{beauty} a few of my favorite things

Here's some background on my skin - in my earlier twenties, I rarely moisturized, I went to bed with makeup on [usually after a night of drinking & possibly smoking, ew], and rarely put SPF on other then the beach.

Oh, how times change.  I look at women like Julianne Moore, Cindy Crawford and Jennifer Anniston, who seem mostly fresh faced and not over botox'd [the horror] and want to do whatever they are doing. Ms. Anniston recently revealed that one of her secrets is Vaseline on her eyes before sleeping [you better believe I tried that immediately].

What this all comes down to is trying to be nicer to my skin now, before it's too late, and trying some simple ingredients.  I just put Josie Maran Argan Oil in my rotation, and within 3 days, "Robin, you look so refreshed!", even after just returning from work travel on minimal sleep. Using that at night, and focusing on some simple NARSskin & some Benefit highlighting in the right places is the easiest fresh face I've gotten in a long time.  And I personally think my face is looking better then ever.

Josie Maran Argan Oil, Benefit Eye Bright, Benefit Benetint, NARSskin Optimal Brightening Concentrate, elf mascara [best mascara EVER], Dr. Jart Renewalist BB Cream, StriVectin-SD Eye Cream

Photo: Robin West

{beauty} face-ing reality

The term "with age comes wisdom" means more + more as you get older.  When you come to reach your 30's, you realize that while you never hesitate to spend money on shoes, bags, clothes, etc, that you should have the same habit for your face [it IS the first thing people see after all].  You also realize all the damage you did in your 20's that you can now see around your eyes.  You know, drinking, late nights without removing makeup + putting on lotion, smoking [shame on all of us], not wearing SPF unless on sand... the list goes on.

My friend turned me onto Dr. Jart+ around the time I started investing in some good NARSskin products [before 29 I just used body lotion on my face to save money] + I can genuinely tell how much better my face looks.  NARSskin aqua gel is my go-to skin quencher during the day with some magic work from the Dr. Jart+ bb creme + the rest of the Dr. Jart+ line is my go-to partner in crime while I sleep.  With a little StriVectin eye cream for some extra prevention, of course.

What's in your medicine cabinet?

You can find Dr. Jart+ at Sephora and NARSskin here

photos: Robin West