incredible mascara, absolutely incredible. I'm obsessed with mascara, it's one of my obsessions, trying to find the right mascara is the bane of my life because I've got tiny little stubbly lashes and I really don't actually like using a curling wand because I wear contacts as well, I don't know it just doesn't feel right."

"Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream - I swear to God, the smell of that. We used to use it on our lips, on our elbows, to put sheen on our skin, on our shins, on our eyelids. We'd mix it with eyeshadow because you couldn't really get glossy makeup products the way you can now. There wasn't a whole lot of different highlighters you could go for, so we would tap Eight Hour Cream along the cheekbones. Looking back now, it's funny how limited it was, but we made it work. All the brilliant things then are still the brilliant things now."

"It is what I would call a treatment moisturizer. I love the smell, I love the feel, I love what it does to my skin. It's not something that you need if you're young, but if you are 35ish, 40, probably plus, certainly 50 plus, and certainly nearly 55 and a Nana plus, you will see the benefit of this. I kind of use this as a hybrid between a treatment and a moisturizer, so I will do my face, do a serum, maybe I'll put this on, and then I'll put a moisturizer on top because I'm greedy. I love it. I'll always have it. It's desert island for me."

"I have six regular moisturizer empties used over a near two-year period. Our moisturizer I always literally always use fragrance-free when I'm not traveling because I am the guinea pig and I do sensitize my skin. I take one for the team. I generally use fragrance-free because then I'm not going to do any further aggravation. But it is my favorite moisturizer of all time. That's why we made it. My most used product. I'm not even embarrassed by it. The whole componentry of this product is recyclable. If we were to make it refillable, we would bring in a whole other piece of plastic. At the moment, that means you're using fresh plastic, and I don't want to do that. So for the moment, the moisturizer is not refillable."

"I use honestly any any soap I don't care and people send free cleansers and I use them but I'm less good about purchasing. I did purchase at boots though because I ran out of the theater and they don't have bar soap at the theater. CeraVe has a nice Foaming Facial Cleanser. Yeah I love it. I fell in love with the body. Just anything. I like a pharmacy shop so when I'm here I go to like Christ Street Pharmacy where it's just more, it's not just a basic CVS, just anywhere I can go."

"The Cream Cleanser is the one that I made for me of which I have four and a jumbo. Cream Cleanser is for you if you have a balanced skin, if you have slightly drier skin, if you're more dehydrated. With all cleansing products, unless it's really stripping, unless it's something super foaming, super soap based, cleansing really comes down to texture preference in the end. If you like the feel of it, use it. Cleansers aren't on your skin long enough to damage the barrier unless you are someone my age using something for my son's age. I mostly have fragrance-free with the Cream Cleanser because I'm testing lots of things and my skin is a bit more sensitized by things I'm doing to it."

"It's kind of newer for me but I just love it and I do think it's going to be my buy it for life product. I normally just get the normal size one, but I got the big one and didn't look at the price tag. It was $1,000, which is a lot, but now I'm just taking really good care of it. My only note is I wish the dispenser thing wouldn't get crusted on the outside. I wipe it down every time because this is my investment and I want the applicator to stay really clean. I'm so obsessed with being very careful with it. But I love her and she smells really good."

"Such a beautiful serum, it is incredibly calming and soothing, it is plumping, it is intensely hydrating, and over time it just helps sort of rebalance and you notice a difference in your skin and how sort of resilient it feels to actives. It's quite juicy, a nice juicy serum, it is very hydrating, and if you've burnt your skin I've even applied it to that. The amount of tests I've done is madness but it will not sting, even when water stings your face. A lot of work went into that bottle, research that I did years ago when I was in Japan working on topical skin treatments, and I have to put it in there because you'll see the results, it's so amazing. I've had so many people come back to me and say everything stings my face, this is the first product that doesn't."

"What I like about this one is it's a water-based serum, [...] so it goes into the skin quickly and if you have oily skin absolutely not a problem. [...] It doesn't kind of weigh your skin down so you can keep adding on the other stuff. [...] It's basically imperceptible, it disappears, and great for the summer. [...] I have very fair skin so I always get diffuse redness, and it's my go-to. [...] It really helps with my diffuse redness, that's surface redness. I recommend it [...] for all age groups and all skin types. It was originally formulated for my daughter who has oily acne prone skin, but we're finding that a lot of our clients are [...] reaching for it for redness, pore size, and because they've heard of niacinamide and want to try it. I'd put it at the beginning of the routine [...] simply because it's a water-based serum. [...] If you put it on after your moisturizer it's just not going to get in as easily."

"The Silk Serum is for firmer, blurred, radiant, smoother, brighter skin all in one. If you love the benefits of retinol and you love the benefits of vitamin C but you've got more delicate skin, it's got three key ingredients: upcycled cranberry extract which helps with skin turnover and collagen synthesis, sea fennel which is super soothing, and Hadasei-3 which is green tea, rice and seaweed that's fermented twice. It goes 34% deeper into the skin than water so it's able to carry the active ingredients down deeper to do its best work. It's a stroke of genius."

