Friday, February 20, 2009
oooh, skincare.
this entry is ALL about skincare and girly stuff, so don't read if it's gonna bore you to tears!
yes i've started my journey on establishing good skincare regime and literally study the millions of products and ingredients in them more than i do for my finance papers. this is what being old and mature do to you (physically i mean), and when we were younger, we did not understand why grown ups put so much funny things on their skin. but like many other things in life, we know more at certain stages of our lives. some slower, some faster, and some never.
it wasn't like i knew i had to do something the moment i turn 21, but rather, my skin started sending signals. ): how i want my youthful skin back!
so i don't have all the money in the world to try everything on the shelves. what to do? research, inquire, and try samples! haha.. i was drawn to the youtube community since last year may, and i still watch them regularly. i don't know any like me, but trust me, it's fun! i don't have facebook, but i would rather watch youtube than spend my time doing virtual interactions. maybe im just more individualistic nowadays. there's this freakin hot guy makeup artist on youtube. while i usually (well always) hold a perceived view on guys who do their makeup on youtube, thinking that they're more or less the feminine type and it doesnt look as good for a guy to have makeup than girls do, this person looks soooooo hot. and he doesnt behave gayish at all, in fact, watching a few of his vids makes me think that he's very guyish but the sensitive new age guy type. you know wat i mean?
so here's his channel, if you're bored or curious.
http://www.youtube.com/user/gossmakeupartist
he kinda looks like daniel craig right? but much younger. but still noone gets a prize for guessing if he's gay. the comments he leave for his youtube friends are so sweet and endearing. plus he's really genuine and talented. HAHA. my point is, through youtube, i expanded my resources for online beauty shops and products, albeit regrettably, most mentioned by the youtubers are only available in US. ):
so i finally joined MUA (makeupalley.com), after hearing about it for several months. it's a community that reviews beauty products online. it's worth it. although i must say sometimes there tends to be information overload. you won't know what to believe anymore after sometime...and some asian brands would be ommited.
i wanna share a really good buy that a girl must have, and according to many hundreds people in the world. and i've used it for about a month.
my best buy would be...Ponds cold cream.
really, noone needs expensive high end make up remover and cleanser. this costs only 6 plus, and it not only removes makeup, but when wiped off (with warm cloth) and left alone till next morning, your skin feels sooo smooth and supple. and it helped my breakouts to become less agravated. many reviewers claimed that their grandmas used this all their lives and they die at 90 looking 50. im not trying to sound like a sales promoter, but when not one, not two, many says the same thing, you just gotta try it, esp when its so cheap right?
i used to diss my sis away whenever she tries to hook me up with any beauty products and skincare cause somehow she always gives bad information or recommendation. plus my skin did not require any special attention. but now im soo into finding good skincare, firmly believing that from 21 onwards, a girl's skin is starting to age. (as experienced by myself, suddenly i find that pimples don't go away and they become breakouts and then, scars.)
i was super excited and looking forward to today. well, yesterday. cause i was gonna redeem free laneige samples! teehee. a youtuber always talks all about laneige and how good it is, so im kinda curious about this korean brand. so yay, i took photos of my 'loot'.
and i bought these trial bottles of vichy a while ago cause they were cheap ...
this is my drawer full of small samples.
wahaha..another reason why these makes me happy is cause i love small things. (:
ok so i know not many now are really into skincare or makeup, as far as im concerned, im the obsessive one, the one that spends too much time 'researching' but well, not buying. simply cause i enjoy the process of knowing more and being able to shop online. today i learnt sth new, this ingredient call BHA is good for people that breaks out cause it chemically exfoliate and cleanses the walls of your pores that are blocked that thus gives blackheads and blemishes. so look for exfoliators (not cleansers) with this ingredient, and they come in the form of salicylic acid and glycoric acid. not sure if i spelt correctly. knowing abit here and there makes you an informed consumer aint it? plus plus, you can't mix this ingredients with sunscreen. im not sure why.
ok skin care aside, im rereading shopoholic series cause the movie's coming out. yay! there's a funny quote inside,
" for years now, i've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. abit like farmer's crop rotation system. except, instead of wheat-maize-barley-fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes-makeup-shoes-clothes. (i don't usually bother with fallow.)"
this made me laugh out loud, and prompted me to get my lazy ass out and blog today. so actually, all i wanted to write was this, but i came out with so much more random things, as always. long-winded me. =]
take care!
