Vaseline Blogger Gathering

So I got a nice invitation from www.fashionesedaily.com about Vaseline blogger gathering, because I am a member of Fashionesedaily and they think I fits the criteria of new Vaseline Range, which is urban working woman, expose to the sun (that’s so right, I took “Ojek” to work), and want to take care of my skin intensively.

I grab the chance without thinking, plus it will be nice to meet fellow bloggers. As you guys know, I’ve been tight up with work I literally don’t have time to blog.

But that will change soon, I already have some plans. And beautiful Carryna Pratiwi agreed to help on my new logo.

So last week, I attend the gathering, after the lift door opened the familiar faces from Fashionesedaily greet me and I enter the room.

The event itself took place at Cyber 2 building, Tuesday October 8^th 2013. And what excite me was there will be Hilda Kitty as Vaseline Brand Manager and dr. Eddy Karta, Sp.KK means, I actually can asked them anything I want to know regarding my skin. I’m more addictive to skin care now, rather than make up anyway. My skin do changed, as i… yeah… GROW OLD! Haha…

What caught my eyes?

A very nice quote right?

Come on admit it, how often you applied your skin care regime before going to work? Apparently once a day is not enough, I’ll tell you why later.

Based on BMI Research on woman that lives in 3 big cities in Indonesia, 97% aware of the needs of using more than just a regular lotion, but only 3  out of 10 knows that they need more intensive product, rather than just changing the brands.

We had chance to ask questions, and the bottom line is what is the difference between regular lotion and a serum is the ingredients, serum has more intensive ingredients that will protect your skin and answer the need of your skin. And it absorb easily on your skin without the extra “sticky” feeling that you get when you are using body butter for instance.

Vaseline Serums Body Range is now in three different “super” power to answer your skin needs.

From Left to Right    

1. Vaseline Nourishing Body Serum, to gives your dry skin extra protection

2. Vaseline SPF 30 Body Serum, protecting your skin from UV A and UV B

3. Vaseline Perfect 10 Body Serum,  get rid of your dull hair because of aging and lifestyle.

I personally loves the Vaseline Nourishing Body Serum, because of the scent and the finish result on my skin. My dry skin, feel moist instantly. But I realize that my skin needs more that that, so in the morning I applied Vaseline SPF 30 Body Serum, and in the night, before my bed time I clean up and use Vaseline Nourishing Body Serum. I rather go through that hassle using 2 products than have my skin dull. Can I hear AMEN, ladies? :D

I will give you a full review later on after few weeks of using. And I would love to hear your thought about this, has anyone tried it yet? Which one is your favourite? Let’s chat with me at @madafoe and @VaselineID (also don’t forget to follow us).

Would love to know your skin experience, and learn from your experience.

Lastly, I’m so happy to having a nice dinner and chit chat with Vanya, Anggi, Priscilla Clara, and Natalie also met some of the followers of @VaselineID

Too bad my battery died, so I couldn’t get the picture of the best dress code. They are so cute, I’m hoping that other fellow blogger has it, I will ask it from them and edit this post later on. I bet you must be curious as well.

Ah , almost forgot, we got a nice goody bag with the three range of Vaseline Serum Body Range, and you wanna see what I wore that day?

Rocking knee length boot on rainy Jakarta.

Thank you for reading, ladies. I MISS YOU! Feedback is always welcome… See you around on another post.

Review - Egyptian Magic Cream

So what if Madonna, J.Lo, Kate Hudson, and tons of beauty bloggers and celebrities are wearing this Egyptian Magic Cream?

Is it just a good marketing campaign or is it as good as the positive word of mouth that we heard?

Ok first of all, let me introduce you to Egyptian Magic Cream (EMC).

What is EMC?
It is all purpose cream, for acne bites to eczema, psoriasis to break out skin, even some claim it's good to reduce acne scars.

Ingredients?
Made from natural ingredients which has been perfected from ancestor's legacy. They are Olive Oil, Bees wax, Honey, Bee Pollen, Royal Jelly, Bee Propolis and they also claim that they added DIVINE LOVE to their ingredients. How sweet? :D

Texture?
First Impression and swatch, this similar to my Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, but of course they're totally different. From ingredients and smell it is different. The EMC has no scent at all. But the sticky texture is similar, if you don't have this EMC took your Petroleum Jelly, imagine that sticky stuff is on your face :D

Sounds like i'm not interested at all with this stuff? No, i'm not. I'm quite happy with this product, it's just sometimes people bought something just for the sake, "Oh... CELEBRITIES are using them", do you know how much products they put on their faces? Not to mention their expensive facial treatment, expensive creams, botox and photoshop! LOL!
Try to do a smart shopping girls, really. I heard so much about, people buying stuff just for the sake of that reason, and because of the cute packaging, or simply "If it is expensive, it is good" (especially when it comes to apparel). Not everything expensive is good, sometimes it's just the marketing campaign and pride.
Money can't buy taste everybody!

