Dr. Shereene Idriss.

"It's the Clarins Double Serum. It's just heavenly. It is nice. It is chewy. It is yummy on your skin. It also has a beautiful scent. So, from an experiential point of view, it really is all balming. And I think you guys should try it out or gift it. The person you gift it to will highly enjoy it."

"Clarins has a divine smelling serum. Yes, it has a scent, but I absolutely love the scent of this. It's their Double Serum with 22 plant extracts and five active molecules. It helps to hydrate your skin and hold on to that hydration. And it gives you a beautiful sensorial experience because at the end of the day, skin care is meant to be enjoyed. And if you don't have an allergy to fragrance, I'm a dermatologist. Go knock yourself out. Go use it. It goes for $95, but it's a nice gift if you're looking to gift it to somebody."

"I just fell in love because of the smell. I do believe that fragrance can play a very nice role in skincare if it makes you feel better. I started using it because I enjoy the scent and I just continued using it particularly on my neck because we all start noticing that laxity that starts to build. This is the Clarins Double Serum and you can clearly see that I've been using this one because of the clear chamber, which is interestingly the only one that has a clear chamber. It is an expensive one for $135. It has a base of water and oil so you can actually see the water and the oil and you have to mix them together. It does feel oily and it does feel like it has a tackiness and a residue, but I will apply it on my neck and I just love the smell so much. It has turmeric in it. Turmeric is not a miracle ingredient, but it does address some signs of aging and has some anti-inflammatory benefits. This product in particular has something known as organic giant prental reed which neutralizes the impact of skin aging from the world and environmental stress and it does give a firming effect to your skin. I would try this on your neck if you have crepy skin on your neck."

"Clarins Double Serum comes in a double chamber, a hydric and lipidic system, and it smells heavenly. It's a two-phase serum you mix in your hands, and when you apply it on areas like your neck and chest, especially the crepey areas, your skin looks firmer and tauter immediately. It gives instant gratification, filling in the cracks and crepiness. I absolutely love it, and the smell is just perfection."

"It has hyaluronic acid and hydrayed lime seed extract which stimulates epidermal thickening. So the combination of these two chambers in this one product is really like two products in one. Although it retails for $295, you might almost want to think of it as two separate products for $150 each. It doesn't make it cheaper, but this is one that patients come into my practice requesting and that is why I have it because the reviews from the patients have been stellar and people love this."

"I'm talking about SkinMedica's TNS Advanced+ Serum. These can help to stimulate fibroblast to produce more collagen and elastin and to help reduce crepiness and laxity overall. You can use it longer term for your neck and your chest. It will take longer for you to see full results, but you can absolutely use it. If you combine it with in office procedures, you will see results more effectively."

"SkinMedica TNS serum has growth factors, cytokines, and Matrix proteins that people swear by. This is a particular product I recommend for patients who cannot tolerate retinols on their neck even though they try to buff it with a moisturizer. I tell them just go for this for your neck or those hard to reach areas. It's a great adjunct to have."

"This is a tried and true and yes it is expensive but this has EGF, TGF beta and FGF, okay? And they're all human derived. It doesn't mean they're coming from human skins. It means human skins was put in a culture medium and that culture medium was then taken, filtered, sterilized and stabilized and you're getting that and that's what you're applying on the surface of your skin. This works best for deep wrinkles elasticity. I love it post-procedurally after micro needling, any type of radio frequency with micro needling, any type of frail. It really does help to renew your skin and works best for deep aging concerns and it comes at a pricey heft of nearly $295. But this is something that I don't necessarily use every single night because of the price. I can tolerate retinol. So I'll use a retinol on my face. But I may use this on my neck and chest if I do not tolerate the retinols, especially after I exfoliate. I love her. She's great."

"SkinMedica has their TNS Advanced serum. You can use this from here to here, you will not get irritated on your neck, unlike if you use a retinol on your neck and chest where most of you will get irritated. You can even find hexapeptide-2, which helps with fine lines in the active seal. So there's vitamin C, peptides, and moisturizer, also ceramides in this. This is purely growth factors and peptides in here. I can use this one from here to here and I do use this at night underneath my moisturizer, which gives me an extra boost."

"SkinMedica TNS Advanced Serum is a blend of growth factors, cytokines, and matrix proteins that can stimulate fibroblasts, which are the cells responsible for producing collagen, to increase collagen synthesis. It's pricey, but if you've tried all the rest and feel like you need more, venture into this. If you want something for your neck and chest and you've never been able to tolerate a retinol but you want something more than coenzyme Q10, try this, it definitely helps."

"It comes in a dual chamber pump and you get two types of serums that get pumped out of it that you mix together when you apply it. There is a very light scent to it, just beware because it does pill over other products that have actives. I personally use this at night on my face, neck and chest. I actually use this exclusively on my neck and chest on most nights because my neck and chest cannot always tolerate a retinol and sometimes it gets irritated. Their growth factor cocktail is made up of medium long amino acid sequences, which are basically small proteins that help your cells to signal one another to stimulate growth, proliferation and differentiation, which is what you want your face and your skin to have in order to stay youthful."

"The classic vitamin C that everyone thinks about is SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic, the hot dog sauce or the hot dog water. It is an OG. It is active vitamin C, L-ascorbic acid. But that's not necessarily for everyone. If you're sensitive, I wouldn't recommend it, because L-ascorbic acid can inflame your skin and that can make your pigmentation worse."

"The active form of vitamin C is called ascorbic acid, kind of like in SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic, but not everybody can tolerate ascorbic acid and if you have sensitive skin it might actually inflame some of your acne marks and turn them even more red which might make them more brown in the long run. So if you're sensitive look for a vitamin C ester instead of the active form. If you're not sensitive, knock yourself out with the active form, but just be careful marrying the active form to the next ingredient because it can be irritating because they are both quite aggressive."

"SkinCeuticals C E Ferulic has a great reputation for a reason. They have a patent on their particular ratio of vitamin C, vitamin E and ferulic acid at 15% L-ascorbic acid, 1% vitamin E and 0.5% ferulic acid. And this patented stabilization system has made it super effective over the years. But here's the tea: in March 2025, they lost their patent."

"SkinCeuticals, 182 dollars stuff right here, is it good? Yeah, it's good. Is it worth 182? Um, if you love it sure, but I don't think so. And can't they upgrade the dropper because it's a waste? You feel like you're like a rat in a race against time when you buy this product."

"L ascorbic acid is the active form of vitamin C and the most irritating form of vitamin C when you combine that with an irritating ingredient whether it is an exfoliating acid or a retinol or whatever it is it's going to have the potential of being slightly more irritating together and if you are sensitive you probably do not want to combine the two. The bigger reality is that vitamin C is not vitamin C across the board this is where formulation matters."

"Shani Darden has a Lactic Acid Serum that goes for $88. A 9% Lactic Acid Serum with glucanolactone, which is a PHA, which is better geared towards sensitive skin. It will help to refine texture if you're sensitive and brighten dull skin."

"Shani Darden has a 9% Lactic Acid Serum toner that I actually really do like, especially on the bumps on the back of the arms."

"Timeless has really good vitamin C products. These are 10% ascorbic acid as well as a 20%. The yellow one is the 20%. It smells like hot dogs, it looks orangey amber, it stinks. It comes in an opaque pump which I prefer to a dropper even though I know that a pump and a dropper both get a little bit of air in it. I still think the pump is overall better. That retails for 24 bucks."

"I absolutely love this vitamin C serum. It's extremely affordable. It is the active form of vitamin C and it comes in a pump. So you're not dealing with a dropper and it's not going to oxidize fast. If you've ever bought a skin care product with vitamin C, it turns brown pretty quick and that just means it's oxidized. We got to toss it. It's not going to work. At least here it's in a pump. That doesn't mean it has zero exposure to air, but the exposure is much less and therefore is going to oxidize much slower."

"This is the Timeless skincare line that is usually found at drugstore. You're going to have your 20% vitamin C and your 10% vitamin C. This is ascorbic acid, which is the active form of vitamin C. It is also combined with ferulic acid and vitamin E, which is the classic combination that you think of when you think of skin serum vitamin C ferulic. It is a very clear lightweight serum that smells like hot dogs, similarly to the C ferulic line, but I love that it comes in an opaque pump and not a silly dropper, so it is definitely winning when it comes to packaging and when it comes to the bang for your buck in that sense because it only retails for $27. Now, ascorbic acid is not for everyone. It can be very irritating, it is hard to formulate, and it is not one that lasts, so even though it isn't an opaque pump you probably do want to use it up in a time sensitive fashion."

"If you don't want to break your bank you can get Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E + Ferulic Acid Serum. 10 if you are sensitive, 20 if you want to go wrong and strong, anything above 20 is useless you do not need it."

"Timeless Vitamin C at 24 bucks is a 10% active vitamin C, L-ascorbic acid with vitamin E and ferulic acid. It's a great, very great price point and people love vitamin C, but L-ascorbic acid, which is the active form of vitamin C, can be irritating for many. Hence why I don't necessarily recommend it, especially if you have hyperpigmentation, because you don't want to make the hyperpigmentation worse."

"L ascorbic acid is the active form of vitamin C and the most irritating form of vitamin C when you combine that with an irritating ingredient whether it is an exfoliating acid or a retinol or whatever it is it's going to have the potential of being slightly more irritating together and if you are sensitive you probably do not want to combine the two."

"Azelaic acid is a nice one to add in during this step if you're somebody who needs an additional boost when it comes to whether it is hormonal breakouts or discoloration or both. I will preface it by saying that it stinks. Paula's Choice 10% azelaic acid at 10% over the counter is ideal, otherwise get yourself a 15% prescription. It will pill, and azelaic acid is one of those ingredients that I use at night and not necessarily in the morning because it's just not cosmetically elegant. I have yet to find a pure azelaic acid that doesn't pill, so you incorporate it at night if you have breakouts or pigmentation issues."

"Paula's Choice has her 10% Azelaic Acid Booster. It doesn't smell great but it's not meant to smell great. If you can't tolerate it, just use it at night. Don't use it during the day underneath makeup because it will pill."

"Paula's Choice has her Azelaic Acid Booster at 10%. It does have a little bit of an azelaic acidy scent to it which is not my favorite, but it is a staple and a go-to for redness. It calms inflammation, it has antioxidant protection in it, and it can help minimize the look of dilated blood vessels, especially if you have rosacea."

"Paula's Choice, this is a 10% Azelaic Acid Booster. It has a little bit of licorice and it does have salicylic acid. If you're sensitive or you think your barrier is inflamed, beware, don't go for it because the salicylic acid might mess you up. But azelaic acid regulates your anti-inflammatory properties and antibacterial properties and it helps as an antioxidant as well."

"Paula's Choice has a 10% azelaic acid serum that's great if you have rosacea or discoloration. It is not great alone though, you must use azelaic acid in conjunction with other ingredients, it may pill so I'd use it at night, and it smells a little powdery, but that's normal."

"Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Sensitive Skin Serum has a dynamic duo of Centella Asiatica and Panthenol. This serum retails for $54 and it soothes redness and strengthens your barrier."

"Dr. Jart has a Cicapair Sensitive Skin Serum filled with centella asiatica and allantoin. It has a light green color, though that won't really cancel the color of your redness, but it works over time to minimize your redness."

"I most recently came across Allies of Skin Multipeptides & Growth Factor Advanced Lifting Serum and this one, it's really beautiful. It is hydrating because it has phospholipids and glycolipids in it. It does help improve firmness because of the copper lysinate, but it has something called SH, which stands for synthetic human oligopeptide one, which is a growth factor complex that mimics epidermal growth factors in humans to stimulate collagen production. It's bioengineered and it is lovely. She retails for a whopping 188, but I will tell you I love it, and I've also been using it on my neck."

"It's Allies of Skin Multipeptides & Growth Factor Advanced Lifting Serum. It has 3% growth factor complex which is their complex that is meant to enhance skin repair and strengthen your barrier function, and it has a 9% lifting peptide complex, another complex made out of multiple peptides that improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It is very expensive, but I think when you're testing out very expensive products that have these claims of helping lines and wrinkles, test it on areas where your skin is thin. Take a tiny bit and just focus on your under eyes, and then this product will last a very, very long time and you'll be able to tell if your under eyes look better."

"Vanicream has a Vitamin C Serum which is interesting because they've used tetrahexodiciliscorbate. It comes in a very lightweight serum, very watery. Only one drop goes a long way. There is no scent to it and you can use it up to twice a day. This one retails for 18. If you are somebody who wants something very light, you can actually use this slightly under your eyes but you do not need to go and invest in a majorly expensive eye cream. If you are prone to comedones, I probably would not do this."

"Vanicream has one for $21, it is a Vitamin C Serum. Unlike for example this one, it doesn't have the peptides that this has, but it is a great option to incorporate underneath a sunscreen. You can use it in the morning, it is suitable for sensitive skin, and for $21 it is a great add-on into your routine."

"The In Beauty Project Elastic Skin Serum is a more affordable option for 42 bucks and it has encapsulated vegan growth factors at 6%, it also has copper and biohacking peptides. Copper peptides help with anti-inflammatory effects and help with the aging process. Just don't use this in the same routine as your ascorbic acid. You can probably use it with Ester vitamin C, so if you're using an active vitamin C use this at night and use the active vitamin C in the morning. This one also has no fragrance and it does contain HA as well. It has a light periwinkle hue to it and it is very very very very sticky and tacky, which is not necessarily my favorite."

