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Summer 2013 Empties
Sunday, 4 August 2013 | 0 comments
Heyo,

So I'm here with an empties entry!  I've never done these before but I started saving some of the products I've been using up recently, and this is what I've accumulated.  I don't finish products nearly as fast as other people, so I doubt I'll be doing this types of posts very often but they'll come from time to time!


To start off, I finished this vanilla scented stress relief bubble bath from Bath & Body Works that my bestie got for my birthday about a year and a half ago, back in 2012 I believe.  Yes, it took me this long to finish it, but I was using two bubble baths at the same time and I don't take baths often.  I'm not a huge fan of vanilla scents because they seem to almost always be overwhelmingly too sweet, but this one wasn't.  In terms of the antistress part, I didn't notice anything more relaxing than any other bubble bath.  If you're going to take a bath, chances are, it's going to be relaxing anyway, right?  As a design student, I'm always under stress so I doubt a bottle of bubble bath could fix that haha.

This is a whole box of My Beauty Diary Black Pearl mask which comes in a pack of 12, if I'm not mistaken...  These masks are very popular and I'm sure a lot of you have heard or seen them if you're into Asian cosmetics.  They're supposed to whiten your skin, but I don't use them religiously enough to see a difference.  I mainly use these masks to pamper myself from time to time and moisturize if I feel my skin is getting too dull.  They're alright.  Nothing special.

Then I finally finished my bottle of HadaLabo Hyaluronic Makeup Remover.  It's a thinner gel consistency that you rub onto your dry makeup-full face, then wash off to remove it all.  Pro tip: I find that if you apply onto dry face, then wet your finger tips just a TINY bit and massage all over, THEN rinse, it gets everything off!  Anyway, this makeup remover has lasted me a very long time and I'm sad that I finished it all, but luckily I have a backup one waiting for me!  I like this product a lot because it's like a one stop shop for removing makeup.  The only thing is it's not the best for eye makeup, but that's mostly because I prefer to use a cotton pad with actual eye makeup remover to do that job.  I don't like to use oils or gels to remove my eye makeup while I'm removing my face makeup.  That's just me.  It can remove eye makeup, but careful not to get it into your eyes, and it might not take off all your mascara, especially waterproof ones. (That's my problem when I'm not using a cotton pad!)

Lastly, I have two EOS lip balms.  One in summer fruit and one in strawberry sorbet.  I go through these like they're nothing.  Prior to this, I've probably finished 5 other ones but I just never thought to save them until now.  I pretty much use them because they look cool and taste yummy.  They're an okay lip balm, but I have severely chapped lips that peels, so once in a while, I'll have to use a medical lip balm. 

That's it!  What are your empties this summer?

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Skin Food Bath Salt (Peppermint)
Friday, 26 July 2013 | 0 comments
So this is going to be a short review because...  Well, to sum up the entire post now, I wasn't impressed with this product.  It's Skin Food's bath salt in the scent peppermint.



Here's what it looks like.  I used one a few months back and just haven't looked at the second pack for a while.  I'm really new to these bath salt things and this is the first time I've ever used any, so I wasn't sure really what to expect. 

Inside, there's little blue crystal-like salts, I guess that's what it is.  On the front and back, it says:

Special food for the skin to eat.  Contains lots of nutritive and energetic ingredients such as fresh plants, fruits and etc. to maintain our bodies healthy and lively. 

Full body (foot) bath salt with natural salts from Australia rich in minerals, natural aroma extracted from herbs, and moisturizing vegetable ingredients. 

I'm a little more confused after reading those.  Also, it says "full body" but also "foot" in brackets...  So...  Am I only supposed to soak my feet, or can I use it for my entire body?  I wasn't sure, but I just filled up my bath tub, poured them in under the running water and got in.

Here's where it all goes down.  Again, I've never used bath salts before so I'm not quite sure the purpose or what the experience is supposed to be like but I sort of had an expectation in my head and this didn't meet it. 

First, the salts took a very long time to dissolve into the water.  I bathe in quite hot water, and since I poured them right under the running water, I thought that would help them dissolve but it didn't.  They all just sank to the bottom of the tub and sat there.  I ended up stepping in some as I got in and it wasn't a pleasant feeling on my foot.  Secondly, the scent is extremely weak.  I could barely smell anything until I got into the water and really put my face close to the water.  It had a mild peppermint scent, but it was completely gone after 5 minutes of being in the water.  Also, I kind of expected some kind of water tinting because the salts were blue, but the water looked clear like nothing has been put in it.  Bummer.  Lastly, I'm not sure what bath salts are supposed to do for you, but it didn't make my skin feel any different.  I've heard that some certain types of bath salts help with muscle pain, and I'm not sure if these were targeted for that purpose but it didn't do anything for my body either.  After the first 5 minutes and the scent disappeared, I literally felt like I was laying in plain water.  I ended up adding some bubble bath just so I could have a decent bath.

I mean, I would've taken more pictures of the product and such but you'd just be looking at plain water, so...

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ 1/5  And that's being generous.

I decided to give it a one because at least the salts look nice and if you aren't going to use it for a bathe, I'm sure you can find a way to make use of it as decoration, like pouring it into a fancy jar or something.  That's probably what I'm going to do.  The product itself however, really isn't good...  Maybe it's just my lack of experience with bath salts in general, but I'm really not impressed by this.  Are all bath salts this weak?


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