Review : Shu uemura Fresh Pore Clarifying Gentle Cleansing Oil

Its time to review on the Shu uemura Fresh Pore Clarifying Gentle Cleansing Oil. I got this sample last month on one of the Shu uemura sampling event. I choose the Fresh pore clarifying gentle cleansing oil to try out because I have oily combination skin. Been trying it out for one weeks..I have to say I like the product so much. I use it as night cleanser and makeup remover. It does it work well by deep cleansing my pores and clearly remove my makeup without drying my face. Some people might still feel it’s oily even though we rise off and will perform another cleansing using normal cleanser. For me, I didn’t perform double cleanse as I think it’s sufficient enough to clean out the dirt on my face and after rising off, my face feel smooth and refreshing due to its sakuna extract scent…I feel that it has the calming element inside it as its really calm me down and help me to refresh myself after a long hectic days.

Shu uemura Fresh Pore Clarifying Gentle Cleansing Oil helps to:
1) Wash away enlarge pores concern by minimizing the pores

2) Effectively remove makeup and impurities

3) Eliminate excessive sebum and smoothen the skin surface.

It comes with two sizes: 150 ml (RM99) and 459ml (RM260)

Rating : 4.5 out of 5

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Cozy and Warmly Peach !

Recently I’ve been looking for lipstick and brusher that came with peach or coral colors. Feel so addicted and love the colors so much… :D Peach and coral lipstick and blush are suitable for those having light, normal and slightly tan skin tone. It gives out the warm and summer feeling...

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Review: Kao Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing Hair Mist

Today I’m going to review on the Kao Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing hair mist. I got this during the Liese Pop Bubble competition. Thank you Liese :D

Wander what is the function of this product? Liese Juicy Shower mist helps to give our hair a quick boost of moisture on our dry, rough and damaged hair. It helps to smoothen the hair frizz. With its Hair Beautiful technology (HBT), the hair becomes smoother and softer after using.

One thing I like about this product is the scent. It’s formulated with raspberry extract which is quite refreshing.. As raspberry is rich with vitamins and antioxidants, it is mostly use in skin care and health care. Due to its unique formulated with raspberry extract, this product instantly help to restore our hair moisture.

Here’s the before and after using the Liese Juicy Shower. Before using, my hair is dry and frizzy. After spraying the Liese Juicy Shower Moisturizing mist, I let my hair to dry naturally without using hair dryer. The hair become less frizzy and it help to add shine to my hair.

Overall, I’m quite satisfied with this product and like the scent so much. :D

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Dry Lips or Chapped Lips?

Having chapped lips or dry lips? Chapped lips or dry lips can be different from minor chapped lips to inflamed lips (which we call Cheilitis). Cheilitis is an inflamed and serious crack condition on the lips which can form around the angles of the mouth or the surrounding of the mouths

Every woman dreamt to have a perfect, soft and smooth lip. Having serious crapped lips make us feel embarrassed when talking to people and hoping no one would notice it. Apart from that, we can’t apply any lipstick and lip-gloss we want as it will turn out flaky. Why do we have these kind problems? What caused it and How to treat it?

I use to have serious inflamed lips during my studies in University and it was the worst months for me. I try to avoid talking directly to my friends and didn’t dare to take picture as well. Went to several doctors for treatment and try several methods. I was desperate looking for solution and finally I found the suitable cream (Triderm Schering Plough cream) to treat my lips.

The doctor told me that my lips could be sensitive towards pesticides spray which was not clean properly when I’m taking my fruits and caused growth of fungus and infection. After apply the cream for 2 to 3 days on my outer lips, it started to heal up. I wouldn’t say this would work on everyone as there are many factors that causing clapped and inflamed lips.

