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It’s Mi-Anne and this is
Beauty With Mi.
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I am going to be sharing with you today
my favorite under $15 skincare items.
Some kinda new to market.
Some are old favorites.
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If I’m wearing makeup, which is pretty
much every day, at night I will use a
cleansing balm or cleansing oil to
remove my makeup.
This is a new
one from Physician’s Formula.
It’s called “The Perfect Matcha 3-In-1
Melting Cleansing Balm.”
It is a really good, affordable
cleansing balm.
You would basically
just take a little bit.
Warm it up in your hands.
Apply it to
your face.
And it just melts away
all your makeup.
Waterproof mascara, waterproof eyeliner,
liquid lipstick.
It does the job.
Honestly, it feels really similar to a lot
of the really high-end ones I’ve used
before. So, I would definitely
recommend this one.
After the cleansing balm, you can,
you know, leave it on your skin.
You can wash it off with water.
You can use a damp cloth.
But you can also
double cleanse, and I use this one
morning and night.
This is the CoxRX,
which is the K-Beauty brand, Low-pH
Good Morning Gel Cleanser.
It has tea tree oil in it to fight
bacteria- acne that sort of thing.
It’s gentle.
Good for sensitive skin.
12 bucks.
You can’t go wrong.
It’s huge.
Need I say more.
So, moving on to
the rest of my nighttime routine.
This is the Rosewater and Glycerin
Facial Spray.
This is a very, very, very
popular rosewater spray.
It is in every
makeup artist’s kit.
You can get it at
Urban Outfitters for $10.
You get a
huge amount of it.
Really classic.
It’s a good one.
For serum and moisturizer, I really
enjoy this one by The Ordinary.
This is the Granactive Retinoid in
Squalane.
And what I like about this
is it does have the retinol in it, which
is gonna help with the cellular turnover.
I use it just kinda after my toner as my
moisturizer/serum step.
I love retinol for,
you know, anti-aging, but it’s also great
for acne because it does speed up
kind of like this exfoliation process.
If I’m feeling like I want a little mask,
I’ll kinda switch it up between using
a clay mask, or using an exfoliating
mask, or using a hydrating mask.
This is one that I wanted to call out
today.
This is the e.l.f. Matte
Oil-Control Mask.
And it’s a great, very simple mask.
It has kaolin clay in it, and tea tree oil
to help fight acne.
It does the job. I’m not
very picky when it comes to clay masks.
It dries from your skin like a normal clay
mask does.
It absorbs oil.
Kinda clears out your pores.
And then
you wash it off.
It’s really good.
It’s very, very, very, very affordable.
With clay masks I feel like you can
get away with going for something
that’s much more affordable like this.
So, let’s talk about morning skincare.
So, I will cleanse with the same CoxRX
cleanser, and then follow up with a toner.
Either the Heritage Rose toner, or if
I feel like my skin is feeling a
little dull, I need a little something
extra, I’ll use the Pixi Glow Tonic.
Y’all have probably heard me and
a million other people talk about
this because it is so good.
It has 5% glycolic acid in it, which
is a very gentle acid.
It’ll help, kind of slough
off dead skin cells.
Really give you a good refine, smooth
texture. It smells good.
I just, honestly, tap a
little bit into my hand, and just go
straight onto my skin, and follow up
with my morning moisturizer.
So, for my morning moisturizer I
actually mix products.
So, this is the
All Good Sunscreen Butter, which is
a product that I discovered when I was
doing my zero-waste beauty routine.
It is SPF 50.
Mineral sunscreen.
And it looks like white paint.
But I really like the texture that it left
on my skin.
I find that mineral sunscreen
can almost act as a primer, so I really
enjoyed how this felt, but I wanted
something that would make it just
slightly easier to apply.
So, I decided to
put a couple drops of facial oil into the
sunscreen butter to give it a little bit
more slip.
So, this is the e.l.f.
Nourishing Facial Oil,
and it is a good
simple facial oil; very hydrating,
lightweight, absorbs quickly.
And it has a kind of mixture of
lightweight oils that I really like, so
rosehip, jojoba, sweet almond.
It’s a very small amount, like pea-sized
amount of this sunscreen butter.
A couple of drops of this, mix it together,
apply it to my face.
It makes it so much
easier to rub in.
It’s just this
perfect texture.
Nice, smooth finish that
the mineral sunscreen gives it, but it
gives it this dewiness because of
the oils.
And I think my skin looks
really fresh.
I’m wearing it now, like
with makeup over it.
And I gotta say,
I think my skin looks good.
Alright, so that is it.
8 products all
under 15 that I love.
A couple of items that I think are really,
like you should get them like today….
I’ll tell you.
3 of them.
Glow Tonic.
Classic.
Really good.
This serum oil because honestly, it is
just ridiculously good priced for
what it is.
And last but not least, this
cleansing balm because…
anything to encourage you guys to
remove your makeup before you go
to bed. And it's good.
And it works
really fast.
That is it guys.
I hope you enjoyed
this video.
Please let me know in the
comments with anything else that you
guys want me to do.
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