I have decided to go for a strict facial routine for sometime to clear my skin. My skin isn’t so bad but there’s a few parts that I’m not happy with.

• I have pretty bad dark circles from late nights and irregular sleep during university (I graduated July 09). Although I am working full time now and getting regular sleep, it isn’t really getting any lighter.
• Spots! I still have a few spots here and there that just won’t go away.
• Horrible black heads around and on my nose and forehead. I have oily t-zone and nose so black heads build up loads around those areas.

My skin use to be pretty bad where it was spotty, dry and full of scars and blackheads. I haven’t really cared for it until a year ago, but still I was lazy on some days and won’t bother with any facial care. I wore make up regularly and I don’t always remove it properly at night.

Only the last 3 months that I really started to care properly for my skin. I washed, toned and moisturised morning and night every day. I already noticed a huge notice as my skin is less dry and fewer spots. I really hope for it to be better.

Over the weekend I bought a new face wash especially for blemishes.  I bought the Tea Tree Oil face wash from The Body Shop. I’m going to be using once on the morning and once a night, off course tone and moistures afterwards as well. Hopefully this will help with my spots. I’ve only used it for 2 days so I can’t really tell just yet.

I also bought the Tea Tree Blackhead Exfoliating wash from The Body Shop tea tree collection. I’m going to use this once a week to help clean out the black heads.

To hopefully lighten the dark circles around my eyes, I’m going to place a slice of kiwi on each eye for 15-20 each night. I read that kiwi is suppose to help with dark circles. I’ll help out after a few weeks.

Along with all this I’m going to drink loads of water. I normally only drink about 1-2 glass a day which is extremely little. Water will clean the inside of the body which will also improve the outside too. If you ask any facial specialist, they will always say to drink plenty of water. I knew this for years and never bothered. I’m going to try at least drink 6-8 glasses/mugs of water a day. Recently I’ve been drinking 4-5 glasses/mugs so that already a big improvement.

I’ll update in a week about the progress.