An Exhibition

Two years behind in my journey of finding the best beauty stuff, I made this post about my toiletries collection. 

I also painted my karas puhun and use it as a storage for those bottles, cans, jars, et cetera.

I'm changing a lot these past months.  I do a little spending ban, gain more wisdom, and thankfully I do simplify my body and skin care routine.  So I spend more on make up and other decorative stuff I need.  And happily, I have found my holy grail shower gel and body lotion manufacturer: Nicole's Natural.  LOL. 

I will be boring somehow, someday, but I love their products.  And once I fall in love with something, I'm faithful.  I discovered that I'm not seeking more and more body care stack.  All I think about is to use up everything I already got at home, and refilling my Nicole's Natural bottles.  After trying their lines, I end up planning to refill only one shower gel and one body lotion from one same line, the Romancing Rose.  My Mom and I love it.

Okay, by the way, I was talking about my wooden box, isn't it? If you clicked the karas puhun link above, you'll see my empty box. FYI, now the box is stuffed:

What do you think? :D I love that my toiletries collection is more monochrome and simple now.  But, hey, where's my make up?

They're here in a customized box! :D

handcrafted ;)

I pasted grass-like paper on the base to give a green effect, plus to remind me to stay green! Not all in the place is a truly green product, but I will try to restock it with greener products along the way.  :) 

Uhm, yes, I also have a separated reused box for my make up brushes and other tiny particles:

once, it's a Vanity Trove box, I modified the coverage ;)

I only have brushes from 3 brands (click to read my story with them): The Body Shop, 100% Pure, and Ecotools.  I have around 7 brushes and only use 4 of them repeatedly.  Another brushes in my house are painting brushes for different paints.  Aclyric, oil, poster colour... okay, out of topic, People! Those two sponge and puff are even more jobless here.  Haven't find the function yet.

That's all I have! Actually there are soap bars, but I keep it in the other place.  And nail polishes, these are my colourful multifunctional paints...yes I convert them into art tools.  Oh, those are alumunium tealight candle holders actually.  I don't want to trash them out so I made microsize-matter's container.  Painted them all with my nail polishes. :p

I have nail polishes from Innisfree, Skinfood, and Etude House.  The best one comes from Innisfree.  My Skinfood has weird colour on my nails, and the EH's texture is too sticky to be true.  The metallic blue is actually a gift from my Mom. 

Before we close today's exhibition, let's read the typography work I made with only 2 devices: Sharpie Permanent Marker and Playcolor 2 on recycled paper grabbed from an empty schedule book. 

have a Wise Wednesday! :)

My Dear Facial Skin...

How do you take care of your skin, dear beautiful friends around the world? Everyone has different way of it, right? :) Some people needs a lot of treatment, like cleanser-toner-serum-moisturizer-night cream-and others.  Others live enough with cleanser-moisturizer.  There are various ways! :D

Today I want to describe my skincare habit…

I usually start with facial cleanser in the morning.  I recently use Nutriganics Foaming Face Wash from The Body Shop, which gives me a mild foam and sweet scent.  After that, I use my Seaweed Pore Perfector, from the same brand, on my nose and cheeks which show some too-big-pores.

I close the ritual with moisturizers.  If I will be home that day, I use my Nutriganics Smoothing Day Cream, with very fresh scent and light texture.  If I’m going outside, I choose my Seaweed Mattifying Moisture Lotion with SPF 15.  Sun protection is very important! :D

In the evening or in second shower-time (yes, living in a tropical world really needs two times shower par jour!), I use the same cleanser, but I have a different moisturizer.  Call it Aloe Soothing Night Cream.  For a night cream, it’s quite light.  But for me, I have to use it while my face still damp, so it’ll absorbs well.  :)

FYI, I have complex combination skin. It’s oily in some moments, but it’s freaking weak and dry when the weather is cool.

Next! Weekly regime.  I exfoliate my skin with Seaweed Pore-Cleansing Exfoliator once or two times a week.  It gives me a smoother skin surface, clean feeling, and happiness. :9

Not only exfoliant, I also have masks.  I purchased Seaweed Ionic Clay Mask and it works good on me.  Very easy to be applied too! :) I love this mask.  Sometimes I also use The Skin Food's Black Sugar Mask.  Only on my nose, to shoo off those blackheads.  Quite good so far.  Although I haven’t found a visible magical result.  But I can see that my blackheads getting fewer.  Unfortunately my black sugar mask is only a sample-size away and it contains parabens.  So I won’t purchase the full size.  No.

By the way, where is the toner?  I can’t use any toner! They break me out! :’(  Even the one that came from acne-free range until the milder one. Sadly.  But on the other side, it makes me able to save more in the piggy bank.  LOL. :) I don’t have to buy any toner anymore…

Sometimes I buy nose pack, for example, this one from The Skin Food, Korea. Contains 8 strips and works good.  But on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trial, I did it a little wrong.  I peel it too soon, lack of water on the nose, and stick it on the wrong positions.  Learning from my mistake, I did better until now the box is empty.  So I have to repurchase because I think it does something for my ‘hedgehog’ nose. :)

Tadaa…that’s mine.  What about yours? :) I do love to hear from my readers about their facial skin regime habit.

Have a nice day! :D Happy Friday! <3