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  • Blanche
    Blanche Posts: 247
    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Lush shops stink to high heaven.
    People look at me as if I were antisocial when I say that. :rolleyes:

    Toothpaste!
    It's good against zits. Just put a gob of toothpaste on the zit and leave overnight.
    It's also good for burns if you don't have anything else on hand.
    (I think it's the mint and not the toothpaste itself.)

    An overnight hair mask of monoi oil doesn't hurt and it smells nice, too.

    Vichy body moisturiser and sunscreen and Nuxe facial moisturiser don't cause irritation or pimples.

    As for cellulite creams, sorry ladies.
    The cream doesn't break up the cellulite; it's the massage recommended by the manufacturer.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    well I've never been one for any kinda fake tan... it's like cheating :D but I did use sally hensens leg one for the christmas party and that was EXCELLENT... no streaks at all and you can see what you're doing and it was very natural. I don't like the Johnsons one... I found it came out streaky and quite obvious looking.

    I've been burned before which was why I just felt stupid in the sunbed and thought 'what the fuck am I doing to myself?'

    Well, I think all tans are stupid really, but there's no way I'd be attempting to actually brown my skin permanently because it just doesn't work for me! Burn, peel and freckle that's me! :o And it's not like I show a lot of skin anyway, so I really only use the fake tan stuff in the summer if I'm going somewhere nice and I'm planning on frocking up, and usually then it's only on my legs, so I don't have to wear stockings. Coz who really needs to wear pantyhose? ;)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    lgt wrote:
    ...There's no need for toning (just exfoliating one a week, or washing your face off with a sponge/muslin cloth is enough to thoroughly clean) - so you can skip that step!)..

    It's good to hear that I'm not the only one that thinks toning is a waste of time. I never bother with it anymore, after experimenting with hoards of the stuff when I was younger. Just seems to make a bigger mess of my skin, so after I've washed with the Clinique Facial Soap in the shower, I just splash a little cold water on my face, pat it dry and then apply moisturizer. And the same goes at night time when I can be bothered. I might also use Neutrogena Facial soap if I'm out of Clinique. And if I've got a face full of make up, I cleanse with Neutrogena Cleanser, then rinse, then wash with Clinique before popping on some night cream.

    http://www.clinique.com.au/templates/products/3step_prod.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CAT6521

    http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=16679&catid=21189&aid=335933&aparam=neutrogena_transparent_fa
    lgt wrote:
    ...The serum is - I believe - a new step in the grooming process, like using a primer (or base) before applying foundation. It only goes before the moisturiser, both first thing in the morning and last thing at night (therefore before the night cream).

    I use Estee Lauder Night Repair from time to time, but I'm finding that it doesn't suit my skin as well as it used to.
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  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    I use aloe vera...at night on my face and in the morning after I shower and wash my face...I have never had problems with breakouts or anything...it is better than all the stuff that they sell that is usually too greasy...

    I also use ivory soap (it floats) I havent changed this since I was 10 years old...

    sometimes I have to use some oatmeal and honey mix (the stuff in your cupboard) when my face gets winter skin...but other than that...no "products" except makeup (of course) and I dont like face makeup...just the eye and lip stuff...

    I have a sister that is addicted to oil of olay age stuff...she claims it works...she is 43 but doesnt look it....so, maybe it does work.
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    lgt wrote:
    I've noticed that especially for Americans the phrase sensitive skin is meant to indicate skin with a tendency to break out in spots and/or congested.

    Is that the case or am I misinterpreting?

    I've always thought it meant sensitive to the environment/delicate/prone to redness, etc.



    lgt!!!
    helloooooooooooooooooo!
    :D


    secondly, yes..i think you are misinterpreting. any 'sensitive skin' product i have ever bought in the US is just that, dfor sensitive skin....not for acne-prone. usually, there is a whole other line of products for that. :)





    btw - i returned to sephora purposely yesterday....to pick up a new perfume...and also, by suggestion from someone in this thread....p/u clinique's pore minimizer lotion. so i did, and i hope it has positive results, thanks for the tip! :)
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Blanche wrote:
    I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Lush shops stink to high heaven.
    People look at me as if I were antisocial when I say that. :rolleyes:

    No I don't think you're antisocial, but I love Lush! I'm going to NYC tomorrow and Saturday I'm going to the Lush store, hopefully find a MAC store, and Sephora, though I believe Macy's carries MAC so I could go there.

    I don't bother with toning - I was with a Lush cleanser and use a moisturizer from the same company and that's basically it.
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  • Westernsky
    Westernsky Posts: 363
    JaneNY wrote:
    No I don't think you're antisocial, but I love Lush! I'm going to NYC tomorrow and Saturday I'm going to the Lush store, hopefully find a MAC store, and Sephora, though I believe Macy's carries MAC so I could go there.

    I *love* LUSH! I don't have one near me, but one of the benefits to traveling to see Pearl Jam is that I periodically get to visit Lush stores too (right K!).
    Le sigh.

