I love a good acne spot treatment. Sometimes I think it’s more for psychological benefit than anything else—just completing the action of sticking something onto a big fat pimple is enough to temporarily make me feel better about that unwanted intruder. Even so, I have yet to come across a spot treatment that I love. AcneFree’s sulfur mask is a rinse-off treatment that will do in a pinch, but I haven’t been able to find a leave-on spot treatment that does the trick. A few years…

I’m highly susceptible to what I like to call “FOMO Checkout Syndrome,” which means that I always want to buy products I don’t necessarily need while I’m waiting in line at TJ Maxx and Nordstrom Rack. They’re so cute! They’re under $10! (But really, you don’t need any of that stuff.) I recently gave in to temptation and picked up a last-minute purchase while waiting in line at Nordstrom Rack: a cute little 1-oz. bottle of philosophy hands of hope…

I mentioned this in yesterday’s post, but I noticed a bit of jawline acne pop up a few months ago. It happened around the same time that I started using The Ordinary 100% Squalane, so I thought that might have been the culprit—but now I realize that it was probably because the double cleansing method was failing to remove all of my physical sunscreen (specifically, Australian Gold Botanical Tinted Sunscreen).