I have been experimenting many face masks lately so I thought it would be great to share with you my top favorite face masks for all skin problems here today.
First off, I have to tell you that I have a sensitive, acne prone, and dry skin type, which means all of the masks I’m going to talk about will be a perfect mask for you if you have a similar skin type as mine.
A lot of these masks I got from brands for paid collaborations on Instagram but this post is a non- paid post so you don’t have to worry that I will only say good things about each product. All of my opinions are always my own and are from my personal like and experience. This post does contain affiliate links, if you decide to buy products through my links, I would get a small compensation out of it. Just a heads up! I’m always thankful for your support! 🙂
By the way, I have a Nordstrom Giveaway going on at the end of the post where you will have a chance to win a $1,000 Nordstrom Gift Card! This giveaway runs until Tuesday, October 2nd at 12am PST. Check it out and hope you will be the one to get the fun to shop at Nordstrom.
Now, let’s dive into our best face masks for each skin concerns.
This was my first sleeping mask I tried many years ago and still use it today. I discovered this mask when I was doing some research to help with my super dry skin. When I moved to Arizona, I had very bad breakouts due to the dryness. If your skin is super dry and needs a moisture fix, this over night mask will help you wonderfully. This mask absorbs quickly and won’t irritate your skin. The price is also very affordable, just so worth it to try. My skin is softer and more hydrated in the morning. One thing that surprised me is I woke up without an oily face. I know it sounds wired that I had super dry skin but working with oily face basis but with this mask my skin kind of got a good rest and got more balanced somehow. Again, this mask works and I love it!
If you are looking to try a good face mask that can be used for both mask and a moisture intensive face cream, you should definitely give this mask a try. This mask is very soothing. It has a little bit of a cooling feel when applying, but not the irritating kind that make you uncomfortable. I also love the mild peppermint scent of this mask. A few more things I love about this Jet Lag mask are 1. It’s super hydrating with only a thin layer applied. 2. I don’t need to rinse it off. and 3. It’s gentle enough to use under and over the eyes area. A must have face mask that you can carry around and can use anytime you want.
My favorite clay mask that helps detoxify and moisturize my skin all in one. This Irish Moor mud mask won’t dry your skin during the application and afterward unlike other clay masks. This mask is super rich in antioxidants from organic sources like seaweed, volcanic ash, and activated charcoal. My skin looks fresh, brighter and super hydrated.
This is my absolute fave! It smells amazingly sweet. You might feel like you’re in a flower field for a second. The texture of this face mask is very soft and fluffy, think whip cream texture. Once you apply this mask, you will feel a super cool affect going on. Don’t be alarmed though, that means it’s doing its thing. You will see instant results regarding the size of your pores after 15 minutes. I love that my skin becomes softer and brighter as well.
The second mask that helps with my pores is this Biossance Squalane + Glycolic renewal facial. This mask is not only a mask but it’s also an exfoliator. You might feel a little tingling sensation for about 5 minutes in the beginning of applying and massaging the mask onto your skin. But again, don’t be alarmed it’s just doing the work and it will leave your skin soft, bright and with tight pores.
The last one I would like to recommend here for pores tightening purpose is the Purlisse Blue Lotus Seed Mud Mask + Exfoliant. I love all of the main natural ingredients like blue lotus extract, white clay, bamboo, ginger, mushroom and white tea. It helps to detoxify as well as improve your skin texture. This mask works wonder!
You will feel like you are in a hi- end spa for a minute once applying these two masks on. Well, I felt that way because I really just put 24 gold on my face! One thing I love most about this mask is that I didn’t feel any irritation at all. It’s so gentle, very smooth and easy to apply. My skin turned out super soft, radiant and firm. You will have that healthy golden glow after using this mask.
