Mixed Makeup is Susan Yara's channel covering skincare and beauty across retinoids, serums, eye makeup, lip products, and tools, drawing on her years producing and hosting videos with top beauty industry experts. Her firsthand experience formulating a skincare brand gives her product reviews a layer of practical, behind-the-label perspective most creators can't offer.
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Susan Yara is the founder of skincare brand Naturium and a former on-camera beauty reporter and editorial video producer at Forbes, PEOPLE, and NewBeauty.
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Inner Glow Age Defense Vitamins is a great brand. It's a supplement that you take orally that gives you more antioxidants that help defend your skin and protect your skin from the sun and free radical damage. Neither of them take the place of sunscreen, but when you're a person like me who deals with melasma and you're really sensitive to the sun, this just gives you that added boost of protection for your skin and I love it. I take these supplements every single day, especially if I'm going to be out in the sun. You take it like an hour before you go outside and it helps protect your skin so much more. I like [...] Inner Glow even more because it offers even more benefits for your skin and your hair, which is why it's a little bit more pricey. [...] Both of them have an ingredient called polypodium leucotomos, which is an antioxidant ingredient that comes from a fern and it's been proven to help protect your skin from the sun, and I think that's amazing.
I would still advise against Visine regardless of what you're using. [...] The way it works, it constricts the blood vessels on the surface of the eye, and then there's a rebound effect: as it wears off, it causes even more dilation of those blood vessels, so you end up with more redness and reach for more Visine. [...] You want to look at the active ingredient, not just the brand name, [...] it's the same one that's in nasal spray. [...] If it's an emergency, using it once is okay, but if you're using it constantly, you need to ask yourself why.
This is boring. It's so thick, not everybody needs a thicker [product]. It really makes me mad when people say like everyone needs Embryolisse, no they don't. Not everyone is going to survive it. A really oily skinned client is not going to benefit from having Embryolisse under their makeup, period. You will not find it in my Pro kit. I've never seen it actually.
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"I always end up going back to our Vitamin C Complex Serum, which is an OG. This was one of the first products that we ever launched. I'll move on to like other vitamin C serums just because there's so many on the market."
"I'm going to plug my friend Dr. Sam Ellis and her brand Prequel. I think that her vitamin C serum is fantastic and it's essentially the Skin Suiticles but like updated."
"There's another one called Melisil that's in La Roche-Posay's Mela B3 serum and that works by kind of quenching the melanin precursors. In clinical studies it works really well. It's been shown to be equivalent to hydroquinone. Melisil is another new ingredient that I use a lot in my practice. Works great. Doesn't lighten the surrounding normal skin. One of the biggest challenges with hydroquinone, if you're treating a dark spot, is that you can get a halo around it. I call it the hydroquinone halo. So these products don't do that."
"One of the most recent ones that launched is called Thiamidol. It's an ingredient that's in a product called Eucerin Radiant Tone and it's actually been available around the world for the last seven years. It's been a big component of what people around the world have been using to treat pigment, but we just got it here in the US. It works by inhibiting tyrosinase. Tyrosinase is the enzyme that is the most critical enzyme in the manufacturing of melanin. So if you inhibit tyrosinase, you reduce melanin in the skin because it can't create it. What made it unique is that it inhibits human tyrosinase. All of the active ingredients that we know of that inhibit tyrosinase have been tested on mushroom tyrosinase because mushrooms have tyrosinase, that's why they turn brown. The scientists who were working on this ingredient found an assay to look at what inhibits human tyrosinase which is actually quite different than mushroom tyrosinase. And they found it to be a really potent inhibitor of mushroom tyrosinase. They developed this product around this active ingredient and it works great. I've been using it in my practice."
"This is from DRMTLGY, this is their Needleless Growth Factor Serum. I've been into growth factors and I'm always curious to know if something's worth telling you about. I don't have an opinion about this, so I'm not telling you to go out and buy it just yet, but I did start using it. It was sent to me in PR and so far the thing I can tell you the most is that it feels nice. [...] I got an instant glow, that in itself is a nice benefit."
"This is very, very hydrating to your skin. I also just really like this brand. They have some cool products. You can see it's very, very liquidy, so almost like an essence. It feels good. This is my style. This serum feels really nice on the skin and it's glowing."
"For example, dark spots is one of our bestselling products. I would tell you, oh you got to buy this this and this. And I thought to myself, why can't we just put these all in one product? It's not as simple as it seems, trying to put all these ingredients in one formula, stabilizing and putting them at the right pH, it's not an easy task. But it reduces waste, you're not buying so many products, and it makes people's lives easier. Somebody who doesn't want to layer multiple products could find our products and still see the good results that they wanted to see."
"We have Remedy for healthy aging, which is the product that I use. It's like retinol, exfoliating acids, peptides. It's the product I love. This product, everybody I know has a super high repurchase rate, people love this product, and it's just super moisturizing for people that are in their late 20s, early 30s and beyond that want that moisturizing effect. It's a beautiful product."
"This has human platelets in it, so think PRP. They're using human platelets in this with the exosomes. It's a much smaller bottle as well, it's only 15 ml whereas the other one is 30 ml. The Plated one is a much better experience but you're not getting those additional antioxidants and copper peptides that you get in the other product. I do find that this does not have a disgusting smell to it. It has some kind of a smell but it's not disgusting and I find that it dries down nicer. You can use it morning or night. They're also instead of just touting wound healing, which they do tout, they're also promoting that it helps with wrinkles and also helps with any kinds of dark spots or redness. So they're promoting more of like it helps with any kind of skin issue that you're dealing with, whether it comes to redness, dark spots, or aging or wound healing. I think that this is a much better experience that you're getting half of the product for about the same price. This one is a little bit newer to my routine, I've only been using it for about a week, but I would say that my skin looks good but I wouldn't say it's any better so far."
"It feels like it's truly nourishing and hydrating my skin, and I'm getting a good layer of it without it feeling heavy, without it feeling sticky, none of that. It's just a really beautiful texture and I like the feeling of it, which is so surprising to me because sometimes I'm just like, oh, a hydrating serum, what do I want with that for, I can get that out of my other serums. But this truly makes the difference. I have noticed my skin just looks smoother, it looks and feels more hydrated. I really like this stuff."
"The hyaluronic serum, I think sometimes people in the skincare community really poo poo hyaluronic acid serums a little too much when in reality you can get some great serums that are hydrating and plumping and nourishing for the skin and feels super light where they call out the main ingredient as hyaluronic acid but it turns out there are so many other ingredients like this."
"I love their niacinamide and zinc serum. I think it's just good for all over balancing, toning, and a lot of really good properties, and I also just love the way it feels on my skin. It feels like a layer of protection. [...] The niacinamide serum from the ordinary is a classic. [...] I feel like it was revolutionary for the skincare industry."
"It's from Theramid, it is their copper peptide serum. It has 3% copper peptides and a blend of peptides at 13%. I went back and forth on this one. I love copper peptides, I love a peptide serum, I love a peptide product, so I was really curious about this one. At first I was really into it. It has this really rich blue tone to it, it has a gel cream texture to it, but over time I just felt like that texture was weird to incorporate into my skincare routine. Like it wasn't a typical serum step but it also wasn't a moisturizer. It just didn't fit into my skincare routine well, but I enjoyed it enough to finish it."
"It uses a technology called electroporation, which essentially means it's sending electric currents into your skin in a safe way that create passageways for your skincare products to penetrate deeper. The tests on it show this worked on drugs, so you can kind of make some guesses that it can transfer over to skincare products, but it's not always that simple, it's more of a good concept. There's nowhere on their website that says the technology is any different from other devices, so in my opinion it's just more marketing, [...] it seems like it's the same technology just different devices so they can sell you more devices. I used it and I did feel like my skincare products were penetrating my skin more, but what I didn't like is there isn't a lot of information on what it's really doing for your skin besides that. Is it actually stimulating any collagen? Is it too strong? The pamphlet suggests [...] you don't go higher than a one or a two, but it goes up to like five speeds, and if you go higher and get close to your eye you can feel it kind of tweak your eye out a little bit, which gets me a little weirded out about how safe it is for your skin. [...] I used the device for about 30 days. I felt like it did help my skincare products penetrate a little bit deeper, but it felt like a chore to use, mostly because it says you have to use it five times a week to see the best results, the more you use it the better the results, and it just started to feel like a chore and I wasn't seeing enough of a difference. At some point I did feel like my skin felt irritated."
"I'm going to start with the Sarah Ford Biocell Oxygen Serum. Sarah's been doing my skin for a couple of years now and she really transformed the texture of my skin. It's so soft and smooth, and I still have breakouts all the time when I'm using a lot of makeup on sets, but it keeps my skin as clear as possible and non-reactive as possible. So I'm very obsessed."
"The main thing it's got is like that melit of perment LIF state, that's a cool ingredient for like regenerative benefits, but it's in a lot of K beauty stuff at high concentrations. I think this is a good product, I don't think I would spend $95 on it. What intrigued me is a little bit of their marketing on their website. They say they've got this proprietary technology to deliver a trillion multi-layer liposomes per drop, that's a big promise. If they were doing that, I would pay more than $95. If we could prove that quality outweighs quality, I mean if you've got a trillion liposomes, is there anything that has ever indicated that that's going to be more beneficial? Potentially they're thinking that you're breaking down the ingredients into such tiny, more digestible pieces for your skin. I think it's interesting because as a chemist I'm reading that and I'm so intrigued, but would that even make it better? I would love to hear more because I think there's room here for there to be some things I don't fully understand."
"I'm just trying to support my skin barrier and I want to add in all the moisture and hydration. I'm going to go in with this from The Ordinary, it is the Soothing and Barrier Support Serum. I bought this probably like a month and a half ago and I just started using it. You can see it has B12 in it that gives it this really beautiful pink tone to it, which I also just think is really fun, but it has other really nice soothing ingredients like Centella asiatica. So again, I'm trying to just make sure that my skin barrier feels really nice and strong and supported."
"This is their foray into skincare. [...] It has 12 actives including hyaluronic acid, peptides, niacinamide, noni fruit to flood the skin with hydration. There's a lot of really nice hydrating ingredients. There's even beta glucan, which I personally really like in skincare products. They even have ceramides. I mean, it's a really nice product. But if it's $150 for a beautiful serum, you don't want to waste it after your moisturizer because [...] you're just not getting that full quick benefit, especially when it comes to hydrating products. [...] When it goes in that proper order, lightest to heaviest, then you're getting that better absorption. [...] You don't want to waste that potential for absorption."
"A vitamin C serum is efficacious, but this one has a very short ingredient list which doesn't always translate to efficacy because ascorbic acid is very unstable. That said, there are other vitamin C derivatives in this product that will stabilize the vitamin C, the ascorbic acid, but also offer you more benefits as well. It's got a lot of antioxidants going for it no matter what in this serum."
"The TNS Advanced Plus Serum is a stem cell serum with growth factors that help to brighten skin, tighten, help with elasticity, and promote collagen."
"When it comes to lactic acid, I really love this Biossance Squalane + Lactic Acid Resurfacing Night Serum. This feels kind of like a milky type of serum that you put onto your skin. It's not so strong that you feel like a tingle or anything like that. It just feels like you're getting this smooth, steady exfoliation on a regular basis. So I like to wear this right before I put on my moisturizer as like the last serum step of my routine. I think it's a really nice way to get lactic acid into your skincare routine."
"It has a little bit of this like luminescent tone to it, there's a little bit of a like a light shimmer in this formula that makes your skin look really pretty. It has hyaluronic acid in it and it's just very hydrating and brightening for the skin. So if you want to wear it with or without makeup, I find that I've been using this under my makeup like even today it's like this dewy look to your skin but it's natural looking. I don't know how to explain it but it is so pretty when you put it on and it's very light so it just gives you this nice sheen, this healthy glow to your skin."
"I love the Naturium Multi-Peptide Advanced Serum. It's one of my all-time favorite products I've ever made. If you have dry skin and want to hydrate a little bit, it's anything that's going to give you that hydration before you put on your moisturizer."
"We now sell the Naturium Azelaic Acid 10% at Target. This is a glycinated azelaic acid, so it's an azelaic acid derivative, which means it's not as strong as pure azelaic acid. If you're dealing with really bad perioral dermatitis, you should probably use pure azelaic acid if you can handle it. But I like this one because it has that really light texture to it. It's going to help also balance out my oil production. And I can use it morning and night and get like a really pretty glow on my skin and everything. It has great ingredients to help with that redness."
"They go in with this ultrasound machine called Softwave and they do it on your face. They do it on your neck. They can do it on other parts of your body too. But I've only done my face and neck area and it feels kind of like it's a little bit painful in bony areas because it does heat up for like a split second. But it feels like they're shrink wrapping your skin and I'm like, 'Yes, please please shrink wrap it to my face again.' You do it like once a year unless your skin's like really really saggy. Then you have to do it maybe like two times a year. But I only do it once a year. Honestly, it's not that bad. [...] The pain is like a fast pain. It's like heating, heating, heating. And just when it's like unbearable, it stops. [...] I didn't find it that unbearable. You don't really see the results until 3 months."
"I like to let that dry down just because it can deactivate some of your other skincare products. This is the hydroquinone 6% from Apostrophe. I mean, every three or four months I pick up another bottle of hydroquinone from them just because I think it's such a great ingredient. It's the gold standard when it comes to dark spots. I deal with melasma and I decided this was really important. I usually use it right before I'm going to do a treatment and then afterwards, especially if it's going to be a laser treatment. I went on a beach vacation over New Year's Eve and then I went skiing and I actually think it was the skiing that got me because I wore sunscreen the whole time but the reflection off of the snow it gets to your skin. So I'm putting on my hydroquinone 6%."
"I've recently I'm fully converted to the Naturium Mandelic Acid body wash. This is the one we recently launched and I've run out of it the other day and realized how much I love this one and that like cooling sensation. That's kind of like a skincare powered body wash for sure, is kind of where I start the whole body routine."
"It uses this ingredient because it helps with barrier support, it helps even with some hyperpigmentation, but it also helps with soothing. It says that's an active molecule in licorice known to soothe and brighten the skin, so they're taking [...] the active molecule in licorice rather than just the extract, which I love. I also [...] really love the texture of this, it's kind of like a heavy gel texture with some body to it that's still lightweight, so you can still layer other products with it. And actually, of all the Prequel products, I think this feels like a Korean beauty skincare product. It doesn't smell like anything, which I love."
"If it's a morning skincare routine, I'm always going to recommend a vitamin C serum. My favorite vitamin C serum to recommend for people with dry skin is from my own brand, Naturium, it's our Vitamin C Complex Serum. The reason why I think this is great for people with dry skin is, one, it's very gentle, and that's because we use a vitamin C that is conjugated with glutathione, which is another antioxidant, and also with gold, and it just helps create this stabilization of it. It's kind of like a form of encapsulation, it keeps the vitamin C stable, which we know vitamin C is notoriously unstable, so you don't have to worry about that. But it also means it helps to penetrate your skin a little bit better, it gets it to the place where you want it to go. On top of that, because it's in this type of encapsulation method, you don't have to worry about having a really low pH, which is usually what you have to do with a vitamin C serum to get it to work properly. We actually don't have to make this at a low pH, so it's not acidic. So if you have dry skin, it's very unlikely that you'll experience any kind of irritation with this vitamin C. If you're one of those people that's like, I've used vitamin C before, it always irritates my skin, my skin doesn't react well, I always say to try this one out. It could still not be the one for you, but I always suggest trying this one out. It's a really good price, but also it's just very hydrating because of the way that we formulate this. It has a lot of glycerin in it, there's hyaluronic acid in it, so you'll notice that your skin just looks and feels plumper and more hydrated."
