 Information I wish somebody had told me on the channel channel intervals of sanity I know my girlfriends and I had discussions about menopause and the fun not so fun side effects It's kind of a funny conversation if I can find the link to the broadcast I'll link it in the description below. But anyway, one of the things I've discovered is My already sensitive skin that I've had since birth since I can remember is so much more sensitive now And it was oily most of my life until I hit menopause and now it's just dries a bone, so I Periodically get Itchiness and redness You can see a little bit of it right here. I got itchy this morning before I took a shower Which you can see I just did because my hair is wet I Get and you can see a little bit of scarring or spots still it's mostly gone Where I get like itchy rashes here. They start out looking like pimples like this one that's trying to come but it's now going away and Then they get red and they get itchy and then they turn into sort of a psoriasis scab and What I would think of is traditional treatments for them don't work and You would think about putting some pimple cream on it or something like that To dry it out doesn't work. I need to super moisturize and that's what makes it go away So I'm gonna go through my skincare routine and I'm gonna actually show you what makeup I'm using now that works on my 56 year old skin that doesn't make me look ridiculous I don't use too many powders anymore because they just stick in all the wrinkles and the creepy skin and make it You look worse than yeah So to start off, of course clean skin So I only use two kinds of cleanser because I found these either one of these I can use and they both don't make me break out Or make me itchy. So see-to-fill Any of the see-to-fills actually are fine This I have the daily facial cleanser this one works really well This is this lives in the shower. My husband uses it too The sensitive skin one works are really great, but this one's not that either The other only other one I found it doesn't make me itchy and Caused me issues is Mary Kay time-wise repair value from foaming cleanser. It's a like It's a mouthful. No, this is the video by the way. I'm gonna start out. It's not sponsored. Nobody sent me anything I bought all these products. I will link them in the description below My cousin is a Mary Kay consultant fun fact, so I Do get these from her I will link her Links in the description below to her consultant site, but I'm not getting any money for that I buy these from her. She ships them to Oregon and I get the whole time wise time wise Repair line of products, none of them make my super sensitive skin break out fun fact Okay, so I've already cleaned my skin. You can tell my hair is wet. So the next thing I do is Check my face for that fun menopausal facial hair because yeah the fun heavy-duty Chin hairs and the mustache hairs I can't wax anymore because when I do I break out in hives all around my face and then they're there for 24 hours It's not just like an hour thing. It's there for like 24 hours. And so I just it's not worth it So I use a flawless Little shaver again. I'll link the products below. This works really great I do have to do it like every day or every other day, but it's better than nothing I don't want to be you know mountain mad woman with lots of black facial hair My mustache would be thicker than my husband. So let's not go there. I Also, of course use tweezers now. I do find as I'm getting older I'm having less issue with having to keep my brows tweezed and then having to tweeze around my mouth and chin So when I was younger, I could have had a unibrow so easy at Brook shield eyebrows like super thick And I had to tweeze every day As I'm getting older less eyebrow hair, but more mustache hair and chin hair So, you know, so the first thing we're gonna do is look in the magnifying mirror because that's the other thing Is I can't see what I'm doing any super thick chin hairs or mustache hairs. I tweeze everything else I just shave Yep, I do have curly eyebrow hair So I do and they grow really long So I do sometimes trim them With a pair of scissors and an eyebrow brush I comb them straight up and Then any really super long ones. I just trim them off I call them my Einstein eyebrows. Thanks dad. It's the same reason I have these Okay, so once that's done Then we're gonna start the moisturizing process because what I found like I said is that the best treatment for my sensitive skin and These psoriasis type itchy rashes that I get is moisture. So I need to moisture more than I think I do so the first thing I start off with is a mixture of jojoba oil and vitamin E oil that I mix myself I'll Link the two oils I buy in the description below. I Have mostly have this issue on my chin and jaw line So I put the oil on my cheeks and then I rub it in to the chin and jaw line If I have an active rash I found that to heal it a little quicker besides the vitamin E oil a brieva cold sore Blister