FEEL: A skin care brand called MooGoo...

Hey guys, yay for the weekend, not like I do much but yayyy!

And before anyone says anything, yes I changed the design of my blog just cause I felt like it and I do things like that every so often because I get bored pretty quickly and WOAH my keyboard is spazzing out on me.

Sometimes I find it really weird when people say to me that they’re not into the whole skin care and makeup and beauty things because I forget that we all have different interests and I like to think that everybody thinks like me, but no. Talk about being in my own little world.

I like when I find a product that really works and it’s something useful where I just tell people about it because I can’t help it, I mean I’m the type of person where I’ll buy it and they can try it and then I’ll rave about it and talk it up so that they’ll get it. Get it? =)

I picked up this amazing cream a couple of weeks ago and my skin is literally glowing! Now in all fairness, I personally think it was like fate, I was meant to buy this. So, a friend of mine came over and I was like heyyyyyy your skin looks GREAT! And she was like thankyou, it’s this all natural cream I literally just slapped on my face and I was like yeahhh and just nodding like an idiot because her face was glowing and it looked so hydrated and smooth and you get it. Caroline was amazed. She told me about it and 3 days later I walked into this chemist and there this product was, right at the counter, I’ve never seen this particular brand there before but this time I did, so I bought it because I wanted my skin to glow too.

It’s a skin care brand called MooGoo.

MooGoo in Full Cream

 Now it’s for every skin type imaginable and what I love about it is that when you put it on, there’s no heavy residue (MINERAL OIL FREE EVERYONE*) which makes it amazing.

Mineral and Paraffin oil free!

It’s made from natural ingredients and every time I look at the packaging I want to drink milk, sorry lactose intolerant people. I personally can’t believe how many people really like this brand and at the same time I wonder why people I know haven’t gotten on board with this product. I think they just need me to tell them about it, they’re just waiting.

This one is in Full Cream, it comes in ANTI AGEING TOO

It’s been 2 weeks using this particular cream and my skin looks so good. I love how it’s super soft and it has that natural glow to it. The main benefit is for skin elasticity and getting that elastin back into your skin.   

Check the link out, I personally am in love with this brand, just read the packaging and that’s what sold it to me. http://www.moogoo.com.au/

Let me know guys if you do try this out because it’s just so nice.

 *mineral oil/paraffin oil – leaves a residue on the face which eventually clogs the pores in your skin  

It’s already September! and Benefit total moisture facial cream review, just a bit.

When the heck? It’s Spring already!!! I swear I just wrote a blog about it being the beginning of August. Where have I been? It totally feels like I just skipped a whole month.

But anyways let’s pretend my brain hasn’t gone MIA and let’s start September with me telling you all about how much I got to spoil myself by buying some new skincare products because I guess I don’t want to spend my money on clothes because all the sales on winter stock is everywhere and I just can’t resist!

Some great advice from my mum that she’s given me and something that has just stuck when I’m out shopping is if you want to spend money, like I mean SPEND MONEY (if you still didn’t get that, it means pricey, expensive, great quality, worth your money’s worth)  there are 2 things you should spend it on, that is anything that goes on your skin, your make up, skincare, creams etc and shoes and I’m not talking about those fancy heels ladies contrary to what you may think but shoes that support your feet. Why?

The skin: A lot of people take young skin for granted, by not moisturizing, not cleansing properly because we’re young and although we don’t see any effect now, it will happen eventually. I personally do believe as well that you don’t want things that are cheap that is most likely going to give you some sort of reaction and you never really know what are in these products.

The shoes: Shoes are so important especially if you’re standing up all day or moving around, going for a run, you need something that will support not only your feet, your ankles, your knees all the way to your back. You’d be surprised with how much pain you can get from just wearing the wrong shoes. Trust me, I’ve been there, running with shoes that don’t have gel on the bottom really took a toll on my knees, especially because I was running everyday for 2 hours.

Back to my skincare..

I always thought that I didn’t really need to spend too much money on skincare, all your cleansing, masks, exfoliating. I’m very lucky to have good skin and drinking lots of water helps. So I decided you know what I want a skincare that’s good for me just to brighten my skin, get rid of the dark circles, the occasional pimple because with the hotter season coming up, my skin is going to hate it. I’m a sweater, so mix sweat with stress from knowing you’re going to get pimples and the oil and BAM! It’s pimples galore with pores the size of Jupiter, gross.

What I’m loving at the moment is the skincare range by Benefit.

