Building a Skincare Routine For ANY Skin Type | A Beginner's Guide

Do you have a specific skincare regimen that you recommend?

Yeah. So there, you know, the thing that's going on is that there's so much out there and, you know, you can walk into Sephora or into your local department store and it's so confusing. There's so many products out there, and this one's better than Botox, but this one's the fad product, or this one the Jenners use, and this one the Kardashians love. So what do you do? And you can really make it very, very simple. The first thing is every morning you want to cleanse your skin with an appropriate cleanser. So what does that mean? Well, it means that if you've got oily skin, okay, then you may want to consider more of, like, a foaming cleanser that's going to help to control that oil a little bit more. If you've got more sensitive and drier skin, then you may want to go with a cleanser that's more of a milky, hydrating type of cleanser. So you cleanse your skin. In the morning, you apply an antioxidant serum. Okay, Step number two, Antioxidant serum. The most popular, easiest to find antioxidant serum is vitamin C. Okay, Vitamin C antioxidant. You find it obviously in fruits and vegetables, but it's the easiest to find antioxidant serum that you can buy, and almost all skincare brands have it. The key to vitamin C serum is make sure that it is in an amber bottle or something that just doesn't let the light in. Because vitamin C can oxidize, it turns brown. And if it's brown when it comes out of the bottle or the tube, then it probably won't work. Then you want to put on a sunscreen. Typically, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends at least an SPF of 30 that will block upwards of 97% of the sun's rays. That's technically all you have to do in the morning. You cleanse, you apply an antioxidant serum and. And then you apply sunscreen at night. Super important. You really have to cleanse your skin. So for those people who are like, I don't want to cleanse my skin more than once a day. I'm too lazy. Then you got to do it at night because you want to wash off the day's worth of grime and dust and dirt and sweat and makeup, especially that makeup. You got to get rid of all that and go to bed with a clean face. So you cleanse your skin and then I usually recommend some type of a treatment. What I mean by treatment is the most common is a retinoid. Retinoids are derivatives of vitamin A. Prescription strength retinoids are tretinoin or retin A. You can get non prescription strength which are called retinols and like vitamin C, almost all the different skincare brands have a retinol cream in them. You apply that over your skin every night or every other night. And then if you want to apply a moisturizer on top of that face, feel free. But not everybody needs a moisturizer. If you've got real oily skin, thick oily skin, then there's no reason to necessarily apply moisturizer if you're not feeling dry. And technically, Tabitha, that's all you have to do. If that's all you do, then you're ahead of probably 98% of the population because you're doing the steps that are necessary. Add on top of that a bit of exfoliation a couple times a week either with an at home type of a chemical peel. Some people use a fine scrub that also will help to get the skin turning over better, to get you more youthful and smoother and healthier skin too.

Ooh, I love that. So yeah, it doesn't have to be complicated or super expensive, right? You just have to figure out your regimen.

And for those people who are like, geez, I'm having so many issues with my skin right now, I'm breaking out. I had actually a TV producer from New York, a producer for one of the top TV national TV talk shows has been emailing me because she's like, look, I've had all these issues with adult acne. I've got these breakouts. My skin is horrible. What do I need to add to my skincare routine? Because I'm already on like four or five different products. And finally I got to the point where I convinced her. I said, look, get off of all your products and start over again. Give your skin a break. And she a month or two later emailed me back, said, oh my gosh, everything is so much better. And going back to just that regimen that I just told you, if you go back to that, you're just doing the absolute necessary things. Get your skin cleared up first. And then if you want to apply things, add something one at a time if you like, let's say copper, if you like other peptides, if you want to add growth factors and feel free to do that, but do that one at a time if you are having issues with your skin, the first thing to do is to get rid of all of the extra products you just don't need.

Yeah, exactly.