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Last Friday, I had a fan­tas­tic night out at Pacifica doing bowl­ing, and I didn’t get home till late. With all that excite­ment, I did not have a rest­ful sleep, and woke up at 7am in the morn­ing. What can make your skin look old and dull faster than late night and lack of sleep? And with all this extra time in the morn­ing, I decided to try prod­ucts from Astara Skincare.

Astara Refining Face Scrub

I first cleansed my face with Astara’s Daily Refining Scrub.  The Daily Refining Scrub is Allure’s Editor’s Pick and 2 oz size for $18.  This scrub exfo­li­ates with nat­ural ingre­di­ents, oxy­genates the skin and was gen­tle on my face.   The scrub has very fine exfo­liants and I love its slightly cit­rus smell    Then, I sprayed the Blue Flame Purifying Toning Mist (which is per­fect for my com­bi­na­tion skin).  The ton­ing mist has the scent of laven­der and imme­di­ately reminded me of the Jurlique Lotion (you know, dif­fer­ent prod­ucts have dif­fer­ent scent of Lavender for some reasons).

The Nourishing Vitamin Mask

Since I was tired from last night, I decided nour­ish­ing is what I needed!   So I applied the Nourishing Vitamin Mask, which came in a delight­ful glass jar.  It claims to revi­tal­ize tired, dry and dull skin.  It had the con­sis­tency of yogurt, and a lovely, sweet scent of apples. Yum!  It spread eas­ily on my face. As a yogurt mask, it didn’t dry like a clay mask so I could not tell when it was time to wash it off.  The instruc­tions said 5 — 20 min­utes, which to me seems to mean “as soon as you get bored”.  I mean, that’s a pretty wide range of time, isn’t it? I waited for around 18 min and took it off, for I was eager to see the results.  

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