Home Beauty Salon

I decided to create my own little beauty salon to my home. 

I used dry shampoo this morning because we had to run errands and I didn't have time to wash my hair. I do not understand how dry shampoos work. I must be using them wrong... sigh

I took a shower when we got back and I decided to go all out. I used a variety of products which I do not use on a daily basis. I neglect body scrubs, moisturizing, hair masks and such. I only use them maybe 1-2 times in a half a year. I do facial scrubs and masks way more often though.

Because I used a dry shampoo this morning, I had to use Nivea's Classic Care shampoo instead of the Urtekram one I've been using. The Urtekram shampoo does not wash off the dry shampoo residues. I've used the Nivea shampoo many times when I've visited my friends in Germany, but then they didn't sell Nivea shampoos in this country. They do now, but they only have some shine enhancing shampoos and volumizing shampoos. But I found the basic Classic care from one tiny store. My boyfriend really likes this so I have a back up. I've used 2 or 3 shampoos while he's been using this one shampoo... that's the difference with having long and short hair...

I used XZ's Hawthorn conditioner, which isn't conditioning enough. It is for color-treated hair, but I really do not understand how people who DO color their hair (I don't) use this, because it is not conditioning enough for me even. It smells nice, but scents do not stay in my hair so I only smell it when I'm in the shower. I love the Hawthorn shampoo though!

I continued with a hair mask for damaged hair by Sunsilk. It's the orange tub for the damage reconstruction program. I used two teaspoonfulls. I kept this in my hair for the rest of the shower. Baaah I forgot to take a picture of it...

I used Perfect Clean Glow face scrub by L'Oreal. I loooove the cleanPod that came with this. I use it nearly daily. I had a second one, but it got lost when we moved. Unfortunately they are not sold by themselves. You actually have to buy these products to get the cleanPod... :S This scrub smells like delicious oranges! It just foams too much so I can only use this in the shower. I hate foamy face washes. I can use them while in the shower, but not if I'm washing my face by the sink.

Then I continued with Raspberry Body Scrub for normal skin by The Body Shop. I used a revitilizing foot scrub in lemon & sage by Freeman (picture above). Looove the smell of both. The bad thing about the body scrub is that it's dark red, and makes your shower look like somehting bad happened in there. I'm quite messy so there was red spots all over the wall and shower curtain...

 

I rinsed off the hair mask, dried myself and used the Blueberry Body Butter for dry skin by The Body Shop. It's my favorite one of theirs. The Satsuma Body Butter is the latest one I finished, and that is sooooo delicious!!! I sprayed some leave-in conditioner by Garnier Fructis, Nutri-Repair for dried out, damaged hair. It's not very conditioning either, but it smells nice for a while... the product is in two phases in the bottle, you need to shake it before spraying it on your hair.

I used a revitilizing foot balm in lemon & sage by Freeman for my feet. I wouldn't have bought this unless it said "IDEAL for diabetic foot care". I just had to see what is up with that. So far, nothing special... just a plain foot cream/gel. I hate the packaging for the Freeman foot products. When the bottle is new and there's a lot of product it's fine. But when you've used about half of it, the rest of the product is really difficult to get out. You need to squeeze so hard that the bottle is very misshaped, but you get no product out.

At this point my face was screaming for a moisturizer so I put that on. And I forgot the toner. I bought this moisturizer yesterday and this morning after using it only once, by face was very evencolored! It's the hydrating day cream by Rainbow. I hate the bottle though. Or I don't hate it, the pump is weird. I put on some eyecream by Pirkka. I'm very generous with eyecreams. I put them under my eye, and on my eyelids. This Pirkka one is too creamy though. My eyelids are always very oily afterwards, and I need to wipe them clean if I want to do my makeup afterwards. Which is why I use this eye cream normally at night only. And then use my daily moisturizer as an eyecream. I just put the moisturizer on my face first, and then put the lefovers on my eye area.

 If you would like for me to do a more in depth-review of any of the products, feel free to request it in the comment box.

What does your home beauty salon consist of?

New skin issues.

For as long as I can remember I have had sensitive and dry skin. After a shower I had to apply moisturizer immediately, otherwise I could barely talk or smile cause my skin was so dry. 

Now I don't know what's going on. My cheeks are normal, my chin breaks out. Constantly. My forehead and nose are oily. After taking a shower I don't feel the need to apply moisturizer immediately. Usually I take a shower in the morning, but lately I have been taking showers at night for some weird reason, and in the mornings I use a toner to get rid of the oilyness and the dirt that's appeared on my skin during the night. I'm going back to taking showers in the morning, and apparently I might have to start washing my face in the morning with something else than just water.

I haven't changed my skin care routine at all this spring. I knew the stuff that worked for me, and I kept at it. But now I might have to change, and I don't want to. 

But to get rid of the chin issues I have had to start using drastic measures. 

That right there is toothpaste. It reduces the size of the pimples, but it's not a permanent fix and it doesn't get rid of them right away. It just makes the breakouts smaller and less noticeable. I don't suggest this to be used often, I dont' use it often. Just when I have some important things to do in a couple days and I want my skin to look nice. Other times I don't really get upset if I have a pimple or two.

Ughh! So frustrating. 

All this might just be, and I hope it is, because the weather here, in June, has been ridiculously hot for numerous days. At times it's been cool and rainy, but other times it's sticky hot. Which I hate. I can't stand sticky hot weather. I wish it was dry and cool here so my skin wouldn't break out or get ridiculously oily. I loved my skin this winter, it was dry, but with the moisturizers it was wonderful, and it didn't break out!

Lumene cleansing emulsion

When we left for Rhodes, I had forgotten to take a face wash and  makeup remover with me. I bought a face wash from the airport before our flight left. 

I got Lumene's Cleansing Emulsion for sensitive skin. It's ultra-calming and fragrance free. Fragrance free it is, but I have issues with ultra-calming. Well, not really, I don't think it was very calming but it wasn't irritating either, it's a neutral feeling.

This washes well. It rinses off well. My skin does feel good after washing it. I did need to moisturize right away, like I always need to do. Maybe my skin felt the need of a moisturizer more quickly than with what I used normally.

This product is not for me, however. I want one product instead of two, or three. What I mean is, I want a product that removes all my makeup and cleans my face. I don't want to use two/three products, one/two to remove my makeup and another one to clean my face. I want a product that does both. I do wash my face twice, but with one product that does it all. I don't like using an eye makeup remover and a "normal" makeup remover separately, and then a facial wash, one product needs to do it all.

I do think this is a good facial wash nonetheless. You just can't use this to remove eye makeup because it should be kept away from the eyes. And yes, I know, this isn't a makeup remover, it's a facial wash, so it isn't for makeup removal as such. It's not suitable for eye makeup removing, but it does remove facial makeup though.

The product is not for me, but I can recommend it for someone who does not have sensitive or very dry skin, or for someone with dry skin on the surface. I think that even if this is marketed towards people with sensitive skin, this would be better for someone with normal skin.