Confidently Beautiful with Ciera

Skincare Secrets Revealed

• Ciera • Episode 79

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Have you ever looked in the mirror and suddenly noticed your skin isn't quite what it used to be? That's exactly what happened when I hit my 30s. After years of taking my youthful skin for granted, I found myself searching for solutions to fine lines, texture changes, and overall skin health that seemed to deteriorate overnight.

My skincare journey began with frustration—expensive products that caused reactions, dried out my skin, or simply didn't deliver results. What I discovered through extensive research transformed not just my skin, but my relationship with self-care. The simple routine I've developed takes just 45 seconds in the morning and 5 minutes at night, yet delivers profound results I wish I'd discovered years ago.

In this deeply personal episode, I break down my exact skincare routine using Beauty Society products that revolutionized my approach. You'll learn about the power of matrixyl peptides (which outperform both vitamin C and retinol), why double cleansing changed everything for my nighttime routine, and how weekly exfoliation makes foundation apply flawlessly. I share specific product recommendations for both beginners and skincare enthusiasts, explaining which ingredients make the biggest difference and why consistent application matters more than using dozens of products.

Whether you're just noticing your first fine lines or have been struggling with skincare for years, this episode offers practical, science-backed advice without overwhelming complexity. Because everyone deserves to feel confidently beautiful in their skin—not someday, but starting right now. Take the personalized skin quiz I mention and use my special code for 20% off your first purchase if you're ready to transform your skincare routine today. Your future self will thank you!

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Ciera:

You're listening to Confidently Beautiful with Ciera, a podcast to help you stay confidently beautiful, because we all have confidence inside us. We just need to bring it out and I'm here to show you how Body image, dreams, parenting, style, personality and more here we cover it all. Get ready to stay confidently beautiful. Hello, friends, and welcome back to the podcast. Thank you for tuning in. My name is Ciera and I am the host of this podcast.

Ciera:

Whether you are new or a frequent listener, I am so glad that you decided to take some time today and tune into this podcast. While we listen to this episode, I would encourage you do something for yourself. Do something that you maybe have been putting off. Have you been wanting to go for a walk and you haven't taken the time? Have you been wanting to paint your nails and you haven't been taking the time? Maybe your kitchen is driving you crazy and you just have been ignoring all the dishes. Maybe you need to take a minute and do the dishes while we listen to this episode. So, whatever it is, do something for you, whether it's a chore, maybe it's something fun, maybe it's something to move your body, maybe it's something beauty related like. Maybe you want to take some time to pluck your eyebrows, whatever it is. Let's take this time and do something for yourself that will make you feel more confident in an area in your life and feel better when you leave this episode.

Ciera:

Today, I am going to be talking all about my skincare routine. Skincare is something that I have become so passionate about. I have never really taken a priority in my skincare before, but I think that was because I was in my 20s and I had beautiful, youthful skin. And then all of a sudden, like I got into my 30s and now I am 34, approaching 35, and I can see that my skin is changing and I don't necessarily love the changes that I am seeing. So I have been starting to pay more attention to the skincare products that I am using and I've also been trying to pay attention to the ingredients that are in my skincare product, because I don't just want to be putting whatever on my face. Whatever I put on my face, I want to have a good reason for it going on my face. I want it to be something that is clean and healthy for my body, because my skin is going to be absorbing that ingredient and I don't want ingredients that are going to cause more toxins in my body or have a negative impact on me. I also would love to see you know the fine lines, the wrinkles, the blemishes, the pores all of that to improve. I want some tightened skin and I want all of those things.

Ciera:

So this is where I have put a lot of research into some products. I have tried lots of different skincare products. I know there's a million more out there that are probably amazing, that I haven't tried. But I have landed on some products that actually are working for me and I am so happy after having some products that caused major skin reactions, that dried my skin out and that were not working for me, and a lot that I was spending a good amount of money on and then quickly learned that they were not high quality products. The moisturizer that I used to use on my face, that I was convinced was a great moisturizer, just because of the price point. I have compared it to other moisturizers since then and I am blown away. I'm like this was not good skincare. This was not a good moisturizer.

