This moisturizer is amazing ($20) The hydration sinks in and doesn’t just wash away with the next cleanse.
I really like everything I try from Bliss.
This is now my go to face wash that I’ll repurchase. ($13).
I really like everything I try from Bliss.
This is now my go to face wash that I’ll repurchase. ($13).
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Ooooh! Is there much of a scent?
There is but to me it’s very pleasant and fruity. The fragrance ingredients don’t bother me. I have kind of sensitive ish skin in that it’s acne prone and sometimes dries out really bad, but usually to active ingredient concentrations and not to fragrance (at least not noticeably, sometimes non fragranced is confusingly bad for me, like CeraVe cleanser and day lotion dries me out).
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IDK who it was here, but a while ago someone was asking about eyeshadow palates that are refillable and not disposable? Anyway I just came across this product (the brand is tried and true for me, I just didn’t know they had these) and there are 100+ shades.
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I’ve been experimenting with skincare a lot since it’s time in my schedule (every 5 years I reassess my hair, skin, clothing, fitness, diet, etc.). Just adding another BIG VOTE for Black Girl Sunscreen.
Why you should try it even if you're fair skinned
I will never use any other sunscreen again and I tried it thanks to (I think?) Bernadette. I had never heard of the term “white cast” before but despite being white myself every sunscreen I’ve ever used has given me that weird powdery white look. Asian sunscreens were the worst for me, even sheisido, like I looked like one of those old timey English barristers with the big ass wigs, anyway, they made me look like a freaking ghost. I thought that was just normal.
I had no idea there was an alternative! Like I said, I’m fair skinned but my background is mostly Mediterranean/Middle Eastern so I have a lot of different colors on my face (freckles, moles, dark undereye, hyperpigmentation, yellow undertones) so maybe that’s part of it? But even if that complexion doesn’t describe your skin you should still try it because the BEST part about BGS is that it’s super moisturizing. My main gripe with other sunscreens is that they are insanely drying and my skin will get really dull and almost flake off (like dandruff) when I wear them. it makes layering makeup super fucking annoying and I also don’t like how it covers all my freckles and moles, like that’s me! I like them! I don’t want to look all airbrushed and ghostly!
Anyway, this stuff is LEGIT. It’s so moisturizing and it doesn’t lighten your skin at all and it feels super nice on the skin. My only disclaimer for this review is that my skin is DRY, if you are an oily babe YMMV.
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Ugh. I left my argan oil in Cuba (on purpose, I left lots of nice things on purpose) and now I have acne. And my turmeric magic stick went rancid.
Does anyone think my husband can successfully buy me argan oil when he does errands tomorrow, or do I need to wait for shipping and order some tonight?
Is olive oil less comedogenic than coconut?
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I have faith that he can. If not, I think olive is better than coconut. Do you have grape seed? Nom-comedogenic and absorbs really nicely on my vaguely dry but also kindof oily skin.
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Oh no! My new all natural apothecary sold me face moisturizer but main ingredient is coconut oil. It doesn’t appear to be giving me pimples. Is this the kind of thing that is cumulative effect?
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Some people do really well with coconut oil. It seems like a super personally variable thing. The people who it works for swear by it.
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Yeah no. We discussed it and he can do a pickup if I order online and get an order number. But the only place doing that on argan oil is Sephora and I’m not spending $50 on a $12 bottle
Coconut oil is love hate for skin! By body loves it!
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I think you might be thinking of me!
But it doesn’t make sense for me to get an eyeshadow palette since I really only need one eyeshadow (to be purchased, currently I own none) and now I know that they expire so I think I should just get an individual one at some point.
At least I have that MAC lipstick from Buy Nothing that is actually a great color on me, so I own at least something that gives me color!
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Check you out! FWIW Make Up Forever also makes these awesome liners that work for eyes, lips, and cheeks. Maybe you can bookmark it for when you run out of that lipstick in like…another decade. 
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Hahaha I’ll just reach out to you for recommendations!!
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This is so true (plus genetics and luck, like not having major scars from an accident or medical problem, etc.).
