Skin Care And Self Love

Trying to find the perfect skincare routine ✨ 22 years old with Oily/Combo acne-prone skin ✨Living in France

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Snails and Skincare? 🐌

It may sound like the weirdest thing, but snail secretion filtrate (yes, the slime) is honestly my favorite skincare ingredient of the moment

Heals acne scars and other skin injury

Balances skin tone

Soothing and hydrating

The snails are not harmed in the process

Need some snail in your life? Here are some of my recommendations:

Benton Snail Bee High Content Steam Cream- My holy grail moisturizer. Thick and moisturizing, but WILL NOT clog your pores. Brightening and anti-aging effects. Bee venom as well 🐝

Cosrx Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence- Light and hydrating. Heals the skin. 96% snail mucin, so it’s potent and doesn’t have any fillers. If you want to test the effects of snail mucin, this is the product.

Tosowoong Pure Snail Sheet Mask- Instant cooling and redness reduction. Leaves your skin dewy and plump. 

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Review: Sunday Riley U.F.O Acne Treatment Face Oil

Hello! 🌟

After trying this product for 5 months now I finally feel confident enough to give my verdict on it. Now, take into consideration that every person has a different skin type and what works for me may not work for you. 

Anyway, with that out of the way let’s begin! 

✨Skin type: Oily/Combo skin, prone to acne

✨What it’s supposed to do: A quick-absorbing, medicated dry oil to clear congested pores, treat and prevent acne, and smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles for clearer, smoother skin. (sephora.com)

✨My grade: 4.5/5

The Pros: I have to be a 100% truthful, I love this face oil. Since the start, I noticed a huge improvement in my skin breakouts every single I used it. My worst pimples always appear when my period is about to come and even though this oil didn’t make them disappear completely, it made the pimples barely noticeable just after one night of use. I also noticed that when I use it my pores do get less congested and look smaller.

The Cons: It says is a quick absorbing oil, however, it always takes a lot of time to penetrate after I do my routine, so I only use it at night. 

✨Would I buy it again? 

Yes, in fact, I’m asking my brother to buy me the 35ml bottle when he goes to the states because I use this product every night. I really don’t mind that it’s not as fast sinking as it claims to be because I have seen that using at night is enough for me but I can understand how that may be difficult for other people who need more constant treatment. 

Anyway, I hope this is helpful for anyway who is looking to try a new acne treatment and tell me if you end up trying it!

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Is Mario Badescu Destroying Your Skin? You’re Not Alone.

Editors are afraid to bash the buzzed-about brand, and customers have suffered the consequences.

Mario Badescu has already been hit with legal repercussions for the excruciating, disfiguring results of some of its formulations. In 2013, the brand settled a class action lawsuit brought against it for failing to disclose the inclusion of strong steroids in at least two of their products. The steroids, hydrocrotisone and triamcinolone acetonide, can trigger enlarged capillaries and dermatological misery, including skin atrophy. This is where the skin becomes so thin that it easily perforates, leading to infection, diseases, fungal growths, rashes and blistered skin that oozes, burns and peels. Of course, this looks as awful as it sounds. Worse, skin atrophy can cause problems with other medical issues; even removing a bandage can rip open the afflicted skin.

The refusal of Mario Badescu to disclose the steroids in its products meant that, when they silently changed the formulation to remove them, customers were slammed with the consequences of topical steroid withdrawal. The entire deceptive operation was discovered when one longtime Mario Badescu fan—who now describes the brand as “a horrible, unethical company”—started suffering severe side effects. When she posted on Amazon about this, others chimed in with the same issues. After comparing notes, the group mobilized to collect data and challenge the brand. One plaintiff, who evangelized Mario Badescu to friends and family for years before suffering injuries due to one (now discontinued) product, says, “To say I am disgusted, shocked, disappointed [and] furious with Mario Badescu for this long-term deception is all a huge understatement…BEWARE. I would not trust ANY Mario Badescu product again, ever.”

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I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH: STOP USING MARIO BADESCU!!! I know their shit is aesthetically pleasing but for the love of god it’s so terrible for your skin!

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when you think you have nothing left you still have the moon, sunsets, your favorite music, paper to write on, warm clothes, new starts and your cute self

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How to apply skincare in the right order

Let’s get down to business.

