 No, it's not a seven layer cake. No, it's not a seven layer dip. It's seven layers of essences that are going to go on your skin that are going to boost your skin into uber hydration and treatments and you're going to be loving how youthful your skin looks. Let's get into that video right now. This is a highly anticipated video in a follow-up to the video that I did about three to four weeks ago where I talked about how you can completely up your skincare game and make it so much more effective and now what I'm going to do today is I'm going to show you some more products and another technique that can even boost it more. Let's first talk about what I have on and what I have on today is a very plain t-shirt type of material shirt but it's got ruching on the side which helps because it kind of gathers around the tummy and disguises the tummy a little bit and it's got a pretty good size boat neck so if you want to wear this down completely off your shoulders you can or if you just want to wear it like I'm wearing it which is just where it hits the shoulders that works too. It's very true to size. I wear a large and I love the fabric. It's very light and it's going to take me from fall on into winter and I'll be able to layer it very easily and then I also have on a pair of gold dangle earrings. This has a triangle up here with the gold and then just some chains with like some feather type things on them down there so I really have been enjoying those. I just think they're so cute and then of course my rings, my fingernail polish, everything else I have on including the makeup I have on will be listed and linked below and when I talk about links I like to tell you about my numbering system. A number goes right up here on the screen. That number corresponds to whatever product that I'm holding up at that moment and reviewing. Don't worry about the name or if you need to know color or anything like that. I will make sure that all of that is listed down in the description box next to the number three. You will find that product with its link and you'll be able to show up that way. Okay so a while ago I did do that video and if you haven't seen it I highly suggest that you pause this video right now go down into the description box look for the video and go watch that video because this will make so much more sense if you watch that video. Now yes I do have seven essences in front of me and in essence is a very watery product. We're not even talking like a serum. A serum might have a little bit of viscosity in it. Essences are more like water and what happens is in that video I demonstrated how they work on your skin in order to boost the effectiveness of everything that you follow up with in your skincare. Let's just start out with looking at the first one that I use right after I cleanse and that is the Nion Super Oxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist. I spritz it all over my face and then I just pat it in gently into my face and then into the back of my hands. The reason that you use it immediately after cleansing is to get the full benefits of it. So any essence that you use if you're somebody that picked up the Sukoyako Suhara then you would use that right then. Now let me tell you what I discovered during that video and this was such a wow moment for me. So many of you were talking about the Korean or Japanese way of layering essences instead of doing regular skincare and the reason that I it was like huge light bulb is I really have done a lot of this throughout my skincare journey which started about seven years ago. I started using very thin products because I felt like the more products I put on that were thicker the more it would peel up as I was doing my skincare or the more it would peel up during the day after I had my makeup on. So now I am so excited to tell you that I am using almost 100% essences in my skincare. So I talked about that I start out with the Super Oxide Dismutase Saccharide Mist. That is from NIOD. This is a super antioxidant and it addresses other signs of aging especially dryness on our face. So you put this on and you let that sink in for a moment and then I go after it starts to feel like it's drying up I go on to my next essence. Yes I'm going to be showing you seven essences today that I stack on top of each other but no I don't feel like you need to rush out and get this many. A lot of you told me that you do this already and I think that's fantastic but if you're somebody that's on a budget or you're somebody that just doesn't want that many steps pick one of these that might suit what you need. Pick two of them that might suit what you need. Do whatever feels right to you. I love skincare so this is something that I really enjoy doing and I really enjoy testing out and it just seems to have really paid off for me but I'm never going to tell you that you have to go out and buy all of these. So the next one that I go in with is one of two but it's usually the Benton Fermentation Essence or do you remember I talked to you about crannosil bifida. Okay these have bifida in them and galactomyces in them both of those. However this one is a lot more watery this is a true essence as opposed to crannosil which is a little bit more serum like. So both of them are going to be power packed punches and I've used crannosil bifida forever because it is the main ingredient that is in Lancome Genifique and Estee Lauder