Saturday Spot | My Skincare Routine Morning And Evening

You can always replace your hair. Well, obviously, we know that you can always replace your teeth, but you cannot replace your skin, hey. Everyone welcome to silver linings, i'm angela in today's video i'm going to answer some subscriber requests to show how i take care of my skin and what i put on my skin in terms of makeup. I do have a background in skin care and makeup. In the early days of my beauty career, i was a representative for estee lauder elizabeth arden. I worked at the elizabeth arden salon, the red door salon downing down in washington dc and then years later i became a director for mary kay and that's a whole another video. But i'm telling you that because i did meet mary kay when you became a director. You had an opportunity to to go to her home when she was still alive and meet with her, and i remember her saying, ladies: you can always get new hair. You can always get new teeth. What you cannot get is new skin and boy. Was she ever right so very early on in my life, i learned that it was very, very important to cleanse properly and to moisturize properly. The one thing that i did not know in my early days was sunscreen that came later on the whole sunscreen craze. I think started about - i don't know 15 years ago or so and now pretty much, every quality cosmetic will have some kind of sunscreen in it. Having said that, i am allergic to a lot of ingredients that i am allergic to a lot of sunscreen ingredients. So there's only a handful that i can use so in today's video, if you're watching this and you're sensitive to sunscreen, please know that i am too, and so usually, if i can use them, i'm not saying everybody can use them, but they're, more gentle and they're. More mild now the very first thing that i do and i cleanse really only once i cleanse at night time this video is going to concentrate on cleansing and taking care of your skin. So i cleanse thoroughly at night every once in a while i'll, be so exhausted, i'll fall into bed and then i wake up the next morning. I'M like oh, my gosh. I didn't i didn't, take my makeup off and i'm mortified, but most of the time i take my my makeup off and even if i haven't worn makeup that day, i'll still thoroughly cleanse my skin. If i'm not going out when i'm home - and i am home a large amount of the time because i work from home - i usually don't wear too much on my skin i'll. Let my skin breathe i'll, put a light moisturizer on followed by well you'll, see shortly the key to beautiful, healthy hydrated, dewy skin. That has a nice glow is to take care of your skin and to cleanse it properly and not to strip all the natural oils and goodness out of your skin when you clean your skin. So what i'm going to focus on in this video is how i clean my skin and after it's all clean the handful of products that i put on it just to make it look its absolute best. The very first thing that i do at the end of the day is to cleanse now i only have to do this ritual at night in the morning. It'S very quick and i'll get to that later, but what you want is you want to have everything at the ready because we're usually tired at the end of the day and i'm going to show you what i use and i'm going to share my screen with You, as i usually like to do so. The very first thing that you want to do is you want to get yourself a nice something to wrap around your head to get your hair off of your face? If you don't do that, you know your hair is going to fall down in your face just going to be frustrating. So i have one of these old cotton headband things that i've had for 5, 000 years and i'll just wrap that around my head and get all the hair off of my face and and then i usually take a clip, a claw clip and then i'll pull The rest of it back now, the other thing that you're going to need is you're, going to need a nice clean, face, cloth and you're also going to need these rounds or some kind of a cotton square. Whatever you have that's going to help, you take off your eye makeup now. You can certainly just use a washcloth to do this, but i just find that with all the eye makeup, it's just a lot easier to get my washcloths clean, and so i let the i let the exfoliating rounds do the dirty work for me. So the very first thing that i do is i've got my rounds and i've got my washcloth for later on my washcloth and then i will use some bioderma. You know that micellar water - and i remember hearing a top dermatologist say that her pick of all the mycelar waters was this one, and i love this one. It doesn't irritate my eyes. It picks up the makeup very quickly and lasts a while lasts a long time, and you can even use it right underneath to clean up the eye area when you're all done with your makeup so and it's fairly um easy to get it's in my amazon store. So i will take the bioderma and i'll just moisten the cotton, the cotton ball and then what i'll do is i'll. Take that cotton, ball and i'll kind of just plop it on my or press it. On my on my eyelid and then i'll kind of push up with that cotton pad and then just gently kind of massage around doesn't take a long time just a couple of seconds and then i'll remove the eye makeup, and most of it is on that cotton Square sometimes i'll need two more. It just depends upon how much makeup i have on okay. So now the bulk of the eye makeup is is off then, after that i use grape seed oil. Now, a while back, i had purchased an oil for my skin. The name of