Yesterday, Talkin Makeup on YouTube, posted a silly video with some great advice. I always watch Camile’s videos right when they come out. I’m super uptight about viewing a few people right away. She’s one of them. I think she thinks I’m stalking her. Lol! With my bundles of joy, there is no time to stalk and besides, it would be Shemar Moore. I can’t evoke the sound of a low cougar growl, but you get the idea. The man is beyond fine.
I digress. She suggested using hydro-cortisone cream for a moisturizer if you’re having a red blotchy day. I was just having a red-blotchy day. I’d say that was synchronicity, but I’m always having red blotches. It seems I’m allergic to my cats. I see shots in my future.
I tried her trick last night and woke up with soft skin, not over oily, no new zits and my peeling skin, from my peel, soft and supple, with no flakiness. I was in total amazement. I double checked the ingredients. Aloe Vera was among the first of them. Okay, that’s good. The other ingredients were all good for my skin. Is relying on a corto-steroid every day a good idea? Not really, but once in while? I think she’s onto something.
Love this cleanser
Last summer, I’d say August, I was given a sample of, “Baby Face Cleanse.” I’d expressed frustration with every other makeup remover I’d tried. My eyelids are very sensitive and always red. If I drag most makeup removers over them, including ones for sensitive eyes, they actually peel. That makes it hard for me to wear eye makeup and I’m a makeup artist. Sheesh.
So the woman at Lush handed me a sliver of, “Baby Face.” Which seemed impossibly small. I got on the Internet and researched the product. Armed with my information and my sliver of Baby Face, a face full of waterproof makeup, I hit the bathroom. My makeup came off. I mean right away, even the waterproof stuff. ALL OF IT! Okay, great, but my face is so dang oily, I feel like I can power every car in Michigan. This was BOUND to lead to breakouts.
Next morning, no flaking skin (I took it off with a damp facial sponge and washed with my normal cleanser) and NO NEW ZITS! IK am forty six and break out like a teen. No zits means the world to me. I used my sliver, and used it, and used it and used it. That stupid sliver of, “Baby Face,” lasted months. I mean of everyday use. I finally got it small enough to justify buying it for myself. Forget it. I cut it up and put it in small bags for my clients. I’ll buy another one for me. Okay, maybe more than one. I want to pass this around. On days I plan a deep clean, complete with careful and taught, blackhead extraction (almost all gone now), I use, “Baby Face,” first, then wash with my regular stuff after and my face does not get red, or inflamed. I recently had three moles removed and am using an anti-bacterial product during the day and, Baby Face, at night. My scars are healing nicely. I also used it on a recent tattoo (family names on it and a special something for my son who passed) and the healing is great. Only one small area that is stubborn and that’s because I scratched at it, before I started in on the, Baby Face.”
This is a product I would give a ten out of ten for. Does what it says, does not break out the break out Queen and has wonderful abilities to get stubborn eye makeup off. Go Lush!
Note, “Baby Face,” is a solid cleanser, meant for dry skin. Its oil based and probably comedigenic. If I were a Teen, I would not think of using it. As an older woman, even with breakouts, it’s a Godsend, but I never leave it on for long, except were I am healing something. It’s a great product.
Okay, day… I think four? I was told to use the Differin every third night, because most people react to it with majorly peeling skin and redness. Not me. My skin has been into every stupid acne product since the dawn of time and I got no redness. Okay, a burning sensation where I’d picked a zit. Sue me. Everyone farts, picks their nose in the car and on occasion, unless they are blessed like my son’s birth mom (perfect skin and no zits, ever, brat) they pick them. I remember girls in high-school doing it for one another and talking about it. Fascinating and disgusting all at the same time. Anyway, I have some peeling, and flaky skin, but I use my Elephant Poo Soap, (African Black Soap, no actual poo in it, just looks like it), Salicylic Acid on any active whompers and I do extractions on my Blackheads.
NOOOO!
Yes. I’m not sure how to break this to you, but Pore Strips only remove the top layer that’s oxidized and has discolored. There is sill sebum underneath and the only way to remove it is by professional, or professional quality and extraction. It won’t stop it forever, but that’s what the Differin is for. BTW, Differin is not an exfoliant. With most Retinoids you cannot use Salicylic Acid and the product on the same day, they cancel one another out. Differin is different (maoan). I’ts a synthetic and milder from of retinoid, even though it’s very hard on acne. I got the gel form, which is supposed to be more gentle.
Back to the report. Nothing major. Had a bump yesterday, gone today. I used the pink stuff over the retinoid. I’m not big on getting the Differin too close to my eye, but the wrinkles and crepiness. Yuck! So I’ll attempt one eye on the upper part of the lid tonight and test it. Not the lid itself, that is reserved for my L’Oreal. Which is working, albeit very slowly. No new milia. A good reason I don’t use pure pigments. They tend to make milia pop out on me. Yuck. NEVER EVER remove any milia (hard, little white bumps made of a wax-like substance) on your lid. Visit a dermatologist. I’m all for home remedy’s, but this is your EYE!
Now, Latisse. I have a generic, same active ingredient. I missed last night. I got it on my lid too, but I already had on my Differin and didn’t want to wash my face again, so I chanced it. The darkening of the skin is common, but does seem to go away on the maintenance routine for tester’s and I was terrified I’d wake up with HUGE dark marks on my lids. No. In the future I will, 1. wash, 2. Latisse, 3. Retinoid, 4. Spot Treat. Oh, be more careful works too. Don’t waste your time on the dorky brushes you get with it. Just buy a fine eyeliner brush, or two (mark one L and the other R), clean them well after each use (I use African Black Soap with extra oils in it) and dry on a sterile surface. I bought some white towels that I bleach to death in the wash on the sanitary mode for my makeup and medication space. Cheap at Target.
So far, three whole days, nothing. I don’t expect squat for six weeks, so hang tight. No darkening of the pigment of my eye (my eyes are olive-bright green and there is a brown spot, in the top of my left eye. I used to hate that thing, now, I feel liberated and different because of it). No change to either. Again, blue eyes do not darken in any of the tests, including the original product for glaucoma. It makes your brown eyes very brown,*IF* it happens, which is rare. Go to their site and read the studies. Very informative.
So, that’s that. I would like to state, for honesty’s sake that I purchased them online through a drug store in India, run by two American woman here. They have a stellar reputation (I tried to find a bad review and other than shipping time, could not) and had a prescription for these items. I could not and would not pay that much markup for a product in the US. Ridiculous! The products are by the same companies that sell here, and are identical in makeup. I researched the heck out of them and was honest with my doc. He was not thrilled, but conceded that they are the same and warned me against buying from China. In Michigan a lot of people take day trips to Canada and get scripts filled, because of the savings, so it seemed normal to m. If this idea terrifies you, then pay the full price. I just can’t afford it and refuse to let the drug companies hold me be the proverbial balls for my acne meds. I’m almost 46! I refuse to be forty six and have acne. I won’t use Accutane. I don’t think it would depress me, but I have enough problems without six months of headaches. A common side effect.
On zits. That’s right, zits. I’ve been fighting them since I was 11. ELEVEN and now I’m forty five. Enough! Fini! Buh-bye. I’ve stepped the war up. I’m going to the derm and out these things are going to come. I mean it! I don’t wear a lot of makeup at home. I keep my face clean, but don’t strip it and use hydrating things that DO NOT CLOG PORES! So why? WHY ME????
HELP!
I’m tossing an arsenal at them and will keep you updated. Hang tight. Something has got to work. In the meantime, I have a ton of things that don’t.
