Happy New Year friends! Super tardy to the party on that one lol but life has been super duper busy. January is a crazy month in the pharmacy and it's even crazier at this volume that we do but we are surviving. It's Sunday so the man is watching football (and I'm half watching) so that means I get to do a little blogging.
I had to work on New Year's Day so we didn't end up doing anything too crazy on NYE. We spent it with some close friends at Tony's grandmother's house. Super fun night and we ended up watching the countdown at home. After celebrating the New Year, I spent the next 10 days working. It was absolutely crazy and I was feeling super burnt out. Thankfully I had the next 3 weekends off to catch up on some r&r.
For the first 3-day weekend I had, I spent most of my Friday at the mall. After a stressful 10-days of work, I was seriously stressing out about wrinkles! I know, I know what you're thinking, but prevention is key. After hearing about all the warnings from my co-workers about showing me before and after pictures of my old manager, I definitely wanted to make sure to purchase all the anti-aging stuff I could. I started the trip off at Sephora. I got to talking to a representative from
GLAMGLOW. They have two masks and I ended up getting the
SUPERMUD and the representative ended giving me a couple of samples of the
YOUTHMUD.
Both use a ton of natural ingredients and the thing I liked about the
SUPERMUD is that it even contains something for acne. I was breaking out a ton because it was that time of the month and also from the stress so I definitely wanted something to target both acne and aging. So far the I really like the
SUPERMUD. It seriously rejuvenates my skin. I keep in in the shower and I've been trying to use it twice a week.
I also ended up getting a daily anti-aging cream/gel(?) at Sephora. I got the
Origins, A Perfect World Age-defense skin guardian with White Tea.
I really love the texture of this. It goes on very satin smooth almost like a primer so I feel like it evens out my skin. According to the guy at Sephora, this should go on prior to your regular moisturizer. I've been using the Clinique Dramatically Different Lotion but the weather has been super dry in San Diego so I decided to get a new moisturizer as well. I meant to get the Josie Maran Argan Oil Serum but I ended up getting the Daily Moisturizer Lotion instead because it was much cheaper. The Argan Oil Serum was like $48 and the Daily Moisturizer was $12 for the travel size in the checkout area. For both the Origins and the Josie Maran products, I love the pump feature. Very sanitary.
After getting those items, I was getting a tad thirsty and decided to try Nordstrom Ebar since I've been having Starbucks pretty much every day. I ended up getting the Honey Almond Latte. Soooo good! I think that's my new favorite drink. It's very light and I love the taste of almond drinks. If you like almond milk tea, you'll love this drink.
While I was at Nordstrom, I thought I'd stop by and take a look at their cosmetics and skin care area. I was still looking for an eye cream to get rid of my under eye circles. I ended up getting this new (to me) brand called Rodial. The cream is called GlamTox Eye with SPF 15.
I feel like it instantly brightens up my eye area. One of the most impressive things about this eye cream to me is that it actually contains arnica. Apparently, according to the lady that was helping me, arnica is actually recommended by plastic surgeons to help with bruising. She was telling me how dark under eye circles are due to the fact that the blood vessels under the eyes are tiny and so it's not getting enough circulation. Arnica happens to increase circulation so it really helps with under eye darkness. So far, I've really liked it. I love how it feels on the skin and it also comes in a pump form! I've just been on a pump purchasing spree.
Another pump product I got was the Rodial Dragon's Blood Cleansing Water.
I actually have this right on my bedside table so that when I'm too lazy to remove my eye makeup, I just use a cotton ball and wha-la, all gone. It feels super nice and refreshing but I'm sure you can just put cold water on your face or any other makeup remover on and it would feel just as refreshing. I've been using the Aveeno makeup remover wipes but I feel like it's still sting-y around the eyes even though it says it's "sensitive". This cleansing water actually doesn't sting at all.
So far I've been loving everything I've gotten and I've really felt a change in my skin for the better but I'm not sure if it's just because I'm starting to take care of it or if it's the products I've been using. Hopefully I can give ya'lls an update after a month of using them and we can see how it goes! Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I shall be posting a food blog soon. We went to a couple of places for San Diego Restaurant Week so that's the next post I'll be working on.
Happy MLK Weekend and have a great week!
