Should you’re a Hallmarkie, you recognize that Andrew Walker is among the faces of the channel. And what a face it’s. It’s like The CW used an AI lab to create a number one man fabricated from one of the best components of Glen Powell, Ryan Eggold, and a younger Clint Eastwood. It’s insulting actually, how he simply walks round with that factor out within the open, making the remainder of us normies appear to be one thing out of Center Earth.
Fortunately, Walker is among the authentically good ones. Humble, partaking, completely Canadian, and a dang workhorse. The Montreal-born actor-producer has shot six films for Hallmark this yr, together with Countdown to Christmas’s Jingle Bell Run and Three Wiser Males and a Boy! On prime of that, he’s additionally a husband, father of two sons, and an entrepreneur, having co-founded the SkinMason skincare line… which is clearly working, since there are zero indicators of fatigue on his matinee-idol mug.
“Clearly I exploit skincare every day, and once I wrap from set, I’m at all times washing my face off,” he explains of the inspiration behind SkinMason. “I’ve used very abrasive merchandise which have given me pores and skin [issues], I’ve damaged out, I’ve had rashes. I used to have these little alcohol wipes to take the remainder of my make-up off.” Throughout a dinner along with his pal Dr. Hussein Kanji, a coronary heart and lung surgeon who’s “at all times working with several types of merchandise for [organ] cleansing and antioxidants,” the 2 agreed to companion on a product line.
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“He had an concept for a quite simple but efficient skincare model, ideally focused to males to start out with, as a result of the ladies’s area is so huge…however men and women can use the identical skincare,” Walker continues. “And I stated I’d like to enterprise into this, first off, as a result of my spouse [Cassandra] at all times scolded me for utilizing means an excessive amount of of her costly skincare merchandise—I don’t know what to make use of! It’s like, there’s so many merchandise on the market.”
Two years later, Walker and Kanji had the primary two core merchandise of the road, exfoliating wipes and a serum, which have been quickly adopted by their new moisturizer. “We don’t even name it a moisturizer. It’s a bioactive cream.” Noting that Jean Carruthers, the co-innovator of Botox, has endorsed all of their merchandise, Walker explains that their components boasts retinoid, Nutritional vitamins C, and phospholipids that rebuild collagen. The SkinMason website is having a 40 p.c off Black Friday sale and you’ll order every merchandise individually or as a set, with a VIP subscription for normal refill orders at a ten p.c low cost. Higher but, he laughs, “My spouse has now turned on to utilizing my merchandise!”
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Talking of his spouse, how do the Walkers plan to spend the vacations? “With household,” he instantly gives. “We moved as much as Vancouver for a yr and it’s been superb. It’s been quiet as a result of we stay subsequent to a forest. So the vacations this yr are simply going to be household and attempting to take a second to place away the telephones, put away expertise, and simply focus my time on my youngsters and my spouse and one another.”
Now that is an efficient search for everybody.
Three Wiser Males and a Boy & Jingle Bell Run, Streaming Now, Hallmark+