I have been using the sunblock from Biotherm for the last 2 months, but I accidentally threw it away days ago when I was tidying up my room. 
So, I am using Shiseido Anessa Mild Sunscreen (Face) EX SPF 43 PA+++ now and I love it! It’s non greasy, and it brightens up my face. I’m not using foundation after it, but just some concealer on my eye area. It’s just as simple as that!
I still have the body sunscreen from Shiseido body care, maybe once I’ve emptied the bottle, I will get the body sunscreen from Anessa, especially before my trip to Pattaya. I really feel like lying under the sun on one of those pool floats, knowing that I will be well protected by Anessa sunscreen from head to toe. 
We reached Penang last night. My hubby wanted to check out the macbook and printers last night, so I went window shopping by myself. I haven’t bought anything from Elianto before, but last night, I went in for a look.
I didn’t get anything much except some makeup accessories. I’m surprised that most of the products are very cheap, and there is a wide variety of eyeshadow in nice colors. Maybe I will get some one day.
I like the products from Vaseline. I used to get the petroleum jelly for my chapping lips, but these days, I will buy the hand and nail cream moisturizing lotion, the UV protection lotion for body as well as Vaseline Intensive Care on regular basis. I put some bottles of the hand lotions at the kitchen sinks of my house so that I can use them regular. My hands are quite dry after frequent washing and cooking, so the lotion helps a lot.
Furthermore, most products by Vaseline are very cheap, so you just don’t feel the pinch of buying them. LOL! BTW, they aren’t that bad, and you can try them out.
I went shopping at Siam Paragon the other day, and I learned something about buying skincare and cosmetic in Bangkok. All these major brands only offer membership to regular customers for a particular counter at a shopping mall only, and points cannot be collected for other counter on the same brand. It’s different from Malaysia. I buy skincare products anywhere in Malaysia, as long as I show them my member card or identity card, I can easily collect points for my purchase and later on, I can get some redemption on the points collected.
So, I have made up my mind where to get my skincare products from in Bangkok now. For Estee Lauder, I will shop at Robinson Rangsit. For Shiseido, I will buy from Siam Paragon. I bought Shiseido Revital Wrinklelift Retino Science Lotion AA, a sunblock by Anessa, and the enriched softener by White Lucent that day, and I will probably use them in the morning as my night routine consists of products by Estee Lauder. I like to use whitening products in the day and anti aging products at night.
So, I guess I won’t simply buy skincare products anyway in Bangkok now. It’s best to stick to the same counter huh? But too bad, the promoters of both counters can’t speak English. Gee…
I’ve started using Estee Lauder Intensive Lifting Eye Creme for a few days and besides that instant brightening effect, I haven’t seen how it can work well for me yet. Like most face or eye cream, we need to use the products for some time before we can see some results. But nonetheless, it doesn’t have that pleasant scent like Estee Lauder Intensive Lifting Creme which I really like. The texture is great as you can easily smooth the eye cream around your eye area, and I just have to use more if I want to have an eye massage.
I guess I will continue to use it and see if it will reduce my fine lines and dark circles in 3 weeks. That should be long enough to know if its beauty properties work for me. If it’s not working, I will look for another eye cream. I’m really keen to try out eye creams even if some of them are as expensive as my car insurance. LOL!
I’m desperate for a facial now. Once I fly back home, I will make an appointment with my beautician to clean up all the pores on my face! Without a cleansed face, all those lotions and serums are a waste as they won’t penetrate into my skin.
Maybe I’m just too particular about myself, but I’ve got used to taking good care of my skin. I’m not pretty woman who has all the good genes, so I need to take good care of myself if I would like to delay the aging process. If stem cell can be used to maintain my youth, I might want to give it a serious thought too! Let’s see if I can find out more about this from C’elle website and see what the satisfied customers think about this from C’elle Client Testimonial. Most important, the cost has to be affordable, and the cells can be used in life saving moments too.
But for the time being, I will just pray hard that I won’t have a outbreak. I just can’t wait for a relaxing facial session with my beautician back home!
I don’t think I have any time and leisure to have a great vacation any sooner. My days are filled with cooking, taking care of my kids and working at the office. How I wish I can have some time for a nice vacation, so we better work harder now to make more money for that.
If we can afford it, I would like to visit New York city since I’ve read and watched so much about The Big Apple. By just thinking about shopping in the big city has given me lots of excitements now! We can just get a map and rent a car to drive around, but to make things easier for us when we reach there, we might need to get the service from JFK Airport Shuttle to bring us to our hotel. It should not be too hard to book their service online, and furthermore, anyone can get $5 on round trips from online booking.
It might be a share ride, but I won’t mind much about it. Having a vacation in New York is an expensive trip, so we will have to travel there on a tight budget. But before any of this can come true, hubby and I better make more money from our new business first.
Thus, I better get back to work.
I bought a set of products by Estee Lauder which includes Advanced Night Repair Concentrate, Advanced Night Repair Eye Recovery Complex and Advanced Night Repair. I started using Advanced Night Repair Concentrate a month ago, and even if I supposed to finish it in 21 days, but it dragged for more than a month. I like its effect on my skin, and even if I have a stressful life here in Bangkok, my complexion is still doing well. Nonetheless, it will be too rich to me if I apply Re-Nutriv Intensive Lifting Creme right after the serum, so I only use both of them sparingly.
After this, I will continue with Advance Night Repair as my daily serum. Hopefully, my skin will continue to benefit from it.
I hate to admit it but I have a pimple on my cheek and it’s totally annoying. It’s been there for a while, but it’s painless, and I’m not sure if it has pus in it. I seldom have pimple, so I’m clueless about how to remove a squeeze a pimple. On top of that, my beautician will do it for me if she sees any, but she’s so far away from me now!!!
I still don’t have time to visit any salon and besides that, I’m not sure which one is good. I really don’t want to have any scar on my face later if the beautician squeezes it too hard!!! My affordable life insurance doesn’t cover a hole on my face ok?
But still, I Google around and found some tips on how to squeeze a pimple properly. Let me think about this first, if I really cannot stand the look of it, I will do it myself.
I have a few sets of sheet masks which I rotate and use them every few days depending on my mood and skin condition. I don’t always go for expensive mask because I found a new nice ones from the more affordable types too.
I like the sheet masks from Olay Total Effect and I think it’s great. I’ve used a box of 3 sheets and I like how moisturized my face is every each use. I can see some lifting and “slimming” effect too, so it’s like Phentermine to my face. LOL! The mask is very wet, so once you have done with your face, don’t dump the sheet away. I used it for my neck, elbows and knees. Besides that, I managed to squeeze out a lot of liquid mask from the pack and use it as lotion. Just pat it on anywhere you like!
Besides that, the sheet is very stretchable. Just stretch it along your face and try to cover as much as possible.
However, it might be too rich for certain skin type. If you have oily skin, maybe you can just put the mask on for less than 10 minutes and see if it suits you. The best thing is, it’s really affordable!
