Skincare

[iris]

I think Asian women are the most paranoid about their skin (pei-fu). Traditionally, most Asian mothers want their daughter to have pale, pale skin, tiny pores, and no blemishes. Compared to the tanning craze in the United States, there is a generation gap.

Then I come to Asia where all women carry umbrellas around to shade their face from the sun. When I was in Japan, I was just amazed at the prettiness of their skin. Do your mothers ever harp about you in the sun?

I think the way they take care of their skin contributes to the idea that Asian women always look young. My mom started me on lotion and creams when I was 15 to keep away wrinkles and blemishes.

What does your skin look like and how do you take care of it?

I'm pretty pale from living in HK for the past four months and thanks to my mum's influence. Daily and Nightly routines:
Wash face with Shishedo face wash
Put on tea tree oil - prevents sagging of skin
Put on Shishedo Red toner - removes/prevents freckles and blemishes
Put on Shishedo Vial creamer - whitens skin, removes/prevents blemishes
Put on Lancome eye cream - prevents wrinkles
If at night: rub on Fruits & Passions night cream for moisturizing and softening skin
If at day: rub on Olay's SPF 15 cream for moisturizing, sun protection, and softening skin

Crazyiness I know, but worth it for me.

[Hanuman]

I use nivea exfoliating face scrub for men and I already feel like I have to hike up my skirt. :huh:

[teaz0r]

i'm pale naturally. and i don't like it.
i try to keep a glow? and not look like death.
i used to use the prada and chanel range.
and i didn't like it much. now i only use the la mer range.

i normally wash my face with baby soap.
but when i have make up on i will use the
la mer cleansing gel and oil absorbing tonic.
and use creme de la mer. inaddition to :
in the mornings: i use the spf 18 fluid.
at night: i will use the la mer face serum too.

once a week i'll spa myself.
i use the refining facial and the eye balm.

i am addicted to their new lip balm too.
kissy oh so soft lips.

la mer. i am a lamer.

[Jenny]

I'm pale but that's only because I don't get much sun, not because I take special care of my skin. I actually don't wear any lotions or moisturizers of any sort, just some Zapzyt and I'm done. :D

[contra_diction]

Originally posted by pipSy@Jan 16 2003, 01:14 AM



i am addicted to their new lip balm too.
kissy oh so soft lips.

be careful, if you keep licking your lips, they'll get chapped easier :)

[applehead]

Originally posted by iris@Jan 16 2003, 12:02 AM
thanks to my mum's influence. Daily and Nightly routines:
Wash face with Shishedo face wash
Put on tea tree oil - prevents sagging of skin
Put on Shishedo Red toner - removes/prevents freckles and blemishes
Put on Shishedo Vial creamer - whitens skin, removes/prevents blemishes
Put on Lancome eye cream - prevents wrinkles
If at night: rub on Fruits & Passions night cream for moisturizing and softening skin
If at day: rub on Olay's SPF 15 cream for moisturizing, sun protection, and softening skin

Crazyiness I know, but worth it for me.
geeeeez. iris.
how annyoing is that?!?!
that's nuts.

[lethal]

Wow...that's a lot of work. I do almost nothing...

My mom is so deathly afraid of the sun. Whenever I drive her anywhere, she covers up with a sweater over her arms if its sunny, even if its warm in the car. She always wears a hat. I'm not sure if she's afraid of skin cancer or darkening or wrinkles, but I think a lot of her friends do the same thing.

[deez nuts]

Originally posted by iris@Jan 16 2003, 03:02 AM
Daily and Nightly routines:
Wash face with Shishedo face wash
Put on tea tree oil - prevents sagging of skin
Put on Shishedo Red toner - removes/prevents freckles and blemishes
Put on Shishedo Vial creamer - whitens skin, removes/prevents blemishes
Put on Lancome eye cream - prevents wrinkles
If at night: rub on Fruits & Passions night cream for moisturizing and softening skin
If at day: rub on Olay's SPF 15 cream for moisturizing, sun protection, and softening skin

Crazyiness I know, but worth it for me.
That's right make us men, happy!

