My 2013 Asian Skincare Routine

Hello sweeties,

I'm back to share with you my latest skincare routine. 

My skin is dehydrated (lacks water), really oily (produces tons of oil on the T zone), i have hyperpigmentation issues and clogged pores on my nose and chin area. I've been following this routine for 3 months. It basically consists in a Morning and Night care plus Pore Cleansing 2x per week and Deep Hydration 2x per week.

I'll be showing now which products i use and how i use them. They are mostly korean or japanese products since it's cheaper(and better quality) for me to buy products from japan and korea than buying products in Brazil! 

Cleansing

Morning: I only have a little bit of oilyness on my skin that've been produced during the night and i wanna remove that,but without drying out my skin. So i use the Missha Creamy Latte Cleansing foam to give a little fresh feeling to my skin. This foam is really gentle. 

Night: When i'll cleanse my skin at night i have tons of makeup on, pollution, oilyness, and dirty on my skin. So i feel like reaally cleansing my skin to remove everything. To be sure that my skin will be cleansed properly i chose the double cleansing. 

First i use the Shiseido Perfect Oil which is a cleansing oil that removes all my makeup and waterproof mascara with only 2 pumps for full face/neck. After that i wash the excess off with water, wash my hands to remove the oil with normal soap.

 Apply the Shiseido Perfect Whip on my wet hands to start to foam it up. This foam cleanser really removes all the cleansing oil residues and creates a soft foam. After applying the foam i get my charcoal konjac sponge and rub that all over my face so i can guarantee that my pores are been cleansed. 

The days when i have minimal makeup on i'll use the Haruhada cleansing water with a cotton puff to remove the excess makeup and dirty!

Hydrating + Treating

Morning: I apply my Etude House Skin Mal'gem Fresh that is a toner for oil control that provides a little bit of moisture and exfoliation on my T zone. Then i apply the Hadanomy Collagen Mist all over and pat until absorbed. I follow with the Skinfood Watery Berry Serum all over the face and when i feel my skin needs some more moisture i'll use the Skinfood Facial Water Vita C Cream.

Night: After cleansing i'll apply Pond's Flawless White Toner with a cotton pad. I use it to control my hyperpigmentation areas. Then i use my Skinfood Watery Berry Serum, and on top of that my Missha Time Revolution Night Repair Ampoule ( which i got a 10 samples packet to try out, but it really last a long time O.o) and finish with my Skinfood Facial Water Vita C Cream.

Night Packs and Eye Area

Morning: During the morning i'll apply concealer and makeup so i try to go as light as possible with creams, so for my eyes i'll only use Skinfood Salmon Brightening Eye Serum.

Night: After hydration i'll apply my Skinfood Salmon Brightening Eye Serum to my eye area and after the absorption i'll apply on top of it my Mizon Collagen Power Firming Eye Cream or Lâncome Genifique Yeux. 

For my face i finish sealing the moisture and all the products that i've applied before with a Night pack. Depending on the day and how my skin feels i'll use one of those Tony Moly Intense Care Dual Effect Sleeping Pack when i feel that my skin needs deep hydration or brightening/whitening. Laneige Water Sleeping Pack when my skin is just ok and doesn't need anything extreme. Skinfood Watery Berry Wrap Mask (i got the 10 samples packet to try out and each one is enough for 5 days use) when my skin is deeply dehydrated.

Protection and Lip Care

Protection: To protect my skin from sun i apply the Shiseido Hada Senka Mineral UV SPF 50 PA+++ all over the face and on top of it i apply a layer of bb cream to help to protect my skin from pollution and dirty. The ones i use now are the Skin 79 Super Orange Vital BB cream and Lioele Dollish Veil Vita.

Lip care: After hydrating the face i need to hydrate my lips, for hydration i apply a lip essence. The ones that i use are Etude House Kissfull Lip Essence and Isqueen Honey Kiss Lip Essence. After my lips beeing hydrated and plumped i use a lip balm to hold the moisture on it and prevent from beeing dehydrated again. The ones i use are Maybelline Baby Lips Glow for the day and Hip Hop Candy Bubble Blitz Lip Balm for the night.

