I Put My Husband on a Skincare Routine 😭 (Men Beginner Tips) | Dr. Shereene Idriss

Blink if you need to be saved. Vitamin A product called—

which ingredient is it?

Retinol. Pause. Welcome back, little nerds. Today we are going to be doing a male nighttime routine. Very simple beings that they are. And so we are going to keep it very simple, easy, sweet, and short. And while he's doing his and asking his questions, I will be doing my nighttime routine in parallel. Pop quiz, this is my husband. This is Specimen A. Here we have Specimen A, who is much older than me. He struggled with acne, he is an oily mother effer, and he also has a lot of dandruff on his face, also known as dandruff. No, melasma.

No, flakiness.

Seborrheic dermatitis. What have I treated you with over the course of our very long relationship? Ketocortisol. Oh, he learned something. That's pretty good. Are we going to brush our teeth? Are we going to continue sipping our tea? Let's sip our tea. For me.

For me. Why do you have to brush your teeth before you do your skincare?

Because I get stuff all over my face when I brush my teeth. I don't go— I go— and so I like to make sure that it's done so my skincare stays on my face.

What if you're a coordinated individual? Washing my face is a big step for me, so I'll just use water.

This is where men belong in jungles. So no, we do not just wash with water. So he has seborrheic dermatitis, which looks like this, and because it is a recurring issue that keeps coming over the course of the past 15 years that we've been together— maybe it keeps recurring because he doesn't know how to treat it consistently, because at the end of the day it is consistency over He has no idea. Okay, so that being said, I have 3 options for cleansers. We have number 1, a salicylic acid cleanser.

I like that it's called salicylic acid, it sounds effective. So I like this one.

Benzoyl peroxide foaming wash.

I think this is like what I used when I was 15.

So no, you have it in your bathroom when you were breaking out.

Okay. Oh my Lord.

And then you have—

oh, this is the one I use. I know this one. Yeah, this is the good stuff.

This is the good stuff. So this is Nizoral, but this is a shampoo, anti-dandruff shampoo that he uses as a face wash because we're not going to follow him into the shower and make it X-rated. Okay, I didn't know that. So go wash your face.

You can use this as a face wash really, or you just—

that's why you keep— that's what— that's why his seborrheic dermatitis keeps recurring.

Can this go in your eyes?

Don't put it inside your eyes, like wash your face. Why don't you do this? Come, devil, come, come, come. Apply it to your face. No, you gotta apply it to your eyebrows, around your nose. Now if your face is very oily, as he just said, and because he is prone to clogged pores, that is why he does have in his bathroom a bottle of salicylic acid cleanser that he's never used. Okay, clearly, although he liked the name.

Does it matter if your towel—

when he break— use my towel, you can use my face towel. Otherwise, I don't use my body towel. And then he has a benzoyl peroxide cleanser because this one he does use because he was breaking out a lot. I tried to put him on Accutane, he failed as a patient, and then I fired him. Okay, so now you washed your face. Show them all. Did you let the Ketoconazole shampoo sit on your face for like at least 10 seconds?

No, I just washed it.

Okay.

All right, I did, but it's very good that way. Do in the wild usage versus what you tell people so you can see how people actually use this.

Look what I want you to do. I want you to apply it on your eyebrows because this is where you get flaky stuff. Don't put it in your eyes. Okay, open your eyes.

I don't want to put my eyes up.

Okay, put it around your— This was a bad idea. Go wash your face. Today we are going to keep his routine into a 3-step routine. First was washing the face, and we are going to incorporate a category of vitamin A product called— you know what, you know which ingredient?

Retinol.

Really? How do you know that?

It happens to be the only product name that I had in my mind.

Wow. Okay, so I'm going to show them. I got him 3. This is one by Dr. Dennis Gross.

I can't see.

This is a SkinMedica retinol complex. Can you guys see? I don't know. And then this one is Kiehl's And I'm curious, skin simpleton that he is.

Yeah, go ahead.

I wonder which one he will pick.

Let me just look at it again. I'll just tell you immediate reaction. I don't know why this one jumps out at me.

Yeah, of course it does. Every man loves it.

Like, no, the container actually is nice too. Okay, it has a little like empty bottom there.

This is their retinol, which is a daily microdose serum, and this is actually a light retinol, so it's good for a beginner like him. You know how to use a retinol? I'm going to use this.

Is it like a face wash? Is it a wash that you put on? No.

