Complete My Brightening Skincare with Scarlett Whitening Brightly Ever After Day & Night Cream

Kalau kalian udah baca blog aku sebelumnya, kalian pasti tau sekarang ini aku lagi pakai rangkaian brightening skincare dari Scarlett Whitening. Kemarin itu aku baru coba untuk facial wash dan brightening serum, dan menurut aku produknya oke banget. Therefore, aku coba tambahin produk lain (yang tentunya dari Scarlett Whitening) biar efeknya makin cepat terlihat. It's Scarlett Whitening Brightly Ever After Day Cream & Night Cream.

Kenapa aku memilih Brightly Ever After Day & Night Cream?? Dengan alasan yang sama seperti aku memutuskan untuk menggunakan produk Scarlett Whitening lainnya, produk ini sudah teruji bebas Merkuri & Hydroquinon, serta sudah terdaftar di BPOM. Pastinya produk ini aman digunakan untuk kulit kalian. So let's talk more about these products.

Scarlett Whitening Brightly Ever After Cream terdiri dari dua macam - Day Cream dan Night Cream. Sesuai dengan namanya, day cream digunakan di pagi hari, dan night cream untuk di malam hari. 2 cream ini memiliki tekstur yang berbeda. Karena day cream digunakan sebelum kalian melakukan aktifitas seharian, teksturnya ringan banget dan mudah meresap di kulit sehingga kulit tidak mudah berminyak. Sedangkan untuk night cream teksturnya lebih kental karena digunakan di malam hari dimana kulit membutuhkan kelembapan ekstra.

Brightly Ever After Day Cream & Night Cream mengandung bahan aktif Niacinamide dan Glutathione, yang telah terbukti dapat mencerahkan warna kulit. Selain itu tentunya produk ini memiliki kandungan lain yang aman untuk kulit. Berikut kandungan yang terdapat dalam Brightly Ever After Cream. 

Niacinamide, Hexapeptide-8, Glutathione, Rainbow Algae, Aqua Peptide Glow, Rosehip Oil, Poreaway, Triceramide, Natural Vitamin C, Green Caviar

Sesuai dengan namanya, cream ini berfungsi untuk mencerahkan wajah. Tapi kalian tau ga sih?? Penggunaan cream ini secara teratur tidak hanya dapat mencerahkan wajah. Berikut fungsi lain dari penggunaan Brightly Ever After Cream

- Meningkatkan kelembaban dan elastisitas kulit

- Memudarkan bekas jerawat

- Menyamarkan pori - pori dan garis halus pada wajah

- Mengencangkan kulit wajah

Untuk hasil yang maksimal, aku saranin kalian pake cream ini bersamaan dengan rangkaian produk Brightly Ever After lainnya, seperti Brightly Ever After Serum. Dalam seminggu aku yakin kalian akan merasakan perubahannya. Aku sendiri uda pake "full set" hampir 1 bulan, dan kulitku beneran jadi "glowing" terus halus banget. Jadi happy banget kalau lagi ngaca :) Oh ya, satu hal lagi yang aku suka dari cream ini, wanginya tuh soft and calming banget. Enak banget pas dipake jadi bikin relaxing gitu. Kalau kalian mau coba Scarlett Whitening Brightly Ever After Cream, kalian bisa order disini, produknya dijamin ORI!!

I got new skin problems when I'm going 30, and this is how I treat it (Part 1 : Wrinkles)

My new skincare products

Have you read my previous blogpost?? Well, at that post I wrote that I have a lot of beauty content that I'd write on my blog. I had this because of one reason : Lately I got so much problem on my skin, and I need to change (almost all) my skincare. It's been few months for me to try those new skincare, and I'm ready to review all of them. For the next few days, I'll write some posts about reviews of those products, based on the problems that I had. This topic will be divided into 3 parts, where each parts will discuss about 1 problem. First, I'll write about the main problems that I really worry about, and I didn't expect to get it when I'm going 30.

