Starting Biotin Vitamins

Remember last post when I said that I felt a cold coming on? I was right! 

I know that I've mentioned a great deal of hair loss and I've heard from a tiny little birdy that these vitamins saved her hair. She's been having the same problems and taking Biotin has really strengthened her hair and helped with regrowth. I don't have a problem with hair breakage but mine is more due to fall out. Remember when I wrote about my hair cut? Well I haven't cut my hair since and it as grown out nicely.

See! Minimal split ends and the bottom doesn't look too bad. The problem, of course, lies at the root. Get ready for gross looking scalp pictures.

 I don't know if I'm unable to keep the hair or if its just falling out.  As you can see, there is a lot of pasty scalp showing. If you look at the hair line, there is a lot of space there.

When I tie my hair back,there are spots in between the rows of hair and you can clearly see that I'm having problems with my scalp. Armed with prayers and hopes that Bition would cure me of my female patterned baldness, I went to the drugstore and picked up a bogof Biotin.

I've started to take this two days ago so I'll update how this works in a month. Can you see what it says? Superior potency. Gonna grow buckets of extra hair. Hope its only concentrated on the scalp. Don't want extra hair anywhere else.

It's also a small PINK pill! You know that women are buying this in buckets if the pill is pink. Rise my beautiful bald headed ladies. I love that it's small because I can't take pills. This is the reason I can't be addicted to prescription pills. I prefer liquid medication over pills and don't mind the taste of medication. I always end up getting pill tuck in my throat and it just bothers me.

Hope this will work because hair loss runs in my dad's side of my family. Luckily, most from my dad's side are male but my sister and I don't relish being the first females. Come on Biotin!

No Reviews but filled with a whole lot of nothing

No Reviews Here. Just a bit of personal writing.

I've been feeling a bit burned out lately and my good looks have been suffering. I've been losing an awesome amount of hair and I am no longer allowed to cook because my sister found 5 hairs in the brownies that I've baked. Eww. She threatened me with baldness or a hair net but just to spite or maybe to the relief of everyone, I've just decided to give up cooking.

No longer breaking out in cystic acne, but still have the occasional pimple. Nothing too major but my skin looks exceptionally dull and I really don't have to energy to perk myself up. The weather here has been fairly nice but for some reason, I feel so drained. I do exercise a bit more often and regularly now, but still no energy. Sigh. Is there such a thing called the February Blues?

Not really into makeup lately and everything just seems so unnecessary. I've been eyeing the lip Butters from Revlon but they don't seem to be worth it since I have so many other items. I even passed up on the free Nars mini set from Sephora! Me pass up not only free but free Nars products? Balderdash. On the plus side, my hair has grown out nicely and I've been back to using my hair serums. (Doesn't that make the brownie story a bit nastier? Sorry for the reminder. As you were.) I'm trying the Ojon hair oil lately, and not sure how I feel about it.

I have a couple of plans for the weekend and hopefully getting some sushi and Cajun food will cheer me up. But not sure if I'll be able to. I have a sore throat along with scratchy tonsils which is a precursor to a nasty cold.

Tea and cookies. But wait, what are those cookies? Oatmeal without raisins but with chocolate! Praise the heavens. I hate raisins in my cookies and I shed a manly tear when I saw these at Trader Joes. Too small need more. Sorry for being a whiny, snot nosed brat but writing this made me feel a bit relieved. Thanks for staying through the bitch-fest.

Revlon 12 Hr Eyeshadows in Copper Spice and Neutral Kahki

I was recently in Duane Reade, just perusing the aisles to waste a bit of time when I saw the makeup section.. Normally, I  don't go to Duane Reade because they don't have the best deals, but my gosh it was clearance plaza all up in the makeup aisle. Nothing was over $5 and for one second I just stopped all movement. 

I finally calmed down enough to just look without snatching blindly but ended up with nothing. I really wanted one thing from the store, which was the Revlon 12 Hour palette in Nude Elements. Normally retailing for about ~$6 but it was ~$3.50 and I picked it up and started to place it in along with the 2 cans of red bull and cookies. Then I looked at it one more time ... and that my friends was my downfall. I ended up putting it back, since I had similar colors in my hoarder drawer. I looked around but had nothing I desperately needed. 

When I got home later on in the evening, I was still thinking of the palette (a true sign of a loser) and looked through my drawers to cheer myself up. I totally ended up rediscovering some new products that I had completely forgotten about. I remember abusing these palettes and taking them everywhere with me and repurchasing them again back when I started out. Coincidentally, they too are from Revlon's 12 Hr shadow collection. 

 L: Neutral Khaki R: Copper Spice

Both of these palettes are extremely wearable and can be used to go from day to night. No mattes here, just shiner and metallics. I've had little problem with them lasting because I had a base  under it but without a base, these colors will not last. I swatched it on my wrist and after one swipe, the lighter colors ended up fading but the darker colors were still there. So this probably isn't a complete 12 Hr long wear, but it still is decent. 

This one is the khaki neutral one with a light shimmer, then a champagne shimmer then a light olive with golden undertone with a chocolate brown on the bottom.

The Copper spice has a more vanilla shimmer with a pinker shimmery shade and a coppery brown with a once again very similar chocolate brown. Honestly, the last dark color on each palette looks the same except the top one being a tad bit darker.

