Skincare Routine Mondays: July 4, 2016

Today was a holiday! I'm excused from being on time.

1. Oil Cleanser: Been better at using my Shu Umeura High Balancing Cleansing Oil, so I would say 5/7 days.
2. Eyelid Cleanser: Ocusoft every morning...which makes me sad because I am too much of a high-risk candidate for lasik.
3. Water-based Cleanser: sum37's Miracle Rose Cleansing Stick, wow, how long is this stick lasting me? I am really loving it.
4. Toner: CosRX's AHA/BHA toner to prep for my newly incorporated active~~~.
5. Actives: OST Pure Vitamin C20 Serum. Been using this for over two weeks now, just about? It makes me face feel like I rubbed some orange juice concentrate all over it. Slightly sticky and sweet residue, but the waiting is the worst part. I started with 20 mins wait, now I am just shy of 15. Seriously, the waiting game is the worst.
6. First Essence:  Last week I noted that putting Missha's FTE Intensive over the slightly orange smelling residue of C20 Vitamin C serum was weird. It still is weird and somehow I wonder if it interferes with the absorption of my BAE.
7. Serum/essence/masks: Got used to using a MINIMAL amount as to result in a slightly less sticky SCINIC AIO Honey Ampoule'd face.  Masked several times this week, especially when I think I used an old sample of something from Sephora Sample Wonderland and it felt like my face was burning. Etude House Global had a 40% off July 4th sale, and I took advantage of that. So, I've been using more of my Etude Masks that I got on sale for 1+1 in Taiwan. $25 NT a mask, is $.77, and that's about how much the new Etude masks cost me ($1.30, with 40% off and free shipping over $50). Put all my masks in expiration date order (because I'm a freak?) and counted them up, have around 75 masks, with my Etude Haul not counted in yet. Three masks in the past week: Skinfood's Brocolli, which is like wearing a fresh cucumber/greeny-smelling wet papertowel on your face; Etude House's Silk Coccoon, which is not sold via the new line of Air Therapy Masks and will be missed sorely, they're really great and "skin vitalizing"- which is exactly what I needed after possibly burning my face with an outdated sample; and My Beauty Diary's Imperial Bird's Nest mask, because it is so thin, and so great, and really, no qualms about it, even though it drips down my neck and sometimes on my pillow it got so much great essence going on.
8. Facial Oil/Night Oil: Still nightly applying Sunday Riley's Luna Oil. However, only 4/7 this week because I usually end up falling asleep with a face mask on. Really, I'm not good at this waiting game!
9. Moisturizer:
   Mizon Snail Recovery Gel Cream has bit the dust! Not only have I forgotten about it, but I really do like Mizon's Black AIO Snail Cream so much better. I can see this being a winter cream, and the regular AIO snail cream being the summer cream. However, I am practically out of the Recovery Gel Cream and have been using it to soothe my skin troubles that have been lingering on my chest the majority of this last week. It's either hives from heat, or some sort of rosacea, also possibly from heat. It was really itchy on day one, now it's just annoying.
10. Sunscreen: Biore Aqua Rich Waterly Essence Sunscreen 50g Spf50+ Pa+++.Love it so much that I ordered two more on Amazon... which are coming via Japan, so I won't see that until August, so they say. AUGUST?! Will my little tube last me that long?!?

Also used my Say Yes! To Tomatoes Clay Mask yesterday. A while ago, at Sephora Sample Wonderland, I got samples of Ren's Glycol Lactic Radiance Renewal Mask and Flash Rinse 1 Minute Facial, as seen paired in their Glow and Go set. Bad idea... as I put on the golden Glycol mask and it started to feel a bit like a burn. Then, like the dum-dum I am, I put on my C20 Pure Vitamin C serum, which REALLY felt like burning!! Lucky for my dumb butt, I have no redness, just physical pain. So I washed them all off in a second and then I put on the Silk Cocoon mask, which really soothed my poor skin.

Though it is taking forever, the hormonal acne spots on my jawline/chin are less visible and slowly going away. Just a little too slowly. Miss my perfect radiant skin of just Missha Time Revolution Clear Toner and FTE days.