Skin care tips : Beautiful healthy skin

Hello! Today I'm back with skin care tips post..
For me having beautiful healthy skin is very important.. I want to stay beautiful, but not from makeup. I just don't want to go through a lot of makeup to look beautiful. So these are my tips to keep your skin beautiful.

1. Healthy lifestyle
Beauty comes from within.. You're what you eat...
You might hear these phrase a lot.. but still neglect healthy lifestyle.. You can't possibly expect to have beautiful skin if you don't take care of your body.. Because if you have healthy life style, the result must be show up on your skin. Just took baby steps, slowly but surely change your bad habit such as sleep late, eating unheathy food, smoking, drinking alcohol, and such.

2. Go Bare!
For most of you.. maybe it's really hard to go outside with makeup on. But.. to have healthy skin, you must let your skin breathe. Cosmetic products is full of chemical substance, and possibly dangerous for your body. Limit the usage on makeup, cut it to 3-4 times  a week rather than daily.. If your job opt you to use makeup.. use lighter base makeup such as only primer+concealer, bb cream/cc cream +concealer. And don't forget to cleanse thoroughly with double cleansing method.

3. Check your products ingredients
These days, I began to check the ingredients of my beauty product, and I'm pretty shock of the results. Some ingredients is classified as irritant, comedogenic, might cause infection, or bad for environment.
Sometimes.. less is more. And that also goes with the product you use for your skin.. switch to organic natural products, or just use what your skin really needs ( basic skin care ) And you could just try to use natural products such as oil for moisturizing.

4. Fix the bad habit :
touching your face,  popping your zits, rubbing your eyes, not using glasses/ sunglasses , forgetting sunscreen, not cleansing your phone or glasses regularly, not changing your pillow case/ bed sheet..
Are some of bad habit that most people constantly do. Fix the bad habit, and you will soon see the effects on your skin.

Elle's skin care routine : Oily and acne prone skin

FYI I'm almost 16, I'm Chinese with medium to fair skin color. My biggest concern is my oily skin, acne and acne marks, but I focused on brightening my skin too. Sometimes I suffered from acne..mainly because hormones, happened in the "time of the month" but it's not that gigantic or so.
 Well my skin gets better after I switched my products.. I used to have big pimple and sometimes suffered from terrible breakouts. I used products mainly from brands  like garnier, pond's, clean&clear but it doesn't works really well :(

So here's my current skin care routine..

Morning time:
1. Cleanser: Sebamed clear face antibacterial cleansing foam
Love it! Really gentle and great for acne prone skin. Smells pleasant too..

2. Lotion: Hada labor gokujyun light lotion
Well this is Japanese brand, pretty much looks like toner but works differently.. It's alcohol free and works to moisturize and balance skin PH. Love the consistency, it's watery and light.

3. Eye care: Garnier eye brightening roll on
I don't recommend this one since it doesn't brighten my under eye area at all. I'm waiting for this one to ran out..

4. Moisturizer: Sebamed care gel
A must have for me.. My HG product! This had gel consistency.. Really light and oil free.  It's soothing and really gentle for skin.
The best moisturizer I've ever tried.

5. Spot care: SK-II whitening spots specialist
It's not really mine.. I use it together along with my mom. Works great on brightening my acne spots!

6. Acne treatment: Sebamed pimple gel
Doesn't works greatly.. I own the body shop tea tree oil too.. But nothing really works amazingly..

7. Sunscreen: Skin aqua UV moisture gel SPF 30 PA++
Love this one! Watery and not greasy at all.. Moisturize skin too and gives slightly brightening and dewy look.

Night time:
1. Cleanser: Sebamed antibacterial cleansing foam

2. Toner.    : Sebamed deep cleansing facial toner
Works to double-cleanse my skin. This has alcohol.. So I don't really favour this one.. Might irritate skin and strip skin's natural oil. Will change this product to cleansing milk later after I finish the product..

