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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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Episode Transcript

Ciera (00:03):
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Hello, friends, and welcomeback to the podcast.

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Thank you for tuning in.
My name is Ciera and I am thehost of this podcast.
Whether you are new or afrequent listener, I am so glad
that you decided to take sometime today and tune into this
podcast.
While we listen to this episode, I would encourage you do
something for yourself.
Do something that you maybehave been putting off.
Have you been wanting to go fora walk and you haven't taken

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the time?
Have you been wanting to paintyour nails and you haven't been
taking the time?
Maybe your kitchen is drivingyou crazy and you just have been
ignoring all the dishes.
Maybe you need to take a minuteand do the dishes while we
listen to this episode.
So, whatever it is, dosomething for you, whether it's
a chore, maybe it's somethingfun, maybe it's something to
move your body, maybe it'ssomething beauty related like.

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Maybe you want to take sometime to pluck your eyebrows,
whatever it is.
Let's take this time and dosomething for yourself that will
make you feel more confident inan area in your life and feel
better when you leave thisepisode.
Today, I am going to be talkingall about my skincare routine.
Skincare is something that Ihave become so passionate about.

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I have never really taken apriority in my skincare before,
but I think that was because Iwas in my 20s and I had
beautiful, youthful skin.
And then all of a sudden, likeI got into my 30s and now I am
34, approaching 35, and I cansee that my skin is changing and
I don't necessarily love thechanges that I am seeing.

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So I have been starting to paymore attention to the skincare
products that I am using andI've also been trying to pay
attention to the ingredientsthat are in my skincare product,
because I don't just want to beputting whatever on my face.
Whatever I put on my face, Iwant to have a good reason for
it going on my face.
I want it to be something thatis clean and healthy for my body

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, because my skin is going to beabsorbing that ingredient and I
don't want ingredients that aregoing to cause more toxins in
my body or have a negativeimpact on me.
I also would love to see youknow the fine lines, the
wrinkles, the blemishes, thepores all of that to improve.
I want some tightened skin andI want all of those things.

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So this is where I have put alot of research into some
products.
I have tried lots of differentskincare products.
I know there's a million moreout there that are probably
amazing, that I haven't tried.
But I have landed on someproducts that actually are
working for me and I am so happyafter having some products that
caused major skin reactions,that dried my skin out and that

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were not working for me, and alot that I was spending a good
amount of money on and thenquickly learned that they were
not high quality products.
The moisturizer that I used touse on my face, that I was
convinced was a greatmoisturizer, just because of the
price point.
I have compared it to othermoisturizers since then and I am

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blown away.
I'm like this was not goodskincare.
This was not a good moisturizer.
So I have moved on to a newskincare line and it's called
Beauty Society and I love thisskincare line.
It is so good, it is luxurious,it is affordable and it has
really improved my skin.
So let me walk you through myskincare routine.

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This is what I do every morning, every night and a weekly
treatment.
The very, very first thing thatI did, when I took this new
skincare line and I wanted tofigure 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 andmy concerns and the areas that I

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was hoping to improve or that Iwas insecure about.
After I took this skin quizthen it came up with a bunch of
products that were the perfectproduct for me and I could pick
and choose from those productswhich ones I wanted to try.
I could pick a whole regimen orI could just pick a few and try
them one at a time.

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I ended up deciding to pick aregimen so this is going to be a
cleanser serums and moisturizer.
So these products wererecommended to me based off of
my answers in my skin quiz, andthe products are for my skin
type and for the concerns that Iwas hoping to address.
You have probably heard ofretinol and I know you've heard

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of vitamin C and retinol, andvitamin C are huge in the skin
industry for helping to improveyour skin's health.
They are ingredients that areused to smooth wrinkles and
improve the texture of your face.
Now, the awesome thing aboutour little secret is it's Beauty
Society's little secret.

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It contains matrixyl peptides.
I hope I'm saying that right,but this ingredient, this
matrixyl peptide, is the mainingredient in this serum.
It has been proven throughstudies to outperform vitamin C
and retinol.
It can smooth wrinkles by asmuch as 68 to 90% in two to six

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months.
Now I can say this is true.
I have noticed my wrinkles arenot gone.
This is not going to be like amagic 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 havenoticed that the texture of my
skin with the wrinkles is.

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My wrinkles are not as deep asthey were.
My wrinkles have smoothed outand 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.
So I use this in the morning.
I also use an eye cream, so theeye cream I like to use has
caffeine in it, which is greatto use in the morning.