"This is from Goodall, it's their Green Tangerine Vitamin C Dark Spot Serum. This is more of like a vitamin C derivative, so I really use this because it's just really nourishing for my skin. It makes it look glowy and bouncy. I love this product. I go through bottles of this. I've done sponsorships with them, love it, love this product. I think it's just a really enjoyable experience when you use it."
"Five percent tranexamic acid is a clinically effective percentage of tranexamic acid so you'll really see a big difference in your hyperpigmentation and your melasma. It goes really well with all of your other skincare ingredients, it doesn't cause any irritation for my skin, and I can use it actually morning and night. It's a really really light serum, it almost feels like it's an essence, so it's just very hydrating for the skin. There are other ingredients in here as well: there's kojic acid which is another one of those ingredients for hyperpigmentation, niacinamide, and then licorice root as well in this one product."
"At the pharmacies that I went to, I picked up Biafine. You know that was a French girl secret, French girl pharmacy secret, Biafine. So it's really cute too because they have these mini Biafines, because typically the Biafines are like huge and massive. And so they have these little ones in Korea. Which I feel like really is going to blow up because it's about all of these like tiny tubes that are like eight bucks that are so efficacious and so strong and what they're giving you as far as results. They're in these tiny tubes and everything is so affordable, so accessible. So you really load up at the pharmacy over there."
"Following that up with the Avène Tolerance Control Cream. This is their soothing skin recovery cream. [...] It's a nice rich cream that feels really soothing on the skin and I want to just lock everything down because I know that this dermatitis is being caused from irritation. So, this is going to help a lot."
"The Magic Cream from Charlotte Tilbury. I used to love this. I still do. I just haven't used it in a long time. I quite like the Charlotte Tilbury range because it's made especially to go under foundations and things like that. So, I find it works better."
"We have our thick Moisture Recovery Cream. I would put an oil underneath that, but then we have a really lightweight performance cream. I would put an oil over that, too."
"Next up, going in with this moisturizer from my brand Naterium. This is our Multipeptide Moisturizer. This is actually a more medium-weight moisturizer. Usually I'd use something very thick, but I told you it's humid here and I don't want my skin to break out more because I feel like this humidity is causing my skin to freak out a little bit. So going in with just a lighter moisturizer."
"I just started using this and I really like it, especially if I'm using something like the retinol complex cream that's a little bit richer. This is just a light moisturizer, but it feels very moisturizing actually. It's just a lighter texture. And I've been liking it, especially in Miami where it's humid and you don't want to put on a super super thick moisturizer. This does a really good job for my dry skin, but in the humidity. It has very similar ingredients as the original, but I feel like it gives you a little bit more of a sheen, like a glow to your skin. The retinol complex cream is moisturizing, but it doesn't really give you that glossy skin glow. This does. That's what I've been liking about it. It's nice and it smells pretty. If you don't mind fragrance, I don't mind it."
"This is boring. It's so thick, not everybody needs a thicker [product]. It really makes me mad when people say like everyone needs Embryolisse, no they don't. Not everyone is going to survive it. A really oily skinned client is not going to benefit from having Embryolisse under their makeup, period. You will not find it in my Pro kit. I've never seen it actually."
"I do love a moisturizer. I love the INKEY List Bio-Active Ceramide Repairing & Plumping Moisturizer + Barrier Strengthening. That is so good. That's a really great texture."
"That's the anti-redness one. It's created by a UK dermatologist. It's got a sort of soft focus primer effect to it as well. If you suffer from redness, it's green and you're probably not going to have any redness in your face. It's for rosacea prone skin."
"I'm all about the juicy dewy skin, like this is the Bong Bong Bounce Cream. I really wanted to create a barrier cream because barrier creams are also a cream beauty trend that translated over here. I wanted to find something that was not so heavy in texture because everything was so thick and medical feeling, so that's why this Bong Bong Bounce Cream it is more lightweight but then it has that swelling of the occlusives and the humectants that are going to really protect your skin and cocoon you."
"I'm a dry skin girly so I like a nice rich moisturizer. This one is from Skin Rocks, it is the Rich Moisturizer Face Cream. There is a fragrance-free version and a fragranced version. I'm going to use a dollop here, put it all over my skin because I really just want to lock everything in. I wish you guys could feel my skin because it is so nice and smooth. It is really really nice."
"If you need something that's a little bit richer but can still be nice underneath your makeup and underneath your sunscreen, the First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream is a really nice one. It's going to be a little bit thicker because it has ingredients like shea butter in it, but it's super nourishing for your skin. If you do have super dry skin, you might want something that's a little bit thicker."
"The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA moisturizer is a really nice midweight moisturizer. It has super nourishing ingredients in there, has a ton of different amino acids that help to strengthen and support your skin barrier, and it just feels nice and creamy but not too heavy. It doesn't leave your skin looking greasy, so I find that it's just a really nice moisturizer for most skin types but especially for someone with dry skin."
"This is a $48 moisturizer and it has 7% lifting peptides, there's a 2% Biore retinol, they have ceramides in here to strengthen your skin barrier, it's fragrance free. What really sold this brand to me and this specific moisturizer to me is that I have seen so many people like my colleagues in this industry just rave about this brand and also the founder. I saw Alex the Cosmetic Chemist, the founder of Educated Mess, raving about this specific moisturizer. The more I talk to people in this industry, it turns out even people who work for me on my team at Narium really love the founder of iNNBEAUTY PROJECT. A lot of their products actually are really interesting to me, so I'm going to pick up this moisturizer because it piques my interest."
"This is the Faded Topicals Brightening and Clearing Gel. It has a lot of really good ingredients that I feel like they're subtle so they won't make your skin freak out because they're too powerful for what's going on at the time. They work slow and steady, so I really like this for spot treating. For example, if I have dark spots I would just tap it on my dark spots and not my entire face and just let them do what they do. Topicals Faded is iconic at this point, it's a wonderful product for hyperpigmentation. It has ingredients like azelaic acid in it, which gently exfoliates your skin, evens your skin tone, and if you deal with any kind of redness in your skin, which is a form of inflammation, then it helps to calm that, so it ends up almost preventing your hyperpigmentation. It's also been known to help brighten and even your skin tone. There's also tranexamic acid in here, which is a really great tyrosinase inhibitor, meaning that it helps to stop that overproduction of melanin in your skin that causes hyperpigmentation. And another main ingredient in here is niacinamide."
"I have been a stan of this La Roche-Posay cream for so long. This also travels with me. The reason why I love this so much, especially when I travel, is because it doesn't have any preservatives in it. There are times when my skin is so super sensitive I want the most basic, basic, basic, and sometimes preservatives can be a little bit irritating to the skin. When you're traveling and your skin is just so dry or something, this ends up being the perfect moisturizer to put on. The reason why they don't have to add preservatives to this is because they have a built-in preservative system with a little airbag in there so nothing can get in. It's perfect for anyone who has hyper-sensitive skin. It's moisturizing. It's that like perfect in-between kind of moisturizer for every skin type. I go through bottles of this, or tubes, or whatever we would call this. Love it."
"Sam Ellis's brand they had sent me this Urea repair lotion sample before it launched and I did not get a chance to really use it and then I threw it into my bag when I was traveling and I was like oh this stuff is so good like I went through the whole entire thing on that trip and I was like when I get back I got to pop open a bottle of it but it's like always sold out and back and then sold out so I haven't really had a chance to get another bottle of it but this bottle was great until that last drop of it."
"If you don't like vitamin C serums there are other treatments out there that have antioxidants like this one from Jordan Samuel Skin, this is their Antioxidant Treatment Emulsion. [...] It has different antioxidant ingredients that are not ascorbic acid so for people who have sensitive skin you might find this one to be a little bit better. It is a thicker texture, it's an emulsion so it's going to be a little bit more nourishing for the skin too. It just feels really nice and very very light so I feel like all skin types can use it. You can use this morning and night but I prefer to use it in the morning time to just really help boost that radiance in my skin and also boost the protection that you get from your sunscreen."
"I love this cream because it's rich, it's thick, it's super moisturizing, and my skin is historically just so dry and from travel, like it does dry you out. My facialist recommended this cream and I just am addicted to it. Is it overpriced? Absolutely, 100%. The patent that they have is very interesting to me. It's a delivery system and they have it patented, and you can as a consumer go look up this patent. It was created by a doctor, Augustine Bader, who did research and created this patent for medical use, and they basically translated it to an inclusive that can help ingredients penetrate your skin."
"The Acne Expert Skincare Calming Moisture Gel allows skin to breathe, which is great for those who prefer a light hydrator. It has a very simple ingredient list with calming ingredients like allantoin, glycerin, panthenol, and aloe vera. It's a very straightforward hydrating gel moisturizer. The cooling feeling is nice, but there aren't that many ingredients in here that are going to make it feel occlusive. If you're going to be sweating and you're already prone to being a little bit more oily, a gel moisturizer would be the way to go to keep your skin care light. That said, if you want that gel cooling feeling but also need something more occlusive with more film formers to lock everything in, especially if you're going to be wearing makeup on camera, you'd want to look for something different."
"I've been using this cream it's called Faded by Topicals. It's so cute, it really works and it feels really nice on your skin. It smells like vomit truly, but it has significantly lightened my sun spots. It has a lot of brightening ingredients in it. The kojic acid in it is a very popular brightening ingredient, but it's not even really the kojic acid that's doing the heavy lifting here, it's the tranexamic acid. There is niacinamide in here and there's a whole host of other ingredients in here that just help."
"This is by Stratia, it's their Liquid Gold. I'm gonna put this on, it's a barrier repair cream. It just happens to have some of my favorite soothing ingredients like camellia sinensis in it as well. There is niacinamide, and I suspect my skin can handle this now, and I'm right. I'm not feeling any sting or tingle from it, so that's good."
"If you have really dry parched skin right now, especially during the winter time, I have been loving this. It's one of those creams where you open it up and it is just so nice and rich, but it also feels like it has this hydrating aspect to it, which you don't always get when you find like really thick rich creams. Sometimes they feel like they can almost be pasty on the skin, but this doesn't feel like that at all. My first impressions are that it just feels nice and rich and moisturizing, and it really could be great and beneficial for anybody with dry skin, but it also has this hydrating aspect to it."
"I like to put on the Naturium Multi-Peptide Moisturizer. It's not the heavy one, it's the medium one. It's our Goldilocks moisturizer, is what I tell everybody. That one's so good. It's so good."
"I have a brand new bottle of Naturium Barrier Balance because I think it's great to hydrate your skin. It has squalane in it. It has 2% urea in it and it has a ceramide complex in it which are all really great ingredients for any kind of sensitive skin, dry skin issues. It's going to be really helpful. Sometimes I like to use this as a product to top off my moisturizer, but I'm going to use this actually underneath my moisturizer because the actual moisturizer I'm using is pretty thick. So I'm putting this on and it gives a beautiful glow. Urea is a wonderful ingredient for your skin, especially when you want to hydrate because at low percentages, like 2%, it's truly just a hydrator. It's a humectant and it's already found in our skin naturally because it's part of our natural moisturizing factor. So look how pretty. Makes your skin just super super glowy."
"This is when I apply the Alloy M4 Estriol Cream. I really have been enjoying this. I've been using it for over a month. You only need about two pumps. What I like about it is that it's a really nice moisturizer. I had ordered estriol cream from another service and that one came so chalky and thick and I was like I'm not going to use this. I like this one because it feels like I'm topping it off like my skincare routine with a really nice moisturizer. It's not too heavy. It's not too thick and it just feels really good. It's called estriol cream, so it contains estrogen in it and what it's supposed to do is help with collagen production elasticity. So it helps with your fine lines and your wrinkles. I just think because it's a nice formula it also helps to plump everything out as well. And it has a good texture, which is important to me because not all prescription skincare products come with beautiful textures. My biggest complaint when it comes to prescription skincare is sometimes these products can just feel so unusable. Like, who wants to use something that's chalky and hard to rub onto your skin? I want to use something that looks elegant and feels good on my skin. So this one I've been really enjoying it."
"Remember it was like Embryolisse and like La Mer used to be like the go-to moisturizers you would use under makeup back in the day. I have a theory about that. [...] The theory is there was we weren't in tune to all the other magical formulas that can work just as well, so it was like you know it took like a couple makeup artists on set to probably talk about it in a news article or [...] magazine, and then it just started to spread and then no one wanted to take that next step to find the next best thing so we all just kind of followed suit. [...] This is boring. [...] It's so thick, not everybody needs a thicker. [...] A really oily skinned client is not going to benefit from having La Mer under their makeup period. Skin prep is going to be different for everyone. [...] The idea that La Mer is King for skin prep, no it's not."
"I would still advise against Visine regardless of what you're using. [...] The way it works, it constricts the blood vessels on the surface of the eye, and then there's a rebound effect: as it wears off, it causes even more dilation of those blood vessels, so you end up with more redness and reach for more Visine. [...] You want to look at the active ingredient, not just the brand name, [...] it's the same one that's in nasal spray. [...] If it's an emergency, using it once is okay, but if you're using it constantly, you need to ask yourself why."
"There's a clinical trial going on in China for some muscle injury. [...] There's also another small study that was done here in the US by a physician [...] where he injected BPC into patients' knees who were complaining of knee pain and they reported improvement of pain. [...] I personally have used BPC on myself. [...] I use it very intentionally, very carefully. [...] The combination of BPC-157 with TB-4, or sometimes the synthetic TB-500, which is [...] another healing peptide that helps with how wounds close, and then GHK-Cu, the copper peptide, which is very well studied in skin. This is a tool, but it's not going to replace eating really well, sleeping, recovering, or resting. You have to do the hyperbaric, the red light, all the things."
"I use Dove and I love it. [...] It's so good for the skin. Like I've always used it and I loved it and I just feel like my tan really likes the hydration that it gives from that."
"Medications like Accutane, all those things come with a price. Most people would prefer not to do that if they don't have to. I believe [...] that medication should be the last step. If we can try to do some other things first, then at some point when I'm like, listen, enough's enough, we need to get you on a prescription, I'll recommend that and send them to a derm. But I think most people would prefer not to do that if they don't have to."
"Here's my beef with beef tallow. People say, 'Oh, it's very similar to sebum and it's fatty acid concentration. So therefore, it shouldn't break people out.' I have news for you. Look at people with acne. What oil is breaking them out? Sebum. So, if you're putting something that's like sebum on the skin in somebody who has acne, like it will break them out, too."
