So I'm a licensed esthetician.

I've been an aesthetician for about five years now and I also create skincare content and really try to educate people of color on how to properly care for their skin and how to treat inflammatory conditions like acne or hyperpigmentation.

So tonight my routine is going to be all about treating texture and hyperpigmentation, Two things that I struggle with the most.

So usually I'll go in with like a double cleanse.

I'll usually go with my polish choice.

This is the omega complex cleansing balm and I do love this, but I'm not gonna do a double cleanse tonight because I've been inside all day and I'm just waiting a little bit of sunscreen and my versed mood lighting glow drops.

I love these.

So these are basically just like little skin illuminator and they really just help give your skin extra glowy.

Just kind of that glisten, You can add them to your moisturizer, you can add them to your makeup primer and then just let your sunscreen over it.

And we're just going to give you a glow throughout the day.

But since I'm not gonna double cleanse tonight, I'm just gonna go in with my doctor.

Dennis grows my alpha beta pore, perfecting cleansing gel.

I'm not super picky with cleansers.

I just like them to be gentle.

Non stripping.

This one has Mandela and lactic acid, I think a tiny bit of salicylic acid, but it's super gentle, keeps my pores clear, keeps my complexion bright.

Um It's a really good one, especially my acne clients.

They love this cleanser.

So, first I'm going to add some water and wet my face.

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A little pop.

You always want to make sure that you're massaging and cleansing your face for at least 30-60 seconds, because you really want to make sure you're breaking down any excess oil impurities and you make up, you really wanna make sure that you're kind of breaking those things down and they're not sitting in your skin.

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Before I kind of do any of my serum, I like to use a toner today.

I'm using the trickery is botanic roast owner.

This is a black owned brand, its newly launched and it's just like hydrating toner In this form.

Like it's a beautiful formula.

It's affordable, literally.

It's 100% pure and organic Greek, rosewater and it's double distilled.

I guess that makes it special.

I like spray toners because I like to miss my face in between my steps because I applied all of my skincare onto damp skin.

When you apply your skincare onto damp skin, it just helps absorb and penetrate.

And you have less of an issue of kind of dehydration or your skin kind of doing that kind of trans epidermal water loss.

So if I missed my face, I'm gonna go in with my make beauty essence.

This is the micro ferment rice essence.

This is a new product to me and I've been obsessed with this.

So I'd like to just do a little layer of this and just massage into my skin and I bring all of my skincare down my neck and down my chest.

So I have this little tank so I can really get all the areas of my skin, my kind of um tip to kind of get what I call like doll skin, which is just like healthy, radiant, glowing skin is just layering hydration.

So I'll do like a hydrating toner, then the hydrating serum and then like a really nourishing cream to kind of seal everything in.

And as you can see, my skin is pretty globally already, since my skin is still damp from the essence, I'm going to go straight in with my hyaluronic acid serum and this is the hyaluronic acid boosting serum from PC.

A skin I left pC.

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There are a little pricey.

I'm not going to lie, but it's super thick and I like this hydrating serum because it has ceremony has my cinema wide.

So it's really nourishing helps strengthen the skin barrier, which is like your protective layer of your skin.

It just makes my skin super plump.

I love this year.

Um Tonight, like I said, it's all about hyperpigmentation.

So I'm gonna go in with my first hyperpigmentation treatment, which is the skin Monica two point oh lat era pigment correcting serum.

When I look for like my serums and my treatment, I really try to make sure that they're a good quality because those are the things that kind of matter the most to me.

Like my serums are super important.

So I want to make sure that their potent, they have an incredible formula and this one it just like it works so quick.

I'm seeing the first like two weeks.

I saw like a dramatic difference in kind of post inflammatory hyperpigmentation and post inflammatory hyperpigmentation is basically just hyperpigmentation that's been caused by some kind of trauma to the skin.

So if you have like a breakout and you pick the breakout or if you like use a product that was too astringent or too strong or cleansing us to stripping sometimes that will cause trauma to the skin and also dehydration can also lead to hyperpigmentation.

And so you always want to make sure that if you do have a breakout you don't want to pick.

You want to be using ingredients that really target Hyperpigmentation.

So after that I'm gonna go in um with my next treatment.

