Haul from http://www.adambeauty.com/

Hello! I got my lovely order from http://www.adambeauty.com/ today, yaaay! Here's what I got.

The shipping options are either courier or standart sign on delivery shipping, which is a flat rate of 2$.  

I got: Blanchir Superior Cream Soap (125g), Blanchir Superior White Deep Clear Conditioner (special set with miniatures!), HADARABO whitening-moisturising face mask, JUJU AQUAMOIST Hyaluronic Acid Whitening & Moisture Milk, JUJU AQUAMOIST prime Q10 moisturising toner and B&C Makemania Curvy Lip Liquid lip gloss! :D I am already a fan of the Blanchir Superior line and I really recommend it for people who want moisturising but also whitening (removing blemishes faster) and anti-acne care, becasue I think it really works for acne! :D Then I got some more moisturising toners/lotions and sheet masks. And I really liked the red version of the lipgloss, so I got clear one too!! 

Moisturising toner with miniatures! Also ordered a full size face washing cream soap, which I loooove~ You can see it in the photo above, next to this set. I really like this product. And the whole series! If you have a chance, try it!

The lip gloss and Hadalabo sheet masks. :D

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Talking about the B&C Makemania lipgloss - I really like it! But I am really crazy about lip glosses. :D This one has hyaluronic acid, grape seed oil and other moisturizing, good for your lips ingriedients! :D The other one I had was see through red, this one is clear with pearl colored sparkles, keeps lips moisturised and looking like vinyl-shiny. I like it (and the red one) on it's own (feel moisturising) and over lipstick. 

doe foot aplicator

How shiny is it? :D

Sorry for the hiatus. :D What did you buy recently?

Skincare routine after IZOTEK (same as accutane) and red nail polish

Hello my wonderful blogosphere-friends! :)

As most of you know, I recently finished IZOTEK treatment for acne. IZOTEK is a medicine identic to Accutane, which helps acne and dries up skin and the whole body and is a rather hard and long treatment, but the results are really something. After my treatment, so far I have no acne. But my skin did go back to normal a bit - on Izotek it was so dry it drove me mad! Now it sometimes even gets a tiny bit oily on the tip of my nose :D (hahah, it actually makes me happy to have normal skin back again lol)

Anyway, I had to change my skincare routine a little bit and not it looks like this (that's most of the things I use):

I went back to using La Roche-Posay's EFFACLAR face wash/cleanser. It is good for oily AND sensitive skin ,contains no parabens and is great, makes a fine soft foam and even removes makeup (also waterproof eye makeup, amazing). And for daytime moisturizer, I switched to EFFACLAR M, moisturising and mattyfing cream, also from La Roche-Posay. And when I bought 2 LRP items I got thermal water as a free gift, yay! LRP is a pharmacy-brand, so look for it there. ^^* I really recommend this face wash!

I recently bought Cleanique claryfing lotion in #1 (the weakest one), but still I am not sure if I should use it.... I hope it doesn't dry my skin out too bad D:

After washing my face I use HadaLabo Gokujun toner and milk (recently I only use the milk at night). I mix the toner with a drop of pure 1% hyaluronic acid, I bought it in a "make your own cream" store. After toner and milk I use the EFFACLAR M moisturiser for day. And for night I don't care if I'm shiny, I use Missha cream or WELEDA Skin Food cream (love-hate relationship!!) or just plain simple baby cream, this one:

Simple really is best, I love to use creams like this for face, hands and feet and elbows, lips... etc. So gentle and nice and no parabens and no bad ingriedients. :) So somedays I just put this on my face after other skincare. :) Or just apply a thick layer as a mask before sleep - it never breaks me out nor does it make my skin moer shiny. Really, try baby creams! Cheap and good. :)

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 Other news, a better photo of my Cookie monster and Elmo brooches and bracelet! I bought it in this cute store called Bubu! :D

Also, I felt I needed a change in my life and to start this tiny-revolution, got a cherry red nail polish, Feel my Karma from OPI. I looooove this color! I also got Sally Hansen nail growth contitioneer, which works really great as a treatment/base/top coat for me! Try it, me and my sister have been using it for years, it keeps the color on my nails for days.

almost wine red! xD

Also got 2 new pairs of shoes and a trench coat from PROMOD. After a hard week, I had a "self love sunday", like the ones Hana suggestst. Relaxing, taking care of my body and soul and feel-good, really worth spending some time on yourself and straightening all things in your head.
I hope you all have a wonderful week! <3
Thank you for reading! :D

Ichibankao skincare haul ^^*

I reened to buy refils for my skincare routine, so I ordered from Ichibankao! The products I ordered re not on their website, but they are easily available in every japanese drugstore, so I asked them for a quote, they replied and I ordered my stuff! :D Their service is really great! And since I was already ordering from another continent I decided to get a tiny bit of color cosmetics too.

