Sunday, February 20, 2011

Simple Acne Preventive Routine

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. 


Saturday, February 19, 2011

Technology Management and Marketing Discussions

I know that this blog has been decided to change topics but since the foundation and purpose of this blog is more on the technology management degree that I took for two years, there will be a portion of this blog dedicated to those topics. 
However, I cannot promise a weekly post on technology management/marketing. 
I might be posting at least twice a month though. 
So please bear with me.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

It was the hardest Decision of my Week

Changing topics on a blog is a hard decision. I have to postpone my plan to change the focus of this blog until today.

It. Is. Hard. Really.



My initial plan when I created this blog is to discuss technology management, but there are things that came along the way that changed the way I see how this blog should continue its existence. I am not a constant technology manager anyway. There are 90% of my time that deals with other things than talking about technology. Someday, I will get back to that topic. For now, this is what this blog for: to talk about things that I try to accomplish. To discuss things that I do every single day. Of course I still have my craft/interior design/ home maker/organization blog. But this blog will be about health and beauty. On a dime. or frugal way, if that's how we say it here in our part of the world.

New Topics under Old Title

Last October 2010 I was officially done with my Masters Degree and glad to announce that it was finished with balancing so many hats to wear but taking things one step at a time. Since school is officially over {although I am officially a 2010 first semester graduate the ceremony will be on April this year}, it is time to change things around here.

My other blog is up and will continue to share my family and homeownership life while this blog will be the space for my way back to being properly dressed professional. On this blog you will find topics on:

  1. stress management
  2. diets for reducing weight
  3. fitness exercise like pilates and yoga
  4. beauty topics like make-up, skin care and hair care
  5. Wardrobe for a 30s career woman working in a non-corporate type of office
  6. and lastly, growing old gracefully 
All these will be done with frugality in mind. Please remember that we are new home owners and have plans to get our first new car soon.

I hope that you will stay with me like you did when I was doing my studies.