Fine lines, smile lines, wrinkles
OK, I start with the worst skin problem, which I shouldn't get on my age (I just 27). But these things are real!! I had fine lines before (precisely few years ago), and I could get rid of them by using SK II Facial Treatment Essence. Ever since then, I never forget to put this product into my skincare routine.

A few months ago, I started to see a smile line appearance on my face, and it's really disturbing. It always make a crack after few hours I wear make up and its horrible. Not just that, I also spot some fine lines under my eyes, which also disturbing as well. Since I saw these lines, I changed my skincare from brightening products into anti aging products. At this point I realized one thing,

"Step into 30 years old, you need skincare with anti aging effects more than brightening effects. Because you can use make up to make your face looks brighten instantly, but it's really hard to cover wrinkle and any fine lines on your face."

Therefore, I changed my serum and also my eye cream. For the serum, I use Kate Somerville Wrinkle Warrior 2-in-1 Plumping Moisturizer + Serum in the morning and Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair for at night. These products known as the best anti aging skincare with medium range price (not cheap but also not too expensive), compared to other brand such as SK II. These serums work really well, and they reduce the appearance of smile lines. I love Kate Somerville Wrinkle Warrior - because as you can read on its name, it contains moisturizer and serum in 1 bottle. So it's perfect to be used at the morning rush. However, this product is not really hydrating. Therefore, I use other product for at night, which more hydrating - Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair.

Best serum for at night : Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair

To be honest, I've been eyeing on this product for a long time. Almost everyone put this serum on their night skincare routine. Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair promising to treat any skin problems, while you're sleeping at night. Smoother, more radiant, and younger look, those sounds amazing and I really need it. As people said, this serum is really works. I wake up every morning with smooth and bright skin, and it also helps to reduce the fine lines. However, there's one thing that I don't like from this serum, it's the smell. There's no any fragrance added on this serum, so the smell comes from the main ingredients and it's not good. It smells like rubber or plastic, and sometimes it makes me almost throw up. But since this product really works to treat my skin problems, I'll keep using it and put it on my night skincare routine.

The jar size of Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Eye Cream is so "mini". Easy to bring for traveling.

Besides serum, I also change my eye cream. As you know, my very first eye cream was SK II Stempower Eye Cream - which really can be used to reduce wrinkle around my eyes, and then I changed into Caudalie Premier Cru The Eye Cream - which known as an eyecream that helps to loose dark circle. Well, this time I try new eye cream which promising could get rid of any problems around your eyes such as dark circle, wrinkle, and even puffy eyes. It's Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Eye Creme. At the first time I was really surprised to see the "Before - After" picture of this eye cream. I have these problems for years and I still couldn't find any eye cream that could fix it. Therefore, when I found out about this eye cream, I have feelings it can help me out. And it's true! Even though still there's some fine lines, but the dark circle under my eyes start to disappeared. I've use this eye cream for a month, and it shows a good progress. So far this is the best eye cream I ever tried, and I think it's gonna be my favorite eye cream.

Before - After Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Eye Creme. Source : www.google.com

My skincare to get rid of wrinkles and any fine lines on my face

Well, that's all the new products that I use to treat the appearance of wrinkles on my face. I really satisfied with the result and would recommend this anti aging products for all of you who's just going to 30 years old.

... to be continued  to the next part...

[Review] Kate Somerville Wrinkle Warrior 2-in-1 Plumping Moisturizer + Serum

Hi ladiess...
Seems like it's been for a few months I didn't write any new posts in "beauty" section. I was focusing to finish writing about my travel journey and food-venture. But don't worry, because currently I have a lot of new beauty content that I gonna write on my blog. So make sure you follow my blog, twitter, and also instagram, to get new updates from me.

Quote at the packaging of Kate Somerville Wrinkle Warrior 2-in-1 Plumping Moisturizer + Serum

This time, I'll write a review about the new skincare that surprisingly works on me. I never knew about this product before, and even I never heard of any promotion about this brand. I just found it randomly at Mecca when I was on vacation in Sydney. Mecca is a beauty store (like Sephora) that can be found in Australia. As a skincare junkie, visiting a place like this will be very exciting and I could spend for hours to find a good products (read : new skincare and make up to tried). At that moment, I found a new product that sounds really good and worth to try - Kate Somerville Wrinkle Warrior 2-in-1 Plumping Moisturizer + Serum.

