Korean Beauty Tutorial - 10 Steps Demystified!

hi everybody I had a request to go through my routine my skincare and so that's what I'm doing I'm gonna try to make it as quick as possible and I am going to tell you why I do it and all the steps that are involved and why you wouldn't want to even do this the routines that I use are Korean beauty it's a quite expensive process but I can tell you that if you find what works for you and you do it right you will see results which is kind of nice so first off what is Korean beauty so from the research that I've done is a wave basically of Korean culture and being very focused on the skin and talking about not not taking on makeup but rather bringing out the inner beauty of your skin so that when you do actually have to wear makeup it doesn't have to be laterz it can be really light and the health of your skin can be what is at the forefront rather than trying to cover everything up so that's basically the the reason behind cream beauty so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna help because I'm not just with Korean beauty but just a skincare in general there's a lot of confusion and so I've actually done a lot of research and the reason why I did was you know number one after 40 after 35 for that matter things start to change significantly I started noticing my skin was a really dull eye I was lacking like a brightness do we look which is something that I was really attracted to when I would see these images of Korean beauty products and what they were advertising so not to mention that that also you know like oh my gosh there's so much out there how am I supposed to even decide what I'm supposed to use cuz it's like there's the plethora of choices and how do I know what works best for me now I do want to disclose give you a disclaimer that I'm not an expert by any means I am just gonna tell you what I personally do and if you have questions I can certainly try and provide answers I can also because of the extensive research that I've done I can give you some other maybe videos on things that I've learned over the years what to do and I can give you some examples of those at the end of this little video so yeah so the reason why I do this is primarily because after baby number three I found my skin to be very very lacking and I was actually breaking out in a kind of a rash that was hormonal II induced after having her age 40 it just threw everything out of whack so I had to get hormone replacement therapy of course but in addition to that I had to find some kind of way of creating my skin and this this is a result of that and I can I can tell you that I look better now than I did prior to beginning this routine and earlier in my years so what I look like now is better than what I was younger so I can't speak for my 20s of course but yes definitely better than through my 30s for sure so what are we gonna cover take several steps please please know that these are just my opinions I'm not telling you what to do you can make any decision that you want for yourself you can there's so much information out there to glean and I know that there's a lot to filter through and that's kind of why I chose to help you guys out hopefully this is helpful to you and deciding what you're going to do but I can tell you that sorry I'm reading my notes here my number one rule for this whole project on your skin is consistency so a lot of people want that quick fix that you want to just BAM and done because it doesn't right if you have an issue or a problem that you're fighting or you really don't want to put in the time nobody to this I mean it's the same with exercise right you have to put the time in and you have to be consistent in order to see results it's the same thing that applies to pretty much everything in life this is not an exception absolutely not unfortunately I wish that I could just wash my face with soap wake up in the morning and look fabulous right we all do but it takes a little bit of work especially as we get older to make sure that our skin actually maintains and actually gets better like I believe me I've done a ton of research and I'm hoping that what I'm doing is actually working and maybe that's why you guys were asking for a little a few little tips so we're going to also go through steps I I have seven written down there's quite a few the traditional ten step Korean [Music] I know your guys are probably like run for the hills but it's extensive and I view this actually as my me time every night I take time and take care of myself I let I watch things I read things while I'm doing this so it's not just I'm not just you know wasting time I'm actually learning things I'm watching things I'm getting entertained yeah so first step in the process is understanding the general rule of thumb besides consistency when you are dealing with products great thought process to have is application of course this is after cleansing but it's the most watery product to the heaviest product that's the application process whether you're doing your morning routine or your evening routine so just keep that in mind but number one in the steps of course is cleansing everyone knows that right we have to cleanse however many of us if you don't know k-beauty they are adamant about cleansing very very adamant now I'm going to show some products that I personally use that I've because I've just tried a ton of stuff and some things I've really liked and other things I haven't but one thing that I really really highly recommend if you don't do anything else really a different steps that I have today or the different products that I show you is you have to cleanse your skin now the key is to cleanse your skin with oil-based products so to begin because what you're putting on your skin in terms of makeup concealer foundation even powders they have wheels in them and you it also mixes with the oil in your skin your sebum production and from your pores so you have you ever tried to mix oil and water it just doesn't