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I don’t know if you noticed, but I took down the travel category on my main menu last year.

Man do I miss travel. I miss the flights, the food, the smells of checking in to a clean hotel and I even miss the bustling cities filled with traffic and bumping in to strangers. I miss the inspiration I drew from my trips and the days I would lost inside a temple, a park or a conversation with a local.

It just pained me to even think about travel during 2020. So, I simply reconfigured our lives by taking the topic completely off the table. To give you frame of reference, prior to the pandemic we would travel 2-3 times per month on average. I understand this is insane for most people, but it was very much a part of our job, our lives and our way of living.

Yesterday I spoke with one of my favorite travel PR firms, Laura Davidson, about the landscape of luxury travel in particular. I took a poll on Instagram and 88% of my followers said they would love to hear my thoughts the topic.

So, here are a few key take aways from our discussion.

Please note that this post is not intended in any way to strike up a debate about whether or not it is considered “safe” to be traveling during 2021. I am not saying that you should or should not be traveling. This is simply a forecasting post for when and if you choose to take a trip in 2021, what trends I’m thinking are on the horizon.  If this post feel triggering to you at all, I invite you to not read it.

Optics Count

The reality is that people have been traveling a lot sooner than they are sharing on their Facebook, Instagram and other social media channels. I have a lot of friends and people in my life who have been secretly taking trips and not posting about them. From an optics perspective, as influencers start to travel in 2021, I think they need to be very cautious and careful about how and when they are sharing these trips. People will make mistakes, they’re only human, but in the defense of a lot of social media influencers and bloggers, this is a huge part of how we make an income. I would suggest not entirely flashing your trip in the face of your readers. Sensitivity is key. I also think that sharing how different the experience is now, versus a year ago, will be interesting for many people to see as they are considering trips.

The majority of the world is still not in a position to be traveling. I would also suggest giving your community the option to subscribe or unsubscribe to your travels this year. Seeing a photo of someone on a beach can be very triggering for a lot of people right now. But as the world starts to slowly reopen, I do believe that influencers will begin to travel as early as this spring. That might feel a little too soon to their “followers”. But I can also confidently say that “influencers” are usually a few months ahead of most trends. So while you might not feel 100% ready to take a trip, you might start to think about it in the summer or fall. Travel is coming back – it just might not look the same.

 

Hotels vs. Home Rentals

I personally feel like people are going to want to stay in hotels {nice ones}. 2021 feels like it will be the year of revenge travel where people say “screw it, I deserve a hotel with room service and house keeping.” We’ve all been cooped up in a house for the past year {and then some}, so I can definitely see a return of the hotel economy. With that said, for people traveling with children and for those who are still struggling with Covid PTSD, the home rental option is a very safe and more accessible route.

Closer Destinations

For east coasters, I expect more Bahamas and BVI’s and for west coasters, I could see more trips to Cabo and Hawaii happening in 2021. In a nutshell, I think travel seekers will be sticking to designations a bit closer to home that require either an easy drive OR one non-stop flight.

Filling Your Cup

It’s interesting: At the beginning of the pandemic I thought to myself that once the world started to put its pieces back together that I would immediately begin planning all of my great bucket list trips. Japan, India and Fiji were all places on my list that I thought about. But now as we slowly step our way out of the pandemic, the kind of trip that I’m really craving includes a glass of wine and bowl of pasta {Italy} or a warm beach {Mexico}. I’ve been really day dreaming about destinations that I have already traveled to, which feels strange. However when I spoke with the Laura Davidson team and my fellow friends, they all said they felt the same way.

I believe that a lot of travelers will go back to a destination that feels familiar to them. I think it’s because there’s a sense of security in knowing where you are going, the hotel you will stay at and what that vacation feels like. It’s less of a gamble and risk of trying a new place that might not necessarily check all of the boxes that you are craving after a year of hell. You know what you are in for, and you deserve it.

