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For the last month, I’ve been covering my face in oil every night. I know, I know, it seems like that’s the opposite of what we’ve been told to do our whole lives. As someone who had terrible acne as a teenager (hello, two rounds of Accutane!) this is completely counter-intuitive. But it’s working.
This all started on my trip to Las Vegas. Following a 5 hour flight and one night in a smoke-filled Vegas hotel, my skin was a blotchy dry mess. Since there’s a Sephora in almost every hotel there, I wandered to the nearest one to do my usual Sephora move: walk in and “sample” the most expensive face creams, eye treatments, and wrinkle removers. Yes, I put their tester products right on my face. Judge away. The great thing about being in such a touristy place is that this Sephora had an entire section of travel/sample size products of all their best-selling products. Nothing worked, I kept breaking out, or my skin was reacting weirdly. Recently Bio Lab Exotique sent me two samples of their 100% cold-pressed oil potions.
I’ve been stalking this brand on beauty blogs for months.
The first night I put it on cautiously. My flaky skin rejoiced but I worried I’d wake up and be staring at 16-year-old, with a face full of pimples. That didn’t happen and hasn’t happened. The oils absorb quickly into the skin and feel luxurious. The dropper bottle does seem like it’d be easy to knock over and I’m shocked I haven’t yet.
Usually, I have dry skin around my mouth and eye areas, with some acne on my cheeks. I put the ELIXIR by Bio Lab Exotique on each night, focusing on the dry areas but patting it on my entire face. Since I’ve started using these potions, my skin is no longer dry and flaky and because of this, it makes makeup application much smoother. I had read on beauty blogs and makeup review sites that this can improve acne, although I didn’t expect that to be the case and wasn’t using it for that purpose. That has been an unintended bonus. My breakouts have drastically decreased in the last month. My skin feels plumper , i feel and look better, my face looks almost Instagram perfect
