My skincare routine

Hi peeps. Today's post will be showing on skincare products that I use recently. I wouldn't say that this is the best I had ever use but this is my most updated regimen, so yea.My skin type is combination to oily where I get oily on the T-zone and quite drying on the cheek area sometimes.Besides,I also had acne and my skin is a little sensitive.I am allergic to benzoyl peroxide so the most I can go is salicylic acid. Okay, wtf now I think my face have every problem.rofl


So anyway, I basically rotate my skincare every half a year or so, as I mentioned earlier I do not want my skin to be immune to that certain products and will not works for the others.


Morning routine
I keep it quite simple in the morning with these products before doing my makeup.

From L-R
1) Stem Gentle Cleansing Milk
2) Kose Sekkisei Lotion
3) Estee Lauder Pore Minimizing Skin Refinisher
4) H20 Eye Oasis
5) Estee Lauder Hydrationist
6) IQQU Advance Sunscreen
7) Diorsnow White Reveal UV Shield

I actually uses different suncreen depending on my skin condition. When my skin feels oily, I will use the IQQU one as it is a mousse type and it leaves skin feels matte and nice.The Dior one will leave my skin looks dewy hence I will use it when my face feels alittle drying.


Night Routine


My skin will be more pampered during the night as I believe when we sleep, the skin repairs and heals themselves.Hence, putting more rich products will eventually help more in the recovering system in the skin. Also, making sure that all your make up is taken out is equally important because the last thing that you want is a clogged face. So, these will be my night routine products.

From L-R
1) Shu Uemura Cleansing Oil
2) Purity One-Step Facial Cleanser
3) Optrex Eye Lotion
4)L'occitane Fresh Face Water
5) Kose Sekkisei Lotion
6) Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye
7) Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair
8) Paul and Joe Whitening Serum
9) Estee Lauder Hydrationist
10) Kiehl's Blue Herbal Moisturizer


I always make sure that I double cleanse my face: one to take the makeup off and the second one will takes out the dirt and oil and also the last traces of makeup.


Okay, item number 3 is kinda out of topic here but I guess it is part of my important routine as I like to make sure that my eyes are cleared from mascaras or any eyeshadows that would probably trapped in the eye. Caring for your eyes is very important especially if you are a contact wearer. Make sure that you clean your contacts properly and do not forget to change your casing every 3months to avoid bacteria. 


The Kose Sekkisei Lotion is really good but sadly to say that it contains alcohol in it so I wouldn't recommend this to people who is allergic to alcohol. However it leaves skin feels really smooth and hydrated. I also has the emulsion but I had to say that I hate it. It is actually quite sticky if you use it on its own and I've been told that you need to use a cotton pad which I think it is rather ridiculous as the cotton pad almost seeps everything in. So this will go somewhere else from the drawer. 


I only use the  Kiehl's moisturizer on the affected area of my skin. It contains salicylic acids and I'm really loving it very much.It heals acne but becareful as it is a little drying hence you only applied on the acne area.


I'm sorry this post is like quite messy and all.lol. IMO, everybody has different skin. What works for me might not works for you, vice versa. I'm just here to share mine :)


I hope you enjoy this post and I will talk to you soon.

Have a nice weekend and take care.

Estee Lauder Holiday Style 2010

I got this set yesterday when I went outing with friends and now all the counters are like having christmas sets for the holiday season. I basically run out of moisturizer so I thought that it will be great to try on the Estee Lauder ones. I know alot of people says that this brand is for old people, but trust me, its not true.

 So I picked up this set because I basically would like to try out most of the things in here,so I thought this would be a good deal for me. In this set it contains:
i) Perfectly Clean Foaming Cleanser 50ml
ii) Advanced Night Repair Eye 5ml
iii) Idealist Pore Minimizing Skin Refinisher 15ml
iv) Hydrationist Maximum Moisture Cream 50ml


Well honestly, before this I only tried on the Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair serum and not anything else from this brand. Its a pretty good serum I must say and I'm still using it so I thought that it will be good to try on different range as well. I do not usually stick with one brands because firstly, I like to try on new products and secondly, I do not want my skin to be immune to that only product from certain brands and not works for others. Hence I basically changes my skincare every six months or so :)


I'm really excited to try these out and maybe I will do a review on it whether it really does its job or not. So, I hope you enjoy this short little post and I will see ya soon. Takecare :)



Loves,

 Jess

The Skin Lab

Got myself these when I stroll around trying to find a good cleansing milk. I wanted to change my skincare as I find my face kind of dries out on the cheek area. Ain't sure whether this is a good product or not but this is sort of like an organic ones so I guess it will be still okay to the skin. Shall try it first before doing a review on it. The SA also give out a few samples for me to try. Well, of course is to lure me to buy more of their products. I'm controlling myself to the max because I wanted to visit Sephora Sg and watch concert so I didn't buy much. I'm saving I'm saving *finger-crossed*

Review: Guerlain Metorites

Okay I thought this will be a good time for me to do a review on this Guerlain Meteorites since I had tried it for a good amount of time. I have it in 01 Teint Rose.

