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In beauty October 30, 2024

Falling Back in Love with Aveeno: The Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Cream Review

I’ll be honest – I was not the biggest fan of Aveeno. When I tried it nearly 10 years ago, I felt it didn’t moisturize and even though I grabbed it at the dollar store, I felt it wasted my money and was a “cheap” brand. (You can guess how surprised I was to learn Jennifer Aniston is their ambassador!) So, I spent money buying higher-brand lotions from drugstores. It was within my budget since I was buying it for myself but since moving in with Dan who has more sensitive skin than me, I found my lotion budget increasing due to another person using it. As I got older and had other priorities to focus on, spending money on…

In beauty October 2, 2024

How to do the Korean Colour Analysis for Free

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Do you remember seeing viral TikTok and Instagram videos of people getting their colour analysis and realizing how certain colours and shades clash with their profiles? Or spent hours looking at comparisons of celebrities in their correct colour palettes? While I am not an expert in Korean colour analysis, I was curious and conducted my analysis to see what my colour palette is. No, I didn’t fly to Korea and forked out hundreds to get it done. I got it done for free in my living room, and here’s how I did it! Step one: take a selfie. Take a selfie in natural light with no makeup. I took my selfie standing next to my window with a scrubbed face. …

In beauty September 25, 2024

An Honest Review of My Underarm Laser Hair Removal

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When we moved to Melbourne, it was just in time for summer. Quickly, I was getting annoyed with shaving every day. Plus, Dan bought a pack of 2-blade razors that are shite, and I wanted to get through the 12-pack before buying new razors. Ladies – be sure your man knows how to shop for razors before sending them out to the store. I’ve always wanted to get laser hair removal because the idea of no longer shaving sounds wonderful to me… seriously, who likes to shave constantly? However, I’m a wimp and put it off forever until recently. I stuck to shaving and plucking because I thought laser hair removal would hurt tremendously. It’s a laser beam! But that…

In beauty July 2, 2024

Beauty 101: Eyebrow Grooming

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Let me tell you a little story about my eyebrows. Growing up, I never considered eyebrows a beauty feature on the face. I don’t think I even cared about eyebrows – to me, they were just there. In 5th grade, I loved Kelly Clarkson’s and Lindsay Lohan’s eyebrows. They were perfectly thin (but not too thin) and dark. I inherited my dad’s eyebrows – thick and bushy; by the time I was in 6th grade, it was clear that I had a slight unibrow (I remember in 3rd grade, an older girl said I had “one eyebrow” and I didn’t understand what she meant back then). In 5th grade, I over-plucked them. Picture short, thick and unshaped eyebrows. They didn’t…

In beauty July 13, 2023

I Gave Up Treating My Keratosis Pilaris (KP) and Why You Should Too

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Keratosis pilaris (KP) is caused by the buildup of keratin — a hard protein that protects the skin from harmful substances and infection. The keratin blocks the opening of hair follicles, causing patches of rough, bumpy skin (Mayo Clinic). It’s also known as “chicken skin”. I first noticed I had keratosis pilaris in 6th grade when my peers started to ask what was happening on my upper arms – leave it to the kids to point out something, right? I then started to notice when my parents would point my keratosis pilaris out as well. Fun fact: I inherited KP from my mom; she had it when she was younger and it disappeared when she entered her twenties. The good…

In beauty September 27, 2022

Forget what you’ve heard about brazilian waxes – an honest bikini waxing experience

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Do you cringe when people mention bikini waxes? The thought of all that pain as the esthetician rips the hair out of one of your most sensitive areas? That was me several years ago… hell, that was me up until a few months ago! I thought that any type of bikini waxing would hurt beyond belief… I remember one of my professors telling me she tried it once and never again because the pain she felt was as bad as giving birth as she described it. Early this year, I thought – why not try it? I thought, if I could survive getting tattooed, maybe a wax isn’t too bad. I mean, it beats trimming it every few days so…

In beauty August 14, 2022

Product Review: Burt’s Bee Ultra Conditioning Lip Balm

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This review is not sponsored by Burt’s Bee. All opinions are my own. Guess who finally finished her first Burt’s Bee lip balm?! I ended up going to Target to get a new lip balm but unfortunately, they ran out of the peppermint one that I used last time (yellow stick above) so I ended up grabbing the ‘Ultra Conditioning’ because I can’t stand the grapefruit scent. The ultra-conditioning is said to give you at least 4 hours of moisturizing. Whenever a product claims to do a certain thing for a certain amount of time, I tend to look past it. However, the lip balm did do about 4 hours of moisturizing (and then some) BUT to be honest, I…