Causes:

· Insufficient vitamins such as vitamin B-2 (Riboflavin)

· Allergic sensitive to cosmetic products

· Excessive exposure to sunlight.
Treatment and Methods to keep your lips healthy and beautiful.
· For minor inflame lips: you can try to use traditional Chinese tea + salts. Make a very small cup of traditional Chinese tea and add in some salts to it. Use a cotton pad and apply it you lips before you sleeps. You might feel as bit stingy on your lips. The salts can help to reduce inflammation and prevent itchiness. In traditional Chinese medicine, tea can be used to reduce inflammation as well.

· Apply Treatment lip balm. I find Mentholatum therapy lipbalm and supersoft treatment lipbalm work well for me...it deeply moisture my lips and effectively relief my dry lips.

· Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables but avoid citrus fruits as it may lead to dry lips

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Today Skin Whitening Trends

Today more and more people are moving towards skin whitening. Some even went for skin bleaching to reach the pale white skin. A lot of skincare brands such as loreal, estee lauder, SKII started to produce wide range of whitening product starting with whitening cleanser, whitening toner, whitening moisture and even whitening mask.

Is Whitening product suitable for all skin types and does it bring any side effect? The questions have been asked by most of us when buying a whitening product. Most of the whitening product would state “suitable for all skin type”. How true is this? In this article, I will go thru oily skin type.


Oily Skin type – Oily skin type are more prompt to have acne and pimples as they got clogs easily with the excessive oil. I’ve come across some salesperson telling me, even we have oily skin, we can still use whitening product as it helps to reduces redness and brighten up your skin. Happily I buy the product, but after a few days…I end up with more pimples popping up.



Question 1: Are the salesperson lying to us?

Answer: I’ve read several articles and forum, some people review that the whitening product they bought really did help them to reduce the uneven skin tone with no breakout even having oily skin. Therefore it could be due to the different brands we bought.


Question 2: Why do we have breakout after apply whitening product?

Answer: Some products might have active ingredients which not suitable for our skins and causes pimples to erupt. The best way to apply once you bought the whitening product is to apply on partial of your face for one week. If it doesn’t cause any breakout, then you can apply on the whole face.

Suggestion: It is suggested by skin expect, having oily skin, its better we use serum type of moisturizer instead of cream type. Brands that having whitening serum is Estee Lauder Advanced night repair whitening serum, Clinique Skin tone Corrector, Kose Shirosumi Whitening serum.

You don’t have to be really white to look beautiful, having a healthy skin can make you more radiant and shine ~~

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Bob Hairstyle

Bob Hairstyle is now the hottest trend in 2011. Bob cut is a short haircut above shoulder length. It’s suitable for most of the face type but each face type have different way of bob types. Below is the example of bob haircut for common face types.

How to create this bob hairstyle? The most common tools we use is the curler tong (32 to 38 mm) or small straightener.

Below is the step by step of creating a bob hairstyle. Hope you like it. :)

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Changing your hair bangs/fringe

Thinking of changing your bangs style after having the same bang for quite some times...Here are some of the tips that can be used to change center bangs to side swept bangs or blunts bangs which is very popular nowadays.
Follow steps by step and you can get the desire bang you want.

1) After washing your hair, blow dries your bang with hair dryer to the front until you can’t see your original parting.
2) Then blow each side of the bang from inwards to outwards so that It won’t stick to one side.

3) You will notice now your bangs won’t have any parting. This is when you can style your bang. After parting to the desire side apply styling spray and slightly blow it to make it more lasting.

Below is one of hairstyle that I’ll like to share out with you all. This hair style is from one of the book that I bought during the book fair last month. Will share out more from time to time. Stay tune.

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Reducing Pimples and Acne using Eskinol

How to successfully reduce the redness of your pimples in three days? Well..Today I will introduce to you a product name ESKINOL which mixed with Dalacin C. Dalacin C contain active ingredient clindamycin hydrochloride which is an antibiotic medicine. I’m not sure whether anyone of you heard about this cleanser but it has been with me for four years when I fighting over my acnes. I’ve severe acnes problems in my high school and that time I didn’t know anything about skin care. Some of relatives or friends saw my acnes problem introduce a few products and ask me to go for dermatologist, but it didn’t help much.


