Now that many countries have opened up, I can finally go on our winter holidays again! I went on a "winter" trip to Taiwan in January and here's what I brought with me. Their winter isn't that cold but it's still quite dry so proper hydration is very important!  

Did you know a lack of moisture in a baby's skin can cause or exacerbate a variety of skin problems, including dry skin itch, chafing and even eczema? Protect and Nourish Your Little One's Delicate Skin with this new range that is formulated with organic calendula that is clinically-proven to give up to 24-hour hydration, all of which are paraben-free. Calendula officonalis is known to have anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties that might make it useful in healing wounds, soothing eczema, and relieving rashes! Here are some baby skincare tips shared during the Zoom Party with Cetaphil! 

If you think you can survive without skincare, think again. I've been using IDS Skincare for 6 years and it's the only brand that my skin wouldn't get "immune" to and it stays effective! I keep my skin quite exclusive to IDS and have been rejecting sponsorships from other skincare brands cause I have extremely sensitive skin. So yes, I only use mainly IDS Skincare products for now. But cause they don't add frangrance their products, my hubby didn't like how they smell. He didn't believe skincare is compulsory and so... after I got married, I went 2 months without skincare and my skin totally went crazy. 

Did you know that wrinkles, acne and pigmentation spots are all skin wounds? IDS Skincare developed and launched Neulastin, a wound healer to enhance absorption and deliver active ingredients in selected products with an added 'repair and restore' property! It works to stimulate elastin and collagen production for effective skin repair to help your skin recover as much as possible to its ground zero state.

IDS Skincare launched two new products last Thursday, the DermaShield Serum and DermaShield Mask, and held a luncheon at the Open Farm Community. These products are really special cause they are most probably the first-in Singapore products that are developed to protect your skin against the harmful effects of HEV, Infra-red and blue light, as well as environmental damage!

Many of you have been writing to me and asking how I kept my acne under control. Here’s the trick - use the correct products for your skin and go for facials to clean your pores. The range of IDS Skincare that I’m using have been keeping my acne under control. However, sometimes stress or environment can clog up my pores, causing a breakout. When this happens, I will go to IDS Aesthetics for a facial and my skin will clear up and be under control again. By right I’m supposed to go for monthly or bi-monthly facials to maintain my skin. However, due to my schedule, I only visit when a breakout happen and I won’t recommend this cause… hyperpigmentation takes time to go away.

I haven’t been able to blog about the previous facials cause I can’t take proper photos with my eyes covered during facial hahahas. But this time, I made my bf visit IDS Aesthetics for a facial with me! Since both of us had our facials done, here is a review by him and her. Fyi, IDS Aesthetics has a really good promo (it’s more than 50% off), scroll to the end of the post to find out what it is!

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way~ Yes, it's the most wonderful time of the year! We are 15 days to Christmas! Need some ideas for your gifts? Here's a Christmas gift guide with my favorite picks (mostly holiday/limited editions) for those who looking for an awesome present for their friends! I've got 6 items for each price category; gifts under $20, under $50, under $75, under $100 and over $100. Prices stated are in Singapore Dollar (SGD).

Summer Time! Okays it is Summer all year round in Singapore so sunscreens are really important to us! Since sunscreens are so important to us, last weekend, I joined NIVEA's UV Camera Activation at Watson’s Ngee Ann City together with Yingjie and Theresa to learn more about Nivea's Protect & Moisture and Protect & White Sun Lotion!

Here are some of photos taken using the UV lens! As you can tell, the heart shape on my hand (Nivea Protect & Moisture Sun Lotion SPF 50 PA++) is black in colour, meaning it protects your skin against the sunlight. 

I've been using IDS skincare for about or even more than 2 years now. I decided to do a post on my favorite IDS skincare products that I cannot leave home without since I brought them with me on my recent Japan+Korea trip! Also, this is actually a guest post at JYSK's blog. You can view the guest post over at their page too - #IDSSPOTLIGHT Katelyn Tan. p.s There's even one product that is always in my bag!

I'm back with a product review and this time it's a product that I really love and have been using for months! It's IDS Diamond Dust Perfector (DD Cream), an exclusive product from JYSK Skin Solutions that works in seconds, instantly improves skin tone and reduces redness. It can be applied to the face, hands, neck or any external part of the body. [From JYSK Skin Solutions]

This DD cream is said to be able to minimize the appearance of enlarged pores, smoothen and mattify the skin and softens the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Hard to believe cause it sounds like a miracle product right? Trust me, I was a little skeptical too cause it sounded so miraculous but it is really true! And... there are a lot of "undeclared" benefits too. Continue reading the review to find out more! ;)

Here are some of the 2015 holiday collections you can find in Singapore from Bobbi Brown, Shu Uemura, Tarte, and more! Let's start with this beauty holiday/christmas gift guide shall we? Fyi, brands will be featured in alphabetical order and those highlighted are my picks from the collection!

Back with another review post for IDS Skincare a.k.a JYSK Skin Solutions! Btw, I'm pretty sure most of you know by now that I started working this year. But what I haven't been updating is that I wear basic makeup to work everyday and I think it resulted in quite a few breakouts.

I try to visit IDS Clinic once a month for facials to clear up my pores and the photo above was taken right after one of the sessions during the period I was having a bad breakout. I have very sensitive skin so my face is always red after facial extractions.

The thing about breakouts is that facials help to reduce the chances of it happening and my IDS skincare products can clear my pimples quite quickly. On average, each pimple can heal in 2 to 3 days. But sometimes the pimples are just so stubborn, or maybe cause of my itchy fingers, they end up as hyper-pigmentations after they heal! :(

That brings us to the product I'm sharing with all of you today - AA, one of the newer products from from IDS Skincare!

Hello! I'm back with a post for JYSK Skin Solutions! This time it's a product review and it's none other than their Lyco-White supplements!

Back with another short review. Sorry for the lack of blogposts lately... Got back from Korea, ran out of blogposts but had no time to write new ones :/

I am finally back with the product review post!

Above is my current skincare routine.

But I will be reviewing every single product that I've used before in this post!

Before I start, here is a short video review on some of the products I used in the past :)

I filmed that more than 3 months back when I first joined IDS clinic.

Just added the voice over recently :)

Hmm and maybe I will do a skincare regime video when I have the time?

I rarely do videos cause my house is noisy throughout the day lols.

All these voice overs are done past 12mn so sorry if I sound a lil tired :(