Summer Evening Skincare Routine | 2020
hi everyone renee here so i am showing you my most recent evening skincare routine for the summer like i mentioned in my morning routine that this summer my skin has been behaving oddly normal which is absolutely not normal for me usually there’s something that i’m trying to fix or balance out or you know avoid but things have been really unproblematic and you know i’m not i’m not complaining i mean i have been getting some close comedones around my chin area around my nose area which definitely comes from wearing a mask and from stress but they haven’t been escalating which is good they just go away pretty quickly before they become really inflamed and red and volcanic so i’ve really been able to enjoy this ritual of self-care again where my skin doesn’t really need so much but i get to pamper and i get to experiment a little bit have some fun and ski entertain myself so i’m going to do a double cleanse and i’ve mentioned before that these days i don’t always need a double cleanse it really depends on whether or not i’m venturing out if i have extra layers on my skin or not today i think a double cleanse is in order because i am testing out a new sort of tinted sunscreen which is almost sort of makeup-like anyway it is an extra layer and it does have you know water-resistant sunscreen filters which definitely requires an oil cleanser to effectively remove so my first cleanse as usual is going to be an oil-based one so i am rotating two of them right now um let’s first talk about laneige’s cream skin milk oil cleanser so this is not your typical oil cleanser this is a cross between a cream cleanser and an oil cleanser so it comes out actually very milky and lightweight when you apply it it’s not particularly creamy it’s not particularly oily either if i’m wearing my heavy duty waterproof japanese eyeliners or mascaras then this probably won’t be able to remove that as well as some of my other you know like the dhc cleansing oil but it’s perfect for me at the moment because i’m not wearing any of that makeup does not sting or irritate the eyes whatsoever and also this emulsifies and rinses off completely clean the other cleanser i’ve been using is just pure indulgence it’s from lovina they’re dragon’s blood vitamin c cleansing oil this is just for really really treating yourself i got this in my box wala which i’ve mentioned before box walla is probably the most beautifully curated subscription box in existence i’ve discovered so many beautiful brands from them and also you get it at a fraction i’m not even joking a fraction of the price that you would pay for a regular full sized so this is pretty much full of just all these beautiful herbal antioxidant rich plant and fruit extracts the red bright red color comes from the cloudberry the chokeberry but also the dragon’s blood which is the name given to a bunch of plants that have that blood red resin and it smells like guava there is also guava oil in here and guava just reminds me of being in asia it’s it’s just this beautiful i i this has the thd ascorbate vitamin c derivative but it’s also got two percent double encapsulated bha which is again perfect for summer so this can actually be used over the eyes to remove eye makeup and your eyes will not sting because of the double encapsulation all you have to do is just focus more on the areas where you feel you need some decongesting and if you just focus on massaging those areas and it will sort of go deep and work into those areas it’s definitely just a very very lightweight cleanser not heavy decongests does not dry out the skin but also it emulsifies beautifully and it rinses off completely clean so for the second cleanse i have two that i’m using that i absolutely love let’s start off with allies of skin the molecular silk amino hydrating cleanser this has become one of my favorite gel cleansers usually i’m not really that excited about gel cleansers low ph gentle it adds back to your skin as it cleanses your skin but the most noticeable thing that i love is just after you rinse off your skin just has this incredibly smoothed out texture it’s almost like the rice bran texture i don’t know what it is but it just makes your skin feel so smooth and soft and not dehydrated it’s not stripping at all if i don’t apply anything on my skin a while after cleansing it still feels hydrated that’s saying something tata’s rice wash is as elegant as i expected i mean this is a hybrid of a cream cleanser and their enzyme powder this has the same kind of milky lather as the enzyme cleanser this has ingredients that are really hydrating to the skin it’s got the algae it’s got the hyaluronic acid but also after you rinse it off it’s got that beautiful rice bran finish so your skin just feels so super smooth it looks brighter the skin feels hydrated after using this in fact it feels hydrated for a long time after using this for my last bunch of evening routines i feel like i’ve been showing you what i’ve been doing on my tretinoin nights so today i’m just going to show you what i’m doing on the nights that i don’t use retinoids i use tretinoin four times a week so every other day that’s been working perfectly for me and yes i do continue to use tretinoin throughout the summer i don’t see the point of stopping i certainly wouldn’t start using it during the summer i wouldn’t want to go through retinizing and going through all of that when you know the sun is really strong and you’re getting a lot of exposure because you know your skin is extra vulnerable during that time since my skin is completely adjusted you know it’s fine my tret off nights are usually when i will use an acid toner acetoners and exfoliation is not something that i use regularly more like once or twice a week so depending on the needs of my skin i’ll either use an aha or bha but probably my favorite acetone right now is this one from josh rosebrook their daily acid toner this is probably one of the most beautiful acid toner formulas i’ve used it’s very very gentle it actually is gentle enough where i could probably use this every day but i do tend to still be on the more cautious side this feels like you’re putting hibiscus and chamomile tea on your face that’s what it smells like even