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[HD90]

Quote: Originally Posted by saku /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  funny. i was just looking around in my sephora account...and checked my past orders. i realized that my very first sephora order was for the Naked palette! that's the thing that started it all!
OMG! The first Naked palette was my first high end make up purchase too! Now I'm like a make-up addict/hoarder lol Never in my life would I think that I would be spending this much money on make-up. 

 

[SaraP]

They removed my answer, basically it was Paula's Choice acne line and effaclar duo from la roche posay. 

 

[Scooby Dynamite]

  funny. i was just looking around in my sephora account...and checked my past orders. i realized that my very first sephora order was for the Naked palette! that's the thing that started it all!

OMG! The first Naked palette was my first high end make up purchase too! Now I'm like a make-up addict/hoarder lol Never in my life would I think that I would be spending this much money on make-up. 

Same here. .first sephora purchase naked 1 and 2 lol. Oh how my collection has grown since then.. and I still use and love the nakeds. I need to play with 3 more...

 

[BSquared]

Picked up fragrance in store at sephora today. 3x points were credited to my account automatically and already showing in my account. Woohoo!

 

[SaraP]

Quote: Originally Posted by BSquared /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Picked up fragrance in store at sephora today. 3x points were credited to my account automatically and already showing in my account. Woohoo!
That's awesome, there are some new perks that I want...I'm still waiting for my 2x points for skincare.

 

[saku]

i think i also already got credited with the 3x points on fragrance. i placed my online order on the 6th.

 

[tallison]

So I finally found the product combination that has cleared my acne (at age 36!!), now I'm looking for great additions to my routine. Anyone have suggestions for moisturizers, masks, serums or treatments? My skin is oily, with large pores and some discolorations from old acne. I don't really have wrinkles (the one good thing about my oil slick), but am starting to think about ageing. Thanks!!

I know a lot of people love the GlamGlow masks, but I LOVE the REN Glycol Lactic Radiance Renewal mask...it makes a huge difference in my skin. There is a REN kit with a full size of this mask that has deluxe samples of several other products that I really want to try, but I'm currently trying to use up the skin care I have before i buy more. I also love the Korres Wild Rose Sleeping Facial as a night cream/treatment. My favorite day time moisturizer is the REN Evercalm Global Day Cream. I'm still looking for a great serum and eye cream, so any recommendations are welcome! Overall, my biggest issue is dull skin and hyperpigmentation (when I get a blemish it likes to hang around for a week or two after its gone).

 

[felicia1995]

Quote: Originally Posted by tallison /img/forum/go_quote.gif


I know a lot of people love the GlamGlow masks, but I LOVE the REN Glycol Lactic Radiance Renewal mask...it makes a huge difference in my skin. There is a REN kit with a full size of this mask that has deluxe samples of several other products that I really want to try, but I'm currently trying to use up the skin care I have before i buy more. I also love the Korres Wild Rose Sleeping Facial as a night cream/treatment. My favorite day time moisturizer is the REN Evercalm Global Day Cream. I'm still looking for a great serum and eye cream, so any recommendations are welcome! Overall, my biggest issue is dull skin and hyperpigmentation (when I get a blemish it likes to hang around for a week or two after its gone).

I love REN products. I just wish they were a little less spendy! I bought another REN Fab Four kit when it hit the sale section a month or two ago. The Glycol Lactic mask is amazing...also I love the retinoid oil and the microexfoliating cleanser. I've had noticeable results with all three of those products and they haven't irritated my sensitive skin.

 

[SaraP]

Quote: Originally Posted by tallison /img/forum/go_quote.gif


I know a lot of people love the GlamGlow masks, but I LOVE the REN Glycol Lactic Radiance Renewal mask...it makes a huge difference in my skin. There is a REN kit with a full size of this mask that has deluxe samples of several other products that I really want to try, but I'm currently trying to use up the skin care I have before i buy more. I also love the Korres Wild Rose Sleeping Facial as a night cream/treatment. My favorite day time moisturizer is the REN Evercalm Global Day Cream. I'm still looking for a great serum and eye cream, so any recommendations are welcome! Overall, my biggest issue is dull skin and hyperpigmentation (when I get a blemish it likes to hang around for a week or two after its gone).
I have 3 samples of the Ren Renewal mask, how often do you use it? AND how funny I also have a sample of the Korres Facial. 

 

[felicia1995]

Quote: Originally Posted by SaraP /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I have 3 samples of the Ren Renewal mask, how often do you use it? AND how funny I also have a sample of the Korres Facial. 
I would try it a couple times a week. I was amazed at how soft my skin felt the morning after I used it.

