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Farmacy Green Screen Sunscreen Review

This physical sunscreen includes ingredients that claim to help smooth out your complexion and protect from blue light-related damage.

Have you heard? There’s a new B word on people’s lips these days…blue—as in Blue Light. It seems like everywhere I look, people are wearing blue light glasses to help prevent eye strain and fatigue from staring at screens all day. It turns out that blue light may also endanger your sleep by disrupting your circadian rhythm. And now, even sunscreens are stepping in to help protect your skin from this dreaded foe. Farmacy Green Screen Sunscreen claims to help protect your skin…

Drunk Elephant Protini Moisturizer review

This 'protini' moisturizer is like a nutritious cocktail for your skin, since it contains tons of peptides, extracts, and moisturizing ingredients.

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved saving the best for last: the crispy skin from my KFC meal, the marshmallows in my bowl of Lucky Charms, the red Skittles from the package (I’d eat the purple ones first to get them out of the way)…as you can see, I didn’t have such a healthy diet back then. So it’s no surprise that I saved the Drunk Elephant Protini Moisturizer included in my Sephora birthday pack and only recently started using it. (My birthday was in December.)…

Kose Clear Turn Babyish Face Mask Review

This Japanese face mask contains moisturizing sodium hyaluronate, and is fragrance-free (yay!) but its odd sizing didn't provide ample coverage for my face.

I’m slowly working my way through the spoils of my Japan trip last fall. During my trip, I noticed that several Japanese beauty products would use pictures of babies instead of adult models. American skin care products tend to use words and graphics, rather than pictures of adults or babies. But using real baby photographs makes total sense, if you think about it. Babies have the softest, smoothest, bounciest skin imaginable—unencumbered by teenage hormones, environmental pollutants,…