설화수Sulwhasoo

My friend from Korea bought some gifts for me. The gifts are mainly some skin care products from the famous Korean brand Sulwhasoo (설화수). She bought me a pack of Overnight Vitalizing Treatment(여윤팩), Hydroaid Cream and a set of Basic kit with 6 items.

 

The brand is using so many different kinds of herbal ingredient regarded as Korean herbal medicine cosmetics. JaEumDan is a group of five herbal medicine ingredients – Polygonatum Officinale, Nelumbo Nucifera, Paeonia Lacitflora, Rehmannia Glutinosa, and Lilium Tigrinum – carefully selected to treat skin dryness. Active circulation in the skin is considered very important in Korean herbal medicine. This is because the effectiveness of herbal medicine depends on how well it is absorbed and circulated in the skin. With significantly enhanced skin penetration coming from advanced research and fortified cosmetic counseling methods, Sulwhasoo provides improved nutrition and glow to skin.

 

I still have my own skin products that I’m using right now. So I only start to try the overnight treatment(여윤팩). It’s very simple to use. You only need to apply it on top of your own skin products before you are going to bed. The next morning, you only need to wash with water as the products recommend. I used it for 2 nights, I could feel my skin become softer in the morning. It’s not so expensive also, the tubing is 120ml and it’s cost $50000 in Won. Let me keep using for a longer period of time and see how’s the effect will show.

 

MAC Hello Kitty Collection

MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Sanrio Global Consumer Products to create a Hello Kitty color cosmetics collection.

The line will arrive on MAC’s Web site Feb. 10, in North American stores on Feb. 12 and into overseas stores in March. The line will arrive in Hong Kong on 9^th March @ Seibu stores. For those Hello Kitty’s fan, go and check it out on the following web site:

http://www.maccosmetics.com/

Preparation for parties!!

Christmas’s coming less than 10 days, start having lots of celebrations~? Start to do preparation yet? Dieting? Doing daily facial??

This is my usual plan for holiday:

Keep your usual diet, with Carbohydrates only serve for breakfast and lunch. I’ll easily get water retention if I have too much Carbs at night. Eat different variety of fruits and vegetables before meal or as snack during the daytime. Drink plenty of water especially the humidity is so low recently. Your body needs water to burn fat, to get rid of the waste inside yourself and supply to your cells.

Keep exercise at least 3 times a week. If you want to look glowing, I mean nature glow, even the most expensive makeup couldn’t make you this way. The only way is to do exercise, so you can keep the metabolic rate and also enough oxygen supply to your body.

I’ll keep using facial mask to keep my skin. The most effective ingredient is “Yakult” mask. You only need around half to 1/3 of the bottle each time, using some cotton pads or dry paper mask to let it soak through. Then, apply it to your face for 10mins and after that rinse with water. Finally just put on you daily skin care. This is a cheap and very effective methods, even sensitive skin can try. I told many friends about this “Yakult” mask, and they love it so much~!! Try it and let me know how you feel about this mask!!

GAP Beauty arrive in HK

GAP beauty just launched their perfume line “Individuals” at Faces this month.

The Original、The Natural、The Visionary、The Artist and The Lover.

 $390 (100ml) / $290 (50ml)

 

Jill Stuart’s makeup arrive in HK

 No need to go to Japan or Taiwan to get the Jill Stuart’s makeup

products any more. The company will launch the shop @ Faces Harbour City on 5^th Dec. Hey ladies, are you ready to get yourself an

early treat for Christmas? Go check out the following link:

http://www.jillstuart-beauty.com/en/menu.html 

 

Skin care workshop

I joined the workshop for the newly launch products “Superbly restorative line” last Sunday. This line having 3 kinds of products, the lotion, dry oil and skin slave. The smell of the whole line are so nice, not so strong and really nature. The skin lotion and dry oil are good for dry skin with some firming effects. The skin oil even can use as body message oil. The skin slave are so useful, have more than 10 different ways to apply, from the skin, nail cuticle, lips and hairs. I tried it on my lips but don’t really like the taste on it, still like the #1 lip balm better.