FINALLY one of my friends introduced me a product name ESKINOL. I heard about the product long time ago but never try it out. WHY? Well first…it’s because the pricing of this product is really cheap costing only RM 7 225ml (which make you think that this must some sort of lousy product) and second it’s only selling at some local old cheap drugstore. So finally I give it a try. I went to the pharmancy to buy one bottle and mixed it with Dalacin C..Surprisingly this product really work well for me…I never have any severe acne since I started using it and it has become one of my MUST-HAVE item. Now I use it as toner and only when I have pimples. It helps to reduce the redness and clear out the pimples in a very short time.


There are 6 type of ESKINOL and all have different roles:

1) Papaya Naturals – enriched with natural skin lightening properties of real papaya and thoroughly removes dirt and excess oil.

2) Avocado Naturals – enriched with vitamins A and E which help to maintain skins moisture

3) Lemon - enriched with lemon essence oil which remove unwanted dirt and oil.

4) Cucumber Naturals – contain real cucumber ingredients for a naturally cool and refreshed skin

5) Calamansi - Helps to whiten skin and prevent pimples

6) Classic Whitening – effectively deep cleanses your skin to whiten your skins.

In order for it to be really effective, REMEMBER to mixed the product with Dalacin C which can be bought at any pharmacy store. This product original doesn’t have any Dalacin C in it. 1 bottle of 225ml Eskinol can mix with 300mgs Dalacin C.

Method of using it:

1) Apply it on a cotton pad and wipe on the affect area only. Used it after cleaning your face. Suggested not to apply anything after applying it.

2) Used it on during day and night if the acnes or pimples are severe. Reduce using after pimples started to clear out.




Hope the information above help those having acne and pimples problems.

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Get Rid of Blackhead

Most of us which includes men are having blackhead problem nowadays especially at the nose area and we tend to ignore it thinking no one would notice it from far away. Imaging that on a perfect romantic date, everything went well, you and your date are about to kiss.

Suddenly she or he stop because they can’t help noticing the “obvious” blackhead on your nose and feel gross about it. NOW at this moment, you will definitely feel embarrass and blame yourself for not taking these blackhead seriously.

How does blackhead form? Well blackhead is a plug of sebum will clog at our skin pores and turn black when oxidized after leaving for quite some times. After a long period of time, blackhead can actually lead to pimples growth. According to the skin expert, blackhead is the first stage of acne/pimples forming before the bacteria occupy the pores of our skin. Therefore it’s important to clean out /remove out the blackhead before they develop to pimples. Some people think those blackheads are more common for those with oily skin. It’s true..But from my opinion, for the blackheads that grow on oily skin are sometimes easier to remove compare to dry skin. I myself is oily and combination skin. It’s easy for me to remove my blackheads that grow on my nose by simply using blackhead extractor. My sister even question me a lot of times asking me how I remove my blackhead. My husband has dry skin and he has a LOTS of blackhead on his nose and it’s very hard to remove even with extractor.

Below are a few methods that can be used to remove the blackhead on nose:

1) Remove the blackhead using a blackhead extractor. It’s encourage remove the blackhead after taking your warm bath or place slightly warm towel on your nose for approximately 5 – 10 min to soften the blackheads. DO NOT uses your hand directly to extract out the blackhead as it can cause infection and do remember to clean and disinfect your extractor after using.



2) Using Egg White as a natural ingredient. Some people can’t stand the smell of the egg white. You can try to add some honey and a bit of lemon juice to egg white that has been beaten foamy. Apply the ingredient to a small piece of normal oil control film paper and softly place the paper on your nose and press a little. After that wait for it to dry and slightly pull the paper from bottom up. Use both of your hand to hold each side of the paper while removing. Do this once a week.

