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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Friday, November 07, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
4:57 PM (Pacific)
Hey! :)
Hummm...I have been battling acne since...1995. I really don't know what causes it. I've been reading about it on the Net since...1998.
All that said, only a few things I've tried have worked for me over the long run.
One is not eating regular (hormone raised) beef. (I do realize you're on the Veg Pledge so that can't be it.)
Two is taking a multi-vitamin. The weird thing is that my skin starts breaking out if I stop taking the dang thing for even a few days.
The theory is that the food we eat, itself, has changed. It's no longer as nutritious as it once was. So even if you're eating a healthy diet, you're still getting less nutrition than it would seem.
I was skimming a "health food nut" book...Rodale I think...that was written in the '70's. And the guy was going on and on about how you can't get the nutrients you need from just eating food anymore. One of the examples he gave was of teenagers getting acne.
Now...did teenagers always get acne? Or not? Did they ever get less acne than they do now? I have no idea. Teenagers got acne when I was a teenager.
But adults didn't. And now everyone is acting as if adults always got acne.
Anyhow enough of the babble. I stand by my no-hormone-beef and multi-vitamin treatment.
Jojoba oil...I still use this. It is good. I mix mine with the sunscreen I use. I know you're not supposed to do that but I won't wear sunscreen at all if it means adding another layer to my face.
Hummm...I'll have to agree on the Gucci Rush. It smells good, but it's not as inspired and complex as the Givenchy stuff.
Tarnish eh? That sounds pretty. I think if you have brown in your eyes, then green is a good choice.
I'm hitting a makeup boondoggle these days. Part of it is sheer laziness. I just colored my hair, ergo I look okay without eye makeup or much makeup at all. Ergo I don't bother putting it on.
Lmk how the Nature's Gate Jojoba conditioner works out. I never did try their conditioners...I'm a former shampoo ho, but I've never actually been a conditioner ho. Hence I have not tried too many conditioners.
I have tried the Avalon Lavender shampoo however (see above). It does smell tee-rific. It was too conditioning for me though.
In fact...it took me a very long time to get my hair routine down. The key is to find a shampoo that cleans your hair, but does not overly clean it. Nor overly condition it. I was really at the point of giving up and settling for Nature's Gate Organics shampoos...which are good shampoos, I'm not dissing them...but even those shampoos were a tad touch too stripping for my hair.
I define "too stripping" as, I have to use deep conditioner. I really don't want to use deep conditioner on a regular basis. (Do you sense a ramble coming on here?) The problem is that it travels from my ends (dry, I do bleach my hair) to my scalp (naturally oily) and then my hair gets oily.
"Way too stripping" would cover most drugstore shampoos, the ones with the lauryl/laureth stuff in them. Now those--if I use them long enough, my scalp freaks out and does a deeply itchy thing.
"Too conditioning"...that's when my hair gets weighed down. "Way too conditioning" means my scalp freaks out and gets super oily.
It's a long way to Tipperary, a long way to go...anyhow I finally found my Holy Grail of shampoos, the Trader Joe's Rosemary Mint shampoo.
No! It does not lather, much. It barely lathers at all. I was skeptical the first couple of times I used it because I didn't feel it was cleaning my hair.
But it does clean my hair. My hair never feels dirty.With this, I use my existing Grail of daily conditioners--Neutrogena Clean Volume (light green). I condition only the ends. I would say less than a quarter-sized amount.
I've been doing this routine through two bottles of the conditioner--it lasts forever, practically. And I'm on my second bottle of the shampoo.
Ya got long hair!!!!! Good, you can do the Legolas thing too. Oh I'm way too lazy to actually do those little braids...I just got one of those hairbands you can stick in your hair and forget about it...I have a pic of it somewhere...
I'm actually supposed to get my hair cut but I always like to grow it out until the old man complains about it...*g*
--J.
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