"The foundation I've been obsessed with is by Lisa Eldridge. So good. My makeup artist in London, Nichollet, introduced me to that one, and I've been bringing it everywhere. [...] I'm wearing it right now. [...] It has like a very skin-like, almost soft matte satin [...] finish, luminous but still matte."
"I did Cosmelan 1 round of it, like just the main part of it a few months ago and I felt like that really helped with my melasma. I loved the results I got from Cosmelan. The real true process of doing like the whole month of it is a little bit brutal because you're like peeling and kind of orange the entire time and I could not stand that. So this more recent time I just did the main part of it, peeled for like a few days and then I was done with it and then I just kind of maintained with hydroquinone for a little bit."
"I use Dove, which is the unscented solid cleansing bar. I can't use anything fragrance down there. This is essentially not a soap, it's a solid super fatted solid cleansing bar, unfragranced. This is just the best texture."
"I love liquids and creams especially when they come with highlighters. This is the True Match Lumi Glotion from L'Oreal. I like to mix the light and the deep and almost kind of cocktail it in a sense. When I mix it, it makes a nice warm but not too deep kind of color, and this gives us a bronzy luminosity without adding any coverage to the skin."
"Profilo is the main one that I use. It's kind of [...] the injectable moisturizer, it's very potent hyaluronic acid that you inject into different parts of the face with the main aim of boosting skin quality and hydration. It basically works by boosting collagen and elastin, which are the main matrix of our skin. It's [...] really used well in conjunction with a good skincare routine, not as a standalone. It's like an adjunct. [...] My skin looked very hydrated and it gives that nice glow. [...] It's not going to change your life but it does give you that sort of healthy glow to the face."
"This is the at-home version; the MD version is the professional version so that has hydroquinone in it, probably a high amount of it, and also a high amount of retinol in it. This does not, so it's like other ingredients that are not as intense but it still felt pretty tingly, just not bad. You can see my skin isn't really that red. The kit comes with this melon recovery, it actually feels really nice on the skin, [...] but it has a really strong fragrance which I think is odd for post-recovery for your skin. [...] My skin actually feels really good."
"I look at it more as like a foundation stick personally. If you're using a stick or a cream like a heavy cream concealer in the eyes it's just gonna look really heavy on your eyes. It's a heavier product, it's like a thicker inconsistency, and you're just not going to benefit as much as you would using a liquid concealer that has a chance to dry down. They're easier to manipulate and to really blend out into a perfect finish. When you think about how much movement we have under our eyes and how much expression we have throughout the day, our eyes are always moving constantly. So unless you're really setting that concealer into place, which is going to require probably a lot more powder than you'd want, I would always opt for a liquid concealer for under the eyes. It just looks better, looks more skin like, looks more fresh, you're gonna have less of a chance of it creasing if you properly set it."
"You guys have heard me talk about this because Nikki, my friend and makeup artist, has said that this product is a dupe for the Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter. I had a hard time believing it because I really like that product. Now, will I say it's a dupe? I don't know. It feels like it's a little bit different. I don't know if I feel like it's easier to use. Like, it feels like it's maybe not as radiant or as luminescent as the Charlotte Tilbury one, but it's a really great product. I find that I'm using it underneath my foundation, on top of my foundation. It's just so easy to use because it's not overly luminescent, and so I love it. I think it looks really great. I actually have tried it without any foundation on and just put that on, a little bit of concealer, some blush, maybe, and then I go, and I think it's just really easy to use. It's like 15 dollars, so you might as well give it a try because it's pretty great."
"I'm putting on the Alastin Regenerating Skin Nectar, which is a great healing balm, really helps to allow the skin to heal even faster. It has peptide technology, so great for post-treatment."
"The SkinCeuticals Triple Lipid Restore 2:4:2 is a corrective moisturizer that has lipids, ceramides, and fatty acids all the things that our skin needs to retain moisture."
"It is such a beautiful exfoliator. It makes my skin feel like a baby's butt and I use it probably like once or twice a month. When my skin is wet I will take a little dollop of this, I'll scoop it out, I will rub it onto my face and then I'll let it sit and let the enzymes kind of do a little bit more exfoliation and then rinse it off my face."
"This has been a game changer for me since getting my procedure done. [...] The device uses nanourrents that work with the skin's natural bio electricity to supercharge renewal, collagen production, and barrier strength. It's [...] a free form treatment where you start low and work your way up, carving out and lifting the face. [...] The electric currents feel really good and it works a little bit different than microcurrent. It has multiple preset treatments including lymphatic drainage, clearing skin, collagen renewal tone corrector, and facelift. The app is really cool and makes it simple to use. It's so easy to travel with. If you start your day with the Zip Halo, your face looks more lifted and [...] you can see the results from treatments a lot more. You really have to try it, especially if you are consistent with the device. You'll see such a huge difference with your skin."
"I'm just gonna come out the gate with probably the most expensive item on this entire list just because I love it so much and that is the Dyson Airstrait. It is a $500 device, so I do not take it lightly telling you that I think that this is one of my favorite hair tools that I have ever used. The Airstrait is a game changer for someone like me with care frizzy hair, kind of wavy. For me specifically this hair tool is a complete game changer like it has changed my life. It is such a chore for me to blow dry my hair especially if I want my hair to be really smooth. I get out of the shower I prep my hair I have to blow dry it then I have to work really hard to then smooth it with a round brush and then I still have to curl it and by the end of that I've spent like an hour hour and a half doing my hair and I'm sweating. This is cut my blow dry time to 20 minutes. For me that is very quick. The fact that I can just blow dry my hair really quick and I end up with sleek hair, this has never happened to me never in my entire life so this is a complete game changer for me. I also use it on my daughter and I blow dry her hair in like 5 to 10 minutes."
"It's called Anthelios UVMune 400, the creme. It's a little square bottle. Technically, it won't actually be in stores until later this year. It's just been approved in Australia, but I'm very excited because I have been using it and I love it. I'm just happy to have something in that long UVA range and I will keep using it because it's got such good protection. It's one of my favorite sunscreens. I always buy it when I'm in Europe."
"This is from One Skin. It's their OS1 face SPF. This is the tinted mineral version. I tend to not love mineral sunscreens, but I really love this one. It is SPF 30 plus. You know, I love an SPF 50 plus mostly, but I find this one to be really comfortable and I'm going to be inside most of the day, so I'm okay with the SPF 30. Plus, it's so wearable. It has a peptide in it that fights senescent cells and I just really like that concept a lot. Look at how beautiful this goes on. They have three different tints. This one is my favorite. Look at how pretty. Sunscreen is so important. Having really beautiful looking skin is also important. And it's just so nice. I hope they make a SPF 50 version of this because it is great. And I don't know too many sunscreens that have peptides in them. Not like anti-aging peptides."
"I've been loving this one, it's from Iris and Romeo, it's their Weekend Skin SPF50+ with Vitamin C and Glow. This is their Warm Glow shade and I've been liking it a lot. I do tend to use a tinted sunscreen when I go to the gym just because I feel like I just want to look a little bit refreshed when I go to the gym. What I do before the gym is splash my face with some water, I throw my sunscreen on and then I'll curl my lashes and do my brows, like put a little brow gel into my brows and then I'll put on a lip balm. That's it. This warmth that you're seeing to my skin, it's so pretty."
"I really like the texture of this, like the finish of this. Originally I kind of didn't want to use it because it says that it's like a more of a matte finish and I thought oh I'm not going to like that, I don't like a matte finish, I like to look glowy, and it just, it's so easy to use. It has this like natural finish instead. I feel like matte wasn't the right word to describe this. It glides on so easily, it's so easy to use and it looks good. When I'm actually applying it I blend it with like a brush after I swipe it, it's just so easy, it makes putting on your foundation really fast and really easy. I like the texture of it and it blends easily. I don't think it settles into my pores, it doesn't settle into my lines and it looks natural. I actually don't feel like I have to wear much powder after I use it too, so again that natural finish that it gives. I just like this a lot, it is so so so nice. If you like a natural looking foundation and you want it to be easy and you like a foundation stick, I think you'll like this because it's really straightforward. It gives enough coverage but it can also look really natural or more coverage."
"I like this one on days where I don't want to feel too greasy. I do live in Miami so sometimes it's so humid that I do skip the moisturizer step and this one is a perfect one for me because even though it feels like a nice rich lotion because it has ingredients like ceramides in it to restore and replenish your skin and support your skin barrier, it does dry down to a more natural finish on your skin so I don't feel like I look really greasy or that I've layered on too much when I use this one."
"This is the second bottle of this that I've gone through. This is the Garnier Anti-Dark Spots and Anti-Pollution Super UV SPF50 Fluid, another European sunscreen. The other two that I talked about were Korean sunscreens, so you can get the Korean sunscreens pretty easily online, but this one is limited to Europe, UK. That's usually where I pick up these kinds of sunscreens. I enjoyed this one, don't enjoy it as much as the ISDIN, not as much, but I like this. It's nice and light and fluid and great to wear on top of your skincare routine if you want something that's light."
"It's my favorite sunscreen. It's very oil-based which I love, and it's nice getting it on your neck and your chest. It's a mineral sunscreen, SPF 40, it has a slight tint to it, it has some vitamin C in it. It's really nice, like an all-in-one, encapsulating kind of thing, a serum and sunscreen combo. Even though it's water-free so you'd imagine it has a heavy texture, it's actually lighter. They've got shea butter in there that gives it a very light texture, and one of the first ingredients is a blurring, almost oil-absorbing polymer, so I'm imagining that's why it feels light."
"The OG one, nostalgia, holy grail. I love it, it is full coverage. Do I use it anymore? Not really, my preference for what I want for my finish I guess has changed, and I also rely on my actual sunscreen as my sunscreen, so I don't love it anymore. But it was a holy grail for a very long time, and I wouldn't be sad using it again if somebody was like this is all you got. I would be very happy. It's a good formula. I like it."
"I thought I was going to love it, then I tried it and I felt like it was a little too glisteny, and then I retried it and I was like this is like my jam now. I don't know if they reformulated it or I've just had a whole change in what I'm looking for when it comes to a foundation, or in this case a skin tint. I like this one. It is more pigmented than I like to use on a regular basis though. It's full-on pigmented, medium coverage, it's in the foundation category. Personally I like the original one more than I like the glow. It just stays really really wet and I just can't stand that. It's not going to be my go-to with all the skin tints on the market now. It doesn't dry down the way I want it to. It does feel heavy."
"It's a classic formula, it's extremely longwearing, it looks beautiful on your skin. However, if you don't prep your skin properly it can look horrible, but that goes with any foundation, but this one especially I feel like anyone who hated this foundation is because they weren't properly prepping their skin so it just looked bad. I think it's a great formula. I'm happy to see on this list. I'm not really surprised to see on this list, but I do think that MAC has better formulas than that one."
"This one is a mineral sunscreen, the zinc oxide sunscreen which you could kind of see when she was putting it on. It has a little bit of a white cast on it but it looked very moisturizing on the skin."
"You've used the Glow Screen and I love the Glow Screen too, but when you use a proper amount of it it's so close, you're so metallic looking, like you look like Tin Man."
"This is a very interesting sunscreen because I wish that brands would make them so that they seamlessly incorporate into your skincare routine. I think sunscreen would be used more regularly if it really felt like a skincare step instead of putting on this almost like a mask on your face. Of course people don't want to wear their sunscreen regularly if it doesn't feel comfortable and doesn't feel like a normal part of their routine. There's just such nice skincare ingredients in here in general. It can be really confusing when you hear the name serum, I think a lot of people think that it should go on as a serum step, a reminder, sunscreen goes on as the last step in your skincare routine. They call it a serum because of the texture of it, you can see it's this really nice liquidy texture. It does not leave a white cast, it's very nice and soothing on your skin. Even though it feels nice and thin and light, it has ceramides in it, niacinamide in it, colloidal oatmeal, peptides, there are just so many nice ingredients in here. ZitSticka to me is also a brand that really focuses on people that deal with acne issues, so I feel like they really took that into account as well when they were formulating this product. Again, it's got that serum feel and it's also very soothing for the skin, even for sensitive skin, so they're really taking into account all the people who are on all these strong prescriptions and products and stuff that can really make your skin feel sensitive. So this one is really nice on the skin. I find that I still need a separate moisturizer underneath it, but I have dry skin, but for some people you might feel like this is also moisturizing enough."
"This is the EltaMD UV Clear Broad Spectrum SPF 46 facial sunscreen. This one has chemical filters in it but I love it because it has a really beautiful light tint to it. If I need to reapply my sunscreen while I'm out I like to go for this one because I'm essentially putting like more makeup on my face. It's one of those things where if I'm wearing blush or something like that it's gonna pretty much cover it up but I don't really care because it gives me a little bit of color, it gives me a glow and it looks really pretty. So this is what I use to reapply a lot of the time."
"This one from Cetaphil is really nice to keep with me because it feels a little bit more light, so I can also use it and enjoy it myself, not just on my kids."
"It's broad spectrum because it has all of those filters in it and the best part about it is that it is ten dollars. I actually just found it online for seven dollars on sale, but on a regular basis this is only ten dollars. This is probably the best sunscreen that I have found recently. This is the one I'm going to probably ride the hardest for."
"What it does is it gives you a little bit more UV protection to your skin but it's more from the inside out, which is very interesting. It doesn't mean that you don't have to wear sunscreen, but if you're like me and you have melasma or if you're somebody who has something like lupus or autoimmune diseases that can really make your skin sensitive to the sun, this is a really interesting ingredient and product to add into your life as a supplement because you're just getting that added protection. It's like UV protection from the inside out and then you obviously have your sunscreen that you put on top of your skin and also any of the other products like hats and stuff that you're using to protect your skin. You're just getting one more form of defense for UV protection."
"This one from EltaMD, their UV Restore Broad Spectrum SPF 40. The reason why I like this is because it's tinted. The tint is the perfect color for me, though I know for some people it might be too orangey or too dark, and for others it's too light. [...] They also have it not tinted though, so if you want to try it out, it also comes in an untinted version. The other reason why I like this one is because it has squalane in it, so you get this moisturizing feel to it as well. It's very nourishing for the skin and it gives you a very dewy look. [...] The other reason I like it is because it has THD ascorbic in it, which is a vitamin C derivative. Having that in there really helps it become a better sunscreen because vitamin C is a strong antioxidant, and together with the sunscreen filters it just really helps protect your skin. They work well together, they work better together."
"The Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protector Lotion SPF 50 feels really nice and mattifying on your skin. It's actually gorgeous to put on. I take that with me on vacations, I put that in my bag like that is my go-to for outdoor water resistant, if I'm sweating sunscreen. I love that one."
"It has this green tone to it and it has SPF, and we can never get too much SPF. [...] I put it around my nose where I naturally get redness, and it tones that down, [...] that color changes, and then you put your makeup on top of it and you end up looking so much better, it's really nice. [...] I got the treatment done about a week and a half ago, and [...] I still have some redness that's finally starting to go away, but [...] my melasma and hyperpigmentation is starting to look more like freckles, so it's starting to break up. I have a feeling I'm going to have to do another treatment."
