#4 Cette Phrase.. Elle a Changé Ma Vie.

It's been a while! I haven't posted this week because there has been literally nothing to blog about, my daily routine has been get up, go to school, do two exams a day, go home, revise, go to sleep. which has continued for the past 5 days. 0_0 Well I *might* have cheated on that whole revise every night bit but the majority of it was like that xD 

I've also really gotten into Twilight again xD Terrible, I know, but I just couldn't help myself! Once I get hooked you can't stop me until I have read every book and watched every film in order. (I did this exact same thing with Harry Potter last Summer which took me a lot longer to do!! Anyway right now I am about to start Breaking Dawn, I was up reading Eclipse yesterday for 6 hours - which should give you a good idea of how weirdly obsessed I can be when I have something to be obsessed about xD 

I went to Chinese school today, I go there every Saturday to learn Mandarin, it was quite interesting, I learnt 新 年 好 which means happy new year, and now I know the mechanics of how to say a number in the ten thousands. Also a random fact that stuck with me is that foreigner in Chinese is wai guo, literally meaning outside country - pretty cool!

I made the grossest face mask ever this week, out of green tea, lemon juice, honey and crushed blueberries. I think it was the blueberries that made it so gross, and I can tell you for a fact that having crushed blueberry skin stuck to your face is not the most pleasant feeling in the world!

Perhaps next time I should take off the skin first 0_0

Take two and I tried another mask - this time made out of green tea, lemon juice and natural yogurt. It looked.. acceptable, and I know yogurt is good for your skin, so even though I absolutely despise the smell of it, I chanced it and slapped it onto my face. 

I've got to say, it isn't that bad! Once you get over the smell of yogurt which personally reminds me of vomit, it is quite a soothing and cooling mask, my skin felt moisturized afterwards which is always a plus :) 

Last but not least, a mask that I bought from the shop, what a difference! To be honest the only reason I bought this mask because its brand is exactly the same as my name, even the spelling which nearly everyone gets wrong first time xD 

Amie Spring Clean Cooling Clay Mask

Clay masks are really good for your skin, as it harden's it draws out all toxins and impurities - basically it sucks all the crap out of your skin. Another plus, my friend Laura said it smells like fruit pastels!! 

I did something a bit stupid skinwise today, and poured lemon juice and sugar together, mixed it up and basically scrubbed my face off. It was like sandpaper!! You would think after realizing how much it hurt my skin that I would immediately wash it off my face, but no, for some reason beyond me I just kept scrubbing my nose and chin raw. At some point I must have come to my senses and washed everything off, but it was clear that the lemon juice had just stripped my skin off all moisture and my face looked like a tomato - great! 

I knew that if the skin is stripped from moisture then it tried to produce excess sebum to make up for it, which causes blocked pores and breakouts so I decided to use my little nifty vitamin E kit.

I bought this at The Body Shop in a set for £25 which I thought was a pretty good deal. Their vitamin E range is absolutely perfect with it being very gentle and hydrating on the skin. In this set I have the cleanser, toner, and three moisturizers. Working from the top down we have the day cream, night cream and intense moisture cream. 

After the lemon juice fiasco, I used the toner to balance the pH levels of my skin (it was probably much more acidic than normal!) then I used a mixture of the intense moisture cream and day cream to make up for all that moisture I stripped away. It actually worked!! The redness faded within half an hour and my skin felt really good, I felt as if the scrub had done a bit of a good job as well but even so, I doubt I will be trying that again in a hurry! 

So that's the end of my face mask madness for today, I just thought I would quickly point out that I was eating organic tomato soup as I was writing this, and I thought that seeing as that was my first ever organic tin of soup that there would be some slight small difference? The colour or taste maybe.. but nothing! I know organic things are supposed to be better for you and all.. but there wasn't even the tiniest bit of difference what a let down.. :(

Anyway that's it for the bloggy blog blog! If you are wondering about the randomness of my title,  it's a quote from the funniest youtube video I have seen recently called Bref, Megaupload a fermé.

Link is here!! --> Bref, Megaupload a fermé