A master of both wordsmithing and witchcraft, Lilith is behind much of the Go-To content you know and love. Beyond being a word-champion reader, fierce Aquarius, and mother to a two-year-old human boy, she also has great skin. We decided to ask her how she does it.
Star Sign: Aquarius
Skin Sign: Juggler Sun, Swan Moon
Skin Type: Combo
Skin Concerns: Dehydration, hyperpigmentation, closed comedones.
Describe Your Routine In A Few Words: I’d like to say my routine is a masterclass in beauty but really, it’s just a few ultra effective and reliable products I can juggle while I also juggle a two-year-old in the morning and a profound, desperate need to get to bed at night.
AM Routine:
PM Routine:
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Very Amazing Retinal or Glow Exfoliator (followed by a rest day, then repeat)
*The Removalist every other week for a big-time clearout.
**The Repair Shop overnight in place of Luxe if my skin barrier if my skin is pissed.
Any Skincare Advice: After a decade working in skincare, these are the things that have made the biggest impact to my routine:
Consistency! (Boring!)
Less is more. (More boring.)
Listen to your skin, never the algorithm.
Favourite Skincare Ingredient: Niacinamide—I’d love to know what it can’t do.
Skincare Sin: Sometimes—more often than I’d like to admit—I whisper to myself: ‘who cares!’, and skip my entire nighttime routine.
How Your Relationship With Skincare Has Changed: One really hard lesson I had to learn when I turned 30: Your skin isn’t static. It ebbs and flows with you (and your hormones). Things can change overnight.
On my 30th birthday I woke up with melasma (the moustache variant) and when I was pregnant my skin was either flaking off or treating me to perioral dermatitis, neither of which I’d ever experienced before. Instead of sticking my head in the rich creme and ignoring what’s right in front of me (new skin needs) and demanding my old skincare still work the same (it won’t), I now know I need to a) listen to my skin, and b) tweak my routine and learn new tricks instead of losing my mind when the old ones don’t work.
Where Do Your Skincare: Always the bathroom sink.
Why Do You Skincare: In my 20s I think I skincare-d ‘cos I thought I had to and it was cool to feel a part of the beauty industry, however small.
In my 30s there’s obviously a ritualistic element (driven by the need for self-care) but, more importantly, when I was pregnant/in the middle of newborn life, it was a tether to my old self—an easy way to feel human again when you don't feel anything yourself—and are somewhere between who you were and who you are now.
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