There are lots of benefits on becoming one of the picky squad and recently Picky announced their Wishtrend exchange promo and I want to join soo bad!!!

Do you guys have tips on how to be a picky squad? 💎

Chemical sunscreens goes deeper in the skin and what do you guys think putting it on damp skin? will it increase irritation? would like to know your opinions 🤎🤎

Should I apply Chemical Sunscreens on Damp skin?

I’ve never used pimple patches before because whenever I have an active pimple, I believe my pimple cant breathe when applying a pimple patchv instead I use a thin payer of spot treatment like centella or bhas 

What do you guys think? Whats the best way dealing with a stubborn pimple?

Thoughts on pimple patches? 👀

Some say it is better to apply products on damp skin right after cleansing for better absorption, or is it best when it’s dry? I have oily skin type and I always pat my skin dry after cleansing. I would love to know whats the best or is it just personal preference? 🙏🏻

Applying products on damp skin or patted dry skin? 🙈

Happy Holy Week everyone! Hope yall are having a wonderful week ☀️ Lets not forget to take care of our skin, meditate and SELF LOVE LOVE LOVEEE!! 💙

Happy Holy Week! 🦋

I didnt experienced any major issues with this product so far. The price point is reasonable. I also wish there would be more plant extracts in it to help soothe major irritations knowing it is a soothing gel. Maybe the most sad thing about my whole experience with it is the plastic tube. I haven’t felt an issue about it really, but when I almost used up the product, I’m having a hard time squeezing out the rest and I tend to cut it in half to get every single drop of it. I don’t also know how to safely store after cutting it for sanitary. I might enjoy the last few drops maybe if it comes with an airless pump glass bottle.

 💙 SUGGESTIONS 💙

- More plant extracts
- Airless Pump

🧊 Product Description🧊

Illiyoon Ceramide Ato Soothing Gel (30ml)
is a highly moisturising, refreshing soothing gel to deeply hydrate, cool down and soothe sensitive skin.

👁 Product Notes 👁

 ✔️ Paraben-Free
 ✔️ Sulfate-Free
 ✔️ Alcohol-Free
 ✔️ Silicone-Free
 ✔️ EU Allergen-Free
 ✔️ Fungal Acne (Malassezia) Safe
 ✔️ Minimal Ingredients

🦋 Benefits 🦋 

💧 Hydrating
🧊 Soothing
🍃 Calming
💫 Nourishing

🧪 Key Ingredients 🧪

🧴 Fermented Ceramides
🧄 Sugar Beet

Suitable for:

✔️ Oily
✔️ Combo
✔️ Sensitive skin

 👀 First Impressions 👀

☀️ Packaging ☀️

It comes in a plastic small tube and it is very easy to squeeze out the product. I purchased the 30ml for testing out the product first.

I may sound very weird but i love staring at my illiyoon products sometimes for no reason because I just love the overall packaging and aesthetic of the brand. Soft, cute, but elegant at the same time. 

☀️ Scent ☀️

It is fragrance free but it has a very light scent, but I’m not sure what scent it is. If you know the scent of Sebo de Macho, they have a quite similarities when it comes to the smell.

 It doesn’t bother me at all. The light scent makes me feel more “clinically safe” It’s almost like a smell of the infirmary, hospital-ish vibe. Which i’m obsessed.

☀️ Texture ☀️

During hot days, when I squeeze a pea size to my hands, it tends to be more watery because of the heat and temperature of my room, but when it comes to rainy and colder days, it shows to be a very lightly creamy texture once applied to my hands.

 It is a very light weight gel moisturiser, almost a translucent gel. Viscous texture. When worked into the skin, it becomes more of a watery type and it absorbs right away not leaving a heavy or greasy feel to it. 

💎 My Experience 💎

I used this product for over a month now and I almost used up the whole product. This is my go to product whenever my skin feels tight or dry after cleansing in the morning. It is more of a hydrating moisturizer for me, yes, for my oily skin type,  I consider this as my moisturizer during hot weathers where I tend to oil up so easily.

 After morning skincare, my skin usually oil up after 6 hours and compared to other light to thick moisturizers I’ve used during the day, this product left my skin dewy and not super oily in the span of 8 hours! I was very impressed by this. 

I also use this on my neck which is very dry and it completely hydrated my neck for the whole day without leaving a sticky, greasy thin film, it just absorbs like magic!


🤍 Final Thoughts 🤍

I could see myself repurchasing this product in the future considered its price. It works well with my very oily, sensitive skin. For long-term use, to be honest, i might get bored to it.

