 we are kicking off the best of 2020 series on my channel and we're starting it all with the best skincare of 2020. Hello my friends I feel like 2020 was a disaster in so many ways but for me my skin kind of did a 180. I'm going to be showing you 10 products that I discovered this year that I feel are really really good and I feel have affected my skin so well and I'm going to be showing you three devices also that I feel like in conjunction with the skincare have really helped my skin turn a corner this year and despite menopause because I have had the menopause hot flashes from you know where and the skin changes and all of those things so I wanted to share these with you it's really great skincare also if you're new to my channel I want to say a special welcome to you thanks so much for being here and I hope that you do decide to subscribe don't forget to hit the little bell icon because that is how you are notified I think YouTube has finally got that all figured out so some channels we're not getting notified mine being one of them but hopefully YouTube does have that figured out by now and also if everybody that is here wouldn't mind just giving me a quick thumbs up it does help my channel and for all of you that have been here with me for a while thank you so much for all of your fantastic support of my channel and my videos appreciate you more than you know all right we're just going to start with what we do and then go through it as far as the steps the first step I do at nighttime is take off all of my makeup and I do that with this hot alabo cleansing oil I discovered this this year and I really love it it does take everything and it completely breaks it down and helps you to take it off and for me this is a great one I love cleansing balms as well the good molecules cleansing balm is one of my very favorites but I've been using this since I ran out of that and I really do like it they do the same thing this one you probably get a bit more in here it's taken me a long time to go through this I'm about that far down almost done but I will repurchase this again it's just been one that really takes all of the makeup even the waterproof mascara off and I love it now I will say that my secret weapon to actually getting all of the mascara off are these microfiber cloths this is what I take my makeup off with at night and there is nothing like this I will link these below they come in a pack of five for I think around eight dollars or so so that's really good compared to the makeup eraser that everybody touts it's the same cloth it takes it off just as good I use the oil in conjunction with the um cloths and it's just wonderful then I will ring these out really well rinse it out really well with water and I'll go in with my second cleanse which has been the rosewater daily cleansing gel from Good Molecules now Good Molecules came out with this this year and I love the way this makes me feel for a second cleanse my skin doesn't feel stripped and yet it feels clean and there's a kind of a balance there when you're talking about different cleansers you don't want to strip away so much that your skin feels tight but you don't want to leave an oil behind because then your serums won't sink in and I feel like this one achieves it very well and also use this in the morning I kind of switched between another one that I've had for quite a while from derma e the glycolic which I love but this one is a great cleanse at night after your oil also I know you guys have heard this from me so many times but from Good Molecules is the niacinamide brightening toner now this one came to me I believe the end of last year I'm not a hundred percent sure on that but this has completely helped my pores do a 180 if you have large pores you will probably see a difference in your pores after one bottle of this I know that it was just weeks for me and I felt like my pores were so much more refined this has niacinamide in it licorice root and alpha arbutin and all of those products are products that have been known to brighten the skin and niacinamide does a little sweeping effect with our skin as well and helps those pores flush out the sebum too which is really good so I use this sometimes I will use it at night as well but mostly this is my morning toner love this stuff it is something that I will not be without it is just awesome and this is probably I don't know like my sixth bottle or so so I repurchase this over and over again and yeah it did come to me approximately at the beginning of the year and it's just been an outstanding product also what came to me this year is from crana cell and this is a serum the serum contains bifida galactomyces and I believe a little bit of niacinamide as well it is a pretty good size bottle I think it's about 1.7 ounces on it and what I love about it is I was using the secret key galactomyces and the isntree bifida formula which there's nothing wrong with using those separate because you get huge doses of each of those ingredients separately and both of those ingredients are a fermentation process so they really have the effect of being able to brighten and make the skin smooth and just really help turn back the clock as far as what I've noticed so far and I really love that this serum has both of those in so I don't have to have two different products I have both of them in here now the bifida in here I think is around 60 percent and the galactomyces around 30 maybe a little bit more on both of those I use this in the morning and evening and the reason that it's so good is the people that