Yasmin El Yashin

I love myself the most natural. I admire amazing make up and think it’s such a beautiful way to express yourself.  But for myself I love a blush, a lip and sometimes black charcoal eyeliner.  I like to see skin and texture and little redness, currently I’m falling in love with my dark under eye circles. I like to see a face that’s lived.

After I had a facial at QMS I was told to stop using harsh products so I follow a simple routine of in the morning of just a moisturizer and sunscreen, and in the evening double cleansing with a cleansing milk by QMS and then 2 x a week AHA BHA exfoliating by Skinworks.   Sometimes I use a serum and then a moisturizer again and sometimes a healing clay mask. At the moment I’m in love with a moisturizer by RūMU BEAUTY a small queer skincare brand from Spain. I sometimes use a Gua Sha , I have one from Face Gym. I suffer from TMJ and it really helps me to lose up my jaw muscles.

I love the hair/ scalp oil by Hinu – it smells amazing and I feel like it really helps with hair growth. I usually oil my scalp and hair before washing  and let it set overnight or for a few hours.  Also once a month I use Henna – I use it in medium brown it gives me a darker brown and nourishes my hair. My Moroccan grandmother used henna once a month and her hair was super long. I sleep with a bread and a silk bonnet to prevent breakage.

I don’t use make up every day.  Some days I just use a moisturizer and sunscreen. If I feel like it I like a blush – my favorite is ADDICTION TOKYO tint in purple and pink and I mix them and use it on my cheeks and lips.  I love a dark red lipstick –  I love Charlotte Tilbury cinematic red.  For my eyes I love to use a Moroccan charcoal eyeliner.

I’ve been eating plant based diet for 6 years now, I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 12. I believe in not supporting the mass production of meat and dairy – you will become happier and so will the plants. I also practice transcendental meditation for nearly 4 years now, it’s a sound based mediation that I do 2x a day for 20 minutes and  it’s completely transformed my life into a much peaceful, calmer, and happier version of life I didn’t know could exist before. Since I was born I’ve had sleeping problems, and since I’ve been meditating sleep became such a beautiful space in my life I never knew that would have been possible. I live to practice yoga too, it’s super natural to me I’ve been doing it since I’m 9 years old. I supplement mainly in the winter.  I love to drink herbal teas for any benefits I need.

I do daily stretching or I try to do it daily,  because I’m hyper mobile.  I need to stretch at the beginning and end of the day.

I love scents, it somehow feels like an armor of scents to protect me when I step out of the house.  Aesop always has my hearts with perfumes and also their Deodorant. Sometimes I only wear the deodorant as the scent is strong enough.  I like to use essential oils too, I use the Primavera oils , they are organic and smell so good.  My obsession at the moment is patchouli and cedar wood, I usually have them in my bag and put some drops on my wrist doing the day when I feel low.  I also love the Le Labo perfumes, and Serge Lutens has incredible scents especially their Nuit de Cellophane I used to be obsessed with. I love floral and woody smells, something between fresh and dead flowers , rain and a moulded tree and magic. My dream would be to create my own scent one day.

Don’t look at yourself too much or too long in a mirror. Especially with a different voice in your head that’s not yours. Also enjoy yourself in this fleshy temple we live in.

Auqaphor by Eucerin hand creme, Lip and Cheek tint by ADDICTION TOKYO, Aesop deodorant and Primavera essential oils – Patchouli and Cedar wood, a Charlotte Tilbury cinematic red lipstick.

QMS are incredible, also SKINWORK is amazing for facials.