"This one is their Elastic Skin, and it's a plant derived growth factor, epidermal growth factor. So what does that mean? It means you're going to get a lot of antioxidant effects, a lot of anti-inflammatory effects, good hydrating effects, but it's not necessarily going to boost your collagen, so just be aware. And this is 46 to 48 bucks. If I get asked do you just buy this instead of the other, they're different, it's not the same. It may sound the same, but they're different because they're derived from different sources. You're still going to get a benefit from this, but know what to expect and what benefit you are getting."

"The Ordinary has their azelaic acid suspension at 10%. Use it at night, not during the day. It's going to pill underneath your makeup and you're going to be annoyed 20 minutes after applying it."

"The Ordinary, this one's great at night when you have nowhere to go and you don't care who you're seeing. It is a 10% azelaic acid suspension. You do kind of sometimes have to shake it, I feel, but it appears nice and elegant. But it does pill after a while, so do not be fooled by the first impression with this. It's 11 bucks though, so you're not really going to go wrong."

"I use this one by L'Oreal. I always switch the dropper with a pump. If you have cold sores beware it can make your cold sores come out with a vengeance so I would approach very cautiously, but I like to exfoliate my lips with an exfoliating acid and not a physical scrub because I've always found it causes more layers of dead skin that I end up wanting to pick with my mouth and ends up being a bigger disaster."

"L'Oreal has their Glycolic Acid Serum at 10 percent. It has a long play time. It is honestly kind of expensive for 33 bucks for just glycolic acid, but it is a beautiful basic Glycolic Acid Serum. I do like it because it goes a long way. I like the texture and it gives your skin a nice sheen. It also has aloe extracts in it which helps a little bit for soothing benefits. I hate the dropper."

"The major fade hyper serum is the powerhouse serum. This is the correction step that's going to help to fade the dark spots and instantly illuminate your skin."

"The number one product within our Sephora picks for dark spots is my hyper serum. This is a powerhouse serum that comes with a refill for 68 bucks. Why is it a powerhouse? Because it has kojic acid, arbutin, licorice root, niacinamide, dioic acid, gallic acid in addition to the fact that it is hydrating upon application and it gives an instant glow. Now the instant glow doesn't mean that it's working instantly. It just gives you the oomph to keep carrying on because the name of the game is consistency."

"I love the Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum because it is a hydrating serum that also is going to target pigmentation and discoloration. It has squalane and glycerin in addition to the pigment fighting actives. If pigmentation and discoloration is your biggest issue like it is mine, I love this serum."

"Given that my biggest concern has always been my melasma, which tends to wake up, and I see dark spots as the number one sign of aging from a cosmetic angle, I'm always going to target dark spots. And that's what the hyper serum does. I go in with a little bit extra and dab it underneath my eyes because I always want to try to brighten my under eyes as well."

"The Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyper Serum is a powerhouse serum that not only hydrates but also brightens and then instantly illuminates your skin. I do not use a highlighter on my face. I just put this over my makeup. I actually put it under my makeup, but I add it a little bit over and it gives an instant glow and it is perfection. I've been using it twice a day every day since inception and it is my favorite product of all time."

"If your issue is pigmentation discoloration that has gotten slowly worse over time and you don't really have any genetic predispositions, you want to look for products like the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum, which has brightening ingredients: kojic acid, arbutin, licorice root, a little bit of niacinamide, and even the hydration through the glycerin can make a big difference. This is not a dedicated eye cream, but a serum for the rest of the face that is moisturizing, and it can also double up as an eye cream. This way you get the double bang for your buck, you're not only brightening but you're also going to be hydrating."

"I went back on Major Fade and my brown spots are so much better. This guy goes everywhere I go. I am never quitting on Hyper Serum again. This is my bread and butter every single day. I will not skip a day where I do not use the hyper serum. The hyper serum is now every single day, twice a day."

"I personally did not include retinoids in my skincare line, Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum. Although retinoids are very important, the reason I did not include them in the lineup is because you must know the type and the percent of the retinoid you're using. To mix a retinoid in with other actives that are targeting a very specific problem is doing you a disservice, because you might tolerate a higher retinoid or you might not tolerate it at all, and you want to get the benefit of the other ingredients that are minimizing hyperpigmentation and discoloration."

"My Hyper Serum, again, different name, same great formula. Nothing changed in terms of formulation or ownership of the brand, we just changed the brand name. This is a brightening serum that is hydrating. It has kojic acid, arbutin, licorice fruit, and when you buy it you get a second cartridge as well in order to ensure freshness, so that they do not get exposed to light or air. This retails for $68 and it is great for evening out your skin tone and it gives your skin an extra sheen. I have it on my face this morning."

"That is why I created the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum. This is a powerhouse serum that retails for $68. It is great for pigmentation and discoloration, in terms of brown discoloration. It has a few powerhouse ingredients like kojic acid, arbutin, licorice fruit, as well as an ingredient known as diglucosyl gallic acid. When you apply this serum it does give an instant glow, so I will use it at the end of my makeup, like I did today, on the top parts of my cheek, to add that instant illuminating glow while also making sure my skin is getting extra benefits from the serum. It has no fragrance."

"Alpha arbutin, which is in our Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum, that's an antioxidant that's going to help protect our skin from the damage of the day."

"The Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum is targeting pigmentation, but it's based in glycerin and there's no hyaluronic acid in it, if you do not want to be double dipping on the hyaluronic acid in your routine."

"I will always apply a little bit of my hyper serum on the apples of my cheeks because not only does it help to maintain an even skin tone but it gives the instant illuminating effect that you guys are actually seeing in this video right now."

"If you have a lot of brown spots, you use the hyper serum major fade hyper serum. Four clicks all over your face. You can also use it to spot on the back of your hands, your chest, you name it. This is what you use after you exfoliate if you have brown spots."

"This is where multi-ingredient stories are very interesting. Obviously I am biased and I own the brand, but the Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum by Dr. Idriss is a multi-ingredient story. I understand why it's tricky for you as the consumer, because you have to have an understanding of the brand and a good relationship and honestly trust with the brand to know that they're giving you ingredients not just at claim value but at actual levels of efficacy. So very honestly, the Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum is at higher levels, and if you're sensitive it may be too strong, but always worth a test and a patch test."

"This is the powerhouse serum. This is what I use in the morning. This is what's going to help keep the pigmentation at bay during the day. Because vitamin C yes you need vitamin C, but vitamin C alone is not going to help your pigmentation, especially if you are prone to melasma. You need more to help minimize your day to calm your day down. This one has the powerhouse ingredients that calms melasma down."

"The hyper serum is like for me the best of all worlds because this is going to help to minimize the look of brown discoloration. There's also an ingredient in the hyper serum that reduces the look of redness and that is digosil galic acid. If you're using these during the day, make sure to apply the hyper serum at night. And if you're using these at night, make sure to apply the hyper serum during the day because it works really nicely together to get the red and the brown out of your face."

"My personal baby that I absolutely could not live without for me would be the Dr Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum because I have had melasma and I've kept it really calm at bay over the past two years. I haven't done a laser treatment since September 2022 and the way I think I've kept my melasma at bay is by being super consistent with an over-the-counter skincare routine. It has been the staple of my routine and has truly been one of these three products for my discoloration. I do think most people develop brown spots because we're out and about, we're living in the sun, you probably weren't wearing sunscreen when you were a kid and you're going to get them as you get older, and so you want to suppress how those appear over time."

"My hero pick is the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Hyperpigmentation Serum because it is multitasking. It is a hydrating serum that also brightens, a brightening serum that also hydrates. You can use it on stubborn spots, plus I use it as a double up under eye cream. I use it both in the morning and at night, four clicks to my face every single day, and I have not missed a day since 2021 when I finalized that formula."

"It is our best selling product, it is an award-winning product, and quite frankly if I had to choose a favorite, she would be it. I like her over makeup as well because it just gives this instant glow. I kind of sometimes use it as a highlighter, knowing that my skin is reaping the benefits. My melasma is really over here in the summer, but I use this over anything I put on my face. The hyper serum contains a bunch of actives that are going to even out your skin tone from salicylic acid, arbutin, licorice root, ellagic acid which can help with redness, glycerin, and it has a little bit of niacinamide, not more than 5%. It is loaded with a bunch of other actives as well. Licorice root extract has been shown to help your skin, and there are other actives throughout the formula."

"My favorite brightening serum is the Dr. Idriss Hyper Serum, loaded with kojic acid, arbutin, licorice root, niacinamide at 5% and diglucosyl gallic acid to help with redness. If you have red acne marks that would turn brown, this helps minimize them and minimizes existing brown discoloration. As a hack I also use it as an under eye serum to help with darkness there."

"I love my Dr. Idriss De-Puffer. I use it around my eyes every morning like a lymphatic facial in a bottle. I roll it around. I wake up. By the time I get up, use the bathroom, brush my teeth, make my coffee, then jump in the shower, it's usually around 20ish minutes, my eyes are depuffed by the time I come out of the shower."

"The Dr. Idriss Depuffer, which helps with holiday puffiness or one too many martinis. It's a hangover cure in a bottle."

"The Dr. Idriss Depuffer, this one won all Best of Beauty. It is an arnica serum with Centella Asiatica. So it's going to reduce the look of swelling and inflammation while helping to reduce the look of redness. And it comes with a roller ball, so you can help get a lymphatic drainage as you apply the serum."

"Full disclosure, my baby, the De-Puffer. This has been a pride and joy, took me many, many, many iterations to actually get to the formula. It is an arnica based depuffing serum that comes with a roller, and the reason I made this was because I wanted a serum that continues to depuff and reduce the look of redness long after you're done depuffing with a roller. I wanted the serum to be a mirror effect of what a roller can do and more, and we were able to do this and prove that it works through clinical studies. It's also a great adjunct for my patients because I'm a cosmetic dermatologist, I do a lot of treatments in my office, and this helps minimize the look of bruising post procedurally. Love it."

"The De-Puffer has a scent that comes from the arnica. The arnica has a scent, but it is fragrance-free. We're not trying to mask that scent with a fragrance in order to make it more appealing to you. When something has a light scent it's technically still considered fragrance-free because there's no fragrance added. You're smelling the ingredients come through."

"Dr. Idriss De-Puffer is my staple every morning. I keep this baby next to my bed, and quite frankly before I even open my eyes I roll around my eyes and massage the gel in, and then I go to the bathroom, then I use the toilet, then I brush my teeth, then I jump in the shower, and by the time I come out it's like I'm open. When I do drink alcohol it really does affect my eyes the next day, and ever since I had LASIK especially I do feel the dryness makes my eyes more reactive in terms of puffiness. This has been a godsend in the winter. I even use it on my nose, and sometimes I even use it down here to help depuff if I had a very salty meal the night before. So this is great."

"It's an Allure Best of Beauty winner. It's an arnica serum that helps to depuff and reduce the look of redness, and it comes in a roller."

"The second thing I love to incorporate, and obviously conflict of interest, it is my brand, the De-Puffer. The De-Puffer helps to reduce puffiness and redness. It is an arnica based serum, it has centella asiatica, it has niacinamide, it has bark extract. It's like Spanx for the eyes. It's not necessarily an eye product, you can use it all over your face. I do use it along the jawline and the nose and my eyes, especially when I'm red, when I have a bruise or a wound or something that's swollen, I use it on it because of the arnica. But I use it every day around my eyes, that is how I use it. Before I wake up I apply it, so it's usually next to my bed, and then I roll it around my eyes. I don't let it get into my eyes, and by the time I come to the bathroom and brush my teeth and use the toilet and shower and then come out, it's like my eyes open up a little bit. It goes a long way. It has a weird tint to it, a yellow hue and a scent, the scent is the arnica, we did not try to mask it, I do not believe in that, so you smell it as it is and you see the color as it is. It's not diluted, it is not formulated in a homeopathic fashion."

"I'm going to use the Dr. Idriss De-Puffer tonight because it has arnica. I use this every morning religiously, he's my favorite tool in the world, there are no tools that compare to this tool. The reason I use him every night and every morning is because it helps to reduce the look of swelling as well as redness. I'm going to use it tonight because arnica has been used for centuries across various cultures and throughout the history of medicine to help with inflammation and the look of bruising, so I'm going to use this in hopes that it helps make this bruise disappear faster without leaving any residual residue. I'm also going to roll above my eye because it's slightly swollen from the lymphatic blockage the swelling is causing, and massage from the inside out."

"I've also on purpose developed the Dr. Idriss De-Puffer. It's a combination of centella asiatica and niacinamide to help regulate the redness and inflammation that comes with the hormonal shifts in your 30s, plus it has arnica as well as hydroxyphenyl propylaminobenzoic acid, which regulates histamine production, so you're not as puffy and you're not as red, because in your 30s if you go out and have a wild night out, you're going to wake up red in the morning, and this is going to be your best friend before sunscreen. It comes in the form of a roller, you can roll around your eyes if you want to help mechanically de-puff, but if you don't want to roll and you just want to use the serum, you could take the roller head off and use the serum just like that, underneath your sunscreen. It's clinically proven to reduce the look of redness."

"For our purposes with my product line, I have the De-Puffer that I use in the morning, and I use this around my eyes every morning because it's like spanx for my eyes. It helps to reduce swelling but it also helps to reduce redness. Some melasma has a vascular component to it, meaning superficial blood flow to your skin can trigger your hyperpigmentation and your melasma. When you get hot, when you get nervous, when you get stressed, when you get flushed in your face, that pigment in your melasma can flare up. So if you are finding a product on the market that can help reduce the look of redness, it can help minimize that superficial flush on your face, and it can indirectly help your melasma as well."

