I’m a big fan of Paula Begoun because she cuts through the hype about different beauty products, and gives her opinion based on product ingredients and her own research. After reading her book Don’t Go To The Cosmetics Counter Without Me, I signed up for her free Beauty Bulletin. It’s pretty much a free extension [...]

Even though I just wrote that I’m happy with my beauty products, I am always tempted by new products that come out. Prescriptives Super Line Preventor Xtreme caught my eye last month when I read about it in Allure. I looked for reviews about in on MakeupAlley.com, but couldn’t find much about the new Xtreme [...]

Even though I am obsessed with skin care and beauty products, I now have a paralyzing fear of buying anything new! When I was trying to cure my acne, I spent an obscene amount of money on every product I could find, and initially nothing worked, so I felt like I had wasted so much [...]

As far as moisturizers go, Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion seems controversial to me. I believe it first came out in 1968, and to this day it still sells really well. I hadn’t ever tried it, even though I knew it was really popular, and I’d see it every time I passed the Clinique counter. In [...]

I heard about these “silly” skin care wrinkle preventors  several years ago called Frownies. They are essentially thick pieces of paper with an old-school stamp-like adhesive. You wet them, and then stick them on your face in areas you get muscle-causing wrinkles. In the picture, you can see the woman has them in between her [...]

Oil-free, non-comedogenic, and Dermatologist-tested are all phrases I used to look for when I’d buy products to help with my acne. By reading The Beauty Bible - Paula Begoun, and through my own personal experiences, I’ve learned that these terms are meaningless. The beauty industry does not seem to have standards when it comes to labeling [...]

As you read in my previous post - Acne Treatments That Didn’t Work - I had bad acne, and it wasn’t going away, no matter what I tried. After two years of the acne, I was 30 and I’d had enough! The last Dermatologist I visited in LA gave me a prescription for Differin cream, which again, [...]

A big reason I started this site is because I wanted to let people know how I cured my adult acne. It wasn’t easy and it took two years of research and trial and error before I was clear of acne! Around 27 or 28, I had moved from San Francisco and was living in [...]

People often say I’m neurotic. I have no idea why. I used to constantly try out new products, always trying to find something better, since I was never satisfied with anything. But there are a few products I now love, like the blue ChapStick, and that makes me constantly paranoid that the product will be [...]

I love the website MakeupAlley cause it’s saved me tons of money! Before I buy any new makeup or skin care products, I search on the Product Reviews on MakeupAlley (you might need to register for a free account before you can see them). A lot of popular products will have tons of reviews, so you can [...]