Beauty Tips For Body Care
It feels so ridiculous to wax poetic about a product that I originally looked at as an overpriced chapstick. But this felt like one of those years where every awesome product had a pretty hefty "but...":Trying to find an HG active knocked the crap out of my skin. The search to find something effective that I could use consistently meant I dabbled in everything from Pixi Glow Tonic to Drunk Elephant's Glycolic Night Serum to COSRX's AHA Whitehead Power Liquid, ending up with some seriously exhausted skin.Even beloved non-comedogenic soothing products meant breakouts for days.. Stuff people herald as seriously soothing and skin-friendly, like COSRX Rice Overnight Mask, SCINIC Honey All in One Ampoule, or Benton Snail Bee Content Essence managed to trigger some closed comedones. Snail! Honey! Seriously!?Deciding if my skin was dehydrated or sebum-crazed (or both) meant my masking regimen became seriously bipolar. One day I was layering on COSRX Overnight Honey and Leaders hydrating sheet mask after Leaders hydrating sheet mask; the next I was bathing in BHAs and charcoal clay masks. My poor skin didn't know whether it was in a desert or a swamp.With a packed and confused routine, products that only promise results in the long-term got kicked to the curb. Goodbye, Drunk Elephant C-Firma! I trust that you would flourish in a more disciplined home that actually applied you every day!So when I look back, what's the product that quietly, unassumingly, unfailingly did its business? Laneige Lip Mask.I started the year with lips that were somehow always chapped: I'd drink gallons a day, hydrate like crazy, and still have some skin flakes. And if I forgot to chug water and carry chapstick on a winter day, forget about it—I could smile wrong and end up with a split lip.But Laneige Lip Mask! I can slick on a little after I brush my teeth at night and in the morning, and my lips are back to normal. For the first time ever, my lips aren't chapped! I can drink red wine in bars again.In the after-school special version of this story, the moral of the Laneige Lip Mask would be that if you select products carefully, apply them with consistency and discipline, and don't go buck-wild trying to chase after the next thing that sounds like a solution to your prayers, products actually have the chance to work! That's all true. But also with just bare-bones simplicity, it's really nice to have something sitting on your bureau that legit solved a real problem you thought you'd always have, and think to yourself, "Heck yeah. That shit's solved."Thanks for giving hope, LLM!
Girls Blog 2015
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