Viva Woman

Over the past week, I’ve been feeling a bit blue over my face. No, except for a hormonal pimple on my chin, I’m not breaking out horribly. It’s not an intense feeling but at certain moments, especially when I examined my skin in the mirror, I would just feel like letting myself go, and forget all about my skin care regime. I even had a nightmare that the skin on my face is beyond redemption! HA.  

During my last Korean traditional anti-aging facial, beauty expert Han mentioned to me that women experience three major changes to their skin – during puberty, pregnacy and menopause.  I think biologically, this definitely makes sense since these are the periods when we encounter changes to our hormones too.  However, when I was speaking to Susan of True Beauty, she indicated that our skin changes every seven years!   

I consider myself pretty adventurous when it comes to trying out new skin care products. Not that I’ll try every single product in the market, but rather, I’ve no qualms about getting a totally new skin care product online even if I’ve not seen it on the shelves.  However, a few retailers, including Eric of Bud Cosmetics and Joey of Kanga Organics, mentioned to me that they sometimes find it difficult to get customers to shop online because of the lack of the “touch and feel” factor.  Which is kind of surprising to me considering the growth in online purchases.