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@itsbabykelz credits one specific ingredient for transforming her skin into the smoothest, most plump, glass-like canvas, and it is the reason her makeup looks the way it does. Here is her exact prep routine.
Routine by @itsbabykelz on TikTok
Before the foundation. Before the primer. Before anything else touches your face, there is skin prep.
And if you have ever looked at someone’s makeup and wondered why it looks the way it does, why it sits differently, why it glows from within instead of just sitting on top of the skin, the answer is almost always in what happened before the first drop of product.
@itsbabykelz opens her video with a challenge: “If you want your makeup to look like this, then you need your skin prep to look like this.”
Her skin is visibly plump, dewy, impossibly smooth, and she credits almost all of it to one ingredient that most people have not heard of yet.
“There’s one specific ingredient that I have to credit that transformed my skin and made it more smooth, plump, and hydrated; a wild guess on what it is? PDRN.”
What Is PDRN?
PDRN (Polydeoxyribonucleotide) is a skin-regenerating ingredient derived from salmon DNA.
It is best known in professional aesthetics for its use in skin booster injections, but it is increasingly appearing in topical skincare.
It works by stimulating skin cell repair and collagen synthesis, deeply hydrating the skin and improving texture and elasticity over time.
@itsbabykelz calls it simply “a magic ingredient that makes my makeup look literally flawless.”
The Two Products That Do the Skin-Prep Work
Step 01 · Collagen Mask
ANUA PDRN Collagen Melting Patch For Glass Skin 4ea
Around 80% of her skincare routine currently features ANUA products, a brand she says genuinely makes some of the best PDRN formulas available.
The hero of her prep routine is their PDRN Collagen Melting Patch For Glass Skin 4ea, which she pairs with a PDRN serum as her “perfect skin prep duo.”
“The way that it makes your skin glow truly needs to be studied,” she says.
The patch itself is made with 99% collagen and 1% PDRN, and when it melts into the skin, the effect is immediate.
“It basically just floods it with all this hydration. It helps target fine lines, smooths your skin out, and obviously gives your skin this crazy glass-like look.”
All of which translates directly to makeup performance.
“In return, all those things make your makeup look a hundred times better.”
PDRN Collagen Melting Patch For Glass Skin 4ea
Step 02 · PDRN Spray
ANUA PDRN Spray: Before, During, and After Makeup
The second product in the duo is the ANUA PDRN Spray, and the way she uses it is what makes it genuinely different from a standard setting spray.
“I use this before my makeup, during makeup, after makeup, because it gives you this type of glow and hydration that you honestly just cannot get with a regular setting spray.”
She describes it as essentially a skincare serum in spray form, which is exactly what it is.
The results are hard to argue with.
“Look at how insanely hydrated my skin looks, and this is the way my makeup applies on top of those products.”
The PDRN spray is also, she notes, the number one facial spray on Amazon. “Like okay. No, but actually though.”
PDRN Collagen Glow Facial Serum Spray
The through-line of her entire routine is simple: hydration at every stage, with an ingredient that works at a cellular level rather than just sitting on the surface.
When your skin is genuinely plump and smooth underneath, foundation applies differently. It sits into the skin instead of on top of it.
The glow reads as coming from within, because after prep like this, it actually is.
“I truly believe my makeup sits so much better on my face after using this,” she says. Looking at her skin on camera, it is very difficult to disagree.
So, start the skin prep. The makeup will follow.
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