 I just like exploring and trying new moisturizers out there, anyway, for long-term use, it will definitely suit every sensitive skin out there who needs the right hydration.

 For dry skin types, maybe this could work before your thick moisturizers and also to prevent transepidermal water loss (TEWL) during the evening. This layers very well with other products. It has everything for sensitive skin types and I’m just so happy with this product! 

🌟 Rating 🌟

9&#47;10

No major issues at all. I just don’t like the dropper’s pipette. I tend to tilt the product to get the remaining products from the bottom. 

Also I didn’t felt any hydration which is kind of a bummer. I really want this serum to dive deeper to my skin for rapid effects and plumpness.

🤍 SUGGESTIONS 🤍

-Add more hydrating ingredients&#47; percentage
-Change the pipette

💟 Product Description 💟

The Ordinary Alpha Arbutin 2% + HA is a concentrated serum with pure alpha arbutin and hyaluronic acid. Alpha Arbutin reduces the looks of spots and hyperpigmentation. It&#39;s used at a high two percent concentration versus a standard concentration of one percent and supported with a form of hyaluronic acid for enhanced delivery.


🤩 Benefits 🤩

- Brightening
- Hydrating
- Clarifying

🧪 Key Ingredients 🧪

- Arbutin
- Hyaluronic Acid


😍 Suitable for 😍

All Skin Types

🫖 First Impressions 🫖

☀️ Packaging ☀️

The packaging is both elegant and fancy. It comes in a clear bottle with a dropper, much like the rest of The Ordinary&#39;s products. It makes for very accurate control over the amount of liquid dispensed. 

If I could adjust one thing about the packaging, it would be the pipette. It doesn&#39;t hit the bottom of the container, making it impossible to get the remaining liquid.

☀️ Scent ☀️

This serum is fragrance free. Light clinical scent but doesn’t bother me.

☀️ Texture ☀️

The serum’s texture is very light, It has a light tackiness. Clear, light, viscous. 

☀️ Application ☀️

It feels heavy at first when applied to my skin, but it easily absorbs. After it absorbs, you can find a faint stickiness. Working with the serum on the skin can be challenging. 

If the serum isn&#39;t rubbed on well, it will dry out and it will leave the skin a weird sticky film. I want to softly massage it in and then tap it in an upward direction to aid maximum absorption.

☀️ My Experience ☀️

It&#39;s the one thing that got rid of my dark spots. For just 2 months. It&#39;s been about six months since I started using it. By the time I almost finished half of the glass, I had seen a small change and was eager to begin. They have the same texture with niacinamide where you should be patient on working in to the skin. 

Before and after photo:
Before (upper left) 
After (lower right)

I use this twice a day everyday, morning and night. I partner it with a Vitamin C serum in the morning and niacinamide in the evening. As you can see from my results, I have no words. Just like magic. 

🛼 Final Thoughts 🛼

I used to have a lot of dark spots along my jawline and cheeks, and Alpha Arbutin totally removed them. This is one of my favorites from The ordinary! What I would say is that it takes a while to see results, but once I did, I used only half of the bottle to get the results I needed. And indeed, it works wonders. 

I didn’t felt any hydration, coming from an oily skin, it is kind of mattifying to my skin. The price is bombshell. A great vitamin C dupe for sensitive skin. 

🙀 Would Kyle Recommend? 🙀

Yes! Highly recommend for all skin types. For those who are suffering dark spots, this is gonna be a killer!

🌟 Rating 🌟

10&#47;10

No major issues with this product at all. Maybe for my next purchase, I’d love to see their creams move on to some airless pump type of bottle like the Ceramide lotion hehe To really get all the product’s worth 

🤍 SUGGESTIONS 🤍

- Airless Pump

🥣  Product Description 🥣

This cream offers deep hydrating and soothing effects for the face and body with patented Ceramide Skin Complex. Refreshing and quick absorbent, the cream is also free from animal-derived ingredients, mineral oils, artificial colorings, fragrances and parabens.


🦋 Benefits 🦋

- Soothing
- Hydrating
- Moisturizing


🧪 Key Ingredients 🧪

- Panax Ginseng Root Extract
- Lactobacillus/ Soybean Ferment Extract
- Hydroxypropyl Bispalmitamide MEA (Ceramide Pc-104 6310Ppm)


😍 Suitable for 😍

Combination to dry skin

🫖 First Impressions 🫖

☀️ Packaging ☀️

The packaging comes with a small plastic tube (30ml). Elegant, cute and simple. The pastel blue blocks add a touch of sophistication, and I adore ILLIYOON's red logo, which appears to be in Chinese characters despite the fact that ILLIYOON is obviously Korean, and the rest of the text in Korean.