work or have you tried to clean a product off like even just cleaning your house and if it's oily you can't you can scrub scrub scrub but it's gonna be mean slick right so that's what products like this are for so zero is this amazing it smells fantastic but it is this almost a goop or oil if you will it is basically oil-based and I just essentially to remove makeup and it is the first step in the process now I'm not going to go through and show you every little step along the way I'm gonna cut and paste this video so that you don't have to sit and watch me do everything but I want to show you guys and this is being brave of me because I don't show my bare face to anyone but my family typically I do have issues that I like you may think I have perfect skin but I am to an extent I have a great palette to work with of course I have good genetics I've got half asian blood in me so that helps but I have issues everybody to that is I you know I'm I was a Sun worshipper growing up I had no idea that I should have been wearing sunscreen so I have dark spots that I have been dealing with for quite some time and I also have my skin gets really pigmented when I have any flare-up or acne that comes with that time of the month which right now I have some flare-ups so anyhow I'm being brave and I'm showing you my bare face so here we go I would ride this all over rub into my mascara area very gently of course I love this stuff because takes it off I wasn't wearing very much but if you have any kind of makeup that is oil-based as you can see it removes it so that I would just get in there and you're like oh my gosh she's spreading the dirt don't worry it's okay I'm gonna get it off I'm gonna go grab a Kleenex wipe it all up and I'll come back in just a second okay so very gently wiping away some of the dirt from your makeup you know I wasn't wearing a ton today but you can see is dirt right let's make up it's not meant to stay on your skin overnight it's not going to help you in any way shape or form so getting rid of it now now that you have this oil-based cleanser on your skin or a couple products that I really like a foaming cleanser same company as the one I just used to clean at zero and pretty much every product that I'm going to show you today is is Korean and it's just my preference I really like everything that I've tried I have tried other things like drunk elephant which are fabulous but the price point is just insane so I had to get realistic and some of this stuff is expensive but I use it so sparingly that it lasts of me a long time and it's worth the investment so just keep that in mind oh and I forgot I need to put it before I wash my face actually wash my face have to put my cute little ears on so hang tight my cute little kitty mask just keeps all my hair back it's kind of nice that way [Music] hair getting in the way okay so and sometimes I even I'm going to mix two this is the other one that I really like just to get that deep clean so see those two let me quickly show you how fun it is quickly right it's not filming too much it goes so much of the oil based on be right back okay I did a second time through because it was too much oil but I just want you to see lots of bubbles gentle work oh yeah good get the idea okay now when I dry my face I never rub cuz why do we need to help gravity right if you pull your face down it's not gonna help you alright so patting drum always a good thing some people you know will let their face air dry if you're really that concerned about it you can do that alright so next in the process I'm not going to do it tonight because I did it last night but I would choose to either forgo or I try and do every other night esteem doesn't always happen believe me there's nights where I'm tired exhausted and I don't want to seem or take extra and extra steps I would like to go to sleep now so but just to give you an idea of what I do it these are powders and I mix them with water and then place it on my face steam my face this particular Dermalogica is to help get rid of those environmental toxins that kind of land on your skin and then this has a brightening effect so I just combine the two and leave it on my face while I'm steaming my face so if you are interested in wanting to know what that steamer looks like let me know it's just it cups right against your face you've probably seen them I bought it on Amazon Amazon great alright so that is not something that is necessary I just personally like it because the next step is exfoliating and sometimes if you don't open up your pores then you can't really get in and dig and get the dirt and impurities out as well so that's why I do that step first and then exfoliator so there's a little bit of a confusion on exfoliation a lot of thing a lot of people think that oh in less I really scrub I'm not I'm not really going to release that layer which that's why we do exfoliation is because if you have dead skin on your skin like a layer of dead skin you're going to look dull and sallow and like washed out what you're not going to actually look bright and fresh and dewy and all the things that we want to look at young right so that's why you would want to do exfoliation is to get rid of that right there's two different ways to do so one is a chemical which is something like this a jbh a so these are hydroxy acids and it's a very gentle way of actually removing that dead layer of skin so I would highly recommend for me anyway me personally not doing this everyday it is it's a little bit drying you can dry you out I this is one of the most gentle products you can get though be warned as though it takes forever to come because it's on a slow boat from Korea literally so but it's a great product and I do use sparingly I've had this for probably two months or so and I use it every other day yeah so and it's called cape que la Lu yeah because it has kale spinach parsley all kinds of good stuff in it so yeah really great prod and this is chemical so big no-no that I learned the