Everyone thinks I’m in my 30s so they’re stunned when they learn my real age – I swear by a £6 beauty bargain

A WOMAN who is often mistaken for being decades younger than her property has revealed she doesn’t person a lengthy skincare routine.

Marie Mercurius was successful her forties erstwhile she became funny successful slowing the signs of ageing.

Marie, who shares manner videos connected YouTube, shocked her subscribers erstwhile she revealed that she’s 56.

Viewers said “You look precocious 30s oregon aboriginal 40s” arsenic they commented connected her now-viral video astir maintaining a youthful appearance.

The Studio Administrator from Toronto told The Sun that passim her twenties she didn’t attraction astir the ingredients successful her beauty products.

She would adjacent spell to slumber with her makeup connected aft a nighttime out.

“It wasn't till I was successful my forties that I doubled down connected the cleanable quality thing,” Marie said.

“It was astatine the clip erstwhile a batch of radical were doing things to themselves, getting procedures done and spending exorbitant amounts of wealth connected skincare products and stuff.

“I conscionable thought, you know, I'm getting older, I privation to commencement taking adjacent amended attraction of myself truthful I could support my youthful appearance.”

Marie said radical person ever told her that she looks younger than her age.

Genetics has been a origin but she swears that she looks younger than her mum did astatine the aforesaid age.

She revealed her skincare regular is comparatively abbreviated and uses products from the brands BeautyCounter and Honest.

“I conscionable started utilizing a gua sha thing,” she said. “In the morning, I cleanse my look successful the ablution with a lightweight cleanser.

“I usage a vitamin C serum for brightening and past a moisturiser due to the fact that it's getting colder.

“I usage much of a heavier moisturiser than I would successful the summertime conscionable truthful that my tegument volition enactment bully and plump and moist.”

Honest Beauty Vitamin C Radiance Serum is priced astatine £35 connected Look Fantastic, portion Beauty Counter's All Bright C Serum isn't disposable successful the UK.

A budget-friendly alternate is Boots Vitamin C PRO Brightening Booster Serum which costs conscionable £6.

Marie removes dormant tegument cells and build-up from her look with an exfoliator 2 to 3 times a week.

Impurities are besides brought retired of her tegument utilizing a charcoal-activated mask.

Marie revealed there’s a measurement successful her skincare regular that she’s been neglecting recently.

“I request to get backmost into steaming,” she said. “I would usage my covering steamer to steam my look to unfastened up my pores and past bash similar a small facial.

“I usage distilled oregon filtered h2o alternatively of pat h2o and marque definite that it's not excessively adjacent to my face.”

She said it takes conscionable 15 minutes to unfastened pores and the process tin beryllium followed by either a scrub oregon disguise past serum and a moisturiser.

She prefers to deterioration a chapeau and enactment retired of the prima alternatively than utilizing sunscreen due to the fact that of its agelong database of ingredients.

Having antecedently been scarred by a facialist, Marie said she’s hesitant to get extraction professionally done by beauticians who aren’t experienced with moving connected darker skin.

She believes that spending ample sums of wealth connected products and treatments doesn’t ever mean the effect volition beryllium amended than budget-friendly options.

Avoiding toxins successful the foods she eats is conscionable arsenic “important” arsenic the products she applies for a youthful appearance.

“There's a batch of processed foods that are afloat of toxins,” she said.

“They don't bash fantastic things for your hormones oregon your gut, and your gut microbiome plays a large portion successful the wellness of your tegument and your wide wellbeing.

“I deliberation radical hide that our tegument is our largest organ and we truly request to instrumentality attraction of that by eating minimal processed foods, much fruits and vegetables, acheronian leafy greens.

“I volition accidental I'm blameworthy of not drinking arsenic overmuch h2o arsenic I astir apt should, but I inactive consciousness similar I'm doing OK.

“ As acold arsenic supplements, I don't instrumentality thing for tegument but I instrumentality robust and vitamin D3 and K, 2 successful one.

“Just due to the fact that during the wintertime I don't get capable sunlight and that truly affected maine past year.”

Marie said intoxicant is “dehydrating” truthful she restricts herself to a maximum of 2 drinks erstwhile guests visit.

She tin spell a period without drinking, portion “creature comforts” specified arsenic acheronian cocoa and chips she tries to debar thing with much than 3 ingredients listed.

The lone nutrient she eats is grass-fed beef from a butcher due to the fact that it’s hard to cognize however chickens person been raised.

Microwaves are besides off-limits successful favour of cooking connected the stove arsenic she tries to debar aluminium.

“I similar to navigator astatine location due to the fact that astatine slightest I cognize what is going into [the food],” she said.

“When you spell to restaurants, you're not definite what benignant of oils they're cooking in.

“I'm truly trying to get radical to recognize women, particularly who are either coming up connected menopause oregon determination connected the menopause bid that it's the toxins successful what you're eating, what you're putting connected your skin, the apparel that you're wearing, the things successful your situation that accelerate the ageing process and tin truly destruct your hormones which origin you to person a horrible menopause experience.

“I stopped wearing accepted fragrances astir 3 oregon 4 years agone due to the fact that of the hormone oregon endocrine disruptors which impact your estrogen, thyroid, progesterone, each of that.

“I deterioration aluminium-free deodorant that's the amended mode to go.”

Marie said getting astatine slightest 7 hours of slumber nightly and focusing connected spot grooming tin assistance to stave disconnected age-related conditions specified arsenic osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.

She teams her exercises with walking astatine slightest 40 minutes a time and regularly stretching.

“Exercise is important due to the fact that you suffer musculus wide truthful rapidly erstwhile you deed your thirties,” she said.

“You're not gonna bulk up because, astatine that point, you don't person the aforesaid levels of hormones that you did backmost successful your twenties.

“If you don't privation to enactment out, you should regardless.

“But besides effort to bash things to distract yourself from the stresses of work, if you person a favourite book, work that, if it's a drama ticker that.

“If it's a one-person creation enactment successful your surviving country bash that, you request to get your caput disconnected accent due to the fact that truly that is simply a large contributor to ageing and staying healthy.

“Stress is astir apt 1 of the biggest contributors speech from foods and toxic worldly successful our environment.”

Many commenters connected Marie’s YouTube transmission said not having kids has contributed to her youthful appearance.

However, she believes it’s imaginable for mums to enactment looking young if their children aren’t causing a batch of stress.

Making steadfast manner changes arsenic soon arsenic imaginable is beneficial to everyone.

“We are creatures of wont and it's hard to marque change, particularly arsenic we get older,” she said.

“But O don't privation radical to beryllium successful that presumption of, if you would person done this earlier, you could person prevented this unwellness that present you can't bash thing about."