my in-depth self care routine

Hello everybody, what's up? Welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to be doing a full self care video. I feel like you guys love any sort of video I do that is about self care. Today I'm going to take you guys along on my true self care routine, like the whole thing. I'm going to be featuring some products that just make me feel good and to me that's self care. When my skin feels good and my body feels good, I feel good and I think that's the most important part. So I want to thank you Dove for sponsoring this video. I am so excited because we're starting off the day by taking the shower. This self care moment needs to happen. Grab this out of my shower here, but we are going to be using the Dove Body Love products. This stuff is amazing. I had a friend staying with me this past weekend and they were like, did you know all these Dove products are amazing that you have in your shower? I was like, you guys are using my products. I mean they can use my products, but you know what I mean? I was like, okay, I'm glad we like it then. So the new Dove Body Love products actually have face care ingredients in them, but for your body, because I feel like I'm always getting this really nice skin for my face. But then when it comes to my body, I'm like, wait, I want those same ingredients in my body products, you know? So this is a two-step double moisture cleansing regimen for your body. I love it. We start off right here with the pre-cleanse shower butter. So when I get in the shower and I have wet skin, I will put this pre-cleanse shower butter all over my skin and this is going to give that pre-cleanse hydration boost to my skin. And then after I use the pre-cleanse shower butter, I'll then go in with this moisture boost body cleanser and it has hyaluronic serum in it, which is amazing. So does the pre-cleanse as well. And I just put it all over my body. It smells so good and it lingers on your skin, which I think is amazing. After I get out of the shower, I still smell good. When you've put it on your skin, it literally feels like you're putting lotion on your skin, but it's also cleansing your skin at the same time. I grew up in Florida, so moving up here to New York this past year has been very different in the sense of winter. I've never really experienced dry skin on my like body. I've had dry face problems, but I would just use moisturizer, whatever, never had something for my body to use. So when I use these products, I find that I don't have to worry about that anymore, especially in these dry winter months. So I'm so happy I found the Dove Body Love collection here. And with ingredients such as hyaluronic serum, I know I'm getting that next level nourishment for my skin. It's truly a moisture boost. I also have this one, which is the Radiance Renew. And what I love about the Radiance Renew cleanser is it's exfoliating. It makes my skin feel so good and it has peptides and vitamin C in it. So without further ado, I'm going to start off this self-care routine with taking the shower. When I say the shower, I'm washing my skin. I'm moisturizing my skin. I'm doing a whole situation for my body, which I never used to do. I'm washing my face. I'm shaving. I'm just doing all the amazing things. Trying to decide if I want to wash my hair because I actually just worked out before this. And that's definitely a part of my self-care routine for sure. Love starting my day with a good workout. I got a little acai bowl after to treat myself. So I feel good. I got a good sweat in and now I'm showering. However, my hair is not that greasy. I think I'm going to not wash my hair. So we're going to do a little shower cap situation. All right, you guys, I will see you after my shower. So I feel amazing. My skin feels so soft right now. So moisturized. I'll have a link down below for you guys to check out the Dove Body Love products. Of course, before the shower, I had my little waffle robe on. And now after I'm dried off, I put on my fuzzy robe. And this one like goes all the way to the floor. It is so warm. I just lit the candles in my apartment. So they're smelling amazing. My apartment just has a really good vibe. So next step, we're going to take my jade roller, Gua Sha, just go to town on the lymphatic drainage. I'll just put a light serum all over my face and it really helps to de-puff your face. So I'm just going to put some serum on my face and go to town with that. It feels so good. Especially if I have a headache, I love using the Gua Sha on my temples and the jade roller. It feels so good and it really helps to wake me up as well. So I'm just putting a light serum all over my face. This way my facial tools can glide really easily. This is my Gua Sha right here. Oh my gosh. It literally feels so good. I like to do it along my jaw line. I usually do like five strokes per area. Again, I'm no professional at all, but this is what I've been doing. I'm trying to get better about it too. I always, when I traveled to try to bring these items with me because I don't know, also just for my anxiety, it feels nice to have a routine in the morning. So bringing as many things with me as I possibly can always feels really nice. And one thing I've also learned is when you're draining all of this out, it's important to bring it down as well. Um, cause you don't want to get a headache or anything from doing that. Yeah, it just feels so good. It feels like I'm instantly toning my face to other side and you can use different sides of this. Like sometimes I'll use the bigger side. Right now I'm using like this little chiseled situation for how to go up. Oh, it feels so good. And the other tool I have right here, this is actually a rose quartz roller. They have Jade rollers, just a different stone. It's just like another way to kind of do it. Depends on what tools you like. You can use this little one for de-puffing under your eyes. Sometimes I'll do that. Um, they're both pretty small, so I'll honestly bring them both when I travel. Um, they're so cute. I got one for my mom and she loves it. Again, this is just what I do. This is not me telling you guys what to do, but this is a part of my, um, self care routine for sure. Just feels amazing. And I've always found when I use this rose quartz roller, my skin looks super glowy after. And I think that's one of the properties, um, in this rose quartz, if I remember correctly, when I bought this rose quartz roller, rose quartz roller. That's a tongue twister, huh? All right. So I'm going to keep my hair up for now because I have a ton of oil on my face and I don't want my hair to get super greasy, but in a little bit, we'll