were making beer those fermentation processes they noticed that their hands were looking bright and pretty and that they didn't have wrinkles on them and that they and by the way isn't that cute right there okay I have a story to tell you that I told in the other video as well I've got a cut here I've got one on my finger and then what this is so you know I have a puppy now and his name is Ollie and he was eating a bone the other night and he'd had this bone I don't know four or five other times so I didn't think anything of it but he ate it and too it was just kind of a tube and he tried to swallow that and it was like this long and he's a puppy and so he he swallowed it but then he was like crying because it was like stuck and there was no way it was going down it had to come out so I stuck my fingers down there and I had to try and grab it and in the process he thought he was being attacked or I wasn't being nice or something and he just bit down on me and yeah I got a mother's love is what I got I just I knew that I had to get that out of him and I did I pulled it out and the bone was all bloody and I'm like oh no he's got blood down his windpipe and then my son looked at me and said mom that's your hand and I hadn't even noticed anything I knew he was biting I knew it hurt but I hadn't even noticed because I was so worried about him so yeah these are my war wounds from extracting a bone from a doxin so one of those things all right let's move on with my next product which is from Imagine Dermatology and this is the hyaluronic hydration honey this is a super charged moisturizer if anybody has been following me for any length of time you know that I have uber dry skin and especially in the winter when we turn on that um forced air heat that dries everything out and then where I live as a desert pretty much the humidity even doesn't get up much past 8% normally so you turn that on you get those cold winds blowing all of those things contribute to my skin looking like leather and being so dry and feeling like it's going to crack but these kinds of products are what I use in order for my skin to look supple and nice and this product not only does it have hyaluronic acid in it but it also has polyglutamic acid in it now that has four times the amount four times the ability of hyaluronic acid to hold water we know that hyaluronic acid holds a thousand times its weight in molecular water but polyglutamic acid is four times that four thousand times its weight in water so you definitely want to spritz your face before you use something like this but it also has urea it has trehalose and it has lactic acid all of which have been known to soften the skin and give that really jolt of moisture and then it also has dermal amino acid complex in it it's just a really good serum I don't know that you would need many more serums if you were just somebody looking for that boom of hydration into your skin it's just awesome and I have loved this it does the job make sure you use like I said maybe spritz your face with some water before splash it with some water use this and then go on to another serum whatever other serums you like or if you want to just put a moisturizer on top of this fabulous absolutely fabulous I also want to share with you from Simply Beautiful this is a micro polish this one was sent to me and as you can see I haven't used very much and that's because this stuff goes a very long way this is micro fine beads set into a clay like product so when I use this I use it right after I have used my cleanser and then I go in and I just polish my skin a bit with this now you can use a chemical exfoliant lots of people like that I do that about once a week with the ordinaries AHA BHA peel that red stuff that looks like beet juice but this one right here I just use on mornings that I feel like my skin doesn't need that deep exfoliating that deep overturn it's just needing a little bit of buff to make it look a little bit brighter lots of people don't like having a physical exfoliant they feel like it kind of tears their skin up so be careful if you do have sensitive skin I want you to be mindful of that the micro fine beads they're very very fine so I don't feel like it irritates my skin and some days my skin can be very angry at me because of my retin A but this one right here just seems to take off all that dead skin and just helps to be able to quickly go and polish my skin and make it look brighter and I've been loving that one as well also another one that I am very very impressed with this product this is from niad and this is the neck elasticity catalyst now I am not one that normally goes for any sort of neck cream but I thought I would try this because it just looked different than all of the neck creams I've seen the ones that I've tried you get them on and yeah they feel okay as they're going on but there is a product in there something that they use to make you feel like you're getting a tightening effect that will eventually just sit on the skin and as you are putting on your makeup or as your maybe putting on your sunscreen or something it balls off and that drives me crazy when some product gets on my skin it's not sinking in and it's balling up and making you know a mess of my makeup that I've just spent 20 30 minutes doing but this doesn't you can tell that this is a very thick product I'm not crazy about the delivery system however they say that the double size of this comes in a different delivery system but this is a very thick product that looks like the consistency of honey it doesn't come