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It helps to reduce thosepuffiness the puffiness under my
eyes and the dark circles.
I'm using it in the morning soI'm not worried about the
puffiness under my eyes and thedark circles.
I'm using it in the morning soI'm not worried about the
caffeine sinking into my skinand maybe affecting my sleep or
anything.
I have not personally never hadthat, if I have used it at
night, but I do know that somepeople are very, very sensitive
to caffeine.
Maybe just using the caffeineeye cream in the morning is

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going to help you so that youare not worried about that.
After I use my serum and my eyecream, then I am going to use
my Love Thy Face Moisturizer.
This is the product that won meover with Beauty Society's
products.
This is the creamiest, thickestbut not heavy moisturizer and I

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love it so much.
It feels so good when I put iton my face.
I can feel like, feel thethickness of it as I'm putting
it on.
But the thing that I reallylove about it is it dries and
soaks into my skin and then Idon't feel it the rest of the
day.
I don't feel like my skin iscakey or heavy, I just feel

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hydrated.
It just absorbs into my skinand it makes my skin feel so
good throughout the day.
That is my morning skincareroutine.
It is so simple.
It literally probably takes me45 seconds.
It's very fast and I notice ahuge difference in the day.
My nighttime skincare routinedoes take a little bit more time

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, but it's still only about fiveminutes.
It's not much time and I havecreated it into being a habit
that I can't not do my nighttimeskincare routine.
If I don't do my nighttimeskincare routine, then I won't
sleep as well.
I just won't.
If I still have the makeup onmy face, I'm not going to sleep
as well and I am not going tofeel as refreshed.

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The very first thing that I doin my nighttime skincare routine
if I have makeup on.
If I don't have makeup on, Iskip this step, but if I have
makeup on, I use my Take it OffCitrus Cleansing Balm.
It is a glowing cleansing balm,so this is a non-greasy makeup
remover balm.

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So this is a non-greasy makeupremover.
It removes excess oil andeffortlessly removes makeup,
especially mascara.
It will just melt it away andit does not leave a greasy
residue.
I just use like a nickel sizeamount of this.
I put it all over my face, rubit into my eyes very gently, and
then I take a wet cloth and Iwipe it away and my makeup is
wiped off and it has a reallyrefreshing, very, very, very

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light citrus smell and I love it.
So I do that if I have makeupon.
If I don't have makeup on, Iskip that step and then the next
thing I go to is my easy goingcleanser.
One thing that I could do is Icould just use my cleanser to
remove my makeup, right.
But I have found that removingmy makeup with another product,
like the cleansing balm, andthen using a cleanser after is a

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huge, huge step in skincare.
It's a step that you couldeasily skip over and just say,
oh, I'll just use the cleanseror I'll just use the cleansing
balm and not worry about acleanser.
But I have found that youreally need both.
I need to be able to get themakeup off of my skin so that I
then have my skin ready andavailable to take in all the

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ingredients from my cleanser.
So then my skin is bare andready for my cleanser.
I put my cleanser on, add alittle bit of water onto my
fingertips, rub my cleanser intomy face and I really take the
time to rub it in.
This is a mistake that I usedto make with my skincare.
I used to just hurry, throw onsome cleanser, hurry, throw on
some water and be done.
But I really rub it into myskin and I try and rub it for

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about a minute.
Rub it into my skin, rub it allinto my pores, make it feel
really, really nice, and then Itake the time to rinse it off.
If you really want to beambitious, you can do a double
cleanse.
I know a lot of people reallyreally love the double cleanse.
To me, I feel like thecleansing balm and then my
cleanser is good enough for meand I'm not going to take that

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extra time.
Maybe another season in my lifewhen I feel like I want to take
that extra time or I have thatextra time, maybe I'll do a
double cleanse.
But for now I feel like thecleansing balm and then the
cleanser is good enough, so I dothe cleanser.
Then my face is just squeakyclean.
It's beautifully clean and thenI can move on to my serums.
One thing I love about BeautySociety is they take the

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guesswork out of what order toput everything in.
Everything has a number at thebottom.
So if it has a one, you knowyou 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'mgoing to do my cleanser first.
My cleansing balm is a one.
Do my cleansing balm, do mycleanser, then I'm going to move
on to the twos.
Moving on to my serums, I amgoing to very first put on my

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All Nighter serum.
So this one is the only one Iuse at night.
That's why it's called AllNighter and it is a retinol
serum.
So we just talked about retinolwith that other serum and it
has the highest concentration ofretinol that you can have and
4% matrixol, which is the otheringredient that we just talked
about.
That is in the other serum.
And the other awesomeingredient that this product has

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because of Beauty Society isAdvanced BTX.
This is an anti-wrinkleingredient.
It induces strong muscularrelaxation, it purges carbon
dioxide from the skin and itrefreshes the skin.
So this is going to leave yourskin firmer and tighter and
refreshed and get rid of thetoxins that are in your skin.

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So this is the perfectresurfacing serum and it helps
to fade discoloration, sundamage, age spots, fine lines,
wrinkles and melasma.
Next is step number three, whichis the Our Little Secret Serum.
So I use two serums at nightthe All Nighter and then the Our
Little Secret.

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Our Little Secret is the onethat I also use in the mornings,
that I already talked about,and then I top it all off with
that moisturizer that we justwent over.
So nighttime cleansing, balmcleanser, all Nighter, our
Little Secret moisturizer.
So I have five products that Iuse at night and they are very
quick.
Really only takes me about fiveminutes and I sleep so much

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better after I have done it.
That is my morning andnighttime routine.
Now I'm adding something to mymorning routine that is brand
new, and so I'm not going totalk a ton about it, because it
is not a product that I haveused frequently enough to be
able to say whether or not itworks, and I only like to talk
about products that I really,really love and that I know will

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work, because then, when Irecommend a product, I want the
people that I recommend it to toknow that it is a product that
I really enjoy.
This product that I am startingto use is called Infuse HA.
I just got the starter kit andit is also by this beauty
society company that I reallylove that has my skincare line,
the Infuse HA starter kit.

