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Dude, I had a rollickin’ great time last Friday night. I viewed an episode of legislation & Order: SVU, ate a huge bowl of Rainier cherries and, completely not kidding, stayed up up until 1 (which is late for me) reading about skin care as well as taking notes, since I have officially chose that — drum roll, please — this will be the summertime of Skin care for moi.
Ahhhh!
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How major are you about your skin care?
Some people are real-deal major about it, as well as I wanna get major about it, too, even though I’ve mainly ignored my skin for the past two years, since when I got pregnant, I stripped my skin care routine down to the bare bones. I just didn’t have it in me to believe difficult about components as well as multi-step processes. I still did cleanser, moisturizer, sunscreen as well as my acne medication, however that was it.
Pregnancy as well as having a infant wasn’t just a nine-month thing. I was speaking to somebody just recently about psychologically “bouncing back” and, gosh, it’s taken me a truly long time. people told me that it would, however I didn’t truly get it up until it was happening to me. Connor is going to be 15 months old in a couple weeks, as well as I only now feel like I have the mental breathing space contemplate something like skin care again.
I’m likewise turning 42 next month, which is one more reason skin care is on my mind. I’ve certainly discovered much more sun spots, as well as my fine lines are getting…finer.
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Anyway, I checked out a lot of fascinating skin care articles the other night (linked them down below in situation you’re interested) as well as discovered some interesting things!
Order is important
The primary skin care lesson I came away with after my jaunt with the Interwebs was that if you’re going to layer a lot of products, the purchase with which you apply them is truly important, particularly if you’re utilizing active components as well as compounds that can potentially dispute with the others.
I desire I understood the elaborate science behind it, since I was deep in the chemistry trenches in college, as well as I believe it would be fun to break everything down on a molecular level.
But the gist of it is this: some active components deactivate others, so you can’t just layer things on your deal with willy-nilly…although, to be honest, that’s what I’ve been doing lately.
Notes from Friday night, part 1
I haven’t been putting much believed into it (I want to begin putting in more), however I figured that doing something was much better than nothing. As it turns out, though, perhaps it wasn’t, since I’ve been utilizing this Drunk Elephant Vitamin C serum, as well as I believe I’ve been utilizing it wrong this entire time. I’ve been layering it on top of a glycolic toner in the morning and, apparently, these two things don’t play together well.
Being conscious of the active components in your skin care as well as the purchase in which you apply as well as layer them is a huge deal! I’m hoping that figuring out the very best purchase to apply the products I’m utilizing as well as which ones work well together will enhance my skin care game.
Notes, part 2
Alpha as well as beta hydroxys
I did some reading on the difference between alpha hydroxy as well as beta hydroxy acids, as well as the different types, like glycolic lactic acid as well as salicylic acid.
I believe I’m going to begin adding glycolic acids into the mix since they’re expected to be fantastic for aging skin.
Chemical as well as physical sun screens
I likewise researched sun screens since I needed a refresher on the difference between chemical as well as physical ones (this short article assisted a lot).
Five-second summary: chemical sunscreens take in as well as scatter the sun’s rays, as well as physical sunscreens show them.
The next day I went Sephora as well as grabbed Drunk Elephant Umbra Tinte Physical everyday defense security SPF30 with 20% zinc oxide, a physical sun screen.
Excited about this new sunscreen
I just truly want to get to the point where I feel like every product as well as step in my skin care routine serves a legitimate purpose.
As for makeup, I still like using it, however as I get older, I choose the method my skin looks when I wear less, particularly less foundation, concealer as well as powder. I just can’t keep stacking it on anymore. Like, I can’t get away withfull-coverage foundation the method that I utilized to. as well as three or four years ago, I liked that sh*t! now I feel like it ages me.
I’m trying to get away with the least amount of deal with makeup possible, as well as I hope that stepping up my skin care game will assist me do that.
I haven’t written much about skin care on MBB since makeup has always been much more fascinating to me…but perhaps The summertime of Skin care will modification that.
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How do you look at skin care? Is it on your radar screen? Is it something you’ve been conscious of for a long time, or was it something you got into when you reached a specific point in your life?
Your friendly community charm addict,
Karen