The ingredients of Kate Somerville Wrinkle Warrior 

As you read on its name, this product contains moisturizer and serum in 1 bottle, which is a good idea for a "lazy" woman like me. It will reduce the time when you're layering your face with skincare. The other good points is this product promising to reduce wrinkles. If you ever read my previous post, you'll know that wrinkle is my biggest problem at this moment. Suddenly a smiling line has appeared and it really disturbing especially when I was using make up. This smiling line is not really deep, and I still can cover it with foundation. However, after few hours, this line "cracked" my make up and it looks horrible. Therefore, found this moisturizer and serum is liked a treasure for me.

It has a pump bottle style

Let's talk about the product. It has a very eyecatching - hot pink color for its bottle, and the size also quite big - compared to other serum. However if I read on the description, it only contains 50ml which is a normal size for serum and moisturizer. If you're wondering how's the texture, you can see at the picture below.

Very thick gel but not greasy at all

It's not as light as serum, and it also not as thick as moisturizer. It has a very unique texture that I never seen before. It has a transparant color like a gel, but it's "thicker" and easy to "freeze". Once you pumped it out on to your hand, you need to spread it on your face immediately before it "freeze" and "gone....". Why did I say gone? Because no matter how much you use this serum + moisturizer, once it spreaded on your face, it won't leave any greasy feelings like when you use other moisturizing cream. Your skin will become very smooth and feels like there's no skincare that you use previously because Kate Somerville Plumping Moisturizer + Serum create a layer that feels like a plastic covering your face. This product has a very great texture and perfect to be used as a day cream.

At the first month of usage, I have felt the effect of this product. My smiling line start to disappeared and for me it's very quick. Even though it's not completely gone, but at least it showing a progress only in 1 month. Totally recommended for whoever that looking for anti aging product, especially who likes a simple skincare.

The best anti aging serum + moisturizer

For this product, I bought it at AUD $145 (equals to IDR 1.450K) and it's quite expensive, in my opinion. This product is the most expensive skincare I ever used, after SK II Facial Treatment Essence. But, if we're looking at its function which works as anti aging product, I think it's normal price because almost every anti aging product sold at high price. Besides, this product is very legit and really has an effect. So it's worth it with the price. Will I repurchase?? For sure!!! At my age which stepping to 30 years old, I need to use some anti aging products to avoid any appearance of wrinkle. Because once a wrinkle appeared, a simple skincare routinity will be useless and you need a special treatment which costs expensive as hell to loose it.

Laneige White Dew Tone-up Cream VS Sherbet Cream

Before we ended this September, let me write 1 more post about Laneige products. But this time I will not just write a simple review as usual. Instead, I will compare 2 products from Laniege White Dew series, Tone-up Cream and Sherbet Cream. Keep reading girls ^^

Laneige White Dew Tone-up Cream and Sherbet Cream

If this is your first time with Laneige White Dew series, it'll be better if you read my review about Laneige White Dew Tone-up Cream, the first cream that launched together with White Dew series. I've written about this cream completely, so you'll understand about the function of Tone-up Cream. As the time goes by, lately Laneige just launched a new cream from that series, named Laneige White Dew Sherbet Cream. Some of you might be confused about these products. Well, let me help you to answer all of your questions.

What's the difference between Tone-up Cream and Sherbet Cream?
In simple words, Tone-up Cream, works as an instant whitening cream. After using this cream, you'll see the result just in seconds. The texture also very light, make it easy to blend. Even though it's claimed can hydrates your skin, I don't feel that way. Perhaps it's because I have a very dry skin and Tone-up cream is not designed to "fix" a dry skin problem. It's just work as a brightening cream - that's all.