I love how this mask is super lightweight and in a foam form. You might feel unfamiliar with the texture and wonder about the amount you apply is enough or not at first. This mask is a little bit different in texture when comparing with all of the the traditional mask textures like clay, gel and cream. Just apply enough and try to smooth it out evenly, don’t over apply it because you are going to experience a cooling sensation that might scare you. This cooling affect will help your skin with firmness. I didn’t leave this mask on too long, only 5 minutes and I can see and feel how firm my skin turned out.
This mask is giving me such GREAT brightening results! My acne scars and sun spots are getting lighter after one time of a 10 minute use. It smells like Thanksgiving! It has organic pumpkin, fruit stem cells, vitamin C, glycolic AHA and manuka honey as the main ingredients. It’s a little bit painful to leave on during the first 5 minutes because of the burning sensation. It also burns when washing it off. I thought my face would turn all red instead of bright but I was wrong. I am just so glad I left this mask on for 10 minutes for the real results to show. This is one of the best brightening masks on the market! Instant brightening and highly recommended!
This over time mask is a lot more gentle than I was imaging. I love that it’s an exfoliating mask that has mild exfoliant agent ingredients like apricot seed powder in it. The smell of this mask reminds me of pumpkin pie and the holiday seasons which helps to brighten up my mood. Once applied and massaged for a minute, I can feel a little tingling sensation but not as bad as other similar masks I’ve tried. My skin is brighter, softer and more glowing! Just love everything about this mask!
Another pumpkin mask I love is this PETER THOMAS ROTH Pumpkin Enzyme Mask. I can see my face is getting more clear, bright, and super smooth. So fresh and so worth the burning sensation! This face mask is one of the best masks for brightening and even skin tone.
If you love the smell and benefits of green tea, be sure to give this TEAMI BLENDS Green Tea Blend Detox Mask some love. As I mentioned in the beginning of this post that I have acne prone skin. I would get large cysts from time to time and they are so hard to get rid off. I use this mask to detoxify my skin and help calm my acne down. My skin feels super fresh and clean. I can see my redness is being treated and I don’t have extra pimples after using this mask.
I am a fan of tea tree products and this is one of my favorite tea tree clay masks. When I put this mask on I felt like I was in a spa. This mask smells amazing and calming. You might feel a cold burning sensation (if that makes sense!). It’s cool once applied and it’s also giving you a burning feel during the mask session. But trust me, you will feel so good after washing off the mask. Your skin will feel refreshed and soothed. I love this mask because it really helps control the new acne and reduces the redness from acne scars.
This Tea Tree overnight mask is helping me to sleep, seriously. I’m loving the jelly texture of this mask. I also love the smell of the tea tree oil that is so relaxing. Your skin might feel a little dry and sticky after applying this mask on. But before you know it, you will feel your bare skin again. I love that I woke up with more clear, less redness and pretty much a healthy looking skin in the morning.
I hope you find this post helpful and directs you to the right mask for your skin concern. Feel free to let me know below, what’s your favorite mask and I might give your fave a try! Oh, come say hello anytime on Instagram@TheVibesCloset , I will be waiting for you! 🙂
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“Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.” – Kiesza
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I have been wanting to share with you a review on my recent found and now favorite influencer marketing related books. Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media by Brittany Hennessy, is my new favorite book. I am so happy that I finally got over my pregnancy symptoms and had a chance to make this post happen. If you are a blogger or an instagram influencers who would like to up your game, this book is a must read for you.
This book has given me so much confidence and much needed advice. It’s given me a better understanding in this fast-growing Influencer marketing industry. I can’t thank you enough to my blogger fellow, Kamara Williams from IN THING who introduced me to this book after reading her blog post.
Because I want you to enjoy reading it for yourself, I’m not going to get into to much detail. Here are the 3 key takeaways I found helpful.
Pitch Email Template
If you are wondering about how to pitch brands and/or agencies, this book will give you the best idea on how to do it right. You’ll learn what you should and should not include in your emails, when to send a follow up email and when to move on. All of these details are on page 109.
Have you ever wondered how to make a perfect media kit or press kit to send to brands? You can find out on page 115.
