Curating For Melanin | Hourglass

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Curating For Melanin | Hourglass

For the past three years, Hourglass as released a holiday palette that combines some of their best selling ambient face powders, blushes, bronzers and highlighters. And for the past three years I’ve passed on each palette because the shade selection wasn’t suitable for my deeper skin tone. I would love to purchase one, but for the price it doesn’t make sense. I’m not paying that much money for minimal product that doesn’t even show up on my skin or looks ashy and doesn’t compliment it in any way. No ma’am, not doing it.

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Chemical Exfoliation

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Chemical Exfoliation

For some months now I’ve wanted to write a post about exfoliation, not your basic use a sugar scrub or face cloth exfoliation, but exfoliation that can make a difference in your skin care.

You have two types, physical and chemical. Don’t worry chemical exfoliation isn’t as scary as it may sound.

Chemical exfoliants or Acids as they may be called, can do great things for your skin. If you suffer from Acne then they can be a great asset to help manage break outs and to also deal with the after math of the break out. If you don’t have acne then chemical exfoliants can help to smooth the surface of your skin and minimize the size of your pores.

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