Now on to review, what i really think about this stuff?

If my face is on its best condition, i wouldn't bother for this stuff i would go for Kiehls or something like that, that available in my country. But now courtesy of my break out skin, and due to my aging, i think this is one of the best investment i do to my skin.

Texture if applied ( i applied this as night cream), your face will look oily and seems greasy and still oily if you touch it one hour later after applied, but it's actually the product working, i didn't feel any heat or nourishing effect whatsoever, but in the morning my face feel a bit supple. And it helps reduce the redness around my nose.
DON'T applied this too much, a little will do, applied it layer by layer because if you're using a lot of cream on your face, you know where'd it go? To your pillow.Beside our skin has it's limitation to absorb particular amount of cream.
I usually swatch and pat it on to my forehead, nose, cheek, and jawline, then i blend it.

If i used this EMC for bug bites, it didn't help at all, still feels itch, and the redness is not really gone!

Using this for 2 months or so now, i stopped about a week and put my new Gizi Supercream, and now start to using it again. My face feel a bit supple, but the neck area is still dry even though i already put it on my neck also for couple weeks. And as i read on Fashionesedaily.com (they have the thread about this EMC there) the acne scars is not really gone.

SO? This is a love and hate products for me.

Ah, the PRICE? Yeah i know, i won't forget it. It's suck we don't have the store here, we have to ordered it online, and some people do sell them on facebook, but some of them are suspected fake EMC, so i'm not gonna put a link. I'd recommend you to bought it online on their website.
$$$ : $24.80 (2oz jar) - $37.20 (4oz jar)
IDR (approx.) from 350 exclude shipping.

WARNING :

Although this product is made from natural ingredients, some people may allergic to bee's thingy (bees wax, honey, royal jelly, etc). So i suggest you guys to swatch it for couple hours on your hands, if it's ok, then you can use it on your face :)

Review of Vitacid 0,025%

Hey, i'm not too excited about this post. I supposed because i'm not really an expert about skin care thingy, so i don't think i can do a perfect review. But i'm not gonna stop, and will try my best. As usual if you guys have any question, most welcome to ask. Thanks in advance pretties ^^

So, in this post i already show you what is my current skin care routine. And on this post i already posted the additional weekly routine.

As you guys know, i was so excited about "cheap but great" thingy, and read so many good reviews about them, so i decided to try them out myself, since i want to stop from my current dermatologist range of skincare. I don't want to get addiction on them, because i find it hard to bear if one day i got plato* and need to upgrade to heavier formula of them, just scares me.

*Plato is the phase where your skin stop reacting to one certain product or cream, and have to switch to another formula in order to maintain the best condition of your skin.

Why i decided to try all those drugstore skin care regimen, because i did a little research and that fit best to my skin condition at this moment.

Vitacid 0,025%

Where i got it and how much?
At pharmacist, and cost me IDR 22.000 (approx $2,5)

How to used it?
Best at night, this retinoic acid is not really best friend with the sun.
And in the morning we have to use sunscreen if we wore the retinoid acid thingy at night.
After use this thin layer, i waited for around one minute and continue with Gizi Super Cream, and Egyptian Magic Cream as eye cream.

Big NO NO
While using vitacid is combining it with  the other regimen that contains exfoliating like salicylic acid, sulfur, resorcinol, benzoil peroxide. And best not exposed to the sun.

This is the lightest formula of Vitacid, they have 3 range of formula, that contains 0,025% retinoic acid, 0,5% retinoic acid, and 1% of retinoic acid. I decided to get myself the lightest formula because i never ever had chemical peeling before. And people suggest me to started with the lightest first.

I suffer from acnes probably almost 6 month now, and the scar didn't fade like usual, and it devastated me, really. I became not confident at all if not wearing concealer or foundation on my face.
I recall and didn't find anything strange on my eating and sleeping habits, also not in stressful condition, so what caused those acnes? Well to be fair, most of us ladies got one ot two before period, but that's it. Now? It was like nightmare.
After i survey-d around my house, then i realized. It was the water, we got clean water problem on this house. The water contains dirt, and i took pictures from my Blackberry when it was really really chocolate. Don't believe me, take a look by yourself, how my washtafel look like now.

See the chocolate stain? I did it purposely not cleaning it for a week, so you guys can see the water stain becomes DARK. I even used water filter and socks to cover the water pipe, but still got that chocolate stain, huh!

I used vitacid 0,025% about a month now, and i'm quite ok of the result but not really that satisfied.
I still got acne spot on  my face, altho' it faded a bit. Not give back my flawless face.

After one week of using, i feel sting when i wash my face, and put moisturizer on it. Even sting in the morning while i put moisturizer on. And there's time that i couldn't bear it. They said it was the peeling reaction. Ah, BEAUTY IS PAIN!

And after two weeks of using my face start exfoliating the dead skin ( i wish that was the dead skin).

Left

Right

See, the acne scars and spot still there, but the color turns to a bit pinkish not really dark anymore.

