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My Nighttime Fungal Acne Skincare Routine | Which Products to use at Night
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Brooke's Beauty Bazaar. I hope you guys are all doing well
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So you may remember in my last video that I posted, I did my morning fungal acne skincare routine
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shared all those steps with you guys. It was pretty basic. And at the end of that video
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I promised you guys that I would be dropping my PM routine. So that is what we are here for today
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So as a quick preface to this video, I just wanted to say to you guys
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it is really hard to just put down on paper or in this video what my PM skincare routine truly is
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because I will be honest, I'm very intuitive with my skin. And while I am consistent in
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completing at least a three-step skincare routine every single night, I'm a little bit less
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consistent on which product I always use, because in each step there are multiple steps
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So each main category, there's multiple things that I do. And then there's multiple products
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that I'll use and combine differently depending on how my skin is feeling. I'm super into kind
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of intuitively listening to my skin. So if it's really congested, I'll do certain things. If I'm
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having some breakouts, I'll do something different. If it's really good, I'll do something different
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If it's really good, I'll do something completely different from that too. So it really does vary
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And I am going to share all of that with you guys today. So while I have three major steps
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there are one, two, three, four, five, six, there are 11 varied products here that I actually use
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but not all at the same time. So buckle in, it's going to be a little bit of a longer video
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but I'm going to try and give you all the information in a very clear and more concise
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way. So let's go ahead and get right into this. So the first major category, the first major step
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that we're going to do is cleanse our skin. Now, for me personally, I still do the same thing that
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I always have done, which is a double cleanse, which just means that with one product, I'm going
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to remove all of my makeup. And with a second product, I'm actually going to cleanse my skin
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Hear me now when I say this, you guys do not have to double cleanse your skin. It is more than okay
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for you to just wash your face. The main thing that you need to consider when you're doing your
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cleansing step is that you're actually cleaning your skin. So if you were to take like a cotton
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swab and swab your face after you cleanse your skin, there should not be any residue or any makeup
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left on your skin at all. And that's the whole point. And that way I know that all the next steps
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that I'm doing to work with my skin and make it amazing are actually going to be that much more
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effective because I'm not sleeping in dirt and grime. So that's just a quick note on the cleansing
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step. So that being said, the first thing that I will do when I cleanse my skin is go in with the
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Albalene Moisturizing Cleanser. Now this is the same stuff I've been using for a really long time
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now. It is still completely fungal acne safe. And then once I've massaged that all over in my skin
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I will take a simple washcloth and I will use like lukewarm to cold water. Lately I've been
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going more on the cold side and I actually think that that's a really good change that I've made
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So cool water and I will just really get all of that makeup off by just rubbing my skin in circular
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motions just like you see me pretending to do right now. That's what I do. Because I'm someone
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who wears eye makeup pretty much every day too, I will go in after doing this with this Bioderma
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Sensibio H2O Micellar Water. Now if you guys are not such a fan of like the double cleanse or
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whatever, you could actually just use this Sensibio as your main like makeup remover like cleanser in
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general. And you could just take all your makeup off and then you don't even really have to use
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an actual cleanser if you don't want to. But I definitely am going to. Then I'm still you guys
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using the same thing. I feel like my cleansing step has not changed at all except for the cold
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water thing. I'm still going in with my Sabium Gel Moussant by Bioderma. This is my favorite
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favorite product. I just don't ever really want to change from this because it works so well for me
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It's so gentle. It's non-irritating. It is just so good. So I'm probably never going to get rid
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of this blue bottle. Get used to seeing it. You'll see it a hundred more times where this came from
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This I just use a little bit, massage it all over my face, rinse with cold water, and we are on to
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the next step. So the second big step in this routine is to treat your skin with some kind of
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active spot treatment, something like that. So this is also another category where this is going to
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vary a lot. I have four different products here, so I'm just going to quickly run through these
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If my skin is feeling like I'm having a lot of breakouts, if it's especially bumpy or something
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and something's just weird about it, then I am definitely going in with my tried and true
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Stridex Maximum Strength Pads. These are going to be great for clearing up your fungal acne. In fact
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if you're someone who is just into the fungal acne stuff, this is one of those products that
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I would say you just need to get your hands on. It is inexpensive. It is so, so effective
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All right, you guys. Sorry if I'm looking a little red right now. I am having an allergy
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attack like crazy. It's so weird. Out of nowhere. But another product that I just got my hands on
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that's a good spot treatment kind of a gig is this AZ Clear Action Azelaic Acid Antibacterial Cream
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This is a treatment for pimples and acne, blackheads, and papulopustular rosacea
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OMG, that's a hard word to say. My sister actually has been using this a lot, and I can tell after
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the first time that she used this product, I hadn't quite started yet. I looked at her skin
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and she, you guys, had everything just looked so much brighter and clearer. I have used this a few
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different times, and I also could notice that my skin was a lot brighter the next morning. It looked
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a lot like my pores had kind of shrunk down, and overall, I did feel like I was a lot clearer
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As a side effect, it does kind of lighten your skin a little bit, so that's just something like
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precautionary. I'm just letting you know. It's not marketed to do that, but it does have that as a
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side effect. So just be cautious and aware if you wanted to get your hands on this. I will try to
