MORNING SKINCARE ROUTINE *not sponsored*

Hey guys and welcome back to my bathroom. It's always weird filming in here when you have like a microphone like next to the toilet. It's just a very awkward situation. So today we're going to be doing my updated morning skincare routine. I recently did my nighttime get unready with me routine and I've gotten so many requests to do a morning routine. So that's what we're doing today and so this video just like my nighttime routine is going to be completely unsponsored. So I feel like that's very helpful and makes things a little bit less biased. So if you guys want to see what I use on my skin every morning then we're just going to dive right into it. I would like to apologize in advance for the fact that a lot of these products are more on the expensive side but they are what I truly use on a daily basis. I purchase them with my own money and I really enjoy them. So I said this in my nighttime routine but the prices of like Sephora and department store skincare products right now are like almost the same sometimes even more than medical grade. So just keep that in mind you know do your own research before you try out products and you know everyone's skin is different so keep that in mind as well. So for me the first step in the morning is to wash my face and I'm using air quotes because I don't like use a cleanser in the morning unless I used like an overnight mask or something like that the night before. Usually I would just use micellar water or I will just splash my face with water without using any cleanser. That's just personal preference. I don't feel like I need it. I just have that skin type I just feel like sometimes over washing can over dry my skin. So yeah I'm just going to put my hair up and scrunchy before we get to show on the road. Now I'm just going to rinse my face with some water and then pat it down. So then after my face is dry I go in with this product from Paula's Choice. It's their 2% BHA liquid exfoliant. I'm obsessed with this. I've been raving about this for years. I just will not live without it. I use it every single morning sometimes at night if I'm not using any other kind of exfoliant. It's just the best. It keeps my pores clean. It prevents the breakouts. It makes my pores look smaller. It's just a really really great product. So I always use this and I don't use a toner. I've tried using toners. I didn't notice a difference so I just took it out of my routine. So this you can put on a cotton pad but I feel like that's just like a waste of a cotton pad. So honestly I just put it on my hands and I don't know if this is like against the rules but I always do this and I don't see any issues. So kind of just spread it out and then I pat it in or slap it in I should say. I feel like this just helps to wake me up in the morning and helps it to absorb. So next up I go in with this product and this is from Aya's Clinical. It's their Youth Complex. So I also use their Youth Eye Complex but this is kind of like an all over face version and it's supposed to help like with fine lines and wrinkles and kind of act as like a smoother. So this product has like an immediate smoothing effect for fine lines and wrinkles and then it also is beneficial over time. So it has some fruit acids in there to help exfoliate. It has some peptides and some growth factors so it's really great for anti-aging. It has hyaluronic acid in there so it's hydrating as well so I just really like it. Put some on my neck as well and normally I'm wearing like a shitty t-shirt but today I'm wearing this nice white one and I don't want to ruin it and get it all like grimy so just imagine I'm bringing it down because normally I'm wearing like a ratty old shirt that I don't care about. So next I'm going to go in with my Vitamin C and for that I use this little Trio Trifecta system from Truth Treatments. So if you guys have seen my nighttime skincare routine you know that I use this system for my nighttime skin. So you can just use this day and night but I also have the Vitamin C Bomb for nighttime which is just a little bit heavier, a little bit thicker, a little bit more potent but you could also use this day or night. So anyways this is my favorite favorite favorite brand for Vitamin C. It is so potent, it is very effective, it actually like penetrates your skin and gets down to the cellular level and I just love it. It doesn't smell like hot dogs and it's just the best. So I feel like my skin has definitely improved so much since I started using this product. I just feel like my skin tone is so incredibly even now. Not that it was really bad before but I've noticed a huge difference. I do have a little bit of freckling right now because I've been out in the sun but I feel like this product and this little trio has helped my skin so much. So basically what you do is you create a little cocktail of this in your hand and then apply it to your face. So that's what I'm gonna do. So I first go in with the Vitamin C, put a few like two or three drops into the palm of my hand. Then I add one or two pumps of the Hyaluronic Mineral Hydrator and then I do one or two sprays of the Mineral Mist. And so these together really help deliver the product to the cells of the skin and make it pass, you know, the top layers of the skin to make it really effective. So I just kind of put this all over my neck as well. Oh and I forgot to mention that I do have a coupon code for you guys for a lot of the medical grade products which I will put on screen. So I did purchase them with my own money but the company that I purchased them from saw that I was a customer and they wanted to give me a code for you guys to get a discount and for me to make a little extra dough. So if you guys want to use it feel free. If you don't, be a hater, it's fine. Then I'm going to go in with eye cream. This is the IS Clinical Youth Eye Serum and I just love this stuff. You need a teeny tiny amount, like half of a pump is all you need. It's expensive but I feel like it's awesome. Oh and I have spots on my hand, that's cute. Pat it underneath my eyes. Pat, pat, pat all around town. And I always use my