♡ Keeping Up With Your Skin ♡

( Yes, I made a Keeping up with the Kardashians joke.

But hey, whether you like her or hate her, she has

nice skin. )

♡ A Basic Routine ♡

*morning & night

- Wash your face

- Tone your face

- Use any needed spot treatments/serums

- Eye cream

- Moisturize

♡ Why That's Important ♡

Obviously, dirt and grime get's all up into your pores, especially if you wear makeup. You want all that yucky stuff out, right? Because then you've got clean skin, and chances of breakouts and wrinkles and other silly things are lower. So you wash your face in the morning to get rid of any germs from your pillows and make it a clean canvas for makeup. Then again at night to get out all the gunk that got on your face from the day. 

You tone your face to prep your skin to absorb whatever else you put on your skin, thus making it work better. 

Spot treatments can be used directly on acne to help get rid of it, and special serums for moisture or anti-aging can be used next too. 

If you're not sleeping a lot, or you've got puffy, baggy, wrinkly under eyes, that's why you use eye cream! It really helps to soothe your eyes and keep them from puffing and getting baggy. 

Finally, you moisturize. It's important because harsh face washes can strip the skin of it's natural moisture, so you need to replace it to keep your skin healthy!

♡ Face Washes ♡

1. Neutrogena Clear Pore

2. Philosophy Purity Made Simple

3. Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleaner

♡ Toners ♡

1. Botanics Rosewater Toner

2. The Body Shop Tea Tree Skin Clearing Toner

3. Simple Soothing Facial Toner

♡ Spot Treatments ♡

1. Clean & Clear Persa-Gel 10

2. Clinque Spot Healing Gel

3. Burt's Bees Herbal Blemish Stick

♡ Eye Cream ♡

1. Botanics Hydrating Eye Cream

2. Yes To Cucumbers Soothing Eye Gel

3. Korres Primrose Eye Cream

♡ Moisturizer ♡

1. Garnier Moisture Rescue

2. Ponds Dry Skin Cream

3. Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel

♡ Extra: Scrubs ♡

*should only be used 1-4 times a week

1. St. Ives Timeless Skin Apricot Scrub

2. Lush Ocean Salt

3. Oil-Free Acne Wash Daily Scrub

♡ Extra: Face Masks ♡

*should only be used 1-4 times a week

1. Queen Helena Mint Julep Masque

2. Freeman Peel-off Mask Cucumber

3. Michael Todd True Organics Pumpkin

♡ Emergency Compliment: 

all your friends worry they aren't

 as funny as you ♡

♡ Oil Cleansing ♡

DIY:

♡ Oil Cleansing ♡

Swaggity Swine

I think you're fine

Have any of you heard about the oil cleansing method before? It's been getting pretty popular so I kind of decided to jump the bandwagon on it.

For those of you who don't know what the oil cleansing method is, it's pretty much where you mix two different kinds of oil together, and wash your face with it.

If you don't know a lot about skincare, that probably sounds confusing to you. Like, you want to get rid of the oil on your face, so why would you rub oil on it? There are a lot of oils that are very healthy for your skin. It's very important to keep your face moisturized, because a lot of times lack of moisture is why your face gets so oily! If you're constantly stripping your face of its natural oils and not giving any moisture back, your face is going to get even oilier to make up for what's left it.

tl;dr: oil is great for your skin. Just trust me.

So, I'm going to explain how I'm doing it now.

First off, I needed a bottle to keep it in, so I just have the two oils in an old toner bottle. ( I'm so creative, right. )

The two oils I'm using are castor oil and olive oil. My mixture is three parts castor oil, one part olive oil. I do it like that because my skin is more oily and acne-prone.

For dry skin, try one part castor oil and three parts olive oil.

For normal skin, try equal amounts of the two.

♡ Steps to Oil Cleansing ♡

- For the mixture, just find an empty bottle or container and mix the oil in like instructed right above.

- Turn your sink on and heat it up to make the water very warm. You want it warm enough that it won't burn your skin, but still warm enough to steam your skin. ( It's tricky to get the temperature right the first few times )

- Usually while I'm letting the water heat up I do this step. I take about a quarter size of the mixture into my palm and massage it onto my face. It feels good. Like. Really good.

- Take a wash cloth and run it under the hot water, then lay it on top of your face. keep it on top of your face until it's cooled down.

- Gently wipe the excess oil of your face with the wash cloth, and you're done!

Right after doing this the first time I could see an improvement. My skin looked cleaner and softer, and any acne seemed less noticeable. 

I'm still using this, and the results just get better every day.

I highly recommend this to anyone struggling with acne, or anyone who just wants a more even skin tone!

♡ Have a great day, beautiful bunnies! ♡

♡ Silky Smooth Legs For Summer ♡

How To:

♡ Silky Smooth Legs ♡

Hey beauty junkies. Guess who's looking great today?

(It's you.)

Everyone loves the feeling of having legs as smooth as a baby's butt, right? It just makes you happy when you feel your legs and it feels like your hand is surrounded by kittens. Well, maybe it doesn't make everyone happy, but it makes me feel wonderful!

This is the perfect treat to pamper yourself with.

♡ The Magic Ingredients ♡

1. Mix all of those ingredients up into a bowl. (You can substitute olive oil for canola oil, baby oil, or coconut oil. Also, you definitely don't need to squeeze juice from a lemon or a lime, you can just buy plain ol' lemon juice from the store).

2. Start up a bath and soak your legs in it for at least 5 minutes

3. Shave your legs. Using a newer razor is better, because trust me, you're going to get all that dead skin off your legs, and if you haven't exfoliated recently it can get pretty awkward.

4. Rub the mixture all over your legs. It's going to feel great! Like a mini-massage.

5. Shave your legs a second time. This is when all that nasty dead skin is going to start coming up, I'm sure you'll be glad that's leaving!

6. Use the mixture a second time! Your legs should already be feeling smooth.

7. Rinse your legs off. You can use a mild soap or body wash if your legs feel too oily, but I personally don't like to.

8. Get out of the tub and lather your legs up in lotion.

9. Tell everyone you know to feel your legs! (TRUST ME, you'll want to!)

I like to do this when I need a little pick-me-up, because for me, pampering myself is the perfect treat when I'm feeling down.

Pro tip: You don't have to limit this to just your legs! Use it on your tummy, your arms, anywhere you want! You could have silky smooth armpits too, if you want!

♡ Have fun with your baby-butt smooth legs and have a fabulous morning/afternoon/evening/night! ♡