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My Evening Skincare Routine Now That I Am 45
This is the follow-up to my morning skincare routine that I posted a few weeks ago. Since then, the world has become even more unhinged than previously – a considerable feat – making me reconsider all the ways I spend my money. You will see a number of US brands here (The Ordinary, Glossier, Tatcha, Victoria Beckham), but I think my policy going forward will be to try to avoid them if possible. I will not be a fundamentalist about it and I may still want to support some smaller, independent US brands. The rest of the context is covered in the first post, so let’s get to the evening steps.
Best of 2024: Beauty
Like my style, my beauty consumption has also settled down. Not really to normal levels, but somewhat closer to it. Perhaps it’s simply an age thing? The most important elements of my skincare routine are Vitamin C in the morning and retinol at night, which do not change much, and then I can play around with the rest. My makeup tends to be relatively minimal (if I bother at all) and softer than in the past, so there isn’t too much to report on that front either. That said, I do have a number of things I enjoyed using this year – some new, some older. Here they are:
4 Interesting American Skincare Brands
I’ve been analyzing my beauty arsenal (I analyze everything, I cannot help it) and realized that my make-up is mostly by boring brands: lots of YSL and Chanel, with only a few less mainstream items. Skincare, however, looks more promising.* I’ve done some ex..
9 Things to Clean Your Face
In my evangelical post about the importance of cleansing, I promised a round-up of my cleanser stash. I must admit that looking at the picture above is pretty scary: when the cleansers are all hanging somewhere around the house, doing their thing, there does..