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hi guys happy 2014 and yes I know I still have my Christmas tree up
please don't judge
and on our list for resolutions for food retro this year we are doing more
vlogging and so I am here to talk about skincare
which is probably kind of a funny subject for me because as you can tell
not likely to win any awards for the Internet's most girly girl
I just do't like having my hair in my face, sorry
but um so yes skincare something that for thirty years of my life I tried
to ignore and
in then I turned 31 and thought... you know this is
something I should probably care about because I'm stuck
the the skin on my face probably for the rest of my life for at least until they
invent that
25 pill which... hurry up please
you know... so I mean
like... it's scary stuff, this skin skincare thing. Like guys
I don't know if you've ever looked like a woman's vanity you know you've got
like your day creams, you got your night creams, you got serums that you put on
brown spots and wrinkles
you got like... masks and facial peels.
And cleansers and refreshing sprays... and toner.
What is toner? Can someone please tell me what this is because I still
haven't figured it out yet
I think it might be stuff that you put like on your face to remove the last
little bit and make up after using a cleanser
but I'm not 100 percent on it so don't quote me.
Um... yeah. So as you can probably tell
I like things simple and like... easy to read labels
I like natural... yeah I I don't like using a hundred million products and
like I don't like things like fish scales and formaldehyde on my face
you know I'm pretty sure if you asked anybody they would say...
yeahno. But so...
on Twitter the other day Penny Lane--
Penny Lane Organics and I connected. Twitter's like one of my favorite places
in the universe because
it is literally the place that is like
the joke where the priest at the cowboy
and the football player walk into the bar together... that is Twitter
it is the best place in the world for making these connections both
absolutely random and pure business
so I started looking into Penny Lane a little bit, and they're a local biz which is
something that
course you guys probably know is really important to me I love supporting local
business in the
there even close to me they're in Guelph, which
the falls in that nice little 100 mile radius even though I'm
not necessarily eating their products but
so yeah they're natural
they are vegan and vegetarian if that is important to you
they're not certified organic but they do
adhere to organic in principle which is the important thing because
I I know how difficult it is and expensive it is too
for a lot of places to get organic certification
and it takes years to do it so as long as they're
adhering and trying... like I consider that to be the most important thing
um oh heay they also don't do it animal product testing but I don't think
anybody really does that anymore
so Penny Lane asked me if I would be willing to try some
of their facial care products and
maybe if I liked them I could blog about them
let me think about this yes
yes I need all the help they can get ladies
you guys are helping me out so much because
I've been looking and you know you're never sure
what products are going to work, and you don't want to drop like
a thousand dollars on a bunch of product that you know they're...
ooh! It's organic but you know it's just crap
this is not crap. Penny Lane sent
me a care package that arrived just before Christmas
and it included their 100 percent natural facial cleanser
they sent me their 100 percent natural eye makeup remover
they sent me the 100 percent natural anti wrinkle day cream
and they also threw in
a hand lotion and
some lip balm. And check this out because I think this is just about the coolest
thing ever
it comes on this little carabiner like is that not like the best idea ever
that you ever seen because you can just attach it to your keys
you never lose it like I always always always always lose my chapstick
and then I dry up like a prune because this is Canada and
when the furnaces turn on we're all partially mummified.
Um. What can I say about this stuff like... it works
that's the important thing to me because obviously I'm no major expert
skincare so a I'm pretty happy with
all this stuff but the only thing I'm not 100 percent happy with and this is
probably my fault
is facial cleanser. They actually say on their website that they recommend buying
the toner is well
and for 14 bucks really should have
got the toner, but because I'm ignorant of
skin care products and what some of them do
I opted not to get the toner so
one of those things that would probably would remove that teeny tiny bit
residue and the stuff that got missed by the cleanser.
it does work really well otherwise so
the two products paired together that probably would have made me a
hundred percent
happy. The eye makeup remover, like...
all Christmas long I was doing the stuff with the mascara and like it
worked really good like it took it all right off
and the hand lotion
which is also a great product, my mom and I were actually fighting
over this one which also comes with a cool little carabiner
when you get it to in the small size.
They used the citrus scented oils
that is just like
it's like pow! In your face. I love citrus scented stuff
it's so refreshing right? And I get a two-fer out of it because my kid actually
can't stand the smell it
so not only do I not have to fight him for the lotion but
I also get this great smelling lotion and I get
kid-be-gone at the same time. I mean it's a win-win you can't get any better
than that right?
Of all the things I got my absolute favorite product was
the 100 percent natural anti-wrinkle cream
nice picture of it right there
day cream is one of those things that you know
everyone told me was always really important like if I did nothing else to
make sure I had a good moisturizer
and so many of them are greasy and heavy
and I have problems with acne and like usually just makes it worse like
especially when I wear a lot of makeup
this was not... it was not like every other product that I had to try and where you
know you put it on and then you like go get dressed and
then you go like make breakfast many come back and put on all your makeup
because it "might" be dry by then
this is not that way. By the time you know I finished putting it on
it was dry
and I have this nice powdery finish. I was good to go putting on my make up
So... Yay! What else can I say? I mean it works.
It's simple to read all the labels and there's no fish and formaldehyde
Like... I'm happy! Um. So...
the other really cool thing that I wanted to mention about them is
if you are into making your own products
these ladies also sell a lot of the hard to source
items like getting the... Jojoba (I think it's
pronounced? Don't quote me)
And the vitamin E, the stuff that, you know,
you either find in the tiny tiny little bottles natural health store
or you can't find it all and you have to go to a soap company
these ladies do sell it all online so...
yeah I highly recommend that you check these guys out. They're great
and I'm going to attach a little link
on my blog here to Penny Lane Organics and
check them out! Have a great day, everybody!