This is the order you would apply skincare products if you used everything,this is just an example btw so you can see where things go.You don’t need your routine to be this long lol.Just take out the steps/skincare products you don’t do and it would still be in the correct order.

Cleanse,exfoliate,tone,essence, serum,mask/sheetmask,eye cream,moisturizer,night mask, facial oil,and sunscreen if it’s daytime.

Tips

* With the toner step you could use face mist instead or apply face mist after toner. Face mist can also be sprayed after moisturizer & on the go.

* Make sure your toner has no ALCOHOL. Defeats the purpose of toner which is to help hydrate & balance your skin after cleansing.

* In the serum step is where you could also apply any treatments. I mean serum is technically a treatment too but I hope you get what I mean.

* So facemasks/sheetmasks go after serum but you can also just skip serum on a mask day. I find a mask enough.

* Night mask is another word for sleeping mask, night cream, overnight moisturizer etc. As you see above it goes after moisturizer if you were to be that extra but you can just use it in place of moisturizer.

* Like you see above facial oils go after moisturizer but if it works better for you to apply before, that’s fine. You could also use a facial oil in place of moisturizer, you have choices is all I’m saying.

* In the morning I would have a simple skincare routine and a longer one at night. At night you want to make sure you give your skin more love since that’s when it repairs itself.

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Easy steps towards better skin

Skincare is not an easy science to learn. Often people can get overwhelmed with the amount of information and advice out there. Here are some easy beginner steps you can take to help take care of your skin, and to get on the road towards clear, glowing skin.

1) Change your pillow cases and bedding more often.

Our face is covered in bacteria, good and bad. This bacteria, along with sweat and facial oils rub off onto your pillows and sheets. Then you go to sleep every night on pillows that have old sweat and oil and lots of bacteria that will clog pores and could cause acne and inflammation.

2) Increase the amount of water you drink

I’ve written a blog post all about this which I will link here. It helps thin out your skins sebum which helps keep pimples at bay. It hydrates your skin and other organs so you can be at your healthiest with plump glowing skin. Aim for at least 2 litres of water a day.

3) Stop touching your face

Just think about where your hands have been, on your phone, on toilets, on door handles and steering wheels, every time and place your hands are picking up more bacteria and you want to put that on your face!? No. Whenever you feel your hands going up to your skin, sit on them. Put notes on your mirrors to remind you not to touch or pick.

4) Change from using a physical exfoliator to a chemical one

Physical exfoliators feel like they are doing good. It feels like you are scrubbing off the bad stuff revealing new fresh skin. In fact physical exfoliators are all too often the causes of acne and other inflammatory skin conditions. The little bits in physical exfoliators cause micro tears in your skin which bacteria can get in and cause acne. Chemical exfoliators are actually much safer, and they help your skin speed up its skin cell turnover getting you to that fresh new skin look you want.

5) Healthy diet, healthy skin

Your skin is the largest organ in the human body. What we eat and drink directly affects in. Simple steps like eating more fruits and veggies, reducing the fast food and saturated fats in your diet will all help towards clearer skin. Here is a previous blog post on diet and acne.

These are some small beginner steps you can try and implement into your lifestyle to try and get your skin glowing. 

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Putting sheet masks for the first time

Expectation:

Reality:

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relatable

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x

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Guess who got new products!

So I ordered them when I was in the states and they didn’t came until I went back so my dad had to send them to me. And finally they arrived!

I still have to do the review of the last products I bought but I’m still trying them and even though I have made my mind of 2 of them the third one I’m still trying to try it more more of that in future posts.

Products:

✨ Krave Matcha Hemp Hydrating Cleanser

✨ Krave Kaleluya Skin Resurfacing Exfoliator

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So I had a Dermapen treatment done on Tuesday and here are the results a few days later.

My skin seems a bit more even, texture-wise. A couple of light acne scars might look a bit better, too, but I’m not 100% sure.

My bad breakouts went away quickly but were replaced with small whiteheads from my skin purging, which I was told to expect. They’re absolutely tiny and shallow and tbh I popped them, put a bit of honey over them, and it was like they were never there.