yes i've started my journey on establishing good skincare regime and literally study the millions of products and ingredients in them more than i do for my finance papers. this is what being old and mature do to you (physically i mean), and when we were younger, we did not understand why grown ups put so much funny things on their skin. but like many other things in life, we know more at certain stages of our lives. some slower, some faster, and some never.
it wasn't like i knew i had to do something the moment i turn 21, but rather, my skin started sending signals. ): how i want my youthful skin back!
so i don't have all the money in the world to try everything on the shelves. what to do? research, inquire, and try samples! haha.. i was drawn to the youtube community since last year may, and i still watch them regularly. i don't know any like me, but trust me, it's fun! i don't have facebook, but i would rather watch youtube than spend my time doing virtual interactions. maybe im just more individualistic nowadays. there's this freakin hot guy makeup artist on youtube. while i usually (well always) hold a perceived view on guys who do their makeup on youtube, thinking that they're more or less the feminine type and it doesnt look as good for a guy to have makeup than girls do, this person looks soooooo hot. and he doesnt behave gayish at all, in fact, watching a few of his vids makes me think that he's very guyish but the sensitive new age guy type. you know wat i mean?
so here's his channel, if you're bored or curious.
http://www.youtube.com/user/gossmakeupartist
he kinda looks like daniel craig right? but much younger. but still noone gets a prize for guessing if he's gay. the comments he leave for his youtube friends are so sweet and endearing. plus he's really genuine and talented. HAHA. my point is, through youtube, i expanded my resources for online beauty shops and products, albeit regrettably, most mentioned by the youtubers are only available in US. ):
so i finally joined MUA (makeupalley.com), after hearing about it for several months. it's a community that reviews beauty products online. it's worth it. although i must say sometimes there tends to be information overload. you won't know what to believe anymore after sometime...and some asian brands would be ommited.
i wanna share a really good buy that a girl must have, and according to many hundreds people in the world. and i've used it for about a month.
my best buy would be...Ponds cold cream.
really, noone needs expensive high end make up remover and cleanser. this costs only 6 plus, and it not only removes makeup, but when wiped off (with warm cloth) and left alone till next morning, your skin feels sooo smooth and supple. and it helped my breakouts to become less agravated. many reviewers claimed that their grandmas used this all their lives and they die at 90 looking 50. im not trying to sound like a sales promoter, but when not one, not two, many says the same thing, you just gotta try it, esp when its so cheap right?
i used to diss my sis away whenever she tries to hook me up with any beauty products and skincare cause somehow she always gives bad information or recommendation. plus my skin did not require any special attention. but now im soo into finding good skincare, firmly believing that from 21 onwards, a girl's skin is starting to age. (as experienced by myself, suddenly i find that pimples don't go away and they become breakouts and then, scars.)
i was super excited and looking forward to today. well, yesterday. cause i was gonna redeem free laneige samples! teehee. a youtuber always talks all about laneige and how good it is, so im kinda curious about this korean brand. so yay, i took photos of my 'loot'.
and i bought these trial bottles of vichy a while ago cause they were cheap ...
this is my drawer full of small samples.
wahaha..another reason why these makes me happy is cause i love small things. (:
ok so i know not many now are really into skincare or makeup, as far as im concerned, im the obsessive one, the one that spends too much time 'researching' but well, not buying. simply cause i enjoy the process of knowing more and being able to shop online. today i learnt sth new, this ingredient call BHA is good for people that breaks out cause it chemically exfoliate and cleanses the walls of your pores that are blocked that thus gives blackheads and blemishes. so look for exfoliators (not cleansers) with this ingredient, and they come in the form of salicylic acid and glycoric acid. not sure if i spelt correctly. knowing abit here and there makes you an informed consumer aint it? plus plus, you can't mix this ingredients with sunscreen. im not sure why.
ok skin care aside, im rereading shopoholic series cause the movie's coming out. yay! there's a funny quote inside,
" for years now, i've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. abit like farmer's crop rotation system. except, instead of wheat-maize-barley-fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes-makeup-shoes-clothes. (i don't usually bother with fallow.)"
this made me laugh out loud, and prompted me to get my lazy ass out and blog today. so actually, all i wanted to write was this, but i came out with so much more random things, as always. long-winded me. =]
take care!
updated at 11:39 PM.
