How to get rid of dark spots tutorial!

okay dear dark spot tutorial so today I'm gonna go over this tutorial and I'm gonna try and pack a lot into a short amount of time there's so much out there there's so much information that I've actually personally cleaned through it it's it's a process for sure I've tried everything you're gonna say I've tried natural remedies like blending potato and tomato and I've tried everything and they always promise that it's gonna work overnight in it it never does so today is about techniques and tips I went to do to not only prevent but also lessen the spots you've already have because the earlier you see treatment the better your chances are at preventing getting rid of and and and that's because those spots that you already have will become bigger they're not going to go away by themselves magically I wish they did over time your skin does tend to heal but what you're going to be doing is providing a little boost a little extra so that you get the full benefits of trying to fix the problem so yeah please keep in mind that you need patience with this whole process and you also need consistency so the reason that I have been pursuing this is because I think if you've watched my previous videos and hormonal changes after baby number three surprise baby number three and did a number on my myface and left a lot of acne scarring or it was almost like a rash it was odd that wasn't normal acne and so it left a lot of issues on my face and I can tell you that where I was before not only in like overall brightness and all of that you know dealing with k-beauty has been great but and the dark spots were a huge issue because blemishes can come from a variety of different issues with the skin it can be hormonal a lot of times there are pigmentation issues that are connected to that and so that is why I kind of pursued this path to try and figure out what the heck how can I not spend that much money going to the dermatologist which is a definite route that you can take you can see results and I'm going to go through a few of those options for you if that's something that you want to do but if you want to do a self-care do it on your own I'm also going to go through that whole list as well okay so acnes obviously it can leave a blemish on your skin and and a dark mark after the pimple is actually gone it's very frustrating and it's very common unfortunately and even after 40 like dude what the heck why am I still getting acne I can't tell you this especially during quarantine I have noticed my eating has been the best where I was gluten free before because I have some sensitivity to it I have been eating it and I have been paying for it not just in feeling well in my gut so it manifesting through my skin so if you have acne issues or you have things that pop up literally through your skin on your face or your back or whatever it is I can almost guarantee you know I'm not an expert by any means but I can almost guarantee you that it is due to to what you're eating the amount of water you're drinking all of that matters so if you guys want to send tricks on what to avoid and all that please comment down below let me know I am more than open to creating more content for you guys just to help everyone out to figure out what the heck's going on again I am no expert there have been a few things that I've kind of figured out along the way and that's all I want to share with you guys okay so on to back to the whole pimple thing so pimples are basically a form of inflammation as your skin sends messages to the cells to regenerate restore heal that area it also can contain a little bit too much melanin and it gives your skin color and certain certain cells have more than others and that it results in hyperpigmentation and that is like the mark that you get after you have that pimple and anything also that makes that inflammation last a little bit longer like picking or squeezing which I am a picker it's so hard for me not to pick it's just a habit that I have I have tried so hard to break but that I can just antagonize it even more now people was naturally darker skin skin tones are actually more prone to this so you can you know Asian skin tends to tan really easily you know african-american black skin can get dark spots as well you can see it especially with hormonal sets and you'll see melasma which is actually really dark spots and they're the hardest to get rid of so we've got hyperpigmentation melasma and then you also have sun and just aging spots will show up not connected to acne or hormonal issues so all three of those can potentially cause yours yours face to have these discolorations and so that's what we're working on now we get rid of but prevent so and just so you guys know timeline for this three months to two years that's about how long it takes to to get any one of those to vanish it's a lot it can be a really long and drawn-out process unfortunately so thus the importance of prevention it an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure right we've heard that before so I'm gonna dive into that in just a second but I also want to emphasize you cannot expect instantaneous results right I mean I hate to say it but it's true you can't exercise one day and then expect that you're going to have results for the rest of the year you have to be consistent you have to continue the regular routine find something that works for you find something where you can make it habit for being and sustainable right I'm not saying I'm going to show you a ton of products but I'm not saying you have to use them all by the way they are all going to be listed in the description down below so if you aren't curious about any of them you can click the link and it'll send you right to where you can purchase those products I have not sponsored by any of these products