Now you guys will notice I'm getting a little bit picky red. I always do when I apply the flash mask when I first apply it, and I'm just going to let it sit. And this is my lazy night, so I'm going to let it sit overnight. So I'm not going to be using retinol. So Amr, pop your finger out. I'm gonna get a pea size for your whole face. Before you apply, I do not go close to the eyes, and I do not go into the kiss of death area over here. So you're going to make sure that's the kiss of death area.

Hold on, that's important. Why is that the kiss of death?

Most people get very sensitive. So you're gonna take that little pea size and you're gonna go pop, pop, pop.

I have it on one hand.

Okay, I want pop, pop, and then you're gonna apply it all over your face. Not in the Valley of Death. Kiss of Death.

And then where else do we go?

So just your nose. Where do you get breakouts? Your, your temples, your nose? You get breakouts here?

Oh yeah, there.

Yeah. Okay, okay. Your nose, etc. So this is this. I'll be linking all these products below. So as he's doing that, thank Okay, let it dry, let it do its thing. Okay, I'm gonna use this because I'm testing it out. It's a Volufiline serum. Again, I am letting my flash mask sit on my face overnight. It's something that I'm playing with. Normally I just let it sit and I don't do anything else, but I do have one patient who continued to apply all the products on top of it and her skin was phenoms. And I've been doing it for the past few weeks. It's nice. Okay, Volufiline, by the way, just helps with the look of fine lines. I'm just kind of tapping it in. Come down here, and it does also supposedly help to volumize. So what is your other and last step? So step 1 was wash our face, seborrheic dermatitis. Step 2 is help with our breakouts. We're using a retinol because he really is a teenager in a man's body. And step 3 is, what is the third thing that is actively, you know, concerning you at the moment? Where you feel like you need to address it? Nothing. Okay.

What do you think it should— what should I be concerned about? The flakiness, the breakouts, or the brown spot? But you got rid of that already.

Do you want to show it to them? It's over here. So—

oh, it's still there.

It is there because sun damage is forever underneath the surface. So given that he doesn't want a heavy moisturizer, he doesn't need a heavy moisturizer, but he is using a retinol, we are going to hydrate lightly, and in the process, we're going to continuously brighten your skin with vitamin C. And this is where this finally comes in for his routine. So you do the honors. You can— it's the first time you ever used it.

Uh, I know that's not true, right? But I don't remember exactly. So it's 2 pumps?

1 pump. Show them the pump. There you go.

I just scooch it up, and then what do I do?

Scooch it up.

And I do the same thing, the 2 fingers?

No, this you can go to town. I go like this. This you can really— it's really nice. I love it.

Okay, and then what?

And that's it. Oh my God, you went all over your eyes. It's a little hot in this bathroom. That being said, that is a Simpletons nighttime routine.

I think a skin simpleton—

a skin simpletons nighttime routine.

Maybe, maybe a more polite way to say it would be a skin amateur.

A skin amateur. So what he did is, to recap this before you run out of here, Nizoral shampoo. We used Kiehl's retinol, but I will link below these two, one by SkinMedica and one by Dr. Dennis Gross. And then he used a moisturizer. Now in the morning, you know what you're gonna do?

No idea. You're gonna wake up, brush my teeth.

There you go.

Wash my face.

With what?

Water seems too simple.

No, it's with water. So that actually he passed. And then what do you need in the morning? Breakfast. Sunscreen. I want to make sure that he's protecting his skin with sunscreen.

Oh, I didn't realize that. So you're more sensitive to the sun when you have retinol?

You're not necessarily more sensitive to the sun, but if you have any irritation from the retinol, etc., you can be more sensitive to the sun. But I also like to incorporate this underneath my sunscreen. Makes your sunscreen work smarter for you. And because he's balding a little bit—

No, no, that's not true.

We have a sunscreen as well for his scalp. You don't have to put it at night.

That's a good idea though, but I'm not balding.

But if I were balding, use this. This actually helps with hair growth and it's great. So look at that hair growing on my side. I did— I washed my face with Soft Wash, I applied the Flash Mask, and then I applied the Volufiline um, because I'm testing that one out, followed by my Hyper Serum because I cannot live without it, and a little bit of Active Seal. Now I will wash it off in the morning in the shower with water, and in the morning I will just use my Hyper Serum, Active Seal, and sunscreen. And there you have it. Have a beautiful Saturday. Everything will be linked below. You gotta pose.

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