"I have a huge amount of love and respect for Clarins. If you've been following me for more than a day you will know that I have a long history with this brilliant French brand. I first used them in my 20s, I worked for them in my 30s, and now I'm telling you about their brilliant new version of the iconic Double Serum. Unbelievably now in its ninth generation and undoubtedly regaining its cult status, it is quite frankly a sensational upgrade rooted firmly in the performance Clarins is known for. Double Serum now targets signs of aging linked to lifestyle think pollution, blue light, sun damage and UV with five new actives and a potent provinal re extract that tackle this head-on. I love the luxe texture, the elevated peptide in squalane formula and the innovative new dosage pump. Use daily as your treatment step. The results in four weeks are impressive. After five years of research and six patents to reach this version, it's absolutely been worth the wait. The Clarins crown is firm, back in position."

"KJH Hey Shine Highlight in light pink because if you prime the face with highlighter, meaning put highlighters in as many places as you can, that light bounces off of the face so therefore imperfections will become less because you can't see them because the light is bouncing back. And so therefore you need less foundation because of that or less concealer. I can also mix that highlighter with my red lipstick to create a shimmery blush. It runs out a little fast, that's my only caveat about the product, but I love that one."

"My favorite luxury product would probably be the cream bronzer from Chanel. I do love a cream bronzer from Chanel, and there's something about Chanel like it's never going to be bettered in terms of packaging. It's the best packaging in the world, it's the best marketing in the world. Everything about it is just, even to this day, even though I've been to the labs, I've seen behind the velvet curtain, like I know what's going on, there's something about it and the heavy weight that sort of thing."

"This Summer Silk Nourishing Body Lotion, because of the texture, is tits and above. If you are an influencer and you live in California and you have billowing curtains coming in from the Pacific Ocean, by all means knock yourself out and film yourself putting this on your legs. Again, I'm not wasting it on my tree trunks. This is tits and above all the body creams I've shown you so far. I love this, very rich. It does rub in well, but there will be more of like a glow residue left. So if you like something that dries really quickly, go with U Beauty. If you want something that's scented and it's all about the experience and the scent, you're going with Summer Fridays."

"I'm currently back on the yellow tube Carmex. Back on the Carmex, hard to go wrong with the Carmex. The only thing I don't like about Carmex is the round applicator because it still got the round one. I would like a triangular shape. I've tried like the expensive ones, I've tried the very expensive lava ones and all of those really expensive ones for this, but like a cheap Carmex does the job. Yeah, it's pretty much the same. I don't want to put my finger in an expensive pot. I just want to put it on and it's done."

"I'll test most things on my hand first now. I did that with the new Ordinary Retinol, but it's so yellow. There's yellow and then there's this yellow. It's like my book yellow and staining yellow. It's 0.2%, so it's like the equivalent of medicates' Crystal Retinal 20. Yes, it's cheaper, yes by all means try it, but if you're going to go down that road why don't you get a slightly even more sophisticated product and do a dermatologist or a skincare professional and get a prescription?"

"I really like, really really like this eye cream. What made A+ Retinol stand out from the others and still does is that it has instant gratification for me. It's hydrating, you can use it under makeup—all of the usual criteria that I want from an eye cream—but it also has light reflective properties. That's not the reason I think it's great, it's the added bonus, so when you put it on your eyes go oh you don't look like you've got two piss holes in the snow."

"I only have one Retinoid 2 refill because I'm testing other things. My skin adapted and I needed something with a bit more kick. Our retinoid is fantastic. This is 0.05 of retinol HPR. It's a beautiful retinoid. I wanted the formula when we made this. I wanted the formula to be like using a moisturizer, not like using a sticky cloying retinoid that makes your pillows yellow and actually doesn't make you look a bit jaundiced. That's not what we do."

"One product that I was maybe a little bit nervous about but it stood the test of time and I'm really proud of it is our concealer, and only because complexion is difficult and I poured my heart and soul into it. It's really pigmented and it's not too glowy. I was quite specific about this because I think that hydration is amazing, everyone wants hydration, but in a concealer too much hydration and too much of that glossiness means it disappears or settles really quickly. The feedback from all of our customers with all different skin types is that it does not move but it feels very comfortable on the skin."

"This has been a one-stop shop for me. If I'm traveling, if I'm going on an airplane and I don't want to take a big tub of my moisturizer, this can be used all over the face. I love that it says what it does: real eye cream for face, concentrated eye cream for the whole face. I don't tend to go heavy on the demands of an eye cream. I want it to moisturize, I want it to be light reflective if possible, I want my fine lines and wrinkles to calm down. AHC is also affordable, nice, and available like Boots, Amazon. It's the workhorse."