[iris]

For you my tasty bun treat, anything!

Oh it's worth it Meena so I won't look like a wrinkled old hag later.

[SunWuKong]

as a side-note. the skin care industry makes a TON of money in asia.
and because of girls like iris, too. :P

[angel nympho]

M mom was the opposite of your mom. So... I guess I'm the opposite of you.

I don't do a damn thing. I put lotion on so I don't get too ashy... and I use those oil-sucking papers so I don't get slimy. I was my face in the morning and once at night with that apricot scrub stuff. The end.

My skin's on the tanner side.

[Jenny]

Originally posted by angel nympho@Jan 16 2003, 03:47 PM
..and I use those oil-sucking papers so I don't get slimy.
HAHA I know what you're talking about but I've never heard someone call it that.

[Hanuman]

I'm on the darker side, during the summer, I get really dark really fast. I know that in Thailand, the fashion trend is to be lighter skinned. I think darker skinned kinda equates with being a laborer, doing manual labor, while being fair skinned means you have a higher status occupation, one that does not involve physical labor. I might be reaching on this...

Now that it's winter, I don't get much sun, so I think I'm turn gray.... :(

[iris]

I have no idea. I hope so. My mother used different products, but took care of her skin the same way and it seemed to have worked for her. She looks hella young and still gets carded in some places.

It's just more tradition and habit for me. Been doing it since I was 15. SPF is always good. :)

Edit: It actually only takes me about 5-10 min. Not hard to put on lotion and I don't wear any make-up so I substitute moisturizing time for "make-up time."

[artsfartsyjanet]

I use Aveena microbeads face scrub. It works wonders on the texture and complexion.

[KiTTY2babe]

I can get real pale sometimes, especially in the mornings and the weather's all depressing and sad. Normally, I'd like to think I'm kinda tan. Kinda.

My mom leaves me alone when it comes to skincare even though she's really big into those washes and creams she puts on at night. She DOES freak however, when I get so tired coming home late at night and I end up sleeping with my make-up on. She says it's the ultimate evil in skincare.

[moschikat]

Ergf.

I have uber dry skin, so all of this started when I was 12. . . while the other chicks were playing with makeup, I was too allergic . . . so just moisturize moisturize moisturize for me.

*Confession*
I don't only moisturize my face. I have a cream for almost every single body part . . . (eye cream, face cream, decolletage cream, nipple cream, ass cream, foot cream, knees and elbows cream, hand lotion etc etc.)

:rolleyes: tee hee, madness i tell you!

[KiTTY2babe]

Nipple cream? :blink:

[eyespooge]

hey, this isn't a gender-specific topic!

i used to not give a crap about my skin, but i moved to california a few years ago, and i started getting acne... in my 20s, when I never had it when i was a teenager.

i surmise that the pollutants in the california air irritate my skin, or something.

or maybe the people here are just more unctuously obsequious, and it rubs off on me :P

oh, so, well, i'm a guy, and i use face lotion too. oil of olay with spf 15 - 8 bucks at walmart. *shrug*. asians with freckles look weird, and apparently california lacks an ozone layer :\

[mr. x]

you girls need to chill, its all about SHAPE, skin tone comes second. A dead body is pale

[kimpossible]

me + sun = brown
me - sun = casper

All skin creams are Hope in a Bottle.

[nonamerasian]

One thing I think about many Asians (and many dark-skinned Blacks) is the great skin. . .Even tone, not much, if any, scarring from pre-adulthood pimples.

I don’t think I’ve had an even skin tone since I was four. I tan quickly and blotchy, yet I’ve never grasped the idea of taking care of my skin and protecting it from sun damage (it takes long to fade, as well).

Many West Indian women I know are obsessed with good skin.

I was brought by first skin care products in intermediate school when I *gasp* may have been developing a pimple!

It very well may have been a mosquito bite, but no chances were to be taken.