"This is the Naturium Dew Glow Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50 and I love that you have the mini, yes I love the minis I keep them in my purse I keep them in my kit they're just the best. I love this for skin prep, it just goes on the skin so nicely. It's right in between rich and light which I like, it's right in between so it really hydrates the skin and gives such a beautiful slip to anything that I put over it. People ask me does it have flashback, no it doesn't have flashback because it has SPF, it's the moisturizer so you're not really going to see that through the makeup."
"I want to purchase the Kosas DreamBeam sunscreen. It's basically like a more golden iridescent luminescent sunscreen shade, still SPF 40, and it has peptides and ceramides in it. It just looks really pretty, it looks like it's right up my alley. I don't know if it's good at all. I personally like the original formula, I thought it made my skin look really glowy underneath makeup and I feel like it set really well for me. But I've also heard from people that they do not enjoy this sunscreen. I think sunscreen is a very personal choice, very dependent on your own skin type and everything that you're kind of going for, the kind of finish that you want with a sunscreen. I have not tried it yet, and if I'm being honest, I probably have this one coming to me in PR. I have not personally tried it yet, but if I don't get it, I will go purchase this one. It just looks interesting to me."
"This one from Apostrophe is a hybrid sunscreen with a moisturizing texture. [...] It will moisturize your skin and it will protect your skin with an SPF 43. This is fragrance free, it's safe for sensitive skin and acne prone skin, it's hydrating. [...] It has zinc oxide in it, which is mineral, and then it has octanoate and octisalate in it. It's a really beautiful sunscreen that you can use for most skin types, but I like to show this one because it is super moisturizing as well, so you can put it onto your face and skip the moisturizer altogether."
"There are biofermented powders in it that give it that nice soft focus semi-matte kind of natural look to your skin. It also just kind of gives you this filtered look to your skin. There's always a possibility of pilling whenever you're dealing with powders in a sunscreen, but we really try to get ahead of that as much as we possibly could while using powders in a sunscreen, so I think we achieved that really nicely. The thing I'm most proud of is the texture of this sunscreen. I feel like this is a sunscreen that everybody could really love. If you do have oily skin or combination skin you can use it on its own, maybe over a hydrating serum or a vitamin C serum. If you have dry skin like me, just do your full skincare routine, finish with your moisturizer, then apply this on top and it just feels super light on your skin. It has this really nice plush serum texture to it that I just think is very unique. You can't even imagine when you're applying it that it will dry down to a soft matte finish, but it does. You have to give it a few seconds, maybe a minute, which I let my sunscreens dry down that much anyway before I apply anything else, and then you realize it just gives you this beautiful natural look to your skin and it feels like you're not wearing anything."
"Bondi Sands has this SPF 50 sunscreen lotion for the body. I've seen a lot of people say that they just buy this because they love it so much. What I have found is that this is really moisturizing as well and it feels really great. I do find it to be a little bit richer, so if you have dry skin you might love just using the body one for your face and your body, but if you have oily skin you might want to stick with the face one and use the body one strictly for the body, but it feels really nice and light too. It's very moisturizing. I do like to let it set for a little bit before I go in with my makeup just so it forms that nice perfect layer. Really give this a try if you like a dewy finish for your sunscreen, if you like to have a moisturizing sunscreen, this is it. It's only like ten dollars and you can get it at Walgreens."
"I'm going in with Ntorium Cleansing Gel 3%. This is a travel size. You can get it at Target. It's really great to have with you because it lasts a long time in my opinion."
"I love a good pore strip. I think that people have demonized them for so long just because they don't have a good understanding of what they are. The ones that I particularly like are from Biore. I think until recently they had the OG and they've had a patent on the technology until the last few years. When you wet it, it polarizes and it actually attracts the pore contents as opposed to some other methods like those old peel off masks that are just acting like an adhesive and can be a little bit more damaging to the skin. I don't think that they're the be all end all of having nice refined pores, but I do think that they can be helpful, especially if somebody's at the beginning of their skincare journey and they want a quick fix that's going to improve the appearance of their pores quickly. I still use them."
"This is the Yam Root Vegan Milk Cleanser. This is a really easy to use cream cleanser. I like cream cleansers. I feel like sometimes we think we need to strip our skin when we get clogged pores, but sometimes I feel like it's the opposite. We need to nourish our skin. It's really nice and gentle. One of the main ingredients in here is actually sunflower seed oil. So linoleic acid rich oil helps to unclog the pores, nourishes your skin at the same time. It's just a really good one. So highly recommend it. You could actually use this as your first and your second cleanse, like put it on to dry skin first and then go in a second time on wet skin. And I bet you it would take off a decent amount of glam. Like if you had full-blown glam, maybe not, but light sunscreen, tinted sunscreen, that kind of a stitch, better do the job."
"I've been really liking this cleansing oil because it has a ceramide, ceramide NP, but it also has primrose oil in it. And I think primrose oil is underrated. It's not used too much in skincare and it's one of those kinds of oils that I just really like because it's not super heavy. And I feel like it helps to unclog your pores versus clogging your pores, which I know that a lot of you get worried about when you tend to have acneic skin or you have skin that can get clogged pores. I actually find that it can help unclog the pores."
"It is not really what you think when you think oil cleanser, it's like a gel cleanser. [...] It does not strip your skin, it cleanses well. I'm liking it again."
"The first product I'm going to go in with is from Prequel, my friend Dr. Sam Ellis's brand. This is the Prequel Pre-Cleanse Cleansing Oil. I think it's really good. It feels very juicy for an oil, if that makes sense. I don't know how to explain it, but it's juicy and I like that. I've been using it a lot lately and it breaks everything down so easily. [...] Let me show you how it emulsifies, because we always want to see it do a good job. Now I'm going to rinse it off. This is what it looks like right after I rinse off, and my skin is not sensitive at all now."
"This is the Prequel 1% Salicylic Acid Cleanser, so this is 1% salicylic acid and 50% glycerin and I've just been really loving the texture of it, it's really really nice. Look how it foams up, it just feels cool. I like to use a salicylic acid cleanser after the gym both on my face and on my body just because you get all that sweat, you want to get all that bacteria off of you that might be from the machines and all that stuff. Isn't this a nice cleanser and it doesn't dry your skin out? Salicylic acid by nature, because it's oil soluble, it breaks down oil which is why it's nice for people who are acne prone, but it can also make your skin kind of dry. This one because of the glycerin content does not dry your skin out and I'm into it. I like to massage my cleanser when it's a salicylic acid or any kind of treatment cleanser, especially in the areas where I get clogged pores."
"Our Living Cleansing Balm is by far the hero SKU right, everyone loves it, it's been the most viral on social and we have just super fans and loyal fans. The Living Cleansing Balm has won so many awards."
"I would apply it to dry skin and try to break down all of my makeup but that's what makes it a really special cleanser it has more of like this lotion feel to it and before it can become an oil you actually have to work it pretty well to get it to this oily consistency you have to warm it up in your hands and then when you use it on your skin you find that it breaks down makeup and impurities pretty well. I think this is a really great cleanser for a morning skincare routine because of this really interesting property that it has. It has a high percentage of squalane in it. Squalane is one of those oils that all skin types can benefit from. It doesn't feel heavy and greasy on the skin, instead it just nourishes and it's actually an ingredient that your skin tends to recognize and uses easier, so it really just helps to nourish and replenish your skin. So instead of feeling like your skin is stripped after you cleanse it, using this your skin feels like it's much more nourished."
"My first suggestion is from Dr. Sam Ellis's line, Prequel. It's called Gentle Cleanser, meaning that it's a cleanser with lots of glycerin in it. I think it's a super cute name. This is a really great cleanser for most skin types, but what makes it especially great for people with dry skin is that it has this 50% glycerin in it. When you use high percentages of glycerin, not only is it really hydrating for your skin, but it's been shown to actually help improve your skin barrier. And even after you rinse it off, you still get that kind of benefit from it. So when you're using a cleanser like this, not only is it kind of fun and just an interesting texture to use, but it's actually nourishing your skin even after you rinse it off. It also cleanses your skin really well."
"This one from Clinique is a great one. Lots of people use this cleansing balm, it's a really good one. Warm that up, don't put it directly onto your eyelashes and onto your eye makeup. Warm it up, turn it into an oil and you're going to get so much more out of that. I [...] like products that don't dry me out while they're removing whatever makeup I had on during the day, and I find that this cleansing balm really does the job there. [...] Work that into a beautiful oil, [...] massage it onto your face and you won't even need to use a washcloth."
"A 2% Salicylic Acid Cleanser is a really great way to get exfoliation if you have any clogged pores. Salicylic acid is a wonderful ingredient for that because it actually breaks down pores and it even helps to balance out your oil production. In a cleanser form like this it's really gentle on your skin because you are rinsing it off. It's doing its job and then it's being rinsed off, so it's not going to have this long-term effect of continuously exfoliating your skin. It does a little bit, but it's a little bit more of a gentle process, so it's a really great way to get it into your skincare routine."
"I love this stuff, it is so nice. It feels like a light jelly, kind of breaks into an oil just like all the other first cleanse products. I massage it onto dry skin, break down all my makeup and sunscreen, rinse it off, then go in with my next cleanse. This is just so nice. I find people who don't love a typical oil cleanser as their first cleanse will enjoy this. And it has this light, really pretty, faint scent to it that makes it also a nice experience. Love this stuff."
"I've just been using this a lot, I'm more than halfway through with it. I especially love that it has this little scoop that is just built into it. [...] It's especially easy to travel with because it's like kind of compact but you get a decent amount of cleansing balm into it, and it has this, you know, it's just so nifty, everything about it. It is fragrance-free. It's a pretty standard cleansing balm, so some people might find it to be expensive. [...] I apply it to my skin while it's dry to break down the makeup and [...] sunscreen and the grime, then I wet it, emulsify it a little bit, and rinse it."
"I've heard that Mario Badescu did update some of their old formulas so they might be pretty good and this Cleansing Oil doesn't look bad. I think it's interesting because on the website it's like this is a cleanser makeup remover all-in-one but I'm looking at these ingredients and I'm like these emulsifiers they're using I don't think they're going to, it's going to leave a film on your skin. I would still recommend a second cleanse. Almost all oil-based cleansers I would say you're better off using it as a first cleanse with a water-based cleanser second cleanse. Makeup, most of the waterproof ingredients that make makeup stay on long are very easily dissolved in oil not water. Surfactants in a water-based cleanser are going to help pull off some oil but I think it's nice to help dissolve it first to make it easier to pull off with your second cleanser. It's only $16 so I think it's a good one. With the polyglycerol 10 diolate and all of the surfactants they're using are polyglycerol I find that PEGs in my experience with cleansing make the product like leave less of that film. I would almost expect looking at this again I definitely think you need a second cleanse."
"Before I dry my face I actually need to do a double cleanse so I use the Special Cleansing Gel and what I like to do is I'll get the gel and then also get the microfoliant and then I'll pop it in, I'll make like a little thing and then I'll make sure I have wet hands and wet skin and then mix it together."
"The Foaming Facial Cleanser, this is one that dermatologists recommend because it's just going to clean your skin and get the job done with ingredients that are pretty tolerable for all skin types, especially for people that have sensitive skin."
"The CeraVe salicylic acid cleanser is a really good cleanser if you have oily skin, if you have blackheads that you deal with, a little bit of occasional breakouts, anything like that. Then you probably want to use something with an ingredient like salicylic acid because that can really help to unclog your pores and also just control oil production."
"The pre-cleanse from Dermalogica, that pre-cleanse is one of my favorites. It's actually probably one of the first oil-based cleansers that really got me into double cleansing. I remember the first time I got it I didn't know anything about double cleansing and I was like how do you use this, like it doesn't really clean my face. I remember having those specific thoughts. It's a first cleanse, that's all. You can get everything pretty broken down with your oil-based cleanser in this case the pre-cleanse from Dermalogica."
"I don't normally double cleanse after the gym but I received this in PR from Garnier, it's their Erase It All Makeup Cleansing Balm. I know I have to try out a cleansing balm, especially if it's a drugstore brand. It's so exciting to see all the drugstore brands catching up finally. This one says it has like vitamin C in it, doesn't smell like anything, melts down into a sorbet texture which we've seen that before but again if you can get it at a drugstore why not."
"This is actually a really good way to help unclog your pores. One of the other things I like about this is that it feels really nice and luxurious when you pump it into your hand, you can feel it's like a really nice thick kind of texture to it. Some cleansing oils are really thin, they don't feel very luxurious and they don't really melt down well on your skin when you apply them and start to massage them. This is like a massage oil, it feels so luxurious when you put it onto your skin. Everything starts to melt down immediately and it emulsifies really beautifully and it rinses beautifully. Another test for me is how it feels around my eyes, there is no stinging around the eyes, it did not make my eyes feel blurry. Of course that's very personal for a lot of people, but for me it was perfect. It really does a great job as a first cleanse."
"I have my niacinamide cleansing gel three percent which is actually my favorite one to keep in the shower. I know that I'm gonna be able to get all of my makeup off if I need to with this cleanser. I like to have one that is trusty that you know you can get everything off. The other reason why I keep one of these in my shower at all times is because sometimes I decide I want to use it as a body wash. You can throw this onto something like your PMD Clean and it's going to do the job really well. If you have a good cleanser it doesn't matter if it's for the face or for the body, you just need a good cleanser and sometimes this will double up as my body cleanser as well."
"This is called Grow a Pair, and it is a lash serum that I have been using. [...] Their clinicals are incredible on it. And I've been using it on my brows, too. And I've noticed that my brows are like fluffier lately."
"This is from Tower 28, by the way. It's so cute. And just going to do a couple pumps here. Clean your wand, people. It's a reminder for me that I need to also clean my eyelash curler."
"This is from YSL. It's a little travel size of Lash Clash. I've loved Lash Clash forever. [...] Isn't this mascara so good by the way? Look at that. I was so happy to get this. This was like in one of my Sephora orders and I was like yes. I love a travel size. I love bringing it back. Reminding me why I love YSL Lash Clash so much."
"I'm just going to run a little bit of brow gel through the brow. This is the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze, just something to hold up the brow hairs and keep them in place."
"I actually really like these. They're actually really pretty. The gold shimmer just gives it such a pretty, like summery Miami vibe. Just a thin layer of this just for that, like, wet look."
"I want to go in with some Ardell Naked Lashes. They're just like very subtle wispy lashes. They're like barely there lashes, they just really add to it. They look really pretty with mascara on top of them. And then when I'm putting lashes, I always put the lash in the lash curler and I give it a little bit of a curl that way it can just be like more lifted."
"I went back to it just because I was feeling it the other day. I saw it at Sephora and I was like, I used to love this mascara, I'm going to buy it again. And sure enough I still love it."
"I love CI Ray, it's one of my investments. Wendy Zer, who's the founder of Urban Decay, started the brand. The most amazing Tubing Mascara. If anyone needs a Tubing Mascara, which is amazing when you're like on the boat or swimming or exercising, you don't want to get it smudged everywhere."