Pore Cleansing and Exfoliation

Exfoliation: I exfoliate my face 2 times per week with Tony Moly Appletox Smooth Massage Peeling Cream or Methode SWISS Radiance Resilience Peel ( i got some of those miniatures from sasa.com). I exfoliate my Nose area and Lips 2 x per week with Holika Holika Pig Nose Clear Sugar Scrub.

Pore Cleansing: I'll cleanse my nose and chin pores 2 x per week. One time i'll use the Innisfree Blackhead Heating Gel + Daiso Charcoal Mask and finish with the Lioele Pore Clean and Tightening Pack. The second time i'll use the Lioele Products. First i'll open my pores with Lioele Pore Opening Massage Gel, follow with the Lioele Blackhead Clear and finish with Lioele Pore Clean and Tightening Pack. Once in a month i'll use the Lioele Blackheadzero Nose Patch.

Face Mask

Hydration: Two times per week i'll be applying face masks or face packs to keep the hydration and nutrition of my skin! I just randomly use the mask that i want.

• Innisfree It's Real Manuka Honey- Açai Berry- Bamboo- Gold Kiwi.
• My Beauty Diary Black Pearl Mask
• My Beauty Diary Bulgarian White Rose Mask
• Cosline Strawberry Yogurt Pack

Soon i'll be adding some products on my routine. A new hydrating essence, i'll get a toner for whitening hyperpigmentation since my pond's one is almost gone. I'll be buying new face masks, a face mist to use when i'm out.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this huge post. Please share with me your toughts, routines, products recommendations and questions!

My next post will be about my favorite clothing/shoes/bags mostly from wholesale websites!

Innisfree It's Real Manuka Honey Mask

Hello girls,

I'm back to review the first product from my last korean products haul. This is a face sheet mask from Innisfree, It's real manuka honey mask.

I love the packaging of this mask because it has this nice bright yellow honey picture that is really pretty to see x.x For this review i've used 2 masks.

This mask fit me perfectly since i have a really round face and chubby cheeks. I've ripped up the nose area because i really hate that thing between my eyes :x I always do that to my sheet masks! The wear is really confortable and i can use it while i'm on computer ^^ 

The essence is translucent and not thick. Smells amazingly like honey but in a natural way!

After using it for 40 min i've removed the mask from my face and massage the essence left in the package into my face. With this metod my skin absorbed everything and the mask doesn't leave any film feeling. The first time i've used this mask i didn't do any massaging, so i've felt a film layer on my skin! Innisfree recommends to massage until the essence is all gone, so i think the second time i did it right.  

Here is my skin after all that. 

The results that i've notice where:

- My pores where smaller.

- My skin felt really supple and mosturized.

- It made my skin feel clean, soft and plumped.

Results you might not get with this:

- Whitening or brightening

- Redness reducing

I'll give this mask a 4.5/5. I won't give 5 because it doesn't remove redness or have whitening properties like many masks do. But it really kept my skin mosturized during the week that i've used this and i felt some difference from the other masks that i use! 

I recommend this one for those who feel like your skin is never mosturized enough or baby soft enough :)

Have you used any Innisfree masks? Would you like to try this one out? :)

Maybelline Pure Mineral Concealer

Hello Cuties,

I'll be sharing with you my favorite concealer! It's the Maybelline Pure concealer- Mineral healthy natural concealer wich is an Asia Maybelline product.

I first heard about this product when i was seeing a list of the Blenda Best 2012 products and it was featured as the best concealer, better than M.A.C, Bobbi Brown and Kate. So it just became my have to buy concealer! I found it at sasa.com for 6 USD. I got it  in shade 2 which suits perfectly my NC 35 skin!

I really love to use it on my undereye area since i have sensitive eyes and this is a mineral concealer, but i also use all over the place because the coverage is just too good!

Sorry for the blurred picture :(  My camera just sucks, i'm getting money to buy a nice nikon one. I hope the bad purple deep darkcircle that i have and brown hiperpigmentation on the outer area of my eyes are visible!

