 I am going to be sharing with you some of the very best skin care that I have ever found and it is super affordable and of course Ollie and Smuckers are going to be running out. Lacey's asleep. Let's see if we can get into this video right now. Hello my friends. Not only is this a topic that I absolutely love talking about, which is affordable skin care that is just so highly effective and wonderful for my aging skin, but I also am doing this in a collab with a very beautiful young woman and her name is Lauren and her channel is the Honest Beauty Review and I have absolutely fallen in love with this gal. I've been watching her for over a year now. She does the best reviews on skin care because she has all this knowledge. She's a nurse and she works in a hospital and she really retains that intricate ingredient deck understanding of all of how ingredients benefit you and what doesn't benefit you and she goes into those reviews in depth. Not only that, she is stunning. I mean this gal, she is absolutely beautifully stunning. I love watching her too because she has this very soft soothing voice that I love to listen to and she's just very down to earth at the same time. She just seems like a really great person and I've gotten to know her a little bit back and forth through Instagram and yeah she just has a really great channel with all kinds of reviews on all kinds of things but she specializes in skin care and getting into the nitty gritty of what those ingredients are and how they can benefit you or harm you. So I really do hope that you guys go over there and show her some love. I don't think that you'll be disappointed in getting to watch her and I'm really grateful that she reached out to me and wanted to do this video with me. So we're going to get into my favorite affordable skincare and all of the things that have really made a difference for me and we're going to do that right now. All right, if you're going to talk about affordable skin care you got to talk about Hada Labo. This is a Japanese company, I believe it's Japanese and not Korean. It's a Japanese company that has these big containers of products that just seem to be so effective and so good and this is their cleansing oil. You can see it's a huge one. They have refills too which I think is fantastic. They do these refills that you can put into these containers. You know their refills have minimal packaging on them. You use them into these containers. You're wasting less so it's better for the environment too. This cleansing oil is so good for taking off all of my waterproof makeup. I go in with this as a first cleanse to take off all the makeup and then I'll go in and I'll go ahead and use a different cleanser that just gets all of the oils off and everything from this but it's super great at taking everything off especially if I'm wearing waterproof mascara which I don't often wear but I do occasionally and I'm almost out of this one getting ready to order another one. This is so good. It's really really good and then from CeraVe they're hydrating facial cleanser for normal to dry skin. They do have one for normal to oily skin I believe. You can't beat the price on this. Look how big that tub is and it's great. It takes off any oils any residuals from that oil that I just used to take off my makeup and your skin is ready for any other skincare that you're ready to put on it in the morning. This is what I use. I love this. It's huge. It lasts forever. Gotta love it. It's great. And then as a second step is the ordinary glycolic acid 7% toning solution and this is a new bottle. I didn't want to bring my old bottle out because it was all yucky and so I brought out my new bottle. I have repurchased this so many times I can't even begin to tell you how many times. I like this one because it makes my skin feel really soft. My aging skin it makes it feel really soft. I absolutely love it. I think it's a great product. It's one that I just I don't like being without. It helps slough off that dead skin without being irritating and harsh on the skin but it is an acid so if you have any you know like pimples open or any little sores or anything it will sting a little bit if it gets into that but most skincare does sting a little bit if it gets into one of our open sores. But this is just this is one of my right or die skincare products. I love it. Actually so many of these are exactly that just right or die products. One that they are going to have to pry my cold dead hands out of and that is from Good Molecules. This is the niacinamide brightening toner. This has licorice root alpha arbutin niacinamide in it as a toner. It's super brightening super poor refining niacinamide. We'll go in there and clean out all those pores. Arbutin and niacinamide and licorice root all help in different ways to brighten your skin. So licorice root will help with the production of melanin which makes the spots on our skin darker and then niacinamide and the arbutin are going to go in there and they're going to brighten. So one of them is inhibiting the dark color of the melanin and the other one is brightening whatever is there on our face. This has helped my skin. This is one that when I purchased it I don't know maybe two years ago maybe three years ago I and within two weeks three weeks I started to notice that my pores looked so good and I was like am I crazy and then my friend Mary from Glitzy Fritzy she said that on her channel too and I'm like oh it's not just