I got Hadalabo Gokujun series milk, toner, sheet masks (not in this photo) and face wash!

And the extra cosmetics are Kanebo KATE Gradical Eyes palette in GD-1 and a new product from Canmake, called Shimagelic Eyes (lol) in 02 sugar milk tea. It`s basically a gel glittery eyeshadow/eyeshadow base. The color of the container is the color you get (it said so on the container).

I already have the KATE palette in BR-1 and I looooove it, it`s so long lasting, the color payoff is great and they are shimmery and just look great, and for the great price you get a shimmery cream base and 4 eyeshadow colors! :D But, if I understand corectly, recently the line was remodeled and the eyeshadows are a bit different, this GD-1 palette is definitely different than my BR-1 and I don`t know if it`s because it`s a different color or if it`s because of the line renewal. One big diference is the text on the box and the cream base is not as shimmery. Still nice though! I want all of the colors from this (*_*)

It looks shimmery and pretty on eyelids! I like shimmery and glittery stuff, so for me this is subtle... ;) It has multicolored smal glitter pieces and the cream is light warm beige, well, like sugar milk tea indeed, with a lot of milk! It says it`s waterproof, I apply it and blend it in with my finger and apply some eyeshadows on top (beige/brown nudy ones mostly). It lasts all day. :D

The palette is nice, really golden/yellow, especially the golden eyeshadow. The white and the browns are regular and pretty, warm and not too strong.

Those are the shadows only, without the cream base. Really pretty colors! :D Pigmented too. And shimmery. :) It`s recommended. I think i would recommend BR-1 more than this, but if you like yellon/golden shades more than rather nudy natural lovely browns, then go for GD-1! :)

I have to work saturday this week, so that`s all for now and I hope you all have a great weekend!

Sheet mask experience

I need to moisturize my skin a lot and face masks really help that. But I just can`t be bothered with the wash off masks and I actually can not use peel off masks, so I only invest in sheet masks. They are super popular in Asia and there are many brands to try from Japan, Korea, etc. You can get them from eBay! Surprisingly, there are not so many of them here in Europe... 


Anywhoo, Cosme.net sheet mask ranking goes like this (as of 2010.02.20):
#1 Hadabisei, Uruoi shintou mask (super moisturizing)
#2 Versailles no Bara, Oscar & Rosalie mask
#3 Hadabisei, Uruoi shintou mask - whitening
#4 Electore, Physical Science Electore face treatment (expensive! 100g; 5,880円 / 200g; 9,870円)
#5 SKII, Facial treatment mask ( 6 masks, 9,975円)


So since I love sheet masks, I decided to pick up the two Hadabisei masks from top 3! ^^ I got them from eBay and they arrived in a week~ There is 25ml of moisturising lotion in every sheet mask package, that`s a lot compared to some other sheet masks I`ve tried and I like that. I got the super moisturising one (red) and moisturising/whitening one (blue)! On the right my Hadalabo sheet masks which I loved, ahh, sooo moisturizing - they made my skin shine! (If you don`t have super dry skin use it at night!)

The Hadabisei masks came a bit crushed (the cardboard boxes), but they were coming from Hong Kong in CNY season, so I forgive... ;)
The red ones are OK, the sheet feel really thick and it`s not smooth. The blue one is great though, smooh and full of the moisturising lotion! :D Gokujun mask is still my favorite, but second place goes to blue Hadabisei and third to the red one.


I also ordered Natto masks from Beauty Diary brand. I would love to eat natto, I know it`s good and healthy, but I can`t buy it where I live. And if they put all the good things from natto into a sheet mask... must have for me! xD I heard it doesn`t smell like natto, which is ...too bad! I would actually put it on my face. xD Also ordered the 22 masks economical pack of Kose moisturising mask with Q10 coenzyme and they just arrived too. ^^* (There is a nice selection and if I like this one I`ll get more from Kose)
Anywhoo, I will try more and more sheet masks! Do you have any recommendations?

