Hand Cream: Underrated Savior or Just Another Unnecessary Tube?

For the longest time, I avoided hand cream. Like the plague. (I know that sounds cliche because that's really the only way to describe my feelings and behaviors towards that stuff.) Why? Well:

1) It's greasy, which makes me unproductive. I can't type, play piano, or touch stuff in general waiting for that layer of grease to sink in. I don't have the time for that.

2) Hand cream reminded me of old ladies. There was just this really strange association. 

3) It seemed like a completely unnecessary expense to my (already) huge beauty list. 

Couldn't I just use regular lotion? Why should I buy a separate cream, lotion, or whatever? However, after reading some articles, I learned that I shouldn't have avoided hand cream all these years. Even if I were to keep my skin in prime condition for the next gazillion years, my hands would be one of the first things to give away my actual age in a gazillion years if I didn't do something about them, because hands tend to be one of the drier parts of the body. Without adequate moisture, wrinkles would eventually form. So I went out, bought my first hand cream, and... Completely fell in love. It made my hands feel so smooth, soothed the dryness (and the accompanying itching, flaking, pain from cracking, etc.), smelled lovely, and the love letter goes on and on and on. Now, I'm pretty much a hand cream junkie. 

In my opinion, hand cream is not just another unnecessary tube. Rather, it's an underrated savior. 

So in the future, I'll be posting some reviews and posts for hand cream. Well, on top of reviews and posts for other stuff. 

Eos Sweet Mint Lip Sphere Review

This review was originally posted in one of my earliest blogs, but since I'm about to delete that blog, I decided to post this here, just because I thought it may be helpful. :)

Eos Lip Sphere in Sweet Mint Review

This just might be the best lip balm I've ever used, no joke, and I'm pretty impressed myself considering how picky I am when it comes to cosmetics. I've always heard a lot about these little lip balm spheres, but I never had the chance to try it until now, and now I know what all the rage is about.

The packaging is first what caught my eye. It's like a little egg, with a small, flattened surface on one end (so it can stand) and you twist it open. I like the texture of the lip sphere because it's really smooth and it's a lot easier to open compared to other lip balms in twist-up tubes. Plus, the colors of Eos Lip Spheres are so vivid and beautiful.

The lip balm inside is like a little, smooth mound (think of if the earth was cut in half, thus a hemisphere!). It goes on extremely smooth, and the contoured shape makes it a lot easier to apply opposed to tube lip balms because it fits the shape of your lips. With this type of packaging and shape, you get a lot more product.

The lip balm inside is absolutely. Amazing. It's really smooth and sheer, but still offers a lot of protection and hydration for your lips that lasts for a long time. I like how the lip balm is really well textured, so there's no stickiness, chunky pieces, or gritty grains inside. The flavors only make this lip balm better. I love how there are so many varieties of flavors, and the quality of the flavor blows my socks off. Sweet Mint makes my lips tingle, and it smells and tastes incredible. I've been using Eos Lip Spheres for only a week, but it has made my lips so soft.

On a scale of one to ten, I give this lip balm a twelve. :)