hello so today we're here to talk about skincare and I haven't done a skincare
video in such a long time I know a lot of you wanted me to do one and by the
way if you do like skincare I just relaunched my blog and it's gonna have a
lot of topics on it but it's gonna be mostly skincare for sure
so let's get to it so this is a part 2 if you haven't watched part 1 I'm gonna
link it here and also below so basically what we're going to do we're going to
take products from the ordinary brand that are very affordable and compare
them to their more expensive dupes I'm just gonna tell you how I feel about
them with which one I prefer which one I think is worth investing in um I'm not
an expert in ingredients I know a little about it I'm not an expert on it and I
will never claim to be what I do in these types of videos is I tell you how
I feel about the product and I tell you the results I feel using the product so
as someone commented oh she knows nothing about ingredients all about how
it feels on the skin I'm gonna watch Stephanie Nicole do Stephanie Nicole
knows a lot about ingredients you also want to know a lot about ingredients and
stuff you can check out Caroline Hirons
will talk a little bit about ingredients but to me what's most important above
all is results so that's what I'm gonna talk about and also I'm gonna talk about
different textures how they feel on the skin and everything like that so if you
are my type of person or you just want to see what I'm talking about let's jump
into it because it's gonna be a long video I'm gonna have time stamps below
to every of the dupes so every time I switch to a new products gonna be your
time stamp below just in case you just want to check out one or two the first
one I'm gonna talk about is the hyaluronic acid I talked about this one
last time as well and I compared it to the drunk elephant Hydra one the skin
ceuticals b5 and also the hylamide one the pink
one glossier hadn't yet come to the UK so I had another chance to try it
because I know like glossier if there were three serums aren't very often
compared to three of the ordinary seems so right now we're talking the ordinary
hyaluronic acid 2% + b5 against the glossier super bounce hyaluronic acid
plus vitamin b5 I don't know if you can tell but this bottle is almost to the
top and this bottle is almost empty if you are on a tight budget I definitely
recommend that you go for this it's such a money saver and they're really not
that far apart in terms of results but I do slightly prefer this one this one
also doesn't have hydrogenated castor oil which a lot of the ordinary serums
do have some of them don't but this one does and I know that breaks some people
out in texture like this is tackier but in terms of results I just feel like
this one gives an extra bounce to it and maybe the name is appropriate but if
you're looking for an affordable option I'd still very much recommend this one
it's really good and as soon as I finished this one I'll probably go on
this one a lot too so so now we're going to go into the second most famous pair
which is ordinary niacinamide 10% plus zinc 1% and the glossier super pure
which is niacininamide plus zinc it doesn't say the percentage but you know
I feel like this one is a little better than this one I really prefer this one a
lot more especially if you have oily skin because it's very liquid again
sinks in super fast this one is more of a gel type of situation but again if you
are in a budget this is still a very very good second option they feel
similar they're not that different I'm just a very picky skin care person
because I have loads and loads and loads of products so if I have both at my side
I'm gonna pick that glossier but let's say this month I don't have as
much money and I'm running it out definitely still get this or if I'm just
starting out my skincare routine and my skincare arsenal definitely definitely
very good still to have moving on it I still want to talk about the zinc one I
ran out of the Alpha Arbutin one but I did mention it in my last video I think
oh my god I didn't I did have the alpha arbutin one but I ran out of it and I
didn't keep the bottle and I'm an idiot but basically we have this Oskia london
renaissance bright light intensive pigmentation and
treatment this is basically a serum that has both zinc and niacinamide but also
has alpha arbutin so it's a two in one sort of situation it still ends up
being much more expensive than this and the Alpha arbutin put together again I
do prefer the oskia one with the alpha arbutin one I never saw much
difference I don't know if it's because of the products or know if it's because
it was just that one ingredient that I didn't notice made any difference I
don't know if in this one the mix-up of the three ingredients makes it more
potent and works better but it does work better I feel like this one works a lot
better on spots it does have a slightly oily or feeling than the others the
others are more gel like goopy like this is very very liquid if you want to get
the other two and just mix them up you can 2 drops of one 2 drops of the other
and just I'm saying just in terms of like the experience of applying it and
also the absorption and also results I do prefer the oskia one and I want to
