If you read my post yesterday on why I think skin whitening is bollocks, you’ll know that I originally wanted to do a review on a serum I’ve been using but ended up ranting about skin whitening instead. What can I say? This girl sure can ramble on. :P Back to the original subject at [...]
Skin Whitening: Why I Think It’s Bollocks
Image Credit: Vanity Beauty A few weeks ago, I had a chat with a reader who wanted to know about the difference between skin whitening and skin brightening. Skin whitening is a very common trend in Asia. Advertisements are almost always portraying fair skin that encourages women to reach these crazy expectations of skin colour. [...]
3 Scrubs That Don’t Scratch The Skin
I still remember my first facial scrubs when I started out on a skincare regime at 11. First scrub I used was from Biore (white and pink tube – I wonder if my Malaysian readers remember that? :P). I liked it so much; I stuck with it for many years. The second one I used [...]
Good Ingredients, Great Skin: The 6 Heroes of Skincare
How many time have we seen ads on TV and magazines where certain beauty brands boast about their latest technology in miraculously erasing fine lines, boosting elasticity of skin and so on? Ads where they named their technologies like SuperTechVitaminH20™*? (TM – don’t forget the TM!) And then you find out that SuperTechVitaminH20™ uses just aqua [...]
More Urban Decay Naked Goodness with the NAKED SKIN Weightless Ultra Definition Liquid Makeup
Urban Decay is really jumping on the whole NAKED branding, aren’t they? First the NAKED palette, then the NAKED 2, NAKED Basics, NAKED foundation, NAKED nail polish and NAKED blush. Okay we get it! You want us to look good, er, naked? :P Hardy hah hah. I too jumped on the NAKED bandwagon a couple [...]