Note: Get a cuppa ready, this is one loooong post.

Michael Todd is one highly, HIGHLY raved skincare brand on the blogosphere and in YouTube-land. The amount of positive reviews about the range is astounding. Granted, many beauty bloggers and YouTubers were sent Michael Todd products to review so perhaps I’m just cynical about how good the products actually are (I’m sure you’d probably think the same too when I give positive comments on products sent to me for review. Hey, no judgement here. I’d think the same too. 😛 ).

Anyway, I digress. To try them out myself and find out if some of the products are really as good as they’re claimed to be, I hought 4 products in the normal/combination skin range: the Charcoal Detox Deep Pore Gel Cleanser, the Tropical Fruit Enzyme Exfoliant Scrub, the Avocado and Mango Hydrating Facial Mask and the Citrus Spray.

A good thing about the Michael Todd website is that they ship internationally and their shipping rates aren’t exorbitant for the bottles of lotions and potions that I purchased. I paid US$9.95 for USPS shipping to Australia. The downside would be that if you do opt for the cheapest shipping option that is USPS like I had, the package does take quite a while to arrive. Mine was delivered after a minimum of 3 weeks after I placed my order.

I didn’t order any moisturisers, serums or heavy duty creams this time. The way I usually dip my toes in new skincare products would be to try out the cleansers and masks first. These would be skincare items that I can easily wash off after having them on for a maximum of 15 minutes, just in case the heavier duty items don’t agree with my skin.

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I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me – Anaïs Nin

On 2 January 2013, I told myself that from that moment on, there will be no more new year resolutions for me. I’ll no longer be making bold statements about the things I want to do but ended up not doing. So I made it about hope. It was about what I hoped to do in 2013. And you know what? It worked. Most of it anyway.

Reflecting on 2013 and what I said I’d like to achieve in 2013, let’s see how I did, eh? 🙂

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It’s that time of the year again where I reminisce on what the year before was like. And by reminisce, I mean check the Archives and see what the heck it was that I’ve done because I’ve forgotten a lot of it! Brain farts and bad memory. Ish. 😛

2013 has been quite the tremendous year for me in terms of blogging and my personal life. In late 2012, I prayed for a good 2013, that I may better myself in terms of my work, my health and my life. I received a whole lot more. It truly has been a blessed year.

Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax (or y’know, read this in the loo because … why not? :P) because this is going to be a long one.

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