Found my dream eye cream: 100% Pure!

I’ve been enjoying my 100% Pure products for some time now, and I keep meaning to formalize my thoughts in a review. What better time than 12:48 AM? Since I have a TON of products to comment on, I’m breaking them into individual posts. First up — their Organic Coffee Bean Caffeine [...]

Double Duty

I think my Clarisonic and my Vitamin C Serum might sorta be canceling each other out.

A few EDS members expressed concerns that C serums gave them really obvious blackheads, in weird places like their cheeks. And I believe the theory here is that vitamin C oxidizes the gunk in your pores, so it makes [...]

Busting the Cetaphil myth

One of the most frustrating skincare myths (according to my very naturally-biased views) is that Cetaphil is a wonder cleanser. Every beauty magazine and schticky dermatologist seems to endorse this crap, claiming it’s one of the gentlest things out there. I call BS on you, Beauty Industry!

This stuff is chock full of filler [...]

Beta Hydroxy Standstill

I’ve been wanting to add a good beta hydroxy acid product to my regime, but I’m having a lot of trouble finding the right one. I’ve read before that salicylic acid (the main BHA in cosmetic formulations) is only soluble in alcohol or oil, and I’m not interested in using alcohol-infused products on my [...]

Chronicles of a Skin-Flayer, Part I

So I was finally able to try out my new Clarisonic last night.  I didn’t really want to internalize all the information about how to program it to scrub at different speeds or for different lengths of time, so I kind of just plugged it in and hit go.  My first impression?  …Underwhelmed.

I used the [...]

Desperate for C

Turns out vitamin C did more for my skin than I thought! I used my PSF sample faithfully for almost a month, and I noticed tiny changes but nothing massive. But now that I’ve suddenly stopped using it, my skin seems so much rougher, patchier, and less generally happy.

I’m actually kind of happy [...]

I did it! Let the flaying begin.

I was so antsy for Clarisonic cleansing after I spotted my tax return deposit in my bank account. So I called Nordstrom to see if their shipment had by chance come in over the weekend, and lo and behold, it had! So of course, I scheduled the rest of my day around [...]

Affordable AND high-end?

I was chatting with my hairstylist during my last cut, and she mentioned that she saw CHI hair straighteners on sale at Costco for around $70. Considering that they normally retail for about $200, my interest was piqued! So I got inspired and started poking around the Costco website, to see what sorts [...]

The Great Eye Cream Hunt, Part 3 — Camellia Rose

The third sample I ordered in my Great Eye Cream Hunt is Camellia Rose’s Sea Buckthorn & Blue Tansy Nourishing Cream (h/t Kris from EDS). It’s actually not an eye cream, but a facial cream that many CR users started applying around the eye.

This product turned out to be thicker than I had [...]

100% Pure — my work is done!

I’m all in a tizzy because of a recent natural cosmetics discovery. Liz from EDS tipped me off to a company called 100% Pure, which makes a bunch of delicious-looking stuff, including a whole line of fruit-pigmented cosmetics.

I’ve been wanting to find and/or just launch for myself a line of naturally pigmented cosmetics for [...]