How to do an at-home facial for acne with YouTube esthetician JadeyWadey180

• Influencer, YouTuber, makeup artist, and esthetician Jadeywadey180 teaches us how to do an at-home facial for acne.
• Jade breaks down all the steps and products to Insider producer Celia Skvaril, including proper face-washing techniques, exfoliation, and how to use a jade roller to help calm painful under-the-skin bumps.
• Jade highlights the importance of using the right products for acne-prone skin and explains how to find balance in a world of super-drying acne products.

Following is a transcript of the video.

Celia Skvaril: Oh, my God. [laughs]

Jade Chapman: I love it. I love it.

Celia: I thought it was on so good.

Jade: I'm Jade, also known as Jadeywadey180, and I'm a medical and holistic esthetician, as well as a makeup artist. Officially, what we're gonna be doing today, it's gonna be pretty gentle, because when it comes to acne, you have to tread lightly because you don't want to do so much. Which, I feel like a lot of people, they try to do so much, and it can tend to make it worse.

Celia: I actually started a series called "The Zit Fix" where I try a bunch of different products for my skin, but I've never tried any of the products that you've suggested. So can you tell me a little bit about the cleanser, which is our first step?

Jade: I wanted you to use something that had a little bit more of acids in it. And so I recommended the salicylic acid cleanser from Lucrèce. It's one of my absolute favorites because the salicylic is an anti-inflammatory. It's gonna help calm those cystic or any underground acne. So, you'll massage it into your hands just a tiny bit, and then you'd go straight into your cheeks. And that's the area that I can tell in these areas you have a little bit of the blemish-prone areas here, and then you can get into your forehead, and then you'll just start manipulating around. So, you wanna do these movements for about a minute, and you'll just keep moving about the face as you would. And always like to be pressing up, pushing up, because this is also, you know, help with blood circulation, and it can help with lymphatic drainage. When you pull down, you never really wanna do that because it's just, wears and tears on gravity, and we're trying to stay youthful and young. So always movements up. I call it a self-love cleanse, you know, because it's all about the self-love. So, the next step would be to use an exfoliator. And I suggested for you to use a physical exfoliant. This is the micro-exfoliant from SkinCeuticals. It has hydrated silica, and it helps to get rid of any of those dead skin cells, help with cell turnover. It also has aloe, so it's really calming. It's not gonna be super abrasive on the skin. But the pressure, just so you know, don't be pressing really hard onto the skin. I would keep a light hand with a tiny amount of pressure so that you feel that the hydrated silica is really rubbing away those impurities.

Celia: Can you sort of explain why you'd like more of a physical exfoliant rather than, say, like, a chemical exfoliant?

Jade: I don't like one more than the other. With your skin, I saw that, you know, you had a little bit of texture, maybe some old blemishes. So I felt like this would be great as in helping retexture or resurface your skin. A lot of people, they tend to scrub so hard because they think, OK, if I scrub, then I'm gonna have new skin underneath, but it's just going to make your skin more inflamed. It's going to, you know, cause a lot of redness, irritation. So that's another reason why scrubs get a bad rep, is because people don't know the pressure. Be really gentle with it. So, after the exfoliation, I would go straight into extractions, where I would use a tool or I would use my hands with gloves. But I do not suggest this for anyone at home. I highly suggest seeing a professional, because they know how to use the tools the correct way, the right placement, and so that you don't get any scars. So, after exfoliation, your skin is feeling really clean. All the dirt and debris is hopefully gone. Even your blemishes, they should feel a little bit more flat, I would say. And we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna move on to the face massage. This is the Vital C hydrating oil by Image Skincare. It really gently resurfaces the skin as well as brightens. And if you have any dull areas or hyperpigmentation, brown spots, like you were saying, the scars that you were getting from old acne, this is gonna help gently and naturally lighten those areas.

Celia: I definitely don't use vitamin C right now. And I did not know those things. [laughs]

Jade: Girl! It should be your best friend. Vitamin C is like my holy grail. Mirror me, OK? This is gonna help with lymphatic drainage, circulation, blood flow, like I was saying. This is kind of my, I would say face-lift massage that I would do on myself every morning with my oil. So, let's move on to the face. Let's take these fingers right here, and let's just start to press upwards, to basically the temple. And we're gonna do that movement, every movement about four times. And have a good amount of pressure. Not super hard, but a good amount. And the reason why we do this massage is because we're gonna help penetrate these products into the skin. And it's also gonna help with, you know, brightening, and when you really work your oils, your vitamin C's in instead of just slapping them on, going to bed, this is gonna really ensure that they're going to work their magic. So, I can show you how to use the jade stone roller if you have it there with you. And you got the Knesko one, correct?

Celia: Yeah.

Jade: So, this is 100% real jade stone. There are so many out there on the market that are fake, and a lot of people are rolling their skin with fake stones and fake gemstones, and this is going to do the best job. It's gonna help with depuffing, you can use it for gua sha, you can use it for lifting, sculpting the skin, so make sure that you're using 100% real crystal. If you ever get any of those hidden, or just like, you know, the blemishes that hurt so bad and you can't see them but you can feel them, this will be your secret weapon. You just roll this over it, and it's gonna help calm that inflammation underneath the skin. So, you wanna do this all over your face, pressing the oil in. You can even move to the eye section when you get here. Go straight to the temple. So, next we're gonna move on to our treatment mask. And so this is the Knesko Nanogold mask. We want something that is really cooling. And this treatment right here is so good for if you have a lot of cystic or just a lot of pustules or whiteheads, blackheads, any type of acne. It's going to instantly soothe.

Celia: Oh, my God. [laughs]

Jade: I love it. I love it.

Celia: I thought it was on so good.

Jade: So, this mask is very rich in aloe vera, which is an amazing healing botanical, and it also has hyaluronic acid. So it's gonna infuse a lot of that hydration back into the skin, because I feel like, when it comes to acne, sometimes we get super dry because a lot of products that we're using are stripping the skin. So, make sure that you're really pressing in, you know, the hydration, whether it be with a mask or oil, and just adding balance back into your routine. So, how does your skin feel after?

Celia: It feels so hydrated. Like, I feel like my skin has been quenched for thirst. It's like, "What are you doing to me?" And now it's like, "OK, yes, thank you very much."

Jade: It's all about the balance, because I feel like most people with blemish-prone or acne-prone skin, they're a little bit afraid to hydrate because they think it's gonna cause more oil production. But it's using the right products to add that hydration. So, after we're done with the mask, we're going to lock in all that moisture with the C-Rush Brightening Gel Crème from OleHenriksen. This is a really lightweight moisturizer. It's not gonna be super heavy on the skin. And I feel like a lot of people with acne, they tend to use a cream, and I highly suggest you get away from thick, rich creams and use more gel, lightweight moisturizers like this one. So, I know that I gave you so much products right now, but just take it easy, don't get too intimidated by it, and just have fun with it. And you'll see over the next couple days, that you'll start to see a change in your skin from the brightness and the overall suppleness. You can tell that it will look a lot more plump.

Celia: Yeah. It feels really great. And it looks really great. Like, I don't know that it's ever looked this, like, highlighted and dewy before, so I feel great.

Jade: Good, I'm so glad! You look amazing, and I'm so excited to see and hear how your skin looks in the next couple weeks.