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    Chapped Lips: The Best Ingredients To Look For In Lip Balms

    It’s already starting. The past couple of days have been unusually sunny and warm in London, so bae and I had grabbed the opportunity to enjoy the last few romantic walks in the park before the colder winter weather turns me into a hermit (did I mention I HATE the cold?). As we were making […]

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    Thermal Water: What Is It And Can It Really Help Your Skin?

    Is thermal water a scam or do the French know something we don’t? Like, they go gaga over this stuff. You can’t enter a pharmacy in France without bumping into shelves stocked to the brim with all kinds of fancy water. To the rest of the us, thermal water looks like plain old water in […]

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    Fave Five: The Best Of La Roche Posay

    The older I get and the drier my skin becomes, the more I appreciate French skincare. In the past, I complained about their lack of antioxidants or their insistence on using just one active per product. Now I get it. Sometimes, basic is just what skin needs. No frills. No fragrance. Just moisturising products that […]

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    This Lip Balm Saved My Flaky Chapped Lips This Winter

    Why won’t you heal????!!! That’s me after one month of dealing with chapped lips. Let’s go back to the beginning. A few weeks before Christmas I went for a peel. I do this a few times a year. Totally normal. Except this time, some of the peel must have ended up on my lips. Cue […]

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    What I’m Using To Soothe Dry & Sensitive Winter Skin

    I know I sound like a broken record sometimes, but winter for me is all about staving off dehydration. As soon as those cold winds start to blow and the temperatures drop down a few notches, my skin starts screaming for moisture. It. Can’t. Get. Enough. In my quest to find the right skincare products […]

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    Dry Skin? La Roche Posay Hydraphase Intense Serum Comes To The Rescue

    In case you didn’t know it already, my combo skin has played a trick on me and got all dried out in the past few months. And, when skin is dry, there’s only one thing to do: use a hyaluronic acid serum, like La Roche Posay Hydraphase Intense Serum. Here’s why: What’s In La Roche […]