they're just things that I've found that are super helpful for me okay so number one prevention on the screen another thing that I have found along the Sun screen so that he loves this screen I have a lot of these products I've already listed in my prior videos which I will also link in the description below but in terms of steps on how to take care of your your skin 913 morning routine tools those are the three that I have this stuff right here vitamin D vitamin D emulsion 1000 I love this stuff it's little drops that you can take daily tastes like lemon it's it's gonna help with pigmentation it's going to not only do that but it's going to also boost your immunity vitamin D is amazing for gut health and so that's why I recommend this and this product is fantastic but not only for your gut health of course but also immunity and kind of trying to go inside out approach to keep eating those dark spots away yeah okay number two so Retton retin-a and retinol so basically it's used to exfoliate a weight minor discoloration but also works to prevent future dark spots through like a photo protective antioxidant and please note you cannot apply a benzoyl peroxide which is in a lot of acne products combined with retinol or retina it's not good it won't work well together side effects of this particular product are dry skin and sensitivity to the Sun you guys are probably well aware retin-a can do I can really dry out your skin and so I would use sparingly and I would also do it up now the difference between retin-a and retinol is that you must get a prescription for retin-a it is not over-the-counter whereas retinol is now retin-a is a much more effective and higher dose vitamin A versus retinol being a lower dose and therefore available over-the-counter so it just depends on what you want to do there are a lot of actual online companies right now where you can get a prescription and you send in a picture of your skin what your particular issues are and and they will prescribe you the product that they think is best for you with the appropriate amount of percentages of the different different ingredients so if you have questions about that I do subscribe to a couple and I'm trying a new one so if you have questions let me know and I can give you pass that information on okay moving right along and number C chemical peel so these are the reasons why I'm trying to do this myself maybe someday I'll go in and do that but it's very if you've ever ever seen someone who's gotten a chemical peel it is literally like their skin is peeling off it's just part of the process it will leave you with fantastic results if you do it regularly but it's peel it's a full-on peel it's about three to four appointments but a milder daily option which I'll go into all the products in just a minute are the glycolic the acids the AJ's and you won't always want to start with like maybe three times a week and then you build up daily depending on the sensitivity of your skin okay okay number four we have tools so more and more as Beauty has become this booming industry is always husband but it's it's becoming more self care than ever and you have things like micro needling which I went over in my tools video my tools tutorial micro needling of course exfoliating with different products and then microdermabrasion so I'm excited I just ordered a microdermabrasion kit I'm gonna try it out I want you guys know it supposedly helps to just get rid of that whole layer that is dead and just resting on top of your skin another one of those products however that doesn't feel good in the moment but you get fantastic results from it so yeah do you want that video let me know and then that five serums there's a ton of options you guys and pretty much all of them have similar capabilities because number one you want to reduce or inhibit melanin you don't want those those spots to really become pronounced because they will come you know acne comes whether you like it or not to those of us that are unfortunate to get it sunspots you know you may put fifty on in the morning and then you spend the morning in the Sun and a whole bunch of things happen and you forget to reapply in the afternoon and then well low and behold you have a sunspot begin or it has been beginning for some time and then is building up and finally reveals its ugly head right so there is that and I'm going to go through the list of all the different Syrians and why they are beneficial in just a second so yeah there's that and then in terms of what I really appreciate when I've done all of these things but I'm like I'm ready like prevention of course the tools of course and then all the process of everything I like to call my skin down and sometimes it's just irritated and because of what I'm eating or because of the stress in my life or whatever it is and I have a couple products that I really love and this is reminding me that I need to order more this is a mask I have none left I just have the leftover liquid that I like to lather on and by the way if you use a mask it's always best to do it after your toner in essence after okay so centella is basically an Asian plant and it works fantastically at calming the skin it boosts antioxidant activity at the site of wounds and it strengthens the skin and it boosts circulation so love this now this next product I'm going to show you in in terms of your regimen is further down the line but I just wanted to show you guys this I think I showed you before but love this ampoule it's fantastic again has that centella asiatica and it calms the skin down it's wonderful I I really like this company medicube I'll put it in the description as well okay so moving right along number one in terms these are that help with removing those really hard to get rid of dark spots okay like I said she goes a professional route you're