Healing Experiences

Last but definitely not least, I think that our travel experiences will be redefined by offering more of a self healing approach to activities and less thrill seeking day-to-day adventures. For example, I don’t know about you, but I am not really in the mood to go on a crazy rock climbing, bungee jumping trip right now. I am desperately craving a mind, body and soul heal from the PTSD that has occurred from Covid. We all need to nourish ourselves right now and I think an amazing way to do so, if you are able and feel comfortable, is through travel. I think we can expect to see more healing experiences such as morning meditation, beach yoga, painting classes or a cooking class. I think that travelers will be looking for experiences that they can take back home with them, to extend the life and feeling from a trip.

Travel allows us time in our lives to hold space for ourselves. It’s a pause. It’s inspiring. It’s uplifting. And It’s down right fun! To me, travel reinvigorates the soul and I don’t know about you, but I am very eager and excited to get back on the map.

Will you be planning any trips this year? Share where you are thinking of going in the comments below! Or if you have traveled recently, please share your insight about that experience below. 

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Finding Your Purpose with Erica Wigley

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“There are empowering life questions that will open the window of heaven within you.  Questions such as: Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose? What am I called to do? What lights my soul on fire? What are my gifts and talents? The answers will clarify your path forward.” – Erica Wigley 

Tell us about yourself! 

My name is Erica Marie Wigley and I’m a coach, consultant, meditation instructor, and nurse. I reside in NYC with my family. My two sons are 25 years old and 21 years old. My oldest son is an investment banker in NYC, and my youngest son is a senior at Fordham University.

How long have you been on a self-healing or spiritual journey?

I’ve been on this journey since 2007.

What event, situation, or life circumstance sparked your journey to finding your purpose?

I hit my version of rock bottom from two events: The first is from a highly contentious divorce and custody battle in 2002-2004 that left me feeling broken. My solace was in uncovering the truth about myself beyond my relationship with pain in this physical world. I consciously made the decision to “disconnect” from many of the people that I knew, and I invested many years asking the deeper questions of life to uncover who I really am, what I wanted, what I was called to do, and how to forgive….to forgive myself for making decisions that were not best suited for me and to forgive my ex-husband. I also spent many years reading, being a student, and in many ways I will always be a student, even though I share the wisdom that I’ve learned now.

My second life altering moment was when I almost lost my life, after a surgical complication. The beauty about that moment was that I was no longer willing to work at a job that was not congruent with my soul and spirit. I no longer had the desire to play it safe anymore, so I resigned from my job and took a chance on accepting a new position that was not financially rewarding but was soulfully rewarding. It was one of the BEST decisions I made that eventually opened up other opportunities that allowed me to do what I love and get paid well for it later on.

What’s your primary practice?

Laughing with my sons, being playful, meditation, prayer, breathwork, connecting with the people I love, talking with God, mindful of the answers He sends me, mindful of how I feel and honoring those feelings by giving myself what I need, mindful of how my body communicates with me based on food/environment/people/thoughts/situations, and quiet time to reflect, clear, and cleanse.

What’s your top three favorite books?!

How are YOU treating Life?, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, A New Earth, ….(there are so many :-).

How has it benefited you mentally, physically/materially, and/or spiritually?

Absolutely, all four. Each book is thought provoking and questions life and our fit within it. It speaks to our potential and our now. It holds our hand, leads the way, and then guides us. It also opens up a new world beyond what we think exists. It’s like Alice in Wonderland, but realizing that WE are the wonderland.

Have you faced any challenges since beginning? How did you overcome?
Yes, I once worked for a company that was not in alignment with who I was. It was a toxic work environment in which I was warned by one of their employees before accepting the position. In fact, most people left the job within a year of being hired. After two years of being there I became physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. I was aware that things needed to change but I was worried about leaving a “good paying” job because I had children to support. During the time I was scheduled for minor surgery, which I knew energetically was related to the stress I was holding in my body. What was supposed to be a simple procedure left me almost losing my life. During those moments of complete surrender, I was forced to be still, and to focus on what truly mattered. It was during that time that I was willing to leave my position, even with the uncertainty of knowing what the next steps would be.

