My Skin Care (but not so) Routine, for Indonesian
Hi I’m back!
Okay I guess that’s not so great introduction because it’s just emphasize how lazy I am ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Right now I wanna write about my skin care routine, even though I am not so routine while use it. If you are not familiar with me, or you just randomly search about skin care routine especially for Indonesian you may want to know how do I look like, and what’s my skin type. So here I am:
On the title above, I specifically mention skin care for Indonesian because I think due to weather, pollution, sun rays and else, Indonesian needs different product than people from other countries. Maybe. At least for me. I need skin care product which can sustain hot weather in Jakarta and causing my face getting more oily. In general my face type is oily on my T-zone and relatively normal on other parts. I also rarely have pimples on me,but when it appears, usually during or before my period and lasted for two weeks or less.
I had purchased few skin care products randomly, without really knew the function because I was sure that my skin wouldn’t irritate. After had few products that time, I read about 10 Step Korean Skin Care by Soko Glam and decided to add few more products to get the result that they aim. At that time I had condensing milk and astringent (few people take it as toner, but I don’t think so), facial wash and cream. So I added toner and exfoliator to my list.
I’ve been using this product by eva mulia since god knows when, from junior high perhaps? My mom also used this, but changed to others. As a cleanser product I think this condensing milk and also the astringent is fine, it can remove my make up completely and not irritate my skin.
To remove my lip stain, I use these two products. Why I so recommend to use lip remover and moisturize it with lip moisturizer (such as lip balm or lip therapy) because it can remove your lip stain especially if you use lip liquid. For me, if I don’t remove my lip stain completely, my lip will be cracked and ache morning after. Some sources said if you don’t remove your lips stain, it will leave dark skin around your lips.
next is facial wash. I choose this because it’s popular and easily found in drug store. For me, any facial wash is fine because I already use astringent in previous step. Foaming facial wash in my skin care routine I use to remove oil after cleansing milk and give fresh sensation.
I randomly found this cheap but highly function product when I traveled to Japan. At first I didn’t know the usage of this product because the instruction and are all in Japanese, but after digging on various site, I found this as a toner. The effect I feel difference when I use toner or not is when I am using toner the next step skin care is more absorbed to the skin, and it enrich my skin even more. Been purchasing this few times even though it’s not available in Indonesia, but worth it! and also cheap!
Next skin care step is cream. I haven’t use this cream during the day because it’s soooo oily, moreover on parts of my face have oily skin type. So I change it to use during the night. The result is quite well, but I don’t intend to repurchase it.
The last product I apply to my face is sun block. I use Biore UV Aqua Rich because many people said that this product is really good and consist of watery ingredient so it won’t leave white cast in my face and well-blend with my make up (foundation, loose powder etc)
Beside of those products there are few items I use ocassionally such as to remove my acne scars (bekas jerawat) and blackhead.
This product is proven by me to remove blackhead on my nose. After I use it, I can feel my face became smoother and refreshing. To get best result I recommend you to follow my step while you use this product:
- rinse your face with water (and make sure your face already clean, you can aply facial wash to your face)
- apply toner to the whole part of your face, keep it for 5 minutes until you feel that the toner already absorbed by your skin face.
- apply and scrub your face with this Skin Food Black Sugar Mask. Don’t scrub to your face too hard because it will just irritate your face, apply it gently, but if it needed you can scrub harder on your nose or chin part to get the result more effectively to remove your blackhead.
- Wait for around 20–30 minutes, and clean your face with warm water.
For my personal experience I got better result when I apply those steps rather than just apply it directly to my face. When I applied toner, I think the formula and ingredient of the black sugar mask more absorbed to my skin. So beside just to remove blackhead, I can feel the refreshener from the mask too.
Bio oil is not skin care product I think. People mainly use this product to remove scars or stretct marks on their skin. I did use it to remove my scars after I accidentally struck by sharp objects. After few weeks of applying to my scars skin, I see the result. Slowly my scar disappear.
So, based on that experience, I thought, this product maybe can be applied to remove my dark spots after acnes. And that’s true! I few times applied it to my dark spots and it can slowly disappear. I really recommend this product to remove your scars spot.
One of the most popular product in Korea. If one of your relative goes to korea, but you don’t have any idea to ask them what to buy (but you wanna to have some beauty product from korea) I recommend you to buy this!
In this super hot weather like Jakarta, I think this product is essential. It can moisturize your skin, can reduce your acne, able to soothe your face, many advantages you can get from this product.
Those are my skin care products I use (not so) daily to my face. I prefer to apply it before I go to sleep, because I usually wake up late and really lazy to apply those steps before I am going to work even though it just takes 20 minutes for all steps.
About the price, the price is relatively average, not that expensive but not that cheap considering all those products beneficial for your skin. For first time user, I recommend you to purchase products in a jar to know will this product important for you or not, or suit your skin or not. You can purchase on this site like mine https://shopee.co.id/luciahanna. Other ways are you can buy products to treat face problems that you have. For example, you have problem with blackheads, you can just exfoliator to solve your skin problems. Or you have problem with oily face, you can buy soothing gel for instance.
At first you maybe thinking, “what a waste”,”I’ll leave it my face like this”, “I have confidence in my face”, “those steps require a lot of time” or etc etc. Those are the same arguments I used when I haven’t tried the products. After using it I feel slightly improvement on my skin. You know your skin, so treat it girls!
ps: long post in english, ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ, if there any mistakes (which I am sure) bear it, please :):):)
pps: I mentioned 1 seller above which I bought beauty products in a jar, these are the products. Later I will post the result (ketika gue ga mager), see ya!
