Hi guys, welcome back to my channel if you're new here welcome. My name is penny
I'm a certified advanced esthetician in Portland, Oregon and I'm really happy that you're here with me today today
We're gonna talk about winter skincare routines and I'm doing this in collaboration with two of my friends here on YouTube
Melanie mr
Kong's mom and also Lauren from the honest Beauty review now if you don't know Melanie
She has had a child for quite a few years. I've watched her forever
And I absolutely love she does Kendall reviews and she does skincare reviews. She does makeup
It's just a really lovely Channel
She's actually a professional florist and you can kind of there's just an aesthetic there that is incredibly pleasing
She feels like somebody that is just next door that you could hang out and be friends with very very
Honest, and there's a lot of integrity there and I really really appreciate that
Lauren actually does cruelty free and green beauty and that kind of thing she is a nurse and
She just speaks incredibly intelligently about skincare and makeup. She does drugstore and she does high-end. It's just a very well-rounded
really really wonderful channel
I
am gonna obviously link their channels in the description box below and I hope that you will check out their channels and check out their
Videos and tell them I sent you and said hello now let's get into a winter skincare
No, I cannot preface enough that
Obviously everyone has different skincare concerns and I see it all day long people need different protocols
I just want to give you kind of a framework maybe some inspiration maybe learn a little bit about what I do
That might help you with your winter skincare routine. So I'm gonna start with a night time first of all every night
I definitely do a double cleanse. I really enjoy the botanics cleansing balm right now. I'm enjoying that very much
I also like to Hainish first cleanse
those are two of my very very favorites I go in with the second cleanse, and I have a myriad of
Cleansers that I love that I will link down below
But I just choose one of my favorite cleansers of the moment and I do a second cleanse now
I usually am trying to keep it less drying because I do have normal to dry skin and the winter time just kind of
exacerbates that so I try to be very pampering to my skin as far as my cleansing system now I move right into
After that as soon as my skin is dry
I go into my acid step now for me that is alpha hydroxy and beta hydroxy acids primarily
Lactic primarily alpha hydroxy acids now. I've got a few to choose from I do not use these every single night together
I just want to give you some options my first and foremost
Favorite right now is my mad hippie. And this is the exfoliating serum. Now. This one is a glycolic acid
It's lactic acid, but it also has niacin amide. It has white tea
It has Giga white you guys it has biotin and squalene. It is just a really really stellar grouping of
Vitamins and acids. I feel like I get a really excellent exfoliation, but my skin is kind of pampered along the way
I also really appreciate the price point of man hippie
I just think that this is an excellent choice right now and it's very accessible to lots of people because it's not crazy
expensive now on the flip side of things another one that I like in this acid step is
Good jeans by Sunday Riley. Now. This one is expensive and it is fantastic. It is lactic acid and it is also licorice
Lactic acid is a larger alpha hydroxy acid molecule
And it's very very gentle but it's very effective and it's also a humectant
so lakitu lactic acid is hands-down my favorite alpha hydroxy acid if you've been here for a while you already know that I
Love lactic acid so much. I feel like you get that hydration at the same time that you're getting an excellent surface
Exfoliation the thing about alpha hydroxy acids. I think that's really important
You guys is that not only do they help to exfoliate the surface of your skin?
But they signal deeper layers of your skin to stimulate new cells
That's what happens you start to exfoliate off that surface and your skin goes Oh need to produce more cells
This one happens to also contain licorice licorice is a tyrosine ease inhibitor
which is the enzyme that's responsible for kind of the cascading effect of
pigment production
So when you combine a nice tyrosinase inhibitor a nice?
