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Do you Clarisonic?

10 Jan

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A few weeks back when I attended an open house at The Spa of Essex, I was introduced to the Clarisonic face cleanser and brush. I remember always seeing them in the Ulta flier or even in the store, but honestly never paid much attention to it. While I sat in on a facial deomstration, the skin care therapist started to use the Clarisonic brush. She was explaining how the brush moves in a circular motion and gets all of the makeup and dirt that is left behind from your face wash to the surface and leaves your face feeling clean. I of course in my head thought “yea, okay”. She then proceeds to say it also brushes away the dead skin cells on your face and lightly exfoliates, leaving your skin feeling very smooth. Now most you know we are taught to not exfoliate more than twice a week; but with the Clarisonic Sonic Skin Care system, you can use it every. single. day. Every day??? Really?? I was perplexed.

Leaving the open house that I night, I was sold on this new ‘machine’. I was dying to get one, but with Christmas right around the corner, I thought maybe I’d wait and hope for one. So I mentioned it to my mother and went about my business until Christmas morning, honestly forgetting about it. My 2-year-old niece, handed me a gift. Perfectly square and leaving me stumped on what it could be (honestly). I opened it up and there it was~ the Mia in pink (my favorite color). I was ecstatic!!!

It was probably one of the best surprise gifts I have received in a little while. I could not wait until the next morning to try her out. My first experience with using Mia, will never be forgotten. I literally said out loud in my shower as I touched my face after using it, “holy crap!” and could not believe how soft and smooth my face was. And from that day on, it has been love. My face cream goes on my face so much smoother, it’s absorbed better into my skin and my skin looks even. I never in my life have sworn by an actual mechanical product more than I will with this. It is a-mazing!

The Mia has one button to turn on and it will automatically shut off in one minute (so easy to do when you’re in the shower). It comes with one brush head, but you can buy replacement ones or even extras. The battery is good to go for a good amount of time before you have to recharge it again and it is waterproof (I have mine in the shower with me). I usually wash my face first with my original face wash, I use Simple face wash, then I put on the Clarisonic face wash and “brush” my face. You will not be let down. I promise.

If you haven’t tried or purchased one, you really should consider looking into it. It is very safe to use every single day and you will never want to miss using it. Your face will thank you and in the mean time, I say “you’re welcome”

If you have any of the Clarisonic Sonic Skin Cleansing systems, which one do you have? Do you love it as much as I do?

Happy Cleansing!

xo

The Scoop on Salicylic Acid

6 Oct

How many times have you had a dreaded pimple appear at the worst possible time? Big meeting? First date? Girls night out? Regardless of the situation, if you’re anything like me, I cringe when this happens and I go into panic mode.

The last time this happened to me was about 2 weeks ago. I had just arrived in Hilton Head and I could feel a pimple coming. Little did I know, it was much worse than I thought when I woke up the following morning. Of course I got all anxious about how I was going to get rid of it and fast.

Enter, my step-sister, the life saver. She tells me to just go into the bathroom and put this gel on it twice a day. Little did I know this miracle gel had salicylic acid and let me tell you, it was gone in 2 whole days!!!!!! By the end of day 1, I couldn’t believe how much it had already gone down and the redness was disappearing. I seriously was in amazement. I for one, have never really had a problem with breakouts so I wasn’t really sure on what to do. In the past I would just deal with it. So needless to say of course I wanted this miracle gel and she said there are a handful of products that contain it. My light bulb goes off and voila! I found this great little slide show off of whowhatwear.com and I had to just share it! I may have to just buy a few of these products and never be in panic mode ever again.

Click on the link below to read the slide show:

The Scoop:Salicylic Acid.

xo

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