"They're affordable, like I don't know $13 or something like that, and they are really smooth, they're waterproof, they have a few different shades that you can choose from. [...] They are really so good and easy to use. If you're not familiar with using a brow pen, [...] I find brow pens to be really intimidating in theory, [...] but it's actually super easy. [...] Once it's dry you can just take the brow pen and just kind of fill in with really gentle strokes to make it look like you've got a hair there wherever you need it. I think it's so much easier and more natural looking. [...] I'm happy to report that I like the ones from NYX."
"I recently bought the Glossier brow pen from a while ago that was really popular a while ago and I liked it when it first launched and then hadn't used it for years I decided to buy again and I didn't love it. I don't know what the difference was, I don't know, it just didn't leave a lot of color on my skin, it was a little bit harder to use. I felt like I had to press on it."
"I still haven't tried it. I get asked constantly to try it and I just don't know why I haven't gotten around to [...] it. I like it, I don't know if I would continue to use it, but I understand why people love it. It's tubing, right, it's crazy. I think it looks too spidery, it's got that fibery texture, it thickens your lashes and stuff, but [...] it looks a little clumpy in my opinion. I could see that color, it's just not my look, but it definitely holds your lashes in place and makes them also look longer, and I think it holds a curl if you were to curl your lashes. I love a double cleanse, so I actually love the experience of rubbing the mascara with a cleansing balm or cleansing oil and it smears out, [...] little bits fall off. It's a really cool brand, and they're also cruelty free and vegan."
"I take this Merit Brow Gel that I've been loving. If I have a good Brow Gel I'm addicted, I will just keep like painting it on. I can't stop. I really love to do her brows. The color that she chose is perfect on her brows, blended in perfect. She went back in for more hold, so I'm assuming that Merit's tinted Brow Gel was just tinted, didn't give her an uphold. They look more laminated now, they look definitely like more like brushed up and bushy. I'm gonna have to try that Brow Gel. I love it."
"Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes mascara, that's a new favorite of mine. I actually only got the trial size, like a little sample size, and I used that thing so quick. It was my daily go-to every single day. I took it on vacation with me. I love that mascara. I got every last bit of that mascara before it was completely dried up, so really a huge fan. It's such a good mascara. It's a solid formula but it volumizes."
"I'm gonna give it a three because it's fine. It doesn't flake on me, it doesn't run, it just gives me like good looking lashes. If I had to use it I'd use it and I'd be happy with it, but I wouldn't be pumped about it. There's so many good ones out there. If one's like 30 bucks and it's good but it's not like mind-blowing and then there's one that's 20 bucks and it gives you everything you need, why go back?"
"That mascara is bald. I think it's a Maybelline. I used to use it forever ago. It's been around for a long, long time, like at least 10 years. But it's so good."
"I'm going in today with the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz. This color is too dark for me but I'm going to use it anyway and the reason I'm going to use it is because I can't imagine it going to waste because this is my favorite brow pencil. It's an oldie but a goodie. I like my brow pencil to be a couple of shades lighter than my brows because I don't want them to just really stand out hardcore."
"I just got this palette from Charlotte Tilbury, this is the Film Star Bronze and Glow, and it has a little bit of a highlight, a little bit of bronzer. It doesn't seem like a lot of bronze to me."
"It gives you such long lashes, it doesn't flake, it doesn't smudge. It's a really nice mascara. It doesn't smear all over your face either. I definitely still use my oil cleanser to get it off, but I've heard you can also remove it with water."
"It's almost like three colors in each of the pans because at first it looks like it's just two colors but you can see that there's like a transition shade right in the center of each of the pans so you're really getting three different colors in each of those pans. It's a really versatile makeup palette. I feel like there are endless looks that you can create with it. It's fun because we did this very natural looking makeup look but I feel like you can also just take it to an extreme look as well. It's a fun versatile palette."
"I love this stuff. [...] It does everything, it gives full impact. [...] I have nice middle ground lashes, they're not groundbreaking, they're not a Kardashian type lash, but they're also not short and they're not very thin. [...] The mascara has to be really good for me to be like oh my god wow I would actually consider spending an x amount of dollars on this mascara to re-buy it and have it again. [...] I love the wand for the top, the wand is a little bit bigger, it's more of a volumizing brush with a bigger brush."
"These are one of the best things I think has ever been made. And that is these lip stains by Huda Beauty right here. And they're usually all sold out. I'm even going to get a couple of shades because they're not all sold out here. So I think you should get one of these. They're like markers for your lips."
"This is from Then I Met You. This is my friend Charlotte's brand. She's the founder co-founder of Soo Glam and she also has this brand called Then I Met You. It's so beautiful. This is the honeydew lip mask. It's a light lip balm. It contains lactic acid in it. And I know that sounds scary for the lips, but it's not. Lactic acid is actually really hydrating. It can also be exfoliating, so it ends up being a great product to give you super smooth lips. It's not really really heavy. If you like a light balm, this is very nice. It's more of like a treatment for your lips."
"The combo I use the absolute most on my lips is the Make Up For Ever Wherever Walnut Lip Liner. I misplace them -- I've got like three or four because they're so good. [...] This is kind of like my go-to brownie pink. Brownie pink tone is what I've been loving. I just go kind of right on the outer edge of my natural lip shade. Already pretty. I like it."
"Remedy for healthy aging, which is the product that I use. It's like retinol, exfoliating acids, peptides. [...] I love this product. Everybody I know, this super high repurchase rate, people love this product, and it's just super moisturizing for people that are in their late 20s, early 30s and beyond that want that moisturizing effect. It's a beautiful product."
"I just worked with NYX for the first time a couple weeks ago and I got a bunch of their stuff. Oh, that's so pretty, isn't this Butter Gloss Bling? Wow, are you kidding? I actually would have thought that was like an eye product. When I use it on my eye, I was like, can I have five of these please? Thank you so much. So pretty."
"I have to throw out there with all the lip balms on the market now I think that one's probably at the bottom of the list for me as far as my favorite lip balms especially for nighttime. I love something really rich and thick, and [...] it's on the lighter side in my opinion and just doesn't last on my lips. But I also have dry skin. [...] There's nothing wrong with that lip balm, it's just not one of my favorites."
"I'm going to use our Atomic Shake Lip Lacquer in Sepia. I love this color so much, it's perfect for fall, and I'm just going to apply it to the lip in an even coat."
"I used to rip on Lanolips and like those lip masks, but I have used the Lanolips mask recently and I find a lot of makeup artists including Nikki La Rose use it in their kit for makeup to prep lips because it's going to wipe off easier too. So it's rich and nourishing but it's not going to be so slippy where if you try to wipe it off you still have like a slip on your lips. It's grippier. It's really good. They call it a lip sleeping mask but I personally don't like it as a sleeping mask because I want something thicker, but it's great for prepping lips with makeup."
"I have this NYX Butter Gloss in brownie drip and I'm gonna put it over the Baby Lip for a little extra. I often get asked, there was actually a point where I had all the butter glosses from NYX in my makeup kit. I still love them. It's been one of those glosses, it's been a favorite amongst makeup artists like the makeup community for so many years, it just never leaves, everyone still loves it. The way they feel on your lips is literally like butter, like melted butter is on your lips. It's so nice."
"I love that Jack Black lip balm. I've talked about this for years. It is my favorite SPF lip balm. It's SPF 25. You know, I always want higher, but when it comes to a lip balm, I'm kind of like SPF 25 is great because you're constantly reapplying it anyway. It's not like you're not wiping it with your napkin when you're eating and whatever it is that you do all day long. You're reapplying your lip balm throughout the day, so SPF 25 in a lip balm is fine for me. And it's the only lip balm I've ever used that does not leave a gross taste. It's actually a really pleasant product. I enjoy using it."
"I've been really into this color, it's oat. I actually take that Bobbi Brown lip liner and then I put that all over my lips and then put this on top of it and it just looks like I've got nice really pretty pink lips. It's very natural looking."
"I always have lip balms and lipsticks with me. These are two of my favorite colors from YSL, the Rouge Volupté Shine, this one is number 130 and number 122. This is a pinky nude color and then this is another pinky nude color, now this is more like a warm brown reddish tone, and I love these colors. If you guys are wondering what kind of lipsticks I'm wearing, this is a really good guess that I'm wearing one of these."
"I love to have a nude lip liner. This one is from Charlotte Tilbury and it's brand new and it is sharpened. This is Pillow Talk. I used to buy this all the time. I like to always have a little bit of a nude color underneath my lipstick and that's what makes my lipstick stay and it also makes my lips look like they're bigger."
"I got these baby cheeks blush sticks and I love them. They are not as pigmented as I expected them to be, but that's actually what I love about them. They feel like they're very natural. They give my cheeks just kind of a natural flush to them. You just kind of pop them onto your cheeks and then you just sort of tap them in to blend. You don't wipe them, you don't like swipe it too much because they can start to disappear, and it just gives you this nice subtle color to your cheeks. Especially on the days when I'm wearing basically just a tinted sunscreen or something, a tinted moisturizer, and I want to look really natural, these are super pretty for that."
"I've talked about the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask a few times and how much I love it, and I've seen comments from people being like, oh, it's not thick enough for me."
"I'm going to use Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencils. These are just the best. Like for lips, for eyes, like even the plumby kind of lip liners I use as eyes."
"My favorite foundation right now is the Makeup by Mario, the more recent one that he launched. It is so good. I travel with it. I just think it makes your skin look really pretty. It's not too luminescent and it's not too matte. It's just perfect."
"This is the new version of the Airbrush Flawless Foundation. The original one I personally found a little bit too thick and I didn't love it because I'm a real skin guy and I found that it covered the skin too much, almost like masked it. But they just brought a new version out which is a bit more modern, like blurring, smoothing, weightless, that whole jazz, and yeah, I like it."
"I want you to get one of these Dior foundation sticks. Usually foundation sticks are are thicker and heavier, but this is what I wear. This is what I'm wearing right now."
"When you find the perfect shade match, it's like there's nothing else out there like that. Finding the perfect shade match makes you love a foundation whether it's the best foundation formula or not. But this is also an amazing foundation formula. I hate the shape of this because you can't sit the bottle up. It's like an egg shape or something. You can't sit it up. So that sucks. But other than that, it's my only complaint. I would say this foundation is kind of like the Armani that I've loved and loved and loved for years, but with a touch more coverage to it. That's what I love about this. I still love my Armani, but this one is so good."
"I'm going to go in with the Haus Labs Foundation just a thin layer to go over everything we created with our underpainting. I [...] mixed shades 210 and 260, one is a little more olive, one is a little more neutral, just to [...] get the best match. [...] I'm happy with the coverage that we have here. I didn't want to put too much because I want her skin to be very skin-like and soft."
"A great one that's super affordable is the new Sephora Collection, it's called Reveal the Real, it's like $14, it is so good, it lasts all day and it's just easy."
"This is one of my favorite foundations. Something that I love about this foundation is that you can sheer it out, looks beautiful, you can build it up, looks beautiful. On normal skin, dry skin, it does not exacerbate patches, granted your skin care is on point. On oily skin, it just holds on without breaking down, which I love."
"This is the L'Oreal skin tint. I do love this formula, but unfortunately L'Oreal didn't invest in a wiper. Usually when you have a dropper like this you will have a wiper, and the wiper's purpose is to actually wipe down the excess formula from around the applicator so you don't get this mess. L'Oreal did not invest in a wiper, and as such there's a huge amount of product collecting on the applicator itself and therefore spilling out around the bottle neck. I get so frustrated with this type of packaging. Either invest in a wiper, they literally cost a couple cents, or perhaps consider a pump. I know a lot of consumers love this product, but they say a dropper is just such a hindrance to using it on a daily basis."
"I have to tell you I'm so into this product, it is so so nice. [...] I would say it's more of a natural finish, I would even go as far as saying that it gives you a little bit of a luminous finish, not glowy. [...] It just gives you a really beautiful natural finish and it's really light. I [...] take a powder brush and I just blend it out really quickly and it is so easy and it gives really amazing coverage but doesn't feel heavy. [...] It doesn't feel like a concealer. A lot of the time with [...] stick foundations it feels like it's too heavy [...] and then it gets cracky over time and everything, it just doesn't usually wear well for me. This one is perfect. [...] It covers well, it looks natural, it feels light and you can just put it on so easily and quickly. [...] If you have mature skin, the other thing I like about it is that because it's such a light texture on your skin it doesn't sink into all your fine lines and wrinkles and all of your texture and everything, it just feels really light."
"If you want something that's glowy, this is way better. It's so far superior. It's lightweight, gives you glow, it looks beautiful, it's not going to crease, it just sits on your skin beautifully. I absolutely love the light serum texture with light to medium coverage."
"It's definitely an amazing foundation. It really is incredibly longwearing, it's full coverage, it looks flawless. If somebody doesn't like the skin tints, doesn't like all these new things everybody's talking about, and they just want a classic foundation, Double Wear takes all the boxes of what a person looking for a good foundation would need. If they're looking for full coverage that's going to last all day, give you full coverage, not going to look cakey, going to look like a skin finish, and lots of shade range. Not going to be overly luminizing, not going to be overly matte, it's a satin finish. It's a good classic foundation."
"This specific product that put them on the map should be banned. It's one of the worst things ever made. It looked terrible. Why does it look terrible? It looked terrible."
"I love it. I think it's like a really nice skin tint. Back when that launched I remember it feeling like it was revolutionary because tinted moisturizers didn't feel that great, like they were just kind of blah. You wanted a tinted moisturizer but you couldn't really find one that gave good coverage that set well that did a good job. This one was great and it had SPF 30, so I was like oh my gosh I've got my sunscreen covered too. It was an actual tinted moisturizer, not like other products where you got a lot of coverage but it didn't really feel like a tinted moisturizer. I think I would still enjoy using this, so I'm going to give it a four."
"This has been probably our top foundation for so long, so many years. I've used this on everyone because I know exactly what I'm getting with this foundation. I know what it's going to look like on camera, I know how it's going to wear, I know how it's going to interact with most skin types. [...] Even people with more oily skin, I'll put a little bit of primer with it, I'll set it with powder and it still performs beautifully. Don't let the fact that it has luminous in the title deter you if you have more oily skin. I think this is like just one of the best foundations it's ever been formulated and put on the market. [...] I personally think the Armani Foundation really straddles the line of being a skin tint and a foundation. That's what makes it so beautiful. [...] It gives you that actual coverage but it's so sheer in some ways, it's so light."
"This is a personal favorite of mine. [...] This summer it has replaced my Armani Foundation. It's [...] sweat resistant, it is truly sweat resistant. [...] The Dior is a game changer if you are working outside. I have a lot of clients that shoot outside, we do commercials all day, we're out on the elements, and I have [...] tons of people in the fitness industry where I do their makeup and then they actually do a workout program, so their makeup needs to stay put. [...] I've used it on brides, I've used it on tons of people for special occasions, it does not move."
"The Fenty, when I have tried it because I have a couple bottles to my name, like for our mind personally it's full coverage but it does have a filtered effect to it. It does give your skin like it's flawless. And for a full coverage foundation, I will say the couple of times I have played with it, it is very light texture. It feels very light, it doesn't feel like you're putting pancake makeup on. It's deceiving, it actually is very light in texture. It doesn't feel heavy but it does give you like a solid amount of coverage. You are perfect after that foundation. It's not for me, but it's a great foundation. I can still appreciate a really good foundation when I see it and when I try it."
