I was at Kmart the other day and was doing a bit of a sneaky browsing of activewear (who knew Kmart has such a wide activewear section now?) and when I walked past the Australis shelf, my eyes fell upon their latest blush range, Show Some Cheek. You know me, it’s hard for me to resist a blush, and so one of them (Cameo) came home with me. I thought at AU$12.95, it’s not too bad. I wasn’t able to swatch it as it was sealed in paper packaging but I thought okay worst case scenario, it’s sheer and hard, but I can still use it, no problem.

It turns out, for the price, it’s a bloody good one for a surprisingly high quality blush!

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I’ve learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, throughout my years of blogging. The time when I accidentally deleted the entire blog (at that time, I had 3 years worth of content) and almost had a heart attack, the time when I didn’t back up my content, broke my blog and couldn’t retrieve most of what I lost, the time when I didn’t reply to a single comment left on my blog … oh, there were many lessons indeed. In hindsight, I’ve done many things that hurt my blog and I only noticed the problems and consequences later.

One of the biggest advantages of blogging now is that you no longer need to fumble like most of us did when we started blogging many years ago. We didn’t know what the heck we were doing back then and there weren’t many tutorials that we could Google for. Nowadays, there’s a solution for almost everything and I’m very thankful for more and more bloggers on the scene that are able to provide free solutions to the problems I have. That knowledge helps to minimise the mistakes I make that can hurt my blog.

Are you doing any of these 7 things that can hurt your blog?

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Olay has always been one of those brands that I like, constantly recommend but seldom actually use myself. It sounds strange, I know, that I would be raving about products from a brand that I don’t actually use much of myself. It’s a highly-established drugstore brand that is somehow quite underrated compared to de rigueur of French pharmacy beauty brands these days. They’re one of the few drugstore skincare brands that offer a good percentage of useful anti-aging ingredients like peptides and niacinamide, often even more than what a number of high-end skincare brands offer.

I’ve stopped using Olay for a number of years because I found the creams a tad rich for my liking back then. As they were heavy on my younger combination skin, the creams tend to feel greasy and all-round icky on my skin. However, I have no qualms in recommending it to people with older skin than mine or to those with dry skin because I’ve seen the results. My grandmother has been using Olay moisturisers for possibly 70+ years now and her skin still looks great. I’ve seen good results on younger skin too.

I recently wrote about the changes in my skin when I entered my 30s and while I still have an oily T-zone, the rest of my face is no longer “normal”. It’s slowly changing and it’s getting dry and dehydrated far more often than I like. Light gels and lotions no longer work for me at night. I find myself reaching for richer creams and noticed my skin drinking them up like quenching thirst in a desert. That was when I decided to give Olay a go once more, specifically a couple of items from the Regenerist range.

Oh my skin is in love!

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