Ciera:

So I have moved on to a new skincare line and it's called Beauty Society and I love this skincare line. It is so good, it is luxurious, it is affordable and it has really improved my skin. So let me walk you through my skincare routine. This is what I do every morning, every night and a weekly treatment. The very, very first thing that I did, when I took this new skincare line and I wanted to figure out which products were going to work for me and my skin, I took a skin quiz. This skin quiz was very custom, with questions that asked specifically about my skin and my concerns and the areas that I was hoping to improve or that I was insecure about. After I took this skin quiz then it came up with a bunch of products that were the perfect product for me and I could pick and choose from those products which ones I wanted to try. I could pick a whole regimen or I could just pick a few and try them one at a time. I ended up deciding to pick a regimen so this is going to be a cleanser serums and moisturizer. So these products were recommended to me based off of my answers in my skin quiz, and the products are for my skin type and for the concerns that I was hoping to address.

Ciera:

You have probably heard of retinol and I know you've heard of vitamin C and retinol, and vitamin C are huge in the skin industry for helping to improve your skin's health. They are ingredients that are used to smooth wrinkles and improve the texture of your face. Now, the awesome thing about our little secret is it's Beauty Society's little secret. It contains matrixyl peptides. I hope I'm saying that right, but this ingredient, this matrixyl peptide, is the main ingredient in this serum. It has been proven through studies to outperform vitamin C and retinol. It can smooth wrinkles by as much as 68 to 90% in two to six months. Now I can say this is true. I have noticed my wrinkles are not gone. This is not going to be like a magic in the bottle. Here you go no more wrinkles. No, that's not what this is, but it has definitely smoothed out my wrinkles and I have noticed that the texture of my skin with the wrinkles is. My wrinkles are not as deep as they were. My wrinkles have smoothed out and I can see that, as I am going to continue to use this, that it is just going to get better and better and better.

Ciera:

So I use this in the morning. I also use an eye cream, so the eye cream I like to use has caffeine in it, which is great to use in the morning. It helps to reduce those puffiness the puffiness under my eyes and the dark circles. I'm using it in the morning so I'm not worried about the puffiness under my eyes and the dark circles. I'm using it in the morning so I'm not worried about the caffeine sinking into my skin and maybe affecting my sleep or anything. I have not personally never had that, if I have used it at night, but I do know that some people are very, very sensitive to caffeine. Maybe just using the caffeine eye cream in the morning is going to help you so that you are not worried about that. After I use my serum and my eye cream, then I am going to use my Love Thy Face Moisturizer.

Ciera:

This is the product that won me over with Beauty Society's products. This is the creamiest, thickest but not heavy moisturizer and I love it so much. It feels so good when I put it on my face. I can feel like, feel the thickness of it as I'm putting it on. But the thing that I really love about it is it dries and soaks into my skin and then I don't feel it the rest of the day. I don't feel like my skin is cakey or heavy, I just feel hydrated. It just absorbs into my skin and it makes my skin feel so good throughout the day.

Ciera:

That is my morning skincare routine. It is so simple. It literally probably takes me 45 seconds. It's very fast and I notice a huge difference in the day. My nighttime skincare routine does take a little bit more time, but it's still only about five minutes. It's not much time and I have created it into being a habit that I can't not do my nighttime skincare routine. If I don't do my nighttime skincare routine, then I won't sleep as well. I just won't. If I still have the makeup on my face, I'm not going to sleep as well and I am not going to feel as refreshed.

Ciera:

The very first thing that I do in my nighttime skincare routine if I have makeup on. If I don't have makeup on, I skip this step, but if I have makeup on, I use my Take it Off Citrus Cleansing Balm. It is a glowing cleansing balm, so this is a non-greasy makeup remover balm. So this is a non-greasy makeup remover. It removes excess oil and effortlessly removes makeup, especially mascara. It will just melt it away and it does not leave a greasy residue. I just use like a nickel size amount of this. I put it all over my face, rub it into my eyes very gently, and then I take a wet cloth and I wipe it away and my makeup is wiped off and it has a really refreshing, very, very, very light citrus smell and I love it. So I do that if I have makeup on.

