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EradiKate Review or Pink Splotches of Amazing

For today’s very late post I’m going to review EradiKate by Kate Somerville. I’m going to go ahead and say that this is going to be a positive review. I know, you’re surprised, I kinda am too. It’s a leave on acne treatment, best used at night.

Similar to the Mario Badescu Drying Lotion it has pink goo on the bottom and a clear liquid on top. To apply it to your face you dip a q-tip straight down and then dot it on your acne. I use this every night provided my face isn’t feeling to sensitive. It’s not drying but it does sting a bit if the blemish is new or open. I put this on all my blemishes until they go away completely. As much as I hate to show this photo, here’s what it looks like once applied.

That’s a lot of pink right? Most of those are mostly healed up, but now you can see that I’m not kidding when I say I have severe hormonal acne. Also please excuse the bags under my eyes, it’s partially the angle and partially that this photo was taken at 1 am the day before I went to the pride festival. I had just finished the DIY floral crown I recently posted.

This, among other things I’ve recently added to my routine, is really helping, it used to be much worse than it looks now. While this isn’t an instant cure, there really isn’t anything for acne that actually is.

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Summer Haul or I’ve Been Shopping Again

This is actually a collective haul, all of this was purchased slowly since my last skincare haul. And actually one item was purchased before my last haul.

Here’s the overview of what I’ve purchased:

Fashion and Happy Things! Summer Haul or Ive Been Shopping Again

And now a close up of what I bought.

First we have a bunch of Kate Somerville products, I’m not going to go into detail because their will be a review coming on these items soon.

From left to right there is the Gentle Daily Wash, Protect SPF 55 Serum Sunscreen, RetAsphere 2-in-1 Retinol Night Cream, Clarifying Treatment Toner, EradiKate Acne Treatment. I know I just bought a ton of Caudalìe Products, the only thing I didn’t finish before purchasing something else was the Toner. I finished the cleanser, but I want to repurchase it for makeup removal because I love it. While I purchased a night cream I am still using the Caudalìe Moisturizing Sorbet every morning, sometimes at night on top of the RetAsphere, but more about that later. I was also given samples of the ExfoliKate and long story short I’m probably going to be purchasing the full size.

I also picked up this 500 pt perk of Benefits Girl Meets Pearl, Benetint and Bad Gal Lash. quick review is that I love it all.

Then I finally listened to Maxwell and bought the Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Vanilla. This product deserves it’s own post, so I won’t say anything more about it, except Maxwell recommended it to me, so you can pretty much guess how that review is going to go.

This was another 100 pt perk at some point in time, its the Korres Greek Yogurt Sleeping Facial which I haven’t used yet but I really really want too. I actually got two of these and am going to give one to T because she just had a baby and deserves a bit of pampering.

Then I got the Raspberry Sorbet Philosophy 3 in 1 wash. I love this brand for body washes (as I have said before). My skin got a little sensitive to the perfumes in the Love Sweet Love one, so I strayed a bit to the Caudalìe wash, but I ended up returning it because it left my skin feeling stripped. Switching scents is exactly what I needed, and I’ll probably be able to go back to the other one soon.

Then finally, my largest purchase in a while, I finally bought a Clarisonic, specifically the Acne Clearing Collection Mia 2. I haven’t used the wash that came with it, but I have been using it consistently. Once again this product will be getting it’s very own review soon. This is actually the product that I bought before my last haul, but it somehow didn’t get photographed in time to go into that haul.

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Bonus Note: I totally had to consult my mommy about my grammar in this post, if it’s still off, don’t judge, I’m exhausted.

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Face Mask Review or Battle of the Face Masks!

I’ve mentioned loving two face masks in the past and today I’m going to pit them against each other to let you know which one gets the victors spoils.

The two masks that will be going up against each other are:

The Murad Clarifying Mask:

Fashion and Happy Things! Face Mask Review or Battle of the Face Masks!

I lazily cropped this out of another picture,
instead of taking a new picture of the empty bottle.
You’re Welcome.

and the Caudalìe Purifying Mask:

reusing images like a pro!

If I were better at photography and photo shop, I would have taken a image of the two of these together and drawn little boxing gloves on each of them. Sadly I’m not so if you could just imagine the awesomeness that would have been that image, I’d appreciate it.

Lets just get right into it, shall we? They’re both Clay Masks, but the Murad Mask has Sulfur in it to help dry up your acne. Which is great if you have severe acne or oily skin, but can be a little drying and harsh if you don’t. It also smells kinda awful to me. I’m almost certain that it’s the Sulfur that makes it stink. You put this mask on dry skin and leave for 15 minutes according to the package. I’ve left this on as long as 30 minutes and that was a terrible idea, my skin felt crazy dry and sore when I took it off, but I didn’t notice any ill effects while I had it on, no burning or anything like that unless I had an open spot. 15 minutes really is the maximum amount of time this should be on your skin. However I have used it as a spot treatment and applied it to a particularly terrible spot and left it over night and it dried the spot right up. It also dried out the area around it, so if you plan on using it for something like that I really recommend Kate Somerville’s EradiKate or Mario Badescu’s Drying Lotion. I hated having to remove this mask, because even with water it took a bit of scrubbing to get it off, which would leave my skin feeling extra sensitive. I finally settled on soaking one of my Liz Earle Muslin Cloths in warm water, letting it sit on my face for a minute or so and then using the cloth to remove it. While it did make it easier to take off, there was still scrubbing required around my eyebrows and hairline. It doesn’t make large or deep spots completely disappear, but no mask or drying lotion is going to do that completely. No matter how you use it, as long as you’re putting it on your spots it is going to reduce them quite a bit. I do not recommend this mask for dry skin though.

However, the Caudalìe Mask has Zinc and Sage which while I don’t know what those do for your skin exactly, this mask definitely isn’t drying, while it still does it’s job. Another difference is that you put this mask on wet skin. It feels very soft and soothing going on, and even when it dries it never seems to harden. My skin feels moisturized and soft when I take this mask off. It smells amazing, very herbal and spa like, which I’m certain is the sage. It comes off easy with minimal to no scrubbing, it does seem to get stuck in the fine hairs around my hair line, and in my eyebrows if I’m not careful when I apply it. There’s no burning or stinging even if a spot is open when I apply it. Once again the recommended time is 15 minutes, but I’ve gotten distracted watching television before and left it on for over an hour with no ill effects. It didn’t burn or dry my skin, and it wasn’t any harder to remove. I did notice that it seemed to kinda disappear into my skin, but it still came off easy and there were no clogged pores. It does shrink your spots and blemishes and it has a bonus that the Murad mask doesn’t, which is that it also takes out the Redness in my skin and around my spots. I’m kinda completely in love with this mask. It feels very luxurious and it actually works. Dare I say it? I think it might be my Holy Grail Mask.

I haven’t tried the Ren Glycol Lactic Mask that is taking the Beauty Blogger World by storm right now. The Origins Charcoal Mask and the Kate Somerville Clearing Mask are also on my to try list. Lemme know in the comments below if you’ve tried any of these masks.