Morning and Night Time Skincare Routine

Hello, Everyone :)

After a lifetime (it felt like it) of not buying anything for myself or really not even doing anything for myself, my skin went and broke out in a way only a teenagers could :D SO I decided to treat myself to some new skincare products. The Simple kind to skin, didn't do the trick any more. 

I had heard many good things about Vichy brand so I decided to give it a try. The price range is somewhere in the middle of high street and high end products. I found them all 10% off on this website. The funny part of it is, that I put a completely wrong address as a delivery address, it consisted of my new address, my old one and my billing address :D The Escentual team was too efficient in packing and dispatching it, that when I finally realised 2 hours later, it was already too late.

I thought I'd have to wait for 3 weeks until the package goes back to the shop and they can send it to my right address, but the lovely people in my local post office figured it out all by themselves, they changed the postcode and sent it to me :) I got it 5 days after I ordered it :) And let me tell you, I was super happy, as I did pay quite a bit of money for all of these products.

Enough of the chit chat. This is the skincare routine I do now every morning and night without fail, and already after 5 days I can see a big improvement and not just with breakouts but with my skin texture  as well. It just seems so much more elastic and soft and luminous :) I chose the Vichy Normaderm range for the cleansing as it's perfect for skin prone to blemishes and spots :) And a night time detox cream and a daytime illuminating cream :) I'll leave the links for all of these products down below :)

Morning:

I tend to have my shower in the morning now, which means I do the face washing in the shower. But for you guys I skipped that part today so I can show what I do :)

I'm sorry about the pervy face :D

I brush my teeth and then wet my face. I use the Normaderm 3 in 1 cleanser to wash my face. It has little tiny particals in the creme, which makes it also a daily scrub. The scrubbing action is super gentle though :) 

And then I wash it off and dab my face dry with a clean towel. 

I then apply the Normaderm pore-tightening lotion with cotton wool in upwards motion so not to drag my skin down :)

I let it dry off for a bit, until I apply the cream

This was meant to be a cinemgraph, but it's not working :(

I use the Vichy Idealia illuminating cream. And I would compare it with the Estee Lauder Idealist cream, but it's just fraction of the price at around 20 pounds :)

It leaves my skin so nice, moisturised and soft. Before I put my make up on, I leave the cream on my face for at least 20 minutes...I just feel if I do it any sooner, I just brush the cream off.

And that is it for the morning. I do wear a bit more make up these days just because my skin looks awful to me, but I try to let my skin rest a couple of days a week...the days when I don't have anywhere to go :D

Evening:

This is when I still use my Simple product. I rub the cream cleanser on my dry face and around the eyes, to get the make up off, I then use a hot damp towel to get the product off my face. I leave the towel on my face for a few moment to get the pores open and then rub off the make up :)

I then wet my face and to get the pores squecky clean, I use the Normaderm wash (no picture...it looks the same as in the morning picture...I mean how many pictures of my face can you have in one post :D...I dab my face dry with a clean towel and then I don't use the toner :D I just think the detox cream needs to get IN MY PORES :D please correct me if I'm wrong in this  :)

I then apply the Normaderm Night Detox cream.

And I don't tend to go straight to bed after the night time cleansing, which is good I think, as if I would bury my face in the pillow right after applying the cream it will just end up in my pillow :D

And that is it...my morning and night time skincare routine. 

Hope you enjoyed the post, If you are interested in seeing what I have been eating lately, come back tomorrow :)

Stay tuned, everyone

xoxo

Products I used :

3 in 1 Cleanser+scrub+mask

Purifying Pore-tightening Toner

Idealia soothing and illuminating cream

Simple purifying lotion

Night Detox Cream

October Favorites

Good Evening, Everyone
Is it really the first of November :O???? I don't know why, but time has gone so fast. It honestly feels like it was summer yesterday. Maybe it's because the weather has actually been really lovely lately...there has been rain obviously, it's still England...but it's stayed quite warm. I'm pretty sure it was 20 degrees in the sun yesterday :)
It's sunny, but the leaves are getting orange and the grass is turning brown, so I know it's Autumn...I do like it though. I love that transition period between winter and summer.
The post won't be about weather though, as english as it is to talk about weather, I'll talk about my October favorites today :)

The first thing that I actually heard yesterday, is just so me, and it is a word :D And the word is ''shopping bulimia'' (it's two words :D I know) My friend told me this yesterday and I just love it. I don't know how many of us are affected by the shopping bulimia, but I definitely am :D It's basically going to a shop, picking up a lot of stuff, and then putting it all back. I always pick up a bunch of things and by the time I'm ready to leave, all of the things have found their way back to the rails, for who knows what reason. I do the same thing with online shopping...I find so many things, add them to the basket, and then close the site :D Does anyone else do that ? Would be good to know ...

