Many of my friends use make up here in Finland and I started to get interested about it, once I tried and I loved to see how different I was looking. From time to time I was using my friend's make up and after some time I decided to buy my own, ops, where to find a make up to a chocolate color here in Finland, it was nearly impossible at that time (2008). Luckily there are some African shops in an area called 'Hakaniemmi', from there I could buy a make up suited for my color :)
After some time I saw myself using make up everyday. Have to confess that in the very beginning I was removing the make up only with those wet towels (make up removers) but I didn't have any facial soap and face cream to take a better care before and after the make up and I have been doing that for long time until I had a conversation with my sister. I have changed all my habits since that. I have started to use the products from Clinique to take care of my face. I washed my face every morning with the soap (suitable to my skin type) + the tonic and the moisturizer.
I felt it in my first step, ooh what a feeling, was feeling so good that I didn't want to use make up. I started to make only the daily treatment and avoiding the daily make up. My skin has changed a lot since I started to take a good care of it.
I have used bio-oil for many years when I was living in Mozambique but when I moved to Finland I could't find it in the shops and I started to use normal body lotion. Well, my skin is very sensitive and I always had to take care of it because of my allergy problems. normally in winter time my skin gets too dry and starts to crack, it feels terrible. Even I put a lot of moisturizer in that area it doesn't help, it lasts for the all winter. Once I was in Mozambique and I show my skin to my sister (what would be my life without you?). For the beginning she said me to use her kids body lotion which is really creamy, I could feel the skin getting better. After this we traveled to South Africa and she said to me: lets go to the pharmacy (Mophany) they have there the products I use to take care of my skin. It was Clarins. We ask about something for dry skin and I showed to the lady how my skin was in my dry elbows. She recommended Moisture-Rich Body Lotion which was amazing to my skin. I got better quickly. Have been using the same for one year just to avoid the dry skin problems again but I am planning now to use the firming cream as I feel my skin so good.
I am satisfied about the Clarins and the results I have reached using it. After some time I decided to try the Clarins facial care and I am loving it. My skin is smoother now, maybe the Clarins suits better to my skin. They are bit expensive but the result is great and its a kind of thing that fortunately we don't need to by every day/month. Sometimes it lasts 2 months or even more which is good.
But all those products has their own proprieties, so it is important to find a good one to your skin type. I am at the moment in Spain for two months, before come here I was in Dakar and my luggage didn't arrive in time, the first thing that came to my mind was my body and facial care products that are in the luggage once they don't allow you to take them to the plane. Luckily I had a body lotion at home but not the facial care. That was awful, I have been using the body lotion also to my face for many weeks. After spending a lot in my business trip to Dakar I couldn't buy my facial care products and that's something I have to make a plan to once they are not cheap and I need at least three of them. As I couldn't buy them all at the moment I decided to use the body lotion also to my face. It hasn't been so bad. During this time here in Spain I started to have some irritation between the ring and middle finger and also between the middle and the forefinger. I was suppose to go to pharmacy or to the Doctor but I didn't. Well, after two weeks I still had the irritation, it was getting darker and after scratch it turns to white. During this time I bought a new body lotion as the clarins finished. I was looking for something good and cheap and I found a cream oil which contains argan, you can't imagine what happen in the first day I used it. The allergy started to get better (hey, in he first day). The body lotion was only 5,95 euros. That's why I said its good to find a cream that is suitable to your skin type!!!