probably going to get results a lot quicker but it's more expensive and more invasive so if this is something you're interested in then go ahead and follow right along now kojic acid a lot of times you'll find it in mushrooms so they take it from mushrooms or fermented rice and this is an exfoliator now really quickly before we fully dive in I want to let you know that I am going in order of how you would apply these products based on the k-beauty tutorial in the evening routine and then it also applies to the morning routine okay so ten steps if you want to hit you didn't write it down I'll try and remember to put it in the description as well it's of course cleanse that exfoliate then tone and essence toner essence and zerah then moisturizer and then your oil so it's kind of along those lines and there's a few little steps in between but just keep that in mind so I use this to exfoliate rice bran it's a powder it just brightens the skin it just gets rid of the dead old stuff so very important exfoliation is incredibly important okay another product that's fantastic is licorice I know right because it inhibits melanin same idea all these products that's what they do to help decrease that melanin okay aqua I did mention the in a previous video as well this one is a like a cleansing toner so sometimes if I feel like I have a lot more makeup on or feel like my even after I have oil cleansed and iPhone cleanse sometimes I go in and it's like oh I still feel dirty and so I take a a pad use this and cleanse the skin so really really great product then I've got a couple more licorice products this one would be before you begin exfoliation you know all that nine yards so I probably should have started with this one but mugwort my board is fantastic it's it's like anti-inflammatory it treats redness has antioxidants and it has vitamin e in it it's a Asian another Asian plant and you can actually eat it too it's really it's quite good yeah this one it's like you feel like you're in nature because it's like sticks and I hope you can see that but yeah it's very rugged but it's super calming to the face as well so there's that and you would rinse it off and go along with the process so then you have I have another licorice product this is further down the way but I had to put it in the beginning because we're talking about licorice right now essence would be after toner okay but and I've told you guys about this before great product and super call me again inhibits that melanin another amazing way of getting rid of those lovely dark spots on your face not lovely I should say is a and be a GSR chemical exfoliants we talked about physical exfoliants that's important too but we're going to focus on the chemical ones so here's another product that I really like Medi cube the their little pads pour pads shrinks the pores and has a J's in it and a lot of other botanicals get ingredients extracts to help exfoliate and remove those dead skin sales and then get rid of the sebum and the things I get stuck in the pores and make them larger so this is to help shrink pore size so I love that product to you especially if I'm having the breakout session and I just want to get clean this right here now I'm going to quickly demonstrate what it looks like this one it's like magic I don't I don't know if you guys have ever tried this ordinary is the brand it's a J and B AJ it says it's a peeling solution I've never had my skin peel in it I don't have sensitive skin so if you do maybe do a test before you put this on maybe I'm on your wrist just to see how you react to it and it's it looks like it looks like blood like that but I'm just gonna quickly show you a little sample I've already like wash my face and whatnot but it's like a little mask that you put on you can see maybe I should put it somewhere else but thin layer all over your face avoiding the eyes of course and ten minutes max you peel it off and it's like your skin I competed spud it's amusing I love this stuff so much it's an exfoliating facial basically right this this is a bomb and it I love ordinary products because there are pure ingredients for the most part like I haven't heard a bad review really and it's not expensive it's fantastic love this stuff that's one AJ BHA and then so just so you know alpha alpha hydroxy acids looking at my notes so it's just another way of really diving in and getting to those layers to help break up melanin breakup that discoloration I've also shown you guys this before this stuff is fantastic there are so many different types of a Ajay's glycolic lactic mandelic malik tartaric citric those are all assets that you could potentially use I stick to glycolic and it tends to be the most popular because it has the smallest molecular level like like your size so it can penetrate your skin just a little bit better yeah just keep that in mind glycolic acid fantastic exfoliator this is not an exfoliator but I just wanted to show you guys another ordinary product and mandelic acid you can put this on alongside your serums works great to help with that discoloration another option okay after exfoliating then you would go to your Tony right so I've shown you this before as well galacto Pisces is a mushroom basically mushroom yeah it shrinks pore size reduces sebum production brightens and hydrates I mean all-in-one all-in-one and then [Music] that is a toner then I have a couple [Music] essences this one is basically fermented lactic acid all of those good good probiotics exactly for your skin right so love this one as well it gives you brighter softer and deeply hydrated skin apparently I love this stuff it really works and got a new product this one had 5 stars on so coke glam that's why I got it another fermented product so I'm gonna try this out and see how it goes but has all of that has the rice in it it has everything