9LIST STORI3S™ | CANDIACE DILLARD-BASSETT
9LIST STORI3S | CANDIACE DILLARD-BASSETT: BEAUTY
9LIST STORI3S | CANDIACE DILLARD-BASSETT: STYLE
9LIST STORI3S | CANDIACE DILLARD-BASSETT: FITNESS
9LIST STORI3S | CANDIACE DILLARD-BASSETT: BEAUTY
1/ It was really hard to break it down to 3 because like I said, I am a skincare and haircare junkie. But one thing that I want readers to know is to Google the 10 Step Korean skincare routine and your welcome – dive in! For me, one of my favorite products is my toner which is one of the steps in the routine. I am obsessed with the Fresh Rosewater Toner. It’s at Sephora. It’s important to have a toner that is alcohol free or as alcohol free as possible. It’s important to have something that hydrates your skin and plumps you up. I just love how Fresh makes your skin feel and it’s one of my favorite products.
2/ I also live by Clinique All About Eyes Under Eye Cream. I was born with dark under eyes and it’s one of my biggest insecurities. I would rather go outside with eye patches under my eyes with no makeup then for people to see under my eyes. I’m always looking for a good cream a good brightening cream and a good plumping cream. Clinique All About Eyes is classic and tried and true and it’s always looked for me and kept this very tender area under my eyes hydrated and bright.
3/ I recently got into these face tools. I will give the readers another cool tidbit. Follow @FaceGym on IG. They do exercises that you can do to keep the muscles on your face taut and pulled back. Oh my God! You can use your hands but I advise you to wash them very well, but you can also use tools that do the same thing. You always pull up, never pull down on your face. There’s a tool called the Gua Sha face tool that has jade which is a material that doesn’t carry bacteria and it has grooves in it so you can pull your face back and just go to town on your face while you’re watching The Bachelor girl! Greatest thing in the world – jade rollers are my favorite too but any of those face tools are great to maintain a pulled back fresh faced look without using Botox although I’m partial to those as well.
9LIST STORI3S | CANDIACE DILLARD-BASSETT: STYLE
4/ This was hard for me because the 3 things I was thinking of were all Dior products! I’m obsessed with Dior. I love Dior. I just purchased my first Book Tote bag from Dior and I haven’t even opened it yet. Their packaging is so beautiful and you just don’t even want to open it. They have a pattern called Toile de Jouy and it’s beautiful and comes in different colors. I love a big bag. We have a lot of stuff and I like to have all of my things because you never know what you will need. The tiny little Dior D-Joy bag, I have it but I can’t even put a good lip gloss in there. If I have to save the world, I need to be able to put it in my Dior Book Tote.
5/ My Dior monogrammed belt. I’m a simple fashion girl. Give me a good belt, a shoe, a bag and/or a good blazer/jacket – then let the rest be from Target girl! Invest in those things. I love my Dior belt. It’s the new CD emblem and it’s just something I put on and I feel like I’m ready to go out. I have my belt, my Book Tote bag and I’m out the door and I’m feeling like a million bucks.
6/ I really as you get older, bunions don’t always agree on a heel – your bunions are like, no girl. I got into designer sneakers and Gucci has a really cute sneaker that I wear all the time. It’s simple it has the red and green ribbon on the side. I love that shoe. Any designer sneaker, because you can throw on your jeans from ASOS with your white tee from Target and your Gucci shoes are on and grab your bag and good belt and you’re done.
9LIST STORI3S | CANDIACE DILLARD-BASSETT: FITNESS
7/ I have to shout out to Ivy Park because I am obsessed with this new line of fitness attire of the red snake skin. I have the biker short, the bralette and socks – OBSESSED. It’s a whole mood and it makes you want to work out there and to be cute and slay out there. Beyonce really did a great job with this line!
8/ It’s called Sweet Sweat, the stomach wrap. I only wear it when I am working out. When you’re sweating, it helps you get the extra sweat off to burn off the fat on your stomach. As women, we carry extra fat on our stomach and this helps to burn that off while I am doing my workout. They have this cream that you use and you rub it on your stomach – wherever you want to burn the fact and then you wrap it around and when I tell you that I take that thing off – it’s literally soaking wet and I feel good because I know my workout is really good and working!
9/ Nicole Ari Parker’s The Gym Wrap, is amazing. Black women often forgo our health because of our hair! We take such pride in our hair because it’s our pride and glory and I understand, but you got to workout and find a way around it. When I discovered those bands, they’re tight, you put them on your edges and you’re sweating – I sweat a lot and I’m natural and this sweatband wicks away the sweat and I can go into the gym with my sweatband on my stomach and sweatband on my head and know that I am getting my workout done and I’m not sacrificing on anything else. I can go out that night and be a baddie because I don’t have to straighten my edges cuz I sweated them out and burned my edges off!