Currently we have a lot of skin care product in market which can help to control or prevent blackhead or whitehead. Here’s a list of the suggested product that be used :

a) Shiseido The Skincare Purifying Mask - it’s a rise off facial mask that helps to absorb sebum and impurities while minimizing pores.

b) Clarins Gentle Refiner Exfoliator Cream – this exfoliator gently lifts of dead cells and deeply cleanses pores. It’s suitable for sensitive skin as well.

c) Clinique Pore Minimizer Refining Serum – it keeps pores clears of dead skin cells and help to tighten pore walls.

Feel free to drop comment and share out more suggestion ^^

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Tutorial on Makeup Brushes

In this article, i'm going to summarize out all the information about makeup brushes. When buying a makeup brush sets, it is important to feel the quality of the fibres the brushes are make of..especially those who have sensitive skins..There are many types of makeup brush and each of them having different functionality. Most of us don't have any idea which brush to use when it came to applying foundation, eye shadow, contouring..etc...Hope the information below help you all find the right brush during Makeup.

From here, i'll go one by one on what is the function of each different brush.
1) In order to get a natural flawless look and no heavy weight of the foundation on your skin, it is recommended to use a foundation brush. There are two types of foundation brush ( Brush for liquid form and Brush for Powder form). To apply liquid type of foundation, choose the brush which have more bristle and compact where for power type of foundation, you can choose brush which are soft and loose. This brush can also be used for blusher brush.

2) Contouring brush usually have an angled round shape and appear to be a bit loose like powder foundation brush.It is used for cheek contouring to shape and sculpt your face.

3) There are quite few size of shader brush. Shader brush is use to apply and blending of eye shadow. Usually if we buy a large makeup brush set such as 24 pcs, it will have 3 to 4 types of shader brush with different size and shape. However each of them having quite similar functionality.

< style="font-family:verdana;">4) Precision brush (Lower Lid brush) is used to apply eye shadow to the eye lower lid. Some of us don't know which brush to use, that we use the normal shader brush to apply for lower lid causing quite a mess especially if the eye shadow is dark color, we end up with "panda" eyes.

5) Most of the eyeliner gel come with an eyeliner brush. It is use to draw a precise and even line. The eyeline brush can also be use on liquid type eyeliner product. There're two types of liner brush, a straight tipped liner brush and bent liner brush. Both can be use to apply eyeliner but some find straight tipped liner brush tend to block your view when you applying the liner whereas for bent liner brush, we have better view of what you are drawing.

6) After applying all the foundation and eyeshadows, sometimes we have fallen eyeshadow on our face, this is when we use the fan brush. Fan brush takes off or dust off fallen eyeshadow from our face.

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Kose Vital Purity Range and Honey Blends

First of all..thanks to Kose Nature & Co for organizing this workshop and to let us know more detail of their product..^^..Nature & Co came up with wide range of products including skin care and hair care which really surprise me as i didn't know that they have hair care product as well... The latest products are the Vital Purity range and Honey Blend.

Vital Purity Skin Care range ( Don't you just love the colours ~^^)

Honey Blend Range

The nice things is that we were given chance to try out their products...^^ We start out with our hair first...The Honey Blend consists of Honey Blend Hair Treatment, Honey Blend Body Soap, Honey Blend Shampoo and Honey Blend Smooth Hair mist..Now i'm really amaze with these..I can't really try out the shampoo and hair treatment as we don't have any shower room provided at the hotel..^^ but the scent is really nice..sweet..I did try on the Honey Blend Hair mist though..it smoothen my hair..especially the split end... Those with frizzy hair should really try out this as it help to replenishes the hair moisture keep your hair shine and smooth.

