Beauty: Get Gorgeous tea

One of adulthood’s most evil curiosities is the way in which my skin has become infinitely more temperamental than it ever was in my teen years, when I could dowse my face with that turpentine-like Sea Breeze astringent every night and suffer no backlash. Now that I’m older and so much kinder to my skin, I keep getting stuck with this little cluster of blemishes that pop up in nearly the exact same spot on my chin at least once every couple of weeks. I use all the lovely-smelling milks and serums my aestheticians tell me to use, take my omega-3 supplements, drink buckets and buckets of water in lieu of the buckets and buckets of Diet Coke and coffee I consumed daily from ages 14 to 20. But those breakouts keep happening and sometimes I want very badly to scream and throw things (and that never seems to help either).

So now Republic of Tea has a new blend called Get Gorgeous, which is supposed to help make your complexion clear and glowy and beautiful forever. Its base is earthy-tasting red tea, but there’s also skin-loving herbs like chamomile and hibiscus and chaste berry and burdock root (we actually tend to believe in this stuff, but understand that not everyone shares our faith in the healing power of plant life). I’ve been drinking Get Gorgeous every morning for the past month and while those “beauty marks” on my chin haven’t vanished entirely, they appear to be coming around less often and in smaller numbers. The tea seems to dry them out a bit—which means more moisturizer for the rest of my face, but I can deal. Plus, we’re generally into the idea of tea-as-beauty-product; it’s got a secret potion kind of quality that makes us feel all sorceress-like and possessing of magical powers.

Posted by Liz in Beauty
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