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I was really impressed with it.
It comes with a super cute jar.
It comes with a really nicespoon for like to scoop out the
powder and then it comes with a10 day supply of the unflavored
Infuse HA and then two singleserving sticks of so two of each
of all of the five flavors ofthe Infuse HA.
So they have a non-flavored oneand then they have five

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different flavors that it hassingle sticks of so I can sample
those other flavors and seewhich ones I like or if I want
to stick with the non-flavoredone.
It has the cute scoop that canscoop out of the bamboo jar lid,
and Infuse HA is an inner skintreatment.

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It has been clinically proventhrough studies to increase skin
elasticity and it has helped toprevent signs of aging such as
fine lines and wrinkles.
There were some studies donewhere it decreased your
oxidative stress levels by 4%,and what oxidative stress levels
are are basically an imbalanceof antioxidants in the body, so

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it can lead to cell and tissuedamage and that is going to make
your skin look older.
So Infuse has continued to workto hydrate and plump skin and
prevent the appearance of agingwith future fine lines and
wrinkles.
So basically, in a nutshell,infuse HA.

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It helps with moisture in theskin to make your skin look
hydrated, healthier, it reducesthe oxidative stress levels and
it improves your wrinkles.
So I have added that to myregimen and that is going to be
just a morning thing that I'mgoing to take.
I'm just going to throw it inwith the vitamins that I already
take in the morning and it'sgoing to just be a really simple

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thing to add to my routine.
I'm going to habit stack,because habit stacking is where
it's at Now.
One last thing that I like to dofor my skincare I like to
exfoliate at least like one totwo times a week.
Two times a week is ideal.
Sometimes it only ends up beingonce, but I just keep a crystal
balm exfoliator.
It's a microdermabrasiontreatment like an at-home
treatment.
I just keep it in my shower andI just rub that into my face.

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It's basically like deepexfoliation.
So I just rub this skintreatment into my face and rub
it for about one to two minutesand then rinse it off with water
, and then I can see that all ofthe dead skin has been taken
off of my face.
I notice a huge improvementwith my makeup.
My makeup will lay a lotflatter, my foundation will stay

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on my face longer and it willjust look a lot better.
So I definitely this is one onething that I try not to miss,
and keeping it in my showermakes it really easy to remember
to do it at least once or twicea week.
That is my skincare routine.
It can be as bougie and fancyas you want it to be or as
simple as you want it to be.
That's what I love aboutskincare is you can make it as

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intense and wild as you want.
I could get even more.
There's even more serums andcreams that I could be getting
if I wanted to.
I could add in some facemasking throughout the week, or
I can just keep it really basicand simple, where I have my 45
second routine in the morningand my five minute routine at
night, and that is good enoughfor me, and I am going to notice

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a huge benefit with my skin,and so I love Beauty Society.
They have the cleanest, bestproducts, they're made in the
USA and they have just ravingreviews online.
So if you want to check out thewebsite, it's my website,
beautysocietycom slash theSierra Lancaster.
So go to beautysocietycom slashSierra Lancaster or click the

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link in the show notes below orit's in my bio on my Instagram.
It will link you there whereveryou go.
But if you want to check thatout, you can read all the
reviews on each specific productthat you may be interested in.
And if you want to take theskin quiz, which I highly
recommend if you are going to beinvesting in skincare products,
then just click on the link inthe show notes below or when you

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go to that.
Beautysocietycom slash SierraLancaster, you will see a tab at
the top and it says quizzes andyou can take the skin quiz.
You can get a personalized listof products that are
recommended for you, for yourskin, for your skin concerns,
and you can get a personalizedlist of products that are
recommended for you, for yourskin, for your skin concerns,
and you can start taking care ofyour skin, because we all
deserve to be taking care of ourskin.

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If I were to recommend just twoproducts, if you were like I can
only get two products, sierra,which ones should I get?
Then I would say, to get acleanser.
For me it's the easy goingcleanser, but there are other
cleansers that may work for yourskin.
The Skin Quiz will tell you.
And get a moisturizer.
The moisturizer is amazing.
It is such a good moisturizer.

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And so if you just want tostart with just those two things
just to cleanse and moisturizeeven that will make a huge
difference for your skin.
I wish that I had started with ahigh quality skincare when I
was just a teenager.
I think I would have had a lotmore confidence in my skin and
felt a lot better.
But it's never too late tostart.
So get yourself a good, highquality skincare regimen that is

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at an affordable price.
And bonus if you take the skinquiz, I will give you a code for
20% off your entire purchase.
So go on over tobeautysocietycom slash, sierra,
c-i-e-r-a, lancaster,l-a-n-c-a-s-t-e-r and look at

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the products and take your skinquiz today.
Let's take care of our skin.
Stay confidently beautiful.
Thanks for listening.
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Stay confidently beautiful.