HOW I CLEARED MY SKIN (what I did + skincare routine)

Hello everybody! So today I am filming a video that I am very happy to be filming. I promised myself that when I found a way to clear my skin I would film a video and share it with the world and I feel like I finally down-packed a routine that actually works. Also my hands are looking extremely orange today. Let's just look past all of this. So in this video I'm going to be telling you the things that I did that changed my skin. My skin has been through a lot. I have had pretty bad acne since I was probably about 13 and I'm 19 now. Almost 20 next month. That scares me so much. I don't want to be an adult. I hands down know how much skin can affect your whole entire mood and it just sucks. If you're watching this video right now and you have bad skin and it's bringing you down I just want you to know first of all that you're not alone in any of this. So many people suffer from bad skin including me. I have been there and I completely understand. Some people may have it 10 times worse than me and some people may have it not as bad and I understand that everyone's different and everyone's skin's different. So please don't feel alone in this. There are so many people going through the same thing. Number two is that there is an end to it. Acne doesn't last forever. You will find something that works for you. So please, please, please remember that. That this is not how your skin is going to look forever and I promise you that and I am a walking, talking, living example of that. I promise. I also want to make a really quick disclaimer just saying although these things have helped me, everyone's skin is different and everyone's skin reacts differently to different things and what works for some people may not work for someone else and that's the bad thing about acne is that you can't pinpoint one solution for it. There is no universal solution for it and that is the thing that sucks. But I am making this video in the hopes that it helps at least one person and if this video helps one person then my job here is done and I am a very, very, very happy person and I can sleep peacefully knowing that I've helped one person in this world and that is true but if I help two that's even better. But yeah. Okay. Now let's get onto the video. How I'm going to set this video out is I'm going to do the things that I did that aren't skincare related and then afterwards I'm going to show you the skincare products that I use and my skincare routine. Does that sound good? Yes. Let's do it. Hello. Just film a really short little clip. Me with no foundation on because I didn't film one in the video. Well I did when I was doing my skincare stuff but I didn't film like a up close and personal. So yes. Hi. This is me with no foundation on. Thank you for listening to this interruption. I shall put you back on to the old Emma. Bye. The number one thing that I feel made such a difference and it's something so, so small. That is tying my hair back when I was sleeping. So a little bit of background context. I sleep on my side and I have long hair. So I always slept with my hair down. The main areas that I had pimples on was this side of my face and my forehead and I always wondered for the longest time why I didn't really get pimples on this side. It was always on this side. One day I woke up and I feel like this was like a voice in my head. I woke up one day and all my hair was just like sprawled across my face and it just suddenly hit me. What if it's because my hair is in my face when I sleep. I was like you know what tonight I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna tie my hair up and see if it makes a difference. So I tried it by tying my hair in a little braid before I went to bed. Kind of like this. I'll do like a really rough one just so you can see. And I actually found that when I started doing that instantly skin started to improve and I was just mind blown. And then I started to realize that the braid, because my hair was long, would go into my face again. So I started tying it in a bun. The only downside to tying your hair in a bun is that in the morning your hair goes all frizzy but that's okay you just wet it and it's fine. I swear to you this has changed my life and I don't know if this happens to anyone else or if it's just me or if my hair is just really gross and oily. But it works! That is my first tip. The next one also relates to sleep as well and that is getting more sleep. And I know so many people say this but believe me it makes such a difference. So when my skin started getting really bad probably about six months ago I was having the worst sleeps of my life. Not even like doing anything bad I was literally just in bed not sleeping. So I'd be going to bed at like 2am every night and then waking up to do a morning shift. So I'd be getting like three or four hours sleep maximum. For six months I was getting probably a maximum of like six hours sleep a night. And we all know that you need a solid eight hours to replenish your whole entire