skincare product review

[rhodochrosite]

my skin has recovered like 80% from w/e it was going through the past few weeks except that my skin texture is currently the worst it's ever been and i'm sooo mad... give me back my perfect smooth cheeks wtf. also i need to clear cosrx bha's name, i said in my last post i didn't feel like it was doing anything but i just started using chemical exfoliants again and holyyyy fuck the difference bha made to my skin literally overnight, my skin was so much smoother and most of the red bumps on my cheeks were gone and basically the breakouts on my cheeks (i never usually break out on my cheeks!!) have pretty much disappeared. THANK YOU COSRX

anyway some thoughts on skincare and makeup products i've tried out recently:
 

HADA LABO FOAMING WASH
it's good! have graduated from patch testing to regular use, it's lovely and gentle and doesn't dry me out and i think either my oil cleanser is hard carrying or its cleansing ability is fine, so none of my original concerns ended up coming true, thankfully

COSRX HONEY CERAMIDE CREAM

VERY thick and occlusive, nice honey scent, it barely absorbed into my skin and just sat on top like a mask. unfortunately i think i'm allergic? my skin got WORSE after i used it (i didn't patch test bc i was kinda desperate and just slathered it all over my face) and i legit woke up in the middle of the night trying to scratch my face off :/ but idk if that was just the skin problem or directly bc of the product. i'll patch test again once my skin goes fully back to normal and if i really am allergic then... idk. ETA 190808 i'm not actually allergic thank god but i don't have much use for this cream atm bc the clinique one is so good

COSRX ADVANCED SNAIL 96 MUCIN POWER ESSENCE
nice and lightweight, i use this as an extra layer of hydration on my cheeks after exfoliating. not much else to say it's a decent product as with most cosrx stuff i've tried

 

CLINIQUE MOISTURE SURGE 72 HR HYDRATOR

literally magical. cured my skin disease. i haven't tried it on my tzone yet but i have faith that it will not break me out i'm literally in love this is the best moisturiser i've ever used 10/10 wish i could afford this on a regular basis wtfffff. nothing else to say it's just really good

LANEIGE BERRY LIP MASK

smells delicious!! really sweet candy-like scent, feels very luxurious when you put it on. i love that the spatula comes in its own little envelope it's so fancy... my lips are definitely softer in the morning but i don't know that the money i spent on this was necessarily warranted dflkdfgldkfk just wanted the experience

 

NYX THAT'S THE POINT HELLA FINE

bought this bc it was cheap and i needed an eyeliner to last me until my kate one came in and i mean i guess it works but it's kinda smudgy and hard to get fine lines out of even though it's meant to have a fine tip for precision, ig it would have been fine to tide me over until then but really i should have waited ONE DAY and then i would have found the isehan eyeliner so basically i just have to force myself to alternate so i don't waste my money smfh. it's a nice dark black at least

 

ISEHAN KISS ME HEROINE EYELINER

i already bought the nyx eyeliner but i saw this in md ranking and was like fuck it i'll get this too... it's so thin and precise!! i love this one T__T it doesn't last as long as my stila one did and also isn't quite as dark but it's still pretty good, doesn't smudge as badly as the nyx one. emphasing that it's REALLY thin and gives you so much control over lines, very good for fine wings which i like to do

 

NYX MATTE LIP CREAM

my last matte nude liquid lipstick was the nyx lip lingerie which was pretty good but it's like 2 years old so i was like ehhh better get a new one... thought i'd try this one out, i'm not totally sure what it is? it's not as thick or pigmented as a liquid lipstick, it really does apply like a cream... the problem is that it doesn't dry down at all unlike a liquid lipstick so it smudges like crasy. i like layering clear lip gloss over matte lipstick and it's really hard to do that with this product... i think i'll have to go back to a regular liquid lipstick 

 

KATE RARE FIT GEL PENCIL
just got this yesterday and i'm not gonna lie i have no fucking idea how to use it, it took me like 10 minutes to figure out you have to twist the barrel to push the pencil part out and also that it isn't retractable (discovered this when i accidentally broke off like a good half centimetre of the tip). i'm not sure how to get it to a finer tip??? i need a thinner line... it does have incredible staying power tho, doesn't smudge at all and it's a very dark black and applies super smoothly and gently, i just can't draw wings properly hhhhh