Hello my dolls! My first official post of 2015!! 🙌 I attempted
to sit down last night but unfortunately blogging turned into sleeping Lol! Let
me first start off by giving you a little history on my 32 Year old Skin. Up until
my 29th year I had Normal to Dry skin. Once I turned 29 my skin
freaked out! I mean it was like going through puberty once again. My skin
became very sensitive to products I had been using for years. My T-zone became
an oily mess and I developed this rash on my forehead that took forever to
clear up! I basically had to eliminate everything I was using and start from
scratch.
After a lot of trial an error I came to the conclusion that
A. My skin *hated* the ingredient Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, which is in SO many
facial cleansing products! This is what was causing the rash and the reason why
it took so long to go away. And B. I now had Oily to Dry Skin. The solution---The
simpler the better. No fancy creams or soaps, no special sponges or brushes. My
skin care routine consists of only 3 products: Ambi Clear Complexion Bar to
cleanse, Witch Hazel to tone and last but not least the best moisturizer ever
Extra Virgin Olive Oil. These 3 babies helped my now very sensitive skin get back
to normal.
Okay so how did I deal with my Oily T-Zone? Some more trial
and error. I discovered Milk of Magnesia worked great to keep my forehead matte
all day, but I hated how tight the rest of my T-Zone felt. I started purchasing
different drugstore primers….I went through Rimmel, all of the Hard Candy
Primers, Maybelline Baby Skin, and even tried the Monistat Chafing Gel Lol! All
of those have one thing in common, they are all silicone based primers. They
immediately give me a matte, smooth finish but by midday my T-Zone is super
oily. And the worst part is they eventually cause my skin to break out. The
worst one of the bunch was Baby skin…I broke out within the hour! The Hard
Candy ones are a little tricky. My skin takes a couple of days to react and I
end up forgetting since I don’t use them on a daily...I have horrible short term memory Lol!
Oh and before I forget the Milk
of Magnesia recently started giving me a rash on my forehead and was given the
boot! It was a good 3 years! ---The only primer that my skin loved was the
Laura Mercier Foundation primer which I received as a sample after ordering a
concealer. It felt like a lotion, completely different from what I was using,
but it did it’s job wonderfully! After I ran out I completely forgot what it
was that I had been loving and continued to purchase other primers, which is
how I ended up with 3 of the Hard Candy Primers Lol! 🙈
So after a recent little
break out from the Original Hard Candy Primer (White Tube) I started doing a
little hunting on Google for a Silicone free primer. I came up with a short
list of Primers with great reviews and heavy price tags #NoBueno but I was
willing to order a tube if it meant my skin would be happy. Before settling on
one I decided to search eBay and typed in the same words I typed in Google:
Silicone Free Primer, and up popped up this purple Beauty with it’s lovely
little price tag of $9.58 with tax!
My thoughts??? You’ll have to wait for my
next post 😂 Lol! I didn’t expect my skin history to take this long but I felt it was
necessary to give you an idea of why this primer may or may not be what you’re
looking for…stay tuned loves! X💋X💋
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