Routine check!

Most of the products I use are K-beauty. I got really into them about a year ago and my skin has never been better! Granted, I still use some western products but that’s so far limited to my retinoid (adapalene gel 0,1%) and my face oil (hempseed oil). My morning and evening routine are typically similar with a few exceptions.
I also cycle adapalene and the exfoliant. I designated Sunday as a rest day for some reason lol. When I remember to, I use the cicaplast baume at night on Sunday. The last pic is my current skin. Pic was taken a day before this post☺️🫰🏽

Morning routine
Cleanse>treat>protect
Celimax cleanser
Mugwort essence as toner
Melano cc to treat pigmentation (the only thing I struggle with now😩)
Celimax pore dark spot serum is a very recent purchase (I have medium expectations)
BOJ eye serum is love in an eye cream! (J’adore)
The isntree exfoliating moisturiser with 5% PHA is great (I’ve been skipping straight to sunscreen lately tho)
BOJ relief sun rice probiotics sunscreen is of course my final step et voila!

Comments:
The cleanser is great and truly does balance skin pH. I just don’t get why it has so many potentially irritating ingredients. After I use it, my skin feels baby soft, but it contains lavender oil, bergamot oil, limonene and a lot of fragrant ingredients! I didn’t notice this before I made the purchase tbh. Luckily, i’m not sensitive to fragrance for now at least so no complaints, but I think i’ll try a different cleanser (also low pH) once this runs out. It’s so economical tho, it’s crazy😂

Melano CC: It works but slowly and steadily! It took a while to notice. I actually thought it wasn’t doing anything initially. Now i’ve added txa from the dark spot serum, I hope things will speed up a bit. It works though and is not at all irritating so I still recommend.

My night routine is the same plus a few other calming serums like the PKL calming moisture serum and the snail mucin from Cosrx(lovee this one btw). I also double cleanse with an oil cleanser from hadalabo followed by the celimax one. Depending on the day of the week, I either exfoliate or use my retinoid, but never both on the same night! The final step is the face oil which I acknowledge isn’t technically necessary, but I love it so much😭 so yea.

Hopefully this post helps someone. As you can probably see, I am a man with skin of colour😂. not the usual AB consumer you see everyday, but yea. I fully believe asian beauty especially K-beauty products are miles ahead of what the west offers. I’d happily answer any questions you might have☺️🩵

by Current-Form-5110