In high school as a freshman, my face is covered with acne.
Although look does not matter to me during those days {I am more concern with attending a new school in a new place while I can not speak their local dialect}, it did bother my Mom.
My Mom came up with a routine that I have to follow every single day, until all those acne are gone.
After coming home from school, I would be doing chores until around 8pm and have to start with the beauty routine before bed.
She would instruct me to wash my face.
Back then she gave me a lactacyd liquid soap.
The blue one.
{there's no feminine wash that time so it is impossible to get confused when buying}
After the simple water and soap washing I would proceed on using a toner on my face. I used the Extract cucumber or avocado facial cleanser.
after drying my face, i apply eggwhites and of course, there will be lots of teasing around because it really look like a skin of an old woman once it dries up and cracks when you smile or laugh. We would have around thirty minutes of laughing {and most of the time I am the subject of the joke}.
Then I will rinse off the dried eggwhite from my face and apply cold cream.
It is supposed to be the moisturizer but since I read directions and follow them {even if Mom says so}, I wipe off the cream using cotton pads or facial napkin.
Since I am doing the routine every night because of my fear that my Mom will yell at me if I missed doing it, I did not really noticed the difference on my face until I started the sophomore year. All my pimples and acne are gone and well, I had reason to ditch the routine.
I kept using the avocado facial cleanser though and eventually stopped when I entered college.
My Take on This Regimen:
1. The lactacyd is mild but I don't like the smell.
2. I used the Extract Avocado facial cleanser for years until I switched to Pond's, which I also changed to another brand later. I made myself believe that since they are not that popular (compared to eskinol) back then, they contain less chemicals. But they really made my face zits free until it started to dry my skin, of course it has to go.
3. Egg whites minimize the pores. It really does. the con is that it takes time to dry and well, on my case, my siblings makes fun of me.
4. Pond's cold cream. It feels too oily even after I wiped it off with facial napkin. And with the tropical weather, my bottle of cream would end up like a coagulated mess.
I never used face pressed powder at that young age and the common baby talc powders that girls my age (then) used.
Do you have any regimen?
Loving this week.
(Tomorrow I will be receiving a Certificate of Merit. Not sure if because I am a scholar or I made it to the Dean's List - Masters related)
Hope you are enjoying the week too.
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