Alexandra Daddario Shares Her Guide to Face Masks and Easy, Everyday Makeup

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I'm Alexandra Daddario and this morning

I'm gonna walk you through my skincare routine

and my everyday makeup look.

So first, this is my hair in the morning.

So we're gonna put this back

and we're gonna start with

a cleanser.

It looks like a mud sort of mask cleanser,

but it's very pepperminty and spicy.

Glycolic mask, it tingles but it's so good for you,

and I'm not in my 20s anymore,

so I need more acid, I've been told,

and retinols and that kind of thing.

And this is glycolic acid, it's great for you.

You don't need to do a very thick layer.

It already feels tingly.

This is perfect.

And I leave this on until I realize

that I've had it on for too long

and it's time for me to take it off,

which is about 15 minutes.

I have another mask that I love.

It's a sheet mask that I actually got at a spa,

and they used it on me

during my first facial back from COVID,

which was a very exciting moment for me.

And this is very moisturizing.

We always look ridiculous in these, but they work.

I sheet mask on the way to work sometimes,

and I have sheet masked in the lobby of a hotel once,

with a friend.

It's better to do it when you're with someone,

because then you don't seem as eccentric,

because you're doing it together.

And then you just sort of rub this in.

And your skin's all clean

and ready for the holy grail of serums.

This is my secret weapon, I'm obsessed with this product.

I discovered it years ago

when I was suffering from an outbreak of acne.

And it was after a movie that I shot for a long time,

a lot of makeup, I was in the sun all the time.

It was Baywatch.

And I think my hormones were off

and I just hadn't been sleeping and my skin got really bad.

And I tried everything.

I kept coming back to this brand, Vintner's Daughter,

because people kept reviewing it online,

saying that it helped their acne

And I thought, how is that possible that it's an oil?

How can that work? But it does.

It was really the only thing that really worked.

It was incredible.

They now make a treatment essence that you start with.

This product I use day and night, and I use this when I fly.

So you just put this on, don't pull at your skin ever.

You can also put it on your neck.

It's very important to take care of your neck.

So then you just let it dry.

You can do this if you want to.

So this is the oil.

I've had a skincare routine since I was very young.

It's changed over time,

and now I get to try a lot of products,

and my skin changes

based on whether I'm working or not working,

wearing makeup or not wearing makeup,

because as you guys will see,

I don't wear a ton of makeup in my personal life,

but I have to wear a lot of heavy makeup when I'm working.

And then I have other serums that I use.

I use a vitamin C serum,

which I've only recently started using,

topical vitamin C is great.

Avocado oil,

by Osmosis.

And this is a very pretty color too, looks like avocado oil.

And this is my eye cream

and you just dab this on.

And again, you don't pull, you just sort of dab it,

especially on your under eyes.

And I was taught, oop, got some there,

I was taught to use my ring finger

'cause that's the softest finger.

And you can put that all around your eyes.

So now that I'm all oily,

I'll show you what we do next to make me less oily

and ready to go out.

Eminence. I've been using this on and off for years.

It's one of my favorite all-natural products,

it's very thick.

This is my base sunscreen, it's Epicuren.

I have been told, over and over, to always wear sunscreen

and to make sure that I do not get burned.

And it's very important

to keep your skin young and healthy.

So I have always worn it and I obsess over it actually.

So when I put sunscreen on my face,

I also rub it on the back of my hands

because I think people forget to put it on their hands

and then your hands really show your age as you get older,

so always make sure to put sunscreen on your hands.

Part of my skin routine is about a ritual

that I think is really healthy in general.

And part of my skincare routine

involves the ritual of going to yoga

and de-stressing and meditating and going to acupuncture.

So I think it's really important to take care of yourself

and learn to love yourself

and love your skin the way it is

and keep yourself balanced.

And I think that all of that ends up

helping every aspect of your health, including your skin.

So next, as part of my skincare routine,

I'm obsessed with natural deodorant.

This is a lip balm

that I've been buying

since the '90s, since I was a kid.

They sold it on 86th street in New York,

near where I grew up,

and it's like 99 cents on Amazon.

And I love it, it's my favorite lip balm of all time.

So now it's makeup time.

So I do very simple makeup. So this is Neutrogena.

And I just do a little bit on my spots.

You just sorta cover them a little bit.

This is CoverGirl.

If something's a little darker, you can use it on a spot.

This is a powder that has SPF in it. I layer my SPF.

I'm obsessed.

I don't want any sun damage, so.

And it just retracts like this,

it has a brush, it's great to put in your purse.

You just shake it out.

So here's my blush, CoverGirl.

When I was first starting to wear makeup

when I was a teenager and figuring everything out,

I went to an all girls school

and I was all excited because my friend said

she was gonna set me up on a date

with her friend who was a boy.

I got this black pencil

and I did this very, very heavy eyeliner.

And I went to the movie with the guy

and I remember it was really awkward.

It would already have been awkward 'cause we're 15,

but I remember my friend told me

that he told her afterwards

that he didn't want to see me again

'cause I was wearing too much makeup.

The next step, I usually do my eyebrows.

I really love this pencil.

This is Chanel.

I like the way it's shaped.

It's angled.

I don't mean to brag,

but I have been told my whole life

that I have amazing eyebrows.

And at first I was always like, what are you talking about?

Because I don't do anything to them.

I do get a little bit of a unibrow kind of thing going.

And of course you get little strays and I just pluck those.

But other than that, I don't touch 'em.

I figure if you have a good thing going, don't mess with it.

Sometimes I will just do this

and do nothing else.

Especially if I'm feeling very lazy

and I'm going out to dinner,

just with my boyfriend or something,

who needs to impress him?

And I just want to come home and go to bed

and not worry about taking my eye makeup off.

And then you got a little brush on the other side,

and you can just shape them.

Eyeliner, I like a light brown. This is Clinique.

I mean, look at that.

I can do this

without using a mirror at all.

I've been basically doing this

since I was,

my early 20s.

And then I love to curl my lashes.

When I first started using these, I had like a stray lash,

I don't know if you guys have these,

I'm assuming I'm not the only one,

but I had a stray lash that would grow down for a while.

And so it became very important to catch that one

in the little trap.

And then, here we have Clinique High Impact Mascara.

Just go.

And I put it on the top and the bottom to color

'cause the edges of my lashes aren't as dark.

I just like a cleaner look,

I haven't been wearing eye shadow at all recently.

And I usually just use the powder instead,

so that it's clear and translucent.

I like to use more eyeshadow when I'm going out at night

or have a heavier makeup look.

But I like this highlighter on my eyelids sometimes.

I sort of just put it where I think is pretty.

So I like to put it over here. This one is Chanel.

It's very light, but still shimmery.

I put that a little near the blush.

And then I can put it here.

Very pretty.

And it kind of brightens things up.

I know what you guys are thinking, amazing.

I'm ready to start my day, except my hair looks terrible.

I just get a brush. [laughs]

Fresh Cut Split End Mender.

So this is just to keep my hair healthy

because I do have a lot of heat treatment on it

when I am working.

So again, I just give it a break when I'm not.

And I usually put this on the ends,

you can put it on when it's wet or dry.

You just put a little bit like that.

Then you just brush it out.

Always keep a brush and nail clippers

and lip balm in your purse.

Thank you guys so much for joining me.

I'm ready to face my day, I hope you guys are too.

And I'll see you on the next YouTube video.

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