Moisturizing: smooth and nice

Moisturizing is super important for your skin, it is the food you give it in order to keep it nice, smooth and glow-y. After taking a shower or a bath, your skin loses some of the humidity it naturally has. Sometimes it depends on the environment that you find yourself at and dry weather makes it dryer if you have dry skin, or too oily of you are at a very humid place with oily skin. 

I try to focus on moisturizing my elbows, my knees and that joint between the length of your leg and your feet. Those are my really problematic areas, specially suffering from a lower degree psoriasis on those areas. It's been a while since I had that and I always needed some good moisturizers and thick ones too. 

The most generic one I can think of that has really worked is the Nivea Creme. 

It's formulation is thick and leaves a residue for a long time. I like to apply it at night before I go to bed because that is when all the nutrients and compounds can get better into the skin to repair it more effectively. 

For my face, I am faithful to Ponds, I haven't tried many of them but that one keeps my skin fresh and nice (breakout free also) 

How do you like to moisturize your skin? Which are your problem areas? Leave it in the comments below :) 

picture from here. 

Breakouts: How I handle them

I am pretty sure everyone suffers from small breakouts once in a while. I am quite thankful that I don't have to handle acne and that my skin is pretty much clear, well except when I have those small and hideous breakouts that are inevitable from time to time. They bother me like crazy. Specially if there is an occasion where I would love to have my skin flawless and what not. But there they are, like knowing that you need that the most and appear like a call has been made to invite them to enjoy the party! 

Recently, I've been having to deal with that. My skin was being mischievous with me and felt like it was playing a bag joke on me. My routine is pretty much the same since I was in High School, but I had only changed facial soaps during this time. I was using a bar soap from Clean & Clear and not my usual foaming cleanser. That was it. 

A couple days ago I switched back and that did the trick. Normally all Clean & Clear products do wonders for me, I just don't know what happened with that one. But switching back to the foaming cleanser was a miracle and also I applied the clear gel to fight with the small breakouts of my skin. So I have seen an improvement. My problem area is my forehead, just in between my eyebrows and going a little over them I don't know the deal about it but it is just hideous and bothering and makes me self conscious. 

Also, I keep reading blogs and hearing YouTube beauty gurus talk about the Bioderma Sensibio H2O, which is a cleansing water that acts removing makeup, as a toner or just to cleanse your face. I am looking forward to trying it. In Peru I know that there are 3 drugstores that carry the brand, they are Boticas Fasa, MiFarma and BTL, if you are living in this beautiful country (like I am) you can go check them out. And there are plenty of other places around the world that carry the brand. You can go to the Bioderma Webpage to see where you can find it with no trouble. 

I hope this has been a little useful and now you know how I handle that little pain in the butt that are those unexpected breakouts. 

xo, 

S.A 

Pictures from here, here and here. 

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post. Non of the companies mentioned are paying me to do so and I am not an affiliate of their brands. All opinions are my own. 

Coffee Addict in Tea rehab

I've been drinking so much coffee lately that I feel it can't be good. The past few days, I've tried to get back down with it and try a healthier option, which is tea. I love tea also. I've drank  it all my life and my favourite one is Green Tea with Lemon Ginseng from Lipton, it is very good. I never drink it with sugar, I don't like the majority of my teas with sugar. 

Another kind of tea that I was recently introduced to was Red Tea. I had some scepticism about trying it, but finally did and pretty much love it. At first it tastes a little sour and strong, not a very pleasant sensation but, the next few sips, it gets better and better. 

A side from the taste and the actual colour, which is, ehhh well, red. It has great benefits for your health and is a great anti-oxidant. You may have wonder why Chinese and Asian people in general are so wrinkle free? well that is the answer. Go check some of the benefits red tea has here and let me know if you have tried it or if you would like to try it. 

A not-so-clear image of my cup of tea one night getting my read on. 

Hope your week is going great! 

xo, 

S.A  

Disclaimer: the page linked in the post is not aware I am doing this, they did not contacted me to write about teas or other topics. All opinions are my own and yes I do love tea also as much as I love coffee. :)