hard way is don't combine physical and chemical exploring just because it burns like it does not feel good you don't want to combine those two and besides it's actually can be super damaging to your skin so physical exfoliation would be like a scrub or a some kind of rough exfoliator that is physically able to get in in there and we release the dead skin cells so just so you know like the difference between the two I mean it's a pretty self-explanatory but do not combine them on the same day if you're gonna do anything and you really want to work on kind of brightening your skin and getting rid of the dull dead layer it's every other day so you would do a physical exfoliant one day and the next day you would do a chemical exfoliant and so on and so forth so just so you keep that in mind I am going to do that now and I'll clean cotton pad don't need very much but you know rubbing always upward upward upward to fight that gravity right as much as you can fight it and in the best ways possible there are some things that we cannot do outside of medically being treated you know if you've got a really big melasma which is like a dark spot on your face there's only so much you know little chemical exfoliants do for you and I just want to show you if you can see okay even though I wash my face there's still dirt you just goes to show you how you cannot I mean at some point you gotta stop but sometimes the hands aren't enough alright so and I really think the neck is crazy if your neck looks like a six year old and you're 40 that's a not a good combo right so pay attention to your necks the other things - your hands I always put my extra product on my hands and I'm telling you it's made all the difference because again somebody's gonna come up to your face might look amazing but then your hands look like you are 70 that's not good either right who doesn't nobody wants that so that's off my neck gross sorry it's also kind of cleansing now I there's another step in the process I use a device to kind of help lift the skin and stuff so we can talk about that at the end I won't I don't like I said I don't want to make this too long of a process but so that was step 1 wash and cleanse which is two steps really oil and foaming and then step two exfoliation whether it's stinging your skin and then exfoliating or not and then chemical versus physical so yes now because I found dirt on my skin you don't have to do this but I am going to do a little extra and cleanse one more time because that's just gross I don't like that normally I do a better job of cleansing and apologies for so that was this is Benton's tea tree water and believe it or not it's not very harsh at all it's actually quite nice so I'm just one extra little cleanse and I will be satisfied when my little pad much better right it's my neck I think that gets all the dirt so I try and pick it a little bit more attention it's really hard to wash her neck I don't know about you but I just find it irritating because all the water drips down into my shirt okay and don't forget okay so that is done Wow next step of the process toner okay now there's a lot of confusion out there everybody's like okay toner yes uh-huh originally the original intent of toner was to actually provide that second step to cleansing so you wash your face oh my gosh there's still crap all over my face you use toner and then you put it on a pad and you see what I just saw now I personally like to use the K Beauty reason for toner now think of cleanser as your wash cycle of course and toner as your rinse cycle that's the traditional way of looking at toners but in k-beauty toners focus more on locking in the moisture after cleansing and prepping the skin with extra hydration so you promote that glow okay so that's the reason behind KBT toners so I am going to go ahead and I don't like to waste anything so a lot of times they say that you can put it on a tad like a cotton pad but I just want it all to go on my skin so I just avoid this unless I'm cleansing so that makes any sense yeah so toner all over gently now I like to combine products that I have come to love because in my opinion yes less is more sometimes but if you want to get all the benefits of different products do what you gotta do if you can afford it why not right anyway just one more thought on any of these products that I'm noticing everything soon Korean usually the packaging that it comes in has English directions but in case you don't like I don't know what they're saying of course then you would go to where you bought it and they typically have directions like even on Amazon alright so now we have essence okay so maybe you guys know what that is maybe don't but there's a lot another confusing product right oh I got some fun stuff happening on my skin today alright so you've got essence now the difference between essence and toner is these are light weight boosters that target any concerns that you have on your skin so for instance oh and by the way toners were created so that it could balance the pH of your skin after washing your skin because now your your pH balance is altered since you just took all that stuff off right so this is to help balance back the toner and the essence balance that pH back to normal back to neutral so I love love love this company AK well it's almost always sold out I purchase products on a couple key Beauty sites so cochlea s okay Oh dr. Glenn I'm sorry no dot glam calm and dirt Wesson another one that I have recently purchased as you can see there's not a whole lot used at the top it's like it's like moisture in a bottle that just sucks to your skin it's fantastic Heil Iran if you guys don't know what that is I'm sure you do isn't everything these days but it's something that your body produces already and so it's your body recognizes it and depending on the intensity of the hilar on its gonna give you crazy hydration like your your skin is just going to absorb it so yeah and then then you have something like this and I have more toners - I just really like essences because they're so cool you have a micro essence which has probiotics in it oh thanks for your face yup why not right it's good for your belly why wouldn't it be good for your face so tons and tons of options obviously you can see I love this one I use it every night so yeah and any combination that works for you and this particular one has a 5 in 1 tons and tons of things that it does for your moisturizing skin glowing skin boosting skin balancing skins off meeting lots of s's yeah and it doesn't have all the crap in it I think that's why I really like this one is very pure it is a Korean product but it is in English as well which is nice so I'm gonna just grab a little bit of this Pat it on my face and then I also brought out the mist because you have now essences are less concentrated than serums which is the next step but it works at a cellular level to promote that turnover you know smoother brighter appearance so that's why we use them and just keep in mind any formulas with salicylic acid or witch hazel are really good for targeting like acne prone skin and oiliness I just just feels amazing okay and there are ones that prevent or protect against free radicals and that's what this one is that's what it's there for it's like a fermentation process enzymes probiotics just to help kind of seal the deal and help you fight against environmental toxins you definitely want to avoid any toners or essences that have alcohol or harsh ingredients you can tell you can read the ingredients you know like see this one doesn't have what it has inside most of them don't have a lot of actual bottles but on the packaging but you can when you buy them you can see what's in the ingredient list and most times if it's gonna be bad for your skin it'll have alcohol or propylene glycol or different things like that they you know there's a ton of those like multi-syllable if that makes sense okay so we're moving right along now if you were wondering well everybody uses these masks right I do it's a fabulous way to relax tea would actually set your skin to get more moisture out into your skin I don't think there can never be enough moisture to personally and so that's why you would do a mask a lot of Korean women or people who use k-beauty products will use a mouse daily nightly sometimes even in the morning especially if they're getting ready for a big event because you want your skin to look pump and radiant right for whatever you got going on so the step that you would want to use this mascot is now you would want to put it on after your toner in essence just to lock it in just a little bit more give you a little tiny bit more and it's a bit heavier like remember that rule of thumb at the beginning most watery to heaviest at the end so that's what this would be for I'm not going to do it right now but just so you know if you want to insert a mask here's the place to do it next we have serums ok so I'm going to show you some of my favorites and there's times and if you can think of serums as as a guy general guide a B and C right this one is a vitamin C serum again similar to that micro essence I just showed you with the probiotics same idea right but it's your own form then you have another vitamin C I love this company - great price point good products like and nothing crappy inside of them which is fantastic because you don't want to put crap on your skin right so when I do my layering I'm just going to go one at a time personally from my research if I ever see first and I do a different routine in the morning than I do at night if you guys are interested in the morning routine it's not as extensive thankfully as my evening one then yeah let me know so I combined those two and again padding in not running and then I go and you probably noticed that I had this beautiful bottle it's called Medi cube is the name it's another creative company I love they have a triple collagen serum alright then I combined that collagen serum with a vitamin A I have written all everybody knows those two I try and give a little bit of time in between so that your skin can actually absorb even down into that why not and then finally vitamin B so all of these have different purposes vitamin C helps brighten again fight that dull skin and also helps with getting rid of dark spots by man a turnover cellular turnover you know getting rid of those fine lines and wrinkles or not necessarily getting rid of more like preventing from you know after 40 right then you got a vitamin B same idea this one is really nice because it's combined with zinc I really like it and this one I primarily use to help fight duck spots okay now so serums are more concentrated of course and thicker as you could see I don't know if you guys could see that but I'm going to show you a couple more in my hands so that you can see I am not done yet no I forgot it's the grand consistency than that toner or acid the same idea right we're going down the line now what about ampules I was confused just like you and if you're like what the hell is an ampule so if you can see that this one I really like again medicube great company and I really like because it helps with redness like the red spots that you get the irritation ampules are something that you would use for a finite amount of time because they're super concentrated so if you're having a really bad skin week then you would grab you know like PMSing or on your period this is the time that you would use it no I want you to see the thickness of it all right slides down with some skin heat right and then the other one that I combined it with is a collagen actual I love this one it's made that has mushrooms in it which are really good for you and it's called time stop so why wouldn't you use it right now it's one of the highest like this one's almost always sold out two is highly recommended and you know on sites you always have those stars this one has the highest stars because it's really good I really like this one alright so vast of