Bioré - Pore Unclogging Scrub

This contains those stupid plastic beads which do exfoliate, but also build up in the environment.

This is Captain Pollution, for those of you who didn't watch 'Captain Planet'

Aside from this massive negative, this product worked pretty darn well.
It didn't lather (because it is a scrubs, and scrubs often don't), but gave a good clean (I used it with my Avon Clarisonic knock-off) and left my face feeling fresh and not shredded.

It contains 2.0% salicylic acid, which helps prevent pimples and smells fresh and soapy.

The only real negative was when I occasionally got one of the little beads in my eye (but that is probably more user error than the product's fault)

What it feels like

"I don't want to hurt the Earth with tiny, immortal plastic beads" Solution:

Just add some sugar or salt granules to your favourite face soap!

Price: 4/5 (rrp $9.99 for 141g)
Scent: 3/5
Effectiveness: 4/5

Art break - part 4, admitting a weakness

So, I purchased something today and in doing so, have to admit a limitation... my left eye is not great at doing the eye thing.
Not "I need glasses" bad, but "I know I have a limit on how small a thing is before it is blurry" bad.
The point is, I bought a magnifying glass for some of the finer details on this painting.

This lens offers a 3.6x magnification. It also lights up!

I will get an eye patch soon and exercise my eye, but until then I accept my biological short-coming.

(five cents)

Cussons - Imperial Leather - No. 42 Rockpool Hand Wash

This blue beauty caught my attention with imagery of mermaids, beautiful corals and ocean foam (all things I just projected onto the product).

So with such poetic thoughts in mind, how could I not try it?

The scent is listed on this bottle is Indian lotus and waterlily. To me, I smell is a clean, white floral (makes sense with the lily) with a hint of marine scent.
I would have preferred more salt and oceanic for a "Rock pool" name, but you can't win 'em all!

I really liked the blue colour and the lather was superb, needless to say it cleaned the hands well.

Will I buy this scent as a body wash (which I can do), probably not (I want more ocean and less white floral, damn it!), but it's a fun little kitchen/bathroom addition.

Price: 4/5 (rrp $3.99 for 250mL)
Scent: 4/5
Efficiency: 5/5

Art break - part 3, the hills

I am feeling the smoothness of these hills!

I went for burnt sienna moving down into yellow ochre, as I wanted the hill colour to complement the fiery sky and I didn't want them too look too dark.
If it wouldn't make it too dark, I was considering making the hills purple/blue.

I was inspired to use these colours by paintings like "Dulle Griet" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder:

I am tempted to redo the sky, make it smoother... I need to think about it.

On the topic of the sky, there was one negative, some of the paint from the sky (from the palette) got on my hand, then on the canvas:

Red paint, you butt!

Art break - part 2, the sky

For the sky, I wanted it to look like the Earth was burning, as if there were horrors in the distance that we don't yet see.
I went for orange and purple for this:

And here is a close up of the sky:

Next step, the hills!

Masquerade! - Angel Beauté - Whitening Moisturizing Mask

I love the silver packaging of this mask! 
It contains pearl, arbutin, vitamin c, collagen, hyaluronic acid, rose water, aloe, elastin, honey, seaweed and witch hazel. (quite a formula)!

Masquerade! - Baroness Co-enzyme Q10 Mask Sheet

I only just realised the typo on the package XD

In addition to co-enzyme Q10, it also has honeysuckle and liquorice extract.