Skin Care Routine

PICTURE HEAVY!!!!

NOTE: Try the products at your own risk. If it works for me, it doesn't mean it will work for you too. Everybody has different types of skin. Please do you own research.

MY SKIN CARE ROUTINE

I actually had been thinking of posting my skin care routine for months now but I don't know how to begin.. it's been a year since I lasted posted what I use to used.

I'll post what I use first...

I guess let's start in the MORNING.
I use
♥ Belo Soap
to wash my face

 then after I wash my face, if I'm going somewhere, I use any BB creams. I alternate these BB Creams that I have: 

♥ Skin79 BB Cream, 

♥ Maybelline BB Cream

♥ Missha BB Cream, 

otherwise, if I'm staying at home, I don't do anything after I was my face. (Click products for review).

Then I do more stuff at NIGHT.

 At night, I use

♥ Clinique Cleansing Balm 

to remove my make up.

Then I wash my face with a cleanser. I alternate between:

♥ Ponds White Beauty Cleanser,

♥ ~H20+ green tea cleanser

and when I have my period week, I use

♥ Ponds Clear Solution

Then I moisturize using

♥ Ponds White  Beauty Cream

I used to use my Vitacreme B12 which I LOVE! But I can't find it anywhere. I guess I lost it :(

Since I sometimes work night shifts, and sleep late all the time, I like to apply eye cream (sometimes I forget!!!) to depuff my eyes. I use

♥ ~H20 sea results eye mender cream

That's all I do everynight  but I also use some products ONCE A WEEK.

I use

♥ Sheet masks

to hydrate my skin. I only do this once a week because when I do it twice a week, I get rashes or redness all over my skin :(

I also use

♥ Vitamin E oil

and apply to the areas needed such as acne scars, around my eye area to hydrate it, and dry areas. Only once a week because it might clog your pores.

These products are miscellaneous and only use it when needed:
♥ Face Shop Spot Eraser
♥ B●liv Spots got shots

Now on to my skin.. 

NOTE: I never claimed I have perfect skin. I DON'T. I just want to share with you all how I got my skin to look better than what it was before.

SKIN TYPE: Dry during winter, Combination during summer, and sensitive at times!

Let's start with BEFORE photos so you can see how horrible my skin was before.

I went to a phase where certain products did not work for me and I got these acne. I suffered for months, until I found some products which helped me a lot. (Click bolded letters to find out which products were they.)

As you can see, it was horrible. I was embarrassed, it affected my self esteem.

Then to my skin NOW. Much better. It might not be perfect, but still much better than what it used to be. Please ignore my heavily chapped lips -___- I try to capture a close up look of my skin borrowing my bro in law's DSLR for better picture.

I am happy with how my skin looks now. Of course sometimes, I still get lazy and go sleep with stuff still on my face -___- but I have learned my lesson not to try a product just because the owner of the products are popular or thought they have perfect skin so I must try what they're using. I LEARNED THE HARD WAY!

My chapped lips is so gross. -__- it gets like this during winter & no lip balm can help :( Plus I like to peel it. Yeah gross.

Well, I hope you all enjoyed my picture filled post. :) See you all next time!!

FTC: All the products above, except for bliv products are purchased by my own money. I did not get paid to do this post, I am not affiliated with any company and this post is based on my experienced only.

My Vacation Haul

Thank you for all the people who read my vacation posts. I still feel ecstatic just remembering on how much fun I had during those short weeks. I wish I can go again but I know it will probably take years again before I can go on another vacation. I don't have any more paid days at work. Must accumulate more. Haha :)

Anyway, I did buy some stuff here and there. Didn't really shopped much. I wish I did but I was on a budget when I went on a vacation & the purpose of our mini vacation was actually to see our love ones there :)

Ok so here are the stuff I got..

These are called "Missing U hand cream" Very cute right? I only got it because of the packaging & I'm not planning to use it at all! Hahahah!! Etude House products are really nice & I love the packaging!! :P I believe these are $8.99 :)

Ponds White Beauty Powder - I got this one at the Philippines and totally forgot how much. I bought lots of Ponds products. The Ponds that they sell here in the US have mineral oil which I really don't like in a product. When I was looking at the ingredients on these Ponds products in the Philippines, I was surprised they didn't contain mineral oil so I bought different stuff to try :)

This one was a gift from Adrian. We got it at Green Hills and thought its the perfect bag to put on my make up when I go to any sleep over. It's small but its perfect! 