though this is liquidy this is seriously seriously hydrating you don’t really need an extra hydrator after this at least i don’t i don’t get intense tingling from this there really is no irritation there’s no redness this totally gives my skin so much like dewy glossiness i love it for those days when my skin feels like it’s just really congested or i could see the blackheads or even feel closed comedones that’s when i’ll use a bha toner for me it’s always going to be either paulus choice two percent bha lotion exfoliant or clear anti-redness exfoliating solution they both contain two percent salicylic acid and they’re just really great at just putting a stop to the escalation of like closed comedones or blackheads into anything more they just clear out the pores they just clarify so instead of using retinaldehyde i’ve gone back to using my copper amino isolate serum too i will always bring this back to my routine this and the cail there’s something really magical about what this does to skin that is just inexplicable but when you use it you know this is also completely weightless in fact i feel like my skin just kind of sucks it in so fast that it doesn’t even get a chance to spread but right now when i just feel like my skin needs a lot less and it doesn’t want as many layers this is perfect now this stuff i’ve been having a lot of fun with i’ve been experimenting with the new 100 niacinamide powder from the ordinary so this is kind of fun i mean you guys know niacinamide is a very important ingredient to me i love my niacinamide serums and you know i just feel as though it’s played such a huge part in just maintaining my skin and making it stronger as far as the redness the inflammation the evenness of my skin tone the strength of my skin barrier um how well my skin holds on to hydration now i mean all of that has to do with niacinamide so this just allows us to add a boost of niacinamide to some of our favorite formulas of course you want to make sure that these are formulas that don’t already have a lot of niacinamide in it but also the other caveat is you really want to make sure that you are using formulas that have a neutral ph of like five to seven which is pretty much any hydrating toner or hydrating serum the only formulas that are really going to fall below that are acids so that includes vitamin c l ascorbic acid usually the ph of that is around you know it’s in the threes or the fours um but also acid toners acid serums bha ahas so i’ve been having a lot of fun mixing this into different formulas that i’ve been using and loving the mmhc is the most obvious choice this works perfectly well the other formula works beautifully with is marine hyaluronics which is another just purely hydrating serum the ordinary’s buffet or matrixyl is also fantastic like any peptide serum is great in fact you know buffet and copper peptides one percent you can use it in this as well i haven’t yet because i like to separate everything but that is a possibility i’ve mixed my favorite beta glucan serum with it works beautifully the one from cosmetic immunity the beta glucan recovery serum it’s just this is one of my favorite combinations the other favorite combination is i love mixing it with the ordinary’s amino acids plus b5 as you know amino acids is a natural moisturizing factor because it will really help minimize trans epidermal water loss this is great for keeping your skin barrier strong and just keeping hydration in your skin so it comes with its own measuring spoon so make it very easy for you to measure very precisely i am however using my own eyeballs so i apply the serum first in my hand and then a little bit of the powder i mean it’s always good to start off conservatively at first it’s a little powdery you can feel a little gritty but that goes away just instantaneously it completely dissolves into the serum and so far it’s just been working beautifully and again it’s always good to start off conservatively just with a little bit first and then work your way up to what you’re comfortable with for eyes i’ve gone back to neods fecc especially because i feel it’s so perfect for the summer because it’s so liquidy and light and it’s just a very very concentrated serum i also love the fact that i can put this on my eyelids as well just all over this is really concentrated for age defense so it’s packed with peptides antioxidants all those ingredients that just really help preserve this area around your eyes this particularly targets what other eye formulas don’t which is sagging upper eyelid area so you know and i love that i love that i could put it on my mobile eyelid so it sinks in really quickly which i love but it still leaves your skin feeling really dewy and soft and plumped with hydration so for fine lines it just really plumps your skin out for moisturizer i’ve been really loving cosmetic immunities ceramide protective cream i mean give me all the ceramides and all the beta glucan what i particularly love about this is that it just feels really soothing and comforting on the skin and silky i love that this leaves a nice silky finish so i mean even though it absorbs really quickly and it’s still lightweight i mean listen right now i just want everything to be lightweight i don’t want anything sitting on my skin it sinks in your skin is moisturized and i like that it leaves a little bit of that glazed donut thing and then of course for lips it’s got to be beneath your skin’s remedy conditioning lip balm this has the ability to somehow lure my soul into relaxation i use this as a lip sleeping mask because it is rich enough that when i apply it on my lips at night time it stays throughout the night and in the morning my skin on my lips is just so soft and moisturized and honestly i keep saying this but the way this smells just soothes me so much and it just makes me incredibly happy i mean i like the way this smells more than i like the way anything smells it’s just um again it’s that yuzu it’s the chamomile it’s such a treat for the senses especially at the end of the day at night when you’re just going to bed so that’s it for my evening skincare routine thank you so much for watching i hope you enjoyed this and until next time i’m wishing you great skin health bye you
