through these videos' comments

and wondered who the hell is Susan Yara?

It's me and tonight I'm gonna show you

my nighttime skincare routine, so let's get ready for bed.

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So my skin type is generally dry.

It's been a little bit drier than usual.

It's cold outside right now, it's winter.

I also just had a baby a few months ago

so that really takes a lot out of you because,

especially if you like breastfeed and everything.

Doing my nighttime skincare routine is really important

because it's the time that I get to myself

especially with two kids, one is a toddler,

one is an actual baby, baby.

I wanna make sure I'm using products

that give me the most bang for my buck

and that are fixing problems that you have post pregnancy.

There's really not much you can do while you're pregnant.

You can't do major treatments,

you can't use really strong active ingredients.

So these are the things that I'm re-introducing now.

I'm going to use my scrunchie and my headband.

I always go for silk.

I have silk pillows.

I think silk is just really nice.

It's not just nice and gentle on your skin

but it's gentle on your hair.

So I'm gonna put this on first.

Something oil based

is how I typically start my nighttime routine

because I have makeup on,

even if I'm just wearing sunscreen.

So I tend to use something like this.

These are the two balms I've been using;

Green Clean by Farmacy and this is Clean It Zero.

It's by Banila Co

but today I don't wanna freak everybody out

because this is something different that I've been doing

and I do it for all of you guys,

I'm gonna be using this, essentially a micellar water.

It says cleaning water.

It's really fancy you guys like that?

It's really, really fancy

and I feel like cosmetic formulators

are really having a moment right now on social media

where they're really like seeing what's being put out there,

all the information and stuff,

and they're coming correct with it basically.

They're like no, no, no, no this ingredient is fine for you,

this product is fine for you.

And a friend of mine who is a cosmetic formulator

has been watching my videos.

So she sent me this

and she didn't want me to judge it whatsoever.

She said I was gonna love this stuff,

I could definitely use it as my first cleanse

and it was gonna remove all of my makeup

and be tough on my makeup but not tough on my skin.

And I've obviously been using a lot of it

so I can't wait to tell you guys what it is

'cause I don't even know.

I'm gonna use one of those microfiber kinda cleansing towels

just because it doesn't soak up too much.

I feel like it's gonna help just remove the makeup

so I'm going to just put a little on the edge of it

and I'm gonna hold it to my eye

just for a few seconds and then I'm just gonna gently wipe.

The reason why I'm pressing it to my eye first

is because you want it to loosen up the makeup, right?

And if you're not doing that part then you're just gonna tug

and you're gonna be like this doesn't work on my skin

because it doesn't actually remove my makeup

but if you just hold it there it will.

And so I'm just patting.

You can see, no makeup.

So remember this is just my first cleanse.

I'm not expecting this to completely remove

all of my makeup and the grime from the day

I'm just ya know using it as my first cleanse

that way my second cleanse

can get the rest of it off essentially

and get this off of my skin too

because you don't want it to sit on your skin.

It's like leaving a cleanser on your skin.

You wouldn't just leave your cleanser on your skin.

All right so around this time I'd probably be in the shower

and this is the cleanser I would use.

It's by KraveBeauty,

it's their Matcha Hemp Hydrating Cleanser.

This is a very nice cleanser.

It's a gel consistency.

It doesn't really foam up.

I don't tend to like foam cleansers.

There are some nice ones out there.

I think I'm just kinda old school

and when I think of foam cleansers

I think of like SLS and like really strong surfactants

and stuff that are gonna strip your skin.

This won't strip your skin

and it will definitely cleanse everything,

so this is the next step.

I think a lot of people don't realize

how important their cleanse is

when it comes to their skincare and this would normally,

again this would be a little bit more damp

so it would be lathering up a little bit more

but you can see that it has slip,

so my fingers are gliding over my skin really easily

and I'm just making sure I'm really cleansing

'cause everything that you had on your skin that day,

ya know it's just not good to leave it there

and go to sleep with it

'cause your skin is repairing itself at night

and I think of the nighttime routine, my friend Nina Desai,

she's a Board Certified Dermatologist,

she said it perfectly to me.

She was like your nighttime routine

is when you repair your skin

and your morning routine is when you protect your skin.

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Yes, clean skin, should never be squeaky skin.

All right so while my skin is still damp

I'm gonna try to get this on there.