Here’s another thing I found helpful when dealing with brands/ products that don’t align with your brand and when you get a non-compensation offer. In this book, you will find the best way to say “No” to brands in a polite and professional way where you still keep your opportunity open.
Crete A Blog that Describes Your Brand
This is the most bazar thing I decided to do after finished reading this book. I spent nearly 5 figures to hire a web designer to help revamp and rebrand my blogging business. In this book, Brittany, has pointed out that your blog is your door of opportunities. You have to make sure that your site is top- notch. Everything that can represent you and your brand has to be here. I mean EVERYTHING! Besides having your home page, category pages and post page, you should add your about page, partnership page and contact page. If you want to know what you should include on all of those pages, go to Chapter 4 to find out.
Social Media Influencer Marketing Tips
I love that at the end of each chapter, I can get some great influencer tips. From both the social media influencer agency to the Instagram influencers them self. Each chapter ends with an “Influencer Icon” who gives some helpful tips they used to become successful. It will give you a clear understanding on what areas you should focus on that brands are looking at. Making sure that your content is high quality and engaging, will make you more attractive to brands.
In conclusion
This Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media won’t be the right fit for you if you are looking for ideas on how to make a blog or how to make money on Instagram. But it would be a great idea to hold on to. You might just want to know where the influencer marketing industry will take you. You will be able to find out how much you can charge for an Instagram post. That only might help motivate you to keep on going. This business is still new. It has a lot of space for you to enter, become successful and make a living out of it.
Like In the title: “A Must-Read Book to up Your Influencer Marketing Game”, YOU as an influencer will learn a lot. From different people who want to hire you, how to update your social media content game, get paid more and see the good and the bad that you might want to develop in your influencer career.
I am very new to this industry and have been blogging and Instagramming for about two years. I have learnt so much about this industry myself. From the first day, the first ever post I posted on my blog and Instagram, I have seen changes on the quality of my content. To keep my business successful and profitable, I’ll have to continue developing myself, my blog and my social platforms. You never know what the future has to offer. I need to do my best with the present and so do YOU.
I have to say thank you to Brittany Hennessy for a wonderful book! You can get your copy here.
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“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.” – Eckhart Tolle
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Wearing: Forever 21 Blazer | Forever 21 Dress | Forever 21 Boots | Sunglasses (old, similar here)
Pop and Suki Bag (Use code “THEVIBESCLOSET15” for a 15% off your first order)
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In today’s post, I’m helping to make your fall outfit look extra stylish with a mix of formal Plaid and classic Corduroy. I have to say that I normally don’t wear a lot of business fell outfits but this outfit is definitely one of my absolute favorites for fall. I’m wearing an all plaid blazer and dress to makes this look a little less casual but I added some contrast style items such as the rust corduroy inspired ankle boots to bring down the formalness, plus they will keep your feet warm.
My whole outfit is on the lower budget side, let’s say it’s under $100 for everything except my bag that’s over $200. Since you can use my discount code”THEVIBESCLOSET15” for a 15% off your first order at Pop and Suki website it would help lower the price down for you a bit. If you are looking for a more budget friendly bag that looks similar to the one I have, you can scroll around the list I have picked for you. They are all under $70.
For a complete look from head to toe for $137, click on the plus (+) icons on my photo below to find out where to shop .
Plaid x Corduroy
If you have a higher budget, you can get the similar look with Plaid Blazer and Rust Corduroy Bootie (real one!) with the choices I picked for you from Revolve below.
Before we say goodbye today, don’t forget to enter my giveaway for a chance to win $700 revolve gift card. You still have sometime to win! This giveaway runs until Tuesday, September 11th at 12am PST. Good luck my love!
Thank you for stopping by All About Good Vibes today. See you again in my next post.
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
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To make your Fall shopping a little bit easier, I’ve teamed up with a group of bloggers to give you
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I received compensation from Dr. Scholl’s® to write this post. All opinions are entirely my own.
