Today I would like to share my morning skincare routine! Hope you enjoy :)
Shigeta Awakening Radiance Mousse
I wrote the full review
here if you're interested. Shigeta is a Japanese brand which was actually launched in France first. They only use natural and organic ingredients and are against animal testing. This cleansing foam contains fragrant rose water and rose essential oil which give a heavenly scent to it. It comes out as foam so it's very easy to cleanse your face and I just like to use it in the morning because it doesn't remove makeup and also the scent is perfect to awake my skin.
Caudalie Grape Water
This is basically just water. It's fragrance free 100% grape water. Apparently grape water is good for your skin but to be honest I haven't noticed any difference since I started using it. I just like to spritzing this fine mist after I wash my face to refresh.
Aveda all sensitive moisturizer 34GBP
I'm not going to talk about how amazing this product is here as I've written enough already before, basically I cannot live without this product. The end.
Weleda Wild Rose Smoothing Day Cream 13.95GBP
I received this product from lovely Zanka from Zanka talks cosmetics, and I've been loving it so much. It's the perfect day cream which is light and yet moisturizing, with this amazing rosy scent. It moisturizes my skin just enough and I love it!
Devita Solar Protective Moisturizer SPF 30 $14.15
Read full review here! I love this creamy texture so much, it's easy to spread and feels like it gives a thin veil over my face to protect it from the sun. But recently I realized that my waterproof eyeliner transfers to my eyelid when I put this cream on my eyelid. So if you're considering getting this cream avoid your eye area otherwise it ruins your makeup! And the reason why I use Weleda's cream before this one is because it dries out my skin a little in this colder season. It might be too light for dry skin.
Balance Me Wonder Eye Cream 20GBP
Full review is here. This is my favourite eye cream ever! I love the pump because I don't have to scoop using a spatula like I used to do. The pump bottle makes it much easier to apply eye cream a few times a day. This cream is perfect under the makeup because it's very light-textured and does sink in quickly. It makes the skin around the eye area very smooth which prevents a concealer to get cakey. I also love the lovely scent in the morning :)
What are your morning skincare essentials?
BIODERMA Sensibio H2O 840yen
I think it was a couple of years ago when I heard about this product for the first time. I heard it was good and was one of the biggest-hyped products at that time. And recently I've been hearing and reading about this product so much again here and there so I thought I should give it a try. This small bottle (100ml) was supposed to be 1260yen but it was on sale at the time I picked it up. Still 840yen for this small bottle is a joke but I just wanted to try.
Recently I realized that I rub my eye area quite hard when I wash my face to get rid of mascara and eyeliner, and that could have been one of the causes of my dark circles. I thought it would be nice to use this type of cleansing water to remove eye makeup first using organic cotton pads so that I wouldn't be too harsh on the area while washing.
Look how tiny the bottle is!! It would be very good for travel, you can even bring it on flight as it's 100ml. I soak a cotton pad with Sensibio H2O and gently wipe my whole face before wash. I normally use 2-3 cotton pads to remove makeup including my eye makeup. I don't mind leaving a bit of my foundation on my skin because I wash right after using this anyway.
I was surprised how easy it was to remove makeup using this product as if it's melting my makeup or something. The only thing I don't like about this product is the smell. It doesn't have any perfume added but it does smell of the ingredients, like a chemical smell. I don't know how to describe the smell but I just don't like it at all. I have to run to the bathroom to wash my face right after using this, because I cannot stand the smell! I really wish it had a nice relaxing scent like Caudalie Cleansing Water, that would make the process much more fun.
Overall, as everyone says, it is a good product which does its job. But I won't repurchase it simply because it's too expensive for quality and I didn't like the smell. Skincare is something I want to enjoy, and I have more other choices for cleansing water which smell nice and does its job.
I would like to try cleansing water from other brands,do you have any recommendation for me?? What is your favourite? :)
Today I would like to give these bags of Japanese beauty products samples to two of my precious readers. If you are interested in Japanese beauty products, please let me know then I will send a bag to you :)
One of these bags have these samples in it. My favourite is Samourai Woman Body Soap, which smells really really good. And I also love the brand "do Organic" which is a Japanese organic beauty brand, it doesn't smell good or anything but very effective in my opinion. I also love love love the brand called "Moe Moe" you can see the small bottle at the upper left, it's the leave-in conditioner which makes your hair smell good and so soft.
Here are the samples in another bag. The eye mask right is a very unique product. Basically you take it out from the bag then it warms up and a little bit steamy, which makes you relax. This bag has got my favourite shampoo called Via Organica, it smells really good.
Most of the samples have English writings on it so you might recognize what they are, but for those don't have English writings I will put a note on each so that you know how to use them.
I would like to do a proper giveaway in the future, with some Japanese products including Shiseido, DHC and some drugstore cosmetics!
To enter this tiny giveaway, please follow my blog and leave a comment and let me know that you're interested. It will be open until 31st October. It is open internationally so please enter if you're interested whereever you are!
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