🌞Day to Night Skincare Routine🌝
It’s Friday🎉 Hope this week has served you all well. I’m trying not to take this blog totally down the route of beauty although that is something I love. However today is a slight exception and I’m going to be sharing my current Day to Night skincare routine with you all💙
Once I hit eleven (6 years ago..) I was immersed into YouTube and particularly the YouTube beauty vlogger scene. From tirelessly watching these videos, caring for my skin was second nature and still to this day I love to do my research on various bits and bobs. If I actually enjoyed science at school then I may have gone down the dermatology route. Although I came out with two B’s in science, forcing myself to learn the specification was near impossible and it took a lot for me to understand the concepts and get the grades. Despite this I’m not ruling out this kind of career for the future.
Anyway I’ve found that for some girls, makeup wipes are their limit when it comes to skincare, which is crazy considering our skin needs so much more.
This isn’t going to be an exhaustive list and explanation of skincare but just my personal regime, which could work as a framework for your own.
I also can’t stress the importance of spf, which is not mentioned in my routine.
DAY🌞💧
- CLEANSE
My skincare for the morning is basic, usually I do just one thing and that is wash my face. If I tell people one thing I tell them to cleanse their face because it’s so so important.
I use the LUSH Angels on Bare Skin face and body cleanser to do this 👼🏼
I then use a light primer or the Mario Badescu rose water spray to prep my skin for makeup.
NIGHT🌚🌙
- CLEANSE
In the evening time is on my side, meaning I do more and use more. The very first thing I do is get my makeup off my face because I usually feel DISGUSTING. I use magic to do this, also known as a makeup removing cloth.
This £1.50 miracle cloth works wonders and gets the grime off with just water!!! As I said I don’t have a very scientific brain and don’t know how this works but the key thing here is that it really does and I feel so natural using it. (It’s machine washable and so has endless uses).
It would kill me not to wash my face so I proceed using the Soap&Glory Vitamin C facial wash. This is hyped up and it’s for a reason- Soap&Glory smashed it with this product.
About once a week I’ll also wash using my Spin for Perfect Skin brush. It can be a bit of a faff if you’re a skincare slacker but for me it’s a once a week wonder if I remember.
Sadly Soap&Glory let us down on this one, their micellar water is a bit of letdown and requires some serious scrubbing round the eyes, still, sometimes I use this as a substitute (usually if my makeup cloth is in the wash).
2) EXFOLIATE
Next is exfoliation. Short and sweet, twice a week with this baking soda cleansing scrub kindly sent to me by Bioré.
3) TONE
Toner is a department I’m lacking in, I consistently forget and don’t own a toner currently. What I do own though, is a glass of Apple cider vinegar. Sounds gross and smells gross but is SO good for your skin and I tend to whip this out when my skins having a nightmare breakout.
4) MOISTURISE
Two words. Aloe Vera. Beautiful stuff. This is the maximum strength of Aloe Vera gel I use, I found this for about £3 in Holland and Barrett. You can google the benefits of Aloe Vera for yourself and that should serve as explanation as to why this is simply a great moisturiser.
I finish with a spot treatment. Right now I’m swinging between Sudocream and this one from the Tesco PRO Formula range.
Whether this is proven or not I don’t know but I don’t use the spot treatment everyday as I feel that my skin will slowly become immune to it or the effect of the Salicylic Acid will be reduced.
5) MASK
Almost forgot masking! This TruSelf Organics detoxifying mask is my favourite mask to use as it gives me such a deep clean, even though it creeps a bit over the line that I would consider expensive. If I’m not using this then I have a 1000g bag of Calcium Bentonite, mixed with apple cider vinegar this creates a paste which works as a really effective face mask. It can be quite stripping for your face so all of you with dry skin should probably stay away from this.
My routine is changeable and when it comes to skincare I am not really a creature of habit because I like to try new things and recommendations! In no way is the the perfect routine but it’s my current one and it works for me:)
Emma
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