body. And I also didn't think about this until someone in my class was doing a presentation on sleep deprivation and they were saying how you need to get at least eight hours sleep at night and then it was listing like all these symptoms. Because basically to put it short when you get six hours sleep every night your body kind of gets used to it and you don't realize that your body needs more sleep. And after they did that presentation I was like oh my god. So I set myself a goal to go to bed at 10 o'clock every night and instantly my skin got better and not only can you stop and not only that I also felt so much better within myself like I wasn't feeling like drowsy. I feel like I was just more present in the moment if that makes sense. I don't know. So go to bed a little bit earlier even if it's like an hour earlier set yourself a time to go to bed and stick to it. I will set you a goal try and go to bed at 10 o'clock three nights in a row and just notice the difference. I 100% guarantee that there will be a difference in your skin in your mood and just in the whole entire way that you feel. Even just like mentally you will feel so much more happier. I don't know it's crazy how much of a difference it makes and I don't know if it's just me but it's insane. Just get more sleep. Another thing that I started to do was when I got a pimple I started to treat it. I have never popped pimples in my life it's just something that I just don't do. I'm always so scared of scarring so I've just never popped pimples so whenever I got a pimple I just kind of left it there to just kind of live and then go. And for some reason I randomly decided that I wanted to try this Mario Badescu drying lotion. Let me tell you something this little bottle here is a little lifesaver. It is incredible. It has an ingredient in it called salictic acid and this basically just dries out a pimple and it just makes it disappear so much faster. I don't know why I never thought of this before but it is great. So basically what I do is I put this on overnight. Once I brush my teeth, taken my makeup off, put my moisturizer on, pop this on all my pimples. The only thing is this kind of stings but for me it's kind of satisfying because at least you know that it's working which is a good thing. I got this from Mecca for anyone that lives in Australia. I think it was like $20. $20 you can't really go wrong. So another thing that I did was I changed my makeup. I am a huge full coverage foundation type of person. I love a good old full coverage foundation and the one that I was using was Estee Lauder Double Wear. I've been using it probably for about two years and don't get me wrong it is amazing but it gives me pimples and that is the saddest thing that I have to admit. Most foundations include an ingredient called talc and basically what talc is basically pretty much clogs your pores. I'm just gonna go and grab the foundation I left it downstairs. Okay I'm back. The foundation that I swapped it for was L'Oreal True Match and sorry I'm out of breath. This is how unfit I am. I literally walked up and down the stairs. While we're on the topic of makeup, another thing that I wanted to talk about is removing your makeup properly and I was 100% a culprit for this. So what I used to do is I used to use this and I would just be like, oh my makeup is off now. Though it may look like it's off, it's not. Trust me it's not. So I bought this Garnier, Garnier, Garnier, Garnier, Garnier Mice, I don't, I can't speak, Micellar Water. When I thought that all my makeup was off, after using this it was not. There was still makeup coming off my skin. This kind of blew my mind and made me realize that I need to clean my face better and although it may seem like my makeup's off, it's not. If you clean your makeup off with wipe, go through it again with Micellar Water and like a cotton pad that when you think your makeup is off, I guarantee that you will use this and there will still be makeup coming off your skin and you can hold me accountable for that. The next tip is stress. I have been pretty stressed the past six months. I don't know why, I just feel like my life has been a mess. So during the months that I was stressed, I noticed that that was the peak of when my skin was really bad. So when you're stressed, your body releases a stress hormone called cortisol. I hope I'm saying that right. And that basically indicates your body to produce more oil, which in effect, more oil means more pimples, which in effect means acne. So biggest tip is to just find ways to de-stress. And I understand that people go through things and people go through stressful situations. I think the best way to go about it is to understand why you're feeling stressed, write down why you feel stressed, write down what's worrying you, why you feel this way and just kind of take time out for yourself. Biggest problem for me is that I struggle to find time for myself because I always am just so busy doing other things that I don't step back and take time to look after myself. And that's