Being new to the idea of skin care, I asked my mom about building up my skin care regime as well as some of my friends. Now there was one thing about this whole taking care of my skin to keep it baby bottom smooth that got me. Why do I need a day AND night moisturizer? I mean aren’t they the same thing?

My mom, being her smart adult-parent-like self told me that it was because there is a day and a night in a 24-hour period. Har har mother, I forgot to keel over in laughter.

And no, I didn’t ask my friends… why? Because I felt awfully silly asking them. I mean at my age most people assume that girls know what’s in their make-up bag. But I think most people forget that for the past two decades-ish I’ve had nothing but chapstick and body lotion in this invisible make-up bag.

I digress. Day and night lotion. No clue what they were and me, not being my intelligent self, decided to experiment. I wore the so called day and night creams as prescribed for a day or so then reversed the order.

• Night cream is by far thicker and heavier than Day cream. Wearing it to sleep wasn’t bad since I wasn’t out in the scorching sun to sweat globs of greyish ooze over my clothes. I think I might have made a child cry in horror at one point.
• Day cream has this wonderful feature of being UV safe which means that I don’t have to double layer with sun block, yay!

Now those were the only real differences that I felt or knew without digging into the chemistry of the creams, which I refuse to do since that’s just a bunch of mumbo jumbo. I also assume that the effects of the two creams would have different results on different skin types. I, myself, have sensitive dry skin and find the difference in creams to be a blessing since the night moisturizer tends to irritate me during the day for some reason (though it could be a mental thing).

On a whole different matter, I need a more custom blog layout… does anyone feel like making me one ;}