Travel Shop Live

Saving the best to last, here is the list of skincare products used in the year and my favorites among them: Face wash/face scrubs : I used Lush Fresh Pharmacy, La  Roche Posey duo effaclar and Burt's Bees clary sage face washes and Clinique 7 day scrub and Lacto calamine oil balance face scrub. My favorites are Lush & Burts Bees cleansers and Clinique scrub. I would like to re-purchase all 3, however, Lush is not available and other 2 are quite expensive😔. Face masks : Masks used are Lush Cup O' Coffee, Origins charcoal and Out of trouble masks, Montagne Jeunesse, anatomicals and L'Action sachets, Biore charcoal nose strips and currently using L'oreal clay mask. Additionally I tried lots of sheet masks too. I liked MJ, Origins and L'Action masks. MJ masks are no longer available in India and I saw L'action masks in Amazon few months ago, but they are not there now 😒. I still got one more Origins Mask and will be getting a Lush mask (thanks to my l...

My hair care products definitely increased this year and deserves a separate post. I already posted pics of the products I am using in my Hair care post . So adding only the pics of emptied products in this post. Hair oil : I became quite irregular in oiling my strands and didn't finished up even one bottle this year. The ones I am currently using are cold-pressed coconut oil, Biotique flame of the forest, and an ayurvedic oil from Kerala called Malatyadi which is my favorite. It is going to take quite some time to finish up the 3 bottles, but once done, I would like to try more oils from Kerala. Hair Mask : The masks I used this year are Roots from Lush, some sachets from Montagne Jeunesse and Superdrug. Needless to say, my favorite is Roots. Even though I don't have access to the brand, I will pester every friend of mine travelling from abroad for a tub😈. Shampoo : I went through loads of them, understandably as no one could be irregular with washing hair. Used ones...

I have the habit of saving the emptied containers mostly the ones I could re-use and some not re-used but too pretty to throw away. I recently saw a video in YouTube where emptied containers are used to decide what to re-purchase and I thought it is a good idea. I am going to list the products used/being used, my favorites and which ones I would be re-purchasing. I got like huge bag of them and thought of dividing them to make-up, skin care and hair care 😁. Starting with make-up, Face products : Primers : I am not into primers much - mostly got them as freebies or part of kits. I used 3 primers this year - Clinique, Benefit porefessional, Bare Minerals Prime Time and Maybelline baby skin one (last 2 are still in use). My favorite of those is Clinique - it made my skin feel quite smooth even when washing it at the end of day. I am not planning on re-purchasing any of them, I will try some product which could multi-task as primer. Concealer : I used Benefit fake-up, Maybelline ag...

Most of the products I went through are skin/hair care products and I wish I could get through some makeup products 😂. Clinique 7 day scrub : this one of the products I like from the brand. My skin have the tendency to get dry and flaky next to the nose and below lips which apparently is result of oily skin but surprisingly feels very dry and stretchy. I need gentle exfoliation daily. Herbalism cleanser is best suited for me but, since Lush isn't available😥, this scrub became my second favorite. Despite being travel size, the pack lasted quite a few months. I wanted to try Kama Ayurveda kumkumadi scrub next, but bought Lacto calamine scrub instead. I'm hoping my friend would get me Avene scrub from Brussels before it gets over. Olay light weight day fluid : I have oily skin but, when I travel to places with colder climate, it tends to get drier. It doesn't mean I could use heavy moisturizer - underlying oiliness can't wait to break my skin out. When I first move...