Although I’ve only just started using it, I can tell you that anybody who finds creams irritating and heavy and sometimes you just don’t want to apply it because you get that dragging feeling and overall you just feel uncomfortable so you don’t put it on, it’s like exercise, sometimes it makes you uncomfortable so you don’t want to do it.

With Benefit total moisture facial cream, it’s just so light but it has all the moisture you need. This particular one doesn’t contain any sunscreen so it’s a great day and night cream. It’s also perfect before you apply your makeup just by adding that extra moisture your skin might need and the smell is unbelievable. It’s so fragrant and you just want to put it on.

Benefit total moisture facial cream

I didn’t realize how much I’ve blogged so I do have other products by Benefit which I will probably put up in a separate post, because you know any short attention span people, like me are not going to sit here reading this, I mean my bottom is sore just from sitting here typing.

When I purchased this product I wasn’t too worried about the price, this one is 48.2g and I paid $59 for it, which I thought was fine because you literally don’t even need too much moisturiser. I would honestly say it’s worth it.

Anyways I am going to enjoy the rest of this amazing sunny day here in Australia, I promise to have more Benefit skincare products I bought up here, sometime, soon, I hope. =) Love yous, if that’s even a word.

FEEL: Aveeno positively radiant daily moisturiser

Good morning world! Well semi afternoon here for me. I feel so happy today, I think it’s because I got to sleep in today after a total of 12 hours sleep over the weekend, I feel so energized.

I actually woke up to a gorgeous sunny day for winter and while I’m waiting for a friend to get back to me so we can have some lunch, I wanted to do a quick review on why I absolutely LOVE Aveeno positively radiant daily moisturiser.

I’m a sucker for those ads where they say this product will make your skin look smooth, even out your skin tone and when you’re just having a bad day about your skin and you see some advertisement on the tv or in a magazine you’re just like OMG WOW I want that! And then you go tell you friends, this product does this and it does that and well maybe you don’t but you get the point.

With the sun and the wind, your skin is going to need all the protection it can get and this product works a treat.

Why I love it..

When I woke up today, my face was looking so dull and dry, it was pretty gross. As soon as I applied this moisturiser, it was like an instant wake up call for my face that is. Improvements to my skin happened in a matter of seconds. It went from being dull to being full of moisture, it brightened up my skin and it made it look radiant, like the name says.

When I bought this, I wasn’t a big fan of it to start off with, it felt weird on my skin, I hated the smell. I just wanted to wipe it off because it felt heavy and it just felt uncomfortable. However, I kept using it because what am I going to do throw it away, something brand new, don’t think so.

Since forcing myself to use it, I’ve really grown a liking to it, well actually I genuinely love this thing. It makes your face look brighter and I think that’s why I feel so happy today, my skin feels and looks great. If you happen to have this sitting somewhere on your makeup table just use it, hopefully you’ll love it as much as I do.

The only reason why it felt heavy for me was because I wasn’t used to putting on moisturiser at all on my face, but it has such a light feel to it and you can just see the improvements, it’s great.

The benefits..

I’ve been using this product for some time now I would say about 2 months and people have even complimented that my skin looks brighter which is great, who doesn’t want that natural glow.

It’s even meant to even out skin tone and texture and I have a couple of dark spots on my skin and the lighter dark spots have definitely faded which is amazing and has that added benefit of SPF15.

Alright, I’m off to lunch now, byeeeeeeeeee have a great day everyone!

FEEL: Shiseido bio performance super eye contour cream review and some quick tips

Let’s say you’ve had a really long day of doing whatever, be it housework, or work and if you’re anything like me, your eyes just get super tired after a long day.

I love the days where I can just stay at home and clean the house (it relaxes me for some reason, I like when things are clean, it makes everything feel fresh), it’s also the time where I don’t wear any makeup at all! I don’t know about the rest of you but sometimes I need that pop of mascara just to make me look awake and not like I’m about to fall asleep.

I discovered yesterday that sometimes when your eyes look tired and you feel that you need that bit of eye makeup, the skin around your eyes are just dry and they need some moisture to re energise them.

Shiseido bio performance super eye contour cream ,
sample size

I didn’t use my normal face cream but rather an eye contour cream by Shiseido. Shiseido bio-performance super eye contour cream to be exact.

I applied a little bit of this to my eyes as I received a sample after my mum bought a crazy amount of Shiseido products.

I was so surprised with this and how much it just re energized my eyes, the dullness around my eyes just disappeared and it really woke my eyes up.

The benefits of this eye contour cream is that it’s meant to help reduce wrinkles, dark circles and dullness and overall moisturize and re energise the skin.

