I no longer go to nail salons to have my feet pampered.  I figured, it's just costing me at least 200 php every month.  Sometimes, twice a month.  So, in order to save up a little, I do my pedi at home.  And thanks to Caronia, I can now treat myself for an indulging foot spa too because of their 3-step hand and foot care kit!


Initially, I thought it would be very tiresome to do that whole hand and foot pampering thing and most likely, you'd just end up feeling unrelaxed because you're doing the task yourself.  But surprisingly, I enjoyed it.

All of these three products have the same scent.  It's not exactly green tea.  I think it's more of a herbal-ish fragrance.  Something that you'd probably smell in a spa.  I love it so much and especially how it fills my room with that relaxing, therapeutic aroma.  Talking about setting the mood for a hand and foot spa!

Revitalizing Soak & Wash

Renewing Scrub

Nourishing Creme

September 23rd, one day before our 3rd anniversary, we thought of getting some relaxing body massage.  We didn't have much time to look for a new spa place so we thought, why not try Nuat Thai again but go for a different branch.  Apparently, that's Kris' favorite and besides, it's very affordable too.

Hello from rainy Baguio City!  Temperature check, it's 17 degrees Celsius here.  I'm so sensitive to very cold weather so I don't even know how I will survive bedtime and worse, the shower tomorrow.  Haha!

Anyway, our first day (or half day) was not too hectic so I decided to do a blog post before hitting the sack.

Let me talk about these two Mario Badescu products, but before we get into details, here's a quick introduction first.


The brand is committed to create botanically-based and customized skincare.  Its vision is to brighten up the world with our time-tested skin care products and treatments, in order to provide customers with the beautiful and healthy skin every human being is entitled to.

One thing I immediately noticed about the products is the very simple, no-frills yet sturdy packaging.  The reason why they did that is because they believe that it's not as important as the good stuff inside them.  That allows them to provide quality products at a very affordable price.  Some drugstore skincare lines almost have the same price so I can't say that Mario Badescu is on the high end side.

You might be wondering why I picked glycolic-based products.  Here's the story.

I'm very milia-prone.  In case you're not aware of that, milias are like white, hard bumps on the skin's surface, containing hardened skin cells and oil.  They are so stubborn, they will stay with you forever.  The only way to get rid of them is through pricking/incision.  (Thanks to Bioessence for the treatment!)

I did some research about it and I read some articles saying that one way to avoid getting them is by exfoliation.  Now, I do that regularly but I find it not enough.  To cut the story short, I became interested to chemical exfoliation and glycolic acid is one of the perfect actives for that.

I bought these two at amazon.com and if I'm not mistaken, I paid around 800 php for each including shipping fee.

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Watch-outs

It's sad to realize that I still haven't gained my momentum in blogging but I'm very hopeful that in the next few days, 3-to-4-posts-a-week habit will be back.  Let's just take it slow, guys.  There's really no pressure anyways.

One way to warm up the engine is to do my product review backlogs and here's one of them.


I'm a lip-tint-over-lipstick kind of gal (I think I'll also love matte liquid lipsticks once I try them out) as you might have probably known.  I always wanna have different types of formula in my stash just for variety.  So after finishing a tube of Etude House Dear Darling, I immediately looked for another gel-ish tint.

This is one of the cheapest I saw and I haven't tried anything from The Saem so I thought I'd give it a shot.


It's housed in a usual lip tint packaging and comes with a doe-foot applicator.

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This is it!  Finally, I had the guts to face the camera while talking and to create an actual haul video.  You can laugh all you want.  Don't worry.  I won't get mad.  Haha!  Truth is, I was on face-palm mode too.  Embarrassing!  Obviously, I suck at this.  However, I thought I'd still give it a try and put the shame aside.  Hopefully, I'd get better overtime.

Before hitting the play button, let me say sorry first about the not-so-great lighting and audio quality.  I couldn't do my normal voice volume because I didn't want others to hear me while filming.


As mentioned in the video, this is apparently a no-makeup haul.  On the next one, for sure you'll see a few.  So, I have here skin care, lip care, body care and hair care products plus, some fashion pieces.

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