Beauty Commitments for 2018

Hi guys :)

Hope you´re having a good time today! 

Today its all about Beauty...as if that is something special or new over here ;)
Beauty is something so essential for soo many...probably for everyone more or less ;) depending on how you define it ^^... and the daily Beauty Routine is something always changing and so personal and different for every single one!

When it comes to my personal routine I have to say that its actually constantly changing which makes it hard to have a real routine, sometimes it even changes from day to day...especially when it comes to makeup! Its always evolving to simply suit my needs and to suit what I want...and that can easily change from day to day ;)

But when I look at it from a wider angle...and for a longer time than a day ^^... I have a few habits which stick no matter what I need and want and no matter what the situation is...things which just feel good and work in every condition of life.
But of cause most of the time you reach a point when those habits also stop working or when you realise that that habit might have emerged out of a lack of time or just laziness ;) you probably know what I mean don´t you ^^ and at that point you might have to look for something new!

So lets talk about new habits, new things and some commitments for beauty life in 2018...even tho march might be a bit late for that ^^.

Using and introducing more Oils

I do have very dry skin...you might even say horribly dry....at least some days and especially during winter time...which is nothing special isnt it ;)

But I do have very dry skin, especially on my forehead, around my nose and on my cheeks and I tried so many many different moisturisers and nothing really helped for a longer time so what I really want to do in 2018 is to use and try out oils.
I hear so much good stuff and really hope that will help.

I really love the feeling of a very hydrated and not itchy at all skin...I mean who doen´t ^^ I remember using and loving oils in the past in the shower or as a body lotion kind of thing but I've been lacking using an oil on my facial skin....really don´t know why...maybe its a money thing because they´re so often sooo expensive...

I've recently started to introduce it into my routine especially at night but I want to use it even more often also in the mornings as or instead of a serum which is what I've typically been reaching for. 

I finally after overthinking it for ages I´ve got the Kiehl´s Midnight Recovery Concentrate which is yes so freaking expensive but so amazing and I understand the hype around it so very much now ;) The price...as far as I can tell it by now is so worth it...of cause I still think its too expensive and seriousely doubt that it has to be so expensive but its so so so amazing.

It sinks into the skin very quickly and nicely and leaves the skin feeling so nice and comfortable. I regularly use it at night about an hour before I go to bed and I always weak up with a skin feeling so healthy and hydrated and so nice and soft and smooth ;) It´s just that bit extra hydration I love so much! ^^

Now I really want to try more oils, to be honest I want to try them AAALLL ;) haha

Let me know if there is a oild which you love and can recommend ;)

Go makeup free more often

For some of you this is probably an easy to do and yes I am lucky enough to have...besides very dry... very nice and pretty much always pimple free skin...but ya well I am just used to wearing makeup on a everyday basis and it kind of gives me a certain good feeling and the feeling as if nothing could come throughout the day which could hurt me...its like "armour"...do you know what I mean? I hope so because otherwise this probably sounds really stupid ;)

But I really really want to reduce it more especially since my skin is so freaking dry at the moment and really needs time off ;) So at the moment I am reducing it to a minimum on a everyday at work basis meaning a little bit of powder and mascara and a nice bright lipstick and I am feeling good either ;) 

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate oh and hydrate

Hydrate with moisturizer...also several times a day if possible!

Hydrate with water...I´m really really not drinking enough...never...Indeed I´m drinking so little I´m proud if I manage one liter a day...yes that´s how bad it is ;)
Just hydrate...please

Masks Masks Masks

Hair masks - Face Masks - what ever masks once a week.

Not only because I have so many piling in my drawers but because I got them for a reason and my hair and face really feel like they´d need them desperately...I don´t even know why I never use them...just seem to forget them all the time ;)

Ditching the micellar water 

as often as possible

Yes, I know this sounds like a compromise in a commitment...I´m trying my best here guys ;)

I am a loyal pretty-much-everyday-user and huge fan of micellar waters for a really long time now.

It just is my favourite way to remove my makeup, quickly but thoroughly, for some years now and I'm not turning my back on them, don´t get me wrong, because I might not like them enough...I do love them and that´s the main reason I´m writing "as often as possible" ;) there are just evenings when you just want to go to bed and actually can say that you are lucky enough to have the nerve to take the makeup off ;) I will always have a bottle of the Garnier Micellar Water on my shelve ;)

But this year I really want to move away from them first because I want to try other products, second because the amount of cotton pads I get through is insane and third I feel like my skin needs something more nourishing like a cleansing oil, i.e.

Invest in quality not quantity

Something I started with and yes that´s definitely a budget thing, with getting my new job is to change my thinking from having as much as possible into save the money and get something with a bit more quality. Especially when it comes to skincare mainly because of cause there are so many amazing cheaper products out there, but so much amazing high end stuff toooo ;)
I am also and mainly (atm) doing that with makeup bits...get only one  lipstick but a bit of a better quality and I´m so happy about that ^^

Brows here I come

Something that has bothered me for a long time and often made my think of but also something I never did anything about is the state of my eyebrows. In general I am lucky enough to have naturaly nicely shaped brows also I never did that thing of over plucking them ;) but I also have pretty light  coloured brows. So I´d really love to go and get them tinted and just once nicely and professionally waxed and everything else ;) 

Wear an SPF armour

Every year again I constantly realise a constant lack of using SPF all the time and on a everyday basis

and while I spend the majority of my days indoors, that never seems to be a problem but I´d love to become a more conscious SPF user...because sun is there all the time...during the day ^^... isn´t it ;) and it gets stronger now everyday!

 Say 3 nice things to myself every day

I read this in a blogpost somewhere lately and loved it so much I had to put it into this post!

Might not be a real beauty commitment but it fits...
Its an act of self love and if you love yourself you´ll become more beautiful instantly...you smile and glow and don´t even need any of the other things anymore ;)
I just think a love of self is important...even if its hard sometimes...I know that very well.

I do have body issues of my own which I have to face every day again and having issues with ones looks is so normal...everyone has them...probably at least once in a while ;) we just are never happy about ourselves aren´t we ;)

and I just think if you start the day by emphasizing your three favourite things about yourself on that day the day will begin in a good way ;)
Learn to love yourself!

And thats is ;) A few bits and pieces for my 2018 beauty routine...lets see how well I´ll introduce them into my routine ;) I´ll let you know by the end of the year ;)

Do you have anything new you´d like to do in 2018? Any new habits or products?

Lets chat about it ;)

Have a wonderful weekend!

With lots of love

♥♥♥