For years, our skin has type has been divided into two skin types: oily and dry. Then came the term combination skin where you have oily patches on your skin (typically on the T-zone) and drier areas of the skin like the cheeks or chin. There’s also that category of normal skin, although I’m not [...]
Week of Skincare Favourites 2014: My Top 10 Toners and Lotions
© Norwayblue Hello and welcome to the second day of skincare favourites week! I hope you’ve enjoyed yesterday’s edition of my top 10 cleansers. It was fun reading about your favourite cleansers and it gives me new ideas on what to try too. Today, I’d like to share my top 10 toners and lotions with [...]
My Favourite Japanese Sunscreens
© narstudio What’s the most important item in your skincare routine? Eye cream? Serum? Moisturiser? For me, it isn’t any of these. It’s sunscreen. I didn’t start wearing sunscreen regularly until I was in my early twenties. I know I should have started a lot earlier but when the only sunscreens I could get were [...]
Preloved Makeup Sale for Beyond Blue
Note: This is an image-heavy post. Please be especially mindful about data usage when viewed on a mobile device. Happy weekend! I hope you’re as excited about I am about today’s preloved makeup sale on Beautyholics Anonymous. As I mentioned yesterday, 100% of the proceeds (excluding postage fees) of all the items sold on the [...]
I Found Not One But Two Good Uses for SKII’s Skin Signature Eye Cream
You know that very popular Facial Treatment Essence by SKII? The one deemed Holy Grail by lots of beauty bloggers and editors? The one that has a lot of women coveting for its hailed skincare benefits? It didn’t work on me. Not at all. In fact, the much cheaper Hada Labo Moisturising Lotion did a [...]