Best Products of the Week | August 24th through August 30th

Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name.
Favorite look from the week: I only wore makeup twice this week and they were pretty much the same look with just a lipstick switch out. I used my current favorite base which is Revlon Pore Filling Primer, Dior Forever Skin Glow, Honest Beauty and Cle de Peau concealers (mixing a drugstore concealer with a high end kind of cracks me up), mixed together, Huda Cookie Dough loose powder and Guerlain Meteorites in Claire at the end with MAC Fix + to set everything in. For blush I used Sulwhasoo Radiance Blush in PInk Harmony and then targeted my brush to the whiter highlight shade for the tops of my cheeks. Brows were MAC Brow Pen in Fling. For the eyes I used the Viseart Rose Edit and stuck to the more pinky shades with the neutrals. I used NYX Waterproof e/s primer, then went over the whole lid with the #2 shade. I used shade #6 over the mobile lid and then blended shade #7 into the crease and above as my transition. I deepened the crease and outer V with shade #4 and then used shade #9 just in a spotlight placement. I used shade #1 as inner corner highlight but felt it was too dark so went back to the white area in the Sulwhasoo blush compact. Finally, lips were L’Oreal Strawberry Shine one day and then the second time I wore the look I went with MAC Rebel just tapped onto my lips to give more of a stain effect. I liked how both looks turned out and I love the quality of all the products. There were no duds in the bunch.
Your most used product this week: Since it would always be my base products I am going to eliminate them and say my Viseart Rose Edit palette. I am really enjoying all of my smaller Viseart palettes. The quality is so good and they are easy to work with.
Any beauty discoveries (new or old): I loved rediscovering my MAC Rebel lipstick and using it in a slightly different way, just tapped onto my lips rather than trying for a fully opaque application. I also loved the Sulwhasoo Radiance blushes. I purchased them about 18 months ago and they were in my rotation everyday for a couple of weeks and then were put away into my makeup storage and forgotten for awhile. I was organizing, saw them and used them this week and really enjoying them again. Sulwhasoo is not cheap but their makeup line is geared more towards a mature skin/face so the products I have tried have been quite nice.

I also wanted to quickly mention my initial experience with the Peace Out Microneedling Dark Spot Correcting Dots. I used them for the first time last night. Quick how to use: Cleanse, apply before any skin care, remove dot from backing, put the rough side (microdermabrasion side) down against the skin and hold in place for 10-15 seconds then peel off the white paper ring. Leave on for at least 6 hours twice per week. Suppose to see some results in 2 weeks.
The very rough side was initially uncomfortable as you are pressing it into the skin. It feels a bit like Velcro being pressed into your skin. If you were someone with particularly sensitive skin I am not sure you would like the sensation. Once I stopped pressing I didn’t notice the texture but initially did feel it when I put that side down on my pillow. Not painful or even uncomfortable but you can feel it. It didn’t feel particularly sticky on that side so I had no hopes that it would be on my face in the morning but it was. The micro-needling side is treated with medication that the needling then allows for deeper penetration of the products. Now the problem!! I have areas of hyper-pigmentation on the tops of both cheeks, and on my lower jaw line both closer to my lips and then just in front of my ears. I had to use two dots on each side of my upper cheeks to cover the pigmentation and then since the lower cheek areas were so far apart I had to use two on each side. They come 24 to a pack and I used 8 in my initial application. That means I will get 3 uses from each box. They are $28 dollars a box. I will get 1 and 1/2 weeks from a box. I am sure you can see where this is going!! I will need to repurchase before I can even use the product for the two weeks that I need to do before seeing any results. I am going to do that so am ordering again now and will see if I see any results at all in 2 weeks. I wish they were just slightly larger so that I could cover the area on my upper cheeks with just one dot. Also, the question is, if I do see improvement would I have to continue using them for the rest of my life to keep whatever gains?