Ciera:

If I don't have makeup on, I skip that step and then the next thing I go to is my easy going cleanser. One thing that I could do is I could just use my cleanser to remove my makeup, right. But I have found that removing my makeup with another product, like the cleansing balm, and then using a cleanser after is a huge, huge step in skincare. It's a step that you could easily skip over and just say, oh, I'll just use the cleanser or I'll just use the cleansing balm and not worry about a cleanser. But I have found that you really need both. I need to be able to get the makeup off of my skin so that I then have my skin ready and available to take in all the ingredients from my cleanser. So then my skin is bare and ready for my cleanser.

Ciera:

I put my cleanser on, add a little bit of water onto my fingertips, rub my cleanser into my face and I really take the time to rub it in. This is a mistake that I used to make with my skincare. I used to just hurry, throw on some cleanser, hurry, throw on some water and be done. But I really rub it into my skin and I try and rub it for about a minute. Rub it into my skin, rub it all into my pores, make it feel really, really nice, and then I take the time to rinse it off.

Ciera:

If you really want to be ambitious, you can do a double cleanse. I know a lot of people really really love the double cleanse. To me, I feel like the cleansing balm and then my cleanser is good enough for me and I'm not going to take that extra time. Maybe another season in my life when I feel like I want to take that extra time or I have that extra time, maybe I'll do a double cleanse. But for now I feel like the cleansing balm and then the cleanser is good enough, so I do the cleanser. Then my face is just squeaky clean. It's beautifully clean and then I can move on to my serums.

Ciera:

One thing I love about Beauty Society is they take the guesswork out of what order to put everything in. Everything has a number at the bottom. So if it has a one, you know you need to do all those first. Then you do all the twos first, then you do all the threes first. So my cleanser is a one, so I'm going to do my cleanser first. My cleansing balm is a one. Do my cleansing balm, do my cleanser, then I'm going to move on to the twos.

Ciera:

Moving on to my serums, I am going to very first put on my All Nighter serum. So this one is the only one I use at night. That's why it's called All Nighter and it is a retinol serum. So we just talked about retinol with that other serum and it has the highest concentration of retinol that you can have and 4% matrixol, which is the other ingredient that we just talked about. That is in the other serum. And the other awesome ingredient that this product has because of Beauty Society is Advanced BTX. This is an anti-wrinkle ingredient. It induces strong muscular relaxation, it purges carbon dioxide from the skin and it refreshes the skin. So this is going to leave your skin firmer and tighter and refreshed and get rid of the toxins that are in your skin. So this is the perfect resurfacing serum and it helps to fade discoloration, sun damage, age spots, fine lines, wrinkles and melasma.

Ciera:

Next is step number three, which is the Our Little Secret Serum. So I use two serums at night the All Nighter and then the Our Little Secret. Our Little Secret is the one that I also use in the mornings, that I already talked about, and then I top it all off with that moisturizer that we just went over. So nighttime cleansing, balm cleanser, all Nighter, our Little Secret moisturizer. So I have five products that I use at night and they are very quick. Really only takes me about five minutes and I sleep so much better after I have done it. That is my morning and nighttime routine. Now I'm adding something to my morning routine that is brand new, and so I'm not going to talk a ton about it, because it is not a product that I have used frequently enough to be able to say whether or not it works, and I only like to talk about products that I really, really love and that I know will work, because then, when I recommend a product, I want the people that I recommend it to to know that it is a product that I really enjoy.

Ciera:

This product that I am starting to use is called Infuse HA. I just got the starter kit and it is also by this beauty society company that I really love that has my skincare line, the Infuse HA starter kit. I was really impressed with it. It comes with a super cute jar. It comes with a really nice spoon for like to scoop out the powder and then it comes with a 10 day supply of the unflavored Infuse HA and then two single serving sticks of so two of each of all of the five flavors of the Infuse HA. So they have a non-flavored one and then they have five different flavors that it has single sticks of so I can sample those other flavors and see which ones I like or if I want to stick with the non-flavored one. It has the cute scoop that can scoop out of the bamboo jar lid, and Infuse HA is an inner skin treatment.