get in vitamin C in the last video I compared their vitamin C which I don't
have because I got rid of it because it was I can't
the vitamin C suspensions 23% + ha spheres of 2% I could not get along with
it it was very gritty it made my skin very irritated it didn't layer well with
other skin care basically the texture was very silicone e I did compare it to
the drunk elephant vitamin C which I don't like either but I felt like it's a
little bit better in terms of texture and to this sunday riley CEO which i
still have and love and absolutely love ever since then the ordinary have come
up with other types of vitamin c one of the criticisms was that the vitamin c in
the CEO wasn't the same type of vitamin c that was in the ordinary that's
completely valid again I'm not an expert ingredient but to me vitamin C vitamin C
so what I will want to see is results and have a nice experience using
the product but that's a totally valid claim and they actually did release that
type of vitamin C that the CEO has which is called the vitamin F that transforms
into vitamin C when applied to the skin I feel like that's what it's like I
don't know how great it is ascorbyl tetraisopalmitate solution 20% in vitamin f in
it also says like below and tiny letters high-strength oil solubilised
vitamin C derivative in vitamin F so this is a more accurate comparison
than the one before I did try it out I do like this a lot more than I like the
other vitamin C the the sphere is one that was just horrible for me and this
is a much much more pleasant experience I feel like this though in terms of
texture is a little bit more similar to the drunk elephant more because it's
kind of like an oily solution whereas this is more of a milky cream I do super
for the CEO but I do recommend this if you want to get a vitamin C out of their
whole vitamin C range which is huge now the Ordinaries I definitely recommend
the vitamin F one because for me in terms of texture and results it's the
best one they also came out with a vitamin C suspension 30 percent in
silicone but I hate it just because I don't like silicone II textures it feels
like you're applying like a pore smoothing primer which is not what I
want to feel when I'm applying skincare then everything that I put on top is not
gonna be easily absorbed and that's what happened with the other vitamin C as
well so honestly I don't really jam with this texture they also just recently
came out with vitamin C powder that you can add every single one of their
products so I don't know if that's something that interests you but I'm
gonna link it below as well because the thing around vitamin C it's that it's
very perishable and it isn't stable in most solutions so you have to find
tricky ways to make it still active and that's
where like the vitamin C powder comes in because you just put it on the thing and
it's still active I don't really like the sound of powder I don't know if it's
gonna be gritty hopefully not I also want to give another mention that again
in terms of ingredients has nothing to do with vitamin C but I wanted to
mention as an anti spot and brightening serum we have the caudalie vinoperfect
serum the radiance serum complexion correcting and I wanted to mention this
why because this has no sort of vitamin C but has a very special ingredient
called viniferinn so all of the caudalie products come in a way from grapes grape
water grape extra grape seed oil anything that is from grapes is caudalie
basically so they have this serum that has viniferin and they say in studies
that they conducted so I don't know how credible they can be but they say it can
be up to 62 times more powerful than vitamin C which is the high high like
assumption to make in any case I really do love this serum this is I think my
third bottle of the serum it's a very very good serum it's my favorite serum
to wear in the summer because it's anti-spot but
at the same time it doesn't have vitamin C and it doesn't have all those things
that can make your skin more sensitive to the Sun when use like vitamin C any
kind of acid any kind of ingredient that's gonna brighten up did you tell
you to layer on that SPF so I'm going on vacation and I'm in direct sunlight
every single day this is the serum I prefer to use only because it doesn't
make my skin as photosensitive as the others I still do feel like it works
really good on spots it's hard to know which one works the best but for me my
favorite two anti spots are definitely these two there isn't really a dupe in
the ordinary range I just want to give it an honourable mention and we also
gotta talk about the glossier vitamin C of course so this is the glossier super
glow serum vitamin C plus magnesium and like this again because it's such a
weird ingredient that goes bad very fast it's hard to put it in a nice enjoyable
to wear texture and I feel like the ones that I enjoy the most are the vitamin F
ones if it is vitamin C it's better than all the others
because it's a very liquidy liquids sinks in super fast it feels a little
slightly oily but not as much as a drunk elephant more for example if we take the
caudalie completely out of the equation I'd say it's first to CEO then the
ordinary vitamin F and then the glossier and then all the other vitamin C
basically I just wouldn't touch them I know a lot of people like them I just I