Second thing is this Nursing tea. If you've been following my blog for a while now, you'll know that I've stopped breastfeeding and then started again and tried every single trick out there to find a way that will suit best for our family. And I think in process of that I kind of stopped producing enough milk to feed Oscar. So I decided I will try this tea, it has been voted the best breastfeeding support product three years in a row by all the voting mothers out there, so I figured it can't do any harm. It's all natural and contains fenugreek, which is meant to help with milk supply (on a side note though, there is no scientific evidence to prove it). I must say I think it really works though. I wanted to test it so I did start pumping again and I've gone from getting 30ml to 50ml with the morning pumping in a week, which might be because of the tea, placebo effect, or the fact that I'm double stimulating (breastfeeding and pumping). Whatever it is I'm going to continue drinking this tea, because if it is the tea that is helping me produce more milk then I why stop :) It doesn't taste all that great and it smells of aniseed(because it contains aniseed :D), which always makes me think of sambuca :S (I hate sambuca) but it's not revolting either :D And I ordered it from Amazon, but I'm sure you can find it from a health shop like holland&barrot or even boots maybe. It is quite expensive for a tea if you take it like that (about 5 pounds), but if you think of it as vitamins/medicine then it doesn't seem that bad :D

This next thing is something I actually waited to arrive in the UK shops. I had seen it on the Sephora website and just couldn't get it out of my mind. SO when I finally realized they are selling it on the last day of October I couldn't have been happier. Went and got it the next day :D
And it is the Urban Decay Vice3 palette. I just think the colours are just so beautiful. And with 20 to choose from I think it's definitely worth the 42 pounds :) On a side note I have never really gotten the whole Naked palette craze, the colours just haven't really exited me, but the Vice palette colours are just BEAUTIFUL :) they all have really cool names as well :D

I think I mentioned in one of the previous posts on how I love Christmas, because of the gift sets all the drug stores do. And I FINALLY got my permanent Boots card the other day, which kind of meant I was actually able to try the gift sets pretty much for free ( I have been collecting points on the paper one for about a year, so I had quite a few) It helped that they were 3 for 2. And I must say I love all of them. I got one skincare, one hair and one body set. So if you're thinking of what to get for your girlfriends, I highly recommend these. Maybe not the Simple one for face actually, because I think it might be too plain for Christmas :D I do like the brand though.
I won't go too much into detail about the products, I'll do a separate post instead because I got a few more things. So I guess the October Favorite is actually just the Christmas Gift Set part :) Go crazy guys, it's only Christmas once a year :D I'm actually not even a big fan of christmas presents, so why not treat yourself instead. Christmas for me is really now about good food and good company for example, last year I had all my greatest friends around for a nice party with lots of food and drinks (I drank non-alcoholic wine without anyone knowing, because we hadn't announced I'm pregnant yet :D)

And the last favourite of the month is red wine. It's something I've enjoyed for a very long time, and I enjoy the fact now that I can have a glass at night without any guilt :)
It might sound like I'm saying I like alcohol, and I really do :D It's my one vice...everyone needs one...right? And now that halloween is over the shops will be filled with Christmas products, which means there will be mulled wine :)

Hope you enjoyed the post.
There wasn't any fashion finds, as I'm trying to just get by with what I already have in my closet for now. I haven't worn most of my clothes for so long anyway because of the pregnancy, so most of them are just like new again :D (I did get a new hat though, because it's going to get cold at one point I'm sure)
Why don't you try the same for a month and you might be surprised on how deep your closet actually goes :)

That's all for todays post :)
Stay tuned, Everyone
xoxo

Bathroom Essentials

Yesterday was the day when I pretty much ran out of everything I need in the bathroom :D This rarely happens like that, but what it meant is that I had to go get all my everyday essentials in one go today. So off to Superdrug I went. I usually use Boots, but since my card still hasn't arrived I decided to get some points for my Superdrug Beauty card :D

The thing is, my wallet is super stupid :D and all my cards keep falling out, so when I got to the shop I actually couldn't find it, so could've just gone to Boots.

Anyway...they did have some pretty good deals on, so all in all I think I did pretty good. 

On this occasion I had to get shampoo and conditioner, make-up wipes, face wash and also shower gel. And I also got a new deodorant, because the one I got a few days ago smells really funky, and the smell is really strong so I can smell it when I walk around and stuff. So whoever needs a deodorant...don't get the Sure one for sensitive skin, It's the pink one :D 

I'm not really a person who would spend lots of money on everyday essentials. My hair is not that fussy, so I usually just go for the shampoo and conditioner that's on offer. I do go for different types though. So I use a shampoo that will be good for my scalp and conditioner that will do something for the actual hair, as you're not meant to put conditioner on your roots anyway. (not many people know this, but I studies salon business management with hairdressing for a year, so I managed to learn all the basics :))

I love this brand, but I don't usually go for it, because it's just a bit too expensive, and I wash my hair every other day, so I go through a lot of shampoo and conditioner in a month. But today they were on offer with 2 for 7pounds :) It actually is really good to my hair, it leaves them clean but soft, so I should start dishing out a bit more money on my hair care. 

Also, I have been using the Nivea cleansing foam for my face. I really like the foam part...first of all the bottle is super convenient because I can use it with one hand. Second...it feels really gentle on my skin, but still manages to get my face make-up free and there is no third... :/ 
I went for the Simple brand this time. And It actually feels better than the Nivea one, because the foam is a bit more tense. 

  

And I also got their facial wipes, as sometimes when I have a bit more make up on than the daily amount, I feel like it really helps to get the excess off first with wipes. And sometimes I'm just lazy, but don't want to go to bed with full make up. 

The last thing I got, which is completely boring, but we all need it...shower gel. This is definitely something I don't buy by brand or anything other than the price and smell :D And this one smells extremely nice....COCONUT...love it :D

And these are my this months bathroom essentials.
Haven't ran out of toothpaste and don't think we will in a while, as we have about 4 different tubes of it :D don't know why. (I'm using the Arm&Hammer one at the moment)

Also I know this one has been a long one coming, but the pregnancy fashion post will be ready by tomorrow :) So subscribe to the blog to keep yourself updated :)

xoxo