There is a quote that inspires me much: If you want to be loved by someone, you must love yourself first. That is the reason why we, the girls need to take good care of ourselves to be healthy and beautiful from the inside out no matter how busy we are.

One of the variety of tips to be confident as a modern girl is to make a skincare routine of our own.

I am currently working as a legal executive, the time I spend for myself to do other things is not too much. I know that there are a lot of girls in this world being much busier than me. While a perfect skincare routine must be to apply  too many things and it takes at least one hour which means too much time for a busy office girl, in this post I will just introduce to you my own skincare routine with the most simple but necessary steps.

I will divide it into 2 routines: for morning and for night.

Cleanser is for removing dead skin and sebum after a night, especially to the girls who have oily skin.

Toner is for PH balance on skin. In case that you use cleanser with too high PH, toner is essential. 

Sun screen or sun block is for protecting our skin from the sun. In my opinion, this is the must-have item for every girl especially in the tropical countries with the hot weather.

These above steps may take lower than 15 minutes in the morning. I'm sure that there are few more step to take in case you make up before going out, but at least these are the three-required steps to start a day.

You can use oil remover or water remover, which depends on your skin type.

Make-up remover is not enough for cleansing after a long day of being out. Cleanser will not only help you thoroughly cleansing but also make you feel relax if you use it with face wash machine.

If you live in a dry environment or your skin is too dry, you can use the lotion instead of toner. I can see that toner is the popular products in western countries while lotion is widely manufactured in some Asian Eastern countries like Korea or Japan.

Serum is for replenishing skin deeply. I myself use vitamin C serum for replenishing essence to lighten my skin. The kind of serum can be upon your choice.

Moisturizer is for the last step to moisturize and smooth your skin and to prevent serums from evaporating (actually I'm not sure), which I was read from some other beauty bloggers.

You may add some steps such as facial mask or using AHA/BHA for you skincare routine beside the above steps, which could be before Step 3 and after Step 4. I am myself using BHA for chemical exfoliants to prevent acne and it is also between Step 3 and Step 4.

Above is my skincare routine for a busy day. Let's take good care of our skin together and I hope that all of you will have a skincare routine of yourself to be more and more beautiful!

Thank you for reading and leave your comments below!

Love you, girls!

Below is the images of all the dishes we had for 4 people with the price of about 300,000 - 400,000 VND (15$/4 people).

Hi everyone!

Let me introduce first. Huong is my name. B and N stand for the first letter of my last and middle name. So Huongbn comes for the name of this blog's owner.

Why is "Stay lovely with Huongbn"? This is actually what I have wondered before deciding to start a new blog. In the end, I found out the answer for myself.

I was born in 1993 in Hanoi - an old city with the combination of ancient and modern in Vietnam. Despite being the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi is absolutely not as popular as Ho Chi Minh City in the eyes of foreigners. So Hanoi and I are alike. My mind, my favorite, my senses have a mix of ancient and modern, which sometimes makes me feel confused of everything and sometimes people get confused of me. I'm not an influencer or a popular girl, but I have always tried to create an image of a smart, confident and understanding girl to please everyone even though not totally me it is. And so is my hometown. I want to write about me and the life in Hanoi with desire that people can see more about the beauty and the ugliness inside us.

Me and Hanoi

Vietnamese will be absolutely easier for me while my English is not quite good. However, writing by the language which is not the native one can somehow create the confidence and comfortability for myself, I mean I will not feel ashamed. Besides, I want to share my feeling, my stories, my hometown, my country to the whole world. So I will extremely appreciate if you can help me correct my English errors or give me suggestions on how to use vocabulary and terminology to make my English writing better by leaving your comments. For those who are also in the process of studying English writing like me, please learn together with me.

Have you ever really felt confused as to whether the work you were doing was the right choice? I have thought a lot of this.

I am currently working as a legal officer for a communication technologies company. After graduated from Hanoi Law University 5 years ago, I decided to study master of law in the following 2 years and at this time I have just finished the 1-year program of training international trade lawyer in Judicial Academy of Vietnam. The total years for studying has turned to be 9. If someone asked me if I feel truely happy for the last whole years pursuing the legal field, I would say yes. The more I study and work, the more knowledge and experience about this world I gain. Studying and working about law gives me more passion and confidence day by day. That's the reason why I can not give up on this job.

However, there is something I feel missing whenever thinking about what I am doing. The things which are being missed are not in relation to law at all. I do not want to start a day, a week, a month by doing one job only and end up a day, a week, a month still with that job. I want to have something to do besides to feel freedom.

I want to help someone gain positive feeling whenever being down by telling positive things. Last month, a friend of mine said to me that he was so sad, get stressed and could not tell me the reasons. All I could do was quoting a quote of Barney Stinson: "Whenever I'm sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead". But he told me that we could not go to the hospital and tell the victim to be awesome, and mental health was health. That's the reason why I want to write to share the positive feeling and other beautiful things to everyone, which may be more meaningful, I guess.

If you have read all of such gossip lines of mine, please follow me to the next posts and feel free to leave your comments.