The shimmery colors don't show up well on camera but I assure you that they are there and pretty. While my descriptions aren't the best and don't inspire you to run out and get some, I do understand that there are better quality eyeshadows out there. But if you see them for sale for $3.50 go and get them. See, I just can't get over the palette. I'm extremely stubborn about stupid things like this because while I manage to talk myself out of wanting a lot of stuff, if I really like something, I want it. I saw swatches of the Nude elements, and guess what? It's not that impressive but my brain doesn't understand logic and still wants it. Damn it! That Duane Reade was out of my way. I ended up putting the Red Bull back, with no regrets but kept the cookies.

Oh and I've finally succumbed to my own cooking. I've mentioned that everyone has gotten sick from my cooking except me but I can no longer boast about my iron stomach. Made chocolate mousse a day before Valentine's Day and I ended up do sick and vomiting. I still feel the effects today and have stomach pains. Ironically, no one has attempted to try the mousse even when I didn't mention that I got sick from it. I had to throw it away. Those smart bastards. Just when I bought a George Foreman grill, I can't cook from it

NYC New York Color - Color Wheel Mosaic Face Powder in Pink Cheek Glow

I think I just got ripped off. I went to a store and bought a pack of 10 face masks for $20. I originally went for My Beauty Diary Masks but they were around $18. I knew they were originally $11-15 so I passed. They lady told me that these Face Q masks were better and that they had better firming properties than the other ones. So I coughed it up and bought them. As I passed by a different store on my way out of the mall, I saw a pack of MBD masks for $10, along with a better variety. When I went back to the original store, they told me that all sales were final and they they don't do any refunds. If only the other store was open... I realize that this is my fault but still... No one likes paying over the retail value. Never going back. Even the Face shop masks are $1.50 each.

In order to assuage my boiling anger, cheap makeup was in order. Saw that NYC were on 40% off and I couldn't stop myself. Managed to walk away with two falsies and this blush *and a box of Rocher*. This blush in Pink Cheek Glow looks absolutely gorgeous.

 It looks to be a mixture of dark to light pinks with a beautiful sheen to it. Now you know that I would normally try to swatch all of the colors by themselves but it was difficult to do so. By themselves, they have not much color. When swirled together they make a glowing bright pink that makes my skin look glowy and sightly flushed.

 The shimmer is more like a sheen and isn't really noticeable when applied. I took my brush and swirled all over rather than concentrating on one color patch. This color can be over applied in an instant. I started to think that I needed more but after one more application, it looked to be too much. Had to buff it out. It applied smoothly with no patching and with no fall out. It also buffed into the skin nicely. For a $5 plus 40% off, it is a great deal.

This looks extremely natural on my skin because it look like my usual color of rosecea  pink but just a tad brighter. Now this may not sound attractive, but I was blessed with a rosecea on only my cheeks where blush would usually be applied. I always look like I have blush on. People tell me that I'm stupid for buying blush when I have it naturally. It's a skin condition and I'm not a chameleon where the color of my cheeks change naturally depending on my clothes. I need variation. Pink, peach, orange, coral, red and gold please.

Derma Relief Hydra Emulsion from Merdiem

Do you know what sucks? Right after I posted my updated face with no cystic acne that I boasted about, I ended up breaking out again. Damn it! It's not that bad and nothing to stress about. 

Skincare is a big thing in Korea and most people there have a set and complicated routine. It's not something so simple as slapping on lotion, but it requires about 6 or more different products that all play a crucial role. When I was younger, I always thought that they were crazy, but as I get older, I'm finding out that my daily routine is getting larger and much more complicated. Do you see crows feet around my eyes? No because I try to maintain my skin. My sister is the one with naturally blessed genetics but it's up to me to take care of my fussy dermis. I do acknowledge that my skin could be better, but I'm also lazy. One day without toner and my skin breaks out. Le sigh.

The Derma Relief Hydra Emulsion from Merdiem was a Christmas gift from my mother because a sales lady recommended it for acne prone and sensitive skin. Not sure where you can purchase but unfortunately, she left the price tag on it and it retails for around $42 or 62. I know that there is a big gap but honestly I forgot which one it was.

 If you read the packaging, it's clearly not for acne skin but for aging skin using "plant stem cell technology". My mom was duped! I didn't mind because I do need the extra pick me up. My face looks really haggard and tore up lately. Just a note here. It states that it's an emulsion but I use it as a lotion and do not use any other products with this. You're supposed to use a serum, lotion and all this other stuff, but since I don't want extra product on my face I just use this alone at night.

It's a hefty pump bottle but it turns out that it only has 150ml of product. My Aveeno moisturizer has 120 ml and retails for $12. Not a lot of product. It also has a strong cosmetic scent that lasts for a long time. It's those I don't really mind it much but wish that it wasn't there kind of scent.

The product itself is extremely light and not very viscous. However, it doesn't run all over the place. Since it's winter, I should be wearing heavier product but this emulsion seems to do the job. It keeps my face moisturized without a heavy or greasy feeling. I think that this could transition into a summer lotion as well. This doesn't break me out, but I think that the reason for that is my tea tree toner. But it's non irritating and my skin looks fine even without a lotion on it. I use a pump for my whole face at night and it keeps me from looking too oily when I wake up. As for the anti aging properties... well I don't see any signs of it working. I probably wouldn't recommend this because it's hard to get and doesn't deliver on its anti-aging promise. It's just a decent moisturizer but for the price, I'd rather not.

My sister's birthday is rapidly approaching and I'm still at a loss as to what she wants. I know that I have to trek to Chinatown to pick up some Beauty Diary masks, but still not sure on what to get her. I don't know how to top my espresso machine from Christmas, which was freaking awesome. I was thinking of taking her and her friends to either a drag show or a strip show since one of her friends share the same birthday month and I adore her and her man seeking ass. Any ideas?