Legere BB Cream (Blemish Balm) - Nu Ren Wo Zui Da

Legere BB Cream is really a cool product. It was a gift from my friend whom she bought this in taiwan. Other than that, this product was featured on the well known TV Show (Nu Ren Wo Zui Dai) and was well liked by many celebrities. It is one my favourite cosmetic now!

BB Cream is also known as Blemish Balm. It is suitable for people who had just undergone laser treatment or even cosmetic surgery and it can help to calm skin redness (which i really gave thumbs up for that). It also conceal dark eyes rings, blemishes, freckles, wrinkles and large pores. It is not as exaggerating as what was shown in the picture but it do have its great functionality. Most importantly, it does not clog your pores and it is a ALL in 1 Makeup that every women need, especially when you need moisturiser and coverage. It can be used as a makeup base, concealer or even foundation.

Here is what BB Cream do to my skin:
- Minimise pores
- it cover my skin redness very well
- it cover my dark eyes circles
- it made my skin glow a bit

BUT

if you have serious acne scarring, it can only help to minimize the appearance and not to the extend of having perfect coverage.

So, the next time when you go taiwan, do remember to get a Legere BB Cream. :)

Homemade Beauty Recipes - Onions

Onions always helps in enhancing the flavour of the dishes when it comes to cooking. Do you know that onions also have other benefits? Onions have abundance of Vitamin C, quercetin and isothiocyanate. It is great for reducing swelling, eliminating bacteria and also helps to get rid of acne.

Main Ingredient:

Shallot

For Acne Care:

It help to heal your skin faster from acne and also control sebum

Instruction:

- Peel the skin, wash and cut the onions.

- Put the peeled onions into a blender. As you blend the onion, add the COLD water Bit by bit until the blended onions form a creamy paste.

- Use muslin or (clean stocking) and squeeze out the juice.

- Put the juice into the fridge for about an hour or 2, apply the juice on your face and leave it on for 5 minutes. Continue to do it every. You should be able to see the result in a week or 2.

Do You Apply Sunscreen?

Do you apply sunscreen lotion when you go out? Excessive exposure to sun can cause our skin to darken and problems like dark spots and wrinkles may also appear. Beside this, 1 out in 5 Americans were diagnosed with skin cancer in 2006.

A good sunscreen help to keep your skin looking young and also prevent excessive exposure to the sun which is the main culprit of skin ageing. Always apply sunscreen 30 minutes before going out. If you are wearing makeup, you should wear sunscreen under your makeup. To provide maximum effect, you can reapply it every 1 or 2 hours if you are not wearing any make up.

Here is my recommendation on sunscreen lotion. Screen, Inc. offer all kinds of sunscreen that are suitable for all walks of life. They are non greasy, non irritable and dematologist approved. Beside this, their sun screen also have the Seal of Recommendation from the Skin Cancer Foundation. Click Here to see their collection.

Even if you are a teenager or your babies, they also will have suitable sunscreen. Protect your skin today!

Prevention Of Wrinkles Should Start Early

Taking great care of your skin should start early. Wrinkles begin forming as early as the age of 20s. Wrinkles can formed due to many reasons like excessive exposure to sun, lack of sleep, smoking, stress and improper skincare routine etc. Especially excessive exposure to sun can cause your skin to lose its collagen and elasity.

Hence, taking good care of your skin is definitely important. Always remember the 3 basic steps. Cleanse, Tone and Moisturise.

Here are some of the methods to prevent your skin from aging to early
- Drink enough water and eat more fruits and vegetables
- Always apply sunscreen
- Wear sunglasses to prevent crowfeets appearing on your eye area
- Exercises daily
- Use anti wrinkle products

One of my recommendation is Murad Anti aging Products. Their Night Reform Treatment is one of the most popular pick in their anti aging series. It can help to increase your skin's firmness by 28%. It also have powerful antioxidant protection and protect the skin's barrier function with the moisture retained.

To prevent the wrinkles from forming, remember to start your anti-aging war early! :)

Emergencies methods for reducing pimples redness

You saw this big red thingy on your face and couldn't help in squeezing it. Ooozzz... The pus came out but it is still red.

Avoid squeezing your pimples with hands. It will cause infection and worsened the pimples if it is not done professionally. For those with the pus appearing, you may press it gently and the pus will come out. Any pimples that have to be done with force, STOP IT. It will leave scars behind.

1) Apply toner to your pimples and reduce the redness using eye drop. This helps it reducing the redness greatly.
2) Rub the ice cubes gently on your face and use the eye drop.
3) Crush 1 Aspirin tablet and mix with water and apply to your face for 15 minutes. This reduces oiliness, acne breakouts and reduces redness.

How to remove pimples from my back?

Have always been troubled with pimples on your back? Wishing to buy the tube top or halter neck you saw but hesitated for that moment when you saw the pimples on your back. Well, these are some of the few simple methods you can consider.

