Discovering this product made me a huge fan of COSRX! It immediately replaced by beloved CeraVe cleanser. I’ve been using this product consistently for a year now, and it never disappoints! Gentle on skin, cleanses without a trace, and best of all, the right pH to keep your skin healthy. Oh, and guess what? It’s great for all times of the day – not just the morning!
When did getting older ever become a bad thing? I remember (like it was yesterday!) being a frustrated teenager and counting down the years until I was 18 and officially became an adult. Even in my 20s, I looked forward to my birthday every year. Every year was a step towards my education or career goals. Every year provided more knowledge, more experiences, more adventures, more confidence, and more security!
But now I am officially getting older, and it is not such a good thing anymore. Somehow time has crept up, and I suddenly woke up to find myself in my mid-30s, although I still feel like I’m 25, and often get mistaken for it. I take pride in looking like I’m still in my 20s, and goddamn it, I will maintain it as long as humanly possible! (Without looking like a plastic freak with a pulled-apart face like overstretched mozzarella – you know what I’m talking about.)
I have been using Shara Shara Honey Bomb for months, and I am absolutely in love with it. Because of this product, and the Sleeping Veil, Shara Shara is quickly becoming one of my favorite Korean skincare brands out there! Continue reading
Finally getting around to blogging about one of my favorite skin care products: the Konjac Sponge! Originally created in Japan, there are many different kinds to choose from, made by many different brands. The first one that I tried was Boscia’s Konjac Cleansing Sponge with Bamboo Charcoal that I bought at Sephora. I found that it provides effective yet gentle exfoliation, and overall I love Konjac sponges so much that it has a permanent position in my skin care routine.
I have done so many reviews of products, and talked about how I’ve solved individual skin problems, but I just realized that I never blogged about my whole skin care routine. It’s taken a few months of trial and error, but I’ve finally created a routine that keeps my skin looking and feeling its best.
(And I know I’m doing something right when I haven’t had a single hormonal cystic acne for 3 months, now! First time since I was 14 that I haven’t had problems with cystic acne.)
I’m a big believer in living according to the seasons. The activities I do, the food I eat, and of course my skin care routine, reflect the changing seasons. My routine is also slightly different for the day and at night. I also have some favorite weekly treatments, too. But all my skin care products have pretty much one thing in common: moisture. In the winter, I focus on adding extra moisturizers to my skin because nurturing my moisture barrier has been the best way to keeping acne, rosacea, and enlarged pores at bay.
But I am always experimenting with new products, and I’ll write if I’ve decided to permanently include something in my daily or weekly routine. I’ll definitely do a Summer Skin Care Routine update, because I’m sure I’ll have to change some of my products for the changing weather.
Oh, Missha. How could you do my skin so much wrong? I had so much optimism for this product! Even though I knew of the possibility that it would break me out, I still thought that I should give Missha’s Near Skin Inner Moist Moisturize Emulsion a chance because of all the amazing skin-repairing ingredients in it. Unfortunately, it did break me out. Horribly. And has confirmed to me that I am indeed extremely sensitive to a certain type of carrier oils (and I’m sure I’m not the only one). But for other people this might be their holy grail moisturizer.
It’s snowing again in Chicago as I write this, and it’s so pretty outside. My favorite time in winter is when the snow first hits the ground, softly blanketing the trees and streets in a thin veil of white. The shoveling and dirty sludge that inevitably comes later, however, I can definitely do without. And of course, I can also do without the incredibly dry air. But this year, despite the dry air of winter, my skin has been saved by the discovery of Korean sheet masks.
And my favorite of the several brands of sheet masks that I’ve tried is The Face Shop’s Real Nature Mask. They’re inexpensive, great quality, and come in a variety of different ingredients (I almost wrote “flavors”! Ha!) to address many types of skin concerns.
So in a previous post, I reviewed both the Skin Food Egg White Cleansing Oil and Egg White Pore Foam. Overall, I found that the Foam cleanser was a little too drying for my skin, and since then I’ve avoided it. I’ve since tested the Pore Foam with my pH strips, and the results were a little shocking.
Instead of just including the results in my previous post, I decided to write an updated review because I need to totally change my score.
So for my first review of 2015, I wanted to go *big* with my most favorite skin care find ever. I’ve only used this product for a week, but I’m so amazed by the results that I couldn’t wait to blog about it. This product is truly unique, and delivers some amazing moisturizing and skin protecting results. So what is this holy grail product that I speak of? It is… *drumroll please*…
The Veiled Beauty Sleeping Mask by Shara Shara! Yup, I never heard about it before I ordered it, either. But when I saw it on en.koreadepart.com and looked up the ingredients, I realized that this product was truly unique. And with the hope that it could be amazing, I ordered it. And sure enough, this product amazed me with crazy immediate results!
I seriously think that this is my best find (so far) in my skin care journey, and I can’t believe that this product is so underrated that I haven’t heard about it before. So let me be the first to yell from the rooftops about how amazing this product is! Read my review, and do your skin a favor by purchasing this product. This is an absolute *must buy* product for every skin type, every age, and I’ll explain why…
I am so weirdly excited about this! I was always terrible at chemistry because I just never gave a damn about the little experiments that we did in class. But I love the idea of putting on my mad scientist apron and testing each of my skin care products to make sure they’re at a good pH level for my skin!
For each product that I review (and reviewed), I will include info on the pH level of the product, just in case anyone else is interested. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be updating my previous posts so keep an eye out for it!
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