out very easily at all you have to really kind of almost dig in there I store mine upside down so I don't have to and I can just touch the top but as I'm putting this on my hand it feels silky it feels lovely it doesn't have a great scent it smells like it's definitely got ingredients in there that should be helping and I feel like this just penetrates the skin goes so seamlessly into the skin and just makes my neck so soft my neck and my decollete and then I go about halfway up my cheeks for this situation right here with my skin I know that my skin is very saggy after I lost that 100 plus pounds it was just hanging and just felt awful and I started using this along with a device that I'm going to show you in just a second but I was using the device the LED light is what I'm going to show you but I was using that and I didn't feel like I was having the effects that this does especially for the smoothness and how silky my skin feels now and I just can't say enough about how well this sinks into your skin I know that this is not inexpensive but I did get mine from skin store so if you're interested they do have sales all the time get on their mailing list and you can get quite a bit off so I do love that one now in talking about this led light I actually have two and the reason I have two is because I talked about this one that is cordless on my channel and you can't get this one anymore I've looked and looked for it and you can't find it anymore so I wanted to try another one that could show you guys and this is my red light therapy it does come with different heads and they just pop out and then you can pop them back on and the green one I am excited to try I haven't had enough I haven't had enough time to test that one out but they say that it helps with dark circles you guys know I complain about my dark circles all the time so I'm excited to be able to try that one for dark circles but this is further this is red I love this one as much as I love the other one because you can really just put it where you want to you get that targeted led light the red is for cellular turnover to help collagen so as you're turning over those cells and as you're promoting collagen through the red light therapy your wrinkles diminish and I'll tell you the most I've noticed is right around my mouth and right at my 11s I have terrible frown lines because I've always been somebody that really spent a lot of time with a lot of facial expressions everybody knew what I was feeling and so for my lips they have terrible vertical lines I have the 11s I have bad lines across my forehead makeup is smoke and mirrors people but this is what is tried and true as far as helping those this year I have really felt like this led light and then the other device I'm going to show you has helped me so much actually there's two more devices I'm going to show you it's just helped me so very much it's helped me to be able to feel a little bit better about aging and how quickly all of these things are coming on me especially during menopause and then I heard on penny's channel about this isntree green toner for it green tea fresh toner and the reason that I was so excited about this is the study that penny showed is that this green tea put on your face about 15 to 20 minutes before you do your led light will boost the efficacy of the red light 10 times if I can find something that's going to boost what I'm doing 10 times you bet I'm going to jump on it and that's what this is this is just a fabulous product that has really helped me and I am telling you I do this every single night and this has really made a difference it just seems to be accelerating the process of rejuvenating those fine lines especially around my mouth my mouth has just something has happened to where I feel like everything is so much better around my mouth no more harsh harsh vertical lines I still have them somewhat but no more harshness and I'm just really loving this and I'm trying to be really really patient with my eyes because I have a lot of like I said a lot of expression lines the eyes are a little bit harder but along with the eyes I actually won in a contest on instagram this naira device so this was gifted to me but it wasn't gifted to me as an influencer and you have probably seen the naira everywhere this is five to ten minutes for me I do use it around my mouth and I use it in these marionette lines or nasal labia folds that's what those are called marionette lines are down here but I use it in those I use it around my mouth I use it on my leavens and all around my eyes and I if I could do it I would like be doing this everywhere but this has really helped me a lot too this has five different settings and you pick a setting that is right for you when I first started I had to start on level one because I have a temperature that runs about a degree lower than it should and so I felt like things were just a little bit too hot for me because it is a laser so it's going to get a little bit hot on you and you would need to be a little bit careful about that start on a lower setting bump it up as you need to but this has just been so good for around the eyes now I still have these deep deep wrinkles and I still have all of that expression lines that are right there but I do feel like at rest that they're much more diminished and when I say at rest it's just like when I'm talking to you and we're you know chatting I don't feel like they're so bad like they used to be so I'm loving that I love that I was able to get it and that I can share it with you and share my