night repair and they charge you a absolute arm and a leg for it whereas this one has both of those products in it galactomyces and bifida which are fermentation processes and they help with aging softening fine lines getting your skin super hydrated. They are antioxidants again and the other thing that they help with is brightening your skin. So if you have a dull lackluster complexion I would go in with this and I actually because this has both of those things in it I personally am going to be switching over to the Benton full-time. So that's just a heads up FYI there. However if you want to if you have the crannosil but you want to incorporate just galactomyces go ahead and take a peek at secret key. Now this is one that I will use up as I go but this isn't part of this seven that I'm talking about. This is galactomyces only but what's really cool about this is SK2 the skincare ingredient in it is galactomyces as well. However for a bottle like this we're talking well over a hundred dollars whereas this one I think is around 23. So this is really good to add into your regimen. If you have crannosil and you love what crannosil is doing for you this would be a wonderful compliment to it as an essence. The third layer that I go in with is the Good Molecules Niacinamide Brightening Toner. This has been in my skincare regimen for years probably since they first came out with it maybe four to five years ago and I will not be without this. Now again this is very watery just like the others and I sure should have showed you some of those others and how they performed. You see it drip off of my hand that's how an essence should be. It should be extremely watery. Here's the Benton let's look at it again it just drips off and of course the Saccharide Mist you can see how watery that one is in there. So the Good Molecules one keep the glasses on Melissa. The Good Molecules has in it formulated with Niacinamide, Vitamin C, Arbutin and Licorice root extract to brighten and improve the appearance of enlarged pores. So not only does it brighten but it's going to do that great thing about just sweeping out your pores and really cleaning them out helping to keep them cleaned out as well because if you do have clogged pores that's for another video. We'll talk about some acids that you can use to help keep those those pores really clean and the beautiful thing about a clean pore is it's going to look smaller even if it's a large pore it's going to look diminished when you have it cleaned and you're treating them. So that's number three. Number four is Always My Timeless Vitamin C Serum. This has Vitamin E and Ferulic Acid in it and again this is a very watery product. This just drips right on down my hand and that's why I consider it to be an essence however they probably call it a serum but again we're looking for products that are so thin that they can just be seeped into the skin and the skin can just drink them in like a dry sponge wood and so as you're layering these on you're not going to feel like oh I've got too much on my skin my skin feels greasy it feels heavy it's never going to feel like that it's going to feel hydrated yes but it's not going to feel overly done because these essences are easily sunk into the channels that are in our skin and they can go deep down into our dermis. The number five is this one right here and it's called I tried to say this the other day and I murdered it but I'll go for it again Numbuzin Toner. This is the super super glowing essence. This one boasts having 50 different kinds of fermentation processes. Now when I showed you this one from Benton this has bifida and galactomyces in it we're talking 50. That means that across the gamut huge amounts of different kinds of fermentation processes go into here. Fermentation process was discovered by people that were actually working in these plants a beer plant a wine plant something like that where they're actually working with the product with their hands and not only were they noticing how good the fermentation process was after they were done and they drank the stuff it tastes pretty good but they were also noticing how beautiful their hands were their hands were looking brighter their age spots were fading they were noticing less wrinkles they had super hydration and they just looked really youthful and so that's how that was discovered. Korean and Japanese skincare have been using this for years and their skin doesn't their skin always look like glass and that's what actually this particular one boasts of is once you put this on your skin is going to look more radiant and more glowy and I have been using this one ever since I got it right before I did that video and this is a very very nice one and I'm already starting to notice some great brightening effects of it just love it and then we're moving on to number six this is from COSRX this is the propolis synergy toner it has propolis extract and honey extract COSRX is a company that I have tried a lot of their stuff I feel like they really hone in on quality and I love this stuff so far it's just been so good I'm just going to read you from my phone what it says it says a toner formulated with propolis and honey extract to visibly reduce redness oiliness and improve the skin's texture in just three days gives a healthy glow enhances skin surface and strengthens skin barrier and it's 72% propolis extract and 10% honey extract so