After three months of recovery, I went back to work with the clear intention that my solution was coming. On one of my last appointments at work, I decided to cross the lines. No one at work knew that I became a Reiki Master, and was asked to speak at a wellness event for Mind Body week in Bethesda, MD. As I was waiting for the meeting to begin, one of the nurses and physicians saw my Reiki book and said: “Wow, are you a Reiki Master? So is Dr. Lee.” As you can imagine, I was blown away, because I ordinarily wouldn’t share what I do outside of work with what I do inside of work, but this time I threw caution to the wind and didn’t care who knew because I was clear that I was leaving that job. A week later, the same nurse called to tell me that there’s a position available to help spearhead a groundbreaking Integrative Medicine program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Pentagon, Ft Belvoir, Quantico, and Andrews Airforce. And guess what? The Medical Director in charge of that initiative was someone I knew many years prior. It was during those times that I merged who I was outside of work with who I was inside of work. I no longer had these dual roles. It was the culture of that environment to leave people better than how they entered. My gifts and talents were finally being used in purposeful ways to help others. It was also the reason why I created a coaching and consulting business, and furthered my knowledge as a meditation teacher by studying at The Chopra Center. I learned a very valuable lesson, we can turn our bruises into beauty, our sorrow into success, and our breakdown into breakthroughs. It’s all a choice. It’s a choice in how we decide to play this game called, Life. And I decided to play it, instead of it playing me.

Share one of the biggest winks or nods from God/The Universe that let you know you’re on the right path!

Wow, there are so many winks from God. In 2010, I was on a girl’s trip with one of my friends in NYC. At the time, I was living in Maryland, and one of my bestie’s was in Philly, so we decided to meet in Manhattan. About a month before our trip, I set a clear intention on creating an echo friendly skin care line. In my intention setting exercise, I shared with God all the reasons why I felt worthy of creating these products. I asked God to give me a clear sign in a way that I would understand. As I closed out this exercise, this question stayed on my mind: “Am I worthy?” Flash forward, I’m on the girl’s trip for the weekend, and we walk into Bloomingdale’s department store on East 57th street. As we went up the escalator to the second floor, my eyes landed on a nightshirt that said: You Are Worthy! I started laughing hysterically as I told my friend that God had blatantly answered my question. A couple years later, my skincare and haircare line was sold in Whole Foods Market.

I have so many stories of winks from God over the years, including following the promptings to start my coaching & consulting business. In fact, almost everyday I receive a wink from God. This is why I know that there is a world beyond what we can see, feel, touch, taste, smell, and even fully comprehend.

Advice or counsel for those looking to get started on the journey!

There are empowering life questions that will open the window of heaven within you. Questions such as: Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose? What am I called to do? What lights my soul on fire? What are my gifts and talents? The answers will clarify your path forward. Follow the promptings within you by becoming mindfully aware of your thoughts and how those thoughts affect your feelings, how those feelings affect your physiology, how your physiology affects your actions, and how your actions affect the life that you create. It’s the subtle things that creep up ever so silently that we must be aware of. The reality is that you and I are powerful manifestors. That means, even the things that we don’t like, we somehow pull those conditions toward us. As we learn how to harness our superpower in helpful ways, we’ll create more of what we want to experience, and the people we want to experience it with.

Keep up with Erica on IG!

Finding your purpose doesn’t have to be as hard as you think. In fact, it comes when you stop thinking! For more information on stepping into your true Self, click HERE!

What’s your story? Respond to the questions/prompts above, and submit to nikki@curlynikki.com using ‘herjourney’ in the subject line! 

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Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has inspired all manner of hot takes, but not all of them are quite as piping hot as self-proclaimed “Queen of Dragons” Meghan McCain’s. And perhaps none of the many memes about the interview are quite as rewatchable (or relatable) as the one of Whoopi Goldberg’s reaction to McCain’s take on The View.

