Hello Everyone!
So sorry it's been a hot minute since my last post! I have basically been living at work & not had much time to blog lately. :P Lame-o.
Anyways! I wanted to update with a little something for you guys, so I decided to post a couple things that have been my fav go to's here lately. So here goes!
1) If you guys are looking for something to brighten & freshen up your skin, or you just want to give it a break from the harsh chemicals that tend to be in our popular skin care products, I HIGHLY recommend you try the Oil Cleanse!! I actually stumbled across this little method of facial cleansing on Pinterest. (I don't know about you all, but I am a total Pinterest adict! My entire wedding came off of Pinterest basically -lol- I could be on there for hours & not even know what happened.) And, first of all, before I go any further, I just need to lay out that I have the WORST skin of anybody I have ever met. No exaggerating. Skin products just don't work out for me all too often. Either that or they will work WONDERS for maybe a month to 2 months, then BAM! Crater city, back again, over night. It's crazy. I probably could have gotten on some kind of pill or birth control or something to tame it, but I didn't want to be another side effect horror story & I didn't want to gain any more weight (that's another battle in & of itself). So I've just always kind of dealt with it.
I haven't had too much spare money recently, & about a month ago my last skin care routine had fallen through & quit working (shocker). So I was mulling around the idea of trying Proactive again (had used it when it very first came out & a combination of me being a lazy teenager & not using the product correctly, it just did not do the trick for me, so I stopped using it) but until I got the spare money to buy it I had to do something to bide my time. I have also been trying to put in the extra money (when I have it) to buying more natural & mineral makeup. So I figured I would find some sort of natural skin care to make or buy that would be cheaper & kind of give my face a more natural cleanse. Especially since I have been bouncing from product to product since I was about 13. I found this Oil Cleanse & was curious how this girl (who's acne, as far as breakout patterns & the type of acne she had, looked a LOT like mine) thought that cleaning an oily face WITH OIL would work! That is an oily skinned persons first no no. Anything with oil you keep faaaaaar far away! But the more I read it the more I started thinking "huh.........interesting.." -lol- So I went to my mom's health food store, bought the stuff I needed, & tried it out. Now I am a big instant gratification type of person, which can be bad & causes me to have to push myself the extra mile with a lot of things. So when I tried this after the first couple of times my skin felt amazing! But it looked like absolute poop. After using it for about 2 weeks I had already started writing it off in my head & counting down the days to when I could go buy some Proactive. So I just quit paying attention to any results that I might be having. All of a sudden people started commenting to me on my skin tone, & asking what I was doing, & saying that they noticed a difference in my acne. So I kept using it! Now it's been a little over a month & my acne has gone down a LOT! My scaring is starting to lighten, & my skin tone is the best I think that I have ever seen it!
I think, besides all of those pluses, my favorite part about this oil cleanse is how simple it is. Like I stated before, I can get lazy with my skin care routine. With the oil cleanse you only use it once a day, which is at night before you go to bed, AND it doubles has a makeup remover! Even if this stops working for my complexion, I will DEFINITELY keep using it as makeup remover. It's the best I've ever used.
Now I know that I said I bought my stuff at a health food store, but you can get this stuff pretty much anywhere. And another plus: since it has castor oil in it it makes your lashes suuuuper long! WooT!
So here is the link:
http://www.healthydiaries.com/2012/07/17/how-i-improved-my-skin-acne-scaring-overall-complexion/
And since I have oily skin I just use the mixture that she recommends on there. I just put mine in an old honey container. It doesn't look like much, but it'll last you about 2 weeks. I use about a dime size on my eyes, & about a quarter size on my entire face. Try it out!!
2) The next thing I found, quite honestly, by being a moron. -lol- I was looking for a generic mineral finishing powder because my good one was gone, &, once again, money was a little tight. So I scoured the Wal-Mart makeup aisle, compared several brands, bored my poor husband to death, & then finally decided on one from Neutrogena. The only thing that I failed to read, which is printed plain as day on the front of the container, is that it was mineral powder FOUNDATION! -lol- Definitely didn't even notice that until I went to use it for the first time. :P But this stuff is AWESOME!! I use my normal liquid foundation & then put the mineral foundation over top like a finishing powder, & it gives an amazing finish. It covers up a lot of my acne & scars! About the only thing you see are a couple of my raised acne that I still have, but it covers up just about all of my scars. Highly recommend it! I was going to post pictures, but my lappy (lap top to normal people) was acting up. :P
If you guys try any of this let me know what you think! My next project will be to post my daily makeup routine for you all with pictures! So hopefully that will be up soon. Have a great day kids!
-Jazz-
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