experience with you I've really noticed that this fold right here around my nose has been diminished quite a bit and it's not for anywhere except for those heavy wrinkles and like I said I do use it all the way around my mouth I do four different passes across like you know in a pattern where you're going up just a little bit and going up just a little bit but yeah whatever's happening with my mouth over the devices I'm using I'm going to keep on it because it's that good and the LED light is probably the first one that I would recommend for all of your all-around turning over the skin and helping with the wrinkles and the fine lines and then this one this one is really good too I really didn't plan on talking about devices too much but this is the end of the year this is what I've gotten for this year so we might as well just talk about it this is the microcurrent mini it is a microcurrent device and it is meant to help your skin help lift your skin and help get results with your sagging and I got this one particularly because the new face has a very big ball that you run across and then you have to put on a different head in order to go around your eyes and I didn't want to have to buy both of those this is not an inexpensive thing this is quite expensive but I knew that it was going to be an investment for me and I knew that I wanted to do it so I use this all over my neck and then I use it on my jawline I also use it to help carve out some cheekbones here I use it in between my eyes I use it to help lift my eyes my forehead and I do use it around my mouth and because these little probes are smaller I'm really able to get into these little areas that I need to to help lift them I didn't buy all of these at once this year I was sent this one I was planning on buying it before I won it but I was sent it so I didn't buy them all at once it's kind of been a progression for me but I will tell you that these are three that I absolutely love having I want to try out for you guys an LED that is the complete face when you've seen the masks and then the one that goes down the neck that's my next purchase coming and to let you guys know whether or not that's worth it but if you're wanting to get started right away this isn't that much it was really quite inexpensive for me and I want to recommend that to you okay last three actual skincare products I have two moisturizers the first one is the glycolic cream five percent and this one is from prescript skin and this is a great moisturizer I have been in love with the suko yaka suhara for such a long time for being a thick moisturizer this one is thick as well not quite as thick as that one but the glycolic acid in it I love that as well because it gives that little bit of turnover and my skin just seems so smooth and so nice when I do use this a little bit too heavy to go under foundation but in the morning I have been using this radiant sole beauty this is the brightening moisturizing cream and this one is a little bit thicker as well but it's just light enough to go under my foundation and yet because I am so dry it is thick enough to give me that hydration I need throughout the day I have really been enjoying this I've been loving the glycolic as well but this one is for night and this one is for the day and they're not that expensive I was really surprised oh I forgot to tell you that I did get sent these by i i herb i herb whatever you say it but I would recommend these to you anyway because honestly they are both beautiful creams and I'm going to repurchase them absolutely because I love what the glycolic cream does as far as that smoothing and I feel like it does the smoothing because it's exfoliating and then this brightening one oh and by the way this has niacinamide in it shea butter and adenosine adenosine is the heart medication but in this particular cream it's being used as a skin aging supplement so it's been used to soften to brighten and to affect the signs of aging with dark spots and all that kind of stuff so I do really like that one a lot lastly no dermatology this is the tinted moisturizer with an spf of 46 in it this is wonderful this one is light it's moisturizing if you have a tendency to not want to wear foundation this has that tint in it that is so pretty so I definitely want to recommend that and tell you that it's got a great moisturizer in it I feel like it the moisturizing agent is fantastic now I will say that if you're an oily skin gal again you might not like this as much because I do feel quite a bit of slip in there but I use it all the time and I love it I do two pumps on my face and then I do another pump for my chest and my neck and my ears and the back of my hands whatever's left over I put on the back of my hands any time anyway anytime so I wanted to make sure I told you about that this was a product that I was so glad I found this year that's it for my 10 finds of 2020 plus three different devices that I feel like has just made such a fantastic difference and I'm so excited about them so I hope this was helpful to you all 2020 is almost over and I'm going to continue to continue to bring you the best of and in installments of different things so keep watching are there skincare products that you discovered this year that you are just gaga over I would love to hear that from you let me know that in the just in the comment section below make sure you take care of yourselves stay happy stay healthy stay hydrated stay safe out there at the end of this year and I love you very much and I'll catch you in my next video bye friends