suncream, zits and wrinkles: rolling skincare thread?

I have extremely sensitive rosacea-acne skin and that's the % recommended - there's even a 0.01% version!

I like the idea of these brushes, like putting your face through a car wash.
(I love car washes!)

anyone got any lipbalm recs? this whole winter my lips have been chapped and cracking and i want my face back

weleda lipbalm is A+, best I've tried.

The spherical Eos ones are incredible imo.

I'm digging Sugar lip balms a lot. Pricey though.

I've never liked those. They are too slippery for my taste. Not thick enough, I guess. They smell really wonderful though.

My BB 3-in-1 face stuff is too pale/flat/cool for my skin color. :( And it only comes in one shade, which is mystifying. They also sent a sample of the other two formulas, which are in other colors. Maybe one of those will work because I like the amt of coverage and moisturizing and sunblock all together, it just makes me a funny mask.

:/ That was the main reason I never ordered any. I was worried about the color not matching.

Could you add a drop or two of a pigmented foundation to it? I know, not the point, but better than wasting money. In the winter I mix skin cream and foundation because my pale skin is more pale than most foundations :P

Was thinking of that, will try this eve. It just means I always have to carry around both items, but maybe I'll squeeze them into a little pot for travel.

Now's a good chance to deploy any too-dark foundations you may have! Heh.

re: lips - I know i've preached the gospel of lanolin before, but it is the best when your lips seem beyond help - I buy the stuff in the baby aisle of the drugstore - it's for cracked nipples! And then I put some of it into a little container, of course. You can also buy it from health food stores or places that sell diy hippie-beauty supplies.

I also love Aveda renewing lip treatment, tho it is like $16. It's just oils and wax but it's good. All petrolatum/vaselin products destroy my lips, so...

Chapstick, always and forever.

Burt's Bees is my go-to, although I realize not everyone reacts well to the mint and stuff.

Lanolin's great, but some people are allergic (also problematic animal product for some others). I use shea butter from Pre du Provence, comes in a little tin or a tube. If things are super awful, cracked and peeling, Blistex ointment, slathered on multiple times, really helps smooth things out. Then revert back to a balm.

I have had real trouble with my lips this winter, too. even the kind of medicated stuff from the store didn't do much - it just sits there and feels thick and after half an hour they feel cracked again. I got this lanolin stuff from my mum (recommended by Sali Hughes on the Guardian) called Lanolips Lemonaid. It's the best I've tried so far and it's all lemony! But I still need to apply it fairly often. I didn't know about lanolin from the drugstore - I might try that!

also try making sure you are drinking lots of water! you can dry out from the inside.

I don't use lanolin because it grosses me out but it's supposed to be wonderful and I have heard good things about that Lanolips stuff.

I can't say it's changed my life but it's p good.

i got a free duo of fresh sugar balms for my birthday from sephora. the tinted one is really nice because the shade adds a v natural tint to my lips. very smooth and great smell but i don't know if there's any long term treatment effect from using it :(

They give you birthday stuff?! i have over 100 'points' but their things you get for that right now aren't very intersting :(

i got an email around my birthday with the offer!

Yeah everyone with a Sephora card can go in and get the birthday gift two weeks before or after their birthday. It used to be Philosophy shower gel but I think they changed to the lip balms at the start of this year.

I wish they just had a page that tells you what you get with 100 points. I keep having to fake-buy something to see what it is. Is it the same birthday gift all year?

I think it is, yeah. Your point perk page idea is really good.

It's always worth it to wait for the 500 point perk, IMO.

I got the Sugar lip balms as a Sephora birthday gift, too, then I bought a rose one. I've about used all three of them up, actually.

the 500 point perk idea is hard for me to think about without feeling guilty because it translates to sooooo much money spent at sephora.

^^ exactly! Also there is a chance I will be moving out of the US before my birthday and definitely before I get 500 points. Can't believe there's still no Sephora in the UK >:(

There isn't? There was! When I lived in London there was a Sephora in the shopping center by the Angel tube stop. This was 2003-2005. I guess I assumed it was still there but I just looked and it seems like they shut down all the UK ones. :/ TBF some of the bigger nicer Boots are almost like Sephoras and they do 2 for 3 offers all the time!

I remember the first one I ever went in btw. It must have been like 1997 and just before they opened in the US. I'd read about them in magazines so stopped in one on the Champs-Elysees when I was in Paris that summer. Since CVS had been my only source of girly stuff before then I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I could have spent hours in there but was with my grandmother so just grabbed some eye pencils and left.

I have never been patient enough to wait for the 500 pt perk.

Paris was my first Sephora too!

:)

Somehow I have started lip chewing, which is new for me, but once you start it is hard to stop!

Hoping DC humidity will fix the peeling lips thing. I only nibble if there are peelies :(

Anyone tried Salma Hayek's product line yet?

saw that at cvs yesterday! instead I got the generic amlactin in hopes of better arms one day

Been using grapeseed oil as a moisturizer since I ran out of cocoa butter and so did the store. It isn't stuff I bought in the skin and body care aisle, it's actually food grade Pompeian. Anyway it was supposed to be a two or three day thing until the store restocked but I"m seeing amazing results. It gets absorbed really fast and makes me silky smooth. I am not crazy about the natural scent though. Hope to get an essential oil for that. But I Googled it and apparently the oil has pretty awesome qualities.

my lips are so dry right now due to a combination of drinking from a plastic water bottle too much over the past several days (traveling, workshops, etc), accidentally getting my rx face treatments on my upper lip, being in a plane and not drinking enough water. it hurts :( lanolin is fixing it slowly but complaining about it on ils might help too, haha

my skin in general is def still getting better tho :)

Hey Kinder if you go to the Sephora site, scroll to the bottom abd click beta site, you will see an offers link on the beta site that shows you what is available for your points.

Aha! Thanks!

my DDF dew finally arrived. My skin has been freaking out without it.

Dont you hate when your moisturizer is packaged in one of those opaque squirt bottles so you never know you've run out until one morning a tiny little splat comes out and then nothing. such bullshit.

yes!

The worst!

Okay, I have joined the Cult of Coconut Oil. Love the hell out of it as eye makeup remover and nighttime moisturizer (too heavy for day). Plus I smell like a macaroon and I want to lick my own face.

Oh also, tried homemade toner (1/4 to 1/3 apple cider vinegar (the hippie unfiltered stuff), water) and I really like it. I had to dilute it more because at the 1/3 strength it dried me out and the smell isn't for everybody, but I'm pleased (I also like the smell - smells like sour beer).

Correlation is not causation and all but after these two changes my face is really well moisturized and soft and even and, I dont know this sounds creepy, but all supple looking.

Peace and love,
Starflower Moonbeam Free Wolf

lol <3

I'm beginning to think this stuff is all snake oil.

That's why I got all excited about using salad dressing ingredients on my face. It's cheap and I feel like I'm sticking it to the Skincare Industrial Complex.

Oh the coconut oil is good as eye cream, too. I just smear it on my eyes when I'm putting it on the rest of my face (some people on MUA claimed it made their eyelashes thicker, but I do not want anything to make any hair on my face any thicker. I do not need more chin hairs to contend with). I tried using just jojoba oil as a daytime moisturizer, but it was too light. I mix it with some good old Cerave and that works great.

Anyone use Skinceuticals C E Ferulic?

I use the knockoff you get on Amazon!