My quest for glowing (bare) skin continues. I’m being very single-minded about it because I don’t like wearing foundation at the best of times, and in the summer least of all. This year I’m seeing if I can swerve even tinted moisturiser/my beloved Erborian BB Cream.
Probably not, but I’m having fun trying. I sang the praises of snail mucus a couple of weeks ago for its rehydrating and glow-giving properties—you may be interested to know that I love it even more now than I did then. Also, out of curiosity, and because my beauty cupboard is bulging with this stuff, I tried a laborious Korean beauty routine for a few weeks (the snail slime is Korean), this involving an oil cleanser followed by a foaming cleanser followed by a special toner followed by slime followed by I can’t even remember what. An ampoule, I think. It goes on and on. I’m sure it works if you have the patience, and I’m also sure it’s very effective on younger skin—my daughter is a fan and it has made a visible difference—but for me in my dotage, the one thing that really works and is absolutely 100 percent effective is the ole slime, or rather the ole slime plus a really good moisturizer on top. So I thought I’d pass that on.