"This is an arnica serum that is meant to calm the skin, calm the redness of the skin. It's not treating rosacea, but if you're somebody who flushes easily, if you have a lot of redness on your face, if you have redness from acne scars or marks, or if you wake up red because of seasonal allergies, this is amazing. A little bit goes a long way. The reason it is brown is because it is not diluted. When you guys think of traditional arnica products you can buy in a supermarket or a pharmacy or in Europe, they're clear, homeopathic 10x. 10x doesn't mean 10 times as strong, it means 10 times diluted, and this is not that. This is all you need, you see how much I squeezed, and I always squeeze it off. This is how much I use and this goes a very long way. You don't need more than that for your full face, and even less if you're just doing your eyes. Something that is effective, that is quality, you do not need a lot of, and when you put too much it's going to peel because it's high in actives, and you want to make sure you're not overdoing it and wasting product in the process."

"If you have redness and are trying to minimize it, and you also have a lot of inflammation, arnica is an ingredient that can really help since it's anti-inflammatory to minimize that inflammation, and that is what I put in the De Puffer, which has an arnica serum and a roller to help minimize swelling associated with redness. So if you have swelling associated with redness and puffiness, I would try this one. If you just have redness and no puffiness or swelling, you could try this one."

"It has centella asiatica, arnica, and azelaic acid in it which all have anti-inflammatory effects and it reduces the look of inflammation. It has been shown to promote collagen production and it also has certain antioxidants that can protect the skin from damage caused by free radicals. I love this product if you have rosacea because it is loaded in centella asiatica but it also has arnica, and arnica is not one that is traditionally thought of for rosacea but it works like a charm because it helps reduce the redness and calms the inflammation in a synergistic way so your skin looks less flushed within a couple of minutes when done correctly. Arnica is tricky though because when you look for arnica products more often than not they're diluted in a homeopathic fashion. This one is purely arnica because it is pure arnica. The golden hue you see here is due to the high concentration of arnica in this formulation."

"Aveeno Calm + Restore Oat Gel Moisturizer. Holy grail. I've been talking about it since 2019, 2020. I'm obsessed. Colloidal oatmeal really does help to soothe irritation, hydrate deeply, and help repair the skin barrier by replenishing your skin's lipids. It contains acetylol tetropeptide 40, a next-gen peptide that helps your skin stay calm under pressure and reduces visible redness by strengthening very fragile capillaries and soothing inflamed skin over time. And zinc PCA, which is your skin's stress manager. It's going to help balance oil, calm inflammation, irritation, and keep bacteria under control. This is going to regulate your sebum, minimize your redness, and support your skin. If you have eczema and flare-ups, this is really helpful for healing your skin."

"The Aveeno Calm + Restore is a gel based moisturizer which is very nice and lightweight but at the same time not overpowering or overbearing. There's no vitamin C in this so you'll need a vitamin C serum in the morning."

"You're looking for ingredients like glycerin, squalane, ceramides, colloidal oats to calm and soothe like Aveeno's Calm + Restore. You're really trying to make sure that you are using things that are going to help to soothe and calm your skin, and that have very low irritation potential."

"iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Extreme Cream has been a hit in the past year. For $48, it has 7% lifting peptides plus ceramides that are great for elasticity, especially in the neck area."

"I quite like a lot. It is a beautiful hydrating product that gives the appearance of a more lifted skin and more hydrated skin. I've actually tried it on my neck and chest and I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome of it. It's a combination of peptides which does have merit. It has a laundry list of peptides, and I think that's why it's a pretty good product."

"The In Beauty Project extreme cream for 48 bucks, I actually really like the product but I hate that they market it with a 'bio retinol' which is completely misleading in terms of messaging because what exactly is a bio retinol? TBD, I still don't know. But it does have a ceramide complex with ceramide NP, EOP, and AP in it, and ceramides are going to keep our skin feeling soft and supple and nice and flexible, so it's really really good for your neck and even your décolletage. It is thick but still relatively fluffy so it's not going to sit down and just make you suffocated completely. It is much more lightweight than Cetaphil and it is oilier in terms of residue than Cetaphil, which is interesting because Cetaphil is more of a petrolatum."

"iNNBEAUTY Project's Extreme Cream went viral last year. It's usually for the neck, helps with elasticity, and has 7% lifting peptides and ceramides. Don't be fooled, your face won't be dramatically lifted, but it gives a nice tightening effect. I've tried it and it works very very nicely."

"L p if you're really dry in a dry climate is great they have their double repair face moisturizer with ceramides it retails for 23 bucks it's SPF 30"

"For the longest time I would always double cleanse using bioderma micellar water to get the makeup off followed by a gentle cleanser like Vanicream Cream."

"Wash your face if you want, but with a very gentle cleanser like Vanicream Cream or the Dr. Idriss soft wash. Both of these are extremely gentle."

"Jordan Samuel has a beautiful thicker recovery cream called his Moisture Recovery Cream and it has ceramides, squalane and shea butter so this one is much richer. It looks like magnolia cupcake icing, it is buttercreamy, it is beautiful. This is one that I would really use, like I would use Vaseline which is a tried and true basic petroleum jelly. That is a very thick, rich ointment that is going to act like a really strong barrier so if you're very sensitive you can go towards this one."

"Jordan Samuel has his Moisture Recovery Cream for $37 which is a really nice rich shea buttercream. Look how nice and thick this is, it doesn't want to leave my skin. It's beautiful and it has squalene, glycerin, and ceramides in it, and it is nice to kind of seal everything in after the active seal."

"This guy by Augustinus Bader, this is their body cream. I love their body cream. It's very expensive, 190 bucks, but you could take a little bit and make it go a very long way by using just a little bit of this on your neck, using a tiny bit of this even for your under eyes if you wanted, because it's a much thicker moisturizer. This is super thick and it kind of reminds me of Nivea, which is a complete insult because it is not Nivea and it's much more expensive, but you do not need to be using this much all the time. This has bisabolol, which helps to support your skin's barrier function, shea butter as well. It's extremely rich. I mean, this just feels lux, and sometimes skincare is aspirational."

"Augustinus Bader is a brand I love and respect. It's very expensive so I limit how often I recommend it, but the sale is a time to explore it. This is their Rich Cream with TFC8, a patented technology that optimizes the skin's renewal process, discovered in burn victims, so it can really help your skin regenerate and renew, especially if you're sensitive to retinols. It has a blend of amino acids, high-grade vitamins and molecules that work with your skin's stem cells to boost repair, hydration and resilience."

"Kiehl's Ultra facial cream literally for your whole face you can just dab extra underneath your eyes."

"Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream is a really good thicker moisturizer. It's a basic moisturizer, there aren't actives in here to really lock it in."

"Ultra Facial Cream by Kiehl's is great for $39. You're not going to get any brightening effect from this and it doesn't give this glowy effect, but it is a great basic moisturizer that you can base your face with in very dry environment, especially at night."

"Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream is a thicker moisturizer. Although they call it lightweight, it is definitely thicker in consistency and it does have more grip to it than a gel moisturizer."

"Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream is a great moisturizer that I absolutely love especially in the winter time or if you live somewhere very dry. I use this because of the peptides, the vitamin C, and the moisturizer form on top of this."

"You can also use Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream if you're looking just to moisturize. I love this one for the face in winter. I like putting it all over my face as well at night."

"I love this moisturizer. It is glycerin based, there is no hyaluronic acid in it. It is thick, thick, thick and has no scent, and it's just so silky smooth and beautiful, allowing your face to hold on to that moisture. It has squalane which does support and nourish your skin's moisture barrier, as well as glacial glycoproteins, which is the key sort of hero ingredient for this particular product that supposedly helps to maintain your skin's moisture balance."

"Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream, this one is also equally thick. It's $38, it has glacial glycoproteins which is supposedly going to help restore your skin barrier as well as squalene and glycerin in it. It is slightly slippier, I would say, than some other options, but beautiful nonetheless."

"Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream hugs your skin nicely. It's extremely hydrating and I absolutely love it."

"AmLactin is one that you can get in any Duane Reade CVS or like over-the-counter pharmacy. It has lactic acid in it. It doesn't smell the best, but with the 12% lactic acid it is very efficacious and it has ceramides to help fortify hydration, which is great."

"AmLactin is an over-the-counter lactic acid moisturizer that you can find at your drugstore. It is very very easy to use."

"If you however prefer to exfoliate while moisturizing, AmLactin has a 12% lactic acid moisturizer. It doesn't smell the best though, so if you're looking for any sort of aroma therapy it's not going to come from this, but this will help keep things smooth in the long run."

"Triple lipid has no hyaluronic acid it is really great for dry skin issue with this is it has essential oils if you are somebody who is sensitive but it is ceramides cholesterol and fatty acids in one"

"It's not like a basic moisturizer. It's a gel moisturizer with vitamin C plus ceramides and peptides in it to help minimize how pigment is transferred out of a cell."

"I use fan of cream which is not great at taking off makeup hence why I preface this step with micellar water"

"This is Purito Deep Sea Pure Water Cream with 71% oat. I love moisturizers that just melt into your skin and that are silky and that you feel like your skin's thirst gets quenched by it. It's a beautiful moisturizer that gets sucked up by your skin, your skin literally drinks it up. It has a lot of oat seed water, oak kernel oil, oat kernel flour, oat kernel extract, which is an extremely soothing and calming ingredient, especially for those of you with inflamed skin barriers or eczema. Worth a try."

"It is a nice moisturizer, it is a thicker moisturizer and it's very very bouncy as well. This is an antioxidant moisturizer as well, those are moisturizers with purpose."

"Eucerin Q10 Anti-Wrinkle Cream has coenzyme Q10, which is also an antioxidant, and you have vitamin E and beta carotene as well. It is a nice moisturizer, it is a thicker moisturizer, and it's very bouncy as well. So this is much thicker and it is an antioxidant moisturizer as well."

"Eucerin's Q10 Anti-Wrinkle Cream is excellent. It has Coenzyme Q10 in it and it is legit a spackle body butter. It looks like the perfect consistency of butter that I love at the dining table where it's not too hard and not too soft but just perfect, it's room temperature butter. It's amazing and it's only twelve dollars. This is one you guys should be putting on your neck, on your chest, everywhere, and your face obviously. It's lightweight enough where you feel like your skin is going to absorb it nicely. You might as well use it elsewhere on your neck, on your chest, anywhere else. If you're somebody who's drier though, because this is not going to be great for very dry skin."

"La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 has [panthenol], shea butter, madecassoside, copper as well as zinc gluconate. Zinc oxide is better when it comes to fully restoring a barrier, but this one is great for hydration and locking it in. It is white. I use this all over my face and the same way that I base my lips. I apply it at night and then I go to sleep. I let it melt into my skin. I probably put it on half an hour to an hour before I go to bed, and then it just melts and does its thing, and the next day my skin is like glowy. It's also a nice one if you are feeling slightly inflamed. I do wish the zinc was slightly different to have more of an anti-inflammatory effect and more a restorative effect, but nonetheless it works pretty damn well and it really is a very nice overnight mask situation."

"La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Baume B5 is a hydrating moisturizer with zinc in it. If you have discoloration and an inflamed barrier, or you're red and irritated because it's so dry outside, it's a nice option to use because of the zinc to help calm any irritation. It's very thick. I like to use this at night. I wouldn't use the B5 during the day after the active serum because it might be too white or opaque and it might be just too much on your skin."

"I go in with the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Active Seal Moisturizer, which is a two-in-one moisturizer with added benefits of vitamin C. The vitamin C in here can be used twice a day, even after you exfoliate."

"Tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, for example, which is in the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Active Seal. This is a two-in-one vitamin C moisturizer, but more than that, it also has ferulic acid, resorcinol, ceramides and peptides, so it's going to help to strengthen your skin barrier while brightening your skin. So that is one of my favorite ones."

"Dr. Idriss Major Fade Active Seal Moisturizer is my favorite. It has tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, which is not the active form of vitamin C, and it comes in a gel moisturizer, so you can use this twice a day, in the morning and at night with a retinol, and not be afraid of irritating your skin. I get 24 hours of vitamin C on my skin, in the morning and at night, to help with the look of any sort of brown spots, discoloration, hyperpigmentation. It's glycerin based. There's no hyaluronic acid in my moisturizer, and that's on purpose. I intentionally did not put HA in my line because you don't need it, since you're going to get it through other products."

"Now I have the pleasure of using a lab sample that just came to me today. Normally it's half a pump to the face, that is all you need. The reason I love my Active Seal by Dr. Idriss is because it has vitamin C, not the L-ascorbic acid form of vitamin C, because that you probably would not want to use with the copper peptides from the Allies of Skin. It has the tetra form of vitamin C, also known as tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate, which you can easily use with copper peptides because it does not get oxidized the same way that L-ascorbic acid does, and it can easily be used with peptides. My motto in life is consistency over intensity. I'd much rather you use something slowly, longer term, and incorporate that ingredient over time so that your skin can benefit from it long term without blowing your face up in the process, getting irritated, inflaming your skin barrier, and not being able to tolerate the ingredient."