On Tuesday, The View co-hosts held a lively discussion about Oprah’s interview with the former senior royals — including Piers Morgan’s insensitive ranting about Markle, after which his own co-host criticized him and he stormed off the set of Good Morning Britain and swiftly resigned. But rather than speak to the tell-all interview or Morgan’s blatant sexism, McCain took the conversation in a different, unexpected direction. 

McCain instead decided to extoll the virtues of the American Revolution, speaking about how she loved visiting George Washington’s historic home in Mount Vernon — encouraging “all Americans to visit Mount Vernon and see why monarchies are stupid” — and insisted that she refuses to defend the monarchy because she’s “a red-blooded 100% American who celebrates freedom any way I can.” (Ok!) She went on to note that different generations in the U.K. view the monarchy differently.

“The American experiment is the way to go, and if we have two American women — Meghan Markle and Oprah Winfrey — who are single-handedly finishing what George Washington and our revolutionary counterparts did, I’m all for it,” McCain concluded.

After a measured pause that felt much longer than its three seconds, Goldberg attempted to process what she had just heard. “Okay,” she said with a level tone. And that was it. Just one word. “I guess we’ll talk more about this when we come back,” Goldberg added before the show cut to commercial. Goldberg’s sentiments clearly resonated with viewers, because a clip of her reaction quickly racked up over a million views and started trending on Twitter. 

It’s 2021 and we are all Whoopi. pic.twitter.com/SncHJPxHTW

— Justin Martindale (@justmartindale) March 9, 2021

If it wasn’t clear before: Whoopi Goldberg is all of us. How many moments in the last year or more have we heard something so utterly out of left field — often from Meghan McCain’s mouth — that all we could hope to do is give a championship-level thoughtful pause, full of self-restraint, and simply acknowledge that something was said? So many. From now on, anytime we are completely taken aback, Goldberg measuredly saying, “Okay,” is going to play in our heads. After all, isn’t brevity the soul of wit?

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In less than 24 hours, H&M’s highly anticipated collaboration with Simone Rocha will at-last be available to shop — that is, if you’re quick enough to snatch up a tulle frock and some beaded bow clips to go with it before everyone else.

For the lead-up to the launch, the Swedish fashion brand called on its Rolodex of celebrity spokespeople to post their favorite ways to wear the 61-piece womenswear collection. (The collection also includes menswear, as well as designs for kids.) One particularly stylish model is Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira, whose look of choice will have you wanting every piece of the H&M x Simone Rocha pie. At the very least, it’ll make you purchase the sequin harness à la Timothée Chalamet at the 2019 Golden Globes. 

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On Tuesday, Ferreira, who plays Kat on the HBO drama, posted a slideshow of images of her (and her cat) showcasing the forthcoming designer collaboration. For her look, she chose an oversized, button-down shirt with a pearl-embellished collar and puff-sleeves; a sheer, floral midi skirt; fuzzy, black slides; and a pearl-covered headband, a signature of Simone Rocha. On top, she added the more affordable alternative to Chalamet’s Louis Vuitton harness, which features a criss-cross detail in the front and off-the-shoulder sleeves. “In luv with this new Simone Rocha x H&M look,” she captioned the photo. 

Others involved in the launch are Susie Bubble, Oumayma Elboumeshouli, Jessie Bush, and Amaka Hamelijnck. Models Kaia Gerber and Paloma Elsesser and actors Helena Bonham Carter and Rowan Blanchard, among others, participated in the brand’s AR launch event on Tuesday, which involved a pop-up book of images by painter Faye Wei Wei with QR codes that placed the aforementioned talent in tiny, hologram form alongside the art on the book’s pages. “I always wanted this collection to conjure excitement for dressing up, and for meeting with family, friends, and loved ones,” said Rocha in the press release. 

If past H&M designer collaborations — which include Karl Lagerfeld, Giambattista Valli, Erdem, Maison Margiela, and Versace — are any indication, this collection won’t last long, especially given the celebrities — which, in addition to Ferreira, include Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones and The Crown’s Bonham Carter — involved.

