suncream, zits and wrinkles: rolling skincare thread?

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!

what do the "guys of ilx" (best-selling calendar) use?

i tend to go clinique moisturiser and number 7 spf.

Kiehl's Facial Fuel (SPF 15) and then crazy strong suncream when the summer is out. I am very white.

i use kiehl's facial fuel ant wrinkle cream, eye alert and age combat serum as well as their midnight recovery serum and eye gel before bed. haha. i use the number 7 mens eye roller too. i find clinique not hydrating enough but i suppose it depends what your skin is like. my pal who works for clinique doesn't rate their moisturisers either though.

I use the Nivea stuff they sell at target (blue goop, grainy white goop twice a week) and moisturizer/sunscreen when I go outdoors. I have no idea what I'm doing and my skin is dry and flaky as hell, but I'm not really sure where to turn for advice without getting upsold on expensive stuff I don't really need.

Try cetaphil or the walgreens knock-off - their cleanser and moisturizer are both really gentle and good for dryness.

seconded, or cerave.

Thirded. Plus if your skin is dry and flaky, you probably need moisturizer every day and not just when you go outside.

love cerave!

i like it better than cetaphil!

Are you guys talking the cleanser or the moisturizer? I have been using Cetaphil SPF 30 facial moisturizer and it's OK but maybe a little too thick for summer. I need a good facial moisturizer wtih SPF for every day wear. Any recs?

Oh, btw, after a fairly awful couple of months I am now loving the Retin-A.

i was thinking of the cleanser.

i have been using a bliss moisturizer u got at tjmaxx for cheap. it's only spf 15 but i figure my makeup is also spf so it's ok? probably wishful thinking.

*i got

cerave makes a facial moisturizer with spf which is okay, but i don't like it as much as the regular cerave lotion, which i use on my face (don't know if i'm supposed to but whatev.) E, I really like this moisturizer with SPF. it's supposed to be one of the sunscreens that isn't going to kill you with carcinogenic chemicals or whatever. it's also a very good moisturizer.

Devita Solar Protective Moisturizer with SPF 30 is what it's called, in case that link doesn't work.

My skin suddenly looks superwrinkly when I smile, I know I'm getting older but it is weird! Maybe I just haven't looked in a mirror in a few years? I am almost 37 and really thin so I guess this is not unexpected. And I got a lot of sun last weekend, maybe that is the suddenness explained. Still, product suggestions appreciated. I do not usually get a lot of sun but I might this summer. And I hate sunscreen, it burns my eyes and feels terrible and I break out.

I can't use the cetaphil spf - it makes my skin sting and if it gets near my eyes it hurts like crazy. I bought some neutrogena 50spf but I only used it a couple times before I managed to fucking lose it.

I'm going to give Cerave a try, I think.

I spent years doing Clinique 3 Step, but finally figured out a while ago that all that toner has screwed up my skin I think? I mean, no wrinkles but I'm forever pink-faced now without makeup and it kinda bums me out. I always had 'high color' but now it's pretty much permanent. I've been on Olay for a while but it's too drying.

i really recommend the neutragena baby line...i am using the sunblock lotion spf 60 and it did not sting even when i was sweating at boot camp class this morning. i haven't tried it for everyday, under makeup use though.

Cerave purchased

(also Fekkai hairstuff 3pack bcs why not)

fancy!

CVS is my new Macy's lol

Cerave wins! 3 days and my face is not itchy, and doesn't feel half as bright pink as it usually does by this time of the day.

also I know this isn't the hair thread but seriously, having glossy hair makes me feel like I bought a whole new wardrobe. yay my hair looks semi-nice again.