 Hey guys it's Monica. I want to quickly share with you a couple of things. You know sometimes I get questions and like I'm always a little bit reluctant to sometimes answer the questions because I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them what to do that I'm a dermatologist which you all know I'm not or that I'm any kind of a skincare expert but I often get sometimes the same questions one after another and so every now and then when that happens I figure it might be best to just kind of address it in a little video so in this video I'm going to tackle the thorny topic of vitamin C. What do I use? How do I use it? When do I use it? So I have been for gosh I don't know ever since I first started using vitamin C in my face and maybe summer of 2016 I'm really not too sure now. I have been using the timeless vitamin C. Now before I got the timeless I bought vitamin C over the counter at TJ Maxx at Marshall's or any place any place I could find some vitamin C I would just pick it up and then I realized that there was a difference between vitamin C's. So for the longest time I was an Abbott Timeless Vitamin C user. I absolutely loved it. Now I follow the Mariela after 60 way of doing this and so when I say that I will buy the timeless vitamin C when it has their big when they have their big sales sometimes it's 50% off now at the last one I saw was 40% off but then I will buy the big refill bottle and I usually buy one big one sometimes I have two going or whatever but then I will wrap it up really tight and I will put it in the freezer. I put it in the freezer I dated so I know when it went in the freezer and all of that stuff. I usually have a smaller bottle and I just pour the larger bottle into it as I need it. So at one point I kept hearing about Matt Hippie, Matt Hippie, Matt Hippie. There are a number of content creators that just absolutely love the Matt Hippie vitamin C. So I thought my gosh you know when it went on sale there was a really great sale. I can't remember the exact you know what the savings was but it was significant. So I bought two bottles of the Matt Hippie vitamin C because it was a huge huge sale. One bottle was still in my freezer and I just finished. This is completely empty this one bottle. While I was working on the Matt Hippie I had figured I would let the timeless rest. So the timeless stayed in the freezer. I kind of reluctantly abandoned it to see if the Matt Hippie was going to be better for my skin if I was going to have a visual improvement if you know what was going to happen. So I didn't pick up on it right away. It took a while. I think I was using this. I mean the difference in the consistency is this is a real thick consistency. It's tacky. It does absorb nicely into the skin but it's tacky where this is much more watery. No tackiness at all. When I get up in the morning I wash my face. I tone my face. I use an essence most of the time not all the time and then I would immediately go in and I would use my vitamin C and then after my vitamin C I would use my metrixal. So the difference is between the two and this is really what I want to talk about. So I only use the vitamin C in the morning. Now I know some people use it at night along with their retinae and that's fine. Whatever floats their boat whatever works for them whatever their dermatologist says their skincare professional says I definitely think they should do. For me however I only use this in the morning. So what I was noticing when I stopped using the timeless and I went to the mad hippie is after a week or so I kept picking up on the fact now I have a hard time when my skin is peeling anyways. So I kept picking up on the fact that my foundation whatever foundation I would put on it would immediately peel up. It would like it would like get gunky looking and and just you know like glue on my face I don't know how better to describe it. I would wash it off and I would like startle over again and sometimes after I wash my face again it would be a little bit better and because my skin peels a lot I have I have to deal with foundation issues more than I care to. But the one thing that I noticed for me anyways if I use this in the morning no matter what foundation I put on no matter what condition my skin is my canvas can be smooth as a baby's bum and I stick this on and then I put a foundation over it and it's gonna be it's gonna be it's just gonna be awful. So for me the mad hippie vitamin c simply does not play with any foundation that I use it just doesn't. So I kept trying kept trying and then after a while I kept thinking it's gotta be this I stopped using the mad hippie I cleaned off my face I just stopped using it I let like two or three days go by without any vitamin c and I'm really addicted to vitamin c. I took my timeless out of the freezer this was almost gone took this out of the freezer and I started to use this. I had no problems at all I would use my vitamin c I would do my normal routine I would put my my skin my my foundation on do my normal thing I didn't have a problem now granted if my skin was in a flaky stage I had a problem no matter what but when it isn't in the flaky stage I had a horrible horrible issue with the mad hippie vitamin c. So I wasn't too sure what was going on so every time I use this the timeless my foundation was almost flawless it was beautiful and then I said well I'm gonna give it a test my skin's not flaking my skin's in really super super good condition my canvas is nice I took the rest of this I put it on my face I did the matrixal just like I normally would I went and I did my makeup after it you know absorbed in I don't know 20 minutes depends on my day I put my foundation on and my foundation just totally looked like crap looked like crap washed it off did it again it was a little bit better but not much better the next morning I just used the mad hippie with nothing else no matrixal no other product let it sink in came in did my foundation and my foundation looked like crap again now I'm exfoliating my skin I'm making sure that dead skin is off I know when I'm going through a peely stage because I have them frequently and I also know when my canvas is really super smooth so for me personally the mad hippie was a huge fail under makeup it may be an awesome vitamin c I'm not doubting that it may be an awesome and the only other vitamin c that I consistently used was the timeless I do want to look at the when it's a skin dab I wanted to look their vitamin c because I used some of their products that I really really like but I haven't bought their vitamin c yet so it the timeless which is 20% c e plus c and e and for like acic serum I really really like this the mad hippie vitamin c serum alone on weekends I had no issues with it but under makeup this thing just bit it it just was no good for me so this is great this isn't I use my my retinae cream 1% and hydroquinone mixture and then a 1% retinae alternate so one night I'm using the retinae in combination with hydroquinone cream and I put that on the areas especially where I have like the darker spots that I'm trying to concentrate on the next night I just use my 1% retinae and I have that's my routine so I don't use the vitamin c in the evening in conjunction with my retinae I just don't so whether that makes a difference or not I don't know but for me retinae and vitamin c they just don't go together on the same in the same application so to me the retinae is at night the vitamin c's in the morning so in the morning also it's a no-brainer you have to have your sunblock you definitely have to have your sunblock I mean what are you doing everything do you skin for if you're just going to walk around and let it get sun exposure and get wrecked so that's the answer the questions about my vitamin c which one I'm liking how I'm using it and when I use it in conjunction with my retinae my little retinae smash so in my little retinae stash I have the retinae that I'm currently using I use the hydroquinone trillium and then I use the tretinoin gel 1% alternate I alternate these I use this the Olay pro retinol around my eyes every morning and every night and I use this going down my neck at night only so this is a 0.5% I was using a 0.25% down my neck I ran out of that so now I'm working on this I usually mix this with a little bit of my rose hip seed oil in my hand and I just put that down my neck I mean you could use any other any other oil if you want it's just that I for me that works really down my neck really nice and then in the morning I use different neck creams I don't use the retinae at all so that's what I'm doing for my retinae so that kind of is a long roundabout way to answer the question you had on how I'm using vitamin c I'm using it in the morning so thanks so much for hanging in there and I will share with you a couple of other things in my next video