Are you thinking, gee I wonder what sort of “gnarly bit of skin” she’s talking about? First of all, if you’ve stumbled upon this blog post in hopes that I’ll be able to tell you how to remove whatever gnarly bits of skin you have, I hope you’re thinking about your hands because I don’t [...]
A Serum Under Ten Bucks? You’d Better Believe It Exists
When it comes to skincare, probably the most expensive item in one’s skincare routine is the serum. It’s the one that packs the most punch, has the best and most concentrated ingredients and targets areas on our skin much better than regular moisturisers will. So when I discovered a serum that does a pretty good [...]
Sisley Botanical D-Tox Detoxifying Night Treatment: The Detox My Post-Holiday Skin Needed
During the last leg of my holiday over a month ago, my skin was already crying out for mercy. Sure I had the Brown Bottle 2.0 to help maintain my skin the best it could but after much flying, eating out, switching of water hardness, etc, my skin was tired. If I was ready to [...]
Battle of the Facial Wipes (Featuring Swisspers, Biore, Bioderma, Wotnot, Garnier, Neutrogena, Face of Australia, Simple, NIVEA and Olay)
You gotta love a good facial wipe. Sure you may not use it to remove all of your makeup but they definitely are handy when it comes to travelling. Facial wipes are great for refreshing the skin, for cleaning makeup boo-boos, for removing makeup swatches, for spot-cleaning your makeup brushes and more. I don’t use [...]
Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation: Go Ahead, Camera. Flash My Skin!
A few weeks ago, I was checking my stash of foundations (as we beautyholics do ;)) and realised that I don’t actually have any foundations that doesn’t contain any sunscreen in them. It didn’t come across my mind earlier that the reason I look rather ghastly (and ghostly) when photographed in the evenings with flash [...]