Next we continue on with our face..We start out with the Pure white Cleansing milk...The cleansing milk can be wiped off or rised off..depend on each preference. It help to remove makeup and dirt without leaving your skin dry. After cleansing, follow by the Masks..we were given two choice to choose based on our skin type and condition..i choose the Vital Purity Lift Mask as it helps to reduce dullness..it was really nice with Lavender scent..Very relaxing...While waiting for the mask to dry, Relax yourself for 5 min...and when you feel like the mask is drying out, it's timeto clean off the mask..The mask have anti-oxidant, firming and whitening effect..^^

After cleaning off the mask, it's time to put on the Lotion or we can say toner...I choose the Vital Purity Lotion as well..i really like the scent a lot...You have to put on the toner using the cotton as it's more hygenic..Vital Purity Lotion have moisturizing effect and have antioxidant action. Next follow by the Essence ( Pure Essence C) from the Pure White range..the essence it not very creamy, it's light and easily absorb into our skin...We do a little massage on our face to help the essence fully absord...After putting on the essence, is the Moisturizer..There's two type of Moisturizer...Pure White Milky Lotion Light and Pure White Milky Lotion Rich...I go for the Light as my skin is acne prone type..i don't want it too be too heavy for the skin..When putting on the Moisturizer, we're suggested to used Cotton as well..(hm..this is the first time i heard about using cotton for moisturizer as well..),,Finally..is the Sunblock..this is the most important and we should never leave our house without this...the sunblock here to prevent the UV from directly attacking our skin..Apply the sunblock on your neck as well..^^..After all these steps..my face feel refreshing..*^^

Last but no the the least...the Body Lotion..! \(^.^)/ We have the chance to try out the Three Butter Series..The range come with Three Butter Face & Body Lotion, Three butter Face & Body Balm, Three Butter Hand & Nail Care and Three Butter Lip Balm...this lipbalm is great...it smoothen out my cracked lip...My lip feel smooth for whole day...thumbs up for this..! Will definitely buy this..

The Nature & Co teams were very helpful during the workshop..they assist and explain to us in the detail the usage of the product and how we should choose based on our skin type..During the registration, we were given this packet of goodies...Yippee~Natural & Co is so generous..In the packages, it have two sachlet of Vital Purity Lift Mask..Woohoo..and Several Pure White Lotion Light..

The pricing is quite affordable...and you can get these from Watsons..Here's the website for more info about the product ranges..Nature & Co...It's in chinese..i'm trying to find the english website though..I've a great day and really enjoy and pampered myself that days..THANKS to Nature & Co ...

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NYX Lipstick Review

Hi gals...recently i just bought 5 NYX lipstick from lowyat forum...and i'm going to review on it..
The price is quite affordable..which is only RM 10...very cheap right...O.O..i was surprise as well when i found out about this product...It also came out with eyeshadow, foundation, eyeliner...I bought 4 NYX Round lipstick ( Thalia, B52, Jupiter, Honey) and 1 NYX Round lipgloss (Kiss).

Anyway..i'm going to shows you guys how these colours look like on the lips..^^ .

This is my lips without lipstick. I just a apply a moisturizer lipbalm to keep my lips moisture.

I personally like this lipgloss..its a bit pinky...althought the scent is not so nice..but still consider acceptable..^^

Em..as for Thalia..it's a bit nude and mixed with a bit pink..nice as well..

Haha..for Honey..i don't like it very much..too nude..if you look at the lipstick originally, it's totally brown colour..when you apply to your lips..it's cover up your lips colour..it's best apply a pink lipgloss after apply this..it doesn't have to be pink..any colour you like..

I'm not sure whether you guys can differentiate this colour with thalia..this is a bit shimmer compare to thalia..don't apply too much of the lipstick..just slightly glide thru your bottom lips only and close your lips to mixed it to your upper lips..apply a bit if it's not enough..

when first apply this..i was like " woa..too red and obvious for me.." then after apply it for several time..i found it quite nice as well...it's more toward matt colour...

Overall..i would say that i'm quite pleased with these lipstick...and it's glide smoothly when apply it..however you might need to bring this out with you if going out for dinner as you might need to reapply it.. it doesn't stay quite long time..

