STEP 1

I start with our jelly cleanser. It’s exfoliating and it leaves my skin feeling amazing. The jelly texture is unique and pillowy, with exfoliating beads suspended throughout that are very gentle on skin but very effective. It’s nourishing and great whether your skin is dry, a bit sensitive, or oily.

STEP 2

Next I smooth on my toner. It’s made with flower acids, so it’s powerful but also very, very gentle on skin. It continues your cleansing, gets rid of dead skin cells, softens, and gets your skin ready to absorb whatever you’re putting on it next—and it feels so fresh.

STEP 3

If you use this vitamin C and hyaluronic serum every single morning for a week, I promise you, everybody’s going to say, “Oh my god, your skin looks incredible. What are you doing?” Our version of vitamin C is incredibly special because you mix it yourself: It comes in two parts—a bottle of L-ascorbic acid, which is the purest form of the skin-boosting antioxidant vitamin C, and a bottle of the ultimate weightless moisturizer, hyaluronic acid. We keep the two separate until you’re ready to use it so the product stays potent through the whole time you’re using it. (When you buy vitamin C serum that’s already mixed together, that product has already begun to oxidize, which lessens the potency of the vitamin C.) So get ready: This stuff works, and you’ll see the results on your skin.

STEP 4

I smooth on this eye cream—another active product that I love. It’s brilliant whether or not you’re going to wear makeup that day (if you’ve ever had your makeup done by a makeup artist, they always start by applying eye cream so that it has time to sink in and help with fine lines and wrinkles). This one softens wrinkles, puffiness, and dark circles, and then over time, it reduces the appearance of crow’s-feet. It’s my secret weapon.

STEP 5

Okay, second secret weapon: GOOPGENES face cream. Our clinicals are amazing on this—it’s incredibly nourishing and boosts that youthful dewy glow. My skin tends to be dry, and this fixes the problem—and delivers all these youth-boosting ingredients at the same time. I mean, it’s heaven.

On days when my skin needs less-intense moisturizing, I use GOOPGLOW Glow Lotion instead: It’s super light and instantly brightens, smooths, and combats dullness. Just a little bit leaves my skin feeling silky and fresh.

STEP 6

Lip balm is the only makeup I wear most days, and it’s also the only beauty product that I have to have with me all day. Ours were labors of love to create, but it was worth it. The first one we made—the clear one—took us three years to make. I was hyper-perfectionist about it (many balms can be drying or sticky), and I love how it turned out—it’s so cushiony and luxurious on your lips.

Then we added pigment to that formula to make two fabulous tinted balms (you get all three versions in the GOOPGENES lip balm trio). There’s a rose and a darker, garnet shade, which is my favorite. I put it on my lips, then blend a little onto my cheeks. That’s kind of my super low-maintenance makeup routine. There you have it.

STEP 7

Sunscreen—this one’s moisturizing, it sinks in like a dream (it’s a Black-owned brand, and the founder, Katonya Breaux, worked hard to make it blend into any skin tone), and it’s all-mineral SPF 30.

My routine varies at this point depending on whether I’m working from home or the office. If I’m working from home—which I currently do two or three times a week—I use that would-be commuting time to take a sauna.