Even before that, my mother used to make concoctions in the kitchen and put them on my skin.

My poor nieces, and one of my nephews, have inherited this obsession. My nephew spends about a half hour a day taking care not to get any pimples or blemishes. My nieces, most who haven’t graduated elementary school yet, also have a regiment.

All have beautiful skin, though.

[coagulated fat]

asians with freckles look weird
Hey! Not that this person is around anymore, but hey! all the same.

I have what my friend calls kind-of-but-not-really freckles.

[himura-dono]

i think a small splash of freckles can be cute, now a faceful x_X

[YuheiCarreau]

Freckles are hot.

[Kuchana]

I wash my face every night with Nozema. I use Oil of Olay moisture therapy lotion and Dove's Essential Nutrient Night Cream. For the day, I use Coppertone SPF 30 face cream.

[rice cracker]

I have freckles.

I used to take crazy care of my skin, but now it's just wash with Origin's Get Down exfoliater and then rub my skin hard with a towel. For a moisturizer I use this L'orial SPF something something. If I'm breaking out a lot I use this alpha hydroxy blah blah and a moisturizing mask. Oh, and if I'm going out and putting on makeup and stuff I use Origin's Perfect World after I moisturize.

[moJo]

I wash with this super-mild Clinique facial bar soap in the morning, and use Loreal Vitamin E lotion. At night, I use Aveeno face wash, Clinique eye cream, and this sample Clinique lotion for the rest of my face. Oh, and Proactiv lotion on blemishes and zits (esp the week before my period). It feels like a lot of work already, so I can't imagine going through the steps that the first poster listed, yikes.

[applehead]

sometimes, just washing with water
and soap. and not putting all that crap
on my faces does wonders.

[sandra]

i use this japanese brand, naive. and kiehls toner. aveeno moisturizer.

i heard it's better to use the same line for everything, though.

[teaz0r]

i've started to use sk-II (http://www.virgoskin.com/index.php?cPath=47_48) for a few
months now. is formulated for asian
skin, sorta like the asian la mer. i
<3 the cleanser. it feels so good.

[teaz0r]

oh and the signs treatment.
<3

[amietron]

i use this japanese brand, naive. and kiehls toner. aveeno moisturizer.
isn't that naive the brand that sells soap bars that smell like peach? mmmm.

[Faithless]

True or false?

Fairer skin a common obsession among Asian women, survey says (http://www.etaiwannews.com/Business/2004/06/17/1087437474.htm)
2004-06-17 / Taiwan News, Staff Reporter / By Marie Feliciano
Women coveting fairer skin have made skin-whitening products even more popular in Asia, results of a study by market research company Synovate showed.

According to its April 2004 study, 38 percent of women polled in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines said they were currently using skin-whitening products, up from 34 percent in February 2002.

"Across the region, 61 percent of respondents agreed that they look younger with a fair complexion, 49 percent believe that white skin can cover wrinkles and age spots, and 43 percent are more attracted to members of the opposite sex with fair complexions," Daisy Sam, associate director of Synovate Hong Kong, said in a statement released yesterday.

The question was asked to 2,232 respondents in the above-mentioned Asian countries.

"Despite 41 percent stating that they have used the products to little or no difference, it looks like skin-whitening is a strengthening trend in Asia. It's that classic 'want what you don't have' part of human nature."

[Kuchana]

True or false?

Fairer skin a common obsession among Asian women, survey says (http://www.etaiwannews.com/Business/2004/06/17/1087437474.htm)

I would say true.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Maybe it's because I'm a guy with zero fashion sense or competence in the area of hygiene, but sometimes I don't even wash my face in the morning, and when I do it's only like splashing water in my face for about 10 seconds. ^^ Let the natural oils set in until later in the day, that's what i say. I'm as low maintenance as it gets...even for a guy.

[SunWuKong]

i just got this skin care from shiseido called beauty voltage. supposedly they only sell it in japan, so once i run out im screwed.

love,
prof. frink


can't you order it online?