brush our hair, but we're going to go out into the kitchen. I feel like a million bucks right now. Um, I'm really into drinking hot tea. I feel like drinking a cup of hot tea is like a warm hug. It just feels very soothing. If I'm just feeling kind of all over the place out of body situation, it really brings me back. It really centers me. It's super grounding. Um, so typically I like to have a caffeine, caffeine free tea. So today we're just going to do some peppermint tea. Peppermint tea is typically really good for your digestion too. Um, it just tastes really good to me and I just make a little cup of it. I'm going to use this little clear mug, put my teabag in, and I'm just waiting for the water to heat up and I pour myself a nice cuppa. That's what my grandma calls it. She'll be like, do you want to have a cuppa together, Danielle? I've always gone with the slogan. If my apartment is a mess, I'm a mess. And I truly believe that to my core when my apartment is clean and everything's in their spot, I feel so much better. And I just feel so Zen. And I think on these self care days that you take for yourself, it's very, very important to kind of make sure your space around you is how you want it to be. I feel like most people would say clean and tidy. So I try to be super conscious about, you know, when I'm putting my sneakers away to like, not just throw them back in, but to put them where they're supposed to go. And that's something I've definitely learned even just since moving to New York city and getting this new space, I've really just created new cleaning habits for myself. So it avoids a larger mess. However, like I was saying earlier, I did have some friends stay with me this past weekend. So my closet is a little crazy. Other than that, my apartment's pretty, pretty good. I did laundry last night. I might do some more today. Feeling good. My living room's pretty clean right now. But as you can see, I hopped out of bed this morning. Didn't make my bed. I did clean my sheets last night. So I was proud and my bed looks semi tidy still. And then I just have all these clothes that I just didn't put away just hanging on the doorknob. So I want to clean so I can just feel tidy in my space. And then I'll be able to relax. Yay. My apartment is squeaky clean right now. It is sparkling, it is tidy, it is all the things so I can finally take my hair down. I have been loving using these boar bristle brushes. They're just so soft. Obviously I brush through my hair too because it helps with tangles, but this just makes my hair so soft and shiny. I don't know, I just feel like it's an instant little reboot for my hair. So now that my apartment's clean, and I'm clean and moisturized, it's time to relax. I'm gonna journal, I'm gonna read, I'm gonna drink my tea, and do a face mask, because why not? I always like to use these big headbands to keep my hair out of my face. If I could just wear these as a fashion statement every day I would because honestly, they're so nice, just having everything out of your face. I'm gonna do this moisturizing and hydrating face mask. It's a sheet mask, which I love. I love this one too because it comes in two halves so you can really fit it to your face. So cute. I just leave this on for like 10 minutes or I leave it on as long as I can until it starts peeling off of my face because I would literally just have this on forever, and then I also can just use my rose quartz roller right here that really is a tongue twister and just kind of press it into my skin, it just feels really darn good. Then we take it to the couch, of course. I've got all kinds of goodies here. I have my peppermint tea that I'm still drinking, my quartz roller here, and then I have my everyday Doing Well Daily journal slash planner. I like plan on one side, and then on the other side I will just fill it out, and then obviously I have my book right here, so I'll do a little bit of both. Before I start reading I'm just gonna kind of get everything out of my head because I find if I journal or plan or just do stuff like that before I read, I'm able to focus more on the book and really just kind of take myself out of reality for a second, which is one of the reasons I read, it allows me to just kind of get away for a second. I like to put everything on paper so it kind of just gets out of my head, and I know that it's taken care of. I'm like, okay, I wrote that down already. So I kind of cheated and I already planned this morning because it just had to happen. But now I'm taking the moment, I'm still taking that moment, to write down everything. So on the top here I write what I'm grateful for, some affirmations that I have for the day. So today I'll probably do, I'm healthy, I am happy, I am wellness, I don't know, something like that. And then today's quote that I have on this is, I am not sure how, but I will. So I'll trace that. I'll write down what I'm doing for self-care, which honestly I might not even write it down because I'm already doing everything and more. Write down what my mood is for the day, which I feel like my mood today is very content, very thankful. And then an act of kindness, so something I'm going to do for somebody else today. So I'm going to sit here with my face mask on, I'm going to put on some music, but you guys unfortunately can't hear it because of copyright. I typically play one of the playlists I have made on Spotify, I'll do Coffee House, or I'll do, I really like listening to Soft House Lounge. I literally, there's this one called Hotel Lobby that I like. So I'll see you guys in a bit. All right, that's all done, I got everything onto paper. Now I'm just going to kick back. Right now I'm reading Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, it is so good, I've got a little bit left of my peppermint tea. When I read, I either read in silence or there's this playlist called Reading Music. I'm obsessed with music, if you guys can't tell, it's just really important to me. So I'll put that on and read this, I'll usually read a couple chapters, or until I'm ready. See you guys in a little bit. All right, it's a lot later now, I'm going to peel this mask off. My skin feels super glowy, moisturized, hydrated, all over. I hope you guys enjoyed coming along with me on this little self-care adventure, I hope this inspires you guys to treat yourself to a little self-care moment as well. Thank you again to Dove for sponsoring this video. Definitely check out their Dove Body Love products, I am obsessed. I'll have a link down below for you guys. That wraps up this video, I will see you guys very soon for a next one, and enjoy the rest of your day. Bye!