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Taking care of my teen skin

Hellos bebe, This is Coco. There are teens preteens all around the world buying loads of skincare products without knowing much about them. And some are simply late bloomers. This is my honest advice and experience I want to share here. 1. CTM is essential regardless of skin type. I know it's so basic but many people still think moisturizing isn't for oily skin. It is. Reason? When you wash your face, u strip your skin of oil and dirt along with natural moisture. Aloe gel etc, are natural humectants. They lock in hydration in your skin. 2. Read labels when searching for humectants on moisturizers. Not all humectants work for all skin types. For a dry skin aloecucumber gel won't work as it is not as creamy as products specially formulated for dry skin. Same the other way round. 3. Exfoliate ! But don't overdo it. This one is pretty self explanatory. When you exfoliate you don't just remove a dead cell layer, you also dry out your face and cleanse your pores. Hence, o...

Tips to write short stories

Hellos bebe, This is Coco. Today, I wanna share some (unconscious) techniques I use to make short stories interesting. Here are 5 of them. 1. Keep mental notes and know ur plot but keep title for the last: - If you know the gist/ outline of the plot, it becomes way more easy to write the rest of the story. Or if you have some vague points put together and you usually write the story in a flow as it goes, keeping title for the last is better. That's because you have an idea already, whether you want a character based, or an event based, or a theme based title etc, since you have the rest already written down. 2. Describe ur character through reflective actions:- When writing a piece, you want the reader to have independent thoughts and weave the image you give the reader into a character or atleast let your character be figurative of an active real life person. "Actions speak louder than words ". It's true here because you let the reader have their own perception while...

Overthinking overthinking.

Hellos bebe, This is Coco. So, recently, there've been many people around me, who are talking about one thing- overthinking. Its not a new concept, and is wayyyy more common than we think. Like Ik people think, what's new? Well, the fact that people don't realize how important it is, and why it's got us beat is new. I mean we all do it sometimes. Some of us do it always. It's just how we think.  But really, I feel it is important because, tbh introspection, reflection, retrospection, is all overthinking- in a positive form. Think about it, emotions are not an abstract thing at all. They are chemical reactions, to simplify it to the least. Just like that, thinking is not an entity in itself. It's just an action, or to say the next step. And well, the name, overthinking can't be taken as a separate entity. It's just another mental action. Like maybe, come to think of it as, checking out a mental grocery list. It's a mental action.  I feel, emotions are...

Words that make me feel

 Hellos bebe, This is Coco. So recently, I've been surfing the net and coming across various things. And some things just caught my attention, I mean, there are these unusual words that we feel inside of us almost everyday, but still don't have a word for it. People don't usually realize it, but we are all humans afterall. These words just have a grounding sort of feeling, and personally, 110% of relatibility. So there were many but I picked up the 10 most beautiful words I ever read: 1.  Sophrosyne A healthy state of mind, characterized by self control and high level of self awareness resulting in true happiness. It's like nostalgia, playing under a peepul tree. It's perfect happiness.  2. Magari  It's the feeling that says, 'kaash' or ' I wish this was true' . Because it's not always that we get what we want. And if you are still a student. It's never, that you get what you want. Can't describe it better.  3. Meraki This, I feel is ...