2024 Self-Care Check-In Challenge: Week 8 - Share your body care routine!

[TeamBIC]

Happy New Year, BIC! We’re kicking off 2024 with an important reminder: we all need to take good care of ourselves – this year and beyond. 😊 Some of us may make resolutions, and others may already have their regular routines down to a tee; regardless of where you are in your self-care journey, we could all use a few extra reminders and a bit of motivation to spend a little extra T.L.C. on ourselves!

Like similar posts from previous years, we’ve come up with a list of weekly prompts to challenge you to exercise your self-care skills in different ways. 🧡 We encourage you to participate and respond to the prompts that speak to you – and don’t be afraid to share any other self-care tips and tricks along the way!

• Week 1 (1/10 – 1/16): Creating the perfect morning routine to start your day off right 🌞
• Week 2 (1/17 – 1/23): Surrounding yourself with soothing scents ✨
• Week 3 (1/24 – 1/30): Testing out products to promote wellness (supplements, intimate care, rollers…) 🌿
• Week 4 (1/31 – 2/6): Indulging in your favorite face mask(s) 👩
• Week 5 (2/7 – 2/13): Spending extra time on your hair (and scalp!) care 🧼
• Week 6 (2/14 – 2/20): Cleaning up your beauty collection 🧹
• Week 7 (2/21 – 2/27): Improving your quality of sleep 💤
• Week 8 (2/28 – 3/5): Focusing on body care (lotions, dry brushing, serums…) 🛁

Hit the “Reply” button below and let us know how you are practicing self-care!  🤩 Be sure to use the “#” to tag any products relevant to your answers, if applicable.  

[wyomingkate]

Okay this can change from day to day but let’s roll!

AM routine starts with

✨ CeraVe hydrating foaming cleanser with the SEPHORA COLLECTION Facial Cleansing Pad 😍

✨ AHA toner, currently trying out the one from my.ingredients

✨ Hylauronic acid serum, again my.ingredients

✨ CeraVe eye cream

✨ CeraVe moisturizer with added Aveeno glow drops

✨ Marcelle tinted SPF 30 moisturizer 

✨ Good ole Vaseline 👄 

BUT when I really want to pamper my dry skin for even more hydration, like for my wedding this summer, this is IT for me

💖 CLINIQUE All About Clean™ 2-in-1 Cleansing + Exfoliating Jelly 5 oz/ 150 mL 

💖 Tatcha The Rice Wash Skin-Softening Cleanser

💖 LANEIGE Cream Skin Refillable Toner & Moisturizer with Ceramides and Peptides 10.8 oz / 320 ml 

💖 HA serum, again my.ingredients for now but lmk what you can recommend! 👀

💖 Tatcha The Dewy Skin Cream Plumping & Hydrating Refillable Moisturizer OR Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench® Hyaluronic Cloud Cream Hydrating Moisturizer  depending on my skin that day and how glowy I want it. Tatcha as my eye cream either way 💋

💖 Marcelle tinted SPF 30 moisturizer

💖 Tatcha Hinoki Body Milk Lotion 4.5 oz / 132 mL 

💖 LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask Intense Hydration with Vitamin C Berry 

[CynthieLu]

Ooh you really know how to pamper your skin @wyomingkate this is amazing! 😍

[wyomingkate]

TYSM! It’s actually been so fun to learn about and to put a routine together. Gotta thank Sephora samples! 😌

[Colettey87]

OLEHENRIKSEN Truth Juice™ Gentle Glow Daily Cleanser 5.0 oz/ 148 mL 

Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Fat Water Hydrating Milky Toner Essence with Hyaluronic Acid + Tamarind 5 oz... 

OLEHENRIKSEN Banana Bright+ Vitamin C Eye Crème for Dark Circles 0.5 oz / 15 mL 

CLINIQUE All About Eyes™ Rich Eye Cream with Hyaluronic Acid  

CLINIQUE Dramatically Different™ Moisturizing Gel for Skin Barrier Repair 

thats my perfect morning routine every single morning❤️!  my skin is so much more refreshed.  I’m super Canadian 🇨🇦 I won’t lie so I’ve always preferred cold over hot.  Controversial… but I always wash my face with lukewarm water, apply my cleanser, and I rinse with cold water.  I love the feeling of ultra cold water on my face to wake me up.  I find my moisturizer really sets in nicely with a colder face.  Plus being winter and currently -15 C ❄️ where I live… it prepares my face for the instant frost when I walk out the front door. 

[DeSc2]

Hi

[SportyGirly125]

@DeSc2 Hi and welcome to BIC!

[claras19]

I like to start with a gentle cleanser (CeraVe hydrating cleanser), then use the Glow recipe watermelon toner, then use the Ordinary hyaluronic acid serum and rose hip seed oil serum with the Cerave moisturizer. I finish off with the Elf blemish gel, the Ordinary lash serum, and Mario Badescu facial spray.

[Georgiiiaaa]

Ooh! I was wondering about the glow recipe toner!  Tell me Is it worth it @claras19 

[happyskincare]

I have it and it’s worth every penny! I’ve been using it since Christmas (I received it as a gift) and WOW it hydrates while visibly tones my skin! Definitely a must have!

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow PHA + BHA Pore-Tight Toner 5.07 oz/ 150 mL 

[Georgiiiaaa]

Don’t have a great routine but I am working on it! 

7:00 alarm rings

7:15 alarm rings again

7:20 get out of bed and stretch

7:22 skin care! (Ordinary cleanser, serum and moisturizer 

7:25 put my pants on but keep on the shirt I slept in just in case my makeup gets messy

7:45 put on my sweater/top and any accessories 

7:50 get a smoothie ready and check my phone

8:00 catch my bus!