Long cold medicine rambling lmao
I’ve only had enough money to buy really expensive skincare for a short time and my skin literally looks better now (at 34) than it did when I was 24. I don’t even do facials and injections and stuff, but just the fancy skincare makes a huge difference. I also quit drinking and smoking (before the skincare upping) and that made a massive difference as well, but no amount of water drinking compares with really high quality skincare. I had to lol at how far the article takes it though, haha because it’s so typical Atlantic:
" The moral halo around “good skin” isn’t a coincidence. The behaviors associated with a clear, even-toned complexion require those who want it to reject hedonism in a way that is still deeply ingrained as virtuous in American culture; that the wealthy have mastered the look reinforces capitalistic notions of success and who achieves it (the ascetic, dedicated, and hardworking)."
Like…IDK about that…
there’s a slight chance that might be an overly academic/ivory tower way of viewing the world and, like, human beings. Also I feel like if actors and models were honest about their skincare and treatments when asked they’d get absolutely roasted for suggesting expensive things that also aren’t feasible for most normal people. I think it’s also interesting she didn’t mention stuff like The Ordinary, which has done a lot to bring expensive ingredients to people with lower budgets, like I think inexpensive skincare has gotten wayyyyy better in the last 10 years.
She also didn’t mention beauty influencers, which I would argue way more young people turn to than VS models, and many of them are super up front about expensive products and treatments…that’s actually how I found some of the new fancy shit I’ve been using! From influencers who are like, look this is expensive but it works, etc. I wonder if models and actors specifically are less likely to be honest about it? Because they’ll get bigger backlash or the think they will? IDK but lots of youtube and instagram beauty people are really up front about procedures and chemicals and stuff. The Kardashians too, they’re very up front about allllll their interventions. I think the exception might be some fitness influencers who are all like “just do 10 squats a day” and I’m like “girl you bought that booty, lol”.
But it’s so true that rich people age differently. I know exactly what she’s talking about, like when you get off the train on the UES everyone is so…plump and lineless in the face. It’s a little uncanny valley tbh.
ETA: It also strikes me that a big part of the denial of costs associated with beauty have to do with not wanting to admit to vanity? I feel like women especially are expected to be beautiful but without effort or even knowing it 
but admitting “yes, I spend $500 a month on skincare” is like saying, “yeah, I care about my looks and put a lot of effort into looking this way.” I feel like there’s some sexism mixed up in all of it?
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I do think she goes a bit heavy handed with it- part of why I shared without my thoughts tbh (also I was lazy and wanted a nap, lol). But I did think it raised an interesting point overall.
1000% think there’s sexism and fear of vanity judgement tied up in the lack of admission on cost and extent of time/effort required.
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Totally! I just can’t turn off my internal writer/editor brain being like…hm, why not go here, or here, or mention this, or contextualize it in this way? Haha.
But yeah I was thinking, of all the things I spend on I think people knowing how much I spend on appearance would embarrass me the most. Like even sharing it all here (which I don’t think I’ve ever done, I’ve honestly have never added it all up in one category)…I just feel like I can sense what the comments would be? And like I’d have to sort of apologize for it and caveat it all in privilege-speak, etc. but then I don’t feel like that about food or rent or travel or entertainment here, but about clothes I kind of do. It’s interesting!
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I can remember reading an article from a celeb discussing why they always say “I just eat right and do these six exercises” where basically at another point in their career they’d actually takes about their diet and exercise routine and gotten really bad press. And basically unless there is a book to buy no one actually wants the diet or fitness advice - when people want to get that drastic change they hunt for the information. Which back to skincare is how I figured out a few years ago which at home things to do and which treatments I’m interested in trying and when. A lot of influencers give way better info- I think they are niche like the diet book section of the bookstore. So yes rich people are generally doing all the things, but maybe we don’t want the answer unless we’re willing to research the products
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I bought a gua sha stone. Gua sha is a kind of treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine and I think it’ll make my facial skin look better, as it’s starting to sag and wrinkle. It remains to be seen whether I’ll do it regularly but it’s similar to the Tanaka face massage that does lymphatic drainage and the stone feels nice!
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