Monday, January 26, 2015

Style log : Free magic

I feel like I'll get progressively more inspired by the Old kingdom series by Garth Nix. It's labeled as a young adult novel, but its pretty dark? Not to mention fairly well written.

Most of this is H&M honestly. I never thought I'd miss that store as much as I do. Honestly texas, why dont you have an H&M in the south? Get your life together.

I'll probably try to do a style video no one asked for sometime soon. If I ever get dressed. Normally, I'll dress for work which is just basics.
 I don't want to offend people by looking too wonderful, so work clothes are dress to fit in more so than anything else. Sad isn't it?

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Etude house collagen cream and ampoule initial review

At first, I was really skeptical about Korean face products. I had read something a while ago about the "brightening" in Asian skin care was actually for whitening your skin. That's where this whole thing started. For years I absolutely avoided any skin care that even mentioned it.
Everything changed when my friend Clair, who as it turned out was really well-versed in Asian skin care, convinced me to try a skin care regimen. In general, I would just use moisturizer, face wash, nothing all that intense.
So basically between her and Beth who showed me the link to intothegloss's blog post about the nighttime routine I gave it a shot.
I got Etude house's collagen cream and ampoule essence from amazon. It arrived in good time, and I was really excited to try this out as the first step.

It was a bit smaller than I thought it would be, but thats probably my fault for not reading the description as thoroughly as I should have. It's really cute, instructions in English and Korean. I've been using it for about two weeks now, and I have actually had really clear skin since.

I had already been doing facewash, exfoliate (twice a week), toner, eye cream, collagen cream, and moisturizer.
Really, the only difference in my routine is I use the essence before the eye cream and replaced my ponds collagen cream with the Etude house version.
Front

Back

Ampoule essence


I normally break out when I add new things to my face. Honestly, I haven't really had any issues at all. My face looks healthier, brighter but I think it's more of it being even now even with no makeup rather than my complexion actually changing. I proved to myself thats totally a myth. It's only about 17 USD on amazon, so if anyone was wondering if it was worth it, I would say to give it a try. I'll probably buy a few more products from Etude house now just out of curiosity. 


Wednesday, November 19, 2014

State of my curls

On this cloudy day, I think it might be the weather, or change of season. But my hair is fluffier than usual. It's not a bad thing so much as I have to change up the way I do things to match the change outside. Or maybe drink more water.
I also just realized I forgot to fill in my eyebrows. Oh well. If anyone has any tips for frizzy hair? I'm going to try out Shea moisture's deep conditioner and see how that works. Most likely on Sunday.


Work in progress





Eventually, it will say come back home. I'm an absolute beginner at this. 
the polka dots look so cute though. Vincent thought probably wanted to lick it. 

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Style log 1

Scarf- H&M
Backpack- H&M
Sweater- Adidas

"There was a chill in the air where our words hung themselves from our lips
so tired, even they couldn't find the courage to stay. Even now your fingerprints are tattooed to my palms, still fresh."
- Early November by Petya S.