LUSH Fresh Farmacy Facial Cleanser

 I'm baaaaack!

And no, now with a look, but with an incredibly unhelpful review! Whoopee!

 

LUSH's description: Feel like you have the world’s most sensitive skin? Allow us to prescribe you a bar of Fresh Farmacy, our calamine-based cleansing bar. Fresh Farmacy contains chamomile extract to calm, rose and lavender to soothe dry patches and tea tree to clear up any blemishes. The name stems all the way back to the beginning of LUSH, when we held a competition to name the company. Although we (obviously) went with another option, we thought the name appropriate for our problem-solving cleanser.  

So, I bought this cleanser on a whim as my first ever LUSH product when I saw it on someone else's blog.  I thought that if this product could solve my skin woes, then it would definitely be worth LUSH's infamously hefty price tags. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.

First of all, Fresh Farmacy is not a bad product. It's simply a gentle facial wash with a lighty herb-y scent. Nothing more, nothing less. It has something like little seeds in it that act as a very mild exfoliant if you rub them in to your skin a little. I would usually apply this product early in my shower and leave it on for the duration, because it was a little bit moisturizing when used that way. It's nice, but that's it. Nice.

This product did nothing to soothe my angry teenage acne. It did nothing to remove my plentiful scarring. I used it religiously for a while and all that I can say is that it cleaned my skin without harming it. Now, since I've had it for a while and I haven't stored it in an air-tight container, it's gotten crumbly and hard to use.  Could this have been prevented? Probably, but I think it's worth noting.

Anyway, I recommend this product if you have sensitive skin, and I don't if you don't. Because I don't and I think that this was just a waste of money.

Do you have sensitive skin?

PS: I'm not sure if posts will ever become a regular thing on this blog again.  I'm about to become a senior in high school, so I have an incredible amount of other things on my plate. Makeup just isn't the passion in my life that it used to be. I don't need it artistically like I used to. That being said, it's still a part of my life, and posts shall surely be periodic, and certainly shouldn't be six months apart like these last two, but I just don't know what's in the future for this blog. That being said, I do have posts coming up, so come back if you're interested!

Revlon Colorstay Topcoat

Simple easy review.

Revlon Colorstay topcoat.  This has been a relatively popular topcoat as of late, and so I decided to give it a try, since I haven't found that holy grail topcoat yet.  When I first applied it, I really liked it.  It's relatively thin and the brush is good, so it's easy to apply.  Additionally, it doesn't chip, tip wear isn't that bad and it stays glossy.  Sounds perfect right?

Wrong! When I first wore it, I noticed something really weird. Something that had never happened to me before.  My nail polish got weird little cracks in it. Little tiny fault lines all over the place.  At first, I had no idea what it was from, but then after wearing the top coat a few times, I realized that it was the topcoat.  It makes my nail polish crack! And look kind of terrible. And I have no idea how ti fix it.  I'll post a picture of this weird... thing when I get the chance.

Anyway, I don't recommend this top coat at all. I've heard only good things about it, but this is way too weird to recommend at all.

Has your nail polish ever cracked?

DIY Bow Dress

I've never done a post like this before, guys, but I thought that maybe some of you would like it.  DIY projects are always fun!

So I bought this dress (which shrunk and turned into a tunic) a while ago from Forever 21.  It has this keyhole on the back, and I thought that a big, black, satiny bow on the back would spruce it up a bit.

I didn't have one at home, so I had to go to Hancock Fabrics and measure out a bit of ribbon and buy it. I think that it was a bout 2 feet, but don't quote me on that. It wasn't too expensive either.

The ends were very frayed so to fix that, you just hem it.  Easiest sewing a person can do; anyone can do it.

Tada!

I like floppy bows where the loops are really big. Just tie the bow however you like, and then sew the middle so that it doesn't come undone. Unless you want it to, of course.

 

Then you just sew it on the back

And then you add a black background, because your house is a mess when you take the picture.  I know that you can't see the bow here... But I didn't have another picture, and I didn't feel like taking one!

I hope that maybe this post gave you some easy ideas for fixing up a shirt or a dress that maybe you've gotten a little bored of. I absolutely love this dress/tunic, and I get so many complements on the bow every time I where it.  Plus, it makes me feel creative.  Anyone can do this sort of project; you don't even really need to know how to sew because it's just that easy. 

Would you do this?