This is after a thin layer of concealer! You can see how it covers nicely the purple of my darkcircles without needing any color corrector!

I love this concealer, is easy to use, easy to blend, the color is good for yellow undertones, the texture is liquidy but it dries and stay on the skin. I like it for darkcircles, blemishes, big hiperpigmentation areas, well, i just use it for everything!

I don't know if the ocidental version of this is just as good, but for now i'll keep with this asian one.

I give 5/5 on this because is just a perfect product.

Fairy Drops Platinum Mascara

Hey Sweeties,

I'll be reviewing my new favorite black mascara. Before i try this one, my favorite was the Maybelline The Falsies. Now my favorite is this Fairy Drops Platinum Mascara (film type).

Is a black mascara that contains big fibers and claims to have 5 kinds of treatment essences for your lashes. 

The Packaging is super cute and fashion with silver and light pink jewels. The brush is made of 3 little balls shape, that i find it really helps with the non clumping effect!

Let's move into the effects! Here are my lashes with one layer of mascara, i haven't used any curvex and it really helps to curl and hold your lashes up. 

Now with 2 coats of mascara i haven't got any clumping and the lenghthening effect is quite noticeable while the lashes stay really curled up even without using curvex.

This mascara is really great if you want big lashes or have lashes that doesn't stay curled! The fibers are big and provides long lashes. 

I got it for 13 USD at sasa.com, i consider a good price since the Maybelline mascaras in Brazil costs like 15~20 dollars! 

The packaging is really cuteee i love to have it on my makeup collection! I don't think i'll be trying any other japanese mascara because i think this one provides everything that i need!

I wouldn't recommend this to people who doesn't use oil removers since it's not easily removed from lashes with cream or watery based removers!

I will give 5/5 for this mascara because i can't think of anything negative to say about it!

I hope you guys have enjoyed! Which one is your favorite mascara?

My Haircare Routine

Hello Girls,

Today i came to talk about haircare! 

For me as a gyaru fashion follower i need to keep my hair always in good condition since i'm always styling it, blowdrying and all that stuff. Recently i've changed the color of my hair that was really black and i wanna get it into a dark ash blond (which i haven't achieved yet), so for the first time in my life i felt i had a damaged hair and i could see how good my routine really was. 

In my routine i wash my hair 3 x per week, i've been using the Essential shampoo, the L'oreal absolut repair and the L'oreal silver one time per week each! Once every 10~15 days i use a deep cleansing shampoo to remove the excess of styling products of my hair.  I really like the essential line because is really inexpensive and comparable to  the professional products that i've used.

The next step on my routine is the hydration, i've been following(since i've changed my hair color) a Hair Chronogram that is a schedule to treat your hair. For my new damaged hair i've been following 2 hydrations and 1 nutrition per week and 1 reconstruction per month. The hydration masks i use are L'oreal Vitamino color and Tresemmé Moisture Rich and after using those i finish with Essential or Ichikami conditioners. For Nutrition mask i use the Essential Honey and Shea Butter since is full of oils and finish with conditioner. to seal the cuticles.
For Reconstruction i use the Fiberceutic Hair Botox and the next month i use the Schwarzkopf Bonacure Repair Rescue and finish with conditioner.
This helped me to keep my hair healthy even after 1 bleaching + Coloring + 1 Soap Cap to lighten the color a little bit more!

Now the leave-in products. When i finish washing my hair i apply Redken Smooth Down Heat Glide that is a heat protector so i can blowdry the hair without damaging it too much. 

When i'll style my hair with curlers and all that i use Liese Iron Make Rich Curl that's a heat protector for curlers and also help to keep the curls Also use the Liese Designing jelly when i style without heat and Lucido-L Hairspray to keep the hair style.

 Sometimes when i won't wash my hair but want it to be mosturized i spray some Liese Juicy Shower. On my roots and scalp i use this L'oreal arginine toner and some extra virgin coconut oil to do some massage, this helps to keep the hair and roots nourished and the hair to grow faster and stronger. 