treatment actually works really well. They're not cold sores. I do get cold sores Which is why we have this in the house and my husband does too But this is just a healing ointment and for whatever reason I found that it works to speed up the healing process on all of the Rashes, so I'll put a little a little bit goes a long way. That's probably way too much And it's expensive. It's not super cheap But I'll put it anywhere. I think I might be having an issue Okay Then I Will use one of my bombs so I have Healing bombs and well, they're herbal bombs and they help with the redness and the itch A brieva doesn't it just helps with the healing and that oils help moisturize the skin. I have two different bombs. I use On depending on any given day and how actually how itchy things are if things are really really itchy I will use this Soothing dandelion salve that's from an Etsy seller again. I'll link all the Everything in the description below. She sells these little tiny ones. They're $1.50 plus shipping so you can get a little one and try it If it's not actively red and itchy then I use this one and this one I got on a trip to Alaska and I just ordered some more because I'm actually running out and they have another one that I'm gonna try that I Found out about on their website that might work for arthritis pain for my knee It's an herbal healing herbal healing balm with Devils Club. It's from backbay botanicals Works really well. It's a waxy balm. So I'm gonna just Again, I mostly get these rashes along my jawline so That's where I put this And it's very it's got a lot of moisture in it. You can see see how oily my hands got Okay, then I break out the marquette time-wise day cream, which is Running low here. Let's see. I think this one's almost empty. My hands are too greasy to get the top off Okay, hang on Okay, I am one of these people whether it's skincare or art supplies that will take the product packaging apart Even when I think it's empty to get that last little bit out Because you know shit's expensive Okay, so I'm gonna grab some of that Rub it in Now at night, I will do all of the same things. I just did but I will use the night cream And I put on a little bit of the lifting serum And some eye cream at night in the day We'll put on a tiny bit of the night cream. It's thicker Remember what I said about lots of moisture And I'll put it all along the jawline then For daytime, I have the Mary Kay. What is this called? I call it the miracle blue eye gel, but that's not the name of it soothing eye gel I have a couple of different eye gels. I have this one and then I have this other one that my friend Carla McCants set me By dr. Brant needles no more no more baggage eye cream. They both work equally well My only issue with this one is it's tinted and it's tinted sort of an orangey color. So If I'm not wearing foundation, which I don't generally Which we'll get into in the makeup part of this Then I don't wear that one because it does no matter how much you rub it in and thin it out It does leave a little bit of color So I use this one it looks blue, but it goes on clear We pack that in and let it dry. Hey, you can if I'm going to an event I'll do that let it dry and I'll do it one or two more times and let it dry. I do have heavy under eye bags It's genetic. There's nothing I can do about it. My dad's got them if I can find a picture I'll insert it here somewhere His dad had them The only way to get rid of them completely plastic surgery. So Losing weight won't hurt Which I'm working on but you know, they've always been there. So All right, so we're going to let all of that Shiny slick slickness dry down and we'll get to the makeup portion in just a minute Okay, things are still a bit shiny, but it is dry ish so I do start with putting on a Eye primer generally when I'm wearing makeup. I just find that no matter what eye makeup I'm putting on even though I don't put a lot on it helps it stay longer and My makeup dripping off in the midst of hot flashes less of an issue And all of you women out there who are menopausal know exactly what I mean So I've been using the instant age rewind primer From Maybelline for a while. I'm not sure they make it anymore. They might but Again, I'm going to put a list of products in the description and links if I can find them So I'll put a little bit of that on First on the eyelids Okay While that's drying. We're gonna corral the brows. So this is by Almay. It's a brow styler It's a clear brow gel. I love the invention of these brow gels. It's wonderful And I will use my face. So I will Comb them up eyebrows like Einstein so There's not You can't put too much of this stuff on Turn you just a little bit. I do this one. I have lots eyebrow hair. It's just that it wants to grow every which way So most days even when I don't have makeup on I usually have eyebrow gel on that's pretty good They're corralled and they're not gonna go anywhere All right, then I Don't generally wear foundation If my skin is looking