DIY Pore Strips

I was watching an Indian film called '3' and admiring how clear the lead actress' skin was

the actress mentioned, Shruti Haasan

 And so I took a good look at my own skin in the mirror, trying to figure out how my skin looked twice as old as her, depsite her being around 10 years older than me.
Then I saw it... my pores! I noticed that the skin without large pores looked much younger than the skin around my nose, chin and (especially) my forehead ><

Sorry for the close-ups hehe but as you can see, I do have large pores and because of these I feel that I have been robbed of that 'youthful glow' that all of my friends seem to have! Aaaaah there's no justice in the world....
But it's not the end of the world! This is my face without any makeup at all (obviously lol) and no moisturiser, so although it looks dull, it's not as bad as in the photos.
The reason for the large pores on my forehead is me! I'm totally to blame; I admit it ><
I had a full fringe for two years, and before that, I had a side-fringe for two years, so I completely neglected my forehead when it came to skincare. And because I have oily skin and hair, I would aoid using moisturiser on it because it would make my fringe look greasy.
Of course, now I'm paying the price for that! Four yeas of neglect is not easy to rewind *sigh* But I've been working hard at that and applying suncream religiously, moisturising and using coconut oil.
Okay but to be fair, I also read that genetics can strongly influence whether or not you have big pore. After looking at my family's faces (as subtly as possible) I saw that we all had big pores... so I suppose I didn't stand a chance!
It's a good thing in that I'm not entirely to blame, but it's also bad cuz it means I can't really do anyting to change this ><

So because of this little discovery of mine I researched about how large pores make your skin look older, and sure enough I found many dermatoligists saying how as we age, our skin loses its elasticity, and because of this loss of elasticity and collagen the pores widen with age.
And being the cheapskate that I am, I went on to look into DIY pore strips and came across several remedies such as multani mitt and egg whites
However, I also came across Michelle Phan's DIY pore strips recipe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bjOB4zS0uE

So I went to buy in some gelatin in B&M.
Um they didn't actually have any of the unflavoured stuff, so I went for lemon flavoured jelly...which I'm now thinking was a big mistake seeing as it has to be mixed with milk o_O

Okay I've made up the mixture and applied it ot my face! The wait begins!!

The ingredients I used were a teaspoon of milk and this packet of jelly cubes (I know it's the wrong type, and right now with this on my face I have the sneaking suspicion that I just made jelly and out it on my face to sit!) which I chose for their lemon flavour. Foolish me looked at the strawberry, orange and lemon packets and chose lemon because of its skin lightening and pore tightening qualities.
It doesn't even have real lemon in it... but oh well it's been bought and is currently sitting on my face so I'll stop being so bitter about this :D

Once I microwaved the milk and jelly together it turned out like this:

So i just gave it a good stir with a makeup brush I don't use :D

I tested it out on my hand to feel the temperature and it was fine so I went ahead and blobbed it on my face

I also put it on my chin cuz I have big pores there, but it didn't show up well in the picture and it wasn't even worth posting so... hahah
The longer I sit here and feel my face, the more I'm becoming convinced that I just made jelly and put it on my face... tell me it isn't so! D:

This stuff isn't hardening up like Michelle Phan's, and it's squidgy to touch...
Well...at least we know now that you shouldn't try to substitute ingredients like jelly :D
I'm still gonna see how this works out, cuz I'm really curious!!




Yeah it's official...I just made face jelly ><
It didn't work...never try this!!
hahahaha but it smelt nice and lemony fresh~~
It peeled off (eventually!!) like this:

It took me over an hour waiting on this jelly... dayuum
and the jelly was soooo hard to get off, so I just washed my face in the end and got rid of all the gunk.

DIY pore strip...fail!