Time to shine with this shampoo
Dear Rissa,
My hair becomes limp and heavy every time I use conditioner. Can you recommend a shampoo that can still make my hair soft and shiny even without the help of conditioner? I’ve also been breaking out. What’s a good product that can get rid of pimples fast?
Tina Hernandez
Do make sure to try Malin+Goetz Moisturizing Shampoo (available only at Adora Department Store, Greenbelt 5). I just discovered this wonderful shampoo recently and I’ve fallen in love with it. I’ll admit that my shower routine isn’t complete without using conditioner. I use conditioner every single day! But yes, conditioner can make my hair also feel heavy and limp at times. When I first tried it, I was quite wary about how this shampoo could give moisture and shine even without the help of my everyday conditioner.
But this shampoo intensely moisturizes and nourishes hair without silicone or waxes, which weigh hair down and clog pores. To make sure your hair stays moisturized, ingredients such as natural meadow foam and apricot extracts help prevent moisture loss and maintain hydration levels. Panthenol also serves as an emollient and moisturizer. For those with dry, damaged or chemically treated hair, this shampoo is infused with grape seed, which is rich in vitamins and antioxidants to protect hair from further damage. The Malin+Goetz Moisturizing shampoo is also free from sodium chloride, which makes it perfect to use even on chemically relaxed hair.
Shrink zits while you sleep: Malin+Goetz Acne Treatment also contains zinc oxide to help prevent scarring. Malin+Goetz is available only at Adora Department Store, Greenbelt 5, Makati. After I stepped out of the shower, my hair initially wasn’t the easiest to comb out since I skipped the conditioner. But when my hair was dry already, I swear that I’ve never seen my hair with so much shine and body! It was amazing. I have a thin head of hair but this shampoo made my hair look so full and gave it so much bounce. The strands also had such a beautiful, healthy shine. I couldn’t believe that I achieved shiny, bouncy hair even without conditioner. No shampoo or conditioner has ever given me hair like that! Malin+Goetz Moisturizing Shampoo is such a wonderful discovery.
For your pimples, do also try Malin+Goetz’s Acne Treatment (also available at Adora Department Store, Greenbelt 5). Equipped with salicylic acid and 10 percent active sulfur to dry and medicate acne pimples, this is wonderfully effective. With a cotton swab, simply dab one drop on each pimple and it dries up your pimple overnight. It will shrink that ugly zit while you sleep. This also contains organic camphor to help fight impurities and prevent irritation. Best of all, its formula incorporates zinc oxide to help prevent scarring.
Rissa
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Warming Up Too-White Skin
Dear Lucy,
Skin bronzer: Used sparingly, MAC Mineralize adds a warm glow, available at MAC in Rustan’s. I am so pale and I really want to warm my skin tone up without baking under the sun (I get freckles when I do that). What can I use? Just blusher? Sometimes it is too stark on my white face. The lipstick I use makes me look older than my 40 years. It is matte and bright and nice and I like it, but I think I am the only one who does.
Tin
Offhand, I would suggest a cream or powder blush in a peach hue. MAC Sandy is a favorite. I also find that the trick really is to make your blush set. I hate stepping out of the house with a very made-up face. I like it best when I have misted my face a bit so the face looks like it is lit from within. To enhance the skin tone so it does not look too pasty, you can dust some highlighter down your nose and ever so lightly on your cheekbones — skin will look radiant. You can also try a skin bronzer but please use it sparingly. MAC Mineralize is a good choice. A tinted moisturizer could also work. For lips, there is nothing like lip gloss for instant youth. For day, a sheen lipstick with a natural tint like L’Oreal Colour Riche Nutrishine is a good choice. I liked it so much I got it in multiples. For more intense color you can use your ring finger to dab on color, and then put on gloss to spice it up a bit more!
Beauty in a tube: Sisley tinted moisturizer with botanical extracts is available at Rustan’s. Lucy
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Ideal Daytime Moisturizer
Dear Tingting,
What daytime moisturizer can I use?
Rose
Daytime moisturizing is about protecting your skin from the elements. If your skin is dry you need a moisturizer like Sisley but underneath, as a base, use vitamin C liquid. If your skin is oily again, put vitamin C and a light, oil-free lotion like Neo Strata or a moisturizer with AHA or glycolic acid that won’t plug your pores.
Tingting