Rating : 3 of 5

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Review on Clarins ~~

Hi gals ^^...it's time to review on the Clarins samples which i received last two weeks...I got these samples at Penang, Sunshine square at bayan Lepas. The salesgal is very generous and nice. I was suppose to get the Lift-Affine visage only but she gives me the cleanser, power minimizing serum and multi-active day cream as well. She explain in detail for each of the samples.

I've been trying these out for last few days..and i can say i like it very much.^^

Now let us start on the Gentle Forming Cleanser. This cleanser is suitable for combination to oily skin. When you used it with cool water, it came out with very gentle lather form. After cleansing, you will have a very matte complexion. It's not dry and it's refreshing. I like the scent of it.

Next it's the Clarins Shaping Facial Lift serum. After cleansing, the next step is to apply this. The texture is not very creamy and it's light. You won't feel sticky on your face when applying it. Its seems to be easily absorb into our skin. There are several pressing steps that you can follow to see better results.

The third step is to apply the Pore minimizing serum. This is the one which i like the most. I've trouble with enlarged pores. So most of the time i would concentrate on the pore minimizing product. This product does the work. The texture is light as well and when applying it, it's quickly absorb. I like the scents as well. It wasn't too strong but it has the light and refreshing feeling. I only apply this around my t-zone area as these are the places troubles me.

The final step is the Multi-active Day correction cream-gel. One thing that really amaze me is that all the textures are light. I don't like the cream to be creamy and i have oily skin and if i apply the product that tends to be sticky, i'll feel like my face haven cleansed at all. The scent is very nice..it smell like a bit powderly but not too strong..hm..like the baby johnson powder..I only apply this during the day. The multi-active day correction helps to restore smooth and fresh looking skin.

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Skin Food Peach Sake Toner Review ~~~♥

It's time to review on the SkinFood Peach Sake Toner. I just bought these a few weeks ago and been trying it for a while...i can't really remember the price of the toner...but they give me two samples ( SkinFood Argania Sebum Control Ampoule & SkinFood Peach Sake Pore Serum) to try out. As my skin is combination Oily, i will mostly focus on moisturing and controlling the greasiness.

The SkinFood Peach Sake Toner do the job for me...^^. The major function of this toner is for pore care. It helps to remove greasiness due to enlarged pores and excessive sebum. This toner is make from "sake" traditional Japanese wine brewed with rigidly with selected rice, peach extract with vitamin A and C. I like the scent of it. It's really refreshing and sweet. Especially early in the morning when you apply it, you will feel refreshing.

I usually apply it at morning before going to work. It really help controlling the oil and my face feel less oily in the afternoon time. For better result, you can go with the SkinFood Peach Sake pore serum. You won't regret trying this. ^^

Review Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Homemade Lip scrub DIY~

First of all, special Thanks to MichellePhan for the receipe.

I went thru the youtube and found her video on makeup and it's very useful for beginner who want to start up on makeup.

Below link is her video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajIxcf0ZZA


The ingredient for the Lip scrub:

Sugar 1 Teaspoons
Vaseline 1 Squeeze
Honey 2 Teaspoons Squeeze

Method:

1) Put all the ingredient in a small container and stir well.
2) Apply to your lip and rub softly.
3) Wipe off the scrub for soft lip.

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Clinique Anti-Blemish Solution Samples~~

Clinique is coming out with a new "Zero Tolerance" on blemished. It's give away samples to try out. Click the below link to redeem the sample.

Clinique Anti-Blemish Solution

The Clinique anti-blemish solution comes with Cleansing Bar for face& body, Cleansing form, Clarifying lotion, clearing moisturizer oil-free, Oil control cleansing mask, Clearing concealer, Post blemish formula, Spot Treatment gel.

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Receive FREE 2-pc gift worth over RM100 Clinique product ! ~~

HURRY! Download your voucher now and explore beauty around the world at Clinique’s Passport To Pretty event held at KL . Don't miss out the treat from Clinique. ^^

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