"I love the packaging the way it just squeezes out, it's so easy. I [...] literally have only swatched it [...] and kind of looked at it, and I've had it on my actual face and cannot remember which. I think because neither of us have really given it a fair shot we can't rate it. [...] It actually makes me more inclined to try it. It has such a great finish. It's [...] shockingly affordable for a non-drugstore brand, very accessibly priced, and [...] that's pretty good for a more of a luxury makeup experience."
"I've been using this -- it's from Make Up For Ever, it's their HD Skin Hydra Glow. This was sent to me in PR a while back and I have been so into this foundation. I love it."
"I'm going to use my favorite little highlighter pen, YSL Touche Éclat. OG iconic. I'm using a shade that's two shades lighter. So it's not only giving a bit of glow, but it's actually like highlighting that area to be a little bit lighter, to be a bit more pronounced. When you light something, it brings something forward."
"It's like Karma Hourglass Concealer. This is what I use. [...] And there are so many shades to choose from. [...] It should just be like maybe a shade lighter than your natural skin tone because you don't want it to look like weird raccoon eyes."
"I'm going to use the Haus Labs concealer today which is one of my favorites. I feel like it's very skin-like, it's right between satin and dewy, it's just perfect and it's not going to be too heavy or creasy or anything like that, just stays on the skin and I love that."
"I'm going in with my Lancôme Teint Idôle concealer and I like to mix it with my foundation just so your face recognizes what's going on in terms of the tones but it's still a little brighter. I love to place and then blend and I also love to let my concealer sit just a little bit because that way you get to use a lot less of it because it moves less. When I'm blending out my concealer I'm not bringing it all the way to the lash, I'm just scooping it right under because you don't want to defeat any of the bronzing work that you did."
"I used to use this concealer all the time long ago and I was always mixed on it. I [...] love full coverage so you'd think that would have aligned with what my aesthetic was, but it just didn't do it for me. I didn't like the applicator, that thick dop. [...] What I really hate about that product is they're so messy. The dop foot has a wiper inside that never really wiped off enough product, so you'd end up with a massive amount of concealer on the dop foot. It would also get and start to run along the side of the container and leak, and then when you'd put the cap back on and twist it, it would squeeze out and create such a mess. One thing I really liked to use it for was to prep eyelids. It was phenomenal eyelid prep. But overall, I've always been neutral on it. It's fine, and I didn't understand the hype."
"It's always going to be a holy grail for me. [...] It's a five for me, [...] it's 100% five. [...] It works for everyone in my opinion. I've put it on everyone and it doesn't disappoint me. It's also a phenomenal touch-up product. [...] I love it."
"I love the applicator because it was just really easy. It's a really great formula, probably one of the best drugstore concealers you could buy. For drugstore pricing, it's a great concealer. It's like when you do your sunscreen and then put a little bit of concealer on for a natural look. It's a really smooth natural finish concealer, it just looks beautiful. It lasts for a really long time and it's 11 bucks. If you buy a deeper shade it makes a really nice contour too because of the applicator."
"It feels really nice and creamy and hydrating, which I feel like a lot of people love for their under eye concealer. [...] It seems like a bottle that you'll never finish, which is good and bad. [...] It's really really popular, not just amongst like Ulta shoppers but just people in general. [...] To me it kind of reminds me of like a more hydrating Shape Tape."
"I hate this concealer. It's so thick and gelatinous and tacky, like clay goop on your under eyes. And forget about trying to set it, it doesn't set. It's like trying to set wet Play-Doh. When I first tried this I was obsessed, so much coverage, so moisturizing, and then you start to try other concealers and you realize like this is a mess. It's messy to use, it's messy to blend, and I'm willing to bet half the people using it don't even realize it's causing creasing and accentuating their fine lines and wrinkles because it's so thick. The one technique that actually did help it look better was to warm it up between your fingers, really warm up a thin small amount and then tap it in. You would have to use so little but it would last you years. I rate it a 2.5. If I can't set something it's miserable."
"I love it. I am a concealer freak, if there's one thing I will shop for and like load my kit up with, it's concealers. I love concealers. This one is stunning. It literally is the title, like it does not disappoint. It is a faux filter for under your eyes, beautiful coverage, lays beautifully under your eyes. It actually feels really lightweight too for being more of a full coverage concealer. It feels like nothing, really feels really nice and like hydrating and just like creamy on your skin. It doesn't feel like cakey, doesn't look cakey. It's nearly impossible to mess up the application of it in my opinion, unless you like really overdo it and apply way too much. I recommend this because I think it's just stunning. I don't know why more people aren't like running to pick it up."
"I don't love stick concealers at all under the eyes because nine times out of ten they're gonna look really heavy and they're gonna look really cakey. I like a liquid formula because you just have more control. You can manipulate it way more, you can shear it out, you can really buff it out, you can make it disappear basically, whereas creams, it's just a thick cream formula, and in that delicate area they just tend to look way way more obvious and they can also settle into fine lines so much quicker, even if you set it. My experience with stick concealers under the eyes is that they're chalky, patchy, cakey. We have so much constant movement under eyes, we have so much expression, this part of our face moves constantly throughout the day, so if you put something too thick there, the chances of it creasing and just looking really bad is so likely. I avoid it under the eye. Those are great for spot concealing, like a pimple or a scar that someone wants covered, but under the eyes I would skip it."
"I'm going to prime my eyes with my concealer. This bad guy on the Pat McGrath, that concealer looks really nice. It's amazing. It just blended really well to prime your eyes. Yeah, I love that."
"I'm first gonna go in with the Nars color corrector, the red counteracts the blue. And I wish she would have pulled it out and instead of putting all that foundation under her eye, she should have just ignored the under eye completely, just put the color corrector down properly, and then she could go on with a very thin layer just to smooth out any edges and then go in with the concealer. Instead she's putting that color corrector on top of a foundation color and that's just not going to work well, you're going to end up with a muddy effect."
"This is their True Skin Serum Concealer in the color Yucca. [...] It's actually a lot of coverage, but that's okay since it's gonna essentially be my makeup for today. It's very glowy and very hydrating."
"This is the Hollywood Flawless Filter. There's been so many dupes of this one, [...] but it's just great on those high points, just in small high points. Not everywhere, but just a little bit because it not only gives glow, which we love, but it actually blurs and smooths the skin a little bit. So I use it on these little areas and you don't have to put it on the whole face, just the high points. I like to use quite minimal of it. When you're going to a big glam event, there's flash photography, there might be heaps of people in the room, meaning you might get a bit flustered. You know, warm environment. Sometimes you don't want to overglow your skin. So just very minimal, really small concentrated dots of glow is actually enough. Don't overglow your face."
"Charlotte Tilbury again. It's matte, blurring, smoothie. My three words I love in complexion. You really have to kind of drench it. [...] You really have to set set and then fan. It'll absorb into the skin and it will keep it fresh for 16 hours."
"My Fenty Beauty Invisimatte. You can say I love it because it's so finely milled probably. It's such a fine powder, it doesn't cake up. But the minute you do that under the eye and the minute you do under the cheekbone to kind of sculpt, and the minute you do just here, that side of the face just seems a little bit more polished now than that side because you can see shine and glow. We love shine and glow, but camera flashes and everything, too glowy. And now it's all just perfected. I also love getting a smaller little brush and using the same powder right under where your eyeshadow or your eyeliner finishes. It's a bit of a brightener so it kind of gives a contrast, like how crazy snatched you are, but also any residue from the eyeliner, shadow, bit of moisture, nothing will transfer down to your under-eye area. So it's like a little bit of a protector and also a snatcher."
"I love the one from Milk Makeup. Do I use this every day? You're going to use this every day. Every day. When you do makeup, just spray your face first with this. Apply your makeup. Before you put your concealer on, I want you to spray your face again. And then after you put your face powder on, I want you to spray your face to lock it all in."
"My go-to powder for a long time has been the one from Huda Beauty. It's just really, really good. It doesn't sink into all my creases as much as other powders."
"This Milani Make It Last is actually a little too matte for me. I look a little crusty here in the dry climate, but I'm going to use it because it's all I brought with me. If you want a matte setting spray, this one's really really good."
"Dior Forever Glow Star Filter multi-use complexion enhancing booster, it's $55 and it's a little bit pricey so I'm actually on the fence about it. It sort of seems like it's very similar to the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter which I love, and I also love the one from e.l.f., all really really great products. I love using these especially under my makeup if I'm trying to look super glowy. It looks similar to that and I like a Dior product, I love a Dior foundation, so I kind of feel like I'm going to really love it. Do I want to love it? I kind of don't because I don't want to have another expensive complexion product that I like buying. But at the same time, again I love Dior complexion products, so I feel like I have to give it a try even at $55."
"I'm going to get ready to set with this Anastasia vanilla setting powder. I like to set pretty quickly after I apply. I just try to make sure that nothing could possibly move."
"I don't like that powder. I've tested it out many times and I think it's really dry and kind of chalky. It feels very dry on your skin. I know it works for some people, I just I didn't personally like it, especially under the eyes. I'd say it's good for T-Zone mattification, like to mattify that T-Zone oil, but under the eyes it's especially dry."
"I try not to use a lot because I don't want to look too matte. I wish she didn't use the translucent one because that can cast a gray tone under your eyes if you're not careful with how you're applying it. If she had put it on like kind of dusted it on with a small blending brush and just kind of lightly dust it over the under eye it would have been okay, but she would really benefit from a different tone in the Nars powders. They have some beautiful golden shades it would be so much better under her eyes."
"I love this Givenchy powder. You can even put it over powder, you can also put on your lips too. They're hydrating too so it really just looks so pretty."
"This is the Tatcha Silk Powder. I do like that it's really nice and fine. I just tap it where I put the concealer, not too much, and then I go into these little areas really really simple, tip of the nose where I don't want to be too shiny."
"So a bit of the Haus Labs. Have you tried Haus Labs? Love it. I love those sticks. So good. So these I mean I don't know about you guys but for Australia we just got I only got sent these a week ago. So it's the first use if you I got sent like five shades pinks and all that kind of stuff. And these are they're like really warm rich deep shades."
"I have worn NARS Orgasm Blush since I was like 18, since Jennifer Aniston said to. [...] She said it in Glamour magazine and I read it and I was like, that's my makeup."
"I want to go with Patrick Ta because you're going to get a cream and you're going to get a powder. We always start with cream, finish with powder. Patrick himself though likes to put powder and then top it with a cream. What my makeup artist did that I loved was she went cream then powder and then at the very end of the whole makeup look put a little bit more cream on top of the powder to just give a little dewiness."
"This is the elevated glow, the shade that I got because it's what Nicollette used on me. I kind of feel like this is like Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter, but maybe a little bit better. It's not a concealer, it's not really a foundation per se, but it's kind of like a highlighter with a little bit of coverage to it. So I'm just kind of putting it in these areas because I'm a dry skin girly and I've always loved glow."
"Going in with this from Milk Makeup. It is the Matte Cream Bronzer Stick in the shade Baked. I actually purchased this. I had gotten it originally in a PR a while ago. And I loved this shade and so once I was done with the last Makeup by Mario stick cream bronzer, I went back to Sephora and I bought this myself because I like it a lot. And I know that everybody was complaining about the size, but honestly, it has just about the same amount of bronzer as other ones do. It just looks super small."
"The newest one for me is the Patrick Ta Not Too Much. It's literally called Not Too Much, that's what we're talking about, kind of a shade. It's so easy to use because it just goes with anything and it looks pretty. You don't have to think about it, you don't have to over blend it, whatever, and it just makes you look a little elevated."
"I've been really into the Victoria Beckham Contour Stick. It works really well and I love how skinny it is. It almost looks like a liner, like a pen. I actually can use it as a liner."
"e.l.f. is the parent company of my brand so I do have an association but I actually went out and I purchased this product myself. It's $7, which is the best thing about e.l.f. products is that they're affordable and they really do have quality. I really think that these blushes they're great. I'll probably pick up a couple more shades."
"I used to always use that really expensive Chanel bronzer, the cream bronzer that's in a little tub. That one looks a little bit more orangey. If you're trying to figure out if that's one that you want, it's really nice, it blends beautifully, but it's a little bit more bronzy orange."
"I especially love this contour stick. It's not super dewy when you put it on, which I like because it is easy to blend and then it just sets perfectly. What I found is if you blend it too much with a brush it seems like it almost disappears, but if you just kind of tap it and especially tap the edges of it then it just looks really perfect and seamless on your skin and it gives you this kind of satin finish. So it's a really nice product to use for contouring and it's the right kind of brown tone. Also it's got that cool tone to it instead of that orangey brown bronzer tone. There's a really big difference in my opinion between wearing like a contour stick that has that cool tone versus that bronzer color that feels a little bit warm."
"I have completely switched over from all the other eye drops like Visine to Lumify, completely. Lumify is a little bit better because it uses a completely different chemical to take the redness out of your eyes. I like it, it lasts up to eight hours. I don't use it daily, usually just when I'm going to be recording all day and I wake up with bloodshot eyes. I've been really into it, I've completely switched over."
"This is their Snail Mucin Eye Cream. [...] First off, it's this really pretty blue color, but I love that it feels nice and soothing and cooling because of this tip that it has on there. And it also has these really great plumping ingredients. One of those ingredients is volupalene, which is one of those ingredients that you see floating around a lot online because it's supposed to mimic a filler. No topical will ever mimic something that can be injected, but it just means that it's very plumping and hydrating to the skin, and it's supposed to be a great ingredient for this. And [...] this also has caffeine in it, which I think is always an incredible ingredient for under the eyes. And it has some brightening ingredients, too. But caffeine's great because it helps to just tighten up that area underneath your eyes."
"This is estriol 1%. It's an estrogen cream basically from Alloy and it's a prescription eye cream. I have been using this on my under eye area and I like it. It's very moisturizing. It's a nice formula. It feels good. It's a really nice moisturizer that's been formulated for your eye area with your eye area in mind. But sometimes these ingredients can be helpful in other places."
"They depuff, hydrate, and brighten that under eye area, which literally makes you look awake. And I need that. Mom of three kids, working, running around, all the above. The Wander Beauty Gold Baggage Claim has been our number one across all retail channels. I still use them. They genuinely have three layers. Amazing technology. Chemoclu extract, it's like a very potent form of vitamin C. They work. They do. They work."
"This is the most sensitive part of the face, so I know my eye cream needs to be really good. There are a couple ingredients in here that I really like. They're using a very hydrating complex. The Met Rian gum is like a really unique natural polymer that in a product can help with hydration slowly, and I really like that for an eye cream. They also have this energizing complex that has been shown in testing to have really good wrinkle filling, just like a plumping benefit. I saw that it's also used for the Vermillion line, and that's one of the only ingredients I've seen that has activity for vertical lines and stuff, so I think it's good. One of the best products being used, and I think if you're going to go and buy an Augustinus Bader skincare product, this might be the one I would do."