I've been really loving this routine since is keeping my hair pretty and healthy!

Here goes my hair 2 days after bleaching and coloring! I haven't cut not even an inch of hair after the procedures and i think i won't need after one more week of treatment!

I hope you have enjoyed! Share with me your thoughts, routines and products recommendations!

Candy Doll Macaron Pink Lip Gloss

Hello Cuties!

Today i came to talk about a product from one of my favorites color makeup brands, the Macaron Pink Lipgloss from Candy Doll (such cute name). Is a light bubblegum pink  (but not soooo light as the tsubasa promo pictures) with really small shimmers. I got it in the new package from imomoko.com since i couldn't find this shade anywhere else with some fair price!

I really enjoy this new packaging despite the fact that i have less product than the old packaging.

❤ Color- A pretty bubblegum pink with a little cool tone have some reaaally small shimmers that can only be seen when you look from really close.

❤ Pigmentation- Really Pigmented can be used alone, on top of a lipstick or lip concealer.

❤ Texture- Really thick and sticky, but now i'm used with this feeling since is really hard to find a lipgloss that stay on my lips and it's not sticky!

❤ Package- The package is really cute, but as i said comes with less product.

❤ Finish- It provides a glossy milky finish, but sometimes it settles on little lines so i recommend to use a really mosturizing lip balm 10~20 min before applying the gloss. So your lips can be more plumped if you have dried lips like mine!

❤ Lasting Power- It lasts for 3~4 hours a little bit better than the average lip glosses.

❤ Price- Its a little bit pricey for a lipgloss, i got mine for 17 USD.

 I would say it's a 4/5 since i don't use it everyday and it's not the kind of gloss that i can apply easily at any moment and it's pricey!

Here goes some pics of me wearing it! 

 More close pic so you can check out the glossy milky lips. I haven't applied too much of gloss for this effect, if you want something like tsubasa's lips you have to be generous with the amount of gloss! hehehe

Japanese Makeup Haul

Hello girls,

After months of waiting i finally received all the packages that i've ordered! Now i can post to show you guys my japanese makeup haul! I've got those stuff from different stores, ichibankao.com and Alphabeautyuk from ebay (they have great price on dolly wink products)!

From left to right/ top to bottom:

º Canmake Perfect serum bb cream shade 2 samples! It was cheap (1 USD each sample) and since i wanna buy the light version i wanted to try out the shade.

º Diamond Lash Angel eye- Its like a must have for gyaru style. 

º Heavy Rotation eyebrow mascara in Ash Brown #03- I'll be coloring my hair soon into a Light Ash Brown shade, that's why i got it.

º Canmake Mix Eyebrow.

º Candy Doll Macaron Pink Lip gloss.

º Lucido-L Designing Air Spray- Really need some hard holder spray! I hope it works well! I know it's not a makeup to be in a makeup haul, buuut, it is the only non makeup item and i really wanted it!

º Dolly Wink Brown Liquid Eyeliner.

º Dolly Wink Feminine Girl Lower Lashes- Reminds me the lower lashes that Park Bom was wearing on the new video Falling In Love.

º Dolly Wink Eyeshadow Palette in Pink Brown 02- Pink, Gold and Brown on the same palette, i just gotta have it. 

º Dolly Wink Brown Volume Mascara.

Recently i've been a brown obsessive! Everything i see with brown colors for makeup i just get! I've been tring to tone down my look a little bit since i have really black hair, eyes and eyebrows. I got almost every product from this haul to keep up with my gyaru style!

I'll be using the products and slowly reviewing them since i don't like to review a product that i've just got. I believe you need to really use the product in a daily basis before you can say anything about it! Soo i'll be taking a long time to review them all!

I hope you guys have enjoyed the haul. I had a Dolly Wink Baby Cute #6 lower lashes to come aswell but i think the package was lost! Soon we'll have more hauls! I don't know exactly when because it depends on the Postmail.

Soon i'll be doing some makeup tutorials, i don't know yet if i'll do them in video or photos, it will depend on my camera.

Please share with me your toughts and what would you like to see in my blog!