    There was a Lush booth at Lollapalooza that was really neat, but I figured my stuff might melt, so I went to the Macy's on State street and got my Lush fix there. :D

    Tips... for those of you need waterproof mascara - Lancome really works. Also if you need an eye liner that stays put invest in the Stila smudge pots; they won't move until you remove them.
  • genevieve
    genevieve Posts: 1,203
    Heres my beauty tip.

    Buy some nipple creme.
    Its in the baby section of most grocery stores or pharmacies.
    There are a few brands.
    I have tried Lanisoh (purple tube) and Medela (yellow tube).
    And use it before bed on your dry or cracked heals for like a week.
    Its quite sticky so you dont want to use it during the day.

    Its awsome.
    Best thing for heals yet.
    And if you have nursed a baby and dont know what to do with your leftover nipple creme, well here you go. :D
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  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    genevieve wrote:
    Heres my beauty tip.

    Buy some nipple creme.
    Its in the baby section of most grocery stores or pharmacies.
    There are a few brands.
    I have tried Lanisoh (purple tube) and Medela (yellow tube).
    And use it before bed on your dry or cracked heals for like a week.
    Its quite sticky so you dont want to use it during the day.

    Its awsome.
    Best thing for heals yet.
    And if you have nursed a baby and dont know what to do with your leftover nipple creme, well here you go. :D

    gen, that is actually brilliant!! i never thought of that, but that stuff is so thick, it would be perfect... too bad I didn't save any of mine.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Jeanie wrote:
    Well, I think all tans are stupid really, but there's no way I'd be attempting to actually brown my skin permanently because it just doesn't work for me! Burn, peel and freckle that's me! :o And it's not like I show a lot of skin anyway, so I really only use the fake tan stuff in the summer if I'm going somewhere nice and I'm planning on frocking up, and usually then it's only on my legs, so I don't have to wear stockings. Coz who really needs to wear pantyhose? ;)
    well once I've burned initially :rolleyes: I tend to get a brilliant tan... we just haven't had any sun this year and in Chicago it was WAY too hot to be miserly with the sun tan lotion :eek: so I'm white.

    toning's always seemed pointless... I've tried it a few times and just don't get it.

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  • lgt
    lgt Posts: 720
    Jeanie wrote:

    I use Estee Lauder Night Repair from time to time, but I'm finding that it doesn't suit my skin as well as it used to.

    I used that too and I also find myself not using it as much. Also I discover that it has sun protection (that's their anti-ageing factor) so it doesn't make any sense to use it at night.

    Argh.. not sure how to do multiple quotes from different posts, so here it goes...

    - D2D:

    HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO right back at ya! :)

    good to hear that sensitive skin is just sensitive skin then! :D

    - genevieve:

    Never heard of nipple cream before, but if it works on cracked heels it's worth trying out. I like to keep my feet soft!
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    brainofjb wrote:
    THANKS!!!

    So far so good with the cocoa butter. I still have a long way to go

    To prevent stretch marks during both my pregnancies, I used Neutrogena Sesame Oil on my belly, applied with a damp washcloth, right out of the shower. I don't have a single stretch mark! :) And it smells good, too.
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  • Blanche
    Blanche Posts: 247
    JaneNY wrote:
    No I don't think you're antisocial, but I love Lush! I'm going to NYC tomorrow and Saturday I'm going to the Lush store, hopefully find a MAC store, and Sephora, though I believe Macy's carries MAC so I could go there.

    I don't bother with toning - I was with a Lush cleanser and use a moisturizer from the same company and that's basically it.
    The last time I went to NYC, the Lush shop was at Herald Square (and the door was CLOSED :p ), where that old store Korvette's used to be, Sephora across from Macy's and MAC at Macy's.
    You just walk out of Penn Station and shop.
    :)
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    genevieve wrote:
    Heres my beauty tip.

    Buy some nipple creme.
    Its in the baby section of most grocery stores or pharmacies.
    There are a few brands.
    I have tried Lanisoh (purple tube) and Medela (yellow tube).
    And use it before bed on your dry or cracked heals for like a week.
    Its quite sticky so you dont want to use it during the day.

    Its awsome.
    Best thing for heals yet.
    And if you have nursed a baby and dont know what to do with your leftover nipple creme, well here you go. :D


    You realize that I'm now going to have to go out and get myself some just to try it right? ;):D

    I've had some success with pure Lanoline and I don't mind using it so much because it's a natural oil. BUT this sounds like a great tip genevieve so I'm keen to give it a go. Thanks. :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    well once I've burned initially : rolleyes: I tend to get a brilliant tan... we just haven't had any sun this year and in Chicago it was WAY too hot to be miserly with the sun tan lotion : eek: so I'm white.

    toning's always seemed pointless... I've tried it a few times and just don't get it.

    blanche... no you're certainly not alone.