Laneige White Dew Sherbet Cream

Meanwhile, Sherbet Cream has a very different texture with Tone-up Cream. It's very thick, and doesn't have any "color" - so it won't make your skin get brighter instantly. As you can see at the picture above, Sherbet Cream has a very rich texture, and yessss..... it's really hydrating. It's gonna be helpful to fix a dry skin problem as well. However, I won't recommend to use it in the morning, because the texture is too greasy. It will makes your face looks oily, even if you have a dry skin. That's why I use this as a night cream, to keep my skin hydrated during sleep at the Air Conditioned room.

Sherbet Cream vs Tone-up Cream

Are they really work as a whitening cream?
If you read my previous post about Laneige White Dew VIP Trial Kit, you'll know that the product from White Dew series that really gives a good result is the Original Ampoule Essence. I could see the brightening effect by using this essence only in 3 weeks. However, I won't say Tone-up Cream & Sherbet Cream are not showing a good result. I just finished my first jar for each cream, so I couldn't judge them. But, I just repurchased for them both, and I'll update it on my new instagram account @talkinboutbeauty for the result after finish the second jar. And a little tips from me, if you want to get a brighter skin tone faster, you might want to use the essence as well to boost up the whitening effect from the cream.

Which one is better? Tone-up Cream or Sherbet Cream?
You can't ask like that because they are completely different types of cream. But if you really want to try, I suggest you to try them both. Use Tone-up Cream in the morning to increase your skin tone instantly, and use Sherbet Cream at night to keep your skin moisturized.

After apply them on my hand. Can you spot the different?? The right side with Tone-up Cream looks brighter than the left side with Sherbet Cream.

(Note : I just made @talkinboutbeauty on Instagram, special for talking about beauty. Make sure you follow that account to keep update with the newest skin care review, make up, and other things about beauty)

Laneige White Dew VIP Trial Kit

Laneige White Dew VIP Trial Kit

Before I start to write a review, let me tell you a short story about my activities at this week :

Lately, my children and I were sick. We got cold and a very bad wet cough. This condition made us only stay at home, and took a lot of rest. I didn't went out, only took care of my children, cooked healthy food, prepared a lot of medicines, and not forgetting to check their body temperature every 15 minutes because sometimes fever also came. Honestly, those days made me feel bored and it was very hard for me. All those "activities" was driving me crazy until I had no enough - good quality bedtime. However, when the kids were sleeping, I have a little bit time for take a rest. At that time, I opened my photos on the camera, and upload it into my instagram's feed. This time I still work on my pictures from the last summer trip to Canada. Well, you might think it's too late and weird because I've back to my home 2 months ago, and it's still unfinished. Well, I'm a perfectionist person, and I want my post looks perfect (not just the picture, but the caption too). And if you see my itinerary, you'll know that I didn't have time to do that during the trip. That's why I always post about my trip after back home.

Now you might be confused and wondering, "What's the connection between that story and the title of this blog post?". So, when I was looking at the gallery on my camera, I just found some photos about Laneige White Dew VIP Trial Kit, which I brought on my Bali trip. It was around 7 months ago and I just realized that I haven't write a review on my blog about these products. Now, let's start to read about this travel set.

If you ever read my older blog posts, you'll know that I always use Laneige White Dew Tone Up Cream everyday. Beside that, you also will know that I wanted to try another products from this series as well, to fasten the result and brighten my skin tone, permanently. When I was seeing a trial kit from this series, I thought it's the right time to try it. This trial kit consists of 2 products from White Dew series : Tone Up Cream and Original Ampoule Essence. Since I've written about Tone Up Cream, this time I only gonna write about the essence.

Laneige White Dew Original Ampoule Essence is one of a must product from White Dew series. This essence used after toner, and before day cream (or Tone Up Cream). Like other essence products, it has a transparant color. However, it has a gel texture, which made me think it's gonna hard to absorb. Because all I know, essence always comes in water (such as SK II Facial Treatment Essence). In fact, even though it has a gel texture, but it's very light, and easy to absorb. I really love it because I realized this texture can hydrate my skin.