1) Use Neutrogena Body Wash/Cetaphil with loofah and wash it off.
2) Everytime after conditioning your hair, the hair conditioner flow all the way down to your body. Make it a habit to wash your hair first followed by body wash so that the hair conditioner can be washed off from your body as hair conditioner can clog your body pores.
3) Use a good body scrub twice a week.
4) If you have only pimple scars on your back and have tried different methods to lighten it but still does not help, you can try to go for sun tanning so that the scars doesn't look so obvious.

Different Ways of reducing your dark eye circles

Dark unsightly eye circles can be very irritating to most women. It can make us look haggard and ugly. In some worse cases, some look like "drug addict". I am glad i don't really have that serious problem. I couldn't imagine a fair person like me with that two dark patches below my eyes would seriously make me look like a panda. Haha.

These are some of the ways that may help:

1) Slice Cucumber or Raw Pototoes and leave it on your eyes for 15-20 mins.

2) Apply some Almond Paste under your eyes for 15 mins.

3) Always put 2 metal spoons in the fridge and have it as great rescuer. Leave it on your eyes for 10 mins. (It is quite effective for puffy eyes)

4) Vitamin E Oil. Apply Vitamin E oil and massage gently on your eyes every morning and night. ( Please note that the application amount should not be more than a tear drop).

5) Take a used chamomile tea bag( if not, any tea bag will do) and leave it for 10 mins.

Beside the above ways, most importantly you should also:

1) have enough sleep

2) Adopt healthier eating habits

3) Drink more water so that your body can detox as some dark eye circles are contributed due to body toxins.

4) Remove your eye make-up especially mascara and eyeliner properly. If you don't do it properly, it will also causes the eye areas to darken.

5) Avoid Sun tanning. Some people thought that sun tanning will help to camoflage the dark eye circles but that is wrong. Instead of helping, it worsen the dark circles.

6) Massage the eye area gently with a good eye cream so that there are proper blood circulation.

Milk Mask with Avocado For Dry Skin

This formula is from my mother. I got this mask recipe from her. I think it is really effective for her because her face is fair and smooth although she is near 60s. A lot of people has been saying that she look like in her Late 40s or Early 50s.

Those with Dry skin, you may want to try her formula. Cheap and Good too!

Ingredient:

1 ripe Avocado (Mashed)

2 tablespoon of Honey

2 tablespoon of Milk

Instruction:

Mix all the things together and leave it on your face for 20 minutes. Wash it off with warm water followed by toner and your moisturiser.

How long should we keep our makeups?

I was so shocked to know the real answers to all these. I dumped quite a fair bit of my cosmetics today. So how about you? When was the last time you dumped those lipsticks, blushers...? For those cosmetics that did not indicate expiry date, it is best that you jot it down so that you can estimate the lifespan of your cosmetics.

~Lipsticks

So far lipsticks is one of the make-up that have longest life-span. Lipsticks cannot be kept more than 2 years. It is very easy to distinguish when to throw away lipsticks and one should stop using to prevent any side effects. You should stop using the lipstick when it taste or smell waxy.

~Powder

Some as long as three years because most powders don't have water.

~Liquid Foundation/Cream Foundation

One year. If it is unopened, it can be kept for maximum 2 years. If the smell or texture starts to change, it is time to buy a new one.

~Mascara

Mascara have the shortest lifespan. 3months to 6 months. ( I was so sad when i heard this and i dumped quite a few today, heartpain, sobz..sobz). As our eyes are the most delicate and sensitive, so it is best to discard it after 3-6 months because every time when we use the mascara, we are contaminating it because our eyes are warm and wet and this can cause bacteria

~Eye Shadows

A year. 2 years for those unopened. If color or smells change, same thing "Throw away".

~Eye Cream

3 - 6 Months.

So is it time for you to clear your old cosmetics? Get rid of those that you should...

Collagen

Do you drink collagen? Recently I bought a new brand of collagen, Meiji Amino Collagen and it is from Japan. It cost about $58sgd after 10% discount from watson. I am going to give it a try since my friend told me is good but it can only last for 28days. Sobz....

I used to eat this brand call Matrix from Nature's Farm but i guessed that brand doesn't work for me cause recently my friend complaint my face sagged abit. Sad..... Hence i decided to give it a try to Meiji Amino Collagen. I have been consuming for 5 days. So far so good, still can't see much results yet but was told i can see result after a week or 2. Hopefully it works for me because staying beautiful and young is important to me. Haha. My philosophy in myself : " I can't go out of shape, I can't have that 'Auntie Look', I want to be pretty all the time... Vain right? Hahaha.

What is Collagen?

Collagen is a type of protein and one third of the proteins in the body consist of collagen.

Especially to those ladies age 25 onwards. Start drinking collagen because people aged 25 years old onwards will be lacked of collagen and that is where our cheeks become saggy and wrinkled.