#advertisement I just can’t believe how time flies by so quickly. It’s hard to believe that it’s already September, which means New York Fashion Week is right around the corner.
I planned to attend a few shows this season but I ended up canceling my flights and hotel due to my pregnancy symptoms. Nothing to worry about and you guys already knew what I was going through from my August post. However, to keep our positive energies going and to keep our style moving forward, why don’t we talk a little bit about Fashion Week.
How to make your NYFW chic and comfortable
Style and comfort are the two main focuses I would keep in mind when it comes to Fashion Week. Choosing what to wear is totally up to your style preference and it can depend on what show you are attending as well. It isn’t a bad idea to wear the labels of the shows you are attending. For color wise, you can try to aim for the seasonal palette but I have seen a lot of people going for all black, just to be safe, and you won’t go wrong with that.
The most important focus that I will be talking about today is the comfort of your feet, so what would you wear for such a fun, exciting and ongoing movement like NYFW?
If you ask me, I would recommend picking lower heels or even go for sneakers. They will keep your feet comfortable enough to walk for longer periods of time. But my best kept secret and solution is to keeping your feet comfy, while at the same time killing it, is using the Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™.
I have been a fan of Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ for quite some time. Their insoles are amazing and designed to help your feet feel more comfortable so you can look good and feel good even longer.
I use the Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ Ball of Foot Cushions for High Heels on almost all of my heels. I love that I can remove the insoles from shoes to shoes. Since I love this line of Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ so much, I have a spare product for an emergency use as well. The ones that I’ve always carried with me are the Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ Gel Heel Liners. Now I can say hello to added comfort.
In today’s post I’m wearing the Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ Extended Comfort Insoles for Flats. You can use them for work shoes, casual shoes, sneakers and of course all flats. These insoles provide superior shock absorption and cushioning for non-stop comfort and support that lasts for a full 16 hours.
The way to use the insoles is very simple and easy. Just open the package, insert insole with fabric-side up, then line up heel with the back of your shoe. Just that, now you will be able to transform your old shoes into a super comfortable pair in just a minute.
You can find Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ at Target, available in the footcare aisle near the pharmacy. You can save up with the Cartwheel offer, where you can head over to this page and get your feet some love with Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™.
By the way, the above are my shoe preferences, if you are a lover for high heels, you can use Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ High Heel Relief Insoles for your all-day comfort so you can wear the shoes you love for longer and move comfortably while looking amazing.
In conclusion, let’s make this fashion season not only stylish but also comfortable. Keep slaying and be sure to show me your NYFW inspired look in the comments. Don’t forget to pick up your Dr. Scholl’s Stylish Step™ from Target and save up with this Cartwheel offer. #DrScholls
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“I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style.” – Lindsey Wixson
This Early Pregnancy Symptoms: Second Pregnancy blog post is based on my own experiences. If you’re not sure that you are pregnant or not, I recommend making an appointment with your OB/GYN or your doctor to find out. Good luck and Congrats for all second time mommies to be!
I will have to say that for this pregnancy, I knew pretty quickly that I was pregnant, not like my first pregnancy that took me about 7 weeks to feel that something was going on with my body.
It was quite hard for me to find out with the first pregnancy because I had irregular periods. But after giving birth to my first child, my body adapted to having regular periods, finally!
With that being said, it should be a lot easier to find out when I get pregnant again. But life wasn’t that easy, I stopped having periods for a month and I wasn’t pregnant. I kept checking with multiple tests every few days, but the results kept coming back negative. I didn’t have any symptoms though, but just irregular periods made me think that I was for sure pregnant. Then I waited one more month to check and the pregnancy tests still came out negative.
About 9 weeks of not having my regular cycles and not being pregnant, I started to feel something wasn’t right with my body. I normally would wake up each morning with a flat stomach, but not anymore. I would even do core body workouts, but my stomach kept getting bigger! My stomach was getting filled with gas and it won’t go away. I felt so uncomfortable because I would barely fit into my jeans.
