Little World Blog

*Disclaimer: I know allllll about good, natural hair products, so if you know about this…we can trade knowledge hehe

Let’s just talk about something real quick… How do any of y’all actually know how to do skincare or what’s perfect for your skin specifically? Have y’all just been putting random things on until you find those that you like or what? Because in all honesty I’m putting whichever of my mom’s 1000 serum/moisturizer options on my face that looks the most refreshing, regardless of what it’s doing for my skin. I’m convinced things are already starting to catch up to me. Like eating less than healthy foods all throughout high school has caused college Elle to look like a whole different person (I’m telling myself this to avoid the fact my body never look like it did at 16 again…sigh).  And to make matters worse, once my mother literally told me that everyday you don’t thoroughly wash your face and do skincare, it ages you by 14 days. I would poke fun at that statement but now I really feel like I have no time to give. It already doesn’t help the fact that my face is breaking out from the college water and sweating my ass off at practice everyday. 

Don’t even get me started on watching tiktok for help. I will watch videos just to see what other girls are doing for their skin then fall down this deep rabbit hole where at the end I have convinced myself that its simply just me and not my skin that’s the issue (ah, the joys of the internet). That literally happened to me tonight. You see ONE video on skincare routine and then get sucked into all the related videos. 

ALSO its the prices of everything. Like I know literally any tangible item is priced way high right now but come on…$50+ for a cream where you can’t even pronounce all the ingredients?? Make it make sense. I’ll wait. 

Okay now that you’re back from being unable to come up with an answer, I’m just going to share what I’ve been using and I need y’all to message me and tell me if I’m ruining my face or not. See, this is a symbiotic relationship. 

Face wash– I’ve gone back and forth between face washes because of changing hormones and such but recently I’ve been using CeraVe acne control, and that seems to be doing the trick

Toner– Provence Beauty has a hyaluronic acid toner that I used to really like but it turns almost soapy near the end of the bottle? I don’t know what the deal is.

Serum– Also from Provence, I use the retinol night time serum in the evening and a serum from Advanced Clinicals for my day time.  

Let it just be known that half of these products are from TJMaxx and I have zero shame in that.