decent, I don't definitely don't and having hot flashes and stuff just the less I want to add a little bit of color brightness to my face But I don't want to have tons of makeup on and the older we get the more sort of Facy fuzz we get and the foundation just sticks in the hair and it just doesn't look attractive Not in real life. It's one thing on camera and on film. It looks okay But in real life up close it looks like crap. So I just generally don't even bother When I do I use Mary Kay has a tinted moisturizer. Hang on when I do wear foundation. I I have two Mary Kay foundations both which work well for me The end one isn't really a foundation. It's their tinted moisturizer with SPF 20 And this is the color ivory to and it's very light thin And when I want to during the day put a little bit of color on my face I feel like I need a little bit of something I'll put this I think I'm going to get sweaty and gross and I want something a little heavier They have a CC cream sunscreen broad spectrum SPF 15 tinted cream and This is light to medium and Both of these work again though. I generally don't bother but I do have these if I need them The next thing I found is just eliminating as many powders from my beauty routine as possible really looks better and Lasts longer for me. So I have a couple of Cheek sticks. This is a Clinique chubby stick cheek color in color For plumped up peony. I also have one from bite. Oh, here it is. I also have one from bite cosmetics This is or bite beauty. This is macaroon. They're About the same color This one's a little bit lighter the bite one I haven't used too much yet. I do like it. I use this one more They both work decently well they look kind of bright going on So I just like that so clown face and you can use your fingers. You can use a brush before it dries Sometimes I'll just use a brush. I mean my hands Just add a little color to the cheeks Okay Then I will take all this is why the eyes are drying. This is a Revlon um bomb stain lip I don't like to wear anything that's going to rub off quickly. I like to wear stains of lip stains so that they stay I can have them on there all day. They don't go anywhere. I don't have to think about it Right, so this is uh like a tinted almost like a tinted chapstick, right? But it is pretty dark. So you don't need a lot Just a little bit. I have lots of lipsticks and things but I wear the stain a lot I even have a jeffree star lipstick, but you know All right, so next is eye makeup. So usually I just use um This is by l'oreal infallible never fail eyeliner and it's a dark brown And I honestly I just put this on and smudge it with my fingertip generally and sometimes that's all I wear I did yesterday get a bunch of Ulta. Um, they have these cream eyeshadows and these sticks So we're going to try one of those today I have Cup of joe, which is dark brown a rule of plum a dark purple taupe of the world Color of the cap matches the eye shadow and then naked truth We're going to go in with the dark purple And in the outer corner And then along the eye line Eyelash line And we're going to go in before it dries and move it around smudge it blend it up a bit Let's see if I can get you a better angle here That might be better I did find from doing the samples of this in the store yesterday that once it's on It's on it's not really going anywhere. It's going on very lightly. So I'm going to add some more I want it a little darker Getting in the outer corners will make your eyes look a little wider Set apart. I should preface this by saying I'm no beauty beauty guru. I'm no expert. I only know what I do on my face That looks pretty good Oops, what do you think? All right, I'm going to take one of these other color the lighter colors And we're just adding a little color to my otherwise pale and pasty face That's pretty good that drawer Okay, now the next thing I do before I put on mascara, which I will do because My eyelashes are turning gray Um is I'll put on a setting spray just to help keep things in place now Mostly that was in the past for my eyeshadow Because I I do have and use occasionally powdered eyeshadows So this step is really important when I have powdered eyeshadow with this new cream one I don't know if I need to do this or not, but we're going to anyway So but I do it before mascara So that I don't do this and then get black mascara streaks all over my face that I then have to clean up Because that's a thing So this is urban decays chill makeup setting spray I just close my eyes Spray and let that dry And then we have as our last step maybelline's rocket volume express mascara in black And I don't always curl my lashes, but we're going to today Because I am going to be doing trying to do some filming today, which is why I'm doing all this And in case my face is on camera You're probably all tired of looking at my pale pasty eye bagged face. So You know, we'll put a little color. All right, so we're going to curl If I'm you know, not filming or having my picture