hate them the last time around I talked about the ordinary glycolic acid 7%
toning solution so I compared it I know at least to the pixi glow tonic which
is five percent and one of my paula's choice which is 10 percent
but ever since I have two others that kind of chimed in first we have the nip
and fab glycolic fix liquid glow extreme six percent so I'm not going to talk
about any pads here because I feel like that's another whole type of solution
and if the ordinary ever does pad then I'll talk about it seven percent and
this is six percent although I do feel like this feels a little bit harsher on
the skin between the two of them I do like this one a little bit better if you
have skin that is very rough that doesn't get irritated easily maybe you
like this one of those solutions that's more harsh that's more towards teenage
skin so it tightens up the pores a little bit more even though it is
alcohol-free it's not a bad product at all I just preferred this a little bit
better this one though has a glycolic acid and a little bit of lactic acid as
well and salicylic acid and we also have the cosrx AHA 7 Whitehead power
liquid I have this the other time around I didn't want to mention it because I
know that in Europe not that easy to get your hands on
CosRx I don't know why I feel like they should have made their way here so
much sooner but I know that a lot of my audience is from the US so I decided to
include this time around this is seven percent and this is seven percent
they're slightly different textures this is a bit more essence-y that's why it comes in
a pump as well and this is way more liquid I feel like it could maybe wear
this daily or if you have sensitive skin like me like every other day and this I
feel like for me would be a twice a week or three times a week type of thing just
because it's more I feel like it works a little bit harsher just as I explained
with the paula's choice ten percent even though this is 7 percent I don't
know why I feel like it's a little bit stronger so this does sensitize my skin
a little bit more but I love them equally this was bound to come on this is
the aha 30% plus BHa 2% peeling solution 10-minute exfoliating facial
and then we have the drunk elephant TLC sukari baby facial 25% aha a 2% BHa
just in terms of acids this is a little bit stronger
I feel like drunk elephant prides themselves and making acids more usable
on sensitive skin so what they do usually in their formulations is they
add a lot of really good ingredients really hydrating and soothing
ingredients and then sneak in the acids like you know you're getting it but
you're still soothing what I can say is before I was on accutane this used to
sting a little bit not too much just you know that thing that you know it's
working like not like fire I need to get it off just a little tingling and this
would not while I was on accutane both of them are very uncomfortable to use
I'd say this is a little bit more gentle but not like too much so again I feel
drunk elephant do hike up their prices a lot I love their products I really do
the only one I don't like is the vitamin C one all their other products i
absolutely love i just think they're overpriced do you know what I mean I
especially loved their Lala retro cream and that's the one the only
one that I feel like I would pay that money for it because all the other
I feel we have so many other dupes for it and options for it specially the TLC framboos
one the vitamin C I feel like it's a whole new thing because it's so
different from all the other vitamin C products I've tried so I feel like if
you like it I get why you'd pay for it but the Framboos one I don't I feel
like it's not that gentle on my sensitive skin it still tingles a little
in this one go for this one also if you have really sensitive skin I don't think
you'll be able to use this just saying from my accutane type of phase now we're
going to oil and we're talking about retinoids so the last time we talked
about the retinoid product and the retinol product before we get into
retinoids are different than retinol so I explained that in my past video but
just a short runner-up retinol is the pure form retinoid is a new kind of
sister to it that is a lot gentler but is said to be just as powerful some
people disagree with that some people agree with that it's kind of more what
suits you I like to use both and kind of mix it up a little bit we're talking
about retinoid so this is the gentler version of that and I did compare the
retinoid product to the Sunday Riley luna but ever since then they came out
with their own oil retinoid which was smart of them
it's The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid 5% In Squalane I don't remember if I ever
found out I remember that I didn't know while I was shooting but I think I found
out after so I'll put it here below or I couldn't ever find out because
they're not transparent I feel like you should always be transparent about acids
about active ingredients in general especially about retinoids and retinol
look if you always wanted to try Luna but you felt like it was just too
expensive definitely give this a shot this is still very good if you were
beginner to retinoids yes still go for this if you're a
beginner to retinol and retinoids you don't want to go all out and then