It's by NuFACE.

It is their gel primer and I'm gonna leave it open.

I go through a ton of this when I'm using it

but I'm gonna start with one layer

and I'm gonna put it on almost like if it's a sleep mask

and I'm gonna go up my neck.

I know I have my necklace on guys, I'm sorry.

I just don't really take it off.

And I'm gonna use this.

This is the NuFACE.

I've had this for almost a decade, it's not a joke

and it's something that I come back to.

You wanna have your gel primer ready to go.

You can use an HA serum like, HA stands for hyaluronic acid,

but I find that this is a little bit thicker

and you might get a little zing here and there

if you don't have enough slip and you know like formula

between you and the device.

But what this does is it's microcurrent

and microcurrent helps to tighten your skin.

I couldn't use it while I was pregnant

because it's one of those things

that you can't use while pregnant so I have it back.

So what people don't think about with pregnancy

is you're literally gaining a ton of weight.

I gained, this last pregnancy I gained 40 pounds

and I've lost in just a few months at least half of that.

So I'm gonna start here right at like the collarbone

and I'm gonna go up with it really slowly

and you gotta make sure you have that slide.

You don't wanna tug.

Hold, and I can feel it.

And so when you're losing weight

you lose that elasticity in your skin

and people think about that in their bodies right?

Like you lose all of that elasticity

and your skin starts to hang.

The same thing happens with your face and your neck

and as you get older you start to really notice that again

and it's kinda like exercise.

So you wanna make sure that you maintain it

and you keep using it because it's helping,

it's helping to tighten all of your muscles essentially.

All right, so normally right after I've done the NuFACE

I will go right into a moisturizer

because the NuFACE is essentially a hyaluronic acid serum

and you wanna lock in that hydration

that you're getting from it because it's humectant

and you don't want to actually ya know take out the moisture

from your actual skin so you wanna lock it in

and that's what your moisturizer is gonna do.

This moisturizer is by Biossance.

It's their Squalane and Omega Repair Cream.

I've been using this for a couple of years.

I go back to it.

It's not fragranced which I think is super important

when you're doing especially treatments

like the laser treatment and everything

and also for the next step that you guys will see.

It's gonna be retinol.

I also just like squalane, I really do.

I think it works very well on my skin.

So I'm locking everything in.

I tend to like wipe and then pat

so I'm not just smearing it off of my skin.

And I don't really go up but I definitely pat it

and truly it's just so that it really goes on my skin

and I'm not wiping it off.

To me moisturizer is really important.

It is a non-negotiable for me and I know some people

with like oily skin will say that they don't need to

but the oil that you produce

is completely different than the moisturizer

that you're gonna use.

One of the big issues I find in skincare

is that people aren't patient.

They want to see results immediately

and they don't wanna go through like the steps,

like the baby steps that you're supposed to go through

and it's so important to have patience.

It's actually something I had to learn.

I didn't have any patience and what we tend to find

is that people will just go like balls to the wall,

like they're kinda like I'm just gonna go with this,

I'm gonna go from like zero skincare routine

to like a 12-step skincare routine

or I'm gonna introduce a really strong retinoid

into my skincare routine

but I'm gonna use it every single night

and not ya know watch how my skin reacts to it

and then they end up with this irritation,

their skin is breaking, it's dry, it's flaking.

They're getting breakouts.

Ya know half the time

it's usually what we're doing to our skin

that's making our skin have some kind of a bad reaction.

So my biggest advice to everybody is to be patient.

All right so I went out and bought this.

I actually have like a whole collection

of different retinoids

that I'm gonna start introducing into my routine.

This is kinda strong though so I don't need a lot.

I actually just bought a sample size

because I know I'm not gonna use it for too long.

It's 1% retinol, it's by Drunk Elephant.

It's their A-Passioni Retinol Cream

and what I want to show you guys,

this is the important part.

1% is kinda strong and it's actually,

that's more than I'm probably going to end up using.

So I wanna show you guys this.

When someone says use a pea size of your retinoid

truly, when you're just starting off

I'm only gonna use this once a week

for the next couple of weeks

'cause I'm just getting back into the retinoid game.

It's been over a year because I was pregnant.

It felt like I was forever pregnant

and I'm just gonna ya know smear it together.

I'm just gonna tap it into my skin