it's really packed full of a lot of moisture which most of these are going to be uber hydrating like I talked about in that other video because that's what in essence does it really balances out our skin gives us this huge dose of hydration plumps up our fine lines and wrinkles and as it does that and you get all of those other fermentations and different things like that like honey is a super healer so if you have redness you have done a little bit too much with your skin maybe with redness or with acids or exfoliating the honey in this is going to be super soothing and along with the other ingredients it's going to really help so I use this second to last because it's a super hydrator and then of course my last is from suko yakuza hot I've used this for going on six to seven years now now what this is is it's a urea moisture lotion so for me this is my last step because it it power packs everything into my skin so I've used all of those other ones they've sink into my skin now I'm going to use the urea that is in this and I'm going to pat this on and it's going to just really make me feel like I'm hydrated beyond belief and I'm not kidding by the time you get done with these seven products you're going to feel like your skin is almost too hydrated but give it you know 20 minutes or so and you will feel it balancing and it will feel beautiful I also want to tell you that yes I do use my retin A in this regimen if I'm going to do this at nighttime and I want to use some sort of an exfoliation I will either do an exfoliating mask like the ordinary has with their 30% peeling mask or I'll use glycolic acid this is my favorite one and again we're looking at a very very hydrating one the other one is one that you put on and then you wash off and then you would go in with these ingredients now I would never use these on the night that I'm going to use my retin A or my retinols so I would alternate them or I would even use this if you have very sensitive skin maybe two times a week maybe three the other one the red one I can only use that maybe every 10 days because my skin is pretty sensitive so the peeling solution is just a little bit too much but this one is just works out really good so after you do that once you get the peeling solution off and then you pat your skin dry you don't have to wait but if you're using this one and you want to do any of these other ingredients as well you are going to have to wait I would say five to ten minutes is about how long I wait it might be longer than that if you talk to an esthetician if you have an esthetician that you trust go for it talk to them ask them that question if I'm doing the glycolic acid I do skip my timeless my vitamin c because I actually feel like that's a little bit too much too many acids on my skin but if I'm doing my retinol retinol and vitamin c work really well together so this is going to go on my face for sure so it really need to think about customizing your routine whatever is your most concerning negative thing about your skin whether it's dryness or fine lines wrinkles if it's melasma if it's redness if it's dark spots find one of these ingredients or find one of these essences that has the ingredients that you want to tackle in like bifida and galactomyces that definitely tackles age spots and it also tackles redness and dullness because it brightens so this one is one that I I really do love now after I'm done with all of that and yes I know you're all shaking your head at me going melissa my goodness you've got too much on your face but I do take the benton fermentation galactomyces eye cream and I use that morning and night this is my treatment for my eyes and then I will go in after that sunken just a little bit and I will use the suko yaku suhara eye cream because this locks in everything around my eyes and by the time I get up in the morning I still have tackiness around my eyes which I love I actually use their cream also which I'll put a picture up on the screen right here that is even more hydrating so in the winter months that cream comes out and I use that at night instead of this but I use this every single day in the morning anyway absolutely of course I do use an spf and I'll put it up here on the screen because it's over there on my vanity it is the dermatology universal tinted moisturizer and I love that stuff I've been using it for years it plays so well underneath my makeup and I absolutely love it and I can't be without it so okay that is the seven layers and I know I've just thrown a ton of products at you but again I want you to know that you don't need to use all of these you don't even need to change your skincare routine that you have right now if you don't want to do you guys have anything different that you actually like to use I like to use most of these because they're semi affordable I know as times get tough and things get more expensive we're gonna need to watch our pennies even more so I wanted to bring you all of these affordable ones yes I do have some more expensive one like I showed in that last video I do have a tacha one which I do love using but I really wanted to show you ones that were affordable that you could easily pick up thank you guys for spending a little bit of your time with me today I love you all so very much please come back around very soon and we'll talk and we'll chat and we'll have all kinds of fun I love you so much take care bye bye