The H&M x Simone Rocha womenswear collection ranges in price from $17.99 for jacquard-knit knee-socks to $299.00 for dresses and trench coats. Shop the collection on Thursday, March 11, at 10am, EST here. 

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I have been raving about Beauty Pie products since they launched onto the beauty scene. Hi-tech, luxury formulas developed at some of the world’s best labs, but sold direct to the consumer so that the middleman (the retailer) is completely removed from the equation.

I have to say that it took me a while to get my head around the membership concept (more on that in a second, stay with me!) but the more skincare and makeup products I tried and loved the more this particular way of shopping for beauty began to make sense.

I’m going to tell you about my top five favourite Beauty Pie products, the ones I would buy time and time again without a moment’s hesitation, and demonstrate how the membership works along the way. I’d insert a joke here about listening carefully for the science bit and the need for a flip chart, etc etc, but it really isn’t that complicated!

I’m going to use my first (and absolute all-time favourite) Beauty Pie product as a sort of glamorous assistant.

Step forward the Plantastic Apricot Butter Cleansing Balm (online here). If there was ever a contest or tournament for luxury cleansers (I would genuinely watch that on the telly) then this balm would very easily hold its own. With its silky texture and glorious scent, it’s perfect for massaging over the face to break up makeup and sunscreen and removes everything from mascara to long-wear lip-stain. For a balm so rich and sumptuous, it rinses off beautifully clean and doesn’t leave even a trace of residue.

The Apricot Butter Cleansing Balm won me over from very first use and I always expected it to have a suitably high price tag. The reality? With Beauty Pie membership it’s £13.93. There are different types of memberships – for more information in the UK click here and US click here – and you choose the one that gives you the spending allowance you think you’ll need. (You can always upgrade if you need more, or roll the allowance over to the next month if it’s more than you need.)

Now: here’s the maths bit. Beauty Pie show you two prices – the equivalent retail price for the product and the members’ price. For the cleansing balm, the retail price would be around £50 for an equivalent product. (I’d say this is about right – it’s absolutely on a level playing field with another of my favourite balms and that one is £50 for the same amount of product. I like to cross-check all of my favourites like this and the “typical” values they cite are always very considered and fair.)

So the idea is that as a member you’re getting loads more for your money – you’re getting the luxury product minus the retail markup, which can be up to 80% when it comes to luxury makeup, for example. The only consideration on top is the cost of the membership and also the postage, which tends to be a few pounds for standard royal mail delivery.

How much is the membership? You can opt for £5, £10 or £20 per month. £5 membership gives you a spending allowance of £50, £10 lets you spend up to £100 and £20 per month gives you the biggest allowance at £200. (You can use the code RUTHSENTME to get an extra £50 spending allowance!)

It’s worth noting that the spend is for the typical value, not the members’ price, so if you had the £5 monthly membership then this month that would allow you to buy the cleansing balm. I suppose you could say, in simplistic terms, that the balm is costing you £13.93 + £5 membership fee + postage. A huge saving – well over 50% – if you adore your luxury skincare but tend to balk at the prices.

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Let’s do another example with another favourite, and we’ll stick to the £5 per month membership to keep things easy. (I do have a tendency to overcomplicate things, so I hope I’m deconstructing this in a helpful way and not making you want to slowly eat your own fists.) The Futurelipstick Luxe Shine in Master Suite and Nude Blush. Two lipsticks. Why not?

I actually contest Beauty Pie’s valuation of this lipstick, which they say is £25. I’d say it was upwards of this, because it is incredibly similar to the ones that a certain star brought out recently and they are a hell of a lot more expensive. The Futurelipstick is sort of like a gloss in a stick. It has the most voluptuous, heavy sheen that feels as though it is plumping your lips from their very core. It feels decadent and glamorous yet it’s easy to apply and wear and is comfortable and hydrating.

