laneige power essential skin toner - normal to dry skin









skinfood peach sake pore serum





Initially I was like "meh." about Skinfood's Peach Sake Pore Serum. It smelled very nice (peaches!!!), was pretty moisturising and is more like a light moisturiser than a serum, but it wasn't a WOW!!!! level of hydration that I'm currently STILL searching for. (The bottle is cute, except for paper based cap...Skinfood, why??!)





I used about a third of the bottle within two or three months but grew bored as I was using other products. It went on easily and my face absorbed the slightly runny serum fairly well, but I had to be careful how much I put on to avoid any stickiness. It does leave a slight silky thin film, which if you tend to have dry skin, can help to reveal flakes on your faces. It also can be a little drying, so I tended to use this every second or third day in my routine.









Basically, I grew tired of the tedious bullshit. More than a few months passed and I saw that I had about half left of my bottle, and began thinking of ways how to use this product up. I started using it on my neck. Later, I read on the AB subreddit ad in a few blogspots where others had re-purposed the Skinfood serum as a primer or a moisturiser. I decided to try the serum out as a primer, put on before my makeup routine. Much better! Now I'm finally done with this!!

Will I repurchase? Yes, but only if it's a good price and only if I'm using it as a primer. But I'm sure there are better primers out there that are similar.













dr jart+ ceramidin liquid skin saver





HELL YEAH THIS IS MY JAM. My liquid jam. Hand down, Dr Jart+ Liquid Ceramidin has helped my dry flaky cheeks to become normal throughout 2014 and 2015, so that when I wear foundation, it doesn't stick and look cakey. This is my second container and I'm definitely repurchasing, probably through Sephora.





I do layer this after using Hada Labo's Gokujun Lotion, but I find that it works best during spring and summer--both actually do. I have had to cut down usage of the liquid ceramidin to every second night, otherwise my face is too sticky the next morning as it doesn't absorb well when it's too cold in my house--it's been pretty cold up here in WA.









laneige water sleeping pack - mini size





Also part of the hydration travel kit from Target is a mini of Laneige's Water Sleeping Pack. I finished this up fairly quickly (within a month) but leaving about a finger-scoop worth left for a reminder of the scent and texture.









Laneige's Water Sleeping Pack in my limited experience is a good sleeping pack. It isn't great but it isn't bad but it performs a essential fuction: to hydrate while you sleep. I find that I don't need to use a controlled amount to avoid stickiness--for some reason, it doesn't happen with this pack (or the E Choice fermented tea pack, either). I tend to use a quarter-szed amount, focusing on my cheeks and chin for maximum hydration. I ususally choose this as the last step in my routine. The light floral / ocean?? scent isn't overpowering like how it is with the Laneige toner and Water Bank emulsion, but it's still a noticeable scent. The steep price of the sleeping pack is annoyingly steep, so buying online is a better bet.





In the coming weeks, I want to take a close look at the ingredients and study it to see what ingredients seem to be working for my skin.





hada labo gokujun hyaluronic lotion - moist

hyaluronic acid

up like a thirsty beast. I liked it a lot, but I want to try out the Shirojun line to compare the two before calling the

Gokujun moist lotion anything close to HG, and sharing my full thoughts. I also try out ordering from Cosmebox on Rakuten.

I bought the hydration kit, purchased last summer??? from Target, which contains six travel sizeproducts for USD$29. Since purchasing, I've been slowly using the items in the kit. This toner though, has to be my least favorite in the kit...The toner is more like a watery, liquid lotion (like's) but with a strong smell of alcohol. I believe alcolhol is high on the ingredients list, too--I can't confirm for sure because I accidently threw the paper insert with all the ingredient listings for each product away. /sobThistoner didn't dry my face out necessarily, but it didn't add much hydration or anything to my skin either. Nothing remarkable happened. I can handle the smell and severity of thefar better, sadly....so it's safe to say that I would not purchase the full size.I liked the sleeping pack so much bought the full size around Black Friday??? last year and gifted it myself for Christmas. t was about USD$35.HELL YEAH!!!! I bought's cult, in moist, around August 2015. I just finished it up yesterday (late-Jan 2016) and I honestly couldn't believe how fast I went through this bottle!!I used theprimarily a lot during last summertime and going into autumn; my face drank theSide note: the kanji 極 and 潤 are now forever ingrained in my head. 肌研さん、あざす！Anyway, that's all my AB empties for now. See you!