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Hi, my name is Tia Ward and you are tuned into my series the model's corner. Today's
video is going to be about bedtime beauty, and then things that we do before we go to
bed to make sure our skin is clean, prepped, and ready to roll for the day after.
[music] At the end of the day when I come home and
I have makeup on my face and I have been on the tube and I have city grime all in my pores,
when I get home I like to cleanse and at the moment I am using the Clarins. It is in French,
so I am not going to attempt to pronounce it. But it is the cleansing milk and it is
for combination oily skin. It looks like this and it is a great cream. It is really light
weight and I just slather it on, almost like you would do your moisturizer really. I just
get right up in there. This takes off the first layer and loosens up all of your makeup
and makes it a lot easier to dissolve. To remove this, I use a muslin cloth.
I am as gentle as I can be.
It has just been dipped into some really warm water. Nothing too hot because you do not
want to irritate your skin too much. You are trying to calm it down, rather than making
it aggravated. So that is the first layer, but a trick that I would like to share with
you is that I always cleanse twice because the first time never really gets the grime
off. So we do that again.
I take it down to my neck as well on the second cleanse a little bit. So the next stage is
the toning. Now this is the counterpart for the cleanser. I try to use the same toner
and cleanser from a duo pack if I can because the ingredients are formulated to work together,
and to work at their best, and to optimize each other. So this is the toning lotion with
iris. It is alcohol free. Soak a cotton pad in a little bit. Again you do not need a lot,
and just in swooping motions, I just swipe it all over my skin and as you can see, the
cleanser does not get rid of everything. So the toner is like the second part of the step
to really clean your pores and make sure that there is nothing left clogging them and I
will repeat this step until there is no more product on the cotton ball so I am going to
give it one more shot. We should be good after this. I will make sure that I list all of
the products below in the description box as well. So for me, I like to remove my eye
makeup with an oily cleanser. Now this one is from Clarins and it is the instant eye
makeup remover. It has two different layers to it and you have to shake it to activate
it. I unscrew the lid and I douse another cotton ball pad in it. First I would just
hold it over my eyelid just to loosen up the product especially if you are wearing like
a waterproof mascara. It is nice just to leave it on there to soak in so that it makes the
product easier to wipe away. So again with the other eye, I would just hold it over and
soak the lashes for a little while and then pull down gently so as not to aggravate my
under eye skin too much. Once I have removed my eye makeup, I just go in again with a little
bit more of the toner and I just remove some of the oiliness that is left over from the
product. The reason why I take off my eye makeup after I take off my foundation is that
I find that when I remove my mascara onto my foundation, it is harder to get the black
off of the under eye skin and I do not want to pull too much. When your face is completely
clean and you have finished cleansing and toning and removing your eye makeup, the next
step, for me personally, is to use an oil. Now I love this midnight recovery complex
by Kiehl's. It is a really light weight oil formula and it comes with a little pipette
which you load the oil into. I put it on my hand first, a few drops. Rub it into my palms
and press it into my face.
Then I take my fingertips and just give it a good rub in. The thing I like to do now
is to apply something to my lips. Now I am an avid fan of Elizabeth Arden's eight hour
cream. It is the original lip salve and it is a skin protectant, I think, by nature.
But over the years makeup artists have put them in their kit and they use them religiously
for models who run around backstage with chapped lips from the cold. So that is just to keep
your lips hydrated overnight. I also love Estee Lauder's advanced night repair which
is more of a serum. They call it a recovery complex, but it is more like a serum and this
also comes with a pipette lid and I, again, put that in my palm. Just a little squeeze.
This stuff is a bit expensive so I try and be sparing with it. I have rubbed them into
my palms again and I just swipe gently over the top. I always lift up from my neck with
these products and in a sweeping motion outwards and upwards because you do not want to drag
your skin down and help gravity along its process. Another thing I use, which is my
secret weapon, is Strivectin's advanced night repair. Now this is a retinol cream and it
is like a miracle worker. It has two purposes. Firstly, it tackles signs of aging so if you
are in your mid twenties and you are getting the first signs of fine lines or sort of starting
to see dehydration, then this cream is incredibly good for you. I also use it because, suffering
from bad skin, it has retinol in it which is a derivative of vitamin A and this really
helps blemishes. It helps to even out your skin. It helps pigmentation. It is a brilliant
all rounder. So I will use the tiniest amount and again just pat it into the sockets around
my eyes and just rub it gently into the rest of my skin. You can get this in Space NK,
which is an incredible little boutique with lots of different cool products in. So these
are the products that really work for me. I love them and I always come back to them
because they really do work. Just be aware that everyone's skin in slightly different
and what works for me may not necessarily work for you. It is all about trial and error
so go out and try things. If they do not work, it is not the end of the world. If you have
any products or you know of any great products that would be valuable to anyone who is struggling
with their skin or who just needs a great bedtime routine then feel free to leave them
in the comment section below. Subscribe to the channel if you like the videos that you
have seen today and I will be back next week with another installment.