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Make sure your Valentine’s Day is perfect by pampering yourself with a Striking Mini Facial.
You will need:
A wash cloth & hand towel
Very warm water
1 cup regular oatmeal ground in blender to a fine powder
1 T honey + 3-4 T Orange or Grapefruit juice, warmed in the microwave
Striking Multi-Vitamin Creme Cleanser
Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme with SmartPeptides™
Striking Multi-Peptide Serum with SmartPeptides™
Striking Restorative Moisture Creme with SmartPeptides™
Steps
1. Clean your skin as usual with Striking Multi-Vitamin Creme Cleanser. Rinse well with warm water.
2. Mix oatmeal, honey and juice, adding enough juice to make a spreadable paste.
3. Apply to your face as a mask avoiding your eyes and hair line.
4. Relax for 10 minutes while the betaglucans in the oatmeal soothes, the gentle fruit acids help loosen congested sebum and the honey plumps and hydrates your skin.
5. Wet the hand towel in very warm water (not too hot). Wring until still moist, but not dripping.
6. Lie down and wrap the towel on your face avoiding your nose. Relax and leave it until it becomes almost cold.
7. Then rinse off the mask with warm water and use the moist towel to gently clean the skin.
8. Apply Striking Multi-Peptide-Serum to your face and neck and let it absorb in.
9. Finish with a layer of Striking Rejuvenating Eye Creme and Restorative Moisture Creme.
Add a smile for perfect valentine beauty!
Valentine’s Day should be full of romance and sweet surprises, but sometimes things can just go the wrong way, even with the best of intentions. So to help your Valentine stay on the right track here are our top 5 do’s and don’ts for Valentine’s Day, suitable for posting on the refrigerator in large font to help your guy get it right.
Definitely Avoid for Valentine’s Day
1) Weight scales, exercise videos, low cal sweets or anything that suggests you think she needs to trim down or change her appearance.
2) Gift certificates for make-overs – goes along the lines of number one above.
3) Unless she has specifically expressed a desire to get tools, TVs or video games, skip these too.
4) New tires for her car.
5) Dinner with your mother.
You’ll get bonus points with these:
1) Champagne and a single red rose.
2) Two absolutely decadent double dark chocolate truffles, cupcakes or brownies beautifully wrapped.
3) You make her favorite dinner and do the dishes.
4) A gift certificate for a relaxing spa experience.
5) Send a Tweet-sweet message or email telling her you can’t wait to see her. Or an “I Love You” note under her pillow.
And to make sure you are Valentine perfect, pamper yourself with a Striking Mini Facial.
Sometimes I’m just wrong; and I was dead wrong when it came to the Clarisonic Sonic Face Brush. About three years ago, someone asked me if I had ever heard of the Clarisonic. I had not. I did a little research, looked at the price ($195) and quickly dismissed it as another overpriced gadget. Boy, was I wrong.
My moment of conversion came when I used the brush. I had been battling a horrible bout of eczema on my face for almost two years and nothing seemed to work. After two days of using the Clarisonic, my eczema was gone. That was enough to make me become a believer. My theory is that it cleaned my skin so efficiently that the products I was using to combat my eczema could finally penetrate and do what they were supposed to do.
Since then, I have been singing the praises of the Clarisonic. It makes every skin care product that you use work better. Within a week of using it, people will start to ask you what you’ve done to your skin.
Just how does it work? Here’s some information pulled directly from the company’s website:
Benefits beyond just clean skin: Clarisonic improves the appearance of skin tone and reduces the appearance of pore size
Clarisonic is the sonic technology proven to gently yet effectively loosen dirt and oil to clear your pores. The Clarisonic Cleansing System uses a patented sonic frequency of more than 300 movements per second to clean, soften and smooth your skin. In just 60 seconds a day, the Clarisonic micro-massage action cleans more than twice as effectively as manual cleansing.
Clarisonic Sonic Cleansing Benefits
• Removes 6x more makeup than manual cleansing
• Leaves skin feeling and looking smoother
• Cleanses so well that products absorb better
• Gentle enough for twice daily use
• Helps reduce oily areas, dry skin patches and blemishes
• Helps reduce the appearance of visible pores
• Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
I feel that this is a product that really delivers results. Within a week of using it, people will start to ask you what you’ve done to your skin. I love this product so much that after telling them my story to five of my friends and family members they have purchased the product and are now as enthusiastic about this product as I am. Just a head’s up: Clarisonic is not a “cheap date”. The brushes range in price from $225 to $149 and are available online in their web store. There’s also a personalization feature for fun, or if you end up with more than one in your household. The bottom line is, if you want to get the most out of the skin care products that you are using, you’ll work this brush into your budget. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Posted by Brigette, contributor
I do not like cleansers. Don’t get me wrong, I love the feeling of a clean face. I have eczema, so trying a new cleanser makes me tremble with fear. Worse yet, is that I love foaming cleansers, which are the worst for my sensitive, eczema-prone skin.
When I was asked to try Striking Multi-Vitamin Cleanser, I was nervous. I had just solved a 2 year long eczema breakout on my face by using a foaming baby wash and I wasn’t ready to trigger another flare up. On top of that, it’s a creamy cleanser. Not exactly my favorite because I haven’t ever used a creamy cleanser that left my face feeling clean. So, with major reservations, I tried it and surprisingly enough, I liked it and (bonus!) it didn’t trigger my eczema.
Striking Multi-Vitamin Cleanser is a lightweight creamy cleanser that is really efficient at removing makeup (even eye makeup), dirt and environmental grime from your skin. I’ve had long standing issues with feeling like my face isn’t clean after using a creamy cleanser, but that’s not the case with this cleanser. I use my Clarisonic (more on my love for the Clarisonic later) when I wash my face so that’s probably part of the reason I’m getting over using a creamy cleanser in the first place, but I’ve also noticed that it rinses very thoroughly. I feel clean but not stripped of all moisture.
This cleanser is chock full of age-fighting vitamins A, C and E as well as plant extracts that are rich in vitamins as well. For instance, it contains evening primrose oil which is full of essential fatty acids (vitamin F). EFA’s are excellent for eczema-prone skin. It also contains avocado oil (rich in 20 different vitamins and minerals), carrot extract (vitamin A) and seabuckthorn extract (high in vitamin C which supports the activity of vitamin E). All of these skin-loving vitamins help to fight free-radicals which can attack your skin, mangle your DNA and accelerate skin aging.
My skin feels comfortable and moist after washing and I’m not scrambling to slather on the moisturizer to get rid of that claustrophobic skin-tightening feeling that happens after I insist on using a foaming cleanser. I’ve definitely become a fan.
What cleanser are you using?
Posted by Brigette, contributor