taken I don't know ways to worry about curling my eyelashes. I'll just put the mascara on straight Um just depends on my mood to be honest I have found that Post menopause with the changes in my skin I need to use more cream products and less powder For an attractive result The powders Just stick in every crass Every crack and crevice Um as we get older Or as I'm getting older the skin around my eyes is getting sort of creepy And all you women out there who are my age know exactly what I mean. I know you do And the powders just emphasize the creepy skin Too much foundation Um just makes my face look like it's covered in fur Which it is but we don't need the world to know that I also found that as I'm getting older I don't want to be one of those older women that has like two tons of makeup on I want to sometimes have a little bit A little bit will go a long way But doesn't mean I have to have tons And be crazy about it I do often start to have a hot flash in the midst of putting on my makeup, which I'm having right now Which just makes the whole process fun Right? Got you new spots I missed Grab a q-tip to clean up any messes I made That's my skincare and makeup routine What's yours? I'd love to know if you have any hints or tips for finicky menopausal Sensitive skin I'd love to hear him. This is what I found that works for me out of much trial and error, especially over the last year Um, I've had um a lot of problems I keep blinking I've had a lot of problems with the rashes and things over the last year Some of it's stressed and stress induced. Um It definitely hasn't been fun, but it's been a lot of trial and error for At least a year if not longer figuring out what exactly will work on my skin And this this routine seems to be working. So if you have any hints or tips though, I'd sure like to know I'll leave links to the products in the description below and I hope this helps somebody. It's just a little something different I'm no beauty guru or beauty expert and by the way off camera I didn't do much to my hair. I do Find that um, thank you to menopaus. I am Having some hair loss and thinning. I think I've mentioned this on camera before So I am using nyoxin 2 shampoo and conditioner and scalp treatment, which is this stuff It is helping Reach hard the hair loss. I don't know that I'm getting a lot of hair growth back But it's not falling out anymore bonus points Like my skin my hair is dry. It used to be very oily when I was younger So in addition to not blow drying my hair or curling it any more than I absolutely have to Every single day I use brazilian blowout products. I use the dry oil On my hair and then I use the soothing serum They're very moisturizing They're intended for people who blow dry their hair a lot to get it to look less frizzy And I just find that they work really well for keeping the moisture in my hair And then every now and then I do do some kind of hair Hair mask where I put a lot of um conditioner I think the one I have is l'oreal. Let's say hang on it's from dollar tree Oh garnier. I'm sorry garnier Whole blend single use rinse out care cream Um, I'll put this in my hair Put it up in a shower cap and leave it on for like 15 minutes It's usually on a day where I'm so lucky my husband hasn't taken my picture and posted it on the internet because it's usually on a day where I have also A moisturizing face mask on and usually the little patches under my eyes And I'll just do everything at once and leave it on for 15 or 20 minutes and then go take a shower I just look like a you know A scary monster. I don't know. It's a pretty funny sight Anyway, I do that too and that helps keeps my hair moisturized and You know looking less frizzy And this it's still wet all I did was put the products in and then just scrunch them in like this And then that's it. That's all I did So anyway, uh, if you have any tips or hints, I would sure love to hear them and let's share and let's Not be afraid to talk about the side effects of menopause. I think it's a good conversation to have Um, and it's something I think the younger women out there need to know Especially ones that aren't getting information from the women in their lives. I think it's a good thing All right, that's it for today. Don't forget to like share and subscribe and if you're new here welcome I usually do art videos. This is a little different for me. Um If you have any questions comments or concerns, please leave them down below All the information including places you can find my social media links and my etsy store and all of that stuff are in the video description There's a link that starts link tree and then my name if you click on that That's going to take you to a list of links where you can find me and follow me on social media And find my etsy shop and all that stuff happy mail addresses down there All that jazz so check out the video description Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. 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