Moisturising routine!♡

Hello! (It`s snowing like crazy outside!)

I have dry skin and it`s winter here, so everyday my main focus in skincare is to moisturize!

The best thing ever for me is HadaLabo Gokujun series with hyaluronic acid. It feel just perfect on skin an keeps it moisturized all day long. ♡ After applying it my skin feels sticky, but I love it. I feel like my skin drinks up just any cream and foundation I put on it after I use Gokujun series. Definitely my favorite! It`s made by ROHTO, a huge japanese company and they have a cute website for the series: http://www.rohto.co.jp/hadalabo/labo1/index.htm The prices are really affordable, so you can just splash as much toner on your face as you want without regrets. ;) All products are around 1000yen. :D

I use toner and lotion from this series, and sheet masks once a week, when I have moolah to buy it. It`s a japanese brand, so I have to order it from eBay or Ichibankao.com and they do custom orders even if you want sth that`s not on their site, like Gokujun series. (BTW, I`m not sposored, those are all my own opinions! xD). I want to get something else from this series! Maybe face wash?? :) I read good reviews for it.

Another favorite is Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentrè (also known as 24-Hour Miracle Cream). I decided to try it because it is on every japanese magazine (and I`m a big fan of those! :D) and my model friend told me they use this on runway models, and generally I only heard good things about it. They also have a dry skin version for this, maybe I`ll try it next time. But this one is also very good and perfect to wear under makeup! It`s from France and it costs 10-15euro, depending on where you buy it. In Japan they advertise this as a primer-cream for some reason. You can also use it to remove makeup, but I thin it would be a waste, even though they pack a generous 75ml in the metal tube. :D

You can easily buy it in France and Japan, and Embryolisse also has a site for USA. Other than that I think it`s pretty hard to find, but definitely try it! Ask a friend or use a shopping service to get it. :) (BTW, that`s the old packaging, now they redesigned it and it look a bit different, but that`s the design I have at home and like. ;))

OK, now advice for special care for extra dry skin follows:

Another cream I used and like was SVR xerial 5 creme and liked it a lot. It`s very rich and can be shiny, but since I have dry skin, if I wait 10 minutes and then apply makeup it`s really OK. Usually I used it at night though. There is also a light - day version - of this cream and I recommend it.

But if you have very very dry skin, the best thing is just to put a thick layer of the traditional NIVEA cream or NIVEA bambino, which is good for newborn babies too and has less conservants and feels better on my face. Also Linomag is good! It`s basically vitamine F oil like fat cream and it`s 2usd for 30ml, it`s as simple as it gets and you should just slap in on your face at night, after other creams you use and wake up in the morning feeling... well, not dry. ;) (Remember this is advice for dry/very dry skin! Other skin types should also moisturize, but with right cosmetics :))

My another secret BFF is hyaluronic acid in pure form! I buy pure 1% hyaluronic acid in a "make your own cream" kind of shop, with many cosmetics ingriedients, and 65ml is around 5usd and I use it like a serum after toner and lotion and before cream and makeup, and it really makes a difference and guys, I love it! (I will write more about it in another entry). There are lots of creams with hyaluronic acid sold for sooo much money, like HA is some kind of a secret magical ingredient, but it`s NOT! Don`t ever pay!! Try to look for pure HA and use it as a serum or mix with your favourite cream or face mask! You will love it - also it is see through, has no smell and it`s impossible to get an allergic reaction to it, because it`s naturally in our skin as well. It`s also used in plastic surgery and can be injected into joints like knees to help fight pain - but that`s a completely different use. For beauty, the best way to use HA is to take supplements with it and to put it on your skin. It will keep moisture in and we all know well moisturized skin = less wrinkles!

Phew, that was a long entry, but I really care a lot about moisturising my skin now. If you have any advice or questions, comment! ♡

BTW, I went to MAC and exchanged my NW15 select moisturecover concealer to NC20 and the color match is soooo much better! The NW15 just made me look white, while NC20 blends in with my skin color pretty good. Ah, great cutomer service, MAC!