Showing posts with label bella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bella. Show all posts

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Win a Bella Facial

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This might be a plug for Bella, but i have indeed been patronizing Bella since i was 19.
From this at 17

to this at 24

So post your beauty question to me here  and stand to win the experience i get every month on my own expense. I will choose a winner on Christmas day and you will get a free premium facial according to your skin condition (worth $340). Perfect to get good skin for Chinese New Year!

I hope you get hooked because girls just need to pamper themselves every once in awhile!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Sunburnt Whales

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Whales, whose skin you’d think is a lot thicker than mere humans is actually facing severe sunburn that may be caused by the damaged ozone layer’s decreased ability to block UV rays.

This is very bad news!

Fortunately, it’s against the law to be a nudist in public and sunglasses are in vogue.
And unless you live in the era of Aladdin where you wear veils  


Or haunt the living as a horror bride, I’d suggest you slap on sun-screen. 24/7. Many people think you don’t need sunscreen if you stay indoors. That’s not true. There are harmful rays from the lights in the building, the computer, and the TV too.

In the market, there’re SPF values as high as 50. I have, however heard or read somewhere that the skin can only absorb 25 and anything more doesn’t go in.

However, the Percentage of Protection from damaging UV rays is:

SPF 15 = 92%
SPF 30 = 97%
SPF 40 = 97.5%

I suppose whether the above is true or not, best is to use a sunscreen with a minimum of 30. Afterall, the difference in UV ray protection in SPF numbers becomes minimal as the number increases past about 30 or 40. The difference of protection between SPF 15 and SPF 30 is great (5%), but the difference between SPF 30 and SPF 40 is minimal (0.5%).

I do not use Coppertone or Banana Boat unless I am out at the beach or swimming. They are too oily for daily use. And I used to use this particular skincare brand that is although made of natural ingredients; it just doesn’t work as effectively in blending into the skin (my face remains flaky white).

So Bella Skincare introduced me to the Pore Minimizer Sun Defense SPF35 PA++. It is most ideal for combination skin and skins with tendency to oiliness.
Combination of Salicylic Acid and Polysaccharides ensure a healthy skin renewal; reduce pores from clogging resulting in refined pores and reduction in pimple outbreak (and its true! Been using for 3 weeks now).


It is very light and its oil free texture offers an amazing long wearing comfort and freshness (after 8 hours out, my face is not oily at all!), leaving my skin matte and natural looking.

At 25, it’s time to practice age defying strokes. Here’s how you massage skincare into your skin.
For the V-shape face, push lightly and gently upwards.
Don’t look like a bull dog with downward folds around the mouth. Lift and push upwards and round your mouth.
Ease the forehead folds by using 2 fingers and doing light circles around, start from the middle outwards.

Remember ladies, lift-and-push against gravity.

The good news is, win vouchers from Bella Skin Care’s facebook page by


Answering my question posted there correctly and get a $50 voucher which you can use at their outlets.

Posting YOUR question about skincare or problem at and get a $50 voucher.
Posting your question + PHOTO of problematic skin and get a $100 voucher.
I will be choosing a winner for a Bella Skin Care’s package weekly. So long as you participate in any of the above ways, you’re in the draw. Trust me, you WILL want to win a Bella Skin Care’s package. I don’t want to calculate how much I’ve “invested” in my skin for the last 6 years.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

My Skin Bible

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It’s been an uphill battle for me ever since those zits entered my life. I never really knew how to appease them! Just been through a emotional roller coaster, all that stress is making me break out!

A far cry from my teenage years, my current skin is clear but once a zit shows up at my door step, its friends will come to party too. When that happens, I can’t continue my regular regime because my regular regime is too oily for my skin! I dig from my mum’s pots, remember?

And it’s so difficult to get the potion right! Zit appears, zap it with pimple cream= skin becomes dry = skin produces more oil to counter=more oil, more pimples. It’s a vicious cycle.

So Bella Skincare introduced to me the Sebo Defense Emulsion. It is specially formulated to suit oily and problem skin. It keeps oily and problem skin under control while respecting the hydro lipidic balance by purifying and regulating facial secretions. That’s EXACTLY what I’m talking about; it can break the vicious cycle!

I have religiously applied a thin layer day and night for the past 2 weeks. I usually wake up with an oily face the next morning, thus before I didn’t dare put any night time skincare (afraid of an over-reaction). With the Sebo Defense Emulsion, it not only gives me the nutrients need for skin repair while I sleep, it also controls the oil production. No oily face greeting the person I wake up beside (IF I am sleeping with one)!


With a clean face, I slap the cream on as a base before anything else. It really does work! It controls the oil production of my face and the pimples have ceased partying (stopped appearing, but slowly becoming smaller). I have heard that using oil blotters are not good, because it dries out your skin= produces more oil to make up for the lack of.

Got to admit, I had to resist wiping the cream off my face with a tissue because I didn’t like the feeling of something “oily” on my face! Just had to control those itchy hands for 15 seconds though, because very soon the skin absorbs the emulsion quickly and my face had a matte texture. Nice!

Don’t expect miracles overnight though. Patience, diligence and manage expectations. I've been using this trial product for 3 weeks now, and i'm starting to dread when it runs out! It really controls the eruption of new blemishes and also abates existing ones.

Don’t forget to also keep these tips for clear skin; I present to you my Skin Bible!