Your morning and night skincare routines?

Nov 25, 2013

Gabby C.

What are your routines and what products do you ladies use?

Nov 25, 2013

Maura P.

Oh good question I need to update my skin care routine.

Nov 25, 2013

Kitty K.

And I always wake up to green tea!! I add like and honey to it. Helps so much with puffiness and under eye bags!

Nov 25, 2013

Kitty K.

Lime*

Nov 25, 2013

Gabby C.

@ kitty Do you do this everyday?

Nov 25, 2013

Georgiana S.

Mornings: neutrogena visibly clear cleanser, elmiplant sensitive toner, emu oil eye cream, olay complete care sensitive daily fluid.

nights: honey and oat clranser + clarisonic mia 2, ( twice a week some face mask: boscia, michael todd, avon, etc.), michael todd organic aha+ dmae toner, dior capture totale one essential serum around the eyes and michael todd antiox serum on my face, michael todd intensive eye treatment, michael todd citrus cream moisturizer, hand cream, lip butter. if I have a pimple I use clinique emergency gel.

Nov 25, 2013

Kitty K.

@Gabby yes I do this everyday. I'm very religious about my skin.

Nov 25, 2013

Klaudia B.

I do something similiar to Kitty, using nothing but fruits, vegetables and othet natural products.
sometimes, after eating a fruit or raw vegerable, I rub a piece of it on my face and wash later.
It has become a habit so I never neglect my skin care even when I don't have the patience to dedicate it time.
I can say I use nothing else on my skin, not creams or anything.
And I almost never wear foundation or anything.
My partner calls me a hippy :p
I'm not, I just believe in nature.

Nov 25, 2013

Gabby C.

@ Kitty @Klaudia I'm going to try some of your tips. Lol I want to have a flawless complexion like yours.

Nov 25, 2013

Kitty K.

@Gabby. Everything you eat effects your skin very very much. The study that claims everything you eat has nothing to do with your skin was conducted back in the 1960s and had many flaws and errors! The best way is to eat Paleo! You'll find that in very many natural cures books and articles that eating paleo helps a lot with your skin.

Nov 25, 2013

Gabby C.

@ Kitty Can it be any cocoa butter? Does it break you out

Nov 25, 2013

Caitlin M.

Kitty is spot on. I've been reading "The Clear Skin Diet" and the study they did with the chocolate was so rushed and so botched it's absolutely amazing how so many people still think it's valid because it completely isn't! lol. Everything that goes into the body affects every part of it. People sort of forget this I think but skin is an organ. It's the largest organ we have and we need to take care of it and be conscious of how certain things affect it. I haven't started the full blown diet yet but I've peeked ahead to see what things I should be eating more of and it's already helped. I'm trying to cut out dairy too. Which isn't so hard because I don't really like milk anyway so that part on it's own is easy, but weeding it out of other sources is a bit harder. I'm also drinking more water and aside from my morning coffee and an occasional other drink like juice or tea, soda very rarely when I'm out, I've made water the only thing I drink on a daily basis. I'm trying to incorporate green tea in as well. That's a little difficult because I don't love the taste of it. The bottled ones taste so much better (because of all the sugar of course lol) but aren't good for you like brewing your own and just drinking it on its own. But I've noticed changes from it all. And when I slipped up for a week or so it was obvious that there was a connection.

Nov 25, 2013

Caitlin M.

Oh and Kitty, your skin looks amazing! Like wow! haha.

My routine is kind of in the process of being edited here and there, mainly trying new things and adjusting to the colder weather has me sort of off track but usually I wash my face twice a day, morning and night. The cleanser varies, right now I'm using Soap & Glory's Face Soap & Clarity Vitamin C cleanser. I use my hands in the morning and then my Clarisonic at night. For moisturizer I've been using Origins A Perfect World White Tea with SPF 25. I was using their Night-a-Mins at night but I ran out and although I liked it, it didn't wow me much so I've been using either Ponds or Tarte Pure Maracuja Oil instead. Or even some of the white tea moisturizer. For spot treating I use either tea tree oil from The Body Shop or Clearasil 10% Benzoyl peroxide. That's for emergency use though because it can be pretty harsh. And I just tried Origins Clear Improvements Charcoal mask and I love it. I only have a sample pack but I asked for a full size for Christmas. Once or twice a week I'll do a mask, depending on when I need it. I've been using Salma Hayek's White Clay mask but I don't love it so I will probably get something else to use until I can get more of the one from Origins. I also got a sample of Philosophy's Take a Deep Breath oxygen gel moisturizer and I really liked it so I want to buy a full size of that soon too. I have a manual scrub on hand too but only use that when I'm very flaky and need the extra exfoliation. Usually the Clarisonic has that covered though.

Nov 25, 2013

Kitty K.

@Caitlin the bottled one is just flavored! Not actual green tea.
To make it taste better and gain MORE benefits of green tea add:
One or two table spoons of honey. ( here you gain benefits of honey. NEVER add sugar. Sugar cancels out all benefits. ) and add lime or lemon! It will taste really good and now you have added benefits of lime and honey!

@Gabby Use 100% CocoaButter. No added chemicals. It should be yellow and smell of CocoaButter strongly. At Sally's they have one in a stick form so that its sanitary.

Nov 25, 2013

Caitlin M.

@Kitty I know! It's awful for you out of a bottle but it tastes good. But that's exactly what I've been doing, adding honey and lemon to a mix of green and white tea. It tastes a lot better and I've been trying to drink at least one or two cups of it a day.

Nov 25, 2013

Kitty K.

@Caitlin I usually drink like five coffee mugs lol. And I add lemon or like to my water all the time. On December it'll make a year of me not drinking anything else but water and tea C:

Nov 25, 2013

Caitlin M.

@Kitty that's awesome! That's what I'm striving for as well. I usually drink at least 20-30, sometimes 40 ounces of water a day now and then the two mugs or glasses of green tea. I've added lemon to my water occasionally too and it really does help make it easier to drink it. I also bought a water bottle with a filter and that helps immensely.

Nov 25, 2013

Gabby C.

@ Kitty @ Caitlin I thought green tea was to lose weight that's why I never drink it. Also can you drink it cold since I'm not a big fan of hot drinks.

Nov 25, 2013

Caitlin M.

I think it can help lose weight but that's not an exclusive benefit. It's also really good for the skin and the body in general. I don't think it will instantly make you drop weight though. But I drink it cold too. I add lemon to it when its cold but not honey. The honey seems to just sit in the bottom of the glass, where as if it's hot it will melt into the tea better.

Nov 26, 2013

Kitty K.

No that's just something it does. Usually if I drink it cold I heat it up with the honey and then let it cool off on the fridge. I used to hate anything hot but I've accustomed to it and now prefer it hot!