I tried the Black Snail cream yesterday, and it works ok-ish. It started to feel a little burn this morning when I put it on, though it didn't make my skin red. On the contrary, it helps lessen the redness of my skin, but it doesn't feel like hydrated enough.
The redness has went down even more after using the Black Snail
It feels like my skin is a desert, nothing would make it happy.
So I went back and read about the steps in Korean skin care, and there are extra steps that Korean women use:
Night: Oil cleanser, foam cleanser (apparently it's double wash to make sure everything is off your face), toner, serum/essence/ampoule, maybe a sheet mask if you want to, then moisturizer.
Day: foam cleanser (because you already got everything off at night), toner, serum/essence/ampoule, sheet mask (optional step), moisturizer, sunscreen.
Easy enough. I generally do face wash, then moisturizer, so adding more washes at night, serum, then moisturizer is a few extra steps, but it doesn't take more than a few seconds each; so I don't mind it.
I did what was listed, and it was weird, at first. I have the ampoule, but decided to skip it because it was irritating my face. That gives me foam face wash, toner, then moisturizer. And extra step, and I was hoping it would help my skin.
It didn't, not really. It wasn't hydrating enough, and the application of the Black Snail cream makes my face get a little hot. Nothing unbearable, and the heat went away after a minute with no sign of irritation, so I ignored it.
I had to go out, but I didn't want to put on a full face of makeup with how irritated my face is, so I opted to put only the face powder and upper eyeliner on. The only good thing was that my face wasn't peeling. However, my skin felt like it was halfway back to its parchment state. Almost. It felt like the dermis layer is hydrated enough, but the epidermis is just about to become peeling skin.
I'm getting pissed about how weird my skin is. I've have had dry skin, especially when I came back to Indiana, but it couldn't be explained. Sort of putting oil on my face, nothing feels hydrating (though, I did put oil on my face while trying to exfoliate the uppermost layer, but even that didn't help), and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I have ordered the toner, or skin, from Innisfree, and it's Olive Real Skin, supposedly help to moisten skin. I've used the toner this morning and just now, but I still feel my skin need more. I'm starting to get worried though, because I'm not sure how to get my skin to be happy. I don't want to keep ordering stuffs that supposedly works (especially it works for so many other people), only to have it not work on mine.
Why do you got to be so difficult, skin?
As for the oil cleansing, I got this Olive Cleansing Oil, hoping it would help. At this point, I'm feeling like I'm going to have to drown my face in everything under the sun to make it moist. Unfortunately, I can't do that, and I'm trying to not do too much.
The cleansing oil did feel so good when I was using it (two pumps covers all areas of my face, neck, and a little extra); it glided on my face so easily, and it took of makeup pretty good (I had on the long lasting I'm Eyeliner, and it was long lasting, even for me (I've destroyed many other types of waterproof eyeliners in under an hour before). I didn't even scrub at all with this oil cleanser. It took off every thing on my face with a few massaging strokes. I was impressed.
After the oil, came the foam cleanser, but my skin stay soft even after the shower, so my hope was shot sky high. I put on clarifying toner, and freaked out - my skin was peeling and looking like it finally gave up trying. I didn't took a picture of it because my focus was getting it back under control. I had to do another oil cleansing, massaging of about an inch of dry skin in total, and was hoping that the cleansing oil would help hydrating my face.
I put on the Innisfree's Olive toner, then put on a layer of the Black Snail cream, and it burns more than a little. I winced and keep on going, because I thought my skin is uber sensitive now after the AHA/BHA toner. I layered on a pea amount of vitamin E cream, hoping it will help like it did before. Then another layer of the Black Snail cream because my logic said the more the better, the more the hydrating.
My face was immediately felt like it's on fire, and I freaked out a little, thinking my skin snapped and will became irritated and rashy again. Nope, my skin looks normal. No bump, only the residue redness from the Tonymoly's snail cream remains, and no itchy spots.
What in the world, skin?
It is dehydrated when I don't layer. It is dehydrated when I layer. I can't win.
I'm getting irritated and down because I can't figure my face out T_____T
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