Shiseido bio performance super eye contour cream 

There have been some reviews out there where people have said that it makes the eyes a lot puffier than before, however I do have naturally puffy eyes especially those bags under my eyes (hello concealer!) but for me personally it didn’t accentuate the puffiness, if anything it just looked healthier. Think of dry skin on your hands and when you apply moisturiser to that dry area, you see the benefits, there’s more moisture and therefore your skin looks healthier and smooth. That’s how it was for my eyes.

Still being a young girl, wrinkles, they haven’t happened just yet but I do have some little lines near the inner corner of my eyes where the bags are (most probably from stretching the skin in that area) and after applying this once at night and just then this morning, the lines have definitely made themselves less prominent and I’m still pretty amazed.

Alright so review over, I just wanted to share some quick tips on applying eye cream.

The way you apply face cream is completely different to applying eye cream. With eye cream, you should always use your ring finger. Place a small amount of eye cream to the tip of your ring finger and first apply to the top lids working from the inner corner out. Then going under the eye working from the outer corner of your eye in.

The reason for doing it this way is you’re less likely to stretch the skin around your eyes, remember skin around the eyes are delicate and the reason for using your ring finger to apply is you’ll find that there is less pressure being applied using your ring finger than any other finger you use. 

Cold weather = moisturisers x 100

Wow I’m on a roll, well not really but whatever second makeup/beauty tip in a row, yayyyy!

So right now, it’s so cold and when there is cold weather about, there’s that windburn we all hate, there’s the dry and cracked skin that nobody wants and our skin just needs twice as much moisture than it normally would. I’m pretty sure you bring out twice as many products during the winter than the summer. Well at least I do. Honestly, I can’t count how many times I’ve pulled out my lip balm or hand cream today, this weather is taking a serious toll on my skin.

Now who doesn’t love a nice long bath or a hot shower after a long day of whatever you happen to be doing. I admit, when it gets really cold, I love a good hot shower, who doesn’t.

So here’s a little tip to keep that moisture in your skin right after one has bathed themselves.

My face gets really dry after cleansing it or just getting out of the shower, so once you’ve washed your face,

-        Pat dry with a towel and grab some of your favourite face moisturiser and first rub it between your palms and then pat it down onto your skin. Doing it this way, really helps to lock in that moisture and doesn’t irritate the skin like it would if you slapped on some moisturiser and rubbed it all over your face really quickly. Trust me I’ve seen people do that.

Also,

-        Don’t forget the skin on our face is delicate especially around the eye area so take care and be gentle with your skin. (why else do you think we have moisturizers just for the face or just for the body, it’s not a money making scheme, we need both) and

-        Always moisturize after you shower, especially hot showers. Let’s keep skin nice and silky smooth feeling this season. Technically it’s autumn here, but it feels like winter.

And for all you in the northern hemisphere, your turn will come when it gets this cold.

FEEL: Palmer's cocoa butter body butter, review, sort of.

So you know when they say as you grow older your skin starts to get rough and loses its elasticity and extensive exposure to sunlight causes wrinkles, I don’t want that to happen, it will, but I’ll prevent these wrinkles and coarse skin for as long as I can.

I don’t know what it is for me personally but lately my skin is super soft, I’m talking softer than a baby’s bottom.

I was talking to a friend of mine about this and because I‘ve been running everyday now she says it’s something to do with your pores opening up and that’s why my skin is getting softer, but I don’t think that’s the reason, I think it’s because of one of my beauty products.

Palmer's cocoa butter formula with Vitamin E Cocoa body butter ultra moisturising cream

Palmer’s cocoa butter formula with vitamin E Cocoa body butter ultra moisturizing cream (long name I KNOW!)

To be honest with you I’m not a big fan of the smell you would think ooo chocolate who doesn’t love chocolate, but for me it’s too strong.

I was given this as a gift and because of my Look at all this stuff blog I don’t want to be spending more money on more beauty products that I already have especially moisturizers so I’m forcing myself to use this one.

But don’t get me wrong this is the reason why my skin is so soft right now. After my shower time, especially it being so cold at nights right now my skin gets really dry after I take a shower because the water is warm bordering on hot, so to prevent my skin drying out from that, I moisturize like a maniac.

Like I said smell, gross. But benefits towards your skin, A – MAZING!

As this body butter was designed for skin re hydration, it does just that, my skin has never felt this silky smooth before and I love my sorbolene cream so it’s a big thing for me to say that about this product.

Oh and when it says it melts into your skin, you can bet that your skin will feel super soft the next morning.

I just realised how difficult it was to say the title out loud, sort of.