Saturday, March 15, 2014

Smooth as a baby's butt face masque




I have talked about this masque I made up from a bunch of different sources.  It uses turmeric powder, olive oil, milk/cream, honey, lemon juice, and chickpea flour.  It's very similar to the Indian Bridal masque thing but I added more ingredients.

Today I added coconut oil and fat free yogurt but left out the lemon juice because I don't have any.  Summer's coming though, I should have some shortly!  In any case, the added ingredients proved a little meh...

I'm sure they are fine but it made things too oily and the masque didn't dry up and stay on, I was like Mrs. Doubtfire with her cake frosting masque thing, haha.




In any case, should you try to do my masque thing I suggest you stop at the yogurt and the coconut oil.  Those are useful things but maybe not for this thing.  The coconut oil is better to eat and perhaps as general moisturizer but not for this masque.  My guess is the consistency is "soft like a cream" when I mixed it up so it made the texture normal but when applied to the face it melted the coconut oil (as it should have) and made the thing goopier.  Next time I do this I'll try with the yogurt and add back the lemon juice to see if that was it, but I'm thinking it was the coconut oil's consistency that made it droopy.  No biggie though.  My face is still smooth like a baby's butt so I'm not complaining.

Oh, one more thing.  If you have a streak like I do, put something on it so the turmeric doesn't come in contact with it.  I accidentally stained some of my streak yellow which is a bummer but I'll dye that piece the next time I do my roots.  No biggie on that either but just word to the wise.