Skin Whitening: Why I Think It’s Bollocks

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. [...]

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3 Scrubs That Don’t Scratch The Skin

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 [...]

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Good Ingredients, Great Skin: The 6 Heroes of Skincare

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 [...]

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