How do you remove your makeup at night? Sidebar: I use wipes – baby wipes to be exact. Not only are they considerably cheaper and good on your skin (after all they are designed specifically for babies so they are obviously better on the skin than regular wipes), but they also get the job done just as well and are just all round a hell of a lot more convenient and WAY less time consuming.
Over the last few months I’ve been reading about how removing makeup with wipes, though better than not removing your makeup at all, is not entirely efficient as rather than removing the dirt and makeup, wipes tend to not clean your pores and skin deeply, instead just spreading said dirt and makeup across your face. Instead, dermatologists, skin gurus and beauty professionals suggest washing your face with a cleanser or micellar water to remove any unwanted makeup.
Now obviously I strongly disagree. That is because if you saw what my face wipes looked like after removing makeup, you’d probably agree that the wipes had done an incredible job of cleaning my face. However, that also being said, as I do wash my face every morning with my trusty black soap, you could say that any leftover dirt from the previous day that may not have been removed by the wipes, most definitely gets washed away at the start of every day.
For the sake of giving everything a fair chance, I must admit that my views on based on more than my pure laziness hahahahaha. A few weeks ago I ran out of wipes. Stuck, not sure what to do, I realised that I would have to clean my face the old fashioned way – with soap and water – and let me tell you something, I hated it. The feel of the water against my foundation-ed face was gross. My face felt leathery and rough (probably because my foundation is matte, but still…), and it wasn’t until I had lathered and rinsed three times that the feeling went away. I did this for two nights before I realised that I had a bottle of Garnier micellar cleansing water on my side table. While I must admit that the micellar water was an improvement from soap and water, it still wasn’t ideal. I found it incredibly fiddly having to repeatedly pour the water onto cotton wool to then rub my face and I found that it took me even longer to take off my makeup. The only real benefit I noticed from using this cleansing water was that it did leave my skin feeling soft.
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| the aftermath… |
Right now, my drawers are fully stocked with baby wipes, so hopefully I won’t find myself in the same predicament for a verrrrrrry long time (fingers crossed). So, what do you guys think? When it comes to taking off your makeup at the end of the day, do you prefer using wipes or a cleanser?
alice
xo
