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For as long as I can remember, people have told me that I have great skin. Before you start hating me for saying that, let me go on and say that things have recently changed! I’m now living in New York, and I’ve noticed a HUGE change in my skin. Just a couple years ago, I’d get facials just for kicks with my girlfriends during girly sleepovers. Oh, I should have never taken the easier days for granted!

The new climate has drastically changed the texture and skin tone of my face.

It was just the other day when I saw a million new wrinkles on my forehead and thought to myself, “Hmm… maybe I should invest in some nice facial products.” But… HOW?? Where do I even begin? I started investigating by asking a lot of my friends what products they use. I asked friends who had a similar type of skin to me (dry/combination skin), and I also asked my friends who love researching this sort of stuff.

So let’s start from the beginning. As a teen, I went from using bar soap to Cetaphil because I have sensitive skin and I wanted to use something mild and water based. (OK, the bar soap phase was just because I was lazy and didn’t know any better.) However, in college I started using Shiseido for all of my facial needs. I chose this line because it seemed mild and gentle, but I liked that squeaky-clean feeling the cleansing foam gave me after I washed up. It’s also not very expensive and they have different lines for different types of skin. I also liked how their day lotion comes with SPF, but it didn’t have that SPF smell—that was very important to me! I hate smelling like the beach!

I, like many other women, had a huge complex about the dark circles under my eyes. I felt like everyone was staring at me and I couldn’t find any cream or cover-up that could hide them. I found that Shisheido’s under eye cream has worked the best so far.

As for finding the golden cure for covering up the ugly circles, Stila’s eye concealer takes the cake!! I’d tried countless concealers and they always made me turn orange, or green, or some other funky color. But I LOVE this concealer. It is even more important to me than—gasp—eyeliner!! Oh, I love thee Stila, for making such a miracle!

Now I’ve picked up a new line altogether, since my skin has started to do scary things in the past couple of weeks. I got lovely new wrinkles, blotches, and an uneven skin tone that hopefully will get taken care of by Korres. I’ve already noticed a huge difference!

I absolutely love this line so far, but if anyone has any other suggestions for me and for other readers—please do share!!  I know I’m supposed to start exfoliating weekly, so I’d love to hear about some good exfoliating brands, too!