it is escaping me right now, but actually i think i have the box right here. So give me one. Second, it's highly recommended to do a double cleanse. I had never really heard of a double cleanse, even in all those years that i was with mary kay so one of um, so i visited a youtube channel and one uh esthetician was talking about this product. Here, it's a deep cleansing oil. It'S by, i don't know why it's showing black in the monitor, it's actually very green, but it's by dhc, and this is 6.7 fluid ounces. Let me show you share my screen with you, and this is what it looks like and but the price point was 23. and what is it 97 cents for 6.7 ounces? And i just felt like my goodness, it's so much money to spend on oil. So i did a little bit of research and i read that grape seed oil and again some top dermatologists, said that grape seed oil is is fine. It doesn't clog your pores, and so i ended up purchasing this product here. Um, organic sky, organics grape seed oil - and this is eight fluid, eight fluid ounces and it's 12.95. Well, that's less than half and i've been using this product now for months and months with no problems whatsoever, and so i mean, of course it's up to you depending upon how much how much you want to spend the dhc is highly recommended. But, as i said, i have the grape seed oil and it's worked fine with me. So that's step three of the cleansing step. One is to take the eye makeup off. Step two is to use that oil. I put it all over my eyes and then i use the face cloth. Okay, now, step three is oh, and by the way i wanted to tell you about this one. This is another cleansing oil, that's highly recommended. I may try this one when i'm done with my grapeseed oil, just because it's only 1379 comes highly recommended by estheticians and dermatologists, but you're not going to get as much. This is only oh. I looked it up the other day. I think it's. It'S not. 8 ounces: i think it might be 6.7 ounces or something like that, but do cleanse with the oil to remove all the residue that the micellar water didn't get. Okay. The third thing that i use to actually emulsify all the oils and get every bit of oil off of my skin around my eyes is: i use purity by philosophy. Now i have a great big tub of this or i have a great big container of this product and i think i've had it for three years and i'm almost down to the bottom of the bottle. I used to get those awful scaly things on the side of my nose and sometimes up on my forehead. I never i never get them anymore and at the time, the only thing that was different - that i used was this purity product, and so this is. This. Has been, and so this has become part of my absolute holy grail as they say, beauty, cleansing product, you just put a tiny bit a nickel size in your hand, moisten your fingertips together and then again i do my eyes first and then i'll take another pump And i'll do the rest of my face and then i'm done with cleansing my skin now remember this is my nighttime routine. You should use some, especially as an older person. You should be using some kind of a retinol. I have three different retinols. This one is the one that i've had the longest, so i'm using this the most so that i can use it up before it expires. This is a wonderful product and you can read about it here. It'Ll tell you all about this, but this is my first active as they say after i wash my skin, and that word active is, and that word active. It just means that it's it's activating on your skin. It'S going to do something. It'S it's! It'S working on! Your skin again, i'm not an esthetician. There are five million estheticians online. You can read more about this, but i'm just here to tell you what i use on my skin. I love this product. It does not break me out. It doesn't burn me. It'S gentle. I use it two or three times a week. Sometimes i use i have. As i said, i have three other retinol products, they're all good, so i highly recommend this particular one. Okay, then, right after i um again, this is night time right after i use my retinol. This shocked me cerave again highly recommended by many dermatologists very inexpensive. You can use this on your face and all over your body, and it is wonderful. It just kind of seals everything in and again i i i just can't believe i used to use all these expensive moisturizers and this one does the trick beautifully. So then i've shown this one to you because again every once in a while in the dead of winter, i might feel especially dry, but really not that much lately. But if i do i'll take this double repair face moisturizer and then touch it to where i want it, and sometimes during the day, if i'm feeling really dry i'll, just take a teeny tiny little bit and tap it right there. Under my you know, on the crow's feet: okay, that's just kind of a bonus, a bonus thing, though i really bought it just to try it. I love it. I i love these la roche, products again highly recommended by dermatologist everything i put on my face. I'Ve done some research again because i have such fair, sensitive skin uh. Then this one, the um same kind of the same deal as this one kind of the same use as this one. Depending upon how my skin is feeling, i will toggle like i'm doing now between these two, but they are ancillary. I don't use them every night. I just wanted to mention them kind of pop them in here. If, for some reason something has made, you feel extra extra dry, okay and then at the very end i use this. This is for sure