How to reverse engineer your best skin ever: science-based skincare before Botox with Natalie O'Neill | Future Self Series Ep. 9

If you followed me for a while, you will probably already know that I have had many skin struggles and acne struggles over the last decade.

And luckily, I've managed to heal a lot of that through skincare.

changing my diet, finding supplements that work for me, lifestyle changes, finding which treatments work best.

But since I have been pregnant and my hormones have shifted, my skin really started to struggle again.

And then I started to notice things that I kind of hadn't before.

Nothing crazy.

but I found myself in a bit of like a comparison rut.

So over-analysing any new potential wrinkle or spot or mark or line that I spotted in the mirror.

And that really got me thinking about whether there's something that I should be doing now in my twenties to prevent as much as possible further drama with my skin down the line.

And then I realised kind of after talking to my friends that almost everyone I knew at this stage of life was having some version of the same thoughts and maybe a little bit of the same panic.

Because I want to be real, aging and bad periods with your skin are inevitable.

And side note, I think aging is actually something we should be very grateful for as it obviously shows we've lived a longer and hopefully happy life.

But that is not always easy to do in practice.

Like that is a lovely thought.

But do I always feel positive about my skin and various different things around it? No.

So that is what today is going to be about.

The wider kind of approach to how to build a skincare routine that works strategically for you so that the decisions you make now in your twenties can have a compounding effect for years to come.

Now, I want to be really, really clear.

This episode isn't about telling you what you should or shouldn't do with your skincare or your face.

and i really really don't want to come across like aging is something to fear.

it's, as i've said, the opposite.

but i wanted us to make this episode to allow you to decide on your own terms, in a calm and measured way, how you go about building your own routine or choosing the treatments that work for you.

so that by the time you get to later life you feel grateful for the decisions you made in your past.

I feel like so much of the beauty industry relies on us panicking, reacting, making impulse decisions.

And I wanted us to maybe take some of that control back.