"The other one that I like as well is a little bit thicker so I'll use this for like my really dry under eye clients, it's the Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Eye Cream. Little goes a long way just like with all eye creams you don't want to go crazy with it, just tap it in. You want to push it and press it in and depending on the client that I'm working with or the situation, if they still need some extra deep puffing that I can see, applying that extra bit of pressure to push that eye cream in is a really soothing and it really does help to actually depuff even more."
"The Dr. Dennis Gross Advanced Retinol Plus Ferulic Triple Correction Eye Serum is one that I've personally used for years. It has an encapsulated retinol in it, so this makes it a little bit better tolerated for the sensitive under eye area because this retinol is released over time rather than all at once. This formulation also has antioxidants like ferulic acid and ubiquinone, which is actually present in our skin but is degraded by environmental factors. It also has licorice root, which is known for its ability to target hyperpigmentation, plus some gentle exfoliation to brighten the under eye area."
"I love that he went in with those. I do eye masks before I get on camera because it really does help to soothe and de-puff your face. If you're dealing with anything like any fine lines or wrinkles or anything you will benefit so much from locking that hydration in because it'll just temporarily lock everything in and then plump it in turn so then you just look like you've got fuller skin, like your skin looks like it's fuller."
"It's a little bit like a very light concealer, it's not a full-blown concealer. It gives you just enough coverage that it can hide some dark circles. If you have just some very light dark circles, it brightens your under eye area. It just makes your skin look really nice and flawless looking in the areas that you use it. I personally like to use it on days where I'm going for a no makeup makeup look because I don't even have to set it. It's so light on my skin, it just barely gives any coverage and it doesn't sink into my fine lines or anything. It just looks like I'm glowing."
"This is the Resurrection Radiance Eye Cream from True Botanicals and this stuff is amazing. It has turmeric in it so it has this like yellowish kind of tint to it and I love the way it makes my under eyes look. I use this almost every single day now underneath my makeup and it just gives me this beautiful kind of look to my under eyes. This is one of those products where you see like an immediate difference with your under eye area just because it has that pigment to it. I have so many different eye creams that are supposed to be like brightening for the under eye area and stuff and I feel like this one really actually does that. It gives you that immediate brightness to your eyes. It also just happens to have some really great ingredients like coffee seed extract in here which is great for your under eye area to help de-puff at least temporarily. It also has camellia sinensis in here which is just really soothing for the skin and great for the under eye area. There's licorice root extract, again really great for the under eye area, it's very soothing for the skin, it helps with that like hyperpigmentation and stuff that you might have under your eyes, and then there's apparently this tree bark extract in here that is also just really great for de-puffing your eye area. I have been using this so much more than I expected. At this point, even though it's newer to me, I could actually confidently say that this has become a regular part of my skincare routine."
"I'm really following in love with is the Naturium Vitamin K Brightening Eye Cream and I really encourage guys to look at this product because I think the pigments would scare you at first, you know, am I wearing concealer like it, and it's not the case at all. It really just adds like a slight brightness that really helps with dark circles and I just think it's like such, I've seen such a difference even in the days I'm not using it because I've consistently used it, and that's like years of using eye creams but never really having that visible results, and so I'm obsessed with this product right now."
"I love peel pads like the Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Peel. I've been using that for a long time, over a decade at this point. I always kind of go back to that. [...] If you want that manual exfoliation, I'm all about a peel pad. I would just try it out like once or twice a week to start and then move into as many times a week as you can."
"I love these so so much. They make a really great gift. [...] Anytime I want my skin to just look and feel more hydrated, especially if it feels like it's dull and dry, I'll use one of these. [...] They fit well on your face. They do dry down. [...] I wear them for like an hour or so. As soon as they turn clear on your face, you peel them off and then you just see that your skin really looks different. Like it looks glossy. It feels hydrated. It's plump and dewy. Obsessed."
"For some really mild exfoliation, I'm going to use this Ground Rice and Honey Glow Mask from Beauty of Joseon. I've only used it once. It has a little bit of that physical exfoliation because it has that rice powder in it, but it's not strong at all. Like, it feels very very gentle and because of the honey, it's super soothing and moisturizing to the skin. It's nourishing to the skin. It kind of smells good, too. The main ingredient in here is like a byproduct of rice water. So, it's supposed to be really good for your skin just in general. You can see there's little granules in it, but they don't feel strong at all. This is not a scrub. After I rinsed three times, I do not feel like I stripped my skin. Face is really clean, but it still feels nice and nourished. That is the key."
"I do love the ordinary that peeling solution which is 2% BHA 30% AHA but it scares me. I don't think it would suit your skin if you're sensitive. I mean, I don't put any, I get my perioral dermatitis here so I just can't put it there."
"I did eventually buy the BioDance one because I was so impressed with the Sun Boon one and it's just not as good. It's a little bit thinner. It almost feels like you have to wear a lot of product underneath it whereas the Sun Boon one is already really juicy when you put it on and then it stays kind of juicy as you wear it versus the BioDance one that just kind of, I don't know. I thought I was going to like it more because it has like the galactomyces in it and everything that brightens your skin. I just didn't. I didn't have that same effect after I wore it overnight. Not as into this."
"I love the texture of it, it's super light. It has these little encapsulated bubbles in it that release the hydration onto your skin as you apply it. It feels nice on your skin. I put this on as the last step in my skincare routine at night time and then I wake up with really nice hydrated plump skin. It smells pretty. I think it feels a little bit thicker than the OG sleeping mask because that one's more like a gel and this one is gel-like but it has a slightly thicker texture, just slightly, but it's nice. I recommend it."
"Before I dry my face I actually need to do a double cleanse so I use the special gel thing and what I like to do is I'll get the gel and then also get the microfoliant and then I'll pop it in, I'll make like a little thing and then I'll make sure I have wet hands and wet skin and then mix it together. You just have to get used to the sensation of having wet colors, it's kind of gross but it works. I actually do want to mix my microfoliant with just any cleanser, a gel cleanser. I think I'm gonna mix it with a gel cleanser and see what happens."
"The Tatcha Rice Polish is one of the best products that Tatcha has out on the market. It is super foamy and creamy. The enzymes that are in the powder are gently exfoliating your skin. You're not going to get as strong of exfoliation as you get with typical AHAs or salicylic acid or anything like that, it's very gentle. Most skin types can tolerate that. The Tatcha Rice Polish is very gentle."
"They have salicylic acid, glycolic acid, and niacinamide, which is a really great combination of effective ingredients. It's a very necessary product that I'm surprised we don't see a lot more of on the market. These pads are great because they're nice and large, they feel really good on the skin, and they don't feel like they're stripping on the skin either. If you have smudge sunless tanner with that streaky look, you can just take the pad and rub it over that area, and the more you use it you can really quickly get rid of that smudge look. They're really key for people that use a lot of sunless tanner like I do, but they're also great if you have KP on the back of your arms or if you want to reduce any kinds of ingrown hairs, because you can really target those areas that you want to focus on."
"Another Kate Somerville product that is kind of like the OG for me when it comes to exfoliating is this Kate Somerville ExfoliKate. This uses different fruit enzymes to exfoliate your skin, but it mainly uses lactic acid as one of the main ingredients to exfoliate your skin, and it really, I mean you see a difference in your skin the minute you use it. It also has a physical exfoliation as well. If you have melasma and hyperpigmentation, just be very aware that you don't want to overdo it with your skin because if you're causing irritation, you're then causing melasma and hyperpigmentation. It can trigger all of that, so just be very careful when you're using any of these exfoliating types of products. But this is one of the originals for me and one of the first products that I really started to love lactic acid in."
"It's thick but as you put it onto your skin that glow that you first get starts to kind of mattify a little bit and it just starts to feel really silky on your skin and you wake up with hydrated plumper skin that's really calm. It really helps to soothe that redness in your skin too but it doesn't feel goopy. You just feel hydrated, you feel like your skin is like tighter or something. I don't know how to explain it, it's a really nice sleep mask."
"I like Altreno. Do you know about Altreno? You know all my derm friends tell me to do it and then I never get on it cuz I'm scared. It's a brand name tretinoin. It's a lotion instead of a cream and it's formulated with collagen, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, I think some really great ingredients. So it's just a little bit more gentle."
"I got it from SkinFix, it's their Barrier+ EXO+ Ectoin Intensive Repair Balm, and it has this really interesting pump. It's like a lighter balm than a petrolatum balm and I think it feels really nice, especially here in Miami where it's been so humid. The weather's been so weird, it's been humid and yet slightly cold, so this is a nice balm to apply. It doesn't feel too heavy, it's like a thick moisturizer. I like this product a lot."
"If somebody says to me if you could choose one retinoid, I would choose the Medik8 Crystal Retinal 24 because it's not quite the strongest on the market."
"I think this is innovative because I haven't seen 0.2% right now on the market yet. [...] I do think this is really innovative because it is not irritating at all and I really like how gentle it is even though it is very strong in terms of efficacy but it doesn't feel irritating on the skin and it's a nice milky formula. [...] What I like about this is some retinal serums that I've tried don't feel hydrating, it just kind of feels very [...] waxy sometimes, [...] and then this one doesn't feel super waxy it feels hydrating and moisturizing at the same time. [...] I'm really excited that one, they made it affordable, it's a high percentage retinal, it's hydrating feeling and even for me with my sensitive skin because I'm just sensitive to really high percentage retinoids, [...] I'm not going to use it every night but I felt like I could use it once or twice a week and it really did not irritate my skin at all which is impressive because some retinoids can actually [...] irritate my skin after one use and this one didn't do that. I've also gotten retinoid irritation before and this one doesn't do that so that's nice. My only thing is it's so tiny, but I think it's like $14 which I love that The Ordinary makes it super affordable."
"It is from Hero, it's a Rescue Retinol Nighttime Renewing Cream. This is super super gentle for anyone who has sensitive skin who's just getting started on a retinoid and you're scared. This one would be good to add into your skincare routine. This is what I go to when I feel like I want to use a retinoid but I'm scared."
"This is the Verso Super Facial Serum with Retinol 8. I have loved this since the first time I ever tried it. This is the retinoid that convinced me to be consistent with using retinoids. I love this stuff. When I want to go back to very gentle retinoids, I come back to this. It's a go-to for me."
"Going up a little bit in price but I still think is a really great value is the one percent Retinol in Squalane. This one's really cool to me because it has a combination of retinaldehyde and also an encapsulated retinol so you've got the A retinol and the O retinol combined together. It also just feels like a nice light serum and it has some really nice light soothing ingredients in it. I just feel like if you are trying to get more bang for your buck you might want to try something like that that combines the two different types of retinoids."
"Stradia Skin just in general does a really good job with their skincare products and they also have a really nice retinol cream called Night Shift. It has 0.15 encapsulated retinol in it. It's super creamy and has a really nice texture to it. It also has a couple of ingredients that are really nice to soothe and nourish your skin, which is especially great when you're using a retinoid. They have a ceramide in it that helps to just keep your skin barrier intact, and then there's also centella asiatica which has just really great studies in helping to soothe your skin."
"I've tried everything to get my skin used to tretinoin and I just cannot tolerate too much of it, it's just too strong for me. I used the Crystal Retinol 3 from this brand and I loved it, I was able to use it like three, four times a week without any issues. Now I've graduated to the sixth version and I can tell you already I tried to bump it to more than two times a week and my skin got really sensitive to it, but it's still less sensitive than I get with tretinoin. So I'm gonna still try to really make my way through this because I want retinaldehyde to work so badly for my skin because it is such an awesome ingredient."
"This is the retinaldehyde cream serum 0.5%. I stick with 0.5% because it's the one I can use on a regular basis like every single night without irritation. To me it's better to be on a lower percentage and then be able to use it more consistently than to try to amp it up and then only use it every other day or every two days. So I prefer to use this one."
"My all-time favorite retinoid for the face is the Naturium Retinol Complex Cream. It's encapsulated retinol with a really nice emollient in it. This is my one and done retinoid. When I am so tired, I double cleanse my face, put this on, and I go to bed, that's why I love it, it's amazing. I wake up with glowy skin every single time. It's great for any skin type, you don't have to be a pro at retinoids, it can be your first time using retinoid and that one's great."
"This is our Retinol Complex Serum. We have other ingredients in here like borage oil and also hydrating ingredients as well. This is an encapsulated retinol so it really keeps the retinol stable, but it also helps to make it a little bit more of a gentle experience so it's releasing over time and it just makes it a very nice experience. So if you're newer to retinol and retinoids in general, then this might be a good way to introduce retinol into your life."
"It's probably one of my most purchased skincare products. It gives me such a beautiful natural glow, like a tone, like a warm tone to my skin. It's so easy to use. When it comes to sunless tanner, I love sunless tanner, but I feel like I have to work my way up to doing my sunless tanner. I have to be in the mood, I have to have that time set aside, I have to go through my whole routine where in the shower I do my everything shower, I'm super exfoliated, I get out, I'm super moisturized. But when it comes to the Tan Luxe serum, so easy to use. It's in my skincare routine at all times, and this is probably why I go through so many bottles of it. It travels with me. It's just so good, it's so so good. But it's $49. It's actually one of the most painful purchases that I make because I love it so much but I also think it's really expensive, and so I have such a hard time parting with that money buying this product."
"It's a really great ingredient because you're getting that benefit of the hydration but also the exfoliation, but on top of that it has salicylic acid in it, it has malic acid which is an AHA that's also really great for hydrating your skin, and it has petrolatum in it so it's nice and thick and really helps to lock in any kind of hydration and moisture on your skin. It is a fantastic foot cream. It has all the ingredients that you really should be using to tackle dry spots and patchiness and rough spots basically when it comes to your feet."
"It's their Eczema Plus Hand Repair Cream and it's really really nice, it's very moisturizing. If I had super dry cracky skin on my face I would actually put this on my face, like it's really really really nice. [...] It's a very nice hand cream."
"I did try Loving Tan recently and I've got thoughts about it. I love the color that it gave me, it's just a little bit more pro to use. I'll talk about it later once I've got a better handle of it."
"This is the Necessaire Eucalyptus Body Wash, a brand new bottle. [...] I think this is a fine body wash, it's like a very nice body wash, but I just happen to be using the eucalyptus scented exfoliator so it just makes sense to me to then get the matching set. [...] It's not that I love this body wash."
"I love this [...] because besides having a physical exfoliant to it, it's a very gentle scrub. [...] There's a very gentle physical exfoliation to it, but what I really love is that it has AHAs and BHAs in it. It has glycolic acid, it has salicylic acid, and it has lactic acid in it. I think this is just one of their best products and it's one of the best body exfoliators I have ever used. So I almost always have this in my shower."
"I love it and I also use your body wash. It's the gold, yeah, that one. It's so good for the skin. Like I've always used it and I loved it and I just feel like my tan really likes the hydration that it gives from that. People love it because it leaves their skin feeling hydrated and moisturized afterwards."
"This is the Naturium Skin Renewing Retinol Body Lotion. What I love about it is it goes on, it sinks in, you have a shower but afterwards your skin is still more hydrated and smoother than it was before you had a shower, so it's not just sitting on the surface of the skin. I'm not an oil person and I'm not a body butter person, but this really works. I recommend this to everybody."