that we've been talking about and then some so I'm gonna see how this goes and I'll let you guys know on 2 serums okay so we're gonna start with vitamin C another go back to my C's product just vitamin C glow serum okay brightens the skin improves the skin texture helps get rid of those dark spots right it's it's an all-inclusive package it's not just a one shot and you're done you're trying I'm you're trying everything that you possibly can because why not why wouldn't you want to get rid of them in with every tool that you have in your tool kit right another great vitamin C product is for liqu acid so it's a it's a another form of vitamin C super high potency another ordinary product all of these range in price I don't think I don't even think I have bought one product that's been even over $20 from them yeah price point and it works okay then you can also get through like acid in powder form you can add this to your moisturizer to kind of give it that boost you can add it to serum and it shows you the ratios on the back as well and then just in the directions now on - I have an a like I said you can go retin-a way more intense prescription required or you can go retinol a little less intense a little less intense actually on the skin as well it promotes cellular turnover right cuz that's what you need to get rid of that dark spot those dark spots go really deep and you gotta do something to kind of get that skin moving away you know alright get rid of that later then we have I had niacinamide that's a mouthful vitamin B okay again inhibits melanin production okay vitamin B love this I've tried drunk elephants a fantastic product don't get me wrong but it costs you an arm and a leg like one of the serum bottles is like I want to say like seventy five eighty dollars and I I just if you can find something that's a little more price point friendly and that works why not right so yeah I ascend amide by having B and you can't combine all of these I like to do vitamin C then B than a or no I am I'm sorry excuse me I'm and C a and then B so any of those will work okay we are almost done zelich acid another who's dirty another great product because it was originally found and they were using it to treat rosacea so it really helps to get that deep in there real alleviate the irritation of the skin which can also cause the the pigmentation hyperpigmentation right however if you have sensitive skin this can be a little bit irritating okay it doesn't damage that skin barrier or cause water loss to your skin so great product I'm enjoying this this is a newer one that I recently purchased as well of our butan a wood so really quickly to touch back on the retina there is a the prescription other name for retin-a and I hope I'm not butchering this tree tree toning tree yeah something like that or tretinoin or something it's it's a weird spelling that and they often in these prescriptive formulas will combine that with hydroquinone and we even know if I'm saying that right whatever and alpha butan is basically a safer alternative to that so if you don't want to if you don't want to get a prescription and you you're a sensitive skin person this is an awesome alternative alpha or butan it's also combined with hyaluronic acid so great combination I mix this in I put I put these two together and that into the serum twofer basically okay we did we are moving too moisturizer in oil okay I love this particular product next it's like they call it a vitamin e mask it it has vitamin E niacinamide adenosine good stuff in it and they also have this in the vitamin C mask so if and you're wanting a little extra vitamin C and as you are moisturizer there's tons of options out there and then another ordinary product with suspension vitamin C suspension so it's like it suspends it and then it it slowly absorbs into your skin so that product is great too and finally finally oils okay last but not least oils so the reason why we use the oils is because it's it helps with your and believe it or not sebum production if your skin is dry and drying it out even more will cause actually more acne so it's the opposite effect so finding a good oil that works for you is a great great help too if you're fighting acne on a consistent basis so if you have oily snatcher illegally skin if that is your skin type oils that are higher in linoleic linoleic excuse me acid are I'm reading my notes here are more suitable to you because dry sand because they're a little bit more absorbed like they they don't rest on the skin as much whereas if you have dry skin you need higher in oleic so oils have different percentages essentially of linoleic and oleic acids if you have a product like this this is more oleic this is two Manu oiling I mentioned this in a previous video love this stuff and you don't you really want a product like this you can do snus spa treatment you don't have to rub it all over your face just keep that in mind so a couple other products that are great rosehip oil it's very it's linoleic it's very hydrating so again spot treatment if you have oily skin come on him but another one that is great I'll I'm trying to remember the name of it I think it was I can't remember and I didn't write it down dang it anyway I'm just gonna tell the benefits of tamati oil because I use it and it's fantastic so smoothing is that the acne scarring that you have great for that stretch marks sunspots and the stuff is magic yeah so that pretty much brings us to the end of our long journey I tried to make it as quickly as possible it's so much information you guys I hope that you can glean something from this please let me know if you have any questions write them in the comments I will respond to you or hit me up on Facebook yeah thank you guys so much for taking the time I hope that this will help you on your journey love you [Music]