Laneige White Dew Original Ampoule Essence has a gel texture

First time I used it was in Bali, and I didn't see any result. Maybe because it's just 4 days, so I didn't feel any difference on my face. Next, I used it again for around 3 weeks on my summer trip to Canada, and I started to see the result. It hydrated my skin, and also make it looks brighter. The other things that I like from this essence is, it balanced my skin tone before using tone up cream, so my skin didn't looks pale. And the last, the brightening effect didn't disappear, even after I washed my face. I still could see my bare face  looks brighter and I satisfied with it.

Tone-up Cream vs Original Ampoule Essence

The result if I blend it together. It stilll unfinished, but as you can see, it doesn't have much difference with my skin tone.

Why I only use this essence while traveling, and not use it as my everyday skin care??
First, I still use other essence product at home, and I want to use it until finish to see the result. Second, I only have this essence on travel size which is very small, and it's perfect for traveling. FYI, I always bring a very light skin care products while traveling, and mostly on travel size. I hate to bring a full size skin care while traveling, because I know I'll buy more beauty products at that time, and I need a lot of space for that :P

My only skin care during holiday in Bali

However, after finish my current essence, I'll buy the full size of Laneige White Dew Original Ampoule Essence, because it had shown a good result and it's perfectly match with the Tone Up Cream.

SK II Pitera Welcome Set

Unboxing SK II Pitera Welcome Set

Hi dear!

Here I am, back again with a blogpost about beauty products from my favorite brand, SK II. If you have read my previous post, you'll know the first product from this Japanese brand that I used is SK II Facial Treatment Essence. I've used it since 3 years ago, and I never have a thought to stop using it. I love this product a lot. As I was saying before, the result will be shown after long term of use. And yes! I started to see the result now.

After 3 years using this essence, finally I started to see the change on my skin. I realized that my age is growing, and lately my skin is also a bit dry (due to last winter holidays). However, I don't see any appearance of fine lines. Whereas before, I could see the fine wrinkles on my face, especially in the area around my eyes. At that time I was only 24 years old and the wrinkles made me looks so "old". Thanks to SK II, you really change my destiny :)

The history of "PITERA", seen on the side of SK II Pitera Welcome Set's box

"A good skin care will costs a lot" - hmm, I would say that I'm agree with it. A good skin care, contains a good - high quality ingredients, which also need a high costs. Especially if it has anti aging effects, that can be found at SK II products. The "high" price of this products could be a concern for some peoples who just want to try to use it for the first time. They are worry if the products are not suitable on their skin, and it only gonna waste their money.

3 first steps to get a clear skin by SK II

However, if you really curious with the "power" of SK II products and wanna try it without breaking your wallet, you can start it with SK II Pitera Welcome Set which just launched and designed special for the first timer. Inside this box, there are 3 best seller products of SK II, comes in mini size.

•  Facial Treatment Clear Lotion 30ml

The most important point to get a clear and healthy skin: "Make sure your face at the very clean condition before start your treatment." A facial wash is not enough to make your face 100% clean. You need to use more cleanser before start with your treatment.  A good cleanser also important to get a healthy skin because it will exfoliate a dead skin cells, and make your skin become very clean and of course, healthy. SK II Pitera Welcome Set also comes with SK II Clear Lotion which is a good cleanser. Use this as the very first step, with cotton pad, before you continue with Facial Treatment Essence.

• Facial Treatment Essence 75ml

This essence is a must products from SK II. It contains Pitera which really great to make your skin keep "young" and glowing. Use this essence as the first step on your treatment, after get your face clean with Facial Treatment Clear Lotion, twice a day, in the morning and before sleep time. You can use it with cotton pads, but I choose to only drop it on my palm. With that way, I only need 3 drops for my whole face.

• R.N.A Power Radical New Age 15g

After essence, you might need a serum for a serious problem on your skin. However, if you don't have any serious problem, and only wants to make your skin keep moisturized and get brighter, you can go with moisturizing cream after essence directly. R.N.A Power Radical New Age, is a best seller moisturizing cream by SK II. R.N.A series known for the anti aging effect, which what people expecting for from this brand. However, it's not only for elder women. Young women (from 20 years old) can also use it as a measure to prevent premature aging. Beside that this cream has a very rich texture, and it will moisturized your skin.

