From your skin's train of thoughts:
"I hate Mondays. Yes, I hate them, too. She doesn't let me sleep, forgets to hydrate me and then drowns me in make up, all. day. Sometimes she even puts me to sleep with that nasty stuff on! So yeah, I hate Mondays, and yes, I'm acting up, could you blame me? Oh my God, stop trying to squeeze me, girl! Can't you see this is only making it worse? Oh, I see. She's coming at me with the big guns now. She wants to shut me up with clay. Ugh, I hate it. Noo! She's putting that horrible thing on me! Oh no! And the smell, ew the smell... wait. This smells kinda nice actually. What, what is this? Coffee? Oh, I feel so much more awake already! I just feel... smoother. But yum, is this chocolate? Is she giving me chocolate?! Aaah, praise the lord. Ok, I'm calming down now. I feel so good, it's like this thing is lighting me up. Wow, this... this is good. Thank you, girl. I guess Mondays aren't so bad, after all."
3 ingredient DIY mocha mask
purifying, brightening and smoothing
- Mix equal parts of ground coffee, cocoa powder and clay (I used this one).
- Add water until it reaches the desired consistency.
- Apply and let it dry.
- Wash off with warm water and using the ground coffee as a gentle scrub. Pat dry.
He looks at the wooden floor below his feet and thinks about her. He thinks about the first time he brushed her face with his fingers, the first time they kissed. Her skin smelling like a bakery on Sunday morning: almond and vanilla and sugar and everything nice. That's not the way humans smell, he remembers thinking, she must not be human then. A fairy, maybe. He pictures her laying next to him, blades of sunlight caressing her smile. His fingertips bouncing on that tiny trampoline that were her cheeks. He remembers her at night. Silk and musk. Her face flushed, ripe, juicy, like a peach that is just waiting to be bitten. Storm, then quiet. There she was, a tiny figure sitting in front of a dull mirror. She's busy, massaging her cheeks, applying potions and lotions, turning her face into a miracle.
The Facts
Name: Rejoice Light Facial Day Cream
Brand: Antipodes
Type: Day Cream
Price: €26,10 for 60 ml
Pros: Smells heavenly, makes skin plumper and tighter the moment you put it on.
Cons: may feel a little oily at first, but absorbs pretty quickly. Definitely not as light as the name says. The tin tube looks cool af but will probably be a hassle once the cream starts running low.
Would Repurchase It? hell yas.
Bonus Points: organic, ingredients 100% from natural origin and 71% from organic cultivation.
There was a time, a handful of months ago, where the
it product in the beauty world wasn't even a beauty product.
Despite the fact you couldn't find it in the Sephora halls, it was so hyped up it was one of the things I wanted to pick up in New York, and after my first ever stroll through the hipster paradise that's Whole Foods, I finally became the proud owner of the most commented thing of 2014: Coconut Oil.
Nip + Fab is a brand I've always wanted to try: they promise immediate results that should even provide an alternative to surgery. So, when the stars aligned and
my cleanser run out just when
asos was having a big beauty sale, I couldn't help but made this cheeky - and super cheap I may add () - purchase.
Raise your hand if you have bad bad dark circles, no matter how many hours you sleep. Good, now raise your hand if you
know why. No one? Well, I do know where my hereditary dark circles come from: basically my skin is very thin so you can kinda see what's underneath, which is, obviously, blood and so just like a bruise they show up dark and purple.
After years I'm finally in a point where I'm pretty happy with my skincare routine. It's pretty basic, and almost the same both for morning and evening, but this also means it's easy to stick to it and it's been a least six months since I've last slept with makeup on so whoop whoop!
I'm not usually wowed by a product straight away: especially if skincare, I know I have to sit and wait for it to grow on me. But the Body Shop Camomille Cleansing Oil was the one exception.
Being the oily skin girl I am, moisturizers always got nothing but dirty looks from me, but let me tell your this is a good one.
Oily skin girl + prone to spots girl = girl who used to scrub every single damn day.
You know what sucks?
Yankee Candles being so expensive, lipstick on my teeth, cactus thorns and Harry Styles that's still not following me on Twitter (c'mon bro!), but more than all, spots. They are disgusting, will ruin your whole look and oh Lord, they hurt! But here's the ultimate trick for making them less noticeable ASAP: just put a plaster on it!
Let's get the most useless and shallow aspect right out of the way: the packaging. Now tell me that that rose gold writing and tropical flowers aren't enough for you to pick it up over any other drugstore sunscreen. Well, they definitely were for me.
Bioderma is such a cult product that as I had entered a French Pharmacy I hadn't thought once but picked up two bottles straight away. Now I just have one little question wandering through my mind: what does it do?
When I saw the Avène Cleanance Mask on the shelves of my local pharmacy, claiming to exfoliate and absorb the oil from every blemish-prone young skin, I knew I had to try it.
I might as well had not.
