Kiehl's Actively Correcting & Beautifying BB Cream SPF 50 PA+++

I had a facial a little over a week ago and experienced a breakout. It was bad skin day for several days and I hated it. It was during that time that I received Kiehl's Actively Correcting & Beautifying BB Cream SPF 50 PA+++ in Light for review.

Kiehl's is a brand I trust not to give me breakouts or negative skin reactions. At that point, I had trimmed down my regimen to cleanse and treat (+ eye cream) in order to make the pimples disappear. I wasn't wearing make-up unless absolutely necessary.

Kiehl's Actively Correcting & Beautifying BB Cream comes in a 30ml tube, which is about normal. BB's are usually around 30ml to 50ml upon purchase.

It looks and feels kind of like liquid foundation albeit it's lighter in consistency.

I did not want to use anything that could potentially clog my pores and hinder my pimple-fighting efforts that week so I decided to use Kiehl's Actively Correcting & Beautifying BB Cream. It did succeed in brightening my face instantly and it covered the unsightly blemishes on my forehead.

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Change Your Skin with Kiehl's -- Get FREE samples!

Before Kiehl's arrived in the Philippines, I would hoard their products whenever I was in the US. I would buy stuff for the hair and skin. The thing I love most about Kiehl's is it doesn't conflict with other products I happen to be using at the time. You can simply pick any Kiehl's product that you need or want to try and smoothly incorporate it into an existing regimen with no repercussions.

Anyhow, I'd like to share Kiehl's Change Your Skin campaign with you. Simply go to any Kiehl's boutique, get a skin care consultation, then get a 7-day supply of 5 products that are recommended for you. I've tried and tested a lot of skin care products over the years and all I can say is, one week is usually enough to gauge if it's working.

Yup, just sit down for 5 minutes and get a skin consultation from a Kiehl's Customer Representative and you instantly get 5 free product samples that will last you a week. No purchase necessary. Just visit any Kiehl's boutique.

I've used a dozen Kiehl's products over the last few years, most even before I started blogging:

• Kiehl's Pineapple Papaya Facial Scrub
• Kiehl's Creme de Corps
• Kiehl's Lip Balm #1 (reviewed this on my old Multiply account but it's gone now)
• Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate (review soon)
• Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Eye
• Kiehl's Ultra Facial Moisturizer SPF 30 
• Kiehl's Calendula Herbal Extract Alcohol-Free Toner
• Kiehl's Hair Conditioner and Grooming Aid Formula 113
• Kiehl's Olive Fruit Oil Nourishing Conditioner
• Kiehl's Acai Damage Correcting Moisturizer (reviewed this on Sample Room)
• Kiehl's Ultra Light Daily UV Defense SPF 50
• Kiehl's Skin Tone Correcting & Beautifying BB Cream SPF 50

So yes, I'm very very familiar with the brand and I can honestly say that each product delivers what it promises.

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What to do in a car accident...

Around 11am this morning, I was driving along EDSA (southbound) on my way to The Fort. It was slow-moving because there were a lot of cars. I was on full stop as I waited for the cars in front of me to move.

I was looking at the car in front of me when suddenly I heard a loud slam and felt a jolt from behind. I couldn't believe what just happened. There I was on a complete and total stop when another vehicle hit the back of my car. I immediately went down (my mind was vacillating between pulling out the keys and locking my door to going towards the other driver at that instant). Anyhow, a makeshift "ambulance" hit me. It's a vehicle owned by a funeral parlor and there was actually a corpse at the back. O_O

My first word to the driver was "WHY???". I was not moving at all and so were all the cars in front of me. He muttered that his foot slipped from the brake. I wanted to strangle him right then and there. I called my husband and he told me to call the MMDA Hotline because we had to get a police report. As the aggrieved party, it was more important to me than it was to the idiot who slammed into my car. Without a police report, he could get away scot-free and there would be no proof of the incident.

But I didn't know what the MMDA Hotline was. Neither did my hubby. I attempted to look for it via Google but no such luck, so I tweeted Official MMDA on Twitter. They responded after 9 minutes, but by then my hubby had already texted me that it was 136. I called immediately. I was expecting to be put on hold for eternity like other call centers do but surprisingly they picked up relatively quickly. I gave them my exact location, EDSA southbound after Estrella and before Buendia. I told the driver not to move. He was giving me his driver's license because he wanted to leave. I took it but I insisted that we wait for the police to arrive. I told him I didn't care about whatever is at the back of the van (a corpse), we were waiting for the police. I took photos with my cellphone while waiting.

After about 10 minutes or less, two policemen on motorcycles arrived on the scene. They told us that in order to file a police report, we would all have to go to the Makati Police Station. That or the driver could "promise" that he would pay and leave his contact details. My husband told me that without a police report we would have nothing to hold against the driver or the vehicle owner so I told the police that we would all go to the Makati Police Station. They escorted us so we got there quickly. It was 12nn already.

We were given forms to fill out for the police report. I finished mine fast because my account was comprised of only one sentence: "I was on full stop because of the traffic when he slammed against the back of my vehicle.". The driver, on the other hand, was staring blankly at the paper. I told him to finish it fast because I still had commitments to attend to. The police barked at him to start writing because he was just standing there. They got our licenses, vehicle ORs and CRs, and accomplished forms. The police also took additional photos.

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