the serums and AM tools and like I said this is me you don't have to do all of this you're like holy hell Amy this is way too much this is what I do I want to take care of myself and this is what I found works for me so you guys can do with it what you will okay final step in the process okay so another major product every like I said I really like them this is a moisturizer final step in the process actually second to last step in the process believe it or not and I really like this because look at that look at how thick that is super moisturizing sometimes I'll combine it with a you know another moisturizer because I like some of the features of the other moisturizer and this one come you know I I've tried other ones like this one is a Korean product so is Mikey of course but this one is like apparently the Queen's of Korea used it so selling point right and some old traditional recipe or whatever so really thick as you can see and it just it's like silk on your skin and this might not work for you I personally like feeling you know if you don't like feeling a layer on your skin you gotta find something that's light and tries to really it goes and sucks into your skin and doesn't leave a layer almost if you will yeah so a lot of you might be wondering was she gonna do anything for her eyes at this point actually I don't I tried excuse me I've tried some particular eye gels and everything that I'm using actually I've not only seen my eyes so I find that they're the benefits from all of these products are enough to help if I really have a puffy sad-eyed a then I would go with let me see here I would go with Ordinaries caffeine solution for under the eyes to just help with the bags and kind of smooth the area out and then I love it Jade bowler and besides this just feels amazing cuz it's cold and wonderful and smooth and just makes your skin feel great it's great for lymphatic drainage as well so that's why you would use and then final final step now here's my think this is crazy but oil maybe some of you have seen people put oil on their skin but believe it or not if you don't moisturize properly if you don't have you know things that are protecting your skin at being absorbed into your skin then you're actually going to have your skin working overtime which can produce problem skin acne you know dull not bright of course and so this is just a final layer totally optional I make it a part of my particular routine because I I love my skin and the way it feels after okay but if it's to have you for you and using it a lot of people have a misconception all if I put oil on my skin I'm actually going to break out I mean it's going to be worse it's the opposite and you need tons of moisture especially if you were someone with dry or normal skin if you have if you have oily skin then you might need to avoid this particular step I have normal combo skin like dry to normal so that this is tamaño oil I love this stuff this fixes pretty much everything if you have dry hands if you have cuts or eczema or anything like that the product is fabulous yeah so I combined that with my sometimes my oil from drunk elephant now I've had this forever it cost me an arm and a leg but it's amazing that I combine with that and squalene squalane just seals the deal so if you don't do this heavier oil of tomorrow and you just want to do like just let it all get absorbed into my face this this bad boy right here if you don't do anything else and you're like well I kind of but I don't want it to be like super heavy squirming it really does absorb into your skin but it is an oil it's an oil based yeah ellipsis labs so I'm for the sake of time I'm just combining all of them together a little tiny rub and again why not know there's tons of other things that I've learned over time but I'm not this is a long enough video for you guys so yeah that's the 10 step process now please remember figuring out you know what your skin needs is it's like fusing and very tough battle and it's expensive you know sometimes you find something that you think is going to work for you and then like it does the complete opposite my combinations and the different things that you discover it's not so good what you said it was going to do is not doing I'm just sharing what I've found works for me you know if you have normal to like dry to normal skin this might be a good routine for you and if you have questions I do have other products that I use too and sometimes I rotate them you can let me know I'll let you know anything any questions that you have also let me know if you're interested in you on morning routine and if you want my favorite products more so than I did just here and I also use tools like I have facial tools that I use on a regular basis to assist in why not right and then I do want to highlight of course I'm in the fitness industry but if you don't hydrate and if you eat a crap ton of sugar and you don't have the best diet your skin is going to show it so no matter what you do on the outside if the inside isn't right you're not gonna get the results on the outside so if you have gluten intolerance it's gonna show up in your skin I think that's why I've got a little bit of this going on because I've been home and there's the rest of my family eats gluten and I sneak things and I shouldn't because I don't have tolerance for it I'm not celiac but you know it's there you eat it right and then yeah if you have any other questions I am going to put together either in the description so that you can click on the links to the products that I featured today and you can order them on Amazon or SoCo glam or medicube you can buy their products directly from their website but anything here you see you can get on Amazon which is kind of nice some of it takes forever to get to you but all that being said I hope that you guys enjoyed this video you can feel free to share in it if you think someone would benefit from it thank you for taking the time yeah so have a great night and we'll see you later