3. Lotion: Hada labo gokujyun light lotion

4. Eye care: Garner eye brightening roll on

5.  Moisturizer: Sebamed care gel

6. Spot care: SK-II whitening spot specialist

7. Acne treatment:  Pond's overnight care gel
So affordable and dries out my pimple overnight.

Weekly treatment:
1. Scrub: Garnier brightening scrub
Lathers well, but it's not grainy enough for me. Doesn't really feel the exfoliating effect. But it's pretty good for sensitive skin. I use this twice a week

2. Mask: JOA brightening mask, Garner self heating sauna mask, Acne's clay mask.
Diy mask:  using lemon, out meal, tea, honey, milk

3. Other:
SK-II facial treatment essence
Used this twice a week for sleeping mask. Really moisturize your skin.

4. Ice cube mask
To tone skin.. Used every other day

5. Massage: Olive oil
Once a week for 5-10mn. To slim down my round face and promotes blood circulation. I also incorporate Chinese acupressure point. Not all people fitted to use olive oil, this may cause pimple.. I wash my face after massage with cleansing foam abd limit the usage of other skin care products like moisturizer.

Papaya peel for face : My bad experience

Well, maybe you have heard papaya benefit for lightening skin ? ME TOO ! And I'm so tempted to try the soap..but since I eat papaya quite often, I use the peel instead.. It has the same benefit for lightening skin and also for peeling,

You only have to use the peel inside and rub it onto your skin then leave it for 5mn.
I have use it four time.. And I think that it really does brighten my skin. But not a pleasant experience at the last time.

I use it like usual and this foolish me forgot to wash my face in 5mn.. so basically I use it around 10mm. And bad thing happens.. Lots of red bumps showing  on my face.. the most is in my cheek. It doesn't really stings, but this makes me looks so BAD ! Until now I still have it and the second day it's even redder than before.It's allergy, well that's what my parents told me . So tonight I decided to drink antibiotics.. And I hope for the best.  Please pray for me *sob sob. Cause ppl just keep asking me questions, and they think that it's acne.

Update: the allergy reaction last about 6 days, and the bumps gradually become smaller and less reddish leaves me no scar behind. But it is terrifying enough for me so I won't try it ever again.

Review : Woorihanbang Precious Mineral BB cream

HELLO !

Today I'm going to review this BB cream from Woorihanbang. Purchased mine at KHitz Plaza at Lotte Kelapa Gading, Jakarta ONLY for 5$. And somehow, before I buy this I tried to find a review, but can't find any.. how come ._.

This BB cream has SPF 50/ PA +++ ( How great !) Whitening and anti wrinkle properties. And made in Korea.

Description : Seven into one ( SPF 50 PA+++, whitening, anti wrinkle, foundation, nutrition, skin recovery) It is BB cream that skin elasticity and complexion revision function are excellent. It contains sodium Hyaluronate, Abocado (Avocado I think) oil, Vitamin E acetate, Portulaca extract, Jojoba oil, sericite, Acetyl Hexapeptide, allantoin, It keeps your skin moist, elastic, and healthy while offers your tired skin natural treatments. ( A bit weird english, but It's okay.. since at least has english description..)

Packaging : It's in 50ml pink plastic squeeze type tube. Quite a lot of product.. for 50ml

Color : Only in 1 shade, and doesn't has any shade color on it. Looks like light beige color.

Scent  : has light scent.

Texture : Easy to apply, perfect texture.. just a bit watery.  A bit cooling on skin. 

Comment :

I'm Chinese with quite light skin tone (but not too light) and oily skin . This product  match my skin tone, just only a bit lighter than my original skin tone.. But I think it doesn't really gives healthy looking complexion since my no makeup face just looks healthier.  But it blended well with my skin tone overtime. And with only one shade available, this product might doesn't fit darker skinned people.  This gives glowy look.  Control my oil for around 2 hours.  But doesn't cover imperfection well.

Pro : 

With the original price, the price is still reasonable for 50ml product

Has SPF 50 PA +++

Comes in squeeze tube ( even though I prefer pump type)

Cons :

Only one shade available
Light coverage

Quite hard to find
Bad oil control
Glowy look*might be pro

Rating 3.5/5

Review : Maybelline baby lips in Smoothing Cherry and Energizing Orange

I’m quite a sucker for lip balm. Right now I have 5-6  lip balm/ tinted lip balm.. well pretty much I guess..

