Care for Your Skin (Pack)

INTRODUCING: 

The new "thing" in my family (more like just me and my mom).

FACE PACK/MASQUE

-NU SKIN creamy cleansing lotion

-NU SKIN clay pack

-NU SKIN facial scrub

-a bowl

-brush (for packs)

RATIO = 1:1:1

Mix with the brush, apply on your face (after washing your face of course), wait 15 minutes, wash it off.

You don't necessarily have to, but you may finish off with basic skin care products:

toner, serum/essence, lotion, cream.

This pack is great for cleansing your face and thoroughly cleaning out your pores while hydrating your skin. *** NOTE: It may sting but that just means you have a lot of dead skin on your face that hasn't been taken care of and your skin is lacking moisture.

S2, 1G.

Pink and Girly

I've been quite lazy with my nails these past few weeks.

I would tell myself that I need to paint my nails...but kept failing to make the time for it.

I finally allowed time to actually invest in painting my nails and designing it.

This design consists of nail polishes from different brands: The Faceshop, Sally Hansen, and NYC.

I really love the NYC's hot pink shown below in pictures.

The Sally Hansen not as much, but it's still a pretty pink and I wanted to use them both although they are different shades.

The two white polishes are both from The Faceshop. The one on left is just a straight up white color and the on on the right is a white-ish base with pearl/sparkles that I like to apply on top of any other nail color.

Thanks to the tools/brushes that my best friend left with me, I was able to even make the first attempt in designing a few of my nails to look like super big french tips.

nail polishes used in this design

tools used to design nails

right hand

right hand

left hand

left hand

left hand

Yes, I know my hand isn't very pretty, they're short and stubby.

Just look at my nails :)

S2, 1G. 

Soft Lips for You

This product is something I've been laying my eyes on for a long time. I finally tried it out. It was quite surprising to see how soft and nice my lips felt after using it. It does say to take it off after anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes or so, but I just put it on before going to bed and it came off on its own while I was sleeping.

This lip mask is $3, and The Faceshop has two different kinds of lip masks. The other one is $4, and I don't really know what the difference is. They both go out pretty well and I look forward to using these lip masks from time to time to hydrate my lips and make them SOFT.

Maybe you should try'em out too. ;)

S2, 1G.

Fun Pastel Nails

It's been a while since I've done a nail post. This was actually supposed to be like an Easter thing, but things were way too crazy for me to actually publish this post even though I had it all ready to be posted.

But who says Easter is the only time you can wear pastel colored nail polish?

I would wear pastel colors any day of the year. Even when it's cold. ;)

P.s. Excuse the dry skin......haha

S2, 1G.

Hair Care

I've been trying to take care of my hair as much as I can without getting too lazy... and here's something I've wanted to try out for a long time. We didn't have this in stock for a couple of months though, so I just got ahold of it. It's a water jelly mist.

All you need to do is spray this on the dry parts of your hair (typically the ends) or spray some onto your hand and massage it into your hair. I've been using a water "mist" essence thing for my hair before running a blow dryer over my hair, and I'm not sure if it's been actually protecting my hair but I'm excited to see what this will offer me... hoping that it actually has a benefit to my hair.

It sounds cool too. water jelly essence. HAHA Maybe I will do a review post on this product months later when I'm done using the bottle.

S2, 1G.

urban decay: NAKED 3

OH dear, a few of my friends got me a naked palette for my birthday this year. I have never owned a naked palette before although I've always wanted one. There are 3 different palettes, and they got me the 3rd one because of I'm girly and I like pink. I do tend to use pink in my makeup with brown and they felt that the other two were a bit too dark for my taste.

I LOVE IT.

I've been using it this past week to do my makeup and I'm still in the process of trying to figure out which combinations I like for the different makeup looks for different occasions.

For all you makeup lovers who don't own one --- I think it's super useful to own one! I hope to eventually get a hold of the 1 and the 2 as well.... HEHEHE

greedy Grace. haha

A shoutout of thanks to Jane Kim, Kristie Park, Joyce Kim, and Joyce Park for this lovely gift <3

S2, 1G.

New in the collection

eos lip balm: summer fruit

WELCOME to my collection, dear eos lip balm!

I've always wanted to try it out because so many people seem to be using it, and I finally got one for myself. It smells really good. I'm not too sure about how well it's working for my lips... which is actually sad because I thought it was like a really good lip product. Uh well... I guess I'll just have to use, wait and see how it works out.

Eyebrow pencil, eyebrow mascara

HERE are two eyebrow products from my work place - The Faceshop.

To the left is the Lovely Me:ex Design my eyebrows - eyebrow pencil. It's an "auto" one, meaning there is no need for sharpening because you just need to twist to roll out the product. On the other end, you have the eyebrow "brush" (I actually don't know what it's called...). I bought the "brown" color which is number 4, but there are 5 colors in total.

Colors (out of order because I don't remember anything except the one I bought):
-brown
-dark brown
-dark gray
-gray brown
-black brown

I just started trying out the eyebrow mascara very recently at work and I decided it's a good investment for me because it actually matches my eyebrow color well to my hair color. There are two different colors, one being brown which is the one in my picture. The other one is gray brown and it's a bit darker in tone and color than the brown one. I actually really like the eyebrow mascara. It works well for me, at least.

The steps of using the two products together would be for you to fill in and draw your eyebrows and the "tails" of it, and then run the mascara over your eyebrows so that the product can temporarily dye your eyebrows.

lip gloss and lip balm

LIPS, lips, lips. I don't know what it is, but I've recently been a lot more interested in lip products than ever before.

To the left is a $5 lipgloss from my work place. I had previously purchased a clear sparkly one of the same line, but I really wanted this orange one too. It's not so dark in its color, so it creates a nice lightly nude-ish but glossy at the same time kind of a look.

To the right is actually an old lip balm of mine that I received as a present a long time ago. Because I wasn't as interested at the time in lip products, I didn't use it like A LOT A LOT and that's probably why I still have this when it's pretty old( I think maybe two or three years old) and it still works wonders for me. It's a $30 dollar lip balm in the shape of a lipstick from Christian DIOR. It definitely seems like the first lip product that I really really liked and managed to not lose (I used to lose stuff like this kind of easily). I love using it over a red aqua tint that I purchased from my work place. It's not too sticky but it does its job. It seems as if I am stacking up on various makeup products, but what can I say. I gotta try them out. Haha...


Just before I end this post, I wanted to say something that I probably should have written in the beginning of the post: I haven't been on here lately because I was SO busy with USC's Korean Culture Night. I will be uploading more stuff soon!

S2, 1G.