The members’ price? £6.52 for one and £7.54 for the other. (Find them here. I have no idea why they are different prices – intriguing! Something to do with the cost of different pigments? I shall endeavour to find out!) Both lipsticks, bought together, would take you up to your spending limit for the month, but you would have had well over fifty quids’ worth of luxury lipstick for a grand total of £19.06 plus postage.

Things obviously get more exciting (and amounts saved more momentous) as you move up the tiers. For example, if you were in the £20 a month tier because there were loads of things you bought from Beauty Pie regularly (which is not hard to do!) then you could buy something from the Super Retinol range (here – it’s brilliantly formulated) as well as your cleanser and a moisturiser, maybe a little lipstick treat…

Talking of moisturisers: let’s discuss the Japanfusion Power Elixir Moisturiser – typical price £70, members’ price £12.65. This buoyant, bouncy face gel-cream wowed me a couple of years ago and I’ve still not found something to rival it in terms of texture (fresh yet somehow supremely rich) and effect (it makes your face feel as squidgy as a waterbed). It used to be called the Supreme Cream and now it’s the Power Elixir, but it’s the same antioxidant-rich deeply-moisturising formula. It’s just outstanding.

And actually this is one of my favourite pricing examples, for showing how great the Beauty Pie pricing structure can be. If you had a £10 membership, you could pick up this moisturiser, a glossy spring-hued lipstick and still have a bit of allowance to rollover. Your basket would be worth £95 yet you would have spent just £19.17 plus your membership fee. (There are also “piedays” that let you buy certain products without using any of your allowance, so set notifications for those!)

I’m really shooting off all over the place here, rather than listing my top five favourite products, which was the aim of the post. I expect that reading this post is a bit like being in a pinball machine. I suppose if my enthusiasm shines through then that can only be a good thing!

Let’s recap. So far we’ve had:

Beauty Pie Plantastic Apricot Cleansing Balm – typical price £50, members’ price £13.93 here

Beauty Pie Japanfusion Power Elixir Moisturiser – typical price £70, members’ price £12.65 here

Beauty Pie Futurelipstick Luxe Shine in Master Sweet – typical price £25, members’ price £6.52 here

Anything from the Super Retinol range, which is just…super, various prices but all huge savings, here

Oh! My Beauty Pie favourites wouldn’t be complete without the Fruitizyme Five Minute Facial mask, which has a value of £60 but to members is £10.80 here. This AHA mask works quickly and non-aggressively to slough of dead skin cells and give an instant glow. It’s a great fast-acting pick-me-up if you ever want a powerful pre-makeup mask, just five minutes leaves your skin feeling softer and looking fresher. You can leave it on for up to ten but I find that five does the trick and I like that it’s very easy to rinse off – a light gel texture, not a heavy clay or cream, so good for those in a hurry.

Pinballing session over. (Just read in Urban Dictionary that pinballing is when you hit lots of walls on the way to your destination, usually because you’re inebriated and just about to “call dinosaurs”, which is apparently the act of vomiting when you’ve drunk too much. You learn a new thing every day kids!) You’ll see many more brilliant things from Beauty Pie in posts and videos coming up but leave me a comment if you’d like me to review anything in particular that’s caught your eye!

You can browse the entire Beauty Pie website here and read up on how membership works here – remember to use the code RUTHSENTME for that extra £50 spending allowance!

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My skincare routine for what shall forevermore be known as The Winter of Discontent. Obviously, in true Crilly style, I am posting this just as we pip over into springtime, but as I’ve said before, this is more of a journal post recording my skincare routine rather than anything that’s responding to seasonal changes or trends. I like to look back on them. And, in the future, when everyone is Googling stuff from their Google glasses as they lounge about on floating hoverboards in their Martian villas, they will be able to access these posts and use them as historical documents.

“Look what shit they were chatting back in 2021, Brian! Arguing about scotch eggs and the EU when all that time the planet was about to implode! Ha ha ha!”