me. I really feel like for aging skin this is just such a good toner for everybody and not only that I shouldn't just say aging skin because this is a good one across the board. It's just beautiful and then if you want super brightening let's go back to Hada Labo. This is their parent company called Roto and this is the Milano CC drops lotion whatever you want to call it. It is one it's an essence that's what I want to call it. Get it out of the air Melissa. Anyway this is just a super light product very very watery. I don't know if you can see it or not very watery. I need to reorder this one as well. I've reordered this so many times. It is fantastic. It has other ingredients in there besides the vitamin C. Vitamin C is a super antioxidant so any of the stressors that we have out there in the environment it's going to attack those and help keep our skin looking youthful from free radicals but it also has really good whitening ingredients in it as well. Lightening, whitening it's just so good. So I find that these products that I'm using they kind of have the same theme. Let's turn over that dead skin. Let's refine those pores and let's make the skin look brighter and have more life. So yes not only do I love that but I love to treat my skin as well and I have several of those. I love Cos de Baja. This is a really good one. This is a peptide facial toner. It has Matrixyl 3000. It has another peptide complex in it. Peptides are those little things that can go into our skin go deeper than just that outer layer and help with those fine lines and wrinkles. Peptides are great for aging skin especially the deep wrinkles. I have just I love this. It's been so good. It's so much less expensive than going out and buying each of these products individually. The ordinary does have the little bottles the one ounce bottles and I get my spectacles on so I could tell you ladies what how big this is. 6.76 ounces is this one and that's what I actually look at. Affordable skincare to me is has to be number one effective. If it's not effective I don't care if it costs two bucks. If it's not effective I'm not going to buy it because I'm going to put 10 bottles of that on my face whereas one bottle like this is going to do so much more for me and that's where effective skincare comes in that's affordable. I have to see differences and I have seen it in just the softening and I won't say that this completely gets rid of wrinkles, botox, fillers. That's about the only thing we can do that's going to completely get rid of all these expression lines and all of these yummy things we have as we get older but if you're wanting something that does show a good difference this is a really really good one. Again these are more like essences than they are. That one is completely out. Oh there's one drop. Oh this one is a little tiny bit thicker. I don't know if you can see that or not as I'm doing that. Little tiny bit thicker so this is almost like a serum. So that has a lot of hyaluronic acid in it too. By the way if you want your skincare to be more effective make sure that you get something like this and put some distilled water in it or some spring water in it. Tap water if you want to and spray this mist across your face. You want to talk affordable skincare this is the very first step that you should do after your cleansing spray your face with water. When you do that you will be shocked at how much more plumped up the wrinkles are the pores look diminished. It's because you're hydrating super uber hydrating and it has to start with water. I loved my friend Sherry from Graceful Beauty. She made this analogy and I use it all the time now is that when you're thirsty we don't drink oil. When you're thirsty you drink water same thing for our skin. We want to not go in with those oils first. You want to go in with a nice drink of water then go in with the toners and then the serums and then put your moisturizer on and I just thought that was a great analogy from her. Now when we talk about affordable skincare here's another product that I haven't opened yet. This is from Sukoyakasuhara. This is a new one. I didn't want to show my old one again because it's almost out and it's yucky but this one is I've purchased this so many times in the past three to four years. This is my moisture saver for my terribly dehydrated dry skin. I cannot go a day without this. I put this on and it feels like my skin is just taut and soft and just bounce back all day long every day and it's made such a huge difference in my skin over the long haul. I have this one which is called the lotion which is really is an essence because it's very very watery. This one is called the lotion. I have the cream extremely thick cream by the way. If you're going to buy it you probably should be a very dry skinned gal like me and living in a very arid climate like me. I put that all over my face after I've done my skincare. It is fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. I don't have it in here but I also have the eye cream. All three of those products I have talked about at Nauseam on my channel until you guys are so sick of hearing about it. It's fantastic. It is such a good product. It is Urea in here. It's the main product that makes everything so hydrating. Urea is a product in urine. It is a one of those ingredients in urine. Yes, but this is created in a lab. I promise you they don't go out and get urine and make this stuff. It's created in a lab to mimic