My anti-aging skincare routine – part 1
hi everyone its Maria here makeup artist
and Beauty Expert welcome to my
bathroom today
I wouldn’t go over the anti-aging
routine that I do in the morning and in
the evening with you so pretty much my
concerns as I am in my early 40s are
wrinkles I have a very expressive
forehead so deepening of wrinkles is one
concern and then of course you know some
sunspots would be another concern you
know I always use Canadian products but
I have started you know dabbling with
some more active products of clinical
you know results and this would be the
products from the ordinary so I’m gonna
go through which ones I use and of
course I use them in combination with my
more natural green Canadian products so
I’m gonna go through with my evening
routine first and remove this makeup
that I have on today and then after that
I’m gonna show you what I do in the
morning how I take care of my face in
the morning they are two completely
different things so what happens at
night and the products I put on I put on
at night are not the products that are
going on my face in the morning so let’s
do it
okay so it’s early in the evening now
and I want to remove this makeup that
I’ve been wearing today so I want to
remove it usually what I love to do in
the evening is remove my makeup with
an oil cleanser so today I’m going to
use Helena lanes Mandarin and chamomile
oil cleanser this cleanser smells
amazing it has minimalist ingredients
it’s 100% organic so the way I like to
use my oil cleanser is by first steaming
the face and then kind of allowing the
oil cleanser to penetrate deeper after
the pores are open it actually removes
all impurities some people will take the
you know the oil cleanser and just put
it straight on to their skin without
having it dampened but I really really
love steaming the face I’ve been giving
it a bit of steam is very very healthy
you can do this with a few different
ways fill up your sink with some hot
water drop a couple drops of eucalyptus
in there you know put a towel over your
head and just breathe in and let that
steam five minutes or just take a face
cloth
I prefer dry a dark face cloths get it
nice and warm and then just press
it onto your face I find this action to
be very relaxing for the facial
muscles then you’re going to dip into
your oil cleanser with a little spatula
these products I love these oil cleansers
are waterless so you don’t want to be
adding any water with your damp
hands so it’s going to take a good
amount I have a lot of makeup on today
I’m going to massage it into my hands
and then I’m just gonna start with the
eyes just give your face a really nice
massage don’t forget your neck eyebrows
especially if you wear eyebrow color
your lips and of course the mascara
which is gonna be the most stubborn so
just very very gently massage it you
don’t to be breaking off any eyelashes
steam on the face cloth helps soften up
the mascara and that’s it it’s another
reason why I really like doing the steam
okay now this oil cleanser is full of
amazing
butters nourishing ingredients for your
skin so you could actually leave it on
like this and go and watch netflix or
check your email do something and give
these oils some time to penetrate
sometimes I like to do the back of my
hands I’m just leaving the oils on there
especially if I have any excess okay and
after you leave it on for about 10
minutes go back in warm up your face
cloth and take it all off
now be very gentle with the face cloth if
you have something that’s microfiber
that would be good to use too okay and
there we go and the makeup is off now
now if you wanted to do a deeper cleanse
maybe once or twice a week you could go
in and use a foam cleanser Zyderma
makes a beautiful one or you can use a
milk cleanser you can use a lighter type
of cleanser and do a deeper cleanse I’m
not gonna do that today I’m happy with
just my one oil cleanser now that my
face is cleanse I’m gonna go in and I’m
gonna give it a nice mist I’m gonna use
the Helen Lane nourishing rose and
frankincense facial mist which is one of
my favorites and the reason I like to do
this is because I want to introduce a
load of hydration on the skin I don’t
know dampen the skin up again and then
I’m gonna go in with the nourishing rose
and frankincense hyaluronic serum now
this is a water serum so I’m gonna put
it on first and usually one oops
one little squirt is all you need
hyaluronic acid carries about a thousand
times its weight in hydration so
seriously once your face is damp you can
just spread that stuff don’t forget your
neck and your chest here you can also go
and give it like a little pat
after you spread it but I’m not gonna
wait around for all of this to absorb
okay I’m just gonna tap it in and I’m
just gonna follow up with my next
product this is my retinol product that
I started using I’m not that far into it
you can see but I’ve been using it for a
few weeks now and I’m very happy with it
so this is the retinol .5 in
squalane by the ordinary and I do feel
that when I apply it and I you know wake
up the next morning that I noticed
difference with you know the lines are
being minimized on my forehead so before
this hyaluronic serum is completely
absorbs gonna add a couple of drops at
this and I’m just gonna press it into my
skin focusing on the areas that are you
starting to see those deeper lines and
that would be you know like around the
eyes although crow’s feet not so bad but
perhaps you know the 11:11 line between
the eyebrows as I say and then the
forehead okay now I massage this and I
press it in okay don’t forget your neck
if you are concerned with crepeyness
and lines on the neck and of course the
top of your chest now this retinol
product is best used at night please use
it at night because it does make you
sensitive to the Sun in the daytime of
course you should be wearing sunscreen
regardless but the box says right apply
a small amount on the face as per in the
PM as part of your skincare regimen and
you do this after water-based products
but you do it before anything heavier so
I’ve done the oil and kind of pressed it
into my skin you will see that it
actually it’s not too too greasy
it absorbs really really quickly this is
a water free solution right so as you saw it’s like a rich oil so do
not use it with any other retinoid
treatment so check the rest of your
products in the evening make sure you’re
not using another product and cream or
something like that with retinol and
then you have to avoid unprotected solar
exposure but so far I really love this
product and I mean look at my skin I’m
not even wearing foundation right now
right I’m extremely happy with this
product and then if I felt like I needed
a bit more I would go in with my Helena
lane nourishing cream with the
rose and frankincense and where’d I put my
spatula oh my goodness here it is okay
so I would go in again waterless product
you just gotta take a tiny tiny amount
of this because these are very dense and
concentrated
and you’re just gonna warm it up
between your hands
the scent of these is just divine the
rose and frankincense and just a tiny
bit any other excess can go on the back
of your hands including the retinol okay
you can just give your skin a nice
massage massage your jaw into the ears
you know especially here we get really
tight and just be gentle do a tiny bit
of Effleurage always upwards
especially where you don’t want the
wrinkles to kind of droop on the eyes and
there you have it that is my evening
anti-aging routine
