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Alrite, to be COMPLETELY honest, my skin BEHAVES in cooler weather. =] I have oily/combo skin in the summer and normal skin in the winter. =] I just wanted to state that because that has ALOT to do with why my skin's been pretty clear lately. SUMMER is when my skin totally hates me & decides to have mounds & mounds of breakouts on it. =*(
Anywho, I still get some pimples here & there & this is the regimen I use ONLY when I need to, meaning I'm starting to get a pimple or breakout OR I just want to maintain my skin. I'd say I use this regimen about two times a week... three tops. The rest of the days I just lightly wash my face with the Camellia Rose Goats Milk, Rose, and Shea Bar OR I don't wash my face at all. Some nights I don't pay any attention to my face & just let good old plain water do it's job while I'm taking a shower. :P
Yes, my skin is unbelievably low maintenance right now... I just wish it were like this all of the time. :( *sigh* But I can honestly say these products DO help when my skin decides to act up. =] They've been stopping my breakouts & pimples in place. Please NOTE that this is what works for MY skin & it may NOT work for YOUR skin the same way.
Morning:
NOTHING
Night:
Cleanse: w/ "GoW (Garden of Wisdom) Simply Clean Tea Tree Cleanser" or "Camellia Rose Goats Milk, Rose, & Shea Bar"
Manual Exfoliation: w/ "Microfiber Cloth" (i bought mine from GoW)
Chemical Exfoliation & Treatment: "GoW Blueberry Exfo Serum" & "GoW Majik Anti-PopUp Blemish Gel"
I do these last three things DEPENDING on how the weather is that night or how it's been lately. If it's been hot I skip these last three things. If it's been cool and/or cold I'll usually do these last three steps... it depends on what I feel my skin needs at the time. Also, sometimes I only do the last two steps & skip the mask... like I said, it depends on what I feel like my skin needs.
Mask: (rarely done, maybe only once a month) "Glacial Clay" Mask (bought it from GoW as well)
Hydrate: Water & "GoW HA Serum" (I prefer GoW's Honeycomb HA Serum or Immortelle HA Serum)
Moisturize: "Camellia Rose's Seabuckthorn & Blue Tansy Nourishing Eye & Face Cream"
HOW I APPLY THESE:
CLEANSE - I just dampen my face with warm water (NOT HOT) & apply the cleanser. I massage the cleanser into my face SOFTLY (VERY SOFTLY, I don't want to tug on my skin & cause premature wrinkles. LOL.) for about 3 minutes then I rinse my face completely clear of cleanser with warm water.
MANUAL EXFOLIATION: I then massage my face with my microfiber cloth for about a minute again fairly lightly. It's EXTREMELY easy to over-do it with the microfiber cloth so you'll want to start off light & figure out how much pressure you should apply little by little. Overdoing it with the microfiber cloth WILL hurt afterwards. LOL. After exfoliation, rinse your face with warm water again & dry off your face completely.
CHEMICAL EXFOLIATION: Apply the GoW Blueberry Exfo Serum all over your face (make sure your face is dry) & then apply the GoW Majik Anti-Popup Blemish Gel on top of the Blueberry Exfo Serum & let it dry. If you're moving on to the next step let this sit for 15 minutes then move onto the next step, do NOT rinse/wash it off. If you're not doing the next step... you're done for the night. No need to rinse or wash anything off after this step. =]
MASK: I mix some Glacial Clay & water in an empty yet CLEAN facial cream jar that I have & apply that all over my face. I let it dry for 20 minutes then rinse it off. Then, I dry my face with a clean towel.
HYDRATE: I spritz my face with water until it's VERY damp & then apply my HA Serum of choice (either Honeycomb or Immortelle)
MOISTURIZE: I then apply Camellia Rose's Seabuckthorn & Blue Tansy Nourishing Eye & Face Cream all over my face. I apply a TINY bit because this cream is VERY rich & you only need very LITTLE.
Notice I DO NOT use the Ly-Na Pearl Face Cream. Why? Because I DO NOT like my face being 5 shades lighter than my chest. LOL. My face is always naturally lighter than my chest as it is... so that stuff wasn't helping. LOL. I only really wanted to use it to lighten up old acne scars... & most of them are gone now so I stopped using it. =]
So that's all. It SEEMS crazy & tedious but I swear to you it's not. Haha! Hope this helps. =]
P.S. For those of you who are interested in the products that I mentioned in this post you can easily find them on their respective websites. =] I've linked the stores that sell these products below.
Here's the link to Jen's store "Camellia Rose": Camellia Rose Skin Care
Here's the link to Markey's store "Garden of Wisdom": Garden of Wisdom
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