Man, I have a strong feeling that the YSL Glossy Stain I have (in No 15 Rose Vinyl) is a dud because the consistency and texture of this Glossy Stain is so different in comparison. The original one that I have is thick and gloopy, which made me favour the popular dupe, L’Oreal’s Shine Caresse lipglosses. Many preferred the Glossy Stain whereas I thought the Shine Caresses were much better.
Happy Sunday, folks! We’ve finally come to the end of my Skincare Favourites Week series. I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed the series and hopefully I’ll be able to do another one next year too. I’ve had such fun sharing all of my favourite skincare with you.
For the final day of Skincare Favourites Week, I’d love to share my top 10 facial masks with you. I love masks and even on lazy days when I can’t be arsed to wait 20 minutes for a mask to dry, there are even 5-minute ones that work just as well. They give the skin an instant oomph too.
Whenever I have a facial sheet mask on, Tim will want one too. It’s no wonder my supply of masks, especially the sheet masks, dwindle so quickly! 😛
Let’s get started, shall we?
I must say, I love a good scrub. I don’t use it often, only 2-3 times a week tops but when I do, I take my own sweet time with it. A gentle massage of the skin, a quick splash of water to rinse and my skin is soft and smooth again. Ahhh …
I call scrubs or physical exfoliators my “face sandpaper”. Once in a while, I just have to “sandpaper” this face to get rid of the build-up of dead skin cells. These days, there are plenty of chemical exfoliants out there e.g. exfoliating serums that contain lactic or glycolic acid that do the same job anyway. It’s less abrasive on the skin too. Personally, I still love a good scrub so even though I use chemical exfoliators, it’s pretty damn hard to pull me away from grainy scrubs. 😛
Over the years I’ve tried a good number of physical and chemical exfoliators and I’ve come up with my top 10 list of scrub-a-dub-dubs. Some are recent discoveries (especially the chemical exfoliators) and some are classic favourites. Usually after scrubbing my face, I squeeze a little bit of scrub or use any leftovers and massage my hands with it as well. Smooth skin FTW!
Let’s get started! Again, these come in no particular order.
Happy Friday folks! Hope you’ve had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. I know I am. It’s been one heck of a trying week, all right. You know the ones where it seems like nothing goes right but everything goes wrong? Yeah, I had one of those.
Anyway, enough about me. Let’s get on with Skincare Favourites Week! Today I’m talking about eye creams. Ahh the all important step in one’s skincare routine. The one that is highly questioned by one Paula Begoun as a redundant step and that beauty companies are trying to pull the wool over consumers’ eyes by telling them that they need one when the eye cream ingredients are no different from serums and moisturisers. For me, I believe I need one and that’s all there is to it. When it comes to eye creams, I tell beauty brands to please, take my money. My eyes need ’em. 😛
Long time readers will notice that I seldom review eye creams. I’m often asked for suggestions on good eye creams but I don’t often write about them. I don’t know why but I do find eye cream reviews difficult to write. You’ve seen close up shots of my eyes and you’ll notice that I have a significant amount of fine lines under them. Ah, age and bad experiences, gotta love them for gifting me with those lines, eh?
So far, I’ve only tried 2 eye creams that visibly softened and reduced the appearance of those dreaded fine lines. Having said that, the rest of the eye creams I’m about to share with you here aren’t bad either. They do the rest of the job for me and that’s to moisturise the undereye area without irritating my eyes, and reduce puffiness and dark circles. I’m not expecting miracles here so for me, these are considered good eye creams. None of these eye creams gave me the dreaded millia, which is a very good thing.
Here they are in no particular order.
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