I always thought that my skin type was “oily.” Even dermatologists that I consulted with confirmed that my skin type was oily. But little changes in my skin that I noticed over the years made me realize that my skin type wasn’t in fact oily at all, I was in fact suffering from a condition of extremely dehydrated skin! And treating my skin type as oily and using products intended for oily skin was the absolutely worse thing I could do, result in skin become more and more oily over time…
Someone just posted a great question on my last blog, which I promptly answered, and it inspired me to blog about it more in detail sometime soon. Her question would be a great topic for a skin care-related post! But it also got me thinking that I should open my blog up to more questions and suggestions.
So please use this space to post comments or ask questions. I would also love to get suggestions about new products to try, or questions about skin care! I am not a dermatologist, and definitely not an expert, but I will try to answer your questions thoughtfully and thoroughly based on my personal experiences and what I’ve read. If you have any suggestions on how to make my blog easier to read, etc…, I’m open to them too!
Thanks again for reading my little blog!
With Aloha,
Kabuki Girl
xoxo
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.
Thank you so much to everyone who subscribed!! I selected a name randomly, and emailed the person who won my giveaway. Hope 2015 is going great for everyone!
Happy New Year!! 明けましておめでとう!! To celebrate the New Year I’ve decided to do my very first Korean skin care giveaway!
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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.
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!
Happy New Year!! 明けましておめでとう!! To celebrate the New Year I’ve decided to do my very first Korean skin care giveaway!
Happy New Year!! 明けましておめでとう!! I hope this blog finds everyone happy and well in this new year!
As a child in Japan, my favorite holiday was New Year’s. I always had so much fun visiting my Japanese family, playing special New Year’s games with my cousins, and eating good food, which always included lots of mochi! Oh, and of course receiving otoshidama (little envelopes filled with cash) from my family and my mother’s friends and coworkers wasn’t bad either!
In Japan, like everywhere else in this amazingly wide world, New Year’s is a time for reflection, gratitude, joy, hope and excitement for what the future will bring. And it’s because of this sense of hope and excitement that I always make a New Year’s Resolution every year. Even if I don’t keep the resolution for the entire year, I think that it’s a great way to make (or attempt to make) positive changes in your life, and what better time to do it than at the beginning of a New Year? So the following are my skin care resolutions – Skinsolutions – that I’ve decided to do in 2015.
My skin has already improved SO MUCH in these last few months, and I hope to continue to see more improvements as I continue to follow these skinsolutions. I hope that they’ll help your skin too!
My favorite part of the coldest months here in Chicago is that the markets always have a steady stream of mikan (clementines). Those juicy & sweet little oranges instantly transfer me back to my childhood spending winters in Japan, sitting at a kotatsu, watching cartoons and eating mikan after mikan until I was so full I’d fall asleep under the kotatsu like a cat… And while mikan is one of my favorite fruits, I hate that over the last few winters, I’ve noticed the texture of my skin become more and more like a mikan, with crazy enlarged pores.
In horror, over the last 3 years, I’ve noticed that my enlarged pores spread from closest to my nose, to down across my cheeks. And I noticed them getting noticeably worse during the winter months. Nothing I did made them better. In fact, I know now that I probably did more harm than good. Unfortunately, everything I read in the past about reducing enlarged pores didn’t help, and probably made it worse with products that were too harsh for my skin. But since discovering Korean skincare, I’ve learned to nurture my skin with milder products, with amazing results. In doing so, I’ve finally(!) understood what was making my pores become enlarged over the years, and finally(!) begin to properly take care of them.
After less than 3 months of practicing my new skincare philosophy, I’m excited to see a reduction in my enlarged pores. Some of them have reduced by as much as 1/2 it’s original size! And I’m hoping that they’ll reduce more over time. Even if they don’t, I’m just glad that I’ve finally learned to properly take care of my pores and hopefully never have them grow dramatically on me again!
The condition of your pores is a really good indication of the overall health of your skin. So don’t just cover them up with primer and makeup. Pay attention to them and see how they respond to your skincare products. Once you do, I promise you’ll start to understand how to take care of them too!
Oh, Maracuja Oil, how I love thee! Let me count the ways…
So there are already a lot of reviews out there on Tarte’s Maracuja Oil, but I just want to use this opportunity to gush about the fact that this face oil is ama~~~zing for acne-prone and sensitive skin! So if you’re like me and suffer from skin full of extremes (dryness, rosacea, oiliness and cystic acne) read on about how Tarte Maracuja Oil (aka Passionfruit Oil) is now a crucial part of my daily skincare regime and get yourself some asap!
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