"The Active Seal Moisturizer is a moisturizer where you're sealing it all in, and it has vitamin C, so if I'm using the Active Seal I will not use a vitamin C serum because it has enough vitamin C in the moisturizer, which gives me more room for exploration with other serums that can work with vitamin C. If you're using a moisturizer with actives, make sure you're not double dipping with the serum game and the actives in your moisturizer."

"This is where I like to incorporate vitamin C, because you get the two in one. It minimizes the step of having to invest in a simple vitamin C serum, but you can also use a vitamin C while hydrating your skin in the process. So that is what I did with the Major Fade Active Seal. It has a vitamin C ester in it, plus peptides and ceramides to lock in hydration. The weight of this moisturizer is relatively lightweight so that it can fit most skin types, but it is extremely silky and smooth on application on the skin."

"In the morning I use the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Active Seal, which is my vitamin C moisturizer with ceramides. At night, I seal in my retinol and my serum with my Active Seal. If I need more moisture, I will layer underneath a hydrating serum, or I will layer a thicker moisturizer on top."

"This is my Dr. Idriss Major Fade Active Seal. This is a gel moisturizer that is relatively lightweight. It is meant to moisturize but it's meant to deliver vitamin C as well as ceramides to help with your overall skin barrier health and to deliver antioxidants as well as peptides to help even out your skin tone. So this is a brightening moisturizer that you can layer one of these underneath or on top of if it is very dry. So in the wintertime, for example, I will use this at night and then I'll put the diaper rash cream, or I will use this on top of it in order to really lock the moisture in."

"This is not just a vitamin C moisturizer. It is a vitamin C moisturizer with glutathione to really help to fortify the vitamin C aspect of this moisturizer. It has tetrahexyldecorbate which is the quiet form of vitamin C. So you can use this twice a day and you can use it with a retinol at night and that is going to boost the effects of the retinol without making it irritating for you. Additionally, there are other actives in this moisturizer. It also has an ingredient known as forbutal resourcenol which rivals hydroquinone in the studies that were presented to us by the raw ingredient suppliers. And so that means it is going to help to brighten your skin as well. Additionally, I threw in some peptides as well as ceramides to help to strengthen your skin barrier health. This one retails for $58."

"Dr. Idriss's Major Fade Active Seal is a lightweight gel moisturizer with a form of vitamin C that you can use twice a day, with a retinol or after exfoliating. I absolutely love this and have been using it for 3 years."

"One thing that I love to do when my skin barrier is completely inflamed is use Diaper Rash Cream like Triple Paste. It has zinc oxide which acts more as an anti-inflammatory."

"My favorite one, which is Triple Paste. And this is one that I've used on my baby's butts, and I apply it literally all over my face, minus my nose, and it's going to help to calm an inflamed skin barrier. My skin is a little extra sensitive, so I'm going to be generous with this stuff."

"I love Triple Paste. I've used them for my baby's butts but I use it as a final step to layer everything in."

"I like to use a Diaper Rash Cream because diaper rash creams are rich in zinc oxide and they help to reduce inflammation. Triple Paste is one of my favorite ones and I don't mind looking like a pale ghost when I go to bed but a lot of people have told me they don't love that so they recently came out with a sheer zinc one that rubs in clear. Very honestly I don't enjoy the experience as much when it is sheer but to each their own."

"I tried the other butt paste creams and I felt this one was the best one. It is 12% zinc oxide and it also has oat kernel extracts in it. There's a little bit of corn starch which sounds counterintuitive if you're trying to lock in moisture, but it actually works to your benefits. It's a giant tub for like 27 or 30 bucks, or you can also buy it in a tube for $10."

"I'm obsessed with Triple Paste. I was obsessed and it was on my list, and honestly it's the only sponsorship for a skincare company that I ever jumped on. I said yes because I am obsessed and because I thought it was funny that it's a butt paste company. But the fact that this stuff is so good and great for your face, for your skin barrier, you're going to look like a ghost, it's not cosmetically elegant, but it does the job. I love it. If you have a baby I think try it out, but just definitely do not double dip. Do not use the jar that you've used on your baby's butt because that might be contaminated. Just get a squeezy tube for your own face."

"Triple Paste, zinc oxide is a beautiful ingredient. It has anti-inflammatory effects. When a kid has a rash down there, you slap this all over their little tushies in a gentle way in order to minimize their rash, to calm the inflammation down so they have less friction on their privates. When it comes to your face, if you have an inflamed skin barrier and you're trying to restore your barrier, zinc oxide can really help restore that barrier. And when it comes in the form of a Diaper Rash Cream, when it's married to petrolatum, it will help create an occlusive layer while calming any inflammation down, and it works wonders as an overnight mask treatment, especially in a dry climate or in a very cold climate or when the temperatures are changing. Not all diaper rash creams are created equal. Don't go for one with essential oils, definitely don't, and make sure there's no steroid in it because that can make things worse. This is probably my favorite one. I have two kids who are six and four, and this was the one that I used on my kids."

"Triple Paste is a great second one to try that doesn't have any of that white residue because there's no zinc in it. It's not going to be as good in terms of an anti-inflammatory perspective but it's going to be great in terms of locking in moisture. If you're somebody who gets flushed but you're not sensitive and you have dry skin, so your skin is always red and you're just trying to cool your skin down while keeping it hydrated and dewy, this is it. It smells like a spa, yes it has fragrance, there is MGA which is a menthol derivative in it and it does actually cool your skin. It's not just the idea that it's cooling your skin, it has been shown to reduce your skin's temperature by 7 degrees so it will cool your skin."

"I love this stuff. I would use it all the time on my babies when they were babies, but I use it when I have any sort of irritation and I also use it in the winter when my face is really dry and inflamed with windburn. Triple Paste has zinc oxide in it to help reduce inflammation, soothe redness, flaking and itchiness. I reserve this once you've reached the other extreme of looking red, flaky and off and you want to restore your skin back to where it was."

"Triple Paste is an all-time fave. It is not exactly a moisturizer, it is more of an occlusive and it's going to seal the deal. It has zinc oxide in it, zinc oxide has anti-inflammatory benefits. It also gives a white cast. Because it is extremely rich, basically it is petrolatum, it is like Vaseline with zinc oxide, it's going to seal everything in and reduce inflammation. I put on a thick layer 30 minutes to an hour before I go to sleep at night at the end of my skincare routine, and although I look kind of ghostlike by the time I wake up in the morning it has absorbed and I wash my face normally with water. It's beautiful. I would strongly advise you try this out anywhere from two to four times a week at night. If you live in a humid environment or you're oily, I probably would not do that."

"My Diaper Rash Cream of choice is Triple Paste because I have literally gone through every single Diaper Rash Cream on my kids' tushies and I am telling you this was the best one ever. It would help heal their cracked skin. The way it works is that because it has petroleum jelly plus zinc oxide, which has anti-inflammatory effects, it would help to heal and soothe your skin as well and not just act like an occlusive. Plus, it has a little bit of cornstarch that would wick away extra moisture. So when you are putting this directly on inflamed skin, that can be helpful if you are making sure that you are also using Vaseline underneath or you are making sure that your skin is not completely dehydrated."

"Nutrafol Vegan is the one I like. It does not have any biotin in it. Is it going to grow you like a Chia Pet? Probably not. But it allows your hair to stay on your head longer. So it really does give the fuller effect of hair and I like it."

"In terms of hair, Nutrafol Vegan is where it's at because it has no biotin and the pills are much smaller and so much easier to swallow than the old ones. Honestly, I have the worst gag reflex, and that's the one you want to try."

"I switched to Nutrafol because it not only had those basic vitamins that we need, they also offered anti-inflammatory benefits that help with the stress hormones being released throughout your body. I originally went for the original Nutrafol and then I switched to the vegan one. The pills are smaller, and they don't have biotin. You do not need to be taking biotin unless you're biotin deficient, and that is one of the biggest misconceptions that we have learned in recent years. I have been consistent with Nutrafol. I had a pill box where I actually put them in, it's like a ritual every Sunday, and I've just been taking it twice a day."

"I love love this one by Canopy. She's a baby one I keep her by my bed and I actually have one at my desk in my office if I'm sitting doing administrative work at the office all day. It is also aromatherapy so it takes me away from where I am and it works beautifully. Make sure you clean it because you don't want to have mold or a fungus kind of growing in there and you don't want to be inhaling that. But in the winter the humidity is low, that means there's less water in the air, so this just helps to add that water back into the air."

"I love the Canopy humidifier. I've been using it every single winter and deep fall winter early spring on a very regular daily basis because dry air will suck the moisture out of your life and your skin and your face."

"Radio frequency devices like the ZIIP Halo 2.0, or things you can do at home, are going to move lymphatic fluid around, so drainage is what you're probably going to see the most from this in the short term. You'll look better in the short term when you use this, but it will probably come back within an hour. So if you do not have the cash to go see a provider, or you like doing things yourself, or you want to do something every day, this is going to be it."

"I had the ZIIP. I think I prefer this to the ZIIP, it seems more intuitive. The ZIIP, for me, never quite gelled. But it's you and your preference. Do I think one is technically better than the other? No, I think it's you and your preference."

"Weleda Skin Food is one I would use in the winter. It's great, but if you're really dry in a very dry climate or if you have lost moisture in your skin because you're postmenopausal or in the postpartum phase where your hormones are dropping, or you're even going through chemo, or if you have an inflamed skin barrier in addition to discoloration and you're just red and parched and cracked, there are better options."

"Weleda Skin Food is the occlusive of choice that I use. It does sometimes get a little nauseating because of all the essential oils in it, but I use it every morning. I also sometimes put it all over my face under my eyes or if it's really dry as the last step of my routine. It's $20 a box and it's easy."

"Minoxidil is a medication that was originally created in the 1950s for people with high blood pressure. In the 70s in a clinical trial they realized it's actually increasing your hair growth as well and they started to utilize it for people with androgenetic alopecia, female pattern hair loss, male pattern hair loss. But in the 80s they took it a step further and made it available over the counter in the form of a foam that can be utilized."

"It can have cardiovascular effects since it was originally a blood pressure medication, and it can increase unwanted hair if you do not apply it correctly. If you're using it on your scalp and you have it on your fingers and you're touching your face, you might have increased hair growth elsewhere. For me, I didn't like the fact that my hair looked a little grimy the next day, and I did get an irritation from it when I used it topically where I would get a lot of flaking and itching, and therefore I had to quit it."

"Minoxidil, which is also known as Rogaine, has been shown to promote hair growth and slow down hair loss. It was originally developed as an oral pill for blood pressure and they noticed people were actually growing their hair when they were on this blood pressure medication, and so they thought why not make it topical where people can apply it topically on their scalp. It is also now available over the counter at anywhere from three to five percent. If you are a woman losing hair, go on Rogaine but pick the men's strength, go for the five percent because more often than not you're gonna see that minoxidil is targeting women at three percent. You can absolutely use the five percent."

"A triple lipid by SkinCeuticals is a nice one if you're very dry or in a very dry climate you might want to supplement this with a thick rich basic moisturizer, but gel moisturizers can take you just where you need to be without overpowering your skin."

"It is loaded with ceramides, it is a rich but not too rich hydrating serum that's going to help restore your skin barrier and it does not have hyaluronic acid. Just beware if you have sensitive skin there are essential oils, it might be a little bit irritating."

"It is an SPF 50, it retails for 44 bucks. Ultra Violette is a brand that has been around in Australia for quite some time, and internationally I have been hearing some chirpings that it is going to be coming to the US. Their SPF 50 Ultra Violette Supreme Screen is one of my favorites. It is a hybrid sunscreen, it has tinosorb M which is technically both a chemical and a physical filter. It is thicker in appearance and this one is going to leave your skin feeling very much quenched in terms of hydration while protecting your skin."

"The one that launched in the US is made up of US filters, so it's going to be a US-based chemical filter sunscreen of SPF 50, but it is absolutely beautiful in texture and finish. It is loaded with an ingredient known as pentathin, which helps to boost hydration for up to 72 hours, plus it has squalane to lock in your moisture barrier. So for $36, this one is great for you if you are dry, living in a dry climate, or both. But if you're oily or you live somewhere really humid, you don't necessarily need this one."

"For 10 bucks this sunscreen also doubles up as a nice moisturizer especially if you have dry skin it is a beautiful product can't be beat I think it's cheaper than McDonald's nowadays and it is fragrance free."

"This is an SPF 50 PA4+ and it is a beautiful lightweight, light hydrating sunscreen. In summer, I sometimes do not feel the need to use a moisturizer underneath this, it gets me to where I need to go. In winter, as things get drier, yes, you can use a moisturizer underneath it. It is great for soothing your skin, reducing inflammation, and helping with post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation because it has not only niacinamide in it, it also has chamomile extract. Everything I love about it is glycerin based. The filters in it are international filters, there's Avobenzone, Tinosorb S, Tinosorb M, as well as Isotropol, and this does offer a great UVA protective range. It's a hybrid of both chemical and physical sunscreens, so it's a great one. I absolutely love it. I think you guys should look into it, and it is relatively cheap and easy to get."

"Tatcha is another one that patients have told me about specifically. They've just repackaged, thank God I hated their old packaging. This is an SPF 50, it's their silk sunscreen, and this one retails for $60 and it is zinc oxide based. My patients of darker skin tones have told me specifically about these."

"Tatcha has their Silk Sunscreen SPF 50, it is a weightless mineral sunscreen and finally they changed the packaging, their previous packaging was a disaster and it is so much better than their old old one, it is night and day. It does have hyaluronic acid for those of you who are wondering, and it retails for 64 bucks."