"This is the Naturium Biolipid Restoring Body Lotion. My husband and my kids go through this so much more than I do, but I do go through [...] a good amount of this as well. I love this stuff. It's nourishing for your skin, it's buttery, and it does not leave your skin feeling greasy. When I travel, the travel size tubes are so good. [...] It's a little expensive actually, but I do enjoy having the travel size with me especially when I'm traveling because it's so convenient, and it is such a great body lotion."
"Sometimes I'll get a little crazy with the hydration where I'll use the Rhode Glazing Milk. [...] Everybody has these beautiful essences because I think we did the right thing by taking on some of these K-beauty steps, essences are beautiful. I prefer an essence over a hydrating serum any day because I find that with a hydrating serum you have to dampen your face first, whereas the essence just puts it together."
"I'm going to go in with the Prequel Universal Skin Solution Dermal Spray. This is hypochlorous acid. This is, I guess, kind of to rewet it. This isn't really a toner but you guys have heard me talk about how much I love this stuff. It's great for any redness. For me, I was dealing with my perioral dermatitis under here, which you can see is getting better. [...] I like to let that dry down just because it can deactivate some of your other skincare products."
"First up is one of my holy grails. I've been using this for years and recommending it for years, it's the Dr.G R.E.D Blemish Kombucha Tea Essence. This has really nice antioxidants in it, it has that kombucha tea extract, it also has green tea in it, but because it has this fermentation it also has probiotics for your skin. And while I'm still not completely convinced that probiotics in your topical products can actually balance out your microbiome, we do know that probiotics are really great to help with dry skin, and that's especially what I like about this product. It's also just a fun product to use, it's a base essence meaning that you'll see two different layers in the bottle and you shake it up and then you pour it onto your hands and you pat it onto your skin, and it just makes your skin feel so juicy and hydrated. It's a wonderful product, I love it so much and I talk about it all the time."
"I really like using the Mario Badescu Facial Spray with Aloe, Herbs and Rosewater. It's a really good way of just keeping me feel refreshed throughout the day, especially if I'm somewhere really hot. It's nice, calming, hydrating for your skin. Put that on before you're going in with your other steps, it's so nice to hydrate your skin, and then you go and lock it in by using a little bit more moisturizer too."
"This is like holy grail status for me. [...] It's the Dr. Ceuracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence. It's a bi-phase formula, meaning it has two different phases in the formula. [...] It has soothing ingredients like chamomile and anise in it. [...] The texture is really nice and soothing. It is a toner for your skin or like an essence, but it also slightly just very slightly moisturizes your skin. I like to put this on right before I do an LED mask because I can't just go from cleansing my skin and letting it dry out to using an LED mask, but I do like to use my toners first."
"SK-II is so expensive, it's so amazing, but it's so expensive. The SK-II essence is a nice product. It is expensive, but there's no doubt that it definitely makes your skin look clearer and it feels more nourished. It's one of the OG's and it really has helped a lot of people with their skin. Can you get something a little bit cheaper for sure? Something that's just as effective? Absolutely. An SK-II bottle lasts me forever, so yes it's expensive, but I think it's more worth it than some other products."
"It's from Naturium, the Barrier Bounce Mist. It has lots of hydrating ingredients in it. But I especially love that we have emollients in there because that's going to help keep your skin really hydrated. [...] That's why I like to use something like this to just hydrate my skin before an LED mask because I don't want to be completely dry under there."
"This is jammed with really great ingredients. It apparently has like 10 different versions of hyaluronic acid in here, so it's really hydrating for your skin, but I'm also just impressed with all the other ingredients that they have in here. I mean, they have things like niacinamide in here, which I love, and it's also obviously very popular in Korean skincare. There's also even caffeine, so it helps to just make your skin look like it's de-puffed and smoother and beautiful. So it's got this really beautiful blend of ingredients in here that just make your skin look firm and plump and super hydrated."
"An ampoule is [...] a serum that has a very high concentration of an active ingredient, and in this case it's the centella asiatica extract. It's a [...] really nice, almost hydrating feel to it. I like centella asiatica when my skin feels a little bit irritated like it has been lately, it's just super soothing to the skin almost immediately and it's also very hydrating. [...] It's a really light serum that you just put onto your skin. It's very hydrating, it absorbs almost immediately, and it's just really nice and calming. It feels really light on the skin."
"I love the current body ones because they fit. They actually did like a redo of the mask. So, the mask fits a lot better and closer to your face. And then they have a neck one that I really love. It's like more of a matte and I think that it's great. I can confirm that I love that one and that's what I use the most. I use the face and the neck and chest one."
"The device that I use the absolute most of all of them is my CurrentBody face and neck LED mask, the red LED mask. I use both of those so much throughout the week, like I'm very very consistent. If you are looking for an LED device, I think using a face mask is by far the easiest and most convenient to use and you're going to see really great results from it. I'd much rather use a mask that is going to completely cover my face as a whole and I don't have to move it so it's getting the same amount of time of the LED lights on my skin all at one time. The other reason why I like a mask is because it sits close to your face, because that's really important. You want to get as close to your skin as possible so you can actually get that penetration from the LED lights. LED light therapy is really beneficial if you want to stimulate collagen production. For me, what I especially love is the fact that it helps to calm inflammation in your skin. If you are prone to inflammation that can eventually lead to melasma, for instance, then you'll really enjoy using LED lights as well. It's also been said that LED therapy can help reduce the size of broken capillaries, for instance, and it also just increases blood circulation."
"I've got such a small neck that it actually wraps around. It's got the LED panels here, LED panels across my chest. The reason why I keep going back to the CurrentBody LED neck and décolletage one is they fit all the wavelengths and everything that you want when it comes to an LED mask. CurrentBody has done a really good job of getting me a lot of information besides meeting the standard of what you want for your LED mask. They also have something called pillow technology that ensures that you're getting this distribution of the wavelengths and everything, the LED light. I usually wear it at night when they're sleeping, and it is just 10 minutes and surprisingly it relaxes me. I can look at my phone and everything while I'm using it, totally fine. It just makes me feel so relaxed."
"This is an LED mask. Dr. Dennis Gross, I love him, he rules. The LED is supposed to help create collagen production. I have one like this, I have a full face one, and then I have a body one. It's called a Saluma Light and I travel with it everywhere. People ask me if it works. I don't know, but just in case it does, I use the heck out of it. I think the most important things to look at are the wavelengths of the light that you're using. I like a red light. Red LED light therapy is great for your skin. I'm a huge fan of it."
"I've been using this gel, which is the ZIIP Gold Gel. This is a really lightweight, highly conductive gel for microcurrent and for nano. It doesn't have any other additional benefits. I feel like it's pretty hydrating for the skin, too. And it doesn't feel very heavy. I just really like traveling with this one. It's really straightforward. And you guys know I have so many other ingredients that I have in my skincare routine. So, this one works perfectly for me."
"The original GX which I've tried and I've used and I loved is still absolutely amazing, but this one is really all of that knowledge and the 20 years of me being an electrical aesthetician and what customers really wanted wrapped into this. It has more capabilities, so if before I had millions of options it's almost infinite with this one. It's a little bit smaller and a little bit sleeker, which is counterintuitive because you think how can I be getting more but technology is just so different. Things get smaller, things become more effective, they become more affordable, and this retails for 450 where the GX retailed for 500. It also has a default program, which a lot of my celebrity clients asked for."
"I'm going to go in with this from First Aid Beauty. It's actually their Ingrown Hair Pads, but these are just exfoliating pads. [...] They have a mix of BHA and AHAs in it. So, it's great. I love BHA, which is salicylic acid. I love that to exfoliate my clogged pores. That's truly when I pull out salicylic acid. [...] It's like a little bit of a bumpy side and then there's like a smooth side. So, you can kind of use the bumpy side if you're gentle. [...] You can already see like these pads just adding a little bit of hydration, but also exfoliating you just get quick glow. I feel like my skin already looks different and better. They're meant to be used where you get ingrown hairs, [...] but they're safe to use. Totally fine to use on your face."
"Crown Affair for hair, I don't think there a day goes by that I don't use a Crown Affair product. The Leave-in Conditioner is like a moisturizer for my hair. I use it every day. My hair has also gotten drier as I've gotten older and I color treat it, so the Leave-in Conditioner is amazing for that."
"It is by far the best anti-dandruff shampoo that I have ever used. Sometimes I feel like I have to use it often and sometimes I feel like I can use it like once a month for just maintenance, but it's really easy to add into your hair care routine. It's technically safe for hair color, but what I tend to do is right before I'm about to get a touch up for my hair color I'll go ahead and use this on my scalp, then I'll go get my hair colored, and then I'll just go ahead and for the rest of the month continue using the different hair products that I already have been using, and then just kind of go through this cycle of using this basically like once a month."
"I've been using this for the last like 2 and a half, 3 months and I have seen such a huge difference when it comes to hair thinning. I have really thick hair, but up here in the front, ever since I had babies, my hair started getting a little bit more sparse. I started getting a lot of these baby hairs. They just are really growing out and growing into my hair. And it's all because I've been using this. I've been doing a lot of supplements, too. That probably plays a little part in it. But this is what I've been the most consistent with. And I'm so pumped about it because it's really easy to use. It's a really light texture, so it doesn't even mess up my hair. I don't have to wash it more often or anything like that. It doesn't mess up the style or make it frizzy, but it's really easy to add in. What I like about it is it contains a senescence blocking peptide in it. Senescent cells are basically these cells that start to build up as we age and that can lead to age related hair loss. It's not the main cause, but it's one of the main causes of hair loss as we age. So this is a really great serum to help with that because it also contains other ingredients I like for my scalp. Your scalp is also skin, right? So this should be a part of your morning and nighttime skincare routine, especially if you are dealing with these types of hair issues."
"I've done like an essence, like a hydrating essence from Charlotte Tilbury, the Glow Toner. It's got nice cinnamite in there as well. So, it helps the pores. And I'll use a magic serum, a magic cream from Charlotte. So, I'm going to be glowing and fresh, ready for foundation. [...] I quite like the Charlotte Tilbury range because it's made especially to go under foundations and things like that. So, I find it works better."
"Beauty of Joseon has this rice toner that is like so barebones basic formula, but like that's actually what you could use it for because it's almost like water."
"Another one that I like is from Fenty, it's their Fat Water Hydrating Milky Toner. It's a spin-off of their original Fat Water, it just has a little bit more in it. It has obviously hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid in it, it also has mineral PCAs in it, there's panthenol to help strengthen and support your skin barrier, and it feels really nice and juicy. You can use your essence slash toner right after you've cleansed. If you have dry skin and an extravagant routine, you can put more than one layer of your essence on and just keep enjoying that hydration that you get. It's such a light texture that you can just layer it on."
"The Good Molecules Niacinamide Toning Essence is a really nice hydrating toner. It can help even out your skin tone a little bit and soothe your skin. It's very affordable, which is always a big draw. It [...] feels hydrating and refreshing, and it's a good way to start your skincare routine if you're prepping your skin."
"This multi-active toner this is also from Dermalogica it's funny it does feel like it's a little bit of a sponsored video because she's making me want to try some of these products"
"People are pushing doing NAD, NAD, NAD, but the problem is that there's no nuance behind it that they're just giving NAD and they're not looking at the person's health picture."
"The thing I like about this supplement is if you're going to be taking a pill anyway you might as well take some pills that have other ingredients that you need for your skin and for your body in general that can just lead to better skin health. This has polypodium in it, it also has antioxidants in it, and it has prebiotics in it, so you get a lot of benefits from taking the supplement."
"I actually really like Vital Proteins. I love collagen and I love that there's more studies coming out that show that it does actually help to improve your skin. There's this interesting study where they found that when you drink hydrolyzed collagen, it kind of acts as a messenger molecule. It's not going straight to your skin and depositing it and it's not replacing collagen, it's just triggering potentially the synthesis of more collagen. I take the Vital Proteins collagen powder too and what I've noticed is it's not like I feel like it makes my skin look more plump, but I have issues with my shoulder and cartilage and that's actually why I started it. I was working out and I felt like I was just constantly sore, and I noticed the difference with the collagen powder. Maybe it's placebo but I noticed the difference."
"Acne Gel, throughout the day sometimes you know certain little pimples pop up and I want to make sure I take care of it, so it's important to do it at night. We only need a little drop of this, and so I normally have little areas of concern around my beard or maybe on my forehead, and so I make sure that the night before that I put a little Acne Gel on it. It's very, very important for me. [...] It's something that's very important before bed. [...] I would [...] assume that salicylic acid might be a little too harsh to use on a regular basis, so it makes a lot of sense to use this Acne Gel more as a spot treatment. You don't have to use it as a spot treatment, but it makes sense to use it in places where you do get a pimple or along your beard because salicylic acid is really great to unclog your pores but also it helps when you have any kind of ingrown hairs."
"This is called the Clean Skin Club, it is biodegradable, they're a wonderful company. I've been really stoked and it has changed my skin texture, which is really interesting. My skin texture is so much softer now. I have used like makeup remover towels and stuff before and I'm shocked how well they work, whatever the fibers are and the textiles, how well it can get makeup off. I like the disposable ones and they're biodegradable because they're not going to be harmful for the environment but they're also not going to be collecting bacteria the way a regular towel would. The whole point of those is that because people don't wash their bathroom towels enough, they have promoted this as how you dry your face right without transferring bacteria."
"One of my favorite brushes is the N16. It's [...] probably my favorite of the whole collection if I have to choose one. [...] The way that it's made, it really just helps to blend under your eyes, not just to even set your under eye makeup but to help smooth it, even if you're touching up later on in the day. [...] They are high quality, they are handmade, they're also hand cut. They are such good quality makeup brushes and I am guaranteeing these are going to be a great makeup brush investment for you."
"I'm going to top it with some petrolatum, this is from Prequel also, it's their Skin Utility Ointment. This has petrolatum, balm, and some other soothing ingredients but it's mostly petrolatum. It feels good, it's kind of soothing for me right now and that's all I really want. I'm going to use this on my skin, and I might even apply it a couple of times later on before I go to bed."
"I've been obsessing for a while now with Vanilla Skin from Flur. This is my friend Chessel's fragrance brand. When they launched Vanilla Skin, I carry it everywhere with me, the body spray, the lotion, everything. I mean, this stuff is so good, smells amazing, makes me feel super super sexy."
"I'm actually wearing Dazzle Dry right now and this has been 2 weeks since I did this and it truly truly lasts forever. It looks pretty good like gel. You can see the tips of my nails, they look a little bit, I mean you can see the growth also around my cuticle but it lasts forever and it really does dry so quickly and that's what makes it stand out to me is that it dries so quickly. It's kind of like a system. I like these mini kits because I kind of like trying out different colors. I also can travel with it and that's where it really comes in handy for me because I'm always inevitably having to change my nail polish or fix my nails right before an event or while I'm traveling or right before a video shoot something like that. I need it to be fast so I can just do it and then not worry about it. I can go to my event really quickly. I can get dressed really quickly. That's what I like about Dazzle Dry."
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