Amino Collagen (Number 1 in Japan)

1 Spoonful a day: Contains 5000mg of collagen peptides (Amazing!)

60mg of glucosamine

50mg of vitamin C

450mg of amino acid

For more info, visit their site : http://www.meiji.com.sg/AminoCollagen/testimonial.htm

I pray, I hope this Amino Collagen will help me. I am consuming together with Vitamin C, Pearl Powder to make it better. Better start early than late... :)

Egg White Mask

Egg White Mask is a easy to get mask from home. Fast, Easy, Cheap and GOOD. Egg White Mask is good for acne, oily skin problem. I read from a site stating that Egg White contain 83% of water and 40 different type of protein. Protein is one of the major source contributing to good skin. Recently my friend complaint to me that my skin start to sag abit. It made me so paranoid that I went to replenish collagen immediately just to regain whatever youth that I should have. It just triggered me today that Egg White can also help in firming so I decided to try this Egg White mask for 4 weeks to see the results. I guessed with the help of the collagen and this, it can give my face a good remedy.

I bought too many bottle of pearl powder the other time so I decided to mix it together with Egg White. Haha... If you are generous enough, you can put more pearl powder to mix it less drippy but it is very expensive...

Ingredient:
- 1 Egg White
- 1 teaspoon of pearl powder (great agent for anti-inflammatory)

Skin feel so tight that I cannot even move my mouth when I have the Egg White Mask on. After 20 mins of rescue, I washed it off with lukewarm water. Followed by toner and moisturiser. Amazingly, it tightened the pores and skin feels smoother after one time.

Remedy for acne scars

Vitamin E cream has always been one of my favourite product. I am using this brand of vitamin E Cream named INVITE E from Australia which has a highly concentrated of 10,000 international units of VITAMIN E. Beside this, INVITE E cream is also very cheap. It cost only $13 sgd and can last it for very long. It is ideal for the treatment and management of:

• Minor Burns


• Dry Cracked Skin


• Scar Tissue


• Skin Rashes


• Irritation & Abrasions


• Sunburn


• Nappy Rash


• Stretch Marks


• Helps protect against visible signs of ageing

This vitamin E cream actually helps to lighten acne scars. I guessed the results vary for individual as well. One of my friend who have serious acne scars problem have great improvement on his skin after applying for a month. Scars that are visible to his skin have lightened. Although it does not totally erased the scars on your face but actually helps to lighten and improved overall skin texture. INVITE E Cream also advised user to apply twice a day for 100 days as scars heal at 1% per day.

Green Tea Mask

What beats better than natural ingredient? Sometimes during my free time, i would use green tea to make a mask. All it takes is about 5 mins to a beautiful YOU.

Green Tea Mask are suitable for people with oily skin and combination skin. It helps to clear block pores and purify deeply into your skin.

Ingredient:
* 2 teaspoons of green tea powder
* 1 Egg white (Remove the egg yolk)

Mix both the ingredients well with a facial brush and apply to face and leave it on your face for 20-30 mins. Wash off after 20-30 mins. Apply toner and moisturiser.

Basic Skincare Regimen

I used to have breakouts on my face and have often been wondering why some ladies on the street have extremely good porcelain skin. It took about 3 years for me to understand the basic steps in taking care of my skin. I often complain the zits on my face and blame the whole world why it is so unfair that i still get breakouts even when i buy expensive products and go for expensive facials that costs about $180 each time. Finally, I stopped complaining ever since i found the right method and that is THE BASIC STEPS TO SKIN CARE....

Basic Steps in taking care of your face: 1+2+3. It is just so simple!!!

1. Cleanse your face twice a day

Cleanse your face with a good cleanser every morning when you wake up. Cleanse thoroughly in gentle circular movement. Remove the cleanser with generous amount of water. Most of the people would stop splashing their face with water once they feel "Clean". However, I would splash my face 3 more times with water after that.

Most of the people after a day of lethargic work are LAZY to clean their face. PLEASE MAKE IT A HABIT to cleanse your face before going to bed. For ladies who put on make up, PLEASE REMEMBER to remove your make-up with a good make-up remover before cleansing. If you don't cleanse your face properly, breakouts will happen and it is.... SCARY...

2. Toner

Relying on a cleanser is still not good enough. How about the stubborn oil or makeup that still can't be removed with cleanser? We need a good Toner. Toner will help to remove excess sebum or trace of make-up on your face. It also helps to tighten your pores after cleansing because our pores will open when we cleanse. Hence, applying a good toner is definitely important. Apply to a perfectly cleanse face using a cotton pad.

3. Moisturise

Some people have been asking questions like "Do I still require a moisturiser because my face is so oily?" The ans is "YES".

Moisturiser helps to keep the skin hydrated and moist so that your skin doesn't need to OVERWORK to produce natural oil. When there is an overproduction of excess oil, acne starts to appear. In order to stay acne free, maintain your skin at the most optimum level with a moisturiser as well so that it stays hydrated. So, PLEASE DO NOT skip the moisturiser. Find a moisturiser that is light and oil free. For people with dry skin, you can go for extra moisturing creams and lotions.

With 3 simple daily steps day and night steps, you can be more BEAUTIFUL.
In my next post, i will share with you about Skin care products, Natural Masks using green tea etc....