Those 3 products are the best seller products from SK II, and known as the first step to get a crystal clear skin. This Pitera Welcome Set only costs IDR 958k, and it's a very good deal for SK II products. You can get this set in every SK II counter. You're better be hurry up, because they only have limited stock. Are you ready to #changedestiny ????

[Find out how SK-II Skincare Routine can brighten your dull skin]

SK II Pitera Welcome Set - the first step to crystal clear skin

Laneige White Dew Tone-up Cream

Have a light skin tone, always be a dream for every woman, especially for Asian woman (including me). We love to have a light skin tone because it will make us looks prettier and also lookin’ good in every outfit color. Therefore, there are many beauty brand launch a whitening series product to fulfill every woman’s dream. At this post (which gonna be the last post on this Laneige week), i’ll write a review about the newest product for whitening by Laneige.

 

Well, about few months ago, Laneige has launched a new series, called White Dew. As we can see on its name, we know this product has a function as a whitening product. Like other series in Laneige, there are several product for White Dew series, starts from the essence, refiner, emulsion, and moisturizing cream. Between all of this product, there is 1 product which become the most popular from White Dew series, it’s Tone-up Cream.

Laneige White Dew Tone-up Cream contains Saururus chinensis extract, which can moisturize and give a whitening effect for your skin. By using this cream, it can brighten the yellowish and dull skin. I felt curious about this product, because some people say it works really fast, even faster than White Plus Renew Original Cream. As a fan of Laneige, hear about the goodness of this product makes me can’t wait to try it and see the result by myself. However, it’s still not available in Laneige Indonesia, so i need to buy it by online.

Tone-up Cream has a different packaging with another Laneige cream. It comes with a big box, which includes a tone up puff in it. First time, i thought this puff gonna be useless. Because usually i apply the cream on my face only with bare hands. But when i saw the texture of this cream, i understand what this tone up puff for.

The texture of Tone-up cream really different with White Plus Renew Original Cream. It doesn’t easy to absorb on your skin. Instead, it creates a thin layer on your skin, which make your skin looks brighter, right after using this cream. I would say it more looks like an instant whitening cream. This kind of texture make it hard to blend, and we need the tone up puff to apply it.

Left : White Plus Renew Original Cream | Right : White Dew Tone-up Cream

How to use it??
1. Use this Tone-up cream as the last step on your skin care routine.
2. Take the right amount, and put it in every part on your face equally.
3. Gently pat the cream to promote absorption into skin.
4. Using the tone up puff, gently tap the face to make sure this cream blend perfectly.

After do those 4 steps, trust me, you’ll see your face get brighten instantly. Laneige White Dew Tone-up Cream not only can be used for your face. But it also can be use to brighten any dark part on your body such as neck and armpit.

Honest review from me, it’s not become my favorite product. I like the way how it makes my face looks brighten. But the formula doesn’t moisturize my skin at all. Maybe because it only focus as a whitening, so it doesn’t have any ingredients for hydrating. I still use Laneige Water Sleeping Pack once a week to keep my skin hydrated, because i know basically i have a dry skin type, and it only can be cured with this sleeping pack. However, since i use White Dew Tone-up Cream, my skin type back to dry again, especially on cheek area. I have asked with other people which has more experience about it, and they suggest me to combine it with White Plus Renew Original Cream. So in the morning, i use White Dew Tone-up Cream, and for at night i use White Plus Renew Original Cream to make my skin back to normal again.

Laneige White Dew Tone-up Cream and Laneige White Plus Renew Original Cream

I don’t know whether it’s gonna be make my skin get brighter permanently or not. Because i just use it for 2 weeks, and i can’t judge by this short time. But i’ll keep use it for sure, and maybe i’ll try other products from White Dew series. Who knows it’s gonna make my dry skin turn into normal again, and make it works faster to brighten my skin, permanently.