Hi everybody, I'm Beth with 50 plus Beauty and very glad to have you here with me today. We're going to be talking about pores and how to reduce them. But as those of you who follow skincare know you can't really reduce them or at least they say you can't, but I really feel like you can make them look much smaller than they are normally and I'm a girl who has had oily skin my whole life. I had my last pimples probably in my late 50s. I mean it wasn't pretty. It wasn't fun to have acne for not just year after year but decade after decade and that resulted in very large pores on my nose especially and right around in here, the t-zone and down in here. And I'm going to be showing you the number one thing I used to make my pores look smaller. And since I'm doing a video about pores I decided to also share the other items that I used to kind of minimize my pores. But before I get into that I did want to show you the outfit that I'm wearing today and it includes all of this jewelry and it's all from Amazon. Oh that's my wedding ring. It's all from Amazon and it's very very reasonable. I really do like this sweater and I have this in probably three different colors. It's a wonderful cable knit sweater. Very good quality. I have this one for more than a year and it still looks exactly the same. And those jeans are the Levi's 724 straight jeans and they look great on everyone. They're just wonderful. And if you're not yet a subscriber to the 50 plus beauty family I hope you'll subscribe to my channel if you'd like and click that little bell and that will just send you email notifications of my future videos. Okay, let's get into this. And before I get into the number one thing that I really think has made my pores look much smaller I'm going to go ahead and do one of the things in advance. And that is this wonderful little powder and I have mentioned this before. I can tell right now that I look kind of greasy and it looks kind of like I'm looking liney and I love this Charlotte Tilbury powder. And this is her airbrush flawless finish powder. There it is and I've probably gone through three or four but I'll show you. Look at my skin now and you can see I've got a lot of wrinkles. But then I just put this on and look how it just kind of knows out there. There we go. And it also softens the pores. I'll put it on my nose. And I've got some kind of oiliness up here. I always have oiliness. Some of you wonder what I've done to have relatively line free skin at this age which I'll be 65 in April and really I didn't do a whole lot except stay out of the sun and also have extremely oily skin. But anyway I'll put a little down there because I definitely have wrinkles down there. But see how this powder just knows out the pores and also the fine lines and wrinkles. I absolutely love this powder. There are days when I don't even use a loose powder. I just go ahead and use this little Charlotte Tilbury airbrush flawless finish. Okay so I have that one out of the way. But I'll get into the main thing that I wanted to show you in this video. And this is the Paula's Choice Poor Reducing Toner. And I have used this for probably two and a half years now. I started out using another of her toners and I liked it because it cut the grease slick, the oil slick that I have on my face. But when I saw that this was a poor reducing formula I went ahead and ordered this and I have never looked back. This is probably never four or five that I've had. And again this is the Paula's Choice Poor Reducing Toner with Nia Sinamide and it has anti-oxidants and ceramides so it actually does not leave your skin feeling all dried out. It leaves your skin just feeling dewy and moist. And the Nia Sinamide here helps kind of soften those pores, helps kind of shrink them a little bit and it helps give your skin a more even glowy tone which I really like. And here is one of the reviews from the Paula's Choice Website. Hannah from Anchorage, Alaska says, genuinely the best toner I've ever used. Noticeably reduced my pore size within a couple of weeks of use. Now after months of use they're almost non-existent. Doesn't draw my skin out at all like other toners I've used. Doesn't irritate my acne prone skin either. Definitely recommend. And I recommend this too. And I really feel like since I've been using this my skin just looks overall more flawless, more perfected. The pores look reduced, absolutely love this toner and I'll link it below. Now since I'm on the septic of pores I'll also show you some other things. They're not really also rinsed because I do use these products on a daily basis and I really think that they have gone a long way in helping my skin look much more flawless. The first is this own a diamond scrubbing brush. Well, it's not a scrubbing brush. It's kind of like the sonic hair used to be and there it is. You just put a little bit of your chosen face wash on this. Get it damp first and then you turn it on and it has several different speeds but I just use it on the most basic speed, the slowest speed and then you just go around your face with that, your face and neck. I absolutely love this because I think it cleans out those pores and again at my age I still do get a lot of oil and sebum in my pores and this really does help everything stay cleaned out which I love. One other benefit of this it sterilizes itself. Once you put the brush back in the little holder there it goes on for another almost minute I think and it uses blue light to sterilize that brush so you always have a fresh new brush to use which is great. And another thing that I use about once a week to even out my skin tone and keep my pores nice and clean is the Tatcha the rice polish deep. And what this is it's a foaming enzyme powder and it is made of rice and basically it looks just like little white grains here. I don't want to put it on my skin. Oh there it is I got too much but you just mix that with a little bit of water and make a paste and then you just screfl it all over your face very very gently and you do that for maybe 20 30 seconds and then you rinse off your face and it's amazing if you haven't used an exfoliant in a little while it almost makes the skin look a little bit lighter each time you use it because it is buffing off all those old dead skin cells and it is bringing to the surface those newer younger fresh or looking skin cells. Now my last two products that help me deal with my pores are this Benefit Poor Fessional Primer and this is an absolutely wonderful daily primer to use and you just put it on like any other primer. It goes on very matte and it noles out the pores really gives you a flawless matte finish absolutely love that. And for parties and special events when I really want to look my absolute best I use this little inexpensive elf porous putty primer and I'll see if I can show you how it works. I've got that powder on my face I don't know if this is the best idea and I have a little Angie brush here this is the Angie of Hot and Flashe 506 and I just dab that in there and you're not going to really be able to see how this works but you just kind of dab that on and it absolutely kind of fills in any large pores that you have and I wouldn't use this all over your face but you can use it in those places where you do have pores and it absolutely just makes those areas of your face just look flawless and I think it's five or six bucks. Okay many of you have been asking where my thoughts for the day have been and I stopped them because I thought my video's got a little bit long but many of you asked me to bring them back again so I'm going to be testing my thoughts for the day again and let me know in the comment section if you'd like me to continue them. I've just ordered some cognitive behavioral therapy cards and I'm really excited to share those with you because cognitive behavioral therapy helps us become happier through the ways we think and behave and I'm really excited to get those. I thought I would have them today I don't so I'll go ahead and use these how to love yourself cards from Louise Hay. Let's go ahead and choose a card something positive to think about for today. Ooh I love myself totally in the now. I love myself totally in the now. Healing means to make whole and to accept all parts of myself not just the parts I like but all of me not just the parts I like but all of me. And friends this is so important to love ourselves you know when earlier thoughts for the day I talked about the Louise Hay practice of looking yourself in the mirror in the morning and saying I love you I love you I really really love you and you know the same is true about all aspects of yourself because there are no perfect people in this world we all have flaws we have strengths and we have weaknesses and you know sometimes it's hard to accept both sides of yourself but you know our self-talk is so important when it comes to loving and appreciating ourselves and I heard something recently in fact it had to do with cognitive behavioral therapy but it said when you're talking to yourself when you say something to yourself ask what I say that to my son or daughter what I say that to my son or daughter and I realize that many of the things that I say to myself like oh gosh that was so stupid oh you idiot why are you doing that again you have no discipline would I really ever want to say that to any of my kids in the answer is absolutely not with my own children I would want to give them positive thoughts positive statements and that's what we need to do to ourselves. So friends just for today as we're going through our day let's listen to the self-talk that we're giving to ourselves and if it isn't something we'd say to one of our own kids let's shut up and not say it and let's try to love ourselves totally in the now because when we do that we're kinder to ourselves and we're also kinder to those around us take care and I'll see you in my next video