im so stressed with PIE all over my face, which ingredients should i use? i want to use retinol but i’m afraid of purging or more breakouts

vit c / retinol?

i ran out of my moisturizer and i wanna tried a new moisturizer but it has shea butter, since my skin is oily and sensitive and i heard that shea butter clogged pores and i having a second thought. can y’all tell me your experience with shea butter, thanks in advance

shea butter

im new to the vitamin c world, can i mix vitamin c with salicylic acid? because my toner had salicylic acid on it even though it’s maybe just a small percentage of it, also can i also mix vitamin c with niacinamide? do you all have any tips on using vitamin c?? pls let me know down below🙌🏼

vitamin c

im so happy that i could won this!! congratulations to anyone who won the giveaways and to those who haven’t win i hope you will be soon!

TIAM giveaway

look what’s just arrived! excited to try this product because this would be my first vitamin c product/the first time i tried vitamin c

elmt pure vitamin c 20% element

it’s a little bit sticky afterwards but i’m okay with that, not really a problem tbh and oh it’s hard to find tiam products on my country especially the vita b3 source serum so it’s hard for me to repurchase 

I received this product for free from Picky and TIAM in exchange for my honest review.

•ingredients:
-water;
-niacinamide (vitamin b3) 10%;
-butylene glycol;
-arbutin 2%;
-allantoin;
-etc

•packaging:
the packaging!!!! i really love love the yellow color on the packaging (the box and the bottle), it’s so cute and refreshing! probably the cutest skincare product that i’ve ever have and i never gonna throw the bottle away because it’s just so cute!

•thoughts:
vita b3 source is a serum that consist 2 of the most popular brightening agents which is 10% niacinamide and 2% arbutin, the texture is watery and absorb so fast into the skin, it has no fragrance or any scent, this serum claim is can helps fade dark spots and reduce dullness and uneven skin tone.
i can see that this serum kinda brightens my skin, but especially the effects on my redness/PIE and also my dark spots, there’s really significant improvement… my PIE and dark spots is slowly fading away and if i had new acne it’s not really that red like it used to, the serum is fading away the old PIE & dark spots and also or helping to reduce the new redness/inflammation on my skin. 
surprisingly this serum is not irritating my sensitive skin even with the high percentage of niacinamide. usually i don’t really like niacinamide product because i think it didn’t really have effect on my skin/ doesn’t do it for me, same goes to arbutin but this product is different, because this serum combined niacinamide and arbutin so it have maximum brightening effect and to fades dark spots, i think that this product is becoming my holy grail!

haven’t find any bad things about this product so far

I received this product for free from Picky and Acwell in exchange for my honest review.

•key ingredients:
-contain 66% glycyrrhiza glabra (licorice) root water;
-niacinamide;
-glycerin;
-sodium hyaluronate;
-and other natural ingredients such as: avena sativa (oat), kernel extract, cynara scolymus (artichoke) leaf extract, pteris multifida extract, theobroma cacao (cocoa) seed extract, glycyrrhiza uralensis (licorice) root extract, solanum melongena (eggplant) fruit extract, pinus pinaster bark extract;
-etc.

•packaging:
it comes in a dark thick glass bottle packaging with the pipe.

•thoughts:
it’s a ph balancing, alcohol & fragrance free serum even though there’s slightly a bit scent from the natural ingredients, the serum is thick & milky but it’s light and absorbed so quickly into the skin without any stickiness afterwards, this serum smoothes out my skin texture, hydrating my skin, calming my redness & acne a little bit. it’s also makes my skin have that natural glow finish, but i don’t really see it brightens my skin like the claim but i’ll give more time to see the brightening effect and i’ll update it later.

it’s kinda dried out my skin and not moisturizing enough so i had to use 2 or more layers or more so it can give extra hydration/moisturize my skin and also it stings my eyes.

I received this product for free from Picky and THANK YOU FARMER in exchange for my honest review.

•ingredients:
-water;
-dipropylene glycol;
-1,2 hexanediol;
-centella asiatica extract;
-8 relieful-complex (eggplant fruit extract, captis japonica root extract, honeysuckle flower extract, angelica gigas root extract, forsythia suspensa fruit extract, licorice root extract, cnidium officinale extract & gardenia jasminoides fruit extension)
-etc

•packaging:
it comes in a usual thick transparent plastic bottle packaging with white lid like mostly other toner packaging out there, there’s nothing extra ordinary in the packaging but it’s simple and that’s good


•thoughts:
it’s a ph balance, vegan, alcohol & fragrance free toner, it’s waterbased/very watery texture literally so lightweight, it makes the toner absorb so quickly, there’s no stickiness, it also has mild exfoliating ingredients which is gluconolactone & capryloyl salicylic acid which is good for daily use (it’s non irritating) & remove the remaining dead skin cells, when i use this toner i feel like the serum that i used is less sticky than usual, which what they claim is true (boosting toner: to enhances next product/skincare step) my serum is literally feels more absorbed into my skin without feeling sticky than usual, it’s also kinda calming my redness but i’ll update it later from time to time to see the effects on my skin, it’s also come in a big size (200ml) which is really great and i got so many samples from the phyto relieful line.




key ingredients:
100% centella asiatica extract 

thoughts:
finally i get to tried this famous ampoule of skin1004, i bought the 30ml size first to see if this works on my skin and probably gonna buy the bigger size it it does…
first impression of just a few days of using this ampoule is that… the texture is so watery, literally absorbed into your skin in no time. i find that this ampoule hydrating and calming my skin because of the 100% centella asiatica extract which is good for calming the skin, really good for acne prone &amp; sensitive skin, and it also have been said that this ampoule is good to strengthen the skin barrier &amp; reduce redness… which i’m gonna update from time to time to tell if the claim is true. nonetheless skin1004 never fails me and worth the hype and the product is always good.

haven’t find any bad things about this product so far except it’s peeling when i apply another product from my skincare routine (moisturizer & sunscreen)

I received this product for free from Picky and elmt in exchange for my honest review. 

•key ingredients:
-propanediol;
-ascorbic acid (20%);
-butylene glycol;
-glycerin;
-panthenol;
-prunus armeniaca (apricot) kernel oil;
-etc.

•packaging:
comes in a dark green airless pump bottle packaging which is really cool

•thoughts:
this is my first vitamic c serum/product… at first i was afraid to applied this serum due to the high percentage of pure vitamin c. it’s a waterless serum (to reduce chances of the ascorbic acid to going bad before use) so the texture is very thick and takes a while to absorb into the skin so the serum is kinda sitting there in your skin because it takes times for its to absorb and it kinda makes my skin greasy, but the good thing is… it’s moisturize my skin, and the afterwards feeling is not heavy at all.

there’s a slightly this warm sensation when you applied it but it was a natural and non-irritating phenomenon / reaction due to high concentration of vitamin c and it will go away just for a seconds, but even with a high concentration (20%) pure vitamin c or asorbic acid this serum is not irritating my sensitive skin even though i have some active acne (the “certified safe for sensitive skin” claim is true after all, because it’s contain smaller particles).
i really love this serum because it really brightens my skin and fades my PIE and dark spots really well and also smoother my skin texture, easily become one of my holy grail product! and i use this product only on my AM routine with sunscreen for now… imagine the effects it gives to my skin if i use it also on the PM routine too.

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