🚨 NEW PRODUCT ALERT: CeraVe Brightening Collection 🚨 CeraVe has been BUSY lately. 👀 If you’ve been following my skincare posts, you may remember that I previously created a New Product Alert for CeraVe’s Skin Renewing Super Boost Serum. Well… apparently they weren’t finished. 😂 Now we h

🔬🍂 INGREDIENT DECODING MONTH — WEEK 2, DAY 1 Welcome to Week 2! Last week, we learned how to read the language on the back of our skincare products. Now we’re taking the next step: What do these ingredients actually DO? 👀 Instead of trying to memorize hundreds of individual ingredien

🔬 INGREDIENT DECODING MONTH — WEEK 1, DAY 3 Yesterday we learned how to start reading a skincare ingredient list. Today we’re going deeper because there’s one thing I REALLY don’t want us doing: Looking at an ingredient’s position and trying to reverse-engineer the entire formula. 😂 Ima

New Product Alert 🚨 ❄️ Eos Holiday Collection Okayyy… Eos officially got me with this one. 😂🛍️ I saw the Eos Holiday Collection, tried to figure out which scent I wanted, and somehow ended up doing the most logical thing possible… I BOUGHT ALL OF THEM. 😂🤦🏽‍♀️ And yes, I mean all three l

🚨 NEW PRODUCT ALERT: BYOMA Blemish Collection 🚨 BYOMA has expanded its blemish-prone skincare lineup, and this launch immediately caught my attention because it isn’t just about throwing acne actives at the skin. The collection takes a blemish care + barrier support approach, with products de

Ingredient Decoding Month — Week 1, Day 2 You Read the Front of Your Skincare Bottle… But Do You Know How to Read the Back? 👀 Yesterday we kicked off Ingredient Decoding Month, and today we’re starting with one of the most important skills you can learn: How to actually read a skincare ing

🍚 MIXSOON VS. DR. MELAXIN: RICE PEELING AMPOULE SHOWDOWN If you saw these sitting next to each other, I wouldn’t blame you for thinking they’re basically the same product. 😂 Both brands offer White Rice and Black Rice peeling ampoules, both use a gommage-style peeling concept, and both target

🔬🍂 Welcome to Ingredient Decoding Month! The weather is changing, summer is ending, and this is usually when we start looking at our skincare routines thinking… “Okay…do I need to change something?” 😂 Maybe your lightweight summer moisturizer suddenly doesn’t feel moisturizing enough. Mayb

🍚🖤 Mixsoon White Rice vs Black Rice Peeling Ampoule These caught my attention IMMEDIATELY. Rice? ✔️ Hydration? ✔️ Gentle exfoliation? ✔️ PDRN? ✔️ Barrier-supporting ingredients? ✔️ At first glance, both sounded like something I would be interested in trying. Then I did what I always

🧪 ACNE SCARS: WHICH PROCEDURE TREATS WHICH TYPE? One of the biggest things I’ve learned about acne scarring is that saying “I have acne scars” really isn’t specific enough. Rolling scars. Boxcar scars. Ice-pick scars. Hypertrophic scars. Keloids. They may all be called “scars,” but the

🚨 NEW PRODUCT ALERT! 🚨 Origins has added a new product to its Checks and Balances™ collection: the Checks and Balances™ Daily Exfoliating Toner with AHA, BHA + Witch Hazel. And you already know what I did when I saw “NEW.” 😂 I went straight to the ingredient list. 🔬 At first glance, the

Acne scars aren’t all the same and knowing WHICH type you have can make a huge difference when you start researching treatments. 🔬🤎 I think we sometimes use “acne scars” as a catch-all term for everything acne leaves behind, but there are actually several different types. And yes, you can hav

🚨 NEW PRODUCT ALERT! 🚨 Laneige just released its Bouncy & Firm Hydrogel Eye Patches, and there is A LOT going on with this formula. 👀💕 These cooling hydrogel patches are designed to target the appearance of puffiness, dark circles and fine lines while helping the under-eye area look brigh

🧪 HOW DEEP DO SKINCARE ACIDS ACTUALLY PENETRATE? Glycolic. Mandelic. Lactic. Salicylic. Azelaic. Kojic. Tranexamic. They all have “acid” in the name, but that does NOT mean they all work the same way. 👀 One of the biggest things to understand about skincare acids is that their molecular pr

Same skin. New season. Smarter routine. 🧪 When summer turns into fall, you might notice your skin suddenly isn’t behaving the same way. Maybe your cleanser feels a little more stripping. Maybe your lightweight moisturizer isn’t quite enough anymore. Maybe your skin feels tight even though y

Okay, this is a good little skincare shopping update, especially with fall and winter coming. 👀🍂 Vanicream™ Enhanced Moisturizer is now available at Target and Walmart! 🎯💙 This is Vanicream’s lightweight moisturizer designed for sensitive skin, and the formula has a pretty straightforward hyd

Okay Innisfree, you officially got my attention with this one. 😂💚 The NEW Innisfree Green Tea Ceramide Cleansing Balm is a balm-to-milk cleanser that comes in a squeeze tube instead of the traditional jar, and I actually LOVE that idea. No spatula. No scooping into a jar. Just squeeze out what y

Decode Your Routine| Week 4, Day 7 Be honest…when was the last time you looked at your entire skincare routine and asked: “Why am I actually using this?” 😂🧴 For the final day of Week 4, we’re doing a skincare routine audit. 📝 Start by listing everything you’re currently using, then give

Okay, this one immediately caught my attention because “6.0% Retinal Capsule Complex” sounds INTENSE. 😳 But before we assume this is a 6% pure retinal serum, there’s an important distinction: 🔬 The 6% refers to the Retinal Capsule Complex, not necessarily 6% pure retinaldehyde in the finished

Decode Your Routine| Week 4, Day 6 We talk a lot about giving skincare enough time to work, but there’s a difference between being consistent and forcing your skin to tolerate something. So how do you know when to keep going, pause or stop? 👀 🟢 KEEP GOING & OBSERVE: Your product may