MY SEPHORA SPRING 2024 VIB EVENT PICKS – WESTMAN ATELIER EDITION
Spring sales are an excellent chance to experiment with color, embracing the season’s trend of bright, bold hues in everything from eyeshadows and lipsticks to highlighters. This season, beauty trends lean towards a more natural, dewy look, highlighting the need for quality skincare products that offer a radiant base. Brands often use these seasonal shifts to launch new products, making spring sales a fantastic time to try out the latest in beauty innovation at a fraction of the cost.
Taking advantage of the Sephora Spring Beauty sales, ensures that your beauty regimen is seasonally appropriate and allows for the exploration of new products and trends. It’s a time to declutter expired or winter-heavy products and embrace the fresh, light, and uplifting spirit of spring in our beauty routines. Sale starts on April 5th.
Westman Atelier products are of great quality and deserve that you take a second look at them. Not only they are amazing and long-lasting, their packaging aesthetics is exactly what pleasing is all about. Have you tried them?
Note: My picks are linked and I may get commission if you purchase directly through them.
My sephora spring 2021 vib event picks
Note: My picks are linked and I may get commission if you purchase directly through them.
Shamelessly, I have to admit that I reached Rouge Status with Sephora, last year ! For that reason, shopping starts on April 9th and I have already made my picks. Did you already make yours? Let me know below.
NORDSTROM 2020 ANNIVERSARY SALE - BEAUTY PICKS
The sale already started so I wanted to come and share my picks. I am in no position of buying clothes or shoes! If you have seen my Instagram lately, you’d know exactly why. Since I have no plans on shopping for anything else, with the exception of the candle below, all my picks are about beauty products that I wish to try or buy again. I also wanted to add that this year the sale is happening by stages and that most stores are not allowing free for all, roaming around shopping. Depending on which category someone falls in (Icon, Ambassador, Influencers, Insiders) you get to shop earlier than when it is open to the public, which is August 19th. So let me show you my picks.
Note: My picks are linked and I may get commision if you purchase directly through them.
As usual, please let me know if you have any questions or comment below if you are shopping the sale and share what you are getting?
- March 11, 2020
On Wednesdays We Shop – Products Review
Have been meaning to share Part A of my (morning) routine. I call it Part A since I don’t use these products every day. I am a firm believer on area treatment and that routines should vary depending on your current needs and progress. I do try to give the products, at least 4 weeks to decide if they are great for me or not, but skin, like anything else will adjust to those products over time and they may not do for your skin, what they are supposed to. The only two items, that I don’t move around are my melasma fading cream and SPF. Those are non-negotiable for obvious reasons.
Also, I try to only post what works for me, meaning that they have already passed the 4 weeks test. Stay tuned for Part B and even C and of course what I use for my nightly routines.
- Step 1: Clean – Currently loving Youth to the People Kale + Green Tea, Spinach Vitamins Superfood Cleanser
From their website: “Our powerful, but gentle daily face wash is formulated with cold-pressed antioxidants – kale, spinach, and green tea – to give your skin the ultimate cleanse. It works effectively to prevent buildup in pores, remove makeup, and balance pH without drying or stripping. This is the green juice cleanse for your face.”
My opinion: It is light and it does clean well. Very light fragrance and works great for lazy nights when I don’t want to remove my makeup with creams, so I go straight to YTP.
- Caudalie Concentrated Brightening Essence
From their website: Benefits : Visibly restores radiance and luminosity. Evens the look of skin tone. Moisturizes the skin
Formula :98% ingredients of natural origin. Oil-free formula and as with all Caudalie products, no parabens, phenoxyethanol, phthalates, mineral oils or animal-derived ingredients are used.
My opinion: Since I don’t use tonic in the morning, I replace that step with this essence. Love the fragrance and how it wakes my face up and prepares it for moisturizing. After I use it (applying drops directly to the face with my bare hands) not with cotton balls since I think that it wastes product, my skin looks shiny with added softness. Because of this, I am considering the whole line of Caudalie products.
3. Regarding the Chanel Hydra Beauty Camellia Water Cream and the Chanel Essentiel – SPF 50. I stick to them because my face loves them. It is amazing how both products are fast absorbed by my skin so there is no lingering product or white cast, prior to makeup application.
4. Eye Cream is Chanel Le Lift Eye Cream.
From their website: “a delicate eye cream that delivers a combination of nature and efficacy for a smoother more youthful and radiant appearance. 83% of its ingredients are natural products.”
My opinion: it is worth the shot and the price. I bought it based on reviews and the fact that it is sold-out in some places. Not disappointed. I never knew how much my eyes needed a great eye-cream, until I started using Le Lift.
I have been fascinated with Chanel products and this one was a no-brainer addition because I am constantly looking for a fabulous eye cream. I went from only night time use to twice a day because this great product does everything for my eyes that I need.
For your convenience, I linked these beauties below. I’d love it if you leave me a message about this review and what you currently using! As usual, looking forward to your comments!
- March 8, 2020
Embracing My Melasma
Hydroquinone (HQ) is not a permanent solution to treat melasma. After you stop using it, the spots will come back. Certain strength of HQ may be too much for our skin to bear and expecting it to work miracuously and make melasma disappear, is putting too much faith on a product that has to be used with caution. And let’s not forget the fact that it is not a safe product because its side effects are damaging to the skin to the point that it is considered a prohibited substance in several countries.
When I used it, I got positive results and although the dark spots faded, eventually my melasma reappeared. When I stopped using it for almost a year, I dedicated myself to using gentle products and slowly, I saw a difference, which is not much, but it has been effective and lasted longer. As we know, melasma is mostly hereditary and it is a symptom of hormonal disbalance and inflammation so as I get more seasoned (pretty word for older), I have discovered that my melasma spots are very slowly fading. I have spent lot of time learning my own skin and invested in basic non-abrasive ingredients, regular exfoliation, dermaplaning, microneedling, religious use of sunscreen, and lately, tranexamic acid, and finally, I am seeing a difference. More importantly, my 53 years old skin, is at its best. Most products, which promise the cure, cause stress to our skin and make it worse.
There is no miracle. This is an endurance race, there should not be any rush. It is not easy to accept this, but in our desperation, we are making companies very rich, but not seeing concrete results. I have stopped doing so, I rather put my money in a savings account so I can treat myself to something special. You are beautiful and you know what else? Most of our immediate circle (the ones who matter) don’t care about our spots, they care about us being happy and most importantly, healthy. They think we are beautiful because we really are. I am going to leave you with this: I love myself, melasma at all. I hope that you do, too!!