Skincare For Women Over 50!

I have such fabulous skincare, makeup, and some updates on products I've used and talked about to share with you today. First, I wanna start off with something I picked up at Target the other day. I was shopping, and I've tried several products from Pixi, and really, everything I've tried, I've liked a lot. And I saw this for an at-home facial, and what I liked is they have smaller sizes of three products, and that way I can try everything. Now, I've already used the Glow Tonic. I love that, so I knew that was already a hit. But what I wanted to try was this Peel and Polish, and then the Rose Flash Balm. I love this kit. We'll start with that spoiler. It's around $22, but it was worth every penny. The Peel and Polish, you're not gonna use a lot of. What it is, it's an exfoliator. It's not a gommage where the product comes off. It's just like a scrub, and the granules are just super, super fine. It feels like sand on your skin. And when I was done, my skin really did look fresh and rejuvenated. Then I went over it. You know, they have the three steps here, to exfoliate, then treat with the Glow Tonic. As I said, I've used that before. I really feel it brightens my skin, and if there is any little bit of makeup left, it sure takes it off, and your skin is just really clean. And the third is to moisturize. Now, this is a very interesting product because they say you can use this Rose Flash Balm as a primer or as even a mask, and put it on and wash it off. I just put a thin coat over my face, and it really did feel like it moisturized my skin and brightened it up a little bit. So I think this is definitely one worth trying and picking up. I really enjoyed it. You know I love drugstore makeup, but I do dabble into some other things, and one line that I love is the Anastasia. I love their products. Anything I've tried, I've thought, has been amazing. I bought the Renaissance Eyeshadow Palette, enjoyed it, but then Danielle, my daughter, wanted it. I passed it on to her. She's been loving it. So I went out and bought the new one, Soft Glam. I'm not gonna show complete swatches of everything. I'll try to get a screenshot for you from the internet, but there's videos about this palette everywhere. But let me tell you, I think it is just pretty perfect. Now I have to share with you, I love warm shadows. My eyes are hazel. They're mostly green with brown in the center, and I feel with my skin tone and my eye color that warm shadows work best. I feel I just don't look very good in cool colors. So if you like cool colors, this may not be a palette for you. But it has so many beautiful shimmers and mattes. I can just use this one palette. I don't need to add anything else when I'm doing an eye look. I did a quick look with this after, it's after school now, and I just wanted to put something on for you all to look at. But these shadows blend so amazing. I think of all the shadows I own, and I do own quite a bit. I hate to admit it, but I do. And I think these blend the best. I think they blend better than Lorac, better than Too Faced, even though I love Too Faced. I think these blend the easiest, and they're very, it's easy to work with if you're a novice. If you're not a makeup artist and you're looking for a palette where you can just quickly put an eye look and you will look like a professional, I think this is a great way to go. I love for my skin to have just a warm glow. I don't go in the sun. I stopped doing that when I was probably 19 years old, mainly due to working a lot and being in college and not having time for that. And by the time I was done with college, all the alerts were out about the sun. So I don't go in the sun, and I always wear sunscreen, but I love that glow, that JLo glow. So I picked up this product from L'Oreal. It's called the Lumi Glotion, and it comes in different shades. I bought light glow, and I love this. I have tried it both ways. I've tried it under my makeup, which is what I'm wearing right now, and then I've tried it on top of my makeup, and I also like that look. So if you're looking to have that glow for summer, I think this is just a fantastic product. You can blend it with your foundation or put it like I did, under or over, but it just gives you a very youthful, healthy look. I'm really excited now because I wanna give you some updates that I think are really gonna be helpful. Let's start with my hair. My hair has gotten so much thicker, and it is growing longer. I am taking a hair vitamin that I bought from Target, and I think that's helping a lot, but I think what's helped it get the thickness is this NutraOx. I picked this up at Sally's. I've been using it for several months now. They say to use it twice a day. I usually end up only putting it in once a day. I just can't make that 12-hour span somehow, but it has really helped thicken my hair. I think this is about the thickest my hair has ever been. I love it. I'm not using the shampoo anymore, and the reason I'm not, it was really drying out my hair. My stylist told me that any of these volumizing shampoos, which the NutraOx I bought says volumizing, will dry your hair out, and with the gray that I have and coloring my hair, it's just too much, so I've still been using the other shampoo that I got that is a dupe of the Moroccan oil. I'm using that, and I've been really happy with that, but I think the magic is really in that serum anyway for making your hair really thick, and I don't have a problem with my hair falling out. It was mainly just a problem that I've had my whole life of just having baby fine hair, but I seem to have more of it now, and I'm really happy with that product, and I will definitely repurchase. Now, another product I bought around Christmas, actually, I did. It came around Christmas Day or before, is this from, it's Grand Lash MD. I've always had what I would call very average. If