Shereene IdrissBoard Certified Derm, Founder and Chief Nerd

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30 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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This YouTube short by Shereene Idriss gives three concise skincare recommendations: always wash your face at night (remove makeup and sunscreen), make daily sunscreen application a habit even if it seems "demure," and begin retinol use with a light formulation rather than a strong one. The clip emphasizes simple, repeatable routines and invites viewer questions in the comments.

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Three things. Number one, wash your damn face every night. Do not go to sleep with makeup. Even if you don't wear makeup and you're just wearing sunscreen, wash your face. Number two, sunscreen not sexy, very basic, very demure. That's over very easy to do like you brush your teeth. Just use the sunscreen. The reality is do you need it every single day? No. But you're never gonna know how to do it if you don't get the habit. So just use it every day like a moisturizer. Sorry for the construction in the same way that the habit is essential for sunscreen. Start to get into the habit of a retinol, start with something really light over the count. You do not need to go for the strongest right away because you're never going to get smoother than smooth and you are currently smooth when you look back 15 years. Yeah. Anyway, let me know if you have any questions below.