Ciera:

It has been clinically proven through studies to increase skin elasticity and it has helped to prevent signs of aging such as fine lines and wrinkles. There were some studies done where it decreased your oxidative stress levels by 4%, and what oxidative stress levels are are basically an imbalance of antioxidants in the body, so it can lead to cell and tissue damage and that is going to make your skin look older. So Infuse has continued to work to hydrate and plump skin and prevent the appearance of aging with future fine lines and wrinkles. So basically, in a nutshell, infuse HA. It helps with moisture in the skin to make your skin look hydrated, healthier, it reduces the oxidative stress levels and it improves your wrinkles. So I have added that to my regimen and that is going to be just a morning thing that I'm going to take. I'm just going to throw it in with the vitamins that I already take in the morning and it's going to just be a really simple thing to add to my routine. I'm going to habit stack, because habit stacking is where it's at Now.

Ciera:

One last thing that I like to do for my skincare I like to exfoliate at least like one to two times a week. Two times a week is ideal. Sometimes it only ends up being once, but I just keep a crystal balm exfoliator. It's a microdermabrasion treatment like an at-home treatment. I just keep it in my shower and I just rub that into my face. It's basically like deep exfoliation. So I just rub this skin treatment into my face and rub it for about one to two minutes and then rinse it off with water, and then I can see that all of the dead skin has been taken off of my face. I notice a huge improvement with my makeup. My makeup will lay a lot flatter, my foundation will stay on my face longer and it will just look a lot better. So I definitely this is one one thing that I try not to miss, and keeping it in my shower makes it really easy to remember to do it at least once or twice a week.

Ciera:

That is my skincare routine. It can be as bougie and fancy as you want it to be or as simple as you want it to be. That's what I love about skincare is you can make it as intense and wild as you want. I could get even more. There's even more serums and creams that I could be getting if I wanted to. I could add in some face masking throughout the week, or I can just keep it really basic and simple, where I have my 45 second routine in the morning and my five minute routine at night, and that is good enough for me, and I am going to notice a huge benefit with my skin, and so I love Beauty Society.

Ciera:

They have the cleanest, best products, they're made in the USA and they have just raving reviews online. So if you want to check out the website, it's my website, beautysocietycom slash the Sierra Lancaster. So go to beautysocietycom slash Sierra Lancaster or click the link in the show notes below or it's in my bio on my Instagram. It will link you there wherever you go. But if you want to check that out, you can read all the reviews on each specific product that you may be interested in. And if you want to take the skin quiz, which I highly recommend if you are going to be investing in skincare products, then just click on the link in the show notes below or when you go to that. Beautysocietycom slash Sierra Lancaster, you will see a tab at the top and it says quizzes and you can take the skin quiz. You can get a personalized list of products that are recommended for you, for your skin, for your skin concerns, and you can get a personalized list of products that are recommended for you, for your skin, for your skin concerns, and you can start taking care of your skin, because we all deserve to be taking care of our skin.

Ciera:

If I were to recommend just two products, if you were like I can only get two products, sierra, which ones should I get? Then I would say, to get a cleanser. For me it's the easy going cleanser, but there are other cleansers that may work for your skin. The Skin Quiz will tell you. And get a moisturizer. The moisturizer is amazing. It is such a good moisturizer. And so if you just want to start with just those two things just to cleanse and moisturize even that will make a huge difference for your skin.

Ciera:

I wish that I had started with a high quality skincare when I was just a teenager. I think I would have had a lot more confidence in my skin and felt a lot better. But it's never too late to start. So get yourself a good, high quality skincare regimen that is at an affordable price. And bonus if you take the skin quiz, I will give you a code for 20% off your entire purchase. So go on over to beautysocietycom slash, sierra, c-i-e-r-a, lancaster, l-a-n-c-a-s-t-e-r and look at the products and take your skin quiz today. Let's take care of our skin. Stay confidently beautiful. Thanks for listening. Connect with me on Instagram at confidentlybeautifulpodcast and share this episode with someone in your life who could use a little reminder of just how amazing they already are. Stay confidently beautiful.