I was braiding my lashes, I would give them a C, and that's about what I would give them, and I would love long lashes, but I didn't wanna use some of the prescription products that are out, so I thought I would give this a try. It's not a prescription, and I've been applying it since Christmas, and my lashes have really grown. I'm not to the point like my friends that have used the prescription where they feel like they have to cut their lashes, but when I do apply mascara, a lot of times they will hit up here because they're so long now. They've grown a lot on the bottom, too, and I've had a few compliments lately. I don't think it's something where people, wow, her lashes are so long, but I just think my overall eye look looks a lot better. I'm about out. This is a three-month supply. I'm gonna reorder. I looked all over the internet for the best price, and I found a really good price at overstock.com, so I'm gonna place an order probably tonight for that. This is two ounce. It comes, or two milliliters, rather, and it comes in a four for almost what I paid for this, so I think that's about the best price. If any of you know a better price where you get it cheaper than that, I would love for you to comment below, so if other ladies would like to order it, but the best deal I saw so far is on overstock.com. My skin, I'm still off of Retin-A. I'm still sold on this kakai oil. It's the only thing I'm using at night, and I can't tell you how liberating it is to just wash your face and put this on and be done. I love it. I really am changing a lot of things in my life, and one thing I'm doing is trying to become more of a minimalist. That is my natural instinct, to be a minimalist. When I was a kid, I didn't have a lot of things, and it's not that my parents couldn't buy them, but when I was growing up in the 70s, I was born in 64, parents just didn't buy their kids a lot of stuff. You had a couple of pair of shoes, a few outfits, you know, your favorite toys, your bike. That's all you needed. We didn't have Rubbermaids, because we had no stuff to put in all these Rubbermaids, and I recently gave a huge portion of my makeup collection which most of it was barely used, to a homeless group that helps women that are transitioning and a lot of them from divorces, and they don't have a place. They give them a place to live for a few months till they can get back on their feet, and I went over there with my daughter. She does a lot of community service, and I was so touched by what they were doing over there, and I thought, these women are going out. They're trying to get jobs. They really need the makeup, so I asked them if they would take it, if I sterilized everything. Most of what I gave were eyeshadows, and blush, and that type of thing, and they said, oh, definitely. These women would just love to get the makeup, so I took over a few crates of makeup, and I'm really trying to pare down my collection and just share with you the things that I think are really dynamite, and the kakai oil is definitely that. I think it's helped my neck so much. My neck is tighter. I have started applying the kakai oil in the morning and at night because I think it's so effective, but for the 30-some dollars that it is and the benefits I'm getting, I think it is outstanding. Favorite foundation, no doubt, is this Neutrogena Hydro Boost. I love this stuff. I did buy the Healthy Foundation from Physician's Formula, and I think, really, the part of the reason I don't like it as well as the Neutrogena is the shade. I just bought a shade that was too dark, so I'm gonna start mixing it, but I have tried so many foundations. It is just crazy how many I've tried, and from the drugstore, this is my absolute favorite. The last thing I have to mention is a drink that I'm drinking. I really feel that so much of your skin and how you look comes from the inside. It's a reflection of what's going on on the inside, and I have been drinking this drink once a day most days, and it's called Evolution Fresh. The only place I've seen around where I can get it is Target, and this has in it cucumber, apple, spinach, romaine lettuce, kale, lime, and lemon. It has 70 calories, and it is just a powerhouse. When I drink this, I feel like I've never had a B12 shot, but it's what I imagined it. I just feel so much energy. I will take this to school and have it as a snack, or sometimes I'll have this for lunch paired with some other protein, maybe a boiled egg, something like that that will give me energy to get through the rest of the school day. So these are not cheap. Eating healthy, unfortunately, is not cheap, but if you think of the long haul and all the doctor's visits and all the other things that you avoid, it is so worth it. These run about $3.99 per drink, but I figure if that's my main part of my lunch, just think what people spend when they go to a fast food or any restaurant at lunchtime. They'll drop $10 or $12. So for the $4, this is so worth it. Now, my daughter is braver than me. Danielle drinks the drink Green Devotion, and that has 35 calories and no fruit in it, and it's a little much for me. I think it's worth the 70 calories to have the apple in it. It sweetens it up a little bit. You actually get, after a while, where you crave this drink. When I first drank it, it's one of those where you go, whoa, that is some powerful stuff. But once you get to where you're drinking it, you really develop a craving for it like you would for candy or other things. And I do love candy, I do love sugar, but this has helped me so much. It helps me feel better, and I think in the end, it's gonna help me look healthier. Those are my favorites. I hope you found something here that was helpful, that you'll enjoy as much as I do. I truly appreciate all of you. You're just wonderful. I look forward to every single comment, and I hope you all will have an amazing week.