Showing posts with label shea moisture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shea moisture. Show all posts
Before you read this blog post, let me
just clearly state that I am not a skin care expert. I am simply blogging about
a product that I have used and it appears to be working well for me.
Now as I said in my last post I have started
using all things Shea Butter on my skin because after years of unpredictable
breakouts and regular visits from almost-indestructible whiteheads and blackheads,
Shea butter is the only thing that cancelled them all out.
At the beginning of the 2017 I was
wondering around Garden City Shopping Mall on my lunch break, and I just happened
to step into the Eve & Nico Beauty Store to peruse through, I was not
looking for anything in particular just some idle window shopping…. and we all
know that the Devil makes work for idle hands. Eve & Nico is renowned for
having those original world famous brands from abroad that you have been
dreaming about purchasing, but not everything in the store is pocket-friendly.
So far I have made some good purchases from them but I definitely have to plan
for it. Let it also be noted that every time I have entered the shop the
customer service has always been great and the ladies are really helpful.
Anyways I came across a range of soaps from
Shea Moisture. And then my eyes zoned in on some face masks right next to them….like
I said the Devil took advantage of my idle wondering mind. I picked each skin
mask up one by one, and started examining the ingredients. If you have natural
hair then you totally understand why I did this. I wanted to know how much of
this mask was ‘natural’. My gut said take the healing and hydrating one. I think
I was swayed by the the words in the description. Having been a previous
product junkee, I am extremely susceptible to the word ‘radiance’. I am working
having a chocolate glow like Beyonce’s in her Instagram photos.
Noticing that I was about to make what I thought
was an impromptu and useless investment in my current skin care routine, I left
the store. I thought that would be the end of it. Long story short, a week
later I was still thinking about the product so I decided to treat myself for
the new year and I bought two masks at the Eve & Nico in Kisemeti totalling
200k (God help us!)
I committed to one of the masks for three
weeks (the one in the picture at the top).
On either Friday or Saturday evening after a shower I would leave it on my face
for 10 to 20 minutes. I have to be honest and say the mask doesn’t smell very
nice, it’s not unbearable but it’s not an appealing girly scent. The consistency
is lovely though, it feels like a heavy luxurious cream rather than the usual
matty grey mud. You may also find that you won’t make much of a mess slathering
it on. When it dries it will not be difficult to wash it off. Your skin should
feel very soft and supple afterwards (atleast
mine did!).I should mention that I always give my face a gently scrub beforehand
and I use a good toner afterwards, followed by my tried and tested shea butter
from Livara.
At first
when I started using it, I went back to my internal doubts about whether the
effects of most masks are just in our heads. But then I remembered my skin
doesn’t lie, it’s always been honest about what works and what doesn’t since my
very first teenage breakout. Even if I am feeling good inside it’s very
possible for MY skin to look terrible on the outside (it has betrayed me during the most awkward of times, but now all is
forgiven).
So
as mentioned earlier for three weeks I committed to one mask, then someone took
a photo of me, and I noticed the ‘glow’ and the ‘radiance’. I danced around my
room for like 5 whole minutes when I saw the photo. In my three week experiment
the only additional thing I added to my routine was the mask. I am not pregnant
and don’t have a new boyfriend, therefore according to Maria-Nabatanzi-who-is-not-a-skin-care-expert
I think I got some of my skin glow up from this mask. Now of course my skin was
already improving from the Livara shea butter products but this just added that
little bit of EXTRA!
So if you can afford it I recommend it. After
three weeks I still have quite a lot of product left, most likely I shall make
it to June/July this year before I need a refill. However I do recommend with
my limited expertise, that you make sure you already have a good skin care
routine in place that is working for you before adding the mask. I don’t think
it will make all you skin problems disappear unless a good routine is in place.
P.S: can we talk about how pretty the Shea Moisture website is and how easy it is to navigate…
P.P.S: the photos of the product and the product
description are from the Shea Moisture Website
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