my holy grail, let me see if i can explode this screen for you this product. I actually heard about this product from rockstar mom, and she was talking about this on her site and said it's one of the best moisturizers that she's ever used, and i thought okay well, since i have a beauty channel i'll spring for it, and i purchased this In september of 21., this is one ounce of product and, first of all i absolutely love the bottle. It'S just beautiful, but um you can go over to hsn, but i will tell you this: they are sold out. They sell out of this stuff all the time whenever they get it. I actually have a link where i go to this page at least once or twice a week, so that i can see if they have it. But that's probably even not enough the moment they get this in they're going to sell out because there's people that wait for this. I bought two bottles and i i just hit it at the right time and i got two bottles. They were 35 each. So i bought this in september 21 october november december january february march, so this and i've got about, oh, i would say almost half the bottle left. One of these bottles has lasted me six months and i've only used half of it. So, yes, it carries a high price point, but what it does for your skin? What i do after i put on my cerave, then i just let that sit there for a couple of minutes, sometimes i'll just bring this right into if i'm watching tv or if i'm reading or, if i'm. If i, if i've already gone to bed and i'm i'm not sleeping, but i'm in bed i'll just keep this by the bedside and then in a few minutes after my cerave has sunk in i'll. Just take a couple of drops of this, you don't need a lot, even though you see a syringe here. You don't even fill it up. You just kind of i just dump it in. I don't even i just touch it to my fingers and i put two drops they're, not even full drops on my fingers and then i just moisten it around like this. I would do it now, except i'm, going to put some makeup on and i just go like that and i press it right in well. Actually, you know what i can do it because i didn't do it yet so i'll show you how much i use this stuff is amazing and it smells so beautiful and you can go to skin sk. I n n dot com and you can read all about it now. Can you see there how much? I have hardly anything, and then i just take it like that, because you don't want to have too much and then i just start here and then i bring it right down and i press it into my skin. You can even add this to your. If you've got a water-based foundation, i usually use oil-based foundations, but if you've got a water-based foundation, you can add a drop not too much to your foundation and it just leaves a beautiful finish on your skin. So that's the very and then whatever's left on my fingers. I just go like that, so beautiful beautiful product, but if you're lucky i should say, if you're fortunate, you might find a sale on hsn. If you go to their website and you subscribe, you'll be notified anytime, they have, they have a sale and they have a few different skin oils. But this is the one that i like so far that i like the best okay. So now the skin is primed. I'M ready for bed, i go to bed the next morning. I wake up. The only thing i do is i take some warm water and i just rinse off my face and then rinse off my face brush my teeth. That'S it but no thorough! No no big cleansing in the morning and then what i do is this is a beautiful product. My husband is an eye doctor, disclaimer disclaimer, i'm not giving advice, especially because my husband is an eye doctor, but he told me about this lumify product and i used it and you know what it really does make the whites of your eyes pop. So that's something that you may know about. You may not know about. It'S been heavily marketed, it's been on on tv, a lot, but that's a beautiful product and then here's another product that one time i was having some trouble with my eyes, and my husband gave me this product here and it on the back of the bottle. It says see if i can read this to you: okay, intended for cleansing and removing foreign material and debris from the application site, meaning our eyes and our eyelashes, including microorganisms microorganisms on our eyelashes, immediate care of minor irritations to the skin cleansing minor cuts, minor, scrapes And minor burns, but this is for eyelids and eye lashes. So what you do? Is you spray this on a cotton one of those cotton rounds? You spray this on one of those cotton rounds and then you wipe it across your eyelid and your eye, and i give it a good wipe and let me tell you your eyes feel when you do that your eyes feel so refreshed. I can't even tell you and if there's any little microorganisms or buggies in there, it's going to kill them. I promise. Well, i can't say i promise, but if there's any little buggies or microorganisms in there, they're not going to like this product too much. So that is something that's a wonderful thing. Okay, now so that in that's what i do in the morning and then the very next thing so my face is just rinsed right and then in the morning i use. Where did i put it? Okay, another cerave product. This is called skin. Renewing vitamin c serum skin, renewing vitamin c serum right - and this again is a beautiful product this just it just rolls on your skin again. Remember, you haven't put anything on your skin you've, just rinsed it with hot water and it sinks right in almost immediately. It dries and then so that's step number one well step number one. Is i rinse it with the warm water and then i use again the cerave moisturizing cream, and then, after that, i just put a little bit of this over it. You could actually put this on first put the survey on second, but this is: has this spf 30 in it? Now i find anything that has spf 30 after a little while my start, my skin starts to feel dry and that's why i use both of these products together: okay, the laroche and the moisturizing cream. You may find that you can do just with this, but you've got to have an spf on your skin. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're watching this you've got to it's the it's the thing that i wish that i had done, that i didn't do all those years. I did start to do it as soon as it became popular, but it took me a while to find one that that wasn't, making me break out in boils. Okay, so we've got the the cerave serum and then we've got the the cerave moisturizing cream and the spf 30., okay, so the face and the throat and the decollete are covered. So we are good to go. The final thing that i do after everything dries after five. Ten minutes again, i use the skin elixir divine elixir, luminous facial oil. I do not put this on my throat. I only put it i dot it all over. I dot it all over my face in the morning brush my teeth, rinse my face with warm water, follow it with the cerave, the cerave serum following the serum. If i'm going out, i will use the spf 30.. I forgot to say that before, if i'm not going out, then i'll just use the regular moisturizer. But if i'm going out i'll use both of them, because i find that just with me might not be for you. But with me. Whenever i use an spf two or three hours later, i'm feeling dry, so i just need a little bit more moisture. Okay, so just these three things and then i seal the whole deal with the skincare elixir. So it's those four things in the morning, but no cleansing just rinsing with warm water. Okay, all right so now, if i am going out - and even if i'm not i'll i'll, usually put on at least some foundation and you'll see why in a moment i do not use a um a concealer on my face, i do not. I usually don't use a concealer underneath my eyes, because i find that it's too much for my skin and it ends up looking too thick. So what i use on my as my foundation is the cc color correcting full coverage cream by it cosmetics. A lot of you are familiar with this product and it goes on beautifully watch how much i use. Let me see if i can get a close-up for you here. So if you look really closely, you can see that i have a lot of veins. I'Ve got irish skin, see that rosacea. So what i do is i put i used to use way too much of this. I mean you, don't you don't need a lot. I take a tiny and i meet look how tiny that is, and then i put it right in the middle. I have to look in my mirror. I can't do this on camera. I put it right in the middle of my cheek. Let me get a handheld mirror here right there and i just kind of stipple it in with my ring finger and i'll do one side, so you can see one side done and one side not done now. I'M talking a lot, but this all takes me believe me. It takes me five to seven minutes if that so now, and you can see i'm pulling it kind of at the edge of the eye socket, but i'm not going right underneath see. Okay and now i will do the other side again, a tiny dot. You know a really tiny dot make an apple put it right on the apple and i've got indentations from my glasses and again, just at the edge of the eye socket we're going to use the brush to blend it. Okay, so everything is done. Anything that's excess. On my finger i'll use down on my chin, because i'm always red right there and then we're going to take one more kind of a half of a dot and that's going to go on my nose because my nose is always red. I can't hold my mirror and do this all the things we do on youtube: try not to wipe too much because you're really just moving it from one part of your skin to another. When you do that and you're displacing it, and you really want to wherever you touch first, that's where the bulk of the product is going to be and then i'm just kind of wiping the excess now remember i put that beautiful moisturizer, so my skin is really Primed, it's nice and moist, but it's not oily. So now i just give it a final look make sure everything is stippled in and it is and then i'll just use. Whatever'S left always work up. So it's pretty much off of my hands. Okay. Now the next thing that i do is i take one of these blending brushes. This is a blush brush, but i use it for my foundation and then what i do is i take this end of it. The smaller end - and i just kind of stipple in around my nose stipples push push stippling, is just pushing pushing pushing pushing into the skin, push push push push push, and then i push it in on the top of my nose. My nose is always red. Always okay and then i use the other side just to kind of blend it up. You can even stretch your skin a little bit if you need to just blend it up and then just push push push push push and there it's it's pretty much blended. Okay, the next thing is the blush r c m, a in the color gina pink and again. I i think i've had this three years, beautiful, blush color and i just take a little bit on one pinky a little bit on another pinky with me. Less is more every day i mean makeup for the camera is different for me than makeup. For every day i don't like an overly made made-up look. I don't, and you know what i don't think