☀️ Scent ☀️

The serum has no fragrance in it.

☀️ Texture ☀️

The moisturizer’s texture is straight up thick like megan thee stallion. Very creamy, stiff yet creamy. 

☀️ Application ☀️

Once applied to my skin, it does feel very heavy and oily at first but once I worked it into my skin, It absorbs like magic and it does have a mattifying effect to it for me. Take not, I have very oily skin.
 for me because of the smell. The balm breaks down easily once worked to my skin.

☀️ My Experience ☀️

This is my go to number one moisturizer for my skin! I put pea sized product each both on the cheeks and firehead. I am very oily and she really did a good job to my sensitive/oily skin! Now, the interesting thing about this ceramide cream that sets it apart from other creams is that the ceramides are being delivered to the skin in capsules using encapsulated technology, and when this is applied to the skin, it is where the capsules burst and they help to keep the ceramides super effective like it helps the ceramides dive in deeper to the skin where they can be more effective at healing your skin. And that is the theory about any encapsulated ingredients and I really felt it really going in to my skin which gives me the full effectiveness of the ceramides. 

Cholesterols and Fatty Acid are present in the cream as well AND GINSENG EXTRACT which is a very interestig ingredient and FERMENTED SOY BEAN 😍 and the overall combination of products in this product is so amazing. Budget friendly? super yes! This cream really nousrished and soothes my skin and the topmost interesting thing about the texture of this with all that emolliency, with all that moisture to it, IT DOESNT HAVE AN OILY OR GREASY FINISH!! 🌟🌟 And this is what impressed me to this product bevause it absorbs to my skin BEAUTIFULLY because I expected it to be super shiny and heavy to me, but just the perfect richness. 

Very impressive!! I love this cream so much!! Super in love with this 🍒For 2 months, I used this product on and off because I like to save some for night use. It has 30ml amount product in it and it lasted me 2 months. I really enjoyed using this product especially at night to combat transepidermal water loss. This is just a plain moisturizer. But works so good and gentle to my skin. I did bought the mini one because I really wanted to try it so much. And I regret buying the small one because I knew I’d love this cream. Now I’m saving up to buy the bigger size now. This just works wonders to my skin <3

🛼 Final Thoughts 🛼

Overall, this moisturizer is super duper worth it! like mega-worth-it. It lasted me around 2 months for 30ml. I have very oily skin, I thought this product will make my skin more heavy and oily. BUT INSTEAD IT REDUCED MY OILINESS THE WHOLE DAY. 

In the philippines, Rejuvinating set products are very popular here and I tried out one set, These products overexfoliates the skin to have that instant renewal effect. But it is good for short-term use, for like maybe 1 month less. But I used the sets for 2 months and it did disrupted my skin barrier. AND THIS PRODUCT HELPED ME SO MUCH! for like 1 week, This gave the original health of my skin. No kidding. I swear this product is one of my holy grail, and I can’t wait for my next purchase. 

🙀 Would Kyle Recommend? 🙀

Yes! Highly recommend for all skin types! It depends on application.

🌟 Rating 🌟

10/10

No major issues with this product at all. I kinda hate the orange tint to it and I prefer it to be clear. The price is good. Maybe I would love it more if they add more soothing ingredients specifically plant extracts.

💙 SUGGESTIONS 💙

- Remove the orange tints
- Add more soothing ingredients
- Add more plant extracts

🍊 Product Description 🍊

BREYLEE Vitamin C Brightening Anti-aging Serum
contains high activity small-molecule Vitamin C, with antioxidant protection, this product can prevent melanin formation. Also with such functions as whitening and brightening the skin color, and removing blemishes and melanin, it can restore skin health, promote skin metabolism, and activate damaged skin cells so as to restore elasticity.

🦋 Benefits 🦋

- Restoring
- Brightening
- Anti-aging
- Repairing
- Protecting

🤩 Key Ingredients 🤩

- Vitamin C
- Allantoin

😘 Suitable for 😘

All Skin Types

🫖 First Impressions 🫖

☀️ Packaging ☀️

The packaging comes with a small white box and the actual product comes with a clear serum bottle. 