"There's the Supergoop Glow Screen, which I use as a highlighter on the high cheeks of my face. I love it because it makes me feel like a disco ball. I can't tolerate it all over my face, though, it does burn my eyes."

"I really like the Supergoop Glow Screen underneath my makeup because of that glow, it has those optical diffusers in it and it helps me add less makeup."

"It doubles up as a light foundation and it is just the perfect amount of protection. It's SPF 30, for city living, if you're not somebody spending a day underneath the sun. If you're somebody who wants a little bit more of a glow up, I love the Glow Screen by Supergoop. The only problem for me with this one is that I have sensitive eyes and it burns. But every now and then, after I'm done with my makeup, I do just take a tiny little bit of this just for fun and go like this, because it does give a beautiful sheen to the highlights of my face. Am I using it like I use sunscreen? No, I'm not. But I do love the texture, I love the effect that it gives, and it's just so pretty."

"I love Supergoop for being innovative and for bringing sunscreens to the forefront of everyone's minds. Their Glow Screen is probably one of my favorite ones because I do use it on top of makeup to add a little bit of sheen to the high points of my face, but it burns the hell out of my eyes, so I do not use it as a normal sunscreen all over my face. I take a tiny bit, just kind of like use it because I like the disco ball effect it gives. I used to use it all over my face, but my eyes got really sensitive one time while I was driving and I had to pull over, and I did not have a pair of eyeglasses with me at the time, I was wearing contacts, and it was a very scary situation, so I stopped putting it all over my face. If you're not sensitive, knock yourself out, even put it on your collar bones, it's just a beautiful product."

"If you must double cleanse and use two different products, start with a micellar water. It's a beautiful, easy product. This one by Bioderma can easily take away makeup."

"The Bioderma with the pink cap doesn't irritate me."

"I love bioderma, this is a micellar water that I travel with. I actually put this in a spritzer. I feel like I get way more mileage out of it this way by spraying it on my face and then taking the cotton and breaking up my makeup."

"I have sensitive eyes and so traditionally I always use a micellar water and the van cream but if I'm being honest it burns my eyes a little bit. I never feel like I get it off well enough and it was something that I've always been struggling with."

"I always do my first step of my double cleanse which includes the Bioderma Sensibio H2O and what I like to do is spray it directly onto my face. Each spritz is like I don't know how many drops or mini droplets of it, it allows it to go into all the tiny nooks and crannies and I like to focus it on the mascara and the eyeliner."

"Bioderma in my opinion is superior. I've tried them all. Bioderma is the best one when it comes to micellar water. The pink cap is for sensitive skin and the blue cap if you have drier skin."

"I double cleanse with Bioderma's micellar water because unfortunately washing twice even with a cream cleanser is not great at getting the makeup off, and so I do marry these two every night and that is what I start my nighttime routine with."

"For the longest time I would always double cleanse using Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water to get the makeup off followed by a gentle cleanser."

"Bioderma is my micellar water of choice. I actually prefer their Sensibio H2O to their other option. I do feel like sometimes I get blemishes with that one, but a trick I do is I put it in a spritzer because I get way more mileage out of it than just soaking up a gauze."

"I have used this product for many years. This is Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water, it is a pink top micellar water, but do not confuse this one with the Garnier one. The Garnier one looks identical and they can often be confused, but this in my experience is the superior micellar water. It does have a little spice on the skin, very, very light. If you're very sensitive, you're going to feel it. My eyes are extremely sensitive, so I felt it slightly around the eyes. There is some makeup still left behind. It's not great at cleaning your face, but again, it is an active cleanser, so maybe you want to go in first with a gentle cleanser before going in with this."

"Starting with a gentle cleanser, wash your face every single night. Especially if you live in the city, you want to get all that crud and buildup off of your face because this stuff is going to cause your collagen to break down faster. And if your face feels squeaky clean and tight afterwards, it's too stripping. So, change your face wash. Vanicream will do, too."

"Something very gentle like Vanicream is fine, as you can tell it's really shitty at taking off makeup. I tried with this one when I had a full face of professional makeup done and it did not work."

"When it comes to a cleanser, you want something that is non-stripping, that is not going to be like a harsh scrub. Vanicream is great."

"Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser is a great one for people with very sensitive skin. It is basically free of everything, so you're not going to get irritated by this cleanser. The negatives are it's not the best at removing makeup, so you're going to need something else to remove the makeup first. It can be a little bit irritating around the eyes. I have very very sensitive eyes and I do not attempt to play peek-a-boo with this cleanser while I'm washing my face because my eyes get burnt in the process. But it's an easy one, it's a great one for everyday use, and it is basically one that is not going to irritate your skin if you have a lot of allergies."

"Vanicream, as much as I love it, doesn't get all that makeup off nor the sunscreen off. Even though you can't see it, because it doesn't get the makeup off, it makes me think it's not getting the sunscreen off."

"One of the ones I love to recommend is PanOxyl. This is the highest you'll probably find over the counter, at ten percent. The way I recommend using this is applying it to a clean face, letting it sit for five minutes, and then jumping into the shower, preferably while you're naked, so that you do not bleach your clothes, and this way it minimizes any impact it may have on your towels."

"Salicylic acid is great because it's oil loving and it's going to go deeper into your pores. PanOxyl you can use on your face at night several times a week. It's very similar to Paula's Choice but it's much cheaper, and it comes for 12 bucks."

"You really want to make sure that you are using ingredients like benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, or even sulfur to help clear that breakout. PanOxyl comes at 10% benzoyl peroxide. Interesting fact, you don't need to have it at 10% for it to be effective, it's even effective at three to five percent, but just FYI it may bleach your towels. The way I recommend using this is applying it to your body or your face while you're naked brushing your teeth, letting it sit for five to ten minutes, and then jumping into the shower and washing it off. Try not to sit on any sort of furniture or towel because it will bleach it, and it may dry you out."

"I will take the Dr. Idriss Soft Wash Complete Daily Cleanser, apply it, warm it up in my hands, and apply it to dry skin and allow it to melt my makeup while I open my eyes. And if I need a second pass, I will use it twice. It is as simple as that."

"For me, the way I take off my makeup, I use my Soft Wash on my face when my skin is dry. I warm it up with water and then I apply it to my face, and then I take a wet washcloth and work it in around my eyes. The reason I use this is because I can open my eyes while I wash my face, which is key, and I don't have time to do a million steps at night, so no tears come out of this. It's one of the best washes because I've really worked the hardest to formulate a cleanser that I can open my eyes with. If you're somebody who wears hardcore makeup, you probably do need something to break up your makeup, but this is the most I wear and this is what I use on dry skin at night."

"I put a nice dime size amount in my hand and I warm it up with a little bit of water, then I go on my face dry and massage it into my face completely dry. I take a washcloth, wet it, and after I've massaged it in I use that to get everything off, and then I splash. It's amazing, it's amazing, it's amazing. The biggest thing in it is called poloxamer, which is also found in contact lens solutions, and it also has a surfactant that is non-stripping that marries oil to water, so that's why it makes it a good one to remove the makeup. It's glycerin loaded so it's obviously hydrating. There's no fragrance, it is cruelty free, fragrance free. The pH of the cleanser is 5 to 5.5, which is the ideal range for a cleanser because you want to be slightly acidic so that you maintain your skin barrier intact, so it's not going to cause you to burn, break out, it's not going to breed bacteria on your skin, it's not going to dry you out, and it's not going to cause you to get oilier. It's been clinically tested. We did a clinical study in which they used a VISIA scanner with people wearing either sunscreen or makeup, had them wash their face, and took pictures of their faces right after, and it was shown to remove it all, which is amazing."

"This is Soft Wash. This is the one, if I had a gun to my head and had to answer which one would I recommend for everyone, it would be this, because everyone needs to wash their face, and it is a gentle cleanser. This is so easy and so beautiful. When I wash my face I apply it, I warm it up with water and apply it to dry skin with a little bit of warmed up water in my palm, and I open my eyes when I wash my face, and I will take a wet washcloth and kind of do a little cleanup."

"Wash your face if you want, but with a very gentle cleanser like the Dr. Idriss Soft Wash. It's extremely gentle. It's not going to be irritating and it should not bother your skin, unless of course you have a specific sensitivity to any of the ingredients in the list."

"Dr. Idriss, my brand, offers a very very nice gentle cleanser called Soft Wash that you can open your eyes in while you wash your face. I like to apply it to dry skin and then use a washcloth to work it through areas like around the eyes and the nose to get the nitty-gritty off, and then I splash."

"If you're going to look for a hair dryer, why not buy one now? If you've been eyeing the Dyson Airwrap, that is something that I would tell you to put in your cart."

"I know it's expensive but this is the time to save if you can the Dyson Airwrap. I have fed into the frenzy and I am obsessed with it and I get really upset at them when I travel and I can't take it with me that's the biggest negative."

"The Dyson Airwrap has saved my life. I do not know how to style my hair, but that Dyson hair dryer makes it appear like I put some effort when I put zero effort in."

"If you're going to buy a Dyson, now is the time. I have their Airwrap and I love it; I use it pretty much every day to dry my hair. I'm even tempted to buy the one that straightens your hair."

"Color Wow Dream Coat, which is, I mean, a dream. I definitely use it when I dry my hair. It is a beautiful treatment that even my hairdresser uses."

"ColorWow has their Dream Coat spray, which I absolutely love. When I wash my hair, I use it before I dry it, and I use the Dyson dryer, the air wrap dryer to dry my hair."

"I was using Color Wow Dream Coat thinking it was a hair heat protectant but I just realized it just helps with shine. I still love that product but it's not protecting from heat whatsoever so don't make that mistake that I made."

"Color Wow has their Dream Coat as well as their Bombshell mousse that I put on my hair when it's wet, before I dry and style it."

"I do not like any supplements with biotin so I try to take supplements that do not have biotin. You can even try prenatal vitamins in addition to, for example, the vegan Nutrafol, which is my preferred type of Nutrafol if you're going to go down that route."

"Recently I have not been taking it because I take Nutrafol every single day. Nutrafol interestingly is for hair and it has vitamin D3 at 2500 IUS per day if you take the right amount."

"I switched to Nutrafol because it not only had those basic vitamins that we need, but they also offered anti-inflammatory benefits that help with the stress hormones being released throughout your body. I originally went for the original Nutrafol and then switched to the vegan one because the pills are smaller. I have been consistent with Nutrafol. I had a pill box where I actually put them in, it's like a ritual every Sunday, and I just have been taking it twice a day."

"It's a natural solution to promote hair growth that patients swear by. The company itself has shown results through their own studies, but don't underestimate placebo in helping yourself, especially when it comes to hair. Nutrafol helps with hormonal imbalance, inflammation, oxidative stress, and nutritional deficiencies because it's a multivitamin. If you're going to take Nutrafol, be careful I'm taking a multivitamin as well because you don't want to overdose on vitamin A or vitamin D. The trick to this is being very consistent with it over six months, which sucks because it's expensive. That is the reality, and you're not going to grow hair elsewhere on your body that doesn't happen."

"Nizoral is available over the counter at 1% whereas the prescription is at 2% and this one really does help to reduce inflammation and flakiness caused by the yeast itself. The added bonus of Nizoral is that it can also help if you're somebody struggling with hair loss or hair thinning because it can block your dihydrotestosterone, a hormone that contributes to hair loss, therefore allowing your hair to stay on your head longer. The most important thing when it comes to this shampoo is to let it get some quality time with your scalp, allowing it to sit on your scalp to do its thing before you rinse it off."

"Nizoral shampoo, which is known as Ketoconazole, is a great adjunct for you to be using if you are losing your hair and you do not know why. Ketoconazole is an anti-fungal medication available prescription at two percent, over the counter at one percent. Using this is a great adjunct if you're losing your hair because it helps by decreasing any sort of inflammation on your scalp, it kills any kind of fungus, the malassezia fungus which causes dandruff which may contribute to hair loss. It has been shown to basically block dihydrotestosterone, also known as DHT, which is in your hair and which leads to your hair staying small and short, the miniaturization of your hair that is one of the leading causes of female and male pattern hair loss. We're not 100 percent sure about that but we think that's how it works. And it also makes your hair appear fuller by making it appear thicker because it increases the diameter of your hair."

"Using an antifungal shampoo like Nizoral, which is available over the counter, will help with a fungal folliculitis, but it will do nothing for a bacterial folliculitis, which can then become full-blown acne if it goes untreated. This is why the treatment for folliculitis varies widely and seeing a dermatologist to understand whether yours is fungal or bacterial is important before reaching for it."

"Neutrogena T/Gel, which in my opinion was one of the most available options on the market, is no longer available. I don't know why they discontinued it, but they did."

"Neutrogena T/Gel Shampoo is a scalp therapy anti-dandruff shampoo with scalp buildup control and 2.5% salicylic acid. Just make sure that you massage it to your scalp to really get in on your scalp so it can do the thing it needs to do. The shampoo smells nice. I was shocked because it is with apple cider vinegar and so I do not associate the scent of apple cider vinegar as a refreshing scent, but the scent of the shampoo is actually quite refreshing."

"This is a very lightweight non-greasy serum that you apply directly onto the scalp. It will make your hair look a little bit wet when you apply it to your scalp but the next day you don't have any weird frizz or textural issues. It helps to reduce shedding and promote natural hair growth. Plus it has amaranthus cactus seed extract which helps to increase the diameter of hair fibers for fuller thicker looking hair and it has other things within that extract including peptides polysaccharides vitamins amino acids. They also have an anti-gray complex in it that supposedly has antioxidants in it that help reduce the look of gray hairs. I use it every night and it does not mess up my hairstyle the next day and that's what I think is most fascinating about this serum whereas other products that I've used mess up my hair and I have to wash it the next day."