Now i didn't suffer from sting while washing my face, but if i put Gizi Super Cream as moisturizer it still sting a tiny bit. And in the morning i didn't feel anything at all.

Honestly, i prefer my face before i used this Vitacid 0,025% when i was just using papaya soap and sugar on my face, it was more supple and moist. Now it dries, really dries.
I don't know if that's normal while chemical peeling, anybody can help me out on this?

My face before using Vitacid

Is it me, or it was more "light" than now?
To be fair, i got back from my home town recently, so i got tanned as always. Well.. i'm gonna keep using this for two more weeks as night care, after that will use it as prevention if i got acnes only.
The brocure said that after using this cream, the black head and pimples will start show up because it clean deeply, and it makes our face looks horrible, i think this is what people called purging. And sadly i'm those who not lucky and got it.

Aztec Secret - Indian Clay Mask Review

Have you ever heard of Aztec Clay Mask (ACM) before? I have, searching through google trying to find some cheap but great mask, well one or two years ago, before i started blogging. But that time i was clueless where to get it, because i didn't know anyone who opened a spree to get this. Yeah i believe some of the seller is from www.amazon.com or www.iherb.com and i live here in beautiful tropical country, Indonesia.

I got this in a sample jar, so i don't own the original jar, but i bet you guys know how it looks like or just google it if you are curious. It has various size, 1lb (454gr) for approx. $6-$8, and 2 lb (908gr) approx. $11-$24 depends on where you get it, i noticed it was cheaper on iherb than amazon.

This is the official website of  ACM hope you can find more information there, it also explained what diferent ways to use this clay, for those who is clueless (like me) here

ACM can be mixed with apple cider vinegar (organic is best), with tea tree, with Vit. C, with Honey and also Water (even though some said it was not quite comfortable because it's not blend well if mixed with water). It can be used on only for your face but for your foot, and body. I read some reviews that they used this for their back acnes also. AND APPLY + MIX THIS WITH NON METAL material, i used plastic spoon and empty night cream jar made of plastic to mix this.

Now on to review, i used this twice already, and both mixed with my Viva Lemon Toner.

The left pictures shows my face during the treatment of chemical peeling.
1 ACM
2 The empty jar where i mixed the ACM
The bottom on the Right side is Viva Lemon Toner

How i used this clay :
1 Clean the empty jar with alcohol and let it dry
2 I clean my face, and make sure it dry before i started putting ACM on.
3 I take plastic spoon, and put that in the empty jar, and add the Toner, mix it well until it got the density i want, usually until the texture is similar with paste a bit thick but not too thick.
4 Because i lost my mask brush, i applied this with my finger all over my face and let it dry usually takes around 10-15 minutes.

see the right picture, if you wore it too thick it takes forever to dry

Now on to the review

I sadly couldn't find apple cider vinegar on the groceries store nearby my house, they said it smells awful but it was the best way to mix this ACM.

First time i used ACM, i feel pulling and tightening sensation, also sting a bit, and itch. But i think it was because the mask is working, after drying (approx 15 mins) i rinse it off with warm water and my face feel smooth, and i got no red mark whatsoever (some might have this after using), i just feel the skin was supple and tight around the eye area. Which i like, it means the skin around my eyes area is tightening. And i feel sleepy afterward, LOL.

Second time, i was using lots make up my face was suffering from chemical peeling, and still using the same way,i put this mask on, but i didn't mixed it well, still got some part that not mixed well, and the texture is not as paste as first time, and it takes longer to dries which was torture, it stings, and itch, the tightening and pulling sensation is not as WOW as first time. Just the itch and sting really got into my nerve >.<
After rinse, i noticed some of the white head still around on T area, and i don't wanna makes it worse by squeezing it so i deal with it with my Biore Pore Pack. And yes my skin feel smoother after using this ACM.

LIKE
- I like the fact that this is CHEAP esp if you got the 2lb it will takes forever to finish, and did makes my face feel supple and smooth afterward. - Got expired date on the original jar.
- I don't have to measure the time, if it already cracked it means it's ok to rinse.
- I noticed some small acnes dries out after using this mask.

DISLIKE
-Damn i'm too lazy for this, i really hate the mixing part and the pulling and itch and sting sensation (but hey.. BEAUTY IS PAIN) LOL :p
- I hate the fact that  we don't have it here locally, have to bought this overseas which cost more money for shipping.
- The white head is not dissapearing, have to take it off with other stuff.

Repurchase
Yes, in full size.

My very best way to wear this :

1 Follow the direction which is not using metal material, and rinse it with warm water after
2 Mix your ACM well, too thick takes forever to dries, and too thin is not gonna work best, one or one and half table spoon of ACM will do.
3 Make sure your face is clean before using this.
4 After using, put toner to close the pore and thin layer of cream or moisturizer.

I hoped i explained it well, if you do have question just comment on this post, i'll try my best to answer based on my experience.

Thank you, and Happy Valentine ^^