If you follow me on my Instagram for beauty content, you may already know that recently I've included a Malaysian-made skincare serum into my routine. This is not a first-time experience of me using a local product because I've used a couple of them in the past (mostly from the brand House of Healin that's known for their gamat/sea cucumber skincare product). Do I use any local skincare product in recent years? I don't, merely because I have gotten surrounded by Korean, Taiwanese and Japanese brands that are easily available almost everywhere. But, that doesn't mean that I need to stop supporting and featuring brands that come from my homeland; 100% made and founded in Malaysia.
My ever-glowing sunscreen collection has welcomed a significant amount of new products in the past couple of months or so. Most are new while some of those are re-purchase for various reasons. CANMAKE Mermaid Skin Gel UV is a product I'd straight away put it into my shopping basket whenever Guardian Malaysia is having their 50% cosmetics sale. Lucky enough, Guardian (and Canmake) has categorised this as base makeup, hence never place it together with sunscreen from other brands. You can find this often on top of the CANMAKE shelf itself.
One of the biggest gripes with mineral based sunscreen is the amount of time it can take to apply, thanks to its rich, often tacky texture. It would leave a significant amount of white cast if it's not being blended properly and this is due to the nature of inorganic filters formulated inside; Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide. Dr.G Green Mild Up Sun is one of the very few sunscreens out there that doesn't contain any chemical UV filters but it's still cosmetically elegant, suitable to be used under a lot of foundations. It's really good and I'm calling it my current HG.
From working with celebrities for the red carpet to filming scenes, brides and grooms for their special days, models for their endless photo shoots and doll-ing up clients for various events- makeup artists do know their stuff and they are pretty much tote a lot of similar products in their kits. Here are a few products our local makeup artists swear by.
Having to be on a journey of discovering Asian Beauty (AB) brands for more than 2 years now, I've tried many kinds of first cleansers for my skincare routine but I just realised that none of the cleansers has made into a review. The last cleanser I talked about was from Simple, before that, was from ST. Ives and throughout these recent years, just to mention a few, I've tried cleansers from Missha, The Saem, Innisfree, The Face Shop, Hada Labo, Shiseido, and Bio-essence. AQUTOP is a brand-new to me. I've never heard the name mentioned before among my skincare buddies, probably because it isn't really a big name in Korean Beauty.