you don't know if you it's gonna agree with you so definitely go for this one
or the normal retinoid 2% which I still really really like money isn't abound
I'd still go for my Luna you know you guys know I love this product and I know
that the blue is artificial and all of that but I still really really like it
just a lovely mention there's also a gentler version of this which is a 2% so
this is a 5% there's a 2% on the market as well so if you're a beginner maybe
try to 2% and they actually also have retinol in squalane oil and I think
they have 0.2 0.5 and 1% but yeah I'll link everything below in terms of other
oils the ordinary one at the very end has a little bit of jojoba oil which is
still very good for oily and acne prone skin so I think they did this job very
very well when it comes to the sunday rally one it's a mix of so many oils
they I think they're trying to confuse you so you don't think about the
percentages and stuff I feel like I love Sunday riley but I hate them because
they don't tell me to choose so we have the ordinary 100% plant-derived squalene
oil and then we have the indie Lee squalene facial oil they're both very
similar and to be honest this is one of those where I can definitely say they
were dupe for each other squalane oil I don't know if you tried
it but it's very silky it sinks into skin super fast very lightweight and
it has like a smoothing sort of finished and they are very very similar I'm not
saying this isn't more high-quality or maybe the standards in which the oil was
extracted were a bit more sophisticated or were a bit more ethical I don't
really know I think the ordinary is a pretty ethical company as far as we know
I mean there has been a lot of drama lately over the social media account so
I don't really know what's up for these two I'd definitely go with the ordinary
because they're very very similar and I cannot find like a difference in results
and the texture is very very similar as well the last time we talked about I
think the only oil we talked about was marula oil so now we've done
squalane oil I think the most remembered brand when it comes to rosehip oil to me
is PAI because I think it was the first time I've heard of
rose hip oil and how it would help acne scars how I would just make it better
for acne people but there's also another brand that I've tried they also do
rosehip oil it's one of their cult products and I real like it as well but
I feel like the pai is a little bit better the pai one is a little bit
thicker and I feel protects my skin a little bit more and the elasticises my
skin a little bit more so doesn't scar as much and I do feel like it's a great
ally if you're fighting acne and also if you're going through accutane because
it's very good at making your skin flexible so that you don't get as many
scars and also at keeping your skin protected against you know every
aggression because the skin is very sensitive and very dehydrated and very
dry and very flaky a very mess it is a thick oil and some people do breakout
from it I don't fortunately so do a patch test maybe wear it for a week and
see how it feels compared to the ordinary one I feel like the ordinary
does a really good job so I feel like this one is closer to the trilogy one
that I don't have so I can't show you the texture thinner it sinks in faster
maybe if it's a soft or thinner version of it you won't break out from it for me
personally I like the thick oil so I do like the pai a little bit better I miss
so much I know I like I feel in my heart that I missed so much things that I
wanted to say but here we are I also wanted to address the kind of drama what
do you think about the drama in the ordinary kind of spectrum of things I
don't know if you are aware of this but there has been a lot of drama
surrounding the Ordinary actually Deciem's Instagram page so Brandon the
CEO and founder of the company kind of took over their social media account I
started posting really personal things and maybe being a little unprofessional
it was so weird and the thing that is most weird to me is that they would just
brought out by Estée Lauder and I know that they said and there's a
there was a whole clause in which Brandon would still keep decision-making
process his own and everything would be in his charge they would just be like a
financial aid but still with the company as big as Estée Lauder how has no one
stepped in and be like he oh dude this is maybe not okay I think the lowest
point of it all was one post that was deleted by now a post where he actually
announced that the ESHO line the lip balm was not being carried out anymore
by the DECIEM and actually he did it in a way where he announced it to us the
public and that was the first time that dr. esho actually heard about any of
this so he was also being tagged a lot because it was so unprofessional so yeah
tell me what you think about that drama does it affect the way you think about
the company deciem the ordinary in general does it I mean it's not like I'm gonna
stop buying from them but I'm definitely gonna keep a close eye on how things
develop it's really weird and let me know your
thoughts in the comment as well about that so if you like this video give it a
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