middle finger. I know I'm supposed to use my pinky or my ring finger but I'm like physically incapable of using those fingers. They don't work for me. They're just like all over the place. So I just use my middle finger like a rebel. So I really like this eye cream and it wears really nicely underneath makeup. So then I'll go in and add a little bit of extra moisture. So I have a few different moisturizers I've been rotating between. This one actually is a drugstore one. I talked about this in my nighttime routine as well. It's the Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gel Cream for extra dry skin. This is what it looks like. It's very lightweight but it's very hydrating at the same time. So I think it's great for summer and the daytime as well because it's not thick underneath your sunscreen and your makeup. So I use this one a lot and then I also have this new one that I've been trying out. So this I can't really attest to because I've only been using it for like a week or so and I do really like it but I can't really speak on the long-term benefits. But a lot of people love this one and it has really great reviews. So this is the, again, IS Clinical Reparative Moisture Emulsion. So this is supposed to be restoring, hydrating, smoothing again. So it wears really nicely under makeup. So I'm going to use this today just because I want to. I will say it has like a weird kind of... I don't know what this smell is. It smells like some sort of flower that I don't really love but the smell fades away fairly quickly. So yeah, very lightweight, very hydrating and I enjoy it. But I also really enjoy the Neutrogena. So yeah. And by the way, I've been putting all this leftover excess on the back of my hands which is a pro tip if you are interested in making your hands look useful to match your face. Okay. Then I have one more step that I like to do before I apply my sunscreen. I don't always do this but if I have the time and lately I got the time, I will squeeze this in there. So this is a Rose Quartz Roller. This is from Flawless Beauty and this one actually vibrates and I feel like that just kind of intensifies effects and like further contours and lifts your face. I don't know if it has any real long-term benefits but it feels amazing on my skin, helps with puffiness, sinus drainage, you know, lymphatic drainage and I really enjoy it. So I'm going to use this. So I'm just going to go and do this all over my face. Always in an upward motion. And I kind of like to just go over the same area like three or four times and then work my way up. And this one actually comes with a separate attachment for the under eye. You just kind of hold it there and then move it on out. And I just really like this for under eye puffiness. And then my last and final step is sunscreen. So do not forget your sunscreen. Always wear your sunscreen especially if you're using all these crazy, you know, skincare ingredients, these expensive products. You need to protect your investment with sunscreen. So this I showed in my go-to kind of spring-summer makeup look. I use this in place of foundation. I'm obsessed with this product. So it is the Elastin Hydra Tint Pro Mineral SPF 36. It is a mineral sunscreen. It's tinted. It has antioxidants in there. It's amazing and I'm obsessed. So I'm just going to apply this to my skin. And you want to make sure that you're applying enough. So like I think like a quarter size amount I usually do. And as you'll see, this just instantly makes my skin look pretty darn perfect on its own. Do you see how white my face and neck are compared to my body? I'm more diligent. I mean I always apply sunscreen to my body but I'm more diligent about it with my face for whatever reason. Then I wanted to mention two non-tinted sunscreens that I do like. This one, my skin is a little bit sensitive and it kind of makes me bumpy. So keep that in mind if you're sensitive. But this is the Versed Guards Up Mineral Sunscreen. It's great. And then this one is the First Aid Beauty Weightless Sunscreen. So these are both mineral. I'll show you guys how they go on the skin. So they have a slight tint but adds no coverage and then the tint kind of like disappears. So I'll show you guys what these look like really quick. This is the First Aid Beauty. As you'll see it just instantly kind of disappears. And then the Versed is a little bit thicker but it does disappear onto your skin. So I wanted to really quickly mention those. I wanted to share those with you guys but the elastin is definitely my number one. And it is a little bit expensive but you get a good amount of products in here. You get 2.6 ounces and like the First Aid Beauty you get 1.5. So you're getting like a whole extra ounce in this product and you're also getting a little bit of coverage. Okay so I just took my hair down. I'm going to add some lip balm. Today I'm using this one from Fresh. It's their Advanced Therapy Lip Balm. So I really like this one. And that is it. That is my skincare routine. Obviously you want to make sure to apply some sunscreen to your body, your hands. Today I'm just going to use this Supergoop. I haven't found a body mineral sunscreen that I enjoy so if you guys have one that you like, you know, let me know in the comments. So yeah that is it for my morning skincare routine. I know it kind of seems like a lot but in reality it takes me like three minutes and I've really been loving these products. I've been using everything since November and I have been hooked. Well the elastin I think I started using in like January but everything else I have been using for a good amount of time. So that's why I don't like to do routines and updated routines too often because I want to give the products a chance. So yeah I've really been loving these products. Let me know if you guys have tried any of them or what your favorite morning skincare product is. Let me know in the comments below. And yeah thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you guys next time. I think I need a new scrunchie. That's totally the problem. Not me. I would never be the cause of an issue. I would never be the reason for a problem you know.