most men do either how's that okay, so you're going to look for the center of your cheek do not come. This is what mary kay told us do not venture close to the nose stop at the center of your eyeball right and keep it high. Otherwise, you're going to drag down your face. So there's the center of my apple. Remember we're not going anywhere further toward the nose we're just going to kind of put it right there. That'S the first i'm going to blend it, then the other side always make your apple, okay and then just kind of look at look at how things look there. Our faces are never the same on both sides, so one side is going to go easier than the other side. Now, at this point, you're probably going to need to clean off your finger, i'm going back to my brush. Yes, i'm going back to my brush and i'm just going to wipe it across the top of my hand, and i'm just going to at first i'm going back to this little brush here, the one that i used on either side of my nose and i'm going To use that to what's the word, i'm looking for to feather in the edges of the of the blush feather it in from the edges, less is more as they say, and then the final thing is. I might do a little bit up here a lot of times. I will take a little bit of um like a contour and put it right up by my uh hairline, just because my hair is so white and it's and it's good to bring some color in there, but you've got to blend it really carefully. Alright, so the the blush is on the foundation is on. The very last thing i do to set especially these days with masks is. This is from the celebration collection at it: cosmetics it fell apart. I don't even know where the container is, but it's almost gone. I'M gon na have to get some. You can see how much i use it, and now so again, i'll put it on that that brush there's no color on this brush, it's all gone, and then i just pop it right on top of my nose and it sets the foundation, especially with all this Mask wearing they keep rubbing off our our makeup and then i'll use a little bit just on the inside right there and kind of feather it in towards the cheek and one more and feather that in toward the cheek, and that's it that's all. I do for foundation for my daily office look or whatever. If i'm just had hanging around the house a lot of times, i won't. I won't even do the blush i'll just do the foundation, because i want to cover up those veins. I don't like how they look all right. So then. The very last thing that i do is, if i'm going out to dinner someplace and i want more of a glam look. I use a pencil to line my lips, but just for every day, i'll, just put a little bit of color i'll, just put a little bit of color, followed by my favorite lip gloss in the world. This is by sexy mother pucker. My husband's girls gave me that one christmas and they they got ta. They had a hoot watching me open this thing, but it's great it's really great, and so you just pop that on top give you a nice, a nice look where's my kleenex okay, that is it. That'S really all i do so again. I will say that the most important thing is to take care of your skin. If you take care of your skin and you keep it clean and you keep it moisturized and you stay out of the sun and you get good night's sleep and you have good nutrition and try to reduce the stress. You have a very good chance of having some really lovely looking skin. Probably the biggest thing of all is staying out of the sun. As we know now. I think a couple of videos back, i told you that i do have a website. It'S called someonewithgrayhair.com and i'll link it below for you. I'Ve actually had this website for years, but i never did anything with it. I was too busy selling real estate and honestly, i never intended to do all these videos for youtube. But one thing led to another, and here i am so i did. I did post an article and i'll link it for you below and here it is, and keeping your aging dry skin, moist and dewy. Can you guess my age and you can subscribe here if, if you want to read more and bookmark it or whatever - and here are most of the products that i talked about in the video i'll - also link them below in this video for you and most of Them are from amazon, the only one that isn't is hsn, um and again remember, i said, regularly check, check, hsn or you could just go over to skin.com and buy it at full price. It'S fifty dollars for a one ounce jar um, so i will be adding to this page a little bit more content just to go into a little bit more detail like i did with you today, but here's everything that i spoke about in today's video. So thanks so much for watching, if you like, this video, give it a like hit the little bell icon so that you don't miss any of my upcoming videos when you, like my videos or like anyone's videos, if you like that content creator, it really helps them With the youtube algorithm, youtube suggests our videos to other people who are looking for these for this type of content, and that's why we say if you like, give it a like hit the little bell icon and subscribe i'd love to hear your comments below. I read. Every single one of them, i might not always be able to respond immediately, but i try to respond to every single one that i see. But if i see your, if i see your comment, i always try to respond back and you give me ideas for future videos. So i love to hear from you. So that's all i have for you today until next time. Remember always always look for the silver linings thanks so much for watching bye,