come, come clean for once

It's no secret that I eat-play-sleep with makeup. My beauty obsession has stretched out as far as I'm willing to let it. But when it comes to removing them, I'm the complete wuzz of it all, hands down. It's not the fact that I'm doing a Kardashian and sleep in and wake up with the face all wrinkle,blemish free. It's more to the fact that I want to make every penny counts for removing my makeup, of which, if you ask me, is the irony of it all. My dad accidently pulled out my makeup drawer one day and went, "God, one of this must cost at least RM30," But when glimpsed at my skincare counter, you would only find three things used to remove all the 'more than RM30 worth of makeup' out of my face.


All I have on my counter ( I took them out of the counter and placed it on the dining table, literally speaking) are a jar of my trusted Vaseline, a hand sanitizer and a bottle of makeup remover). The only thing that constantly changes between these three is the makeup remover. I've had this one to replace my Biore Cleansing Oil a while back.

This one is called the Cleansing Express Lotion Moist. I literally have to keep the box that comes with it, because that's where the English translation of this product's description is on. The one I have here is for dry to normal skin, and in the store it did comes with one for oily skin and another for combination skin. This product claims to be a 3-in-1 product, it's a makeup remover, cleanser and moisturizer all in one. What's good about this product and why I like i very much is it is a water-based makeup remover, as opposed to many of the oil based and cream based makeup remover out there. I don't remember of seeing any makeup removers which are water based for once. And what's good for water based makeup remover in my humble opinion is that it doesn't leave the skin feeling oily and prevents the skin from having breakouts if we tend to use oil based product too often on the skin. That's one of the things why as far as I loved my previous Biore Cleansing Oil, it would just not cut it in this criteria. Also, this new water based cleansing lotion removed my makeup successfully every night before I go to bed and it is also true that I don't have to use a separate cleanser for this one. I could be ready for bed, as opposed to using oil based makeup remover where I'm always keen on washing my face afterwards just to X out all the oil on my face.

This product also claims to be 100% Oil Free, Fragrance Free, Colouring Free, Paraban Free and Alcohol Free. Now, what I would normally do to remove my makeup is that I would take my hand sanitizer and sanitized my hand first. then, I would used about two pumps of this product on my bare,clean hand and wipe it off my face, making it makeup-free. I ceased using cotton wipes a while ago because as i said, I'm trying to make every penny counts for removing makeup and having cotton balls or cotton wipes is a no-no in that department. After I have finished removing my face makeup, I would wash my hands and sanitize it again and after that used my ever versatile Vaseline to remove my eye makeup. I rub it gently so that it wouldn't sting the eye.

All in all, I can safely say that I like this product so far mostly because of it's time-savvy technique. It saved me from all the old hassle. It does work well but I haven't tried it with a full in-your-face makeup yet (I've been staying home mostly for the holidays and only gone out about four times a week) so once I go in-your-face kind of face, I would definetely give this one a good go.

Thanks, Bai Semua =)