What exactly it is: 
According to Guerlain, it is a face powder which blends different colored pearls together:green to correct redness, pink to even out the look, white for illumination and gold for radiance.It could create a flawless complexion: luminous, even, clear and natural. 


I have to say it is perfume-y and I suggest to smell it at the counter first before buying it as the smell is kinda strong but once it is on your face, the smell will be gone. I'm still tolerable with the smell as it smell rather nice and soothing. 


How to use: 
At first, I always thought that the balls have to be crushed or something before using them.lmao. Well, what you need to do is just to swirl around your brush in the balls until you get a good amount of it, and then gently sweep it on your face. 


Do you really need this: 

In my opinion, not really. If you have a better option with a cheaper price, I would say go ahead for it. This is really way too pricey for a face powder. It retails in Guerlain counter for RM182. In fact, I don't see this to do any difference to my skin other that to set my foundation nicely. I actually do have something which is of a similar one, which is the Givenchy face powder(picture above), so I'm not sure whether I'm loving this product or not. 

Honestly, I picked this up just because of its packaging. The packaging is really sleek. It has like a metal case and on top of it,which is the cover, it has like the embossed flower print that you can actually feel. I learnt that before this metal packaging, it is like a cardboard thingy. Well, I guess after their clever consideration of its price vs its packaging they then decided to change to a more classy ones.

Another reason for me to pick this up is because of its uniqueness. I do not own anything like this before(powder in balls.okay this sounds so wrong wtf) so I guess it will do a good collection for me. 
I will still keep using it as I have fun playing with it already.


Rate: 4 out of 5 ( 3 is for the packaging tho :P)

The gift

Present from the girls. Okay, minus the lancome one.lol. Just thought of taking it out and flashing it once more. So proud that I got this. You guys don't mind right?Well even if you guys do, I still want to show it. bleh

OMG!! look at how pretty is that. I do really want to use it, but just can't bear to lay my brush or my fingers on it because it is too pretty to be use, and I am pretty much confident that the over-sprayed will be gone with just a swipe or two.

Anyway, I was given this to try out. It is the Lancome Genifique youth activator sample for 7 days . I had been eyeing on this one lately and if this is really good, my pocket is gonna burn again :(


Well, so here, I would like to deeply thanks my friends, you know who you are, for giving me the lovely present. Really appreciate it alot and I can't wait to use them :D


Thats all from me.I hope you enjoy your weekend and I shall talk to you soon. Bye

Love & Beauty

 I totally forgot that I bought this in awhile. Mr. Postman came today and I was like wondering what did I buy over the internet and I recalled.lol

Yes, another blusher but I'm quite sad that it turned out to be not my liking. Its from Forever 21 and I think that the color is a little too dark and it is pigmented :(

The ingredients. I don't know why I'm showing you the ingredients.haha

But well guess I could keep it as a collection since I did not own any Forever 21 cosmetics. The design is quite nice tho with sort of like a flower print to it. So, another blusher member.Ha-ha-ha. Did I just told myself I will stop buying blushers? :p


Cheers peeps

Review: Cure Natural Aqua Gel

I first stumbled on this product in LYN where they distribute free samples for people to try.When I first got it, I was really not confident on how this product does its job. A plain gel thingy is an exfoliator? Well hell ya I must raise my hands & legs and nodes non-stop to agree that this product works very very well, okay, that was a little too exaggerate.lol.  


Am loving this product very much. It is very gentle to the skin because it is just like a gel consistency which it doesn't has any micro-beads in it unlike most the exfoliator does and this definitely will not thin out the layer of the skin

 It is made of 90% hydrogen water and natural extracts which is suitable even for sensitive skin. I have sensitive skin and I do not find this product to burn or sting on my face. 


With circular motion, I gently massage this products on dry face for about a minute and rinse it off with warm water. My skin feels really soft and smooth after using it and my essence and moisturizer could penetrates into the skin even better (loves)

you get this when you pump out the product

no beads at all, just clear gel

yikes~ can you see the dead skin?

And yes, as a normal human, I was quite skeptic at first too whether the 'dead-skin' is produced by the ingredients itself, so I tested it out by using a Q tip and roll the products on a flat container. However, nothing came out and I'm seriously amazed and confident on this product already.haha 


The downside of it is that it is not available in Malaysia yet. You can actually get it online in lyn but I got mine when my friend visited Singapore. They retail in watson Singapore for SGD42. It may be a little too pricey when it is convert to MYR, but just by looking at how good the product works already makes me think it is all worth the penny.  

Packaging wise, it is a pump out bottle and it comes with a little clip so that you won't accidently pump out the products when you are travelling or whatever. I couldn't stress on how good is this product anymore. If you could tell, almost half of a bottle is already gone.lol.This is definitely my holy grail product and I highly recommend it if you are looking for a gentle and yet effective exfoliator that do not contain any harsh chemicals in it. 

Rate: 5 out of 5