Hey,
So Karen and I decided to give you an insight on our skincare routines. Maybe it's of some use to some of you with dry/ oily combination skin. Today I'll start. First off I'll give you a quick overview of the products I use.
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My Embryolisse Lait-crème concentré moisturiser ran out, so I had to take a Picture from the interwebs...
So I am going to tell you what I do morning and evening and then I'll go into the products and tell you how I use them.
1. Morning:
After brushing my teeth I cleans my face and apply my moisturiser and eyecream afterwards. All ready prepped I'll then apply my makeup.
2. Evening:
I'll first remove my makeup and then go ahead and cleanse my face. Again, I'll then apply my moisturiser and eyecream. Sometimes if I'm spotty I'll go ahed and dab some of my spottreatment onto my pimples, mostly forehead and chin.
3.1-2 a week I'll exfolite my face using my exfoliating mask.
4. Ocassionally I'll treat myself to a nice mask. Doesn't matter if hydrating or pore refining, just anything to give myself a lovely soft skin and rosy flush.
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I find simple masks from the drugstore work just fine. They're about 0,60 € and you get 2 uses out of them. Although I really want to get teh Dermalogica hydrating mask. |
The Products:
1. Bioderma Créaline H20 Make up remover:
This is seriously the best Make up remover I've ever tried. It removes everybit of make up without stinging in the eyes and I don't need to rub like crazy.
I use this with regular cotton pads. I take one and tear it in half, then I soak it in Bioderma and lay it onto my eyes and let it soak for about a minute...As all the cosmetics consist of waxes and stuff the makeup remover needs time to make the makeup come off.
By letting the makeup remover sit on the eyes you avoid having to rub your eyes and tug on your very thin skin around that area.
Just gently push the pad with you finger and help get off all the resedue.
If you feel like you need to, go ahead and soak a cotton pad and clean your face from any foundation or concealer.
2. Avène Gentle Milk Cleanser
Perfect for sensitive skin and totally non abrasive. This product doe snot break my out or anything. I pump a almond sized amount onto my fingers and start massaging it onto my face. I have not splashed my face with water before, just plain dry skin. After massaging thoroughly I take two dry cotton pads and gently take off the cleanser, eventhough I took off what little makeup I'm wearing everyday, my cotton pads are still always dirty. When I first started cleansing my face this way, I noticed how much dirt actually builds up during the day. ugh..
After removing most of the cleanser with a cotton pad, I then rinse off any resedue with warm water.
3. Dr. Hauschka Eyecream
After moisturising my face I squeeze the smallest amount of crem onto my wedding finger and dab both fingers together. then I gently dab it onto my undereye area and around the crows feet rea, meaning the browbone and outer corner of the eye. As of now I cannot tell a difference after months of use, but I'm young to my philosophy is, if I don't see any difference in a few years time, I did everything right. Plus the cream makes my undereye concealer apply super smoothly.
4. La Roche Posay; Effaclar A.I. Spottreatment
This stuff is a true miracle worker. After I completed my routine I squeeze some of it onto the bakc of my hand and then strat dabbing it onto the areas where I have breakouts. Of course it's not an overnight healer, but what it does is, it slowly dries out the pimples and makes them disappear. After one night of use, there's already a change, after a few nights of use the breakouts should start getting better and eventually get better and go away. I loooove this soo much. It really does do its job. And even after one night only I can already see the breakouts have become smaller.
5. Dermalogica Gentle Cream Exfoliant
My newest addition to my skincare family. After being sick of all the abrasive exfoliant scrubs I wanted to try this, so I got it last week with a voucher I had left from my birthday. It is truly brilliant. I use this about 1-2 times a week, because it is taking of the outer layer of old skin and makes it more sensitiv. Due to that it is recommended to use sun screen after usage.
I apply it to my dry cleansed face and let it set for 10-15 minutes just like a mask and the thouroughly rinse off my face with warm water. The thing with chenical exfoliants is, that you need to let them do their work, meaning let the AHA's and BHA's (tha acids) work their magic and help you get rid of dead skin an clogged pores. Yes there aren't definite results after only one usage, but the skin definitely feels softer and renewed. I'll have to test it for a few weeks to see if it really does what it says...but considering the fact that it is proven that salicylic-acids and lactic-acids and all their friends do help get rid of all those unwanted imperfections and clogged pores, It should do its job. I'll just have to give it some time.
6. Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré
I was looking for a moisturiser that gives my skin the needed hydration but isn't too rich and leaves a greasy layer ontop of my skin. I don't like to wake up a a giant greaseball, plus Sometimes my dry skin gets kind of weird oily throughout my T-zone because of moisturiser build up. Ebryolisse is perfect. It can be applied really softly and not rubbed in too much and leaves the skin nice and smooth but can also be rubbed into the skin more, so that it leaves a more rich feel to the skin. I heard Sam from Pixiwoo rave about it all the time and decided to get it when I was in france for the summer.
I just dot a bit onto my cheeks and forehead and then massage it into my skin with my fingertips.
7. Cotton pads
Not a skincare product but the "tool" I use for most of my routine. Plain old cotton pads from the drugstore....handy and very versatile. Not much to say about them other than they are brilliant and for me a must, when it comes to skincare.
That's it, that's how I (try) and keep my skin nice and clean and take good care of it. We'll see in a few years time if this has proven itself and makes me look young and glowing when I'm alredy a bit older.
'Till then, I guess there's nothing more to do than wait and follow this routine religiously...which doens't mean I might not change up some products just basically that I'm going to continue on taking care of my skin.
Karen's and my philosophy: Cleanse- Exfoliate- Moisturise- Protect.
Stay gorgeous,
Love, Zoe xx