Pigment inhibitor a long way a really great alpha hydroxy acid. That is not only
Exfoliating the surface but signaling new cells to be
Turned over and created you can reveal a healthy clearer skin. It's a really really fantastic combination
I love this very much. Now that said I can still use my mad hippie and
incorporate in a dedicated
Licorice serum and I do love this one very much
This is an absolutely dedicated pure licorice extract
Serum and I can actually cocktail this with my man hippie and get that same kind of
Tyrosinase blocking along with exfoliation so you don't have to spend the money on the Sunday Riley
I just really like that cocktail very very much
Another acid that I like in this step would be my blithe
patting water pack
This is also lactic acid and I love this one because it's quick you put this on your skin
You technically only have to leave it on for 15 seconds. I tend to leave it on a minute
I mean
I'll leave it on as long as I can as long as I am NOT
Impatient and then you splash it off and you let your face dry and you go on with your skincare routine
This is such a fantastic mask. I often will use this one in the morning, too
if I just feel like I need a little lift in the morning a little extra brightness because it's so gentle
but it's so effective and the lactic acid in this you can tell that your skin gets brightened and
That it gets kind of plumped up. It's a really excellent product
I love it very much
Now another acid that I've talked about you guys is the Ren Ready Steady glow
This would be also in this step when I would use this acid toner. It would be in this step now
I'm not using again all of these on one night. These are just some options for an acid step
I just want to give you some choices now. I am going to do my dedicated tyrosinase inhibitor
That's going to be my licorice or that is going to be my R butan with hada labo. That's what I'm doing right now
I use a terrace and AIDS inhibitor
I have a constant dose going I'm
Constantly trying to inhibit that enzyme and hold that pigment down you have pigment issues. You don't want to
Occasionally use a licorice and our butan a hydroquinone. You need a constant dose. You're not going to get very far if you're not constantly
Suppressing that enzyme you have to do that. So I'm using one of these this is our butan
Our butan is an extract of the berry plant. It is an effective non hydroquinone
tyrosinase inhibitor and I love it in this year's gem line from hada labo is excellent and it's super super affordable and
Of course this licorice extract it's also super affordable. You can use these together
They are both wonderful sink right into your skin. This one has high high ilanic acid in it
So it is a hydrator. So that said I am always also
missing my face with a water mist to give the higher logic acid in my products some water to draw from
so I'm definitely also always using a mist now my last step at night you guys and
this is different for me in the most recent months is a rose hip oil now rose hip oil is
Super rich in vitamin A. So I'm actually using this as my retinoid step
I have eliminated recently retin-a and retinols
I am just using rose hip oil and I'm really really enjoying it you guys this is
Acting as that collagen stimulation it helps with dermal cell turnover
But what's really super cool is it's very very rich in linoleic acid. That's a fatty acid. So it helps to kind of buffer
What can be irritating about the vitamin about vitamin A?
so if you've never tried rose hip oil I encourage you to give this a shot because it may seem like
It can't be effective. But let me tell you it definitely can long as a prescription tried
No, and no it is not it definitely isn't but also is not irritating. If not
Soothing I mean, it is really really incredible. This one is the rose hip oil and
Antioxidant from trilogy and I like this one because it also has things like vitamin E. It has some antioxidants in it as well. Absolutely
Love this product so much one thing to say if you decide to use rose hip oil
It should be at night because it is the vitamin a derivative and that is very photosensitive
It's a very very photosensitive vitamin which doesn't just mean that it makes your skin photosensitive
The vitamin itself is so if you apply a retinoid in the morning, and then you go out in the Sun
What happens is the Sun actually takes down the efficacy of the vitamin
So you want to use it at night when you have no exposure to the Sun whatsoever. Now I also
Encourage you always to use a facial oil last that seems very counterintuitive
I know because it's so thin and you want to just soak right in but if I use this first
All of these other skin care items that I'm putting on wouldn't be able to penetrate through this occlusive agent that forms a barrier
So you really want to put this on last and it's kind of your final step in
Your skincare routine at night love love loving this so much now moving on to the morning now in the morning
Occasionally I actually will do a double cleanse as well
And the reason for that is sometimes I want to do some facial massage and a balm cleanser is just excellent for doing facial massage
But typically I'm just doing one cleanse and I'm really enjoying you guys this Susan Obagi. This is her foaming cleanser
This is a beautiful cleanser. It does not leave you tight and dry
It's really really great for the winter and I like this very much
It has a pump so it pumps out a firm already and I just I'm enjoying this. It's very good cleanser
Okay, I move on from that now morning for me. Where night is my
Vitamins and my vitamin A and night is my alpha hydroxy acids
That's primarily what's going on at night along with a tyrosine haze inhibitor. That's the night time in the morning
what I am doing is antioxidant and
Hydration and protection that's what's going on in the morning, whether whichever products kind of mix and match
Those are the things that go in at night, and those are the things that go on in the morning
So what I do I cleanse my skin and then I let my skin dry for just a minute and then I go right in
With my mad, hippy vitamin C I've talked about this before. I'm I'm in love with this so much
It is sodium a sortable phosphate
It is extremely stable and it is extremely effective as a vitamin derivative. The price point is magnificent
I love it because
Typically a dropper form of vitamin C actually is not that great
And the reason why it's not that great is every time you open it expose it to oxygen
And to light you're degrading the vitamin but because this is sodium a serval phosphate. It's a it's very stable
So even in the dropper form, it still has an incredible shelf life and I'm loving the results the brightening of my skin
I can definitely definitely tell now I always let my vitamin C
soak in for a good 10 minutes on my skin and
I know that some days
We don't have that kind of time if you don't go right on with your skincare routine
But if you do try and give it 10 minutes or so now
The next thing that I do is I go in with my sukiyaki tsukada. This is urea moisture lotion
I have talked about this ad nauseam. I know it you guys but it is so fantastic
This is a water consistency
but I Pat it into my skin and I almost
Can get away with not using a moisturizer and that is incredible. It is so incredibly hydrating without an ounce of heaviness
It is really really fantastic
And when you are going in with retinoids and alpha hydroxy acids some serious mousse Chur is also very very important
now I will often spray my face with a mist prior to
using this or just after using this just again to give the urea some
Water to draw from but it's fantastic on its own as well now
I follow that up with my eye cream from sukiyaki Suhana and you know what?
You know what you guys this is such a generous tube
I will actually put quite a bit on and I put it on almost like an under eye mask and I just let it soak
In that's if I have time
I just let it soak in and really just hydrate the heck out of my under I love this so much
Again, using urea as a humectant now after that, of course
I am going to protect my skin and this is probably the most important thing if all of this stuff is sun protection
What I'm using right now is my Sarah Fit skin aqua now
The reason why I'm choosing this sunscreen in particular with this particular routine is because I'm using my vitamin C in the morning
And I'm using my time see every single morning now
My other favorites are my color science, and I also love my elta MD UV clear
The thing about it is I can't use anything in the morning with a niacinamide it in it while I am using vitamin C
You want to be really careful with mixing vitamin C and vitamin b3 which is nine SMI and because they can cancel each other out
They don't render each other completely ineffective, but dang close
So you really want to keep your vitamin C's separate from your vitamin B's so I do really try hard to do that
And that's why I use my skin aqua. This is just a basic
Great sunscreen. It is an SPF 50, PA plus plus plus plus and it just goes right on your skin
It's almost like a really nice primer. It sits beautifully under makeup and I just like that
There's not a lot of extra residue
It just does a really good job and there's no extra no frills, and it's an amazing price point. It's a really really good
Sunscreen now then I go on with my makeup and I'm ready to go and I want to tell you that I do have
Extras in my skincare routine. I would love to tell you that every Tuesday at 8 a.m
I do this scrub or you know, I'll have people ask me
When do you fit that into your routine some things just have to get fit in?
When you feel like it, and that's these products. I'm going to tell you about now
One of them is my clear ista I'm gonna link the video that I did about clarita
This is the most stellar product. It is an alkaline. Keratin soluble Iser. It's a retexturizing gel that has
Jojoba beads in it
It is an exfoliator. That is barely manual because of those jojoba beads
But it is an alkaline solution that literally melts excessive. Keratin
So if you have retin-a flakes or you have dry patches that happen to be kind of flaky
Clarissa will just dissolve them. It is such an amazing product. I use this in the treatment room
I always have a tube at home. I love this so much. I don't use it every day
I can't even tell you exactly when I use it
It's just as needed if I feel flaky if I feel like my skin needs to get smooth a little bit more
But I don't want to add another acid because it's not an acid love this so much
Another extra that I just fit in when I feel like I need a little bit
Oh, I need a little bit of a boost maybe before I go out on a Saturday night something like that
I love this duo set from hydro peptide now. This one is
Crystals, it's the step one and it uses these very very fine
Gritty crystals you apply that first you massage it all over your face. It's a really gentle but gritty gritty
Exfoliation, I love that time then I go over with step two, which is a lactic acid. Gel
You apply this over step one and it kind of all emulsifies and mix-ins into this kind of thicker consistency
so you're getting a really fantastic lactic again lactic acid and
A manual exfoliation at once it almost
Dissolves the little crystals they almost you almost can't feel them anymore
You rinse your face and it's like babies, but I mean between these two
Incredible now the last one that is an extra and I can throw this in every single day in the shower
It's it's definitely an perfect addition to every single day is the make Prem
Now this is called the wonderful me in shower face pack
This is so
fantastic
If you feel irritated if your skin is inflamed if maybe you went in a little bit too hard with some of your actives
this is a super thick almost like honey like a
Consistency you can put it on your face before you step into the shower the steam and everything puts it to work you
Rinse it before you get out of the shower. It's thick enough that even if water runs over it. It doesn't take it off
It's absolutely beautiful. And I love that you can use it kind of as a multitasker perfect for on-the-go and
You really can see a difference you get out of the shower and it's like your skin just looks calmed. It's a
Fantastic product. I really love this very very much, but it is an extra
It's just something I throw into my routine when I feel like my skin needs a little bit of calming
Needs a little bit of just love that isn't an acid isn't anything active. This is my go-to mask for sure
That is my winter
skincare routine and what I hope you got out of it you guys is that I do my retinoids and my assets at night and
I do my antioxidants and my protection and hydration in the morning and that's basically how I split my protocols up
again
These are just examples of things that you can use
You probably have some type of these things at home
Right now and you could plug them in to those slots morning and night
If you have any questions about that if you want any help
Designing a protocol or you have a bunch of products and you don't know exactly where when how often you should use them
I'm gonna put my email in the description box. I'm absolutely happy to help
It is a joy to me to talk protocol with people. I love it. It's fun
It's like a big puzzle that results in good skin and I adore it so much. So don't hesitate to reach out and
Yeah, I'll help you
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because I do videos all the time about skincare and makeup and fun new discoveries and
Yeah, it's fun around here. So I hope you'll join us
I hope you have a wonderful wonderful week and I will talk to you again very very soon
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