They also offered a hand message section and temporarily tattoo section (Morocco style). The hand message section’s a bit short but very comfortable. The tattoo section is just for fun, I did a start like pattern at my calf. You can choose the paint for 1 day or 1 week. I suppose to choose the paint for 1 week, but it’s already faded out when I took a bath @ home~glad that I took the photos for it!!

Sephora is Here!

You can find a great selection of makeup and beauty products at Sephora. Here’s the address that you can visit:

Hollywood Plaza, Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon
(Exit E2, MongKok MTR Station;Opposite to Broadway cinema)

Here’s the website:

http://www.sephora.hk/index.php

The precious skin care products

Bulgari’s a brand famous for his fine jewelry, perfume and resorts. They just launch their new skin products about a month ago at the Bulgari’s resort at Bali. The skin care products contain mainly four types of gemstones : malachite, sapphire, citrine and tourmaline. These gemstones are naturally rich in skin-essential minerals and elements like copper, zinc, magnesium, iron and silion. The Crème Precieuse and Emulsion de Lumiere contain a polypeptide complex (collagen boosting) and hydroporine (a potent hydrating molecule) for smooth, supple skin. These products promise to help improve hydration (with zinc), regulate the production of melanin (with magnesium) and fight free radicals (antioxidant effects of silicon, copper and iron). But for meanwhile little research has been done to attest to the ability of these minerals to actually penetrate the skin’s surface.

The skin product is composed of three distinct lines:

1.           The Precieuse Line

A)     The Wrinkle Filler $700/5mL

B)   Intensive Regenerating Mask $1000/50mL

2.         Lumiere Line

C) Emulsion de Lumiere /Splendid Radiance Revitalizing Cream Day & Night $1250/50mL

D) Splendid Radiance Revitalizing Concentrate $1550/30mL

3.         The cleansing Line

E) Radiance Eye Makeup Remover $410/125mL

The entire skin product is now available in Lane Crowford, for enquiries: 852-2505-8580

Nice weather but problem skin><

The weather is getting nice, sunny and breeze in the morning time. Even in the day times it’s not so hot compare to a few weeks ago. Due to the weather change the humidity is getting lower, only around 65% each day. You might feel your skin’s getting dry lately. Since my skin is so sensitive, I felt it like a month ago.

My skin will look not enough hydration and start having lots of acne for the whole month. When I see this sign, I’ll start change my skin products and not allow this condition getting worse, cause it’ll take me more than months to recover. I’m glad that I take the action early enough this year, the condition is under control now. I still have some marks but I only need to do some hydration mask for a period of time to get rid them.

So if you find your skin’s having troubles during the weather change, you should consider changing your skin products. I’m using some AHA products for cleansing and moisturizing. I’ll keep using it for awhile then will start using some hydration products for the whole winter time~!!

Brush cleansing

If you want to keep your brushes longer, you really have to spend some times on the how to care of them. For your own brushes, you might be using it daily, repeat and repeat using it. For those make up artist, they might use their kit more frequent and using on different people. No matter the kit you are using on your own or on others. Cleansing the brushes and keep them well hygiene are very important.

For normal cleansing, you don’t have to use those specific cleansers for brushes. You can use some ordinary shampoo for cleansing. After rinse it, it’s better to use some conditioner for the brushes to keep it soft and give it a protection. For drying, keep it at a cool place and let it try naturally.

Sometimes I’ll use the specific brush cleanser, for some quick cleansing and it also have the mild antiseptics effect. I just need to pour out certain amount on a tissue and rub the brushes on top of it for a few times, that’s it! It’s really good for the smaller size brushes but for those bigger one, it’s better to wash it with shampoo for thorough cleansing.

 

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