All about Beauty

Before I have kids, I would have home facial once a week, besides my regular month facial at my beautician.  But lately, I hardly have time for a full home facial, but I try to have a quick one if possible.

Firstly, I will wash my face with make up removal, even if I don’t put make up on. Then follow by a facial wash. If you have face scrub, you can use it too. Personally, I like to use this Estee Lauder Idealist Micro-D scrub, or with just use the mini massager with facial foam.

Then, I will put on a purifying mask to clear my pores and remove dead skin cells. Sometimes, if I feel like brightening up my complexion, I will go for whitening mask. Most of the masks I’m using now are from Japanese companies as I feel that they are more suitable for Asian skin.

Previously, I would even give myself a face massage, but I haven’t done this for a while. I got to simplify my facial process to fit my busy schedule now. So, my massage cream has been long abandoned.

I think it’s expired already, but I didn’t throw it away yet.

Oh ya, I used to have a steamer too. I would steam my face before putting on the mask, but I can’t seems to remember where I placed it. But never mind, as long as your house have cookware like rice cooker, just place your face there when the rice is steaming hot, it will give you the same results. Ha! Just joking, don’t ever do that!

I was chatting with one of the bloggers on MSN the other night and I told her that I was knitting. She asked me to knit her a bikini, and I said it’s ok, if I had the diagram to refer. But then, she told me she’s only joking as she wouldn’t dare to wear it.

Whenever I’m on vacation at some beach resorts, I couldn’t help notice that the westerners are only walking around in bikinis but still look comfortable at themselves. They don’t hide their bodies with sarongs like what we Asia will normally do. On top of that, most of us will go for 2-piece swimsuits but not bikini too.

Once, when I was having a holiday at Damai Laut, one of the ang moh girls were in bikinis, but her pants was a G-string! All the local men’s eyes were on her butt, but she was so at ease by their stares, and wouldn’t be bothered about it. I really admired her confidence, and of course, she had nice body too.

Most Asian are very conscious about our bodies. Before we put on the bikini, we are already asking ourselves is my tummy too big? My butt is too fat? Can they see my cellulite? Or my breasts not big enough? And a thousands of other questions.

Gee….how I wish I can the ang mohs’ confidence in bikinis. If not, I only put one on when I have a private pool in Orlando vacation home. No one can see me except my close family. Then, what’s the purpose of wearing a bikini when I can’t even show off myself?

Relax Spa called me yesterday, asking for my next appointment. That’s the thing I like about paying for package because all the salons and spas will call me up for my next session without having me to worry about it.

I don’t keep track of how often I go for some beauty indulgence, but I guess it’s about once a month for hair, facial, spa, medicure and pedicure. Sometimes, I cancel the appointment if my kids don’t let me get out from the house. Hubby is free only after golfing on Sunday, and I try not to have any appointments on Sunday because we don’t have much time spending together as a family, so I prefer to hang out with my kids and hubby. Occasionally, we need to get back to hubby’s office on Sundays to clean up the office furniture because hubby doesn’t want to have a cleaner. So, I’m the CLEANER.

Since I’ve paid for the packages, I can’t miss them all. They better call me, I can be very forgetful.