If you’ve ever been to ORA, you’ve probably seen our COO, Isabel, around the space. And if you have, you’ve probably also wondered the same thing we have: What does she actually do to make her skin look that good?
So, we finally decided to formally ask.
In this edition of our Team Day In The Life Series, Isabel is sharing her favorite ways to care for and recover her skin after long summer days, late nights, and plenty of time in the sun.
Summer Skin
How would you describe your summer skincare ritual?
Summer asks different things of your skin. Some days it needs recovery; some nights it deserves a glow. My skincare shifts with the goal, but one thing never changes: my 10 minute ORA Method® LED Gua Sha ritual. The products around it rotate with my skin's needs. The Gua Sha is the constant.
Post-Beach Recovery
What is your essential post-beach skincare routine?
A full day of sun means a full day of sunscreen, reapplied in layers over sweat, salt, and chlorine. It protects your skin, but by evening those layers sit heavy in my pores. This routine is how I reset: a deep, gentle cleanse followed by calm, repair, and hydration.
1. Cleanse. I start with a foaming cleanser to break down the thick layers of SPF, sweat, and residue from the day.
2. Deep clean with LINNÉ Purify. This is a 2-in-1 that I love as a daily wash, but after a beach day I use it as a mask. Its blend of green and white clays and Dead Sea salt draws out everything the first cleanse left behind, decongesting pores without stripping or over-drying.
3. Double mask with OMAD. Now that skin is truly clean, it needs comfort. The OMAD Bio Cellulose Restore and Repair Serum Mask is formulated with eight calming TCM botanicals in a probiotic, fermented rice serum with ectoin and hyaluronic acid. It was originally designed for skin recovering from lasers and peels, which makes it exactly what sun-stressed skin is asking for.
4. My ORA Method LED Gua Sha. This step never changes. I press the leftover serum from the OMAD mask into my skin and let the red light do what it does best: support repair and recovery, while the sculpting work moves lymph and releases the tension of a long day in the sun.
5. Seal it in with LINNÉ Nurture. I finish my face and decollate with this restorative balm. Passionfruit, mango butter, and sea buckthorn comfort the skin and lock in every layer of hydration underneath.
Sun days are the best days. Recovery is just part of the ritual.
Summer Night Out Skin Routine
It sounds like your post-beach skin routine focuses on cleansing and hydrating. How does this differentiate from your summer night out skin routine?
Before an evening out my routine is focused on definition and radiance as opposed to recovery. This is the routine for when I want skin that looks lifted, sculpted, and lit from within.
1. Cleanse. Same foaming cleanser, same fresh start. Every good glow begins on clean skin.
2. Tone with YINA Essential Mist. A hydrating toner-essence built on TCM adaptogens: ginseng, schisandra, and tremella in a base of white tea and rosewater. It floods the skin with hydration and preps it to absorb everything that follows, which is exactly what you want before an active mask.
3. Mask with OMAD Instant Firm and Lift. This is the pre-event mask. Frankincense, white water lily, and rhodiola paired with a firming peptide to visibly smooth, tighten, and lift. Fifteen minutes here does more for your evening than any highlighter.
4. My ORA Method LED Gua Sha. The constant, but tonight with a different focus. I work the leftover serum from the mask packet into the skin and use my 10 minutes for sculpting and lymphatic drainage: sweeping along the jaw, lifting through the cheekbones, and moving fluid out so the face looks defined, de-puffed, and awake.
5. Glow with LINNÉ Repair Face Oil. The final layer. Rose hip, sea buckthorn, argan, and frankincense deliver that luminous, non-greasy finish that catches the light all night while quietly nourishing underneath.
The result: skin that looks like you just left a facial, on your own schedule.
What would you say is the foundation of your skincare ritual?
The LED Gua Sha is the foundation that these two routines are built around. With the constant foundation of the LED Gua Sha supporting these routines, the rest of your skincare becomes a wardrobe: you dress your skin for the occasion. Recovery after the sun, radiance before the night. Your skin can do both.
