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One of my dearest friends has recently started a website on Beauty, Fashion, Health and all things good.
In support of her cause, I present here a raid of my personal beauty must-haves.
I am proud to say that my dressing table that used to teem with an impossible amount of miracle creams and lotions promising Time Travel has in recent years been strategically cleaned up to make room for just a few essentials. I now am a believer that one should never have more than 3 beauty essentials at any one time.
Firstly, is it really possible to use more than 3 of these products at one go? Secondly, if your face requires more than 3 different bottles of "fixes", maybe what you need isn't in bottles. But seriously. I just believe that as long as you're using the right products, they rightfully work, reducing the need for other products that all purport to serve very similar functions.
This is my current list of skin-care items I just might lug out the door with me if the house was on fire...
Brand / Name: Philosophy / "When hope is not enough"
Ingredients: omega 3-6-9 replenishing oil
The buzzwords that got me. "What's good for your heart is good for your skin".
Works for my combination skin that's dry on the outside and oily on the inside. I get clogged pores and white heads and skin is often lacklustre. What this product has managed to do is to hydrate my skin without any residual oiliness. Overall, skin is conditioned. US$45 for 0.85 ounce and a little does go a long way. I use this only at night.
The good news is that Sephora will be opening its first store in Singapore's Ngee Ann City Mall and it's now so much easier to get hold of this.
Brand / Name: Amatokin/ "Emulsion for the Face"
The Sell: Stem Cell Technology that awakens reservoirs of undifferentiated stem cells from your very own body, producing remarkable renewal and repair of skin .
The low-down is that Tang's sells these for about S$400 a pop! Try www.strawberrynet.com - where I got my last bottle for slightly over S$200.
My verdict: It has worked wonderfully. It's worth the spend considering how a bottle has lasted me more than a year.
Brand / Name: L'occitane/ "Immortelle Very Precious Fluid SPF 40"
The Sell: Creeping saxifrage,
Everlasting,
Plane Mulberry,
Skull cap and
Vine
The list of ingredients did throw me off for a while. I "tested" it with little expectation. This is after all a brand that's best known for hand creams. For someone who has been tanned for as long as I can remember, I am pleasantly amazed at the many comments I got about how much fairer I had gotten. Not that I had meant to become fairer. I loved being tanned.
So for those of you who are looking for a brightener, this product gave me a brighter, even complexion, all in 4 weeks.
My verdict: I love this. It's quite expensive at S$86 for 30ml. But I am pleasantly surprised to read this on the insert that came with the bottle.
"Proven Results: During a four-week clinical test, Very Precious Fluid SPF40/PA+++ was proven to brighten the complexion (86% of participants agreed) and even-out the complexion's tone. Dermatologically tested."
Exactly as what I had experienced. I am on my 2nd bottle by now. With a spare one nearby.