"I love this serum because your hair does not look greasy the next day. You can use it every night and your hair does not look like it has product in it. It just kind of vanishes and does a beautiful job while supposedly helping minimize the appearance of gray hair. It definitely does help with the density, I think in combination with everything else that I've been doing."

"I was extremely skeptical of this serum when I first bought it because I was like is this going to be another issue where when you apply it to your hair your hair looks messed up, but I am shocked that when I use it at night my hair does not look worse in the morning so I'm continuing to use it. It's supposed to help with minimizing the appearance of gray hair of which I have a lot, but I'm covering up with this at the moment. It is also supposed to help with hair density. I put two to three drops directly onto the scalp and I massage it and it does not ruin my hair the next day."

"The other retinol that I absolutely love is Shani Darden. She has her Retinol Reform at now at 1% and she does label the percentage of her retinol. So that is also a really nice one for someone who is more advanced."

"If I'm not using prescription retinoid, I'll go in with Shani Darden's Retinol Reform. I always tap the sensitive areas. If I have a little extra on my fingers, I just make sure not to touch your upper eyelids because they will get irritated. That is how I do retinoid on my face as a sensitive being. You can use it on your neck on top of your barrier. So now we have buffered the retinol if you're sensitive."

"You cannot have a conversation about aging skin without talking about her Retinol Reform. What I love is now she talks about the percentage of retinol on every single one of her packages. So I would strongly advise that you guys look into the Retinol Reform line by Shani Darden."

"Shani Darden also has a Retinol Reform which is encapsulated retinol that allows it to be slowly released throughout the day. The only thing annoying about the Shani Darden one is we don't know the percentage of it, so if you're very sensitive I would not start with that."

"Shani Darden has her Retinol Reform, a beautiful retinol product that a lot of patients can tolerate. She doesn't disclose the percentage, but patients swear it's stronger than 0.3%."

"We're going to find the combination of these two peptides in, for example, the cult classic A313, that French pharmacy retinol. It has matrix 3000 in it. And it is honestly I think probably that's why you see those instant gratification effects when you use that particular product."

"A313 is a French Pharmacy retinol which is relatively light but it gives instant gratification effects the next day. It does itch, FYI it does itch. I like it for this video because it is a much thicker base and almost feels like Vaseline."

"A313 is a cult favorite in France. A lot of bloggers are like I don't understand the value of this because it's so light. Yes, it is light. It's a combination of some of the lightest retinoids on the market which are the retinol esters, retinol acetate, petate and propionate. But what's amazing about this is that it has some sort of like magic voodoo in it where your face has an instant effect the next morning and you look somewhat smoother. But you will be itchy. I still get itchy. I can't fully tolerate it all the time. I'm not going to lie. But it does give a nice instant gratification the next day if you can tolerate it. And even though it is lighter, you do have more of that instant gratification, so it's going to make you want to use it to get long-term gain."

"A313 is honestly I love this. It's very light but I love it why because it does some magic Voodoo on your face where the next day you wake up looking airbrushed. But I will say when I put it on I do get itchy and sometimes I can't tolerate it. I think it depends on your barrier that day."

"A313 by the French is a combination of three different types of retinol esters including retinyl palmitate, retinyl acetate, and retinol propionate. It is very light but do not be fooled it does give an instant sort of glow the next day where your skin just feels tight and beautiful, but it can also be itchy when you apply it. It is a beautiful gel-like texture that goes on to your skin. Never use any sort of retinoid around this area because you will shed like a snake. I still can't tolerate it, it is what it is."

"The A313, it is a French Pharmacy cult favorite made up of three different retinol esters. This is good for beginners. Is it great for the veterans out there? Probably not. But there is one Hocus Pocus thing about this product: you get some instant gratification the next day, which is odd even to me, but you look better. I can't explain it."

"Kiehl's Micro-Dose retinol for $65 is a gentle formula, but it is a tried and true for people who use retinol. Not necessarily for beginners, but something that you may want to check out."

"Kiehl's Micro-Dose Retinol is, I believe, around 0.1%, though they don't disclose it. It has retinol, peptides and ceramides in it and it's a very great beginner's retinol product, the lightest one I found at Sephora."

"e.l.f. has their Youth Boosting Advanced Night Retinoid Serum which is a mix of Granactive Retinoid, also known as hydroxypinacolone retinoate, which is what you find in Caroline Hirons' retinoid as well as 0.06% retinal and other antioxidants. It's a mix of various different types of retinols on the market. It has a very very light scent to it but nothing crazy or repulsive. It is great for people who are beginners who want to actually grow beyond peptides into the retinol world but cannot fully tolerate stronger retinol or even a prescription active retinoid. Hydroxypinacolone retinoate tends to be gentler on the skin while supposedly delivering as effective results or close to effective results as an active form, which is the prescription. I'd put it on your neck and chest first and start low and go slow, maybe two or three times a week at most, and work your way up from there."

"I really do like their Youth Boosting Advanced Night Retinoid Serum. There is some misleading marketing actually. They say one percent Gran active retinoid but one percent active retinoid is like point one percent hydroxypinacolone retinoate. Hydroxypinacolone retinoate is the cousin of tretinoin, the active form of retinol, so it's not exactly one percent, it is 0.1 percent. It's a great beginner's retinol, there's nothing wrong with it. It comes in a pump, it has a very bright orange color to it, that's all you really need for your whole face, and at 22 bucks you might as well give it a try and see if you can tolerate it, especially if you're very sensitive. It's a good one to start with."

"Granactive retinoids are a class of retinoic acid, so it's a cousin of the prescription. It's stronger than retinol and it works faster because it automatically works within your cell, but it is less irritating. So it is an interesting one to try if you've never been able to tolerate a retinol or a retinoid or a retinal ester. You may be able to tolerate this one."

"The Ordinary has their Granactive Retinoid and I'm mentioning this one last because when you look at the label on the Granactive Retinoid you are going to think that it comes at 2%, but it doesn't. This is an emulsion at 2% and the active form of the retinoic acid ester in here comes at 0.2%. So it is like a beginner's retinoid."

"Aquaphor wins when it comes to the body because they have an ointment body spray which I am obsessed with. It is an ointment that you can literally spray on your skin without getting that crazy greasiness of an ointment that you're using on your skin, and it just gets dispersed more evenly. At night, if it's very dry and you're going to wash your hair the next morning, you can put it on your face, or you can maybe spray it on your hands first and then apply it to your face if you don't want to ruin your hair, but you can actually use this to lock in the rest on your face. I will argue that it is actually much more elegant than slugging with just Vaseline. It's great for covering more areas, and it is great for the body as well. I do this after the shower for my body to lock in the hydration. Just make sure a towel is on the floor so you don't slip and slide, because that has happened to me."

"I lock in that smoothness while my skin is nice and damp with this Aquaphor body spray. It is ideal, it is their ointment in a spray form and it works beautifully because it creates a protective barrier that locks in your moisture without making you feel overwhelmed or overburdened by that ointment. It just helps to heal areas that are very sensitive or raw. Just one tip: put a large towel on the floor if you are going to be spraying this because it does have a scatter effect."

"First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA is something that I would only recommend that you use on the body but not the face because it does feel a little bit scrubby. It has pumice buffing beads, it's borderline physical. Your body can tolerate this but never your face. Some people might think it's a great dupe to use as a physical exfoliant for the face, but the reality is you do not want to do that, especially if you are prone to breakouts on your face, because your face is more sensitive and you'll get micro tears and you'll make the breakouts more inflamed and you'll get worsening of your scars. If you have KP, which is non-inflamed growth around your hair follicles around your arms and your legs, you can use this to help to buff it. Let it sit on your skin so that the acid can work its magic and then work on buffing it before you wash it off. Make sure your skin gets skin time with it."

"First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% Alpha hydroxy acids, which are basically glycolic acid or lactic acid. This one feels like sand at the beach. I would not use this on your face at all because you do not want to get micro tears that can lead to furthering worsening of your inflammation, but on the body our skin is much thicker and able to tolerate it."

"This is a cream that I love around the eyes. It is by Beauty of Joseon. It has a retinale. So it's not only going to help with the look of fine lines, but it's also gonna hydrate."

"Beauty of Joseon has a Revive Eye Serum with ginseng and retinal, which is stronger than retinol. So if you are nervous, I would start with this. If you are a little bit more accustomed to retinols and retinoids in general, I would then move on to something else. It has retinal, like I said, that's stronger than retinol, and ginseng, which is a powerful antioxidant. The texture is lightweight and creamy, and I like this a little bit more in the sense that it has easier control in terms of the ability of the product to hold its shape."

"The Inkey List also has one for 10 bucks. They have a supposedly stabilized slow release retinoid formula that avoids irritation. I haven't tried it, but I've seen it and I actually have it in my house in Connecticut. I've just never tried theirs."

"The Inkey List, which comes in at $14, has a Retinol Eye Cream as well. It does have hyaluronic acid."

"For $92, you can get Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel Pads, which come in these little packets. Easy for travel, easy on the go, and easy to put in your bag. It gives you baby smooth skin the next day. Totally something perfected for texture, dryness, and beyond."

"Dr. Dennis Gross has the alpha beta peel pads, glycolic, lactic, malic, and salicylic acid in a pad that helps to smooth and refine your texture. Great for while you're on the go. It comes in these individual packets, so you're not going to have any leaky mess in your carry-on."

"Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta peel pads for 92 bucks, it's really expensive and you hold on to those pads for real life because you do not want to lose them, but this has glycolic acid, lactic acid, and malic acid in it as well as salicylic acid. So those are combo acid pads that are great for travel or if you go to the gym and you're on the go and you want to use something without having to worry too much about containers or you don't have the time to sit around with a mask."

"Dr. Dennis Gross has Alpha Beta Peel pads. They're expensive and individually wrapped, and I probably wouldn't recommend using them every week because of all the waste, but I really like them for travel since they're easy to pack in tiny packets and take around where you need them."

"Paula's Choice has a BHA toner which is salicylic acid and this is probably more geared towards people who have more intense acne who are really oily because BHA loves oil and that is going to go deeper into your skin and this one retails for $35."

"Paula's Choice BHA toner with salicylic acid goes for $35. It's a cult favorite exfoliating toner. It's important when we say toner to know what type of toner we're talking about that is best for oily and acne prone skin."

"I like this tried and true Paula's Choice two percent BHA, even though toner makes no sense, it doesn't mean anything. It just means it's a salicylic acid exfoliant. It's $22. My personal preference is that you use it at night after washing your face so that you have a fresh base and you allow it to work on a clean slate. You do not need to be using it twice a day. Some people would much rather use it during the day because they're very oily and they use it to help regulate their oil production. If you're going to use it during the day, do not use it at night because you're going to be way overdoing it, inflaming your skin barrier in the process, and counter-intuitively potentially becoming oilier."

"Salicylic acid is a great one if that is you, anything with salicylic acid which is a BHA like Paula's Choice you can use this several times a week at night and it is going to help get into your pores."

"Paula's Choice 2% BHA liquid exfoliant, the classic one. This is a salicylic acid toner. They claim you can use it twice a day, but I really recommend you try to pair it down, ideally use it at night in your skincare routine. For those who are sensitive to salicylic acid, always patch test first. It retails for $35."

"I prefer salicylic acid in the form of a serum. I have a toner type salicylic acid by Paula's Choice, their 2% BHA. It's a nice serum to add into your routine. I would recommend using it at night and then using just a very gentle hydrating serum or even just the sunscreen in the morning because you don't want to get too sensitive to the sun."

"Paula's Choice has a BHA toner and it's a classic. It's a 2% salicylic acid toner that is great for oily and acne prone skin. If you are dry or just trying to exfoliate regularly this one is not for you, but if you're oily and acne prone absolutely check this one out."

"Peter Thomas Roth has a Sulfur Mask that you can actually use as a mask and wash off too. His is a 10% Sulfur Mask with kaolin and bentonite clay to help absorb oil plus zinc oxide to calm your skin. It retails for $52 but it is 10% sulfur versus 3% of Kate Somerville, so I would urge you to try that one out if you cannot try the Kate Somerville. But if you're very sensitive and on the drier side maybe go for the Kate Somerville and not the Peter Thomas."

"Peter Thomas Roth has a $52 10% Sulfur Mask that does not stink unlike the D Cruz which really does smell bad. This one smells kind of like a spa. It is a clay mask with kaolin and Bentonite clays to help absorb excess oil and purify the skin. It also has aloe vera to help calm the skin down. So this is a great option for a full face of acne and one that I would say is really easy and really nice and hydrating and delicate on the skin. You don't feel like your skin feels over stripped when you use this."

"Glycolic acid is actually my favorite, AHA, alpha hydroxy acid, that is going to not only exfoliate your skin, it is also going to help to hold on to hydration. Now lactic acid has nothing to do with your pores, it's the bonus, it's going to help to brighten your skin in the process while exfoliating your skin. And these two exfoliating acids are in the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask, which is my exfoliating mask of choice that I do anywhere from two to four times a week. And sometimes I even sleep with it on my face overnight because I'm not sensitive to it. It's a hydrating exfoliating mask that is going to help with the overall appearance of your skin so your skin can look smoother and firmer over time, giving you that flawless application of makeup the next day."

