Tony Moly Shiny Foot Super Peeling Liquid

Summer is approaching, so it was time to take care of my feet. The skin on my heels was especially hard and cracked. Las year I tried Etude House foot peeling mask, so this year I decided I would try this one from Tony Moly. As always when ordering Korean cosmetics, I ordered it from Jolse and it was 7,63 USD.

The product is described as a foot care program to make your feet feel smooth and sparkly shine.

The foot peeling liquid removes foot calluses from rough feet fast and conveniently, ingredients such as AHA and BHA help remove excessive foot calluses and peppermint extracts relieve stress from feet. Urea, argan oil and lavender keep feet feeling moisturized and pampered even after the foot calluses are removed.

How to use this product:

1. Put sheets on your feet
2. Keep both sheets on your feet and pour the liquid in, wait until your foot skin absorbs the liquid (it takes approximately 1 to 1,5 hours)
3. Take off your sheets and wash your feet until the peeling liquid is thoroughly rised away
4. In 4 to 6 days the dead cells will naturally start peeling off your feet. Do not try peeling them off forcefully You will have smooth and soft feet in about two weeks

So did it work? It does exactly as it says in the instructions. after 5 days the peeling started. And just like in the Etude House mas it first started peeling when the skin was not dry, the skin on my heels was last to peel off and the result there could be better. Maybe if I used these peeling liquids more frequently I could get rid of the hard skin on my heels. Who knows. And there is another thing, as I write this review one month after the application of the liquid I can see that the skin on my heels is almost as bad as before the application. So, the nice skin on my heels didn't last very long.

Before/After

But nonetheless I like this type of foot peelings because the process of the skin peeling off my feet is so fun, at least for me. I will definitely still buy peeling foot masks.

Have a great day!

WhatI'm reading + NOTD pt. 93

The Custom of the Country follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was recreating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics. 

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful prose style. Her novels and short stories realistically portrayed the lives and morals of the late nineteenth century, an era of decline and faded wealth. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, the first woman to receive this honour. Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her fifteen novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir. 

The protagonist, Undine Spragg, is a young woman, a superficially beautiful woman who glitters and consumes and believes herself to be entitled to everything she takes from others, because it's not really taking, in her view, it's more like receiving what she deserves for simply existing. And for that reason, it was hard at times to finish the book. Undine is such a despicable character; her selfishness is hard to stand. She gets away with everything and nothing bad happens to her, the only ones that suffer are the ones around her. 

Nail polish is Essence, from the line Show Your Feet, with the name Flamingo rose. The colour is pink with small glitter that is almost invisible on the nails. The application is not the best, I don't know, the nail polish just doesn't look nice on the nails. 

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 92

Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over twenty years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance, she feels she must accept. But this is no ordinary gathering. The Kill Club is a group of true-crime obsessives who share information on notorious murders, and they think her brother Ben is innocent. Libby must delve into her family's past to uncover the truth - no matter how painful. 

Dark places is the third novel by Gillian Flynn that I've read. And that makes it all of them which are translated into Slovene. Despite the various reviews I like her novels, they have just what I like in crime genre. Which one was the best out of three for me, hmmm, hard to say. Sharp Object was the shocking one for me, so it might stand out, but I liked all of them.

The nail polish is from Essence, discontinued, and would like to be duochrome, maybe you can see it, it tries to shift from brown to violet, but I would say that in the bottle it succeeds better. The name is Princess Prunella. Interesting colour nonetheless. 

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 91

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever. 

Donna Tartt’s cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 

The Secret History is the first novel by Mississippi-born writer Donna Tartt and was published by in 1992. A 75,000 print order was made for the first edition (as opposed to the usual 10,000 order for a debut novel), and the book became a bestseller. 

Set in New England, The Secret History tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at a small, elite Vermont college, Hampden College. The story is an inverted detective story. One of the six students is the story's narrator, Richard Papen, who reflects, years later, on the situation that led to a unforgettable and dark occurrence. 

Nail polish is from Essence, of course discontinued, from a line that doesn't exist anymore Nail art magnetics. This is a magnetic nail polish, but I use it as a regular nail polish. This one has a name Hex hex and the colour is steel grey. The application was ok, I just wish that the brush streaks were less visible.

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 90

Here's a novel that is not translated into English (yet). The original title is Piaskowa gora which would translate into something like Sandy Mountain, and the author is Joanna Bator. Joanna Bator is a Polish novelist, journalist, feminist and academic. 

Sandy Mountain is a poetic name for a block of flats in a town in Poland. Through many small, seldom moving stories about women we get to see the portrait of Poland society after the war with its ethnical, religious, patriarchal mythologies. 

Nail polish is from Essence, from a limited edition called Rebels, the name of this nail polish is Mauve Like a Rock Star and the finish is latex, although I always put top coat over it, for fast drying reasons. The bottle is small and so is the brush, a really tiny one, so the application is a bit tricky. I like the colour, but seeing the pictures, maybe I should apply three coats instead of two. 

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 89

HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is a moving and shattering work of fiction. 

Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says, 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH. 

Lately I've been reading a lot of novels that are set during World War II and in some cases, like with the book HHhH, I came to a realisation, that I really know nothing. I shouldn't be so poor in contemporary history, I also had a subject at the university, but there are just some themes, that I don't know nothing about. Like the Operation Anthropoid for example. So HHhH is not just a brilliant novel, but it serves also for broadening the horizon. 

On my nails I have an old polish from Essence with the name Fateful desire. The colour is beautiful, but the application not so much. Most of my older polishes are ok, but this one became goopey, as you can also see from the terrible application (you can also spot my chopped nail), so I think now is the time to buy a new polish in this colour. Just your typical deep red, that is on the cooler side. 

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What I'm reading + NOTD pt. 88

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food (literally) speaks for itself.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams and is a sequel.

The nails are very summery, not your typical colour for winter, but it goes well with the book. The nail polish is from Essence, an old one with the name Wake up! For an old polish the application is no bad.

Have a great day!