☀️ Scent ☀️

The serum is free of fragrance. But it has a very light scent. Remember the scent of Celine acsorbic acid syrup? thats what it smells like but very very light! It really doesn’t bother me at all. It feels and smells like artificial honey

☀️ Texture ☀️

The serum’s texture is watery and runny during my patch test on my hands. It has a light orange tint to it when I did the patch test. But it will not make your face orange or something. It completely disappears once applied.

☀️ Application ☀️

Once applied to my skin, it does feel very light, a little viscousy at first but once worked to my skin, it absorbs like water! It does have a slight hydrating feel to it that didn’t left my skin greasy and oily.

☀️ My Experience ☀️

The overall formula is average, I just think the ingredients inside this vitamin c serum is not that powerful and I think it just oxidizes quickly after an hour of application. 

Layering it with other hydrating can lower its effects especially knowing that vitamin c is unstable, maybe it would clash with other ingredients on your moisturizers. I used this products for 3 weeks and I almost used up the whole bottle. I only put 2-3 drops of it. I didn’t see huge fading effect on my scars, yes it lightened them for 3 weeks but it didn’t completely fade it. 

The product works, price is reasonable. This could be a go to serum on days where you feel like you need a gentle vitamin c serum. It really didn’t react to my sensitive skin. It’s almost like an essence. Light, effective, gentle.

🛼 Final Thoughts 🛼

Overall, this vitamin c serum is worth it for the price and its effects. I did notice my scars lightly fade within 3 weeks and to think this is a 17ml product and I haven’t used up the whole bottle yet. If you enjoy gentle but effective skincare as much as I do, you will love this serum. I can see myself purchasing this serum in the future. For long term use? for me it’s fine. This product works!

🙀 Would Kyle Recommend? 🙀

Yes! Especially for oily skin types.

🌟 Rating 🌟

9&#47;10

No major issues with this product at all. I kinda love the scent even tho I have sensitive skin. I don’t think its good for long term use or everyday use, maybe it will make the skin more sensitive on the long run but I just use it whenever I feeling the aloe vera vibe because it makes me feel like I’m in a natural republic store!! 

🤍 SUGGESTIONS 🤍

- Add more soothing ingredients
- Add more plant extracts
- Remove Fragrance

🌀 Product Description 🌀

This Jeju Aloe Ice Makeup Cleansing Balm 100% cleanses the skin. Keeping it soothed and moisturized.


🦋 Benefits 🦋

- Gentle Exfoliation
- Soothing
- Moisturizing

🧪 Key Ingredients 🧪

- Sunflower Seed Oil
- Grape Seed Oil 
- Niacinamide
- Aloe barbadensis Leaf Extract
- Salicylic Acid


😍 Suitable for 😍

All Skin Types

🫖 First Impressions 🫖

☀️ Packaging ☀️

The packaging comes with a small blue vibrant box and the actual product comes with a blue round jar container. When the actual product is opened, There you can see an extra cap fo sanitary purposes and for the product to avoid spilling. It comes with a spatula. Which is great! 

☀️ Scent ☀️

The serum has fragrance in it and it has a very light floral, aloe vera scent to it that is quite strong for some. I have sensitive skin and fragrance in my wash-off products is okay for me. The scent goes away right after rinsing.

☀️ Texture ☀️

The balm’s texture is like a candle. Its very eaxy and hard when scraped but it melts very easily when applied to the skin. The balm has a sky blue tint to it, It doesn’t bother me at all. 

☀️ Application ☀️

Once applied to my skin, it does feel very luxurious for me because of the smell. The balm breaks down easily once worked to my skin.

☀️ My Experience ☀️

The overall formulation is amazing! It has salicylic acid in it thats why I really bought one. I didn’t really noticed the exfoliating effects but girl, it really does a great job in removing my chemical sunscreens! I use this everyday and I almost used up the whole bottle.

🛼 Final Thoughts 🛼

Overall, this cleansing balm is super duper worth it! The amount of products that is in here! It does have fragrance which is a bummer but it doesn’t give me a big problem considering it is a wash off product. It really cleanses my skin during my evening routine and the overall experience of this is a fantasy! This is the only step I am super excited to do in my skincare! Double cleansing! It is soo therapeutic for me. 

🙀 Would Kyle Recommend? 🙀

Yes! Highly recommend for all skin types but for those people who have super intense sensitive skin, I wouldn’t recommend it. Especially those who have skin types who reacts so bad on fragrances.

🌟 Rating 🌟

8&#47;10

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