"The one I created, the Major Fade Flash Mask by Dr. Idriss, has lactic acid. So it's going to help to brighten your skin while you're exfoliating as well."

"I'm obsessed with my Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. This is an Allure best of beauty with 15% glycolic acid, 3% lactic acid, and [tranexamic] acid. It is an exfoliating mask that does also hydrate at the same time. In the summertime, I maybe use it two times a week. In the winter time, I'll go up to four times a week. And sometimes when I'm really really lazy, I'll just put it on followed by the serum and the moisturizer and we just go to sleep because I can tolerate it and it gives you baby smooth skin the next day. Totally something perfected for texture, dryness, and beyond."

"I'm going to be using the Major Fade Flash Mask, applying this from the top of my head down to my chest, avoiding the eye area because the skin is more sensitive there and the crevices around my nostrils because it can build up there. We're going to leave this on for 15 minutes. An advanced move for not the beginners of the group is to leave this guy on overnight. If I have a big event, if I'm exhausted, if I want my skin to look really good the next day, I usually apply it, leave it on overnight, go to sleep, wake up, and wash it off, and my skin the next day is as smooth as a baby's butt."

"The Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. As you guys can see, this is a mask. So, you can dictate how long you want to leave it on for. And you can also choose where you use it. So, if you're sensitive here, don't go close to your eyes. I cannot use it around my nose because I'm very sensitive around my nose, but I'll put it on my cheeks, my forehead, my chin, my neck, my chest. I will do this especially once a week to get a smoother décolletage. It is great. The combination of glycolic and lactic acid, again, I'm very much a fan of my own products and this is what I use on my own face."

"This is an exfoliating mask that is loaded in glycolic acid at 15% and lactic acid. So you're going to exfoliate your skin. You're going to have a smoother surface. You can sleep with it overnight if you're not sensitive, but just approach cautiously if you've not used it. And I would patch test it first. And the fact that the glycolic acid is married to the lactic acid, it not only smooths your skin, but it also brightens your skin. And it also has [tranexamic] acid, which is a medication that I prescribe in my office and even injects in my office for people with melasma. But we have it in the mask as well to really help boost the brightening process."

"It's a gel based mask that you can leave on your face, you can even leave it on overnight if you're not very sensitive. It is a 15% glycolic acid mask with lactic acid and tranexamic acid to help even out your skin tone and make your skin feel baby smooth and soft. I use it three times a week and it has been a game changer. My mother, who is 67, has applied it to the sunspots on the back of her hands and left it on throughout the day, reapplying it, and those sunspots, to my shock and surprise, are gone. It's formulated gently enough that most skin types can tolerate it."

"It helps start the brightening process. There's no fragrance, there's no HA. It's a beautiful tone and tint, you can really see where you apply it. I tell sensitive people put it on for 5 minutes, wash it off, let's see how you do. You will feel a spice as your pH of your skin acclimates. You can leave it on for up to 30 minutes, and if you're really not sensitive you can put it on overnight. You wake up with the softest, smoothest skin ever, literally. I put it from here to my tits, and in the morning when I shower it's like oh my god. When I do the trainings at Sephora now I make the beauty advisers touch my face, which is funny. I'm like just feel how soft it is, I don't make them, let me see if they want to, but if you want to touch, it's available for you to touch my face, and they're like wow, because you have to feel it to believe it."

"The Major Fade Flash Mask is a 15% glycolic acid mask, but products do combine acids with a 3% lactic acid as a bonus. The reason why I made it a mask is twofold. You should not be exfoliating every single night of the week. When it's a mask format, there's a barrier to entry, so you don't want to do it as often and therefore you want to exfoliate probably two to four times a week at most. The thing about a mask that is really unique and nice is that you can put it to any area of your face or body that you want to have it sit on for a few minutes and then wash it off. You can control where you apply it and how long you apply it for, and that is really unique to a mask and that is why we also made it as a mask format. Plus the other bonus is that this also has trizyamic acid which is an ingredient used for brightening as well. So the combination of that with the lactic acid and the glycolic acid make it a very effective mask. This one in particular does have an initial tingle. It is the pH of your skin acclimating to the product. It is not an irritation and it usually resolves around 1 to 2 minutes."

"I use this two to three times a week at night only. I never exfoliate in the morning. The only time I've done it is before a photo shoot, because it does give a little smoother appearance. But the reality is I'll do it the night before and sleep with it overnight, which we don't recommend for everyone if you're sensitive, but I do do that."

"This is your exfoliating mask. It has 15% glycolic acid, lactic acid, and tranexamic acid. The reason why it comes in a mask is multifactorial. I wanted you guys to control where and how long you are exfoliating for. I don't want you guys putting some wet toner all over your face, getting it into your eye, dripping on your PJs. So I wanted you guys to control where you apply it and for how long you apply it. You can wash it off, leave it on for like three or four minutes if you're sensitive, up to 30 minutes if you're not. The real nerds know you can sleep with it overnight if you need to, but if you're sensitive or have rosacea or a broken skin barrier, please do not do that. You can also use it as a spot treatment if you're breaking out, put it on your little pimples and allow it to sit overnight for the breakouts, not necessarily for your whole face. We exfoliate about two times a week in summer, four times a week in winter when it's drier. I exfoliate more when it's very humid, and I might exfoliate less."

"Given that I do have discoloration, I like to marry it to lactic acid because lactic acid can help minimize that discoloration, and then we also in this particular product married it to tranexamic acid, which is not an exfoliating acid. If you have melasma you just want to throw everything at it, so combining it with an exfoliating acid allows it to work a little bit more efficiently, and that is why we mixed all three in the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. The beauty of a gel is you can pick how long you keep it on your face and where you apply it, so for me I always apply it on the high points of my face. I don't go too close into my orbital rim because it gets a little bit more sensitive there and the skin underneath the eyes is more sensitive. I come right over here, I go on my forehead cuz you want to make sure that you are getting any sort of sunspots that has been brewing up there, and then down my nose lightly, lightly, lightly. I don't come in here or in here because that is going to get irritated. Few nights a week I'll put this on for 20, 30 minutes; one night a week I'll even sleep with it and wash it off the next day, it will be my one-step nighttime routine that one night a week. But if you're sensitive, just leave it on for 5 minutes and wash it off. It is spicy for everyone who applies it and then it settles down. My skin feels nice, it feels smooth, it always gets a little bit red after I wash it off, it will calm down."

"If you're looking more for proactive anti-aging benefits, things that are going to help improve collagen production as well as even out your skin color, that's why I made the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. You can let this sit on your skin for five minutes to even overnight if you're not sensitive. I actually did it last night and I wake up smooth as a baby's bottom, love it, love it, love it. It has glycolic acid, lactic acid, and tranexamic acid, but those are sort of exfoliation products that I would recommend once we're done exfoliating."

"The Major Fade Flash Mask is our exfoliating acid. It's 15% glycolic acid with lactic acid and tranexamic acid. Tranexamic acid alone isn't great topically for melasma, but in combination with an exfoliating acid it works better, though the best form of tranexamic acid, if I'm being honest, is a prescription pill by mouth, and not everybody is a candidate for that. The reason I like it as a mask twice a week and not a toner is because it comes in a gel form, so you can pick and choose where to apply it on your face. If you know you're sensitive next to your eyes, you're not going to go next to your eyes. If you know your patch constantly appears in a certain area, you might want to focus there. If your skin can take it as a whole face mask, you apply it as a whole face mask. You can literally use it as a spot treatment or as a field treatment. Unrelated to melasma, you can also use it on your elbows, your hands if you have sunspots, or your chest if you have spots there. The reason it's a gel is so you can control it."

"This is the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. It's an exfoliating mask with 15% glycolic acid as well as lactic acid and tranexamic acid. You can use it on your face, but if your elbows are dark, if your armpits are dark, if your knees are dark, smoothing your legs helps your stretch marks, it can help with the regenerative process on the stretch marks. And if you're somebody who has KP, which is like the chicken skin on the back of the arms, you can absolutely use this for the back of the arms to help that as well, because an exfoliating acid is going to be helpful in those areas."

"The flash mask is also awesome for a spot treatment. It's an exfoliating mask that comes in a gel format, so you can apply it to hard-to-reach areas. So if you already have, let's say, a brown spot, once the pimple is gone and you're trying to get rid of that brown discoloration, you can put a little bit of the flash mask on the spot every night to try to peel it off faster. But as long as there is inflammation and redness, you don't want to overexfoliate because you don't want to cause too much redness, too much inflammation. It's a strong exfoliating mask. Anything with a strong chemical peel should never be used around the eyes or inside the orbital rim where your skin is thinner, because it can irritate your skin. So if you have really inflamed pimples, you don't want to cause any sort of inflammation to that and make things worse. You need to exfoliate, but you've got to time that exfoliation so that you're not inflaming your skin, and that is where these come in, to minimize that redness so you can gently help those pimples get extracted without causing more damage."

"You have the Flash Mask. It's an exfoliating mask with 15% glycolic acid, lactic acid, and tranexamic acid to help calm how your pigment is made. I go all over my face when I use this. I let it sit and put it on evenly, and I might even go down on my neck and use a little bit more when I go on my chest. The Flash Mask is meant to be washed off, so you're not worried about peeling with this. The other tip that I have for the Flash Mask is if you have an acne mark that just went away, but that brown spot is not disappearing, you can spot treat it every night without having to wash it off. Leave it on overnight on that spot every single night until you feel it got lighter, so you can use this as a spot treatment as well. It is meant to be for the face, but I use it on my face, neck, and chest, and you can spot treat as well."

"This is made up of 15% glycolic acid, so it's already double in strength compared to The Ordinary. It's not necessarily for beginners, but it's worth a try, and if you have sensitive skin, always patch test first. It also has lactic acid, which is a brightening exfoliating acid, and the combination of these two is extremely powerful. Plus we married it to tranexamic acid to help with hyperpigmentation. You can apply it not too close to your eyes, along your nasal bridge, all over your face, or even use it as a spot treatment. You can also use it elsewhere on your body because it comes in the form of a gel, so you control where it goes and how long it stays, and then you wash it off."

"Exfoliating is your reset button. Acids that I love, glycolic acid because it's going to help hydrate, it's also going to help promote collagen, so that's going to help even out fine lines and wrinkles in the long run, and lactic acid because she brightens while she hydrates. The combination of the two is perfection. And that is why I love the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. I recommend that you start exfoliating three to four times a week at night, at the end of the day after you wash your face off."

"This is the Dr Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask, an exfoliating mask that I recommend using at night for your face. If you have an event or if your skin can tolerate it, you can use it all night on your face, you don't have to wash it off. After ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, or the next morning, your skin is dewy, soft. I love to use this as a spot treatment when I have a pimple, especially when you are melanated, because you don't want to have post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation left behind."

"First and foremost, obviously I have an interest in this, this is my company, it is my product line, I love it and I use this three to four times a week going into winter, and I do it at night. This is the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask, which is an acid-based resurfacing mask. It's a beautiful pink texture and it retails for 48 dollars. It has three main ingredients: glycolic acid at 15, so I went the highest that I could possibly go, combining it with lactic acid as well as tranexamic acid to help even out your skin tone. The reason I made it as a mask, a gel mask, is twofold. One, very honestly, I wanted to make it harder for you guys to use so you don't overuse it, but two, I wanted you guys to figure out how long you can have it on your face for. So if you're very sensitive, if you're a darker skin type and you're sensitive or you're scared but you want glycolic acid, leave it on for five minutes then wash it off. If you're someone who's like, I can tolerate this, I will never publicize this on the website or on the brand side, I actually put it an hour before I go to bed from head to my tits and go to sleep an hour later, I don't wash it off, I leave it on overnight."

"This is the Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask, it is a 15% glycolic acid mask, and the beauty with this is that you can pick and choose where you apply it, so you can let it sit on your skin for 15, 30 minutes on your body before jumping into the shower and washing it off. Small tip, I do this before applying any sort of self-tanner because it allows your self tanner to go on more smoothly without any sort of streaks or unwanted lines that you get on your body."

"Dr. Idriss's Flash Mask is a 15% glycolic acid. Glycolic acid is the strongest AHA, going the deepest and allowing collagen to regenerate. The Flash Mask pairs glycolic acid with lactic acid and tranexamic acid to help brighten your skin and even out dark spots and any discoloration."

"In her Major Fade Flash Mask, her own brand, she put panthenol in with the exfoliating acids, especially glycolic acid at 15%. The exfoliating acid can be aggressive, but she has been very pleasantly surprised by how many people can tolerate it because of the panthenol, which helps to calm the skin down and allows it to recover. You're exfoliating while recovering, so you're not getting the crazy reaction you'd normally get from a 15% exfoliating acid."

"My tried-and-true Tower 28 MakeWaves Mascara is a great product. I usually wear it in black, but I did learn a trick recently that if you get it in brown, you can use it on your eyebrows as well, although I have not yet done that."

"You guys always ask me what mascara I'm using. I've been using for like the past year Make Waves by Tower 28, they're Dark One in jet, I think it's their black one. They came out this year with a brown version called Drift. Very honestly, I don't like the Drift because it doesn't feel like I get all my eyelashes, and the point of the mascara is like to get your eyelashes. The black just hits different. But I do wear brown eyeliner but black mascara. I love the Make Waves mascara."