    Well I burn quite easily but the areas on my body that are exposed to light more often, like my arms, tend to get brown, but the skin is much hardier.
    I guess I don't bother with tanning so much because we have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world here AND Muriel used to work for the Cancer Council, so I've had more than my fair share of warnings about the evils of sun damages over the years! :rolleyes: ;):D

    Besides, I've seen those women that used to lather themselves up in baby oil and lie out in the sun and they look like that old woman out of There's Something About Mary! :eek:

    And yes, toning is an exercise in futility imo too Hels! :D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    lgt wrote:
    I used that too and I also find myself not using it as much. Also I discover that it has sun protection (that's their anti-ageing factor) so it doesn't make any sense to use it at night.

    hehe! :D So very true! Never considered it myself. I just find it ironic that I had a sampler of it and it took me ages to use it all up and then I finally spent the big bucks on getting myself some and now it appears that I'm allergic to it or something because it's not doing what it was in the sampler! :rolleyes: You gotta wonder if they change the formula on this stuff just to sucker us in to spending the $$$$!

    lgt wrote:
    Argh.. not sure how to do multiple quotes from different posts, so here it goes....

    I usually just press quote, copy the quote I'm after and then paste it into the reply. But the principle is the following, without the spaces between the brackets:


    [ quote=decides2dream ]- D2D:

    HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO right back at ya! : )

    good to hear that sensitive skin is just sensitive skin then! : D [ /quote ]

    so without spaces it looks like this:
    decides2dream wrote:
    - D2D:

    HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO right back at ya! : )

    good to hear that sensitive skin is just sensitive skin then! : D

    [ quote=genevieve ]- genevieve:

    Never heard of nipple cream before, but if it works on cracked heels it's worth trying out. I like to keep my feet soft! [ /quote ]
    genevieve wrote:
    - genevieve:

    Never heard of nipple cream before, but if it works on cracked heels it's worth trying out. I like to keep my feet soft!

    So you need [ quote=insert name here ] followed by the text you want to quote and then close the quote with [ /quote ]

    see?
    insert name here wrote:
    followed by the text you want to quote and then close the quote with

    Hope that helps. :) Actually I just hope it makes sense! ;) :eek:
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  • lgt
    lgt Posts: 720
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    well once I've burned initially I tend to get a brilliant tan... we just haven't had any sun this year and in Chicago it was WAY too hot to be miserly with the sun tan lotion so I'm white.

    re: tanning, I only attempted when I was younger but as I have very pale skin I never tanned that much, just a little golden colour. Anyway, now I religiously use sun protection - initially because of skin cancer potential (indeed I had what turned out to be a non-malignant melanoma taken out) but now I just love my paleness and the glow-in-the-light effect! :D

    By the way, in terms of sun protection factor, is there really much difference between SP 30 and 50 or higher? I read contrasting views, whereby 30 should really be enough and that higher factors do not guarantee higher protection, just .. higher price. Any ideas? :)
    Jeanie wrote:
    hehe! So very true! Never considered it myself. I just find it ironic that I had a sampler of it and it took me ages to use it all up and then I finally spent the big bucks on getting myself some and now it appears that I'm allergic to it or something because it's not doing what it was in the sampler! You gotta wonder if they change the formula on this stuff just to sucker us in to spending the $$$$!

    Yea, I agree! :) The problem is that I LOVE trying out different products and stuff. I'm definitely a cosmetic and make-up junkie!

    P.S. Thanks Jeanie - testing now if I've worked out the multiple quotes! Yup, preview post works! :D except for smilie limit.. grr!!! cut cut...
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    chadwick wrote:
    I can not say it enough.
    You ladies are it.
    Totally all of it, every bit of it.

    And good night I am out.

    Agreed.
    But I'm not goin to bed yet.
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    For those of you that tan...just wear sunscreen on your face and/or a hat.
    That is the best anti-aging money can buy.
    Use a self tanner or bronzer on your face.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • Sprunkn7
    Sprunkn7 Posts: 5,286
    A few years ago I popped out with some nasty adult acne and tried everything my dermatologist gave me. After a year of no improvement I went for Pro-Active. It worked for me in about a week and I was thrilled. I used it religiously for a few years, then backed off. I still keep some around in case I need it.
    I have gotten out of that area, and now am looking at wrinkles and all that. I once again went for an infomercial and ordered Meaningful Beauty. I know, sounds hokey, but again I am pleased with the results. Not sure how long I will commit to the program, but I really like it so far, and it gives you a whole regime for three months when you re-order. My skin looks and feels better. Again, I use it exactly as directed, and knowing I am spending a little more than I would on a regular basis makes me stick to it. How many times in the past have I gone to bed and not washed my face? No more!! Time is no longer on my side and I have to do the best I can with what I can afford! It ends up to be about $30 a month if you order the neck and chest cream that comes as a free gift in the first shipment.
    Anyone who has seen the commercial and thought about it..try it, you may like it!
    Thank you fellow 10 clubber for saving my ass....again!!!

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