Another Ponds product I want to try. I think this is their version of the famous "LYNA Pearl Cream" and hopefully this one is better (like no mercury or harmful stuff) Hahaha! :) Will review this once I started using it (yeah haven't used it yet).

Another Etude House product I got. This is their LUCIDarling Rough Lipstick in Million Pixel Lavender. Again, super cute packaging right? I haven't used it. Hahah! It's my only one :( I feel like its too nice to use. Hahaha.. I know I'm weird. I want more colors. I'm seriously thinking of getting more Etude House products :)

66 Big Eye Vitcara Mascara - super nice mascara for my lower lashes. Its so easy to use on my lower lashes because its wand is like a comb :) It's cheap too! $11.99

LUDIDarling Fantastic Gradation Eyes - such a beautiful palette! beautiful packaging! I love the colors too!! :) I'm so happy I got this!

I got the BB Bright cream and this was just a suggestion by the SA. I was looking for a BB cream to try and she said this will match my complexion. Haven't really used it yet because I still have so many BB creams I have to go through :)

Another BB cream I bought. I actually used this already and I will review it really soon :)

Then here are some masks I got at Sasa when I was in Singapore. Masks there are expensive! LOL! I got this because I didn't bring any sheet masks on my trip and my skin was so oily over there. I thought this will help my skin. I only got to try the Apple one so far because it says Anti-blemish. Well, I think it worked :) So far, not much break out :D

Hanskin Sheet Masks I got at Korean Airport :)

My aunt gifted me with this super cute Hello Kitty water dispenser. :P

Last, but not the least is the new member of our family (lol). I named her Baby Kiki. Hahahah!!! She's as  pink as my Juicy!! hahahahah!! :P Yes I love her! She's given to me by Adrian so I love her even more because of that :) He wanted to name her "LOTSA" which is the female version of "LOTSO" in Toy Story 3.. I was like "no way! She's not evil!" hahaha! :P

Hope everybody is having a great day/night! If I did some typos, forgive me, I'm so tired right now, feeling really sick :( I just took some Emergen-C.

That's all I got during my vacation :) hopefully I'll have another vacation soon :D

FTC: I bought everything with my own money. Not affiliated with Sanrio or hello kitty (i wish! lol)

DSK earrings, Pigments and More!

Hello once again! ^_^ Long time no comments.. I haven't been really on blogger. Like I said, I wasn't feeling very well (emotionally) so I took some time off of blogger. I've been feeling a little sad lately.. Maybe its the holidays? Studies show that if you have been feeling depressed, it will be more likely to get worse during the holiday (i.e. missing some families, financial stuff, or broken hearted). So lately, I've been re-assessing my life and just trying to focus what's important and what not. Think Positive as what they say so I'm trying.. ^_^


So, I bought some stuff.. retail therapy does help you know? :P Just little stuff to make a girl smile :D

I ordered the Light Sapphire Sterling Threads and my parcel came with a goody bag full of treats. Yay ^_^ Earrings look so beautiful.. i love it! I love all the earrings I ordered through her :)

http://dskjewelry.blogspot.com/

I also bought an O.P.I . nail polish called "Holiday Glow" It's just too pretty don't you think?  I want all the O.P.I. polishes from the Holiday 2009 collection, especially the Merry Midnight, Ginger Bells, Dear Santa, and Shim-Merry Chic. I want to buy them all!!! ^_^

I also bought some pigments for the holidays. They are just too pretty! Shimmery.. Ooohh I'm loving everything that shimmers. Must be the holiday effect. º_^ I'm excited to use them..

Melon, Gold dusk, Gold Mode

Gold Stroke, Reflects Antique Gold

Also my skin needs some TLC so I decided to buy this. It claims that it cleans clogged pores. We'll see :) Reviews later.. I love the smell!! It smells so sweet, truly a grape smell :D

Then we went to an oriental store and I saw this powder. I used to use this before back in the Philippines. I used to love Ponds products especially their cold cream. :) Now this powder claims that it helps with acne. We'll see. Reviews later.

I also saw this bar soap and it claims that it will whiten any dark spots so I'm hoping it will lighten my acne scars ^_^ Reviews later also.

Whew! That's a lot of pictures and info for the day.. I have more stuff to post.. I'll do it soon.. The next post would be about some boots that I got.. hahaha.. Happy Holidays ^_^

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