"Tower 28 MakeWaves Mascara, it's a volumizing mascara for 20 bucks, is great. It is a felt tip pen and it's just beautiful in how it gets applied."

"I always go in with a black mascara on top, and I always use Tower 28's MakeWaves Mascara for that."

"The usual brown that I wear is Makeup By Mario, the Master Mattes palette. It has lasted me, this is going to probably last me like 5 years, because I put a little bit and a little bit goes a very, very long way."

"Makeup by Mario has their Master Matte eyeshadow palette; I tend to use the browns a lot."

"If we have dry skin, then we have the SK-II Facial Treatment Essence. The SK-II Essence is all about holding on to hydration and making the other products that you apply afterwards work stronger for you. Plus, it has fermented galactomy yeast extract and it really does help to refine that superficial texture."

"If you're looking for something before a serum and you're looking to increase your hydration level, it's the perfect time to stock up on SK-II Facial Treatment Essence. This essence is great to help increase absorption of hydration, especially to hold on to that hydration in your skin once you load up your serums and your moisturizers. I start with this first, especially when it is very, very, very dry outside."

"I personally love the SK-II Facial Treatment Essence because this is actually going to hold on to the water that you just added and it really does help your products that follow work better. I think you can tap this onto your skin. You can just rub it on lightly. If you just splash it on, it might not necessarily be doing the full benefit for you. So, just make sure that you are using it as a cushioning step in your skin, making it more receptive for treatments that are to come."

"This doesn't have actives like [kojic] acid, arbutin, vitamin C, niacinamide, it doesn't have those things. Exfoliating can definitely help minimize the look of unevenness. This peel is good for sensitive skin because it is mandelic acid and glucono lactone, which is a PHA, polyhydroxy acid, which is better for sensitive skin. Mandelic acid is probably the best AHA for sensitive skin because it is the biggest AHA, so it is the least aggressive."

"SK-II is great at helping other products hold on to moisture because it goes in deep and it allows to suck in those humectants holding them into your skin keeping your skin more hydrated longer."

"SK-II is great for this to barrier supporting hydrating serums, essences that hold on to hydration."

"I put the SK-II Essence in a misting spray to try to make sure I'm getting the biggest bang out of my buck when it goes on my face and I'm not going to be wasting any drop this way or on a cotton pad. I use it underneath a serum and a moisturizer to really help hold on to hydration, especially during winter time because it's dry AF with the heaters and buildings or if I travel somewhere like into the mountain area."

"Essences are extremely lightweight. This is one by SK-II. I've actually dumped this into this. I usually put it in a misting thing like this because I get way more bang out of it and it's really expensive so I want to get as much bang out of it as I possibly can. You can put a mist or an essence at this step of your routine because it is extremely lightweight and it's not going to affect the rest to come."

"This one by SK-II is purely trying to rehydrate your skin and hold on to hydration better."

"SK-II's Facial Treatment Essence is a very interesting one to have in your beauty cabinet because it allows your other products to hold on to hydration better. It is hella expensive for $245, but I personally open this baby up and drop a few of these very expensive drops into a spritzing thing that I buy off of Amazon and I put two or three spritzes on my face and I feel like it goes a much further away than just trying to get as many drops on my palm splashing it on my face and actually wasting drops into the air or my hair. Layer it underneath your serums and your moisturizers. You can use it twice a day but it's going to allow you to hold on to the hydration from your other products."

"SK-II Facial Treatment Essence, I mean it is the Holy Grail. This essence of theirs allows your hydrating products to hydrate more efficiently when you apply the essence first. The humectants and the other products get absorbed better into your skin and holds on to that hydration longer. So if you are on the dry side, if you are somebody who lives in a very dry environment, I highly recommend you check them out."

"SK-II, this is a beautiful hydrating toner. I do not waste it though and put it just in here. I put it in a spray bottle and I spray it to get the biggest bang out of my buck and it goes much much longer in terms of mileage in your routine. So this was a great one to add into your routine and again you would use it after the misting agent before the serum before the moisturizer."

"SK-II is a very very expensive brand but one I have grown to love, and I have their essence on my vanity. In dry climates I like to apply it first because it lets the rest of my skincare absorb better. It really quenches your skin and helps refine skin texture over time."

"A dupe of some sorts is COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence. You're not going to replace SK-II, but it's worth a try."

"This is the COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence that they call, but I view this more like a serum. It's slightly thicker, it's not as watery, and I do see it more as a serum in my opinion, so I'm going to call it kind of an essence serum."

"If you do put on a color, I'll use a lip pencil like Huda Beauty's lip pencil. You can definitely then apply it on top and it's beautiful throughout the day."

"Tower 28 has a Lip Liner and so does Huda Beauty, and I think Huda's is my favorite now, in her muted pink."

"My Lip Peel is a glucanolactone based peel that you can use every night on your lips to keep your lips smooth. As long as you don't have any infections around your mouth, cold sores, etc., you could take that serum on the back of your hand and apply it lightly underneath your eyes as well because we hardly ever exfoliate the skin under our eyes. And as we get older, our skin cells turn over slower. So our fine lines and wrinkles become more prominent because our skin doesn't renew itself as well. So if you're able to exfoliate it on a regular basis without irritating your under eyes, it is very helpful."

"This is called the Barrier-Based Lip Peel, this is a first of its kind formulated specifically for lips chemical peel that is going to be gentle yet effective to help get rid of those dead skin cells on the surface of your lips. It is a combination of a polyhydroxy acid known as gluconolactone as well as an AHA called mandelic acid, which is the lightest AHA because it is the biggest molecule, so it sits more on the surface of the skin and it doesn't go as deep as glycolic acid. Gluconolactone is the glycolic acid counterpart and mandelic acid is mandelic acid, both of these are hydrating, they're going to hold on to hydration and they're going to help make your lips more hydrated. It comes in a roller ball which I'm obsessed with because it was a '90s throwback to lip smackers. I like it because you don't need too much to get onto the roller ball, you just need a little bit and then you're going to roll and let it glide on the surface of your lips. This is also loaded in glycerin."

"Last winter when we had these two products finally available in real time, both of them at the same time. My lips did not crack. They were not chapped. They were not inflamed. It was perfect."

"Glucanolactone is a PHA, the cousin of glycolic acid, and it works really nice for dry, sensitive skin, which is why I put it in the Dr. Idriss barrierbased lip peel. It's our lip basing duo. I use this, the peel, to exfoliate my lips, and I do this every night in the wintertime, not so much in the summer, but in the winter when it's very dry I will do it at night, followed by the lip base to lock it in once it dries."

"How have I been taking care of my lips? I do what I love to call lip basting. At night, I use the Dr. Idriss Lip Peel, which is mandelic acid as well as gluconolactone and glycerin, to help smoothen my lips. And then I lock it in with a Dr. Idriss lip balm."

"Dr. Idriss has a Lip Peel, a gluconolactone and mandelic acid peel specifically formulated for the lips. It is very very gentle, so you can also use it as an under eye peel."

"It's kind of like a tiny gym for your face. It's going to help with your muscle tone over time, and indirectly there may be some benefit when it comes to your intrinsic cellular health. It's going to give you a short-term lift, a short-term snatched effect, but it's only going to really work if you do this very consistently, every single day for a few minutes a day, five times a week or so. But if you are doing this consistently over time, you will maintain your muscle strength and it will help with your skin cellular health."

"I find it especially helpful for lifting and depuffing and redefining the jawline. I love pairing this with my deeppuffer serum because with the deeppuffer serum and this you're attacking puffiness in the moment as well as in the long term. It is a tried and true that I have used for years and when you use it consistently you definitely see results."

"The NuFACE Trinity is one of the at-home tools that can potentially help your neck. It's a tool that utilizes microcurrent, tools that deliver low level electrical currents to stimulate muscles and ATP within your muscular cells. And on the neck, this can give a very subtle effect of tightening, but you have to use it very consistently to see the results, or else the results will not be visible."

"You can also have other at-home devices like microcurrent devices, like the NuFACE. The NuFACE is great, only as long as you use it. It's been sitting by my bedstand for years, so it has not been great for me. But microcurrent can generate ATP in your cells, which can help boost collagen and elastin in the longer run. It's just annoying to do, it's like going to the gym, it's like another routine that I don't have time for."

"I have a microcurrent device, I have a NuFACE, I have a ZIIP. I don't get the ZIIP as much as I get the NuFACE. I think the NuFACE in my opinion works a little bit better than the ZIIP. I don't know, there's no gold standard research comparing the two back to back by an independent third party. It would be interesting if somebody did take the time to do that and do biopsies of the skin to look at the skin underneath to see if there's actually a difference. But they're microcurrent devices that release ATP from your skin cells to allow your skin to really regenerate and tighten and contract over time and to help with collagen production. Again, only as good as you're going to use them, and I tell patients, listen, if you never want to get a facelift and you are really gung ho about making a difference for yourself, buy one, but make sure you use it, and you have to use it every day for at least 20 minutes all over your face while watching a TV show. And if you have that in you, go ahead, it can make a difference. But once you stop, you're probably going to become Cinderella again, scrubbing floors."

"It has microcurrents, and microcurrents deliver low level electrical currents to the muscle and to the tissues of the face, which can have several beneficial effects. Number one, muscle stimulation, so it's going to help to get that muscle contracted and moving, which can help with lymphatic fluid. It's not going to make your muscles bigger. Number two, supposedly it helps to promote collagen production, helping to stimulate the ATP supply, the energy supply of your cells, promoting collagen to get secreted, and for your skin to look slightly plumper over time. We'll see. It improves circulation, of course it will, because your muscles are slightly getting stimulated and you're actually physically moving it, kind of like with a roller or a spoon or a massage. And I think this is the biggest thing, reducing fluid retention or temporary lymphatic drainage is what you're probably going to see the most from this in the short term. You see a lot of videos on social where people are like, I just did the NuFACE, look how snatched my face looks. It's because they moved lymphatic fluid around. It will probably come back within an hour, but you will look better in the short term when you use this. If you do not have the cash to go see a provider, or you like things that you do yourself, this can look very questionable by the side of your bed. If you don't use it, you don't see any benefit from it. If you use it, you will see benefit from it. When you stop using it, you will no longer see any benefit from it. You only get the benefit from it as long as you use it."

"You'll look more snatched, having less puffiness, because you're mechanically moving that fluid around by the actions you use with this device, kind of like a face roller, minus the electrical currents. But this has electrical currents, producing ATP, which a roller doesn't, so this is going to help stimulate all your skin, your collagen production, your muscle stimulation, etc. It's a great device. Honestly, I've had this, I had the Zip, and I think I prefer this to the Zip. It seems more intuitive. The Zip, for me, never quite gelled, but it's about you and your preference. Do I think one is technically better than the other? No, I think it's about you and your preference."

"Microcurrent, like the NuFACE Trinity, also helps generate ATP from the mitochondria to enhance cellular production within your cells and enhance collagen production overall. That's all super helpful, but if you don't want to spend two hundred dollars on a device because you're never going to use it and it's just going to sit by the side of your bed... mine is right over there, that's the microcurrent NuFACE device. I use it with the gel, I just buy regular ultrasound gel."

"You can use an over-the-counter retinol at 0.25 or 0.3% and use it after a thick moisturizer or an occlusive like Vaseline on your neck and chest. That Vaseline or that moisturizer is going to make your retinol less effective, but that's the goal because you don't want it to be too effective and buy yourself an irritation in the process."

"Vaseline is a tried and true basic petroleum jelly that one I mean you should not be afraid of, but that is a very very thick rich ointment that is going to act like a really strong barrier. I would use it all the time, and I also use it in the winter when my face is really dry and inflamed with windburn."

"Vaseline is really going to help seal everything in and exert almost like a physical barrier quality on your skin to really seal the deal and allow the moisture to stay in. You can literally put this after the active, the hyaluronic serum, and the actives, seal a layer of Vaseline on top. A lot of people find that disturbing, a lot of people were really into it when slugging was a huge trend. I would do it in the winter."

"Focusing on just giving it basic soothing and calming ingredients like petroleum jelly and Vaseline to make sure that you are locking that superficial layer of your skin and minimizing anything that can come in and anything that can come out."

"The Ordinary has a glycolic acid peel at 7%. It is relatively low, it's not going to break your bank. It's 13 bucks. You will be fine."

"Glycolic acid is an AHA, and because glycolic acid is the smallest of AHAs, it goes the deepest in our skin to help promote collagen production. If you are a beginner or you are sensitive and you are nervous, The Ordinary is a safe place to start. It comes in a liquid form. It is a 7% glycolic acid and it is only glycolic acid, so it's great for beginners. Make sure to soak a cotton pad with this and apply it to your face after washing your face, but use it at night because it can make you more sun sensitive."

"This is seven percent glycolic acid so this is great for beginners. It's a toning solution, it's very watery and it comes in a nice dropper. At thirteen dollars it's not going to break the bank and it's worth testing on a spot if you're sensitive."

"This is a 7% glycolic acid and it works like magic. The nozzle top really helps to get it into the areas that you want to apply it on your scalp. You let it sit before you shower, allowing the glycolic acid to dissolve those bonds between the dead skin cells and help your skin exfoliate itself, but also hydrate your scalp in the process. If you're itchy and really dry, this is something I would really strongly recommend because in the long run it's also going to help retain the moisture on your scalp so it doesn't get as dry as easily. Glycolic acid is going to solve both odor and darkness on areas like your underarms, elbows, or knees."