What does it mean to create a definition of conscious skin care? All the reminders of being conscious can be overwhelming and yet, could this be incorporated into a simple daily routine such as skin care? And why? The question really is, ‘Do you want to raise your vibe in your daily life and enjoy more feel good energy?’ Evie Reyna, an experienced esthetician, joins Laura to explore the definition of conscious skin care. You may wonder, what does consciousness have to do with your skin care?  As you listen, you will learn the ways your daily skin care routine can be more than skin deep and how attention to these seemingly small things, can enhance your outlook each day.

Hello everyone and welcome. I’m Laura Greco, your host of SuperPower Mommas and I am so excited to bring to you today, a topic with Evie Reyna that is called the definition of conscious skin care. Evie is a licensed aesthetician and she’s a published skincare contributor with over a decade of beauty industry experience. Her facials are both relaxing and impactful by blending a blissful experience, signature massage touch, and educational moments designed for you to understand your skin at a higher level. Evie is a mother of three children, ages 17, 10 and 7. She was raised in Northern California and has lived in Northern New Jersey for the past 13 years. Private skincare coaching sessions are available at your request. So it’s so exciting to have you here Evie, and I just want to say on a personal note, I’m very excited.

Thanks, Laura. I’m so happy to be here with you.

I know, we’ve known each other for about a year now seeing that we go to a mutual networking, I don’t know, networking is what you call it, but a really beautiful group of women who are inspiring one another and building each other up. So I’m really, really glad that you’re here with me.

Yeah, we share a lot of empowerment together. It’s a nice empowering experience every time we meet.

I collaborate with my clients through facials, skincare and education to try to heighten their appreciation of their own self-image.

Yes. Yes, it is. And so I love this topic because I think that the definition of conscious skincare is… we talk about consciousness, we talk about being more conscious, self-care, I think that what we’re going to talk about today is a little bit of a step further. So I’m really excited to explore this topic. But to begin with Evie, we always start with our first question, which is, what is your momma superpower?

Ah, so my momma superpower, well, my newest superpower that I’m working on is I’m actually creating a YouTube channel with my seven year old because everyone has a YouTube channel, so he has to have one as well. So right now we’re in the process of doing that and it’s really… it’s fun and it’s funny and we’re enjoying it and kind of bonding a little bit more by the experience.

Oh, cool. Cool. So that’s your newest endeavor, huh? And what would you say that superpower is and can-

That is my newest endeavor.

Are you there?

Well, so what I do, my daily superpower, my power in life is I try to… I collaborate with my clients. I collaborate with my clients through facials, skincare and education to try to heighten their appreciation of their own self-image. So the collaboration with my son on the YouTube channel is to get him to be more confident is kind of how that correlates.

Well, it sure does. It sure does. Because it really empowers him to see how he can… I have to watch this. I didn’t even know you were doing that. So this is really exciting. But yeah, your collaboration with clients like it… yeah, I know even in the group, I can witness that in you and your ability to collaborate with the rest of us as far as the different connections that we make through the group.

Definitely.

Yeah. And then to collaborate with your clients’ needs in skincare is also vital. Now do you… are you or your children, you don’t mention whether they’re boys or girls. Of course, I know you’re youngest is a son now, but, well how about your other two? Are they all boys?

No. So my oldest, my 17 year old, is a girl. So I have a 17 year old daughter.

Right.

And then the 10 year old and the seven year old are both boys.

Oh, okay. Okay. So you had one daughter and then two boys. Now you’re involved in the skincare industry. Obviously, you view as important and I am wondering, how does this… does this ever enter into your home, your personal home care with your children?

Definitely. So my daughter’s funny because she is a minimalist with her routine and her regimen, just in life, she’s a minimalist, whereas, I’m not. I have a vault of skincare products in the back and a stash of makeup and she really only likes the certain things that she likes, but there are some things where we come together and it’s about the health of her skin and just making sure that she appreciates herself, her own self-image. So I’m always just trying to raise her awareness of the appreciation for her own self-image like I am when I work with my clients. It’s really not about the vanity side of it, it’s more about the appreciation of owning your beauty with who you are and having that be what you want to share with the world. So yes, we definitely have our at home spa days and educational moments, but for her it’s more about, again, the empowerment through skincare and making smart choices for the health of her skin.

