Beauty Fixation: June

Remember when I went through the differences between BB and CC creams? I feel like tinted moisturizers are a thing of the past, and BB/CC creams are taking over... and I'm not upset about it. I think summer is the best time to put away your heavy foundation in favor of something lighter. Just like we put away the soup tureen and bring out the salads, it's time to lighten the load on your face. That's where this little wonder comes in. It's the Peter Thomas Roth CC cream and they just recently came out with a lighter shade, so it's the perfect color for me (they also have 3 darker shades for all you non-pasty folks like me).  

It feels nice and lightweight, but there's great coverage and it evens out my skin nicely. I also like the SPF 30 and that it contains a high dose of Vitamin C, provided by the Brazilian Camu Camu Berry (which is supposed to have 30x more Vitamin C, per ounce, than an orange). 

Do you switch your foundations from season to season? Are there any BB/CC or tinted moisturizers that you're obsessed with?

see spot run, part 1

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Note: I'm just going to preface this post by telling you it's long and wordy but there is a lot of information to cover when it comes to pigmentation and I'm barely scratching the surface! Dark spots, liver spots, age spots, hyper-pigmentation, sun spots, old acne spots/scars/staining, pregnancy mask/melasma... call them annoying and you've got it right. No, these aren't the cute freckles that are lightly smattered across your nose. They're the dark, misshapen spots that pop up on your hands and around your forehead. They creep up one day on the side of your face (most likely the left side if you drive a lot) and all of a sudden you're using way more concealer than you ever thought possible.

I heard it takes 15 years for a spot to be visible on the surface of your skin. Whether this is entirely accurate or not is TBD but I do know spots are stubborn and require time to remove. Now do you think one product will take it away in 15 days?! Unless you're considering a laser treatment, it's time to have realistic expectations from products that treat pigmentation issues.

In part 1 of this post I'll focus on natural ingredients and products that treat and correct hyper-pigmentation.

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So what causes pigmentation? Typically it's sun damage. A common misconception is that most of your sun damage happened when you were a little kid and no one knew the harmful effects of the sun, so sunscreen wasn't enforced, right?