Telegram home and moisturisers
DEAR HOME STOP BEIJING STILL EXCESSIVELY DRY STOP LIPS FALLING OFF STOP PLEASE SEND EMERGENCY SUPPLIES BACKUP STOP MY FACE DEPENDS ON IT STOP MUCH LOVE KOALA STOP
*laugh* I kid you not. It is that time again in Beijing when moisturiser is your best friend. I mentioned when I moved here last year that moisturisers are a Beijing Essential. My elbows are still coping badly but I haven't let them get to the stage when they crack and bleed - which is what happened last month! *is aghast*
I laugh when I look at old posts from 2005 because when I first got here, Hera was posting me moisturiser from Hong Kong and also brought some with her. :D There are moisturisers here but my skin is very sensitive and I also don't want to use whitener on my skin and a lot of products in Asia contain a skin whitener which I find freaky.
Some days, the air is so dry here, that if I don't apply moisturiser at least two to three times a day, when I do moisturiser, my skin starts screaming with stinging pain. It's really disconcerting. Hee!
My family are always having to airlift supplies to me ;)
I was laughing the other day when I saw a sign saying: "Lip balm with no greasy feeling". Problem is you need a greasy-feeling lip balm in China. To my dismay, I found that the hideously expensive L'Occitane lip balm that I bought, while very nice - is somewhat when the Beijing air gets very, very dry.
I remember in 2005 when I was enrolling for classes, this Australian girl said: "Oh my god do you have lip balm? My face is falling off!" I had a litle tub of the Blistex that you see above and instead of just kind of delicately poking her finger in the tub and taking a bit of balm, she sort of shoved her whole finger in, swirled it around and then applied it to her lips - twice. I was agahst :D
As a general rule, I don't even drink from the same bottle / bite from the same apple as other people. I know that makes me weird :)
*laugh* I kid you not. It is that time again in Beijing when moisturiser is your best friend. I mentioned when I moved here last year that moisturisers are a Beijing Essential. My elbows are still coping badly but I haven't let them get to the stage when they crack and bleed - which is what happened last month! *is aghast*
I laugh when I look at old posts from 2005 because when I first got here, Hera was posting me moisturiser from Hong Kong and also brought some with her. :D There are moisturisers here but my skin is very sensitive and I also don't want to use whitener on my skin and a lot of products in Asia contain a skin whitener which I find freaky.
Some days, the air is so dry here, that if I don't apply moisturiser at least two to three times a day, when I do moisturiser, my skin starts screaming with stinging pain. It's really disconcerting. Hee!
My family are always having to airlift supplies to me ;)
I was laughing the other day when I saw a sign saying: "Lip balm with no greasy feeling". Problem is you need a greasy-feeling lip balm in China. To my dismay, I found that the hideously expensive L'Occitane lip balm that I bought, while very nice - is somewhat when the Beijing air gets very, very dry.
I remember in 2005 when I was enrolling for classes, this Australian girl said: "Oh my god do you have lip balm? My face is falling off!" I had a litle tub of the Blistex that you see above and instead of just kind of delicately poking her finger in the tub and taking a bit of balm, she sort of shoved her whole finger in, swirled it around and then applied it to her lips - twice. I was agahst :D
As a general rule, I don't even drink from the same bottle / bite from the same apple as other people. I know that makes me weird :)