My beauty diary mask review plus a korean mask review

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Hi readers,

Hope everybody's been well...weather is actually getting pretty cold over here 0_0 so winter is definitely on its way.

Today's post is about two mask reviews. I've only used each product once so it's not highly accurate but I feel like I only need to have used it once to get an impression of how it works :D One of the masks is a Taiwanese brand and the other is a Korean one.

This is the Taiwanese brand: My beauty Diary. It's pretty popular and I've seen many people use it and I like it but I have mixed opinions. I agree that they have nice packaging and cute scents but so far nothing I've used has screamed wow at me. I also bought a vanilla soufflé cleanser from this brand which looks so nice but haven't used it yet, I'll review it at a later date. This is the second MBD mask I've used (my first was the black pearl mask) and I was slightly disappointed. The rose scent wasn't very noticeable and my skin didn't feel particularly softer and more hydrated after the use.

My skin before and after looked and felt the same

 

I had it on for about 30mins because it didn't say how long you're supposed to have it on for but I remember doing the other pearl mask for around half an hour. But afterwards when I took it off, my face didn't feel any different.

And then, after all the moisture from the mask on my face had absorbed, my face began to feel dry. The mask didn't actually hydrate my skin :/ The black pearl mask that I used a while ago was not like this, it was pretty hydrating and my skin did feel better after using it, so maybe it's just this type of mask. This rose mask is also meant to be 'whitening' so you'd probably have to use it for a long time before seeing any effect.

I only bought one capsule clay mask from INNISFREE but it has already become my favourite. I definitely recommend it!!! You can comfortably use it for 3 applications and my skin felt super soft, smooth and very white after only one use. I was soo amazed and was so upset I only bought one. My sister bought one as well and I tried it also and it was equally as good, I'd give it full marks! My skin has never looked so nice and bright!!! I didn't take any pictures because I wasn't intending on doing review which I really regret but hopefully you'll trust me on this one.

 


We bought these two :D
 

Pros of the MBD mask are :

Cute packaging

Subtle scent

 

Cons:

Scent not that strong and not rose like

Not hydrating

No English instructions and no diagrams

 

Overall score: 2/5

 

This is the second mask I used, once again it states that it has a chocolate scent I think? But if I hadn't been shown the packaging I wouldn't say it had a chocolate smell to it. Furthermore, it doesn't have any English written on it so you kind of just have to guess what it says. I would have preferred maybe some slight English instruction but it's still easy to follow because it has pictures. This mask is slightly smaller than the other so I feel that it fits better but there's still a lot of excess in some areas but I guess maybe it's because my face is smaller than the average?

 

This mask was more hydrating and brightening than the first but still not as hydrating or brightening as others I have tried. I paid around 85p for this mask so I'd say despite the cute packaging it wasn't really worth it. There are many other masks from Korean brands like etude house and Innisfree where you can get super good masks for the same price or less so I'd rather spend the money there.  

 

Pros

Cute packaging

Easier fit on face

 

Cons

Price not worthwhile for results

Not particularly hydrating or brightening

Scent not obvious

 

Overall score: 2/5

 

Ketchup soldiers (savoury bruschetta like breadsticks with a sweet salsa), Jungle trekker (dried pineapple, chocolate covered honeycomb and vanilla coated pumpkin seeds- I loved the vanilla coated pumpkin seeds so much!), crunch bunch (pretzels and corn chip chunks), Jaffa flapjack (choc and orange flapjack)

Oh and I thought I'd just show you my graze box my friend sent to me. Graze boxes are getting really popular now so my friend sent one for me to try and I love it!!! It was super tasty and healthy as well! There are coupons you can get to have you first box free or if you pay, it costs I think around 3.85 per box or something. There's lots of options to choose from, desserts/seeds and nuts/savoury snacks so there'll definitely be something you like! There's lots that I've found that I love :D

Go try it out!!!

Hope you liked the new post, there'll be a post on cheese straws, homemade pizza plus bakewell slices coming soon as well!!!

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I'm back!!! ^_^

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I'm finally back into the blogging world...

Sorry for the long delay, I have written a post for almost two months I think and that's because I've been really busy whilst holidaying in Hong Kong. I took a lot of food pictures whilst away so ill make then into food collages before posting them in a separate post. However in this post I wanted to show you several cosmetics/beauty products that I bought it received as samples when I went shopping in Hong Kong. The products ill mainly be reviewing are Korean companies such as Holika Holika, Etude House and Tony Moly so I hope you'll like it. There's a lot to get through so ill try posting a new review each week (sometime in the weekend because ill be busy with school work on weekdays- just started A levels and I'm taking maths, English literature, philosophy and psychology) 

So I hope you like the reviews and in the mean time ill leave you with some pictures of the upcoming products. Oh and what I really loved about these beauty and skincare shops when I went to Hong Kong, apart from actually getting to there :3 was there generosity. Some of them are just super duper nice and offer you free products when you spend a certain amount which is really great because then you can test out even more products. When I went to Etude House, I got several little samples, at Holika Holika, because I went with my sisters and aunties we all spent a lot and put the bill together so receive a crazy amount of gifts (they were very kind :D) and at Skinfood instead of giving us lots of little samples they gave us an option of two full products. One was a suncream protection lotion and another a deep sea water brightening toner. No doubt I chose the toner to hydrate my skin in the cold weather in London. The bottle is large, no joke and i'll be able to use it for a looong time. 

Some samples I received, there were more but I shared with my sister and some of them aren't suitable for me, so I gave them to my mum for her to use

Some products I bought and received as presents from my relatives

Oh and tomorrow i'll be making 2 different mini mousse cakes- a rich chocolate crisp mousse cake and a rocky road marshmallow cake so ill also have a review on how they go. I bought this little cake book in Hong Kong that I just found too adorable and each of the little cakes are only about 3.5 inches in diameter so you make about 2 each time. It's a great way to make more things and use up ingredients so that you don't waste which is what I'm doing! 

What I love about this book is not only its compact size (smaller than a4 but bigger than a5) but that it's really pretty and decorated inside. A lot of thought has obviously gone into this book and with each recipe comes a picture. I personally don't like it when there aren't any pictures for a recipe because I want to see how it turns out and how it should look. 

There's a huge variety in cakes within the book ranging from chocolate, fruit, caramel, cheesecake, sesame and tea flavoured!!! So there's bound