Yeah, I love that. I love that because there is a lot of focus, has been actually for some time, about self-image for what we look like and I think that what you’re looking to accomplish goes deeper than that. Not that there’s anything wrong with looking great, but our self-worth often gets tied up in that.

Yes.

And that can become damaging.

Yeah. It can become damaging. So I try to break that cycle of criticism that some people can have or how they acknowledge their own perceived flaws. And I just think that if we look at skincare as a daily ritual of self-love, there’s so much more that we can do that… so much more that we build through that experience. So it’s not just something that we do for other people, it’s something that we do for ourselves. Right? So shifting that and you take that moment in the morning where you get to look in the mirror and really celebrate what we love about ourselves and kind of shifting our mindset to see our own beauty and creating power from a place of self-admiration.

I love that. I love that because it actually ties in with some work that I do around the mirror and being able to look into your… So you mentioned about looking for what we perceive as not good about ourselves and looking beyond that and seeing into it. I talk a lot about looking into the eyes, it’s a window into your soul. When you look there, you look at other people’s eyes for a reason, right? That’s how we would get to know people quite well. And it’s also something that we want to be able to do for ourselves as well. So having a different viewpoint as a mirror, it seems like a very valuable thing that you bring to people.

Yeah. Yeah. No, but that’s such a good point that you bring up. We do, when we look at people, we look them in the eye and that’s our connection point. And sometimes you can look at someone and be like, “Oh, are you feeling okay?” I mean, you really can feel a lot of what’s happening internally just through that quick glance, that quick glance at somebody or the first time you meet them. So yeah, you want to be able to look at yourself in the mirror with the same amount of love and admiration that you want other people to give you, so that I think it really starts there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know there was, oh, gee, her name escapes me right now, but she talks about the love that we feel from others is really the love that we can have for ourselves as well. We wouldn’t be able to feel the love of others if we didn’t have it for ourselves. So the fact that we reach out and continue to bring that forward, we actually enhance our relationships with all people.

Of course. Yes. There’s so much to that. I’ve definitely subscribed to that way of thinking.

Yeah. Yeah. How about your boys? Are they engaged much in the skincare thought? How do you approach that since you have sons?

Yes. Not so much. Well, my 10 year old, he probably within the next year or two, might start to experience those adolescent breakouts that everybody kind of experiences I think at 12 years old.

Yeah.

I mean really, our skin, it represents us for a long time, we’re going to have it our whole life.

But so far we’ve been… we’ve been OK. And then the most I can do with them right now is sunscreen. So that’s the challenge is just making sure that they’re wearing sunscreen to protect the skin that they have because right now we just want to make sure that we’re limiting their sun exposure and just again, safely. Just they can be in the sun, but make sure it’s safe.

Yeah. Yeah. And I love that too because sometimes it’s thought while we take care of the girls and their skin, but the boys, no, not so much, but actually, their skin is also such a… needs to be protected as well, so.

Yeah. I mean really, our skin, it represents us for a long time, we’re going to have it our whole life. So I think the younger that we start kind of becoming aware of what we need to do just to protect it and maintain its health, I think that it’s beneficial and it really doesn’t matter if you’re male or female. Even though sometimes with women, we just have a more extensive skincare regimen.

Yes.

I think that it’s really important to make younger children at any gender aware of how to positively take care of their skin.

I love it. Evie, we’re going to continue this conversation and dive a little deeper into some of the questions that I like to ask for the show and how it revolves around the definition of conscious skincare. But for now, can you just leave our… we have to go for a break, so can you give our listeners your website or where it is you would like them to find you?

Well, the place I’m probably the most active is Instagram. So if anybody wants to check me out, you can follow me at your.skin.sage on Instagram.

Beautiful. Beautiful. Well, we’ll take our quick break and then we’ll come back. Thank you. Stay with us everyone.

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