So now.. I’m going to review this baby : Maybelline baby lips in energizing orange and smoothing cherry. I got this at one of big supermarket in Jakarta for 2 $ ( Rp18,000 if I’m not mistaken)

Description : I lost the box already.. since I have purchased these for a quite long time. Sorryyy

Packaging : Comes in stick form. with cute packaging <3

Texture : Glides smoothly on my lips

Scent : Energizing orange has light sweet mandarin orange-ish scent. And smoothing cherry has stronger sweet fruit smell ( Can’t tell what kind of fruit it is, but for me it’s not cherry scent)  Doesn't has any taste

Color :  Looks transparent on lips

Comment:

For me this lip balm quite works in the beginning ( around a month) But even though it works, it doesn’t last for 8 hours or so like it claims. Maybe around 2-3 hours and I have to reapply it again. But as I used it, it lost it’s effectiveness don’t know why L

Love the smell, especially the smoothing cherry one ! <3  But I don’t really care actually.. even if the product doesn’t has any smell J And also has SPF 20, Great ! 

Pros:

So CHEAP!

Has nice smell

Works well

 Has SPF 20

Cons:

Doesn’t do what it claims, 8 hours moisturizing

Rating : 4/5

Review : Nivea vitamin shake lipbalm

Hi everyone !

Today I’m going to review one of Nivea lipcare products : Nivea Vitamin Shake Cranberry & Raspberry

It costs around $2.5-$3. Actually, I already purchased this for a long time, maybe half year ago. But since I want to be more active on blog *cough ..I want to review this lipbalm J

Lost the packaging already, so can’t tell you the description. FYI I have dry lips L

Nivea vitamin shake comes in 4.8 gr products.. I think it’s pretty much all the same with other lip balm. Comes in a stick form.

Texture : Glides easily on my lips

Scent : This lip balm has berry scent, well a pretty nice one.. but not my favorite, I don’t like the scent actually. Oh, and this one also has SPF 10, another great way to protect your lips.

Color: This lip balm doesn’t has any taste. Looks transparent on lips. The product itself is in light pink and red swirl.. It's quite cute indeed :D

For me, this lip balm doesn’t really works. It does moisturize, but only for  a short time.. maybe around an hour. So, so far I’m not really  happy with the product.

Pros :

Quite cheap

Has SPF 10

Enriched with Vitamin C, B, Pro B5

Cons:

Doesn’t moisturize for a long time

I find that the scent is kind of annoying

Rating : 2/5 

Note : Have a problem with my old camera.. will try to update with the photo soon *sob sob

Thanks for reading ! <3

Review: Tonymoly lovely eyeliner pencil

Hello again. It's the first time I make review, but I'll do my best ! Now  I'm going to review 2 eyeliner from Tonymoly in black and brown ;D which I just purchased today.. FYI I have oily lid :D 

So let's go !! 

Tony moly is korean makeup brand. This eyeliner is made in Korea and all is written in korean. I got mine only for 4$ for 2 in the store (it's buy 1 get 1) I'm so lucky :D

Packaging: When you first got this, there's plastic wrapping. This eyeliner like any other eyeliner is is made by plastic material in black colour. The down side point... is that this eyeliner doesn't has the color name in English, so it might be a bit hard to differentiate the colour. But it has different colour in the top of the eyeliner so you can see which colour the eyeliner is :D

Anyway here's the swatch.. ( Sorry.. I have a problem with my camera, so I'll update with the picture later)

Texture: The black eyeliner has different texture with the brown one . Black eyeliner comes in creamy texture and glides easily, but brown colour doesn't glides as easily as the black so it's a bit harder to apply.

Color: The black colour comes in a very black colour and has some silver sparkle on it. And the brown colour comes in dark brown colour but it doesn't really show unless you press it a bit harder..( ==)  and the brown doesn't has any sparkle.

It's a pencil type eyeliner so you have to sharpen it once it's ran out or becomes flat.(and the funny thing is that I'm super confused at the first time haha stupid me ) 

Pros:

SO Affordable ! <3

Eyeliner in black is easy to apply

The brown color looks natural on eyes

Even though it smudges..but doesn't leaves me panda eyes !

Cons:

The packaging doesn't has the shade colour on it

Both of the eyeliner smudges easily

Doesn't last long on eyes

Have to sharpen it so not so travel friendly.

Rating  : 3/5