probably one of the reasons why I wasn't sleeping. I wasn't washing my face properly. And it all kind of adds up into a conjunction and just makes you realize that all these lifestyle things that we're doing can influence our skin and is reflected through our skin. Actually, I made a little video a few months ago on ways to de-stress and how I de-stress and what I do to de-stress. So if you are feeling stressed, then feel free to go and watch that video. Hopefully it will help you in some way, not only help your skin, but also help you as well. My biggest tip and way that I love to de-stress and something that I've been trying to do is read more books and go in the bath. Anyone that is my friend knows how much I love a good bath. Baths are great. And also reading books, reading books is incredible. One thing that I've decided to take up and make time for, and it has been great. So yeah. The next one that I have also found has made a difference is moisturizing. For many, many years, I had the ideology that if you have oily skin, you don't need to moisturize because your skin's already moisturized from the oil. And looking back, I just feel so stupid because that is not the case at all. I'll say it again, at all. So to put it straightforward, I went three years without moisturizing my skin. Three years. Three years. One, two, three. Three years. And I found that using a gel moisturizer, I use this one. It's also got aloe vera in it, which is incredible for your skin. I'm not a hundred percent sure if this brand ships to America. I will find out for you and leave some links down below, or I will find something similar for you. This light is just not working. I have found that my skin looks so much healthier and brighter and just more glowy from applying moisturizer. And also my makeup applies way more evenly. Having moisturized skin helps your skin in so many ways. I have a line of light on me right now. I'm going to really quickly run through all the products that I use from start to finish. So to take my makeup off, I use the Lazelle Cleanse and Polish. This is a English brand that my mum has used for ages, and I've just kind of joined in and followed her on her footsteps. I don't know why I've just never really liked taking my makeup off with makeup wipes. It's just never really tickled my fancy. This is a cream. It's great. I love it. The next thing I do is I go in and wash my face. So for my cleanser, and I absolutely love this cleanser. It is incredible. I use the ASAP Gentle Cleansing Gel Cleanse and Calm, and I really, really like this. I find that after I use this, my skin just feels so clean. It's great. I then go ahead and moisturize. And to moisturize, I use the same brand, and this is the ASAP Soothing Gel with Aloe Vera. And I just apply this all over my face, and I really, really like this. And then I apply a serum. So this serum has an ingredient in it called niacinamide. I find that this is the best thing ever. This is from the brand The Ordinary. It just makes my skin look really, really great. So I apply this onto my skin as well. And the catch is it looks like it would be super expensive, but it was $9. Like you can't go wrong with that. It's great. And then lastly, I apply Mario Badescu Drying Lotion to any pimples that I have. I just use a little q-tip and then just pop it on. I always find that when I wake up, there's so much smaller, there's so much less redder, and they just disappear. It's great. And then lastly, I tie my hair up, and then I just go to bed. Okay, everybody. So that marks the end of this video. I just want to say thank you so much to everyone that has watched this video. It means so incredibly much to me. Sorry, I just thought someone was in my house. And I just want you to remember that having good skin is a long process, and it's all about taking baby steps and finding out what works for you. And if you find something that works, stick to it and keep doing what you're doing. And I promise that eventually, you will have the skin that you want. And I promise you that. I love you all so, so much. All know this. I will never stop saying it. And I just want to say that you're all incredible. You are all amazing. And I hope that your week is going well, because mine is going pretty great. I'm losing my voice right now, but at least I made it through the whole entire video. If you have any more skincare tips, or if you have any questions, leave them down below, and I will reply to them. I don't know about you, but when I watch a video, I always read the comments. And if someone's left a tip, I always read it. So please do that if you have any tips as well. Thank you so much. I shall see you in my next video. If you want to watch my next video, goodbye. I love you all. Thank you for everything. You're all incredible. Have a good week. I love you. Goodbye. Bye. Ow. I just sat on my foot and it hurt. Okay. Bye. Oh, I actually kissed my camera. Oh no. I'm making it worse. Okay. Okay. I've just messed up my camera. Okay. Got to go and fix this now. All right. Bye.