 

[tallison]

Quote: Originally Posted by SaraP /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I have 3 samples of the Ren Renewal mask, how often do you use it? AND how funny I also have a sample of the Korres Facial. 
I know someone else here said to use it a couple of times a week, but really once a week is plenty.  Its a chemically exfoliating mask, and I definitely think some people over-do exfoliating, which I think can be just as bad for your skin as not exfoliating.  If you are using a scrub a few times a week to do a manual exfoliation (I am not a fan of manual exfoliation, I use a scrub maybe once a month, I use the REN scrub), you may want to use this mask on an alternate day (when you haven't scrubbed your face).  My philosophy is to avoid using too many products that might irritate the skin right in a row, but space them out over the course of a week.  This is especially true if your skin has been acne prone in the past, any time my skin has broken out, it is more prone to irritation/redness even once the breakouts have cleared.  I generally use a gentle cleanser/cleansing balm/makeup remover to prep my face for this mask.

My advice would be to try once a week, if your skin has active acne or is irritated, wait for a night when it feels mostly normal, the ingredients in this aren't meant to treat acne really.  I usually do it at night, so I follow it with the Korres cream (might be a little risky to try two new things at once, but this is what I use). The next day I was feeling my face in the morning and my dull skin felt completely smooth and amazing.  

My major point of advice would be to not let the mask sit on your skin longer than the recommended time.  I don't usually feel any burning or anything with the mask, but I always take it off after 10 minutes.  I know some people tend to leave masks on for a while (an hour?!?!?

) but this has chemical exfoliants in in, you really don't want to do that. 10 minutes is enough to give me results. Let me know if these work out for you, I love these products!!

My next products I want to try are the Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate and eye cream, I'm waiting until I find a good Gift with Purchase deal

.  I also have a sample of an Eve Lom mask, but I had a bad skin reaction last month to a mask sample and I'm scared to try some of my new samples now, haha.  My skin is getting more sensitive as I get older (I'm "only" 31, but still in my teens I could put anything on my skin and be ok) so I'm less keen to buy and try products without sampling first.

 

[thinkpink7l7]

I'm not feeling well so I've decided to fill my time with online makeup shopping!

I have a few questions.

1.  When is Sephora's next percentage off sale?  Historically, is it really going to be 15% in April?

2. What do you use as a primer, setting powder, and then a finishing powder?   I use the Smashbox oil free primer right now for days I use mineral make up.  When I use a bb cream,I usually set it with Bare Minerals Mineral Veil or the MUFE silica powder.  But recently, I've been reading about how the silicone in foundation primers is really bad for oily skin and that silica is also bad for skin.  Any thoughts?  What is the deal with setting sprays?

Also trying to decide on a finishing powder.  People were really excited about the Hourglass Ambient Light powders but are those the absolute best?

Thank you MUT geniuses!

 

[tallison]

Quote: Originally Posted by panicked /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
I love REN products. I just wish they were a little less spendy! I bought another REN Fab Four kit when it hit the sale section a month or two ago. The Glycol Lactic mask is amazing...also I love the retinoid oil and the microexfoliating cleanser. I've had noticeable results with all three of those products and they haven't irritated my sensitive skin.
I loved everything in the Fab Four kit!! I even got one for my mom for Xmas.  I wish I could find it again, it was such a good bargain

.  I swear if more lines had a kit like this that people could use for a week or two to test drive everything that would make me so happy.  I hate when I buy a whole line of full size products that are supposed to "work together" and it just doesn't work out with my skin.  This kit really got me into REN (dangerous!! because, yes it is a bit spendy), FirstAidBeauty had a good kit (ultra repair head to toe hydration kit) that was available and I missed out on during 2xpoints skincare week, but its been out of stock and I don't know if it will come back 

 

 

[saku]

Quote: Originally Posted by thinkpink7l7 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I'm not feeling well so I've decided to fill my time with online makeup shopping!

I have a few questions.

1.  When is Sephora's next percentage off sale?  Historically, is it really going to be 15% in April?

2. What do you use as a primer, setting powder, and then a finishing powder?   I use the Smashbox oil free primer right now for days I use mineral make up.  When I use a bb cream,I usually set it with Bare Minerals Mineral Veil or the MUFE silica powder.  But recently, I've been reading about how the silicone in foundation primers is really bad for oily skin and that silica is also bad for skin.  Any thoughts?  What is the deal with setting sprays?

Also trying to decide on a finishing powder.  People were really excited about the Hourglass Ambient Light powders but are those the absolute best?

Thank you MUT geniuses!

yep, i believe the next one is in April.

primer: benefit porefessional, benefit that gal, lancome la base,

setting powder: shiseido translucent loose powder

finishing powder: don't really use.... but after reading reviews, swatching stuff in store, etc, etc.. i'm thinking about getting the YSL one. for now, i just use MAC blot powder cause i want to use it up! this is also very good for absorbing oil

setting spray: i use UD all nighter sometimes.

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[dashali]

I wanted to try that, but decided to try and stay away from BP, as it seams to be a controversial ingredient.  

For now, I got Kate Somerville's 500 points kit, and I must say that her detox cleanser is awesome! It seam to be working but it is to soon to tell. I am yet to try the moisturizer, I heard it should be also a good one. 

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaraP /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  They removed my answer, basically it was Paula's Choice acne line and effaclar duo from la roche posay. 

 

[tallison]

Quote:
Originally Posted by thinkpink7l7 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I'm not feeling well so I've decided to fill my time with online makeup shopping!