[ThatGirlMadi]

I love this 💕

[Georgiiiaaa]

Thanks! @ThatGirlMadi 

[itsfi]

Week 1 (1/10 – 1/16): Creating the perfect morning routine to start your day off right 🌞

Sneaking in here on the last day of the first week's prompt. Ahhhh, I love the annual self care challenge @TeamBIC; thanks so much for bringing it back. 😊 The weekly challenges make me pause and think about my own self care and also gives me an opportunity to see what great things others are doing on BIC. 

My perfect morning routine starts off with a good night’s sleep. That’s been getting better for me. Here's tis morning's routine:

⏰ Wake up, do a couple of stretches in bed, and then we get up & get the morning started

🪥 Brush teeth 

🧘🏻‍♀️ Quick & easy stretches - I sit for a good part of my day - in front of a computer, in meetings, during my commute, etc. Getting in even 5 minutes of light, simple stretches from head to toe in the morning helps (along with a few more stretches sprinkled throughout the day).

🧼 Wash face & AM skincare routine (see below for details)

🍋 Sip on a cup of warm water and lemon while quickly scrolling through my work emails

👗 Get dressed & start coffee

💄 Hair & makeup while catching up on the news 

☕️🍌 Coffee & a banana (the breakfast of champions for my workweek 😅) - some mornings I make a green smoothie to sip on during my drive to work

🥗💧 Grab my lunch & water bottle from the fridge 

🚗 Off to the office! 

AM Skincare Routine - The Winter Edition: 

Product Details:

Spoiler

🧼 Cleanse - Most mornings, it’s a washcloth and slightly-cooler-than-lukewarm water. On mornings I feel I need a cleanser, it’s either an enzyme powder cleanser from AmorePacific or Tatcha The Rice Polish Foaming Enzyme Powder; or one of the water based second cleansers I’m using in my PM routine, which is what I reached for this morning; namely, EADEM Dew Dream- Hydrating Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm with Tiger Grass 3.4 oz / 100 mL. 

💦 Hydrating Toner - rotate between Rhode Glazing Milk and Gucci Brume de Beauté Beauty Mist 2.7 oz / 80 mL (which I've transferred to a travel sized bottle for a refresh throughout the day) for some extra hydration and to prep my skin for what’s next. Some mornings, I’ll sub in a sheet mask here.

👁️ Eye Mask (if needed) SEPHORA COLLECTION Clean Eye Mask Caffeine - love this stuff!

🌸 Serum - Alternate between The INKEY List Hyaluronic Acid (HA) Hydrating Face Serum (gratis) & EADEM Milk Marvel Dark Spot Serum with Niacinamide and Vitamin C 1 oz/ 30 mL 

🧴Moisturizer- I’m finishing up my jar of OLEHENRIKSEN Strength Trainer Skin Barrier Moisturizer with Peptides and Niacinamide 1.7 oz/ 50 mL  and will be reaching for my beloved Dr. Jart+ Ceramidin™ Skin Barrier Moisturizing Cream soon.

💋Lip Scrub - Gentle exfoliation for my lips (they can get so dry and chapped this time of the year) with DIOR Dior Addict Lip Sugar Scrub 0.12 oz/ 3.40 g 

☀️ SPF - This is a must! I'm currently rotating between Summer Fridays ShadeDrops Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Mineral Milk Sunscreen 1.7 oz / 50 mL # and Etude Sunprise Mild Airy Finish Sun Milk. I apply two layers.

[Samtian]

• Week 1 (1/10 – 1/16): Creating the perfect morning routine to start your day off right 

Oof. That doesn't happen for me. I work graveyards, and the days I don't work I sleep at night so my sleep schedule is out of whack. I'm always sleep deprived or have a headache from sleeping too long. Now to me a perfect routine would be, wake up with a nice big hearty breakfast and hit the road for travelling lol. I'm more of a get up and go kinda person so for like skincare routine that would have to be a before bedtime kinda thing. 

[CorgiMommy]

@Samtian wow, sorry to hear you are sleep deprived 

[JoSometimes]

I had a feeling there might be a challenge this month. Glad I didn’t miss out this time!

Week 1 (1/10 – 1/16): Creating the perfect morning routine to start your day off right

In a perfect world, everyone is fed, dressed, and in the car by 8:00 am. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. Here’s my current routine. 

• Wake Up
• Shower (an absolute must for me)
• Wake up my girls
• Skincare routine
• Wake up my girls again
• Makeup and hair routines
• Wakeup my girls for real this time and get them dressed
• Get breakfast to go for everyone
• Out the door and into the car 

[CynthieLu]

You found it @JoSometimes way to go!! 🙂

You routine is solid. If you had all the time in the world what would you add or change about it?

[JoSometimes]

@CynthieLu Its far from perfect! I wish there was time for a sit down breakfast, at least for my kids but they just don’t want to wake up. I frequently leave 10 minutes later than I want to and wind up at work exactly on time. I’d also love to not have to rush my makeup routine. Sometimes I forget to do something like put on mascara or do my brows… 🫠

Having my little dumping ground space in my cabinet has really helped though. If I set all my makeup out the night before and put them back as I use them, I know I’ve done all the steps once that space is empty again. 

[CynthieLu]

Awww getting everyone ready and out the door, especially when it involves kiddos, that is a tough daily daily challenge. @JoSometimes Your not alone there, I've totally left the house and forgotten my brows and my mascara before. 🙃

[CorgiMommy]

@JoSometimes love that you have to wake your girls up three times.  You are really good to them

[JoSometimes]

@CorgiMommy This sleep pattern of sleeping like the dead on a school day has been passed down from generation to generation in my family. It was exactly me growing up. I would be late for kindergarten and I shared a fence with the school grounds! 😅