My skin is quite sensitive still, and I can’t use anything other than a gentle cleanser, a copper peptide serum that’s a part of the aftercare, and a simple moisturiser

My skin is drier? My cheeks especially have been way more dry and even my oily forehead is drier. I might actually have to switch to a richer moisturiser, as all mine are oil free and don’t seem to be doing the job. I looked it up and apparently some people claim that derma-needling can regulate sebum production, but I’m not sure how. I don’t think this will last.

My skin seems a bit more glowy, despite the dryness.

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Used up some old gift vouchers that I’ve been saving for this very purpose (one of them was about to expire… I admire my own restraint) to replace some of my holy trail products.

The Benton Snail Bee High Content Essence does wonders for my sensitive, oily to combo skin. I usually put a couple of layers on in the shower immediately after cleansing. It soaks right in, and definitely makes my skin more hydrated. I feel like it also helps control oil and breakouts, maybe.

The CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser is one I recommend to so many people because it works for so many skin types. It cleans the skin without stripping it and contains ceramides which help the skin barrier. I recently ran out of this and have been sorely missing it.

I haven’t actually used the last product, the CeraVe PM Facial Lotion, but it comes highly recommended and I really need a good, oil-free moisturiser. Once again I was drawn in by the non-irritating nature of the product and the ceramides. I’ll let you guys know how I like it when I can try it out!

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I’m cackling

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a lil reminder to everyone struggling with acne and other types of skin issues:

everyone’s skin is vastly different. what works for others, or what has been “professionally proven” to work, might not work for you. your skin doesn’t care about all of that stuff. if you find something that works - keep doing it.

during my accutane journey i met several dermatologists, cosmetologists etc… and they all seemed to have different opinions on how i should take care of my skin. so i tried everything. i ditched products that seemed to work. i became scared of certain products/skincare routines because someone told me that it isn’t a good thing.

keep in mind that these people were all trying to sell me their products. the second i thought “ah, now i have a “good” skincare routine”, someone else cringed when i told them about it. the truth is, no skincare routine is good or bad, if it works for you. 

don’t be afraid to experiment. don’t be afraid to stick to what works. don’t be ashamed of your skin or how you’re trying to manage it. there’s no right or wrong when it comes to (safe) skincare products and routines. 

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Rose water | ilva

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Hellooo✨I was wondering if you could recommend some good exfoliators for oily skin (face) and good moisturizers for body (dry). Also masks for oily skin please. I tried one twice and it ended up burning me and my skin started to flake. I think it was a black one with mint. Thank you in advance and I really appreciate you and your blog.

Hey! For oily skin I’d recommend getting a salicylic acid toner or liquid to use after you cleanse. Just make sure it doesn’t have alcohol denat as the second ingredient. I really like Paula’s Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant, but there are plenty out there, depends on where you live.

For body moisturises, you don’t have to be fancy. Any basic cheap moisturiser or lotion will do.

For the masks, I’m not surprised it burned you. Mint and similar ingredients can be very irritating and if it’s black it probably has charcoal, which can be drying. Look for clay masks, though make sure they don’t have alcohol denat or mineral oil in them.

I actually recommend just buying some kaolin clay or another clay and making your own. I mix my clay with honey and a few drops of water and I love it.

Some good affordable masks though are La Roche Posay Effaclar mask and the Sukin Super Greens Detoxifying Masque.

Also, a tip for clay masks is to take them off just before they’re fully dry. If they fully dry it can dry out and irritate your skin.

Some good affordable sheet masks you could use are the Neutrogena Hydro Boost masks, the Skin Republic Brighening Vitamin C mask, any of the Garnier SkinActive hydro bomb masks, or the Olay mangemasks Infusion hydrating sheet masks.

But this is dependent on where you live and your budget. Just be mindful of harsh ingredients like alcohol denat, citrus, mints, etc if they’re high up in the ingredients lists.

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The Sheet-Mask Problem You Need To Know About

Your sheet-masking habit might have an unexpected downside.

I’ve been becoming more concerned about the amount of trash my sheet masks create. I’ve looked into washable ones (and maybe making or buying the serum from a recyclable bottle) but it looks like washable ones don’t exist.  Lush has jelly masks now and I’ve tried a few. Bunny Moon is incredibly moisturizing and may be replacing my sheet masks going forward.