I have a few questions.

1.  When is Sephora's next percentage off sale?  Historically, is it really going to be 15% in April?

2. What do you use as a primer, setting powder, and then a finishing powder?   I use the Smashbox oil free primer right now for days I use mineral make up.  When I use a bb cream,I usually set it with Bare Minerals Mineral Veil or the MUFE silica powder.  But recently, I've been reading about how the silicone in foundation primers is really bad for oily skin and that silica is also bad for skin.  Any thoughts?  What is the deal with setting sprays?

Also trying to decide on a finishing powder.  People were really excited about the Hourglass Ambient Light powders but are those the absolute best?

Thank you MUT geniuses!
1.  I haven't heard about the April promotion yet.  I'm sure all the VIB Rouges will begin speculating if there will be different discounts for BI vs VIB vs Rouge.  I think if they continue to disappoint the very vocal Rouge community there may be rioting on MUT!!! haha.

2. Primer: Hourglass Mineral Veil.  Yeah, its pricey, but since I don't prime every day I got the .33oz size for $18, its lasted me 3-4 months so far and I've barely made a dent.  There are samples and 100 point perks of primers All. The. Time.  Test drive a few if you are looking for a different formulation. 

Powder: I use Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder in Dim Light on a daily basis, but not to truly set my concealer, more as a finishing powder.  I love this stuff, but I'm sad because I've got serious pan and I don't want to pay for another one.  I'm thinking about getting the NARS pressed setting powder for use under my eyes as a setting powder, but haven't made myself buy i yet.  I have good skin, so I like to wear as little make up covering my face as possible for as long as I can get away with it.  

  The hourglass powders are great because they look nice on bare skin or over foundations.  

As far as I know, the silicone in primers works to smooth over and fill in everything, including your pores.  So basically if you have oily skin with large pores, it will fill in the pores so that your foundation doesn't settle into the pores.  This doesn't really sound to me like the best thing you can do for your skin, but I'm not sure that its THAT bad either.  If your current primer routine is working for your skin (if you don't end up with acne after you use it), then I say to keep going with it.  

The only way to tell if a primer will work for your skin is to try it.  I DEFINITELY wouldn't go to bed without thoroughly cleansing my skin after using a primer.  You might even want to use a makeup remover/cleansing balm to be sure all of it is removed.  If you are the type of person who doesn't wash their face each night, a silicone primer might not be for you.

  The makeup geniuses change their minds all the time about what good and bad for your skin (1990s: oil free everything!, now: all oil all the time?) so unless your skin is responding poorly to something (breaking out or becoming red and irritated)

I walk to work every day, and I need the UD De-slick setting spray in the summer to keep all my makeup from running off my face.  Yes, it really works to keep your makeup on your face, I have the smaller size because I don't go through it very quickly.  Its not something I use in the winter.  My advice when you're trying a new product that you haven't used yet and might not need every day is to always get the small size even if the bigger one is a better value!!!!

 

[SaraP]

Quote: Originally Posted by dashali /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
I wanted to try that, but decided to try and stay away from BP, as it seams to be a controversial ingredient.  

For now, I got Kate Somerville's 500 points kit, and I must say that her detox cleanser is awesome! It seam to be working but it is to soon to tell. I am yet to try the moisturizer, I heard it should be also a good one. 

Okay I don't want to get in trouble (AGAIN), but you can purchase the 2 week kit (which is how I first tried it) for $13 and an extra 15% off with AMNEWYEAR15. They have free shipping right now and if you look around there is a $10 off purchase of $15 that can be used with the 15% off.

I can't say anymore then that or my comments will be removed!! BUT it's easy to find...Add the 2 week kit and the $3 blotting papers and you can try the whole thing for just a few bucks.

*Also 5% back on ebates

(Dear thread monitor: I hope that was okay, seriously not  trying to step on any toes!!)

 

[dashali]

Gotcha! I will give it a try! 

Quote:

Originally Posted by SaraP /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I wanted to try that, but decided to try and stay away from BP, as it seams to be a controversial ingredient.  

For now, I got Kate Somerville's 500 points kit, and I must say that her detox cleanser is awesome! It seam to be working but it is to soon to tell. I am yet to try the moisturizer, I heard it should be also a good one. 

Okay I don't want to get in trouble (AGAIN), but you can purchase the 2 week kit (which is how I first tried it) for $13 and an extra 15% off with AMNEWYEAR15. They have free shipping right now and if you look around there is a $10 off purchase of $15 that can be used with the 15% off.

I can't say anymore then that or my comments will be removed!! BUT it's easy to find...Add the 2 week kit and the $3 blotting papers and you can try the whole thing for just a few bucks.

*Also 5% back on ebates

 

[SaraP]

Thanks for the feedback tallison and panicked!! I'm going to add the Ren mask 2 times a week for the next month (I have enough samples to do it!) and see how it goes. It smells amazing 

 

[FormosaHoney]

Has anyone tried the Bond 9 I LOVE NY HOLIDAYS?  It opens just like Angel, but it's more linear.