One other thing that also happened was sweating at night, when the room was super cold. These were two signs that made me think and know that I’m pregnant. So, I decided to check again and of course the results came out negative.
In my mind I knew for sure I was pregnant then, but I kept reading a few articles and they all said that the results won’t show unless you’re 5 weeks pregnant. I decided to stop checking and just wait for my period to come or at least wait a little longer for other pregnancy symptoms to kick in.
While I was waiting to check again If I was pregnant or not, these were the symptoms I was feeling:
Sweating while sleeping
In the middle of the night I had to wake up because I was sweating a lot. Even though we had the air conditioning on low, my husband was cold, I was hot. This symptom was gone by the time I found out that I was pregnant (5 weeks).
Bloating all day everyday
This was an uncomfortable feeling I didn’t experience with my first pregnancy. As you can see from my pictures above, I was 8 weeks pregnant but look how bloated my stomach was! I felt as if I were 5 months pregnant.
No appetite
I didn’t have any appetite at all, no cravings for a specific kind of food. But I just had to eat to have some nutrients in my body. With my first pregnancy I only wanted to have spicy foods and sweets. Thai food was a must in every meal. This time around, I couldn’t even think about eating.
A little cramp from here and there
This symptom happened to me before with my first pregnancy. Every time I moved quickly or got up from bed I would feel a very bad cramp. At my early stage of this pregnancy, maybe at about 4 weeks when the embryo is in the implantation process, well, don’t count me in on this because I was just guessing about the process and time! I started to feel a little cramp from here and there while getting up, sitting down, but not as bad as my first pregnancy.
Nauseous and Exhausted
I was super nauseous and exhausted than usual that I had to take a nap during the day. At first, I thought it was from my hypoglycemia problem. But it happed almost every day. I felt sick, dizzy and sometimes wanted to throw up. I actually didn’t throw up at the first stage of not knowing that I am pregnant. After I knew I was, all the first trimester symptoms started to kick in including the vomiting.
Tender Nipples
I’m still breastfeeding my daughter who is now almost three years old and it was quite hard at first. I didn’t know for sure I was pregnant, and I was wondering maybe I will have my period soon. The symptom never went away after feeding the baby unlike after giving birth to her when my body was trying to produce milk that the tenderness went away after each feeding session.
Different odors downstairs
This doesn’t happen all the time, only when I was very stressed or very tired, I would smell a smell. It doesn’t have a smelly or a fishy smell, but I could definitely tell the difference and knew that something is going on. I had this smell before at the end of my first pregnancy and that’s what led me to believe I was pregnant this time.
No period with negative pregnancy test result
Even though, all the signs and symptoms were saying I was pregnant, but the home pregnancy tests kept coming back negative, until I entered week 5 of my pregnancy. To be exact I was 4 weeks 6 days on the day I found out. Since the tests kept coming back negative, I thought something was wrong with my body. I was stressing and wanted to give up. Only because I was checking it too soon. I used all kinds of tests including the one that claims it can confirm sooner. So, if your home pregnancy tests keep coming back negative, hold on tight and wait a little longer. Or take a trip to your doctor for a medical confirmation.
A lot of early pregnancy symptoms for this second time around were completely new to me. The good part is that I don’t have the bad acne problem, no back pains, and less trips to the bathroom.
Hope this Early Pregnancy Symptoms: Second Pregnancy post helps you with your confidence and points you in the right direction. I still recommend you to visit your doctor for a blood test to confirming your pregnancy. I confirmed mind with a blood test after finding out with a home pregnancy test.
If you’re pregnant, Congratulation! If you’re in a process of getting pregnant, Good Luck!
Mollie Larsen is the creator of All About Good Vibes—a feel-good destination that inspires women to love, care and be themselves. Growing up she loved dressing up, taking care of her skin and helped supporting others. She believes in positivity and seeing good in all situations. Her biggest achievement of the day is putting her babies to sleep early, relaxing and watching her favorite shows with her husband.
