I, like all beauty junkie's I'm sure, go through a bit of product schizophrenia. It all started a few days ago when I after I had arrived to work. I was sure that my makeup was looking flawless. I had properly cleansed and exfoliated my skin, rubbed in my moisturizer, prepped with foundation primer and applied all of my makeup with clean brushes. To my horror, when I caught myself in the mirror at work I nearly fainted. My skin, which is normally oily, was cracked and flakey only to be enhanced by my setting powder, and my under eye concealer looked as though I had smeared it on with a putty knife. I'm sure there were various non-cosmetic factors (lack of sleep, not enough water, supplementing water intake with coffee, poor bathroom lighting, air conditioning, and etc) that contributed to the ashy mess that was my face. I also have the occasional eczema flare-up around my chin. To counteract this, I've been upping my water game to offset the coffee intake and I've been trying to get at least six and a half hours of sleep instead of my usual five or sometimes, eek, four hours. This was also an excuse to try some new products, so, I did some research, talked to some people and decided to go with these. Some are for my skin condition but I got side tracked and got some fun stuff too.
Embryolisse 24-hour Miracle Cream
Make-up artists and francophiles alike go ape-caca for this stuff. It's a facial moisturizer that can also be used a facial cleanser, makeup primer, post-shave irritant reducer. I tried it after my usual anti-acne/benzol peroxide/Sub-Saharan inducing moisturizer and it felt very smooth and absorbed quickly. It definitely counteracted the dryness and helped with the eczema around my mouth. I wouldn't recommend it for oily skin without eczema, though. It might be too thick if you don't have any bacteria killing chemicals drying out your face first.
Yu-be Cream
This Japanese cream the "#1 selling medicated, vitamin-enriched skin cream in Japan." That's in quotations because it's printed on the tube. Apparently one can use it to treat rough, dry skin as well as: split cuticles, chapped lips, cracked heals, calluses and burns. One could also use it (according to the tube) all over the face and body. It is a thick cream with the scent and texture of thinned out Vick's Vapo Rub. So, unless your face is extremely dry or you plan on scaling Mt. Everest sometime soon, I would suggest this on spots where needed on the face. Try it for the split cuticles, cracked heals, calluses, and burns while you're at it. I would skip the lips because Japan's #1 selling medicated skin tastes like Japan's #1 selling medicated skin cream, ie disgusting.
Mandom Beauty Cleansing Lotion
I picked this up makeup remover in Chinatown at New Kam Man on Canal street. It's a Japanese product that you should be able to use on the face and eyes with cotton. The girl on the bottle looked very excited and it does remove non-waterproof makeup pretty well. I bet she'd just explode if it could remove waterproof mascara.
BY TERRY- VIP TOUCH EXPERT ADVANCED
Terry de Gunzburg created touche eclat for YSL some years back so, this product is a bit reminiscent through it's texture and click pen packaging. This does help hide the sleep deprived zombie disks under my eyes fade into oblivion without looking cakey. I do wish it came in darker shades because I've lucked out being the darkest shade she carries. Maybe if more people buy this product , she'll expand the line. I hope so, because through my superficial observations, we brown girls seem to be predisposed to Zombie-eyes.
Becca
Luminous Skin Color, Shimmering Skin Perfector, Stick Foundation and Shimmering Pressed Powder.
I went a little Becca-crazy but I do love this stuff. The range is so wide in terms of skin tone and depth that I became a huge fan. The tinted Luminous Skin Color is very sheer but the Stick foundation adds a nice amount of coverage where needed. I bought the Shimmering Skin Color in Topaz (a golden bronze shimmer) to darken my current foundations. The Shimmering Pressed Powder is the perfect highlighter providing you choose the right shade. The Skin products have moisturizing ingredients so, they can feel heavy at first but once they are set with powder, my skin was able to breathe comfortably in ninety- degree city-heat*.
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city-heat is when you're walking passed a New York City bus as it pulls away and the heat from the exhaust damn near gives you a first degree burn.
I forgot to mention the foundation stick, tinted moisturizer, and shimmering perfector have a nice amount of sunscreen, yada, yada, yada...
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