Well, it has been a while that I wrote about cremes and stuff and here is spring again! Fresh game, fresh luck?
While browsing the relevant magazines - a true refreshing and relaxing activity, highly inspiring - there is still a very clear tendency this year for this fresh and glowing bare nude skin allover. Hurrah! As I never use foundation ( though age tells me that I should consider it seriously - but then you cannot kiss your beloved ones without smearing tons of coloured grease on them) the idea of clear and beautiful skin appeals to me very much.
And as you have perhaps already read in my first steps here in this blog (3/2011), in my humble opinion, cleaning is simply the single best advice for a good skin. Simple as that. Sure, not a good idea to do this with baking soda - which by the way in careful measures is great for zapping that pimple - you use a baking soda toothpaste you have more or less the same effect. But investing in ten minutes daily in the evening cleansing your skin and while doing so doing a small massage is the best and most promising thing to do if you want to keep a nice fine texture in your face.
For me the best cleansers are still Eve Lom, the mud soap wash by Kanebo and cleansing milks from Clarins. But this is out of habit of a lifetime and it makes only sense, to stick to using the products I like if they work. Recently I have tried "Bio Cellular Super Cleanse" by the range of Elemental Herbology and I liked that very well indeed. It is a sort of balm, which gets softer on the skin and with a bit of water ends up as a milky concoction which leaves skin really nice! Another really good alternative is the "Persil Seed Facial Cleansing Oil" made by Aesop.The smell is a bit too organic for my taste, but it works great and leaves the skin glowing and clean.
Well, back to that skin. I have already written that I have become a convert to face oils, funnily enough already before the new fad for oils started. It seems the great next thing - oils for everything. Hair, skin, lips and all. Actually a good oil fits all needs you might have in the skincare sector - like the Musketeers, one for all, all for one.Surely, one has to get used to using oils to clean the skin, but then it makes all sense: for thousands of years people have used oil in their body care and beauty regimes and once you have tried it you will understand why.
One of the great concerns in older lifetimes are the open pores - the skin gets more coarse, and looses that fine and velvety texture. To be honest, apart form aggressively peeling your skin, there is nothing much to be done, really. But this sad situation can be kept in check with cleaning regularly those zones - best not too aggressively though . But then you know your skin best and should know what you can "do to yourself" and what not. For me, for example a peeling is already very dangerous - my skin flares up and gets all red over. Note to self: Every skin is different and when you have reached a certain age, then you should know your own skin. When in doubt opt for the gentler version ( great advice anyway in all sorts of things...) If not, brew a cup of tea and start thinking about your life...
Again the AESOP face oils are really good and worth a try - there is one rosehip oil called "Damascan Intense Rose Facial Treatment", which is for my sensitive and dehydrated skin a gods end. The best though by far is unfortunately the terribly expensive Olio Lusso from Rodin - one oil that does it all - no nights creams no day creams nor serums nor tonics, nor lotions - exactly my cup of tea. And if you do not have to buy all those things, then it is not sooooo expensive after all. I am not so very fond of all the praising and publicity around this new brand, but must admit that it is really good.
Of course it is essential, once in a while to reconsider ones beauty routine - and again, the secret lies in the fact that you follow it, whatever it is, really regularly.
There are also an awful lot of new face creams out there - I used to dream to become beauty editor at Vogue just to be able to try all that stuff - but now I am not sure about this any more. The sheer offer screams at your face ( good joke) and is simply overwhelming. When I stroll through the beauty alleys I am almost fed up with all the possibilities being thrown at me, my skin and my purse. Feels like shopping in the Soldes, I rather buy nothing because I cannot make up my mind and do not know what to choose. I for one love the personal touch, I would like the people to know me and my skin and love to have the little chat about this and that product and then I like to stay with a thing that works for me - definitely not the ideal customer for all those 1001 new things, which come up every year. Well, good buy, is all I say....
To tell the truth, if you cleanse and hydrate, you can take what ever you like, be it a very expensive or a less-heavy-assault-on-your-purse cream. You get my point, Creme de la Mer against L'Oreal - is it not more about the prestige of the pot sitting on our bathroom shelves??? It is more about doing some pampering for ourselves than actually the rock bottom science behind it all. We all know this, but then what we buy is in fact really the "Hope in a jar". We buy our little part of eternal beauty we would like to have with us for ever. A lovely pot full of deliciously smelling face cream or a lovely little flakon with some oil is simply beautiful and satisfies that need for beauty I am always coming back to. Essential for a good life - sorry but this is what I really want you to understand....
And to prove my point: My mother for example still belongs to that generation which lived all her life with Nivea cream and her skin looks simply wonderful, soft, wrinkly and velvety 90 years.
All that does not hinder me to still mourn my best beloved cream and never found a substitute: Dior, "Icone" - it was THE cream for me for over two decades, moved with me to Portugal, to Delhi and to Ankara. Until it was no more. But then nothing lasts for ever as we all know. Not even Dior Cremes! Shame.
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