Caring For Your Skin

I spend a lot of time and money trying to perfect my skin. I think that having good skin can save you a lot of money that you would usually spend on makeup and it gives you great confidence. This is what is in my skincare bag at the minute.

Taking off your makeup at night is the key to helping your skin and my personal favourite makeup wipes are the Yes To Cucumber wipes. I don't have them in my skincare bag because it is too small but it is something I use extremely often. I also use Simples Eye Makeup Remover and a cotton pad to remove my eye makeup. I also find that my DIY makeup remover works fantastically though, maybe even a little better than this one that I bought. If you want to see how I make it then click here.

As far as cleansing my skin goes, I  do that in the shower with my Clarisionic Mia and a cleanser I got free with that so they are not in my skincare bag but when I get out of the shower I use my L'Oreal Skin Perfection Moisturiser. I find this is the best moisturiser for my combination skin. I have a review on it here. 

I then take my Simple Soothing to the eyes balm under my eyes and use either Clinique's Acne Solutions Clinical Treatment or Decleors Spot Treatment on my blemishes. I have a full post on caring for acne skin and how to prevent it here.

I also use Lush's Bubblegum Lip Scrub to exfoliate my lips but I have a post on how to make your own lip scrub so click here for that. Or read my review on the lush scrub here.

Finally I have some tweezers and cotton buds in my bag too. What's your skincare essential?

xoxo PinkCupcake xoxo

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Guide to Healthy Skin with Drugstore Products

Hi everyone,
Recently I've been loving my skincare routine. My skin wasn't great for a while so I went to the drugstore to buy skincare products and thought I'd review them for you. This is a relatively cheap and easy skincare routine that I use every day and night regardless of whether my skin is good or not at that time. I researched a lot into skincare routines and all of the ones I found were very expensive and time-consuming when you can get a much easier one. Anyway, this is the one I found and it works just as well, is much less time-consuming and a lot more inexpensive. All of the products talked about can be purchased in drugstores.

Firstly, I use this Neutrogena All-in-1 Acne Control cleanser, it is my favourite cleanser and trust me, I've tried a lot of cleansers. I really work it into my skin, especially those places where I may have more acne and then wash it off thoroughly.

Then when I'm on holiday, I use my Simple Protecting Light Moisturiser which I like because it has SPF so you don't need to worry about suncreams and can be assured that it will protect your face from the sun. Otherwise, I use my L'Oreal Skin Perfection Moisturiser.

Now that my face is clean, I use my All-in-1 Acne Control. An alternative that i use is the Decleor Spot Treatment but that isn't as cheap. I rub a very light coat over any blemishes I may have and any areas where I usually get them because what I like about this spot treatment is that it prevents future spots. This is a miracle worker, honestly, I had a huge spot in the centre of my forehead and within 2 days, it had completely vanished thanks to this routine. 

I only use that once a day because if you use it too often, it can cause dryness, during the meantime I like to use this Skin Clear Blemsish Corrector by boots. I bought this a while ago and it was extremely inexpensive. I didn't really think it would work for the money I paid for it and when I opened it I realised that really all it is is tea tree oil. Despite this, it works very well especially with the other products in this skincare routine. 

This is my daily skincare routine but I would also recommend using Freeman Face Masks especially the peel-off one because i find that on bad skin days, those things work wonders. 

I'm really happy with my skin now thanks to my skincare routine and I couldn't recommend it enough. I find that really, I would rather have a great skincare routine than makeup routine because having good skin can make you have so much confidence and I've found that now that I've found a great skincare routine, its saved me lots of money in the long run because I don't use as much makeup now because I really don't feel I need as much. I would definitely try and recommend perfecting your skin routine before purchasing lots of makeup to cover up blemishes because it can save you a lot of money.

If you try this routine, let me know how it works for you! Email me at pinkcupcake7blog@yahoo.com or comment below. Thank you for reading.

xoxo PinkCupcake xoxo

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