the benefits of that which is uber hydration with a tiny bit of exfoliation that I can put underneath my eyes and exfoliate my eyes. How many products can you say that about? This is gentle enough to go underneath my eyes soothing enough to be able to soothe it on any days when I'm having irritation from retin A or whatever and it is the most hydrating thing on the market I found. I try so many things you guys I really do but when I find what I love I get passionate about it and I get excited about it. From Radiant Soul Beauty. This is the brightening Moisture Eyes and Cream. This is my morning cream or my evening cream. I actually have been using it for both. It's very thick. It is extremely hydrating. I love this stuff. It sinks into the skin no matter how much skincare I have on. It's going to be an occlusive topper as far as just you know going in holding everything on. I use it before I use the Sukoyaku Suhara Cream. That one is way thicker than this one by the way. But this one if you want to you can put it on in the morning and you can do it at night either one. It's not going to interfere with any of your other skincare. It's fantastic. This one again has those brightening ingredients in it and again this is a Korean skincare brand. They just know how to do skincare. They're just so good at it. So I love this stuff. It's so good. I should have talked about this before. Do any of you love the Estee Lauder Night Repair or do any of you love the Lancome Genifique? That serum, both of those serums, has Bifida in it as their main ingredient. That's what's so good for wrinkles, fine lines, dullness, all of those things. It's a fermentation process. It is a fantastic ingredient for aging skin or any skin across the board. It just makes you look brighter, more youthful, helps your fine lines in the long run, really penetrates into the skin. This has that in it but it also has galactomyces in it which that one was discovered after they were making beer forever and they noticed that their hands were looking extremely youthful and they were the dark spots in the wrinkles and it was looking hydrated and yeah. So they put that together in this. I believe that it has niacinamide and vitamin C in it as well and they put it together all in this and this is the serum that I use. I love the secret key. It has just galactomyces in it and I also love that I had another Bifida one that I found that was just fantastic. However, I don't have to do those steps separate now. I can just use this one serum. It's so good. It's a pretty good size bottle too. It is 1.7 fluid ounces. So the Genifique is uber-expensive. The night repair is really expensive. This just is the yumminess in a bottle. It's like 60% Bifida, 30% galactomyces and then the other skincare ingredients. So, so good. I have noticed a huge change in my skin with all of these together that I'm showing you. I did not talk about any sunscreen here. I have a tendency to be very, very picky about my sunscreen because I want it to look really beautiful under makeup because obviously you wear it during the daytime. So I don't have one of those in here. If you want, I'm going to refer you to another video where I talk about my whole entire skincare routine. I know somebody's going to ask that. Let's see your skincare routine. I do those just about once a year because it really doesn't change that much, but when I do try something and I love it, I show it in these. Now, I'm going to show you this is the last step. This is Marula oil from The Ordinary. It is a luxury oil that I think Drunk Elephant has it too, but The Ordinary is a fraction of the cost of the Drunk Elephant. Same product, same organic cold pressed product that is so fantastic. This is a luxury oil that has been touted forever of having the benefits for aging skin and you'll have to excuse my little look that oil is taking those right off. Those are my lip liners for my last video. It's a luxury oil that just sinks into the skin. It's fabulous. It's absolutely wonderful as far as being a great hydrator. Having those properties of fighting aging skin, it's a beautiful oil. Once you try it, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about because it just feels like silk. But it has a super hydrating. Hello, buddy. Hi, Ollie. Hello, buddy. How are you? It has a super hydrating effect about it. We're going to get smugglers in here. It's a good thing that that is my last product of the day because the dogs, now that I have oil on my skin, they're going to lick me and love me up. So this is Smuggers. Hi, Smuggers. Ollie. Ollie, come here. And Lacey, I never show her on camera because she just has a tendency to sleep underneath the covers while everybody else is up. Hi. Hi, everybody. Thanks so much for stopping by. If you guys have skincare that you absolutely love, that's affordable, that you just think that everybody should know about, please leave those in the comment section. I love to hear from you. Hope everybody is doing good. Join me on Instagram if you want to know a little bit more about what's going on with me. I do talk a little bit more about my health and stuff over there as well. And we talk a lot about puppies and have tons of, and Ollie has a ton of dirt on his fingernails. So mama's going to go and take care of this little boy and we will talk to you guys all later. Love you. Bye. Where have you been, Ollie? Oh my God. This is terrible. This is a luxury oil that has been touted forever.