after a full day’s work and a full face of day-old lotion and sunscreen and make-up, it’s time to get my face squeaky clean for a good night’s sleep. typically, nighttime routines should be more intense than washing your face in the morning (i use facial bar soap and daily scrub in the AM, but often people just splash w water or use face wipes. whatever works!) bc there’s typically a lot more gunk on there. the above items are what i use (or really want to have to be able to use!).
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- i start with origins clean energy gentle cleansing oil. i rub it all over my dry face and this helps to loosen and remove make-up. then i rinse w warm water.
- after that, i wash my face with luvalla hydrating milk cleanser with a facial sea sponge. an esthetician from ten thousand waves introduced me to it and said that it would work great on my larger pores. it’s sold at whole foods in santa fe, but in denver i have to order it online.
- the next two items, the neutrogena fresh foaming cleanser and the clarisonic mia, are not items i own. however, i’ve used them w great results in the past (my mom got a mia for christmas and i tried to sneak it home with me). i’d use these products together on nights when i’ve worn more make-up than usual (nights out or at the restaurant) or days spent digging in the dirt or caked in sunscreen and sand at the beach.
- repeats i use morning and night are the thayers rose petal witch hazel toner and clinique all about eyes.
- and then finally, my miracle stuff: tilvee age-defying creme w argan & sea buckthorn (made locally in golden, co). this stuff is luxurious and smells great and a little goes a long way. if i didn’t need sunscreen on a daily basis, this would be my night and day moisturizer.
what’s your nighttime routine? any products you swear by?
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I got a clarisonic Mia doe Christmas and I am obsessed! I’ve even got my husband using it, too. It’s made a huge difference in my skin!
I used to love alternating between retin-A and glycolic acid but haven’t used the retin-A in a bit as I was pregnant, then breast feeding and now I don’t have a prescription anymore.
I’m a sucker for beauty products. Thanks for sharing your routine!
I love that you’re doing this Emily! I’m pretty product-obsessed myself, and love my daily routines and LOVE to hear what other people do/use. Keep em coming!
I’m super curious about that Clarisonic Mia! Wish I had $120 sitting around to spend on one – so nice that you could try it out at Chez Mama. 🙂 Loving this series!
I had never heard of the Clarisonic Mia before & now two people have blogged about it in the last week. A comment on the other blog (Vanilla & Lace) mentioned that baking soda works just as well for 1/8th (if that?!) of the price. I use an exfoliating face scrub (Australian brand Sukin Organics – I pretty much use only their products, except for Lancome Bi Facal eye make-up remover, I swear by it) on mornings where I haven’t slept well or have drunk a little too much the night before, as it helps make you look a little more fresh!
I love these posts too!
My mom also got one of those very fancy face scrubbers for Christmas and gave me her Oil of Olay knockoff, but it does the trick! I usually just mix up baking soda and use it instead of cleanser, but for normal days I do the oil cleansing method, a 1/2 + 1/2 mixture of castor oil and EVOO. Leave it on my face in the shower and then work it off gently with a washcloth (that sounded dirty) but it gets everything off.
I have a friend who swears by the Vodka scrub from Lush and then coconut oil right afterwards, I think I’m going to try that next. Her skin looks amazing. I also once got a little tube of Jurlique moisturizer in a random gifted Birch Box and I definitely want to fork over the $40 for that stuff in the very near future, it was magical!
I do have a little bottle of Thayer’s in my cabinet that I forgot about until now, I’m going to put that back into rotation!
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