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find a link and get this for you guys, but it's not really easy to find. You can't get it on Amazon
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or anywhere like that that I know of, so I'll let you know, and it takes forever to ship depending
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on where you are in the world, so heads up on that. I will say that sometimes when I put this on, it
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feels a tiny bit itchy after I put it on, so that's a little bit weird, but so far, I'm still kind of
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liking it, still testing it out, and if you want to get your hands on it, this is something that I
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would use if my skin was congested, if I wanted to clear some more pimples up, and I just felt like
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I had been going hardcore on salicylic acid, I just think sometimes I like to, you know, change it up
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and see what the result will be, so I won't, you know, in lieu of using these, I'll try this instead
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and it seems to be very effective, so either would be a good purchase. Third treatment option. This is
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one I actually go for almost every single night. This is The Ordinary's Niacinamide 10% plus Zinc
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1%. They call this a high-strength vitamin and mineral blemish formula. What I notice about this
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is when I do use it, and sometimes I get like cystic things on my chin that I just kind of
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think are hormonal or something like that, I notice that after I use this, those will significantly
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decrease in size and like, you know, swelling basically, and then another thing that I always
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notice when I use this is that my skin just looks so much clearer and brighter, and my pores always
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look way smaller than they did the night before. So if you're kind of in that like phase where you
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feel like you just notice your pores a lot and you're looking for something that might help you
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with that a little bit, these kind of act as decongestants for your pores. That's kind of how
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I think of them, and especially this one, I have a lot of like time, I've spent a lot of time using
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this, and I absolutely swear by this stuff, so that's another really good one. Last but not least
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I'm someone who really wants to consider anti-aging and using a few more different types
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of products in my skin, and one product that I really love is to have a vitamin C. It just really
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helps with like radiance and just glowiness and youthfulness in your skin, and I will have talked
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about this in my A.N. video, but sometimes I will put this Hyalamide C25 Vitamin C Booster on my
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skin at night too. Normally I don't mix this in if I'm using one of these other products, it's just
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like a standalone night, so if my skin was looking especially good and I just thought, oh I'm going
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to try to maintain that the best of my ability or add to that even more, I'll reach for this and
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then follow it up with the third category, which is a great segue into our third and final category
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which is moisturize. So for moisturizing, I will always almost always start out by using my
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humectant, so that is filtered water, and I spritz this all over my face after I've let the like
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active type ingredient dry down on my skin pretty, you know, for at least about five minutes. And then
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I'll follow it up with my hyaluronic acid. You guys know this is like my winning combo, and on
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nights when I feel like a thicker, heavier moisturizer is too much, I'll just go in with
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this twice. So sometimes in the summer, this is the only thing I use for moisture, and to be honest
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it works really, really well for me. But on nights when I do need it, because that happens too
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I will follow that process up after it dries down with a hit of the CeraVe moisturizing cream
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I've always used this on my face since I can remember because it's been the only one that I
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feel like I just get the result I need. This is my winter standby, but I will skip it if my skin
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just feels like it's overwhelmed with moisture and it's a little bit too clogged, and I'll just use
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this. But you don't want to totally skip moisturizer because your skin needs moisture to actually get
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the healing process and help your other ingredients work better. So just don't skip moisturizer even
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if you are a little bit oilier. At least do something light, so at least go in with something
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like this combo. Just to give you guys an option because it is something that I occasionally do
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and actually I've been doing a lot, is go in with squalane oil. So this is the Biosense 100
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squalane oil. It's 100% plant derived. It is of the sugar cane variety and not of the olive oil
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variety. Just to clarify, I can confirm that because I've checked in with Biosense about that
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and if it ever changes then I would probably have to change up the one that I use. But I've been
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using this forever since long before I ever knew about fungal acne and really liking it
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This is something that if I use it, I don't go heavy on it. I just put like a pump into my hand
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I kind of like rub it between my palms, and then I just press it onto my skin just so that I'm not
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soaking and super oily because then it will take way too long to dry down and all that stuff
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and I don't want to mess with that. Lately my winning combination has been double cleanse
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with all my little products, then niacinamide, and then I've been going in with this followed
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up by just a pat of this, and that seems to be my current favorite combination of these ingredients
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but that is subject to change next week. So that's why I wanted to show you guys all of these
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options and give you a variety of things here. So as always, if you guys have questions, let me know
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in the comment section below. I know that I didn't exactly share a moisturizer that was glycerin free
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apart from this Biosense squalane oil. If you guys want that, I'm going to leave one below that it is
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by Fab, First Aid Beauty. It's the coconut water moisturizer. I'm going to link it below, and it is
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fungal acne safe, which sounds kind of crazy because it's like got coconut in the name, but
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it is okay. It checks out, and I will link that below as well if you guys are looking for something
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that's a little bit more like marketed as a face moisturizer, then I'm going to put that, but you
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know, with fungal acne you have to disrupt everything that you know about beauty, and it's
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not a sin to use something like this on your face. You just have to be very aware of what you're
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doing and smart about it so you're listening to your skin. That is everything that I have for
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will see you in my next video, and if you want to check out my previous video, which was my AM
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skincare routine, I'm going to link it right now. Thanks for watching. Bye
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