Here is a list of what products I used up during the past few months, what I thought of them, and which ones I might repurchase.
Haircare Empties #1
Review | Dr Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Pore Perfecting & Refining Serum
I had this little gem on my skincare stock drawer, just discretely standing there, waiting to be used and blow me away.
Review | [comfort zone] Renight Cream and Hydramemory Cream Gel
Comfort Zone seems to be a spa-focused brand that isn’t that easily accessible, at least not on big beauty retailers, and yet, I somehow ended up with two moisturisers from them.
Review | Farmacy Green Clean Cleansing Balm
No doubt about it: if you use long wearing makeup, you have to use grease (in the form of a cleansing balm or cleansing oil) to remove it quickly. Balms, in general, perform fantastic at makeup removal – but not all are built the same.
Review | Nip + Fab Glycolic Fix Daily Cleansing Pads
Nip & Fab is a brand that seems to have been created to appease my blackhead ridden teen self. It has a strong focus around exfoliation, and they use marketing words like “fix” and “extreme”. Right up my 15-year-old self alley.
Review | Avon Anew Anti-Wrinkle Smoothing Serum (with 0.1% Retinol)
Before you start reading this review, if you want to know my stance on MLMs (anti, in short) and why I still buy from Avon, I’ll direct you to this post.
Avon products can be hit or miss, but some of the greatest hits really knock it out of the park. I’m not (nor have I ever been) an Avon consultant (nor do I have anyone to direct you to), but I’ve tried my share of Avon products and the Anew line seems to be consistently good, so when I saw they had a retinol specific serum, I had to try it.
Review | Bondi Sands Daily Moisturising Face SPF50+ Sunscreen Lotion
Good daily moisturisers with a decent SPF that behave well under makeup are hard to find – so far, I can only really trust Paula’s Choice to fulfil these requirements. Yet, I keep searching for alternatives that are more accessible, both in price and availability.
Brand Review | Biossance (Copper Peptide Serum, Vitamin C Rose Oil, Vitamin C Dark Spot Serum, Elderberry Cleanser)
There are so many skincare lines out there that in order for a new brand to find its niche, they have to be about a specific ingredient. Glow Recipe is about fruit, Verso is about Retinol, Caudelie is about grapes, Biossance is about squalane. Out of everything that Biossance could be about, squalane is not bad at all. It’s a great ingredient.
Review | Sisley Paris Double Tenseur Primer
I’ve only just recently realised this is quite a controversial primer. The price point is what drives that, because it’s so expensive that it basically divides people into two groups: the ones that will never be happy with it because there’s only so much a primer can do and it will never be worth the price, and the ones that convince themselves that this does indeed do a world of difference because, for the cost, it must, right?
Well, I’m in neither group and therefore in the perfect position to give an unbiased opinion.
Review | Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask
Glow Recipe has been quite popular in the last few years, hasn’t it? I have tried some things from their Watermelon line but that one was so trendy and talked about that I felt my reviews wouldn’t add that much to what was already said about it. The Avocado line, on the other hand, could use more attention.