This skincare routine could really be subtitled The Retinol/Moisturiser See-Saw. I’ve been working my way up to some stronger retinoids (I really want to try the Crystal Retinal 10 and 20 from Medik8!) but every time I get too overly confident my skin revolts and starts going all itchy and tight on me. And yes I know there’s often a period of discomfort before you get to all the good stuff, like a smooth and shiny-glowy face that can be seen from the moon, I just can’t be doing with it. I’m the sort of person who feels cross all day if a gusset is too seamy, so having an itchy face is just not tenable.

What I do, therefore, is absolutely lard my face in between retinoid applications. (Hence the retinol moisturiser see-saw.) I find the strongest, most emollient balms and creams I can and slather them on and massage them in as though I’m one of those outrageously expensive turkeys you can get from the farm shop. I massage and pummel and when it has all soaked in I massage over another layer.

And “layer” is another key word this season; I’m usually one for keeping things very simple, with a cleanse, a serum and a moisturiser (the retinoid or whatever active I’m using would slot into one of those categories, whether it was an antioxidant serum in the morning or an all-in-one retinol+whatever moisturiser at night); this winter I’ve been adding in the odd extra coating of something just to try and banish the tight feeling.

One very good discovery (and I’m not usually one for mists or spritzes, unless it’s Emma Hardie’s one* or the LRP Toleriane 8 here*) is the Josh Rosebrook Hydrating Accelerator (here*) which is brilliant for boosting the effects of whatever is piled on over the top.

Then it’s a serum (antioxidant in the morning, something hydrating at night, unless it’s a retinol night in which case straight on with that after cleansing) and a moisturiser to seal it all in. I’ve even been known to add a drop or two of oil into my moisturiser, though I forgot to mention that in the video!

The easiest way for me to show you the current skincare routine is to put it below in a list form. So here it is – beneath that you have a video with full explanation and whole joyous minutes of waffle.

Morning Cleanse

I use a quick micellar water sweep-over! Naughty but all I can be arsed with – currently using this*: https://bit.ly/2MkViiy

Antioxidant Serum 

Skinceuticals Discoloration Defense Serum*: https://bit.ly/2MgaIos

or

SkinGredients Skin Protein: https://skingredients.co.uk/products/skin-protein-vitamin-a-serum

Day Sunscreen

Arden Great 8 (discontinued?!): https://www.amodelrecommends.com/the-fresh-summer-sunscreen-that-feels-barely-there/

Some other favourite sunscreens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4pzGoALxlU&t=161s 

Evening Cleanse

Dermalogica Active Clay Cleanser*: https://bit.ly/3r0uQcS

Kate Somerville Goat Milk Cleanser*: https://bit.ly/2ZM9UKV

BeautyPie Cleansing Balm*: https://bit.ly/2NXoRY5

Spritz

Josh Rosebrook Hydrating Accelerator*: https://bit.ly/2ZOqZnI

Emma Hardie Pump and Glow Spritz*: https://bit.ly/3qV225G

LRP Toleriane 8 Spray*: https://bit.ly/3aPTNT6

Eye Cream

Murad Retinol Eye Cream*: https://bit.ly/2ZLWlLt

Inkey List Caffeine Eye Cream*: https://bit.ly/2ZYeCak

Kiehl’s Powerful Line Reducing Eye Serum*: https://bit.ly/3gwo9dg

Retinol (once every two or three days)

Murad Night Cream*: https://bit.ly/3khXnZj

Kate Somerville Retinol VitaC Serum*: https://bit.ly/3klOluf

Medik8 Crystal Retinal 3 and 6*: https://bit.ly/2ZK5btl

Rich Night Moisturiser

Weleda Skin Food Light*: https://bit.ly/3aQ0lRG

Lumene Night Balm here

REN Evercalm Overnight Balm*: https://bit.ly/2ZKgOQL

Darphin 8 Flower Necar Oil-Cream*: https://bit.ly/3klfYU9

 

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