So that will be my Polish choice 10%.

As like acid booster.

Anyone who follows me on social media knows that I'm obsessed with this product.

So as Oleic acid is a little different from your hs or your BHS, it's antibacterial, it helps treat acne.

It's really great with hyperpigmentation and it's really good for texture, which I've which really what made me kind of gravitate towards it of how well it just smooth the texture in my skin.

This formula from polish choice.

It has salicylic acid and some other like hydrating and skin benefiting ingredients.

If you can see it's like super silky before just meshes into the skin.

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And all of this is still on damp skin.

And I really like to focus this on my beard area because that's kind of where I struggle with texture.

The most usually try to do like a spot treatment like around this area in this area to really kind of smooth that texture and even any hyperpigmentation.

So next I'm going to go in with my um I cream.

Now, I was always someone who, like, I felt like I cream just wasn't necessary and I do feel like a lot of people still can just use their traditional moisturizer and kind of dab it under the eye and bring like you're hydrating serum kind of to the orbital bone.

But I now that I'm kind of moving into my 30s, which is like terrifying.

Um Now I'm like, I know all the eye cream, so like I'm an eye cream fanatic.

My skin is more combo dry and sometimes it can be a little dehydrated, especially around my eye area.

And so I love eye creams for morning and night.

Now my new favorite eye cream is from sunday Riley and this is the auto correct brightening and de puffing contouring eye cream.

Long name, it's not super heavy, which I really love.

You literally just need like the tiniest bit.

Like I let me take that amount and then just kind of had it under my eye and just kind of massage it in and I use my ring fingers.

It's like the old kind of tradition, you know, your ring finger is like your most gentle finger like to bring that all around my eye area.

And so before we go on with our last two steps, I'm gonna go back in with my treacherous botanical rose toner.

She was gonna do a nest.

So the night cream that I'm going to go in with tonight is the first recovery mode advanced night cream.

So I love the Recovery mode moisturizer.

It has like this gorgeous, like a purple color.

It's like, it's so beautiful, but also because it's a rich cream, but it's super lightweight.

It's not heavy.

And I'm someone who likes to add oils into my moisturizers.

And so I don't want something that's super, super rich.

I kind of like that balance in between and so I'm gonna mix the a few drops of my super no cosmic glow oil.

Another favorite.

This is like my second bottle of this, but it's an amazing nourishing oil.

Doesn't have an essential oils, any fragrance.

And it's a beautiful oil.

So I'll mix like okay, two or three drops in there and I just mix it in the palm of my hand like this.

And then I kind of just swipe it on the heirs of my face.

And I kind of do this with like my treatments.

I do my sunscreen really because I just like to target those areas.

And again, like it just, It just makes your skin like so juicy and healthy and beautiful and radiant.

I did deal with a little bit of acne, kind of, I kind of had adult acne, my skin was pretty much clear throughout my whole childhood.

And when I turned 21 I had a crazy break out.

I had a lot of little kind of congestion which were like close comma domes and just like white heads and these really like hard kind of breakouts that were really hard to get.

And I was able to kind of fix my skin through research, which kind of led through my obsession with skin care.

And I will say the key things um to helping my skin have been exfoliation, hydration, sunscreen, and retinol.

Those are kind of like the four things that have really, really helped me.

But like tomorrow I'll probably do another rep in all night.

And those have been the things that really have helped my skin, but you don't want to overdo those things.

So if you're using retinal every night, exploding every night and you're not using hydrating serums and barrier repair products, those will destroy your skin.

It will dehydrate your skin.

It will kind of do the opposite of what you're trying to do and you don't want exfoliate every day.

I would say two times a week is pretty like a good number for anyone to kind of have some exfoliant in their routine.

So now that we finished all of our hydration, our treatments, I'm going to always finish my routine with a hydrating lip balm.

This is a new one by polish choice.

It's the hyaluronic acid and peptide lip booster.

I'm obsessed with.

This has a little metal tip, but like, makes your lips so like glossy and juicy and nourished and just kinda like matches skin.

It's a it's a vibe.

So guys, that that's my entire nighttime skincare routine.

Thank you for going through this whole little skincare journey with me.

Thank you for spending the night with me and I'll see you guys soon.

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