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Yes as promised, here’s a simple eye massage video tutorial to demonstrate how to prevent the formation of crow’s feet and lifting the corner of the eye. Hope you’ll like it. 
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A couple of weeks back, I’ve reviewed 2 of my latest favorite anti-aging skincare products from Paula’s Choice and they are nevertheless one of the best anti-aging products I’ve tested so far! 5 stars for both and highly recommended! And now I’m continuing to review the 3rd Resist product - NEW Paula’s Choice Resist Anti-Aging Clear Skin Hydrator.
Click here to read my review on Resist Daily Smoothing Treatment with 5% Alpha Hydroxy Acid
Click here to read my review on Resist Weekly Resurfacing Treatment with 10% Alpha Hydroxy Acid
New Paula’s Choice Resist Anti-Aging Clear Skin Hydrator is a moisturizer that is formulated for normal, oily, combination or blemish-prone skin. It is recommended to be used on the face and around the eyes too.
This super lightweight moisturizer is designed not only to control oily and acne-prone skin, it also helps to address wrinkles, sun damage and fade red marks from past breakouts with a couple of potent ingredients.
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NEW Resist Weekly Resurfacing Treatment
Product Profile
RESIST Anti-Aging Clear Skin Hydrator contains an exclusive complex of proven antiwrinkle and skin-clearing ingredients that renew and restore your skin, making it look younger, even-toned, and fresh. Powerful antioxidants and skin-repairing ingredients stimulate healthy collagen production, repair sun damage, and fade red marks and discolorations from past breakouts. Lactoperoxidase helps eliminate breakout-causing bacteria, while soothing agents calm skin and enhance its natural repair process.
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Ingredients
RESIST Anti-Aging Clear Skin Hydrator is formulated with a handful of beneficial ingredients that include antioxidants, cell-communicating and skin repairing ingredients.
It is FREE of fragrance, color and harmful skin irritants, and it never tested on animals.
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Review
Paula’s Choice Resist Anti-Aging Clear Skin Hydrator is formulated for normal, oily, combination or blemish-prone skin.
To me, Resist Anti-Aging Clear Skin Hydrator is more than just a moisturizer. It not only helps to provide moisture to the skin, it also helps to superficially stimulate healthy collagen production, repair sun damage and reduce discolorations, and thanks to the antioxidants and skin-repairing ingredients in it.
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Lately, many readers have been asking me my thoughts on the recent report by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on the nano-particle sized Zinc Oxide that may cause cancer.
I first heard the news about a sunscreen and cosmetic ingredient that may cause cancer from the Chinese radio station while on my way home from work early last week. The Chinese station didn’t mention the name of the ingredient. Upon reaching home, I was actually shocked and disappointed to realize that it is the popular and potent sunscreen ingredient Zinc Oxide. And it is the nano-particle sized Zinc Oxide with very small particles that can absorb into the skin cells and may cause cancer as it has claimed.
Zinc oxide, one of the 17 FDA approved active sunscreen ingredients, is an excellent broad spectrum UV reflector that protects the harmful UVA and UVB rays. Other than Titanium Dioxide, Zinc oxide is considered the safest and most effective physical sunscreen ingredient available.
When used as an ingredient in sunscreen, Zinc Oxide, a mineral powder, is claimed to sit on the skin’s surface scattering and absorbing ultraviolet rays without being absorbed into the skin. It is non-irritating and non-allergenic, therefore it is claimed to be very suitable for sensitive skin.
As compared to the normal Zinc Oxide powder that gives an opaque white cast, the nano-particles Zinc Oxide appears transparent when applied to the skin. Because of its small particles, the nano size Zinc Oxide does not scatter light and therefore does not appear white. It is found to have superior UV blocking properties compared to its normal size particles. Therefore it is commonly used in sunscreen creams and lotions to protect against sunburn and other damage to the skin caused by ultraviolet light.
Many controversial researches have shown that these nano-sized particles Zinc Oxide may cause potential health risks. They are claimed to enter healthy human cells like the blood or the lungs and damage DNA. However, there are also reports show that particles of Zinc Oxide greater than 30nm, when applied to the skin, do not get absorbed into the body, do not enter the bloodstream, and are not a threat to human health.
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This post was actually published on Cozycot.com early this year. I was one of the bloggers who was invited to contribute a monthly post on their Articles section. However, I couldn’t locate the section anymore and I believe they have removed the section due to low readership.
Not to waste it, I decided to post it here……
I hate having dry and chapped lip. If I need to pick one beauty product to survive in the jungle, it will definitely be a super moisturizing lip balm. I basically cannot leave without any moisturizing lip product. There’s always a lip balm around me - one in the handbag, one on the study table, one on my office desk and one on the dressing table.
If I couldn’t find a lip product around me, my next alternative quick fix lip hydrator will be an eye cream. What makes a good lip product - be it a lip balm, lip gloss or lipstick? Well for me, most of all it has to be super moisturizing that is long lasting.
I have tested a couple of good and bad lip products recently. I can’t wait to share with you on what are the BEST and WORST moisturizing lip products I have tested so far!
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Best Moisturizing Lip Balm
Sisley Nutritive Lip Balm
This extremely expensive lip balm (S$80) effectively moisturizes my lip without feeling dry for a long long time. The hydration is super long-lasting! After application, my lip appears pinkish and smooth. The cracks and lines seem less visible too.
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Worst Moisturizing Lip Balm
Mogitate Kajitsu Lip Balm
This recently launched lip balm, available at selected Watsons and Guardian, is the worst lip balm I have ever tested. It doesn’t moisturize my lip at all and in fact my lip often feels drier after a while. I have to keep applying it almost every hour. I would not recommend this product at all!
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Looking young or younger is a challenging task I’ve been constantly trying to achieve. Although many peers may think that I’m still in my 30s (I’m actually 43 this year in 2010), to upkeep my youthful look never comes easy and cheap. Apart from my meticulous night regimen (about an hour nightly), non-invasive procedures such as IPL and microdermabrasion actually help to maintain my youthfulness in a way. Though they are mostly used to improve skin texture, they do help to increase collagen production in a superficial way. I’ve done both treatments more than 9 months ago (early 2010).
As age is catching up on me as quickly as I write this post (hahaha!!), I’ve began to notice my face is actually aging tremendously this year. It is fairly common for women above 40s. Hiaz! 
Although I wanted so much to turn back the clock, plastic surgery is definitely not an option for me. Cosmetic surgery may go wrong and I’m extremely fear of that. What’s done cannot be undone! And it’s permanent! I will not go under the knife unless there is no better solution than surgery, for example my eyebag removal surgery a year ago. Till now, I’m still not pleased with the results. Too much fats have been removed by Dr Woffles Wu that cause small indentation on both lower eyelids.
All I want now is to look slightly younger and I believe non-invasive procedures will be a better option for me.
Thankfully, due to the latest technology, shaving 10 years off of my age can be done without the help of a plastic surgeon. The areas that may require non-invasive treatments are :
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Inflammation is important for another reason : It is a major cause of free radical formation. Free radicals lead the attack on lipids in the cell walls, which leads to water loss. So with sunburn, for instance, you have destruction from the free radicals that are created in the process. Free radicals are both a by-product of inflammation and a source of inflammation.
Countering inflammation is most important when you’re young, because this is when the inflammatory response is most active. Not only are your cells most vigilant at this time, but there are many years ahead of you during which the damage will accumulate. So when you read that most of the sun damage that will cause you wrinkles after fifty occurred when you were in your twenties, it’s not just that you might have spent more days on the beach, but that in your twenties your skin was more reactive.
Protecting yourself from the sun is the most obvious step in reducing inflammation.
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Hyaluronic Acid (HA)
Hyaluronic acid is a crucial moisturizing and nutrition-providing substance found throughout the skin. By age 50, we have lost much of this valuable skin component. Hyaluronic acid has recently been in the news as filler to inject into the skin to correct wrinkles. What I am discussing here is the use of HA in skin creams. Widely used as a humectant or moisturizer in skin creams, HA is an excellent moisturizer.
Whether or not topically applied HA is actually taken up by the dermis and contributes to the total skin content of HA is unknown. In my opinion, it is unlikely, in view of the fact that the very pure forms of HA that we inject into the skin as fillers are biodegraded in a matter of 6 to 9 months and injections have to be repeated to maintain the correction of wrinkles and deep facial lines. If we could restore the HA content of our skin, improvement in moisture content, firmness and suppleness would result.
I think it is unlikely that any cream, gel, or other topical agent can restore the HA lost by aging. Estrogen has bee reported to increase HA synthesis in the skin, but the dangers of estrogen replacement outweigh this potential benefit. Creams containing HA are wonderful moisturizers but do not pay a premium expecting the cream to reverse aging by regenerating the HA content of your skin.
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Dr. Brooke Rutledge Seckel, M.D.
Save Your Face
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Do you know water is our body’s most essential nutrient and more than 70% of our body weight is water? Without water, every organ system including the skin (the biggest organ) won’t function properly. Hence drinking water is vital not only for our body but also for our skin too.
Drinking water is essential to keep skin hydrated and it is in fact one of my beauty and anti-aging secrets for my youthful looking skin.
Keeping skin well hydrated and lubricated from the inside is as important as from the outside too. Although a well-formulated moisturizer can replenish the natural moisture factors in the upper layers of the skin but in order to achieve an optimal skin hydration, hydrating the skin from the inside out can help to boost our skin’s natural ability to retain moisture for a long-lasting benefit.
When skin is lack of hydration, all sorts of skin problems will surface such as dryness, tightness, flakiness, sensitivity and wrinkling. However when skin is properly hydrated, skin will become soft, tone and plump up. And it also becomes more receptive to skincare products.
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Hydrating our skin from the inside
Human body is comprised of more than 70 percent water and it is commonly recommended to drink at least 8 glasses of water per day to replace the water we lose naturally. In fact a percentage of your water intake actually comes from the food you eat.
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In October 2011, Watsons is proud to bring you a whole new shopping experience with their new addition ‘My Vanity Box’, a chic beauty shelf which offers a dramatic array of Watsons’ latest beauty products.
Two weeks ago, I’ve gotten to attend a private intimate party to preview an unique selection of the new and interesting beauty products exclusively available only at Watsons‘ ‘My Vanity Box’.
It was held in one of the cozy rooms at The Sultan Hotel. The bed is actually placed on the roof attic area. Nice!
‘My Vanity Box’ is something that you wouldn’t want to miss if you happen to step inside any of these 5 exclusive Watsons stores - Ngee Ann City, Bugis Junction, Jurong Point, IMM Building and Holland Village. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by these exciting and fun beauty products from bizarre lip tattoos, dainty paper lashes, dramatic flirty falsies to fun colored nail polishes, all from around the world!
I actually have a fun time trying these cool products! These beauty products are definitely a great gift for our loved ones this coming Christmas!
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Star Lash Eyelashes - S$8.90 to S$26.90
You can now create a dramatic look with these flirty, sexy lashes from Star Lash. These premium hand-made eyelashes are made from the best synthetic for maximum comfort and ultimate durability!
Each Star Lash set is actually re-usable for more than 10 times! Prices range from S$4.90 to S$9.90 for accessories and from S$8.90 to S$26.90 for Star Lash Eye Lashes.
These falsies are soft and light to feel like your natural lashes! Even the bands are soft and comfortable to wear.
Here’s the first product I’ve tried, white feathers falsies on my right eye. It doesn’t look good on me and my upper eyelid looks heavier. I guess I need to wear a heavier makeup with this falsies.
Decided to try the classic black feather falsies instead…
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I was first introduced to Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil about 10 years ago and it was one of my favorite cleansing products at the time. And I’ve been faithfully using it for a couple of years before switching to different brand later. During the period, there have not been many cleansing oils in the market to choose from and it was quite new in the market too.
FANCL, a leading preservative-free beauty brand in Japan, is considered the first brand I’ve known that contains no potentially harmful preservatives and other additives.
And for that reason, most Fancl products are packed for a 30-day supply; so the product stays fresh to the last drop. To ensure further assurance, the products always carry the manufacturing date together with a freshness sticker and the FANCL Safety Standard (FSS) mark. It is attached to products that meet the standards for safety, trust and gentleness.
Recently, I have received an invitation to review Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil again though I have actually reviewed it before more than 2 years ago. Many thanks to The Sample Store for extending this invitation to me.
Do continue reading as there’s something interesting for you!
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Fancl Mild Cleansing Oil
S$19 for 60ml / S$33 for 120ml
Product Profile
Makeup removal is now blissfully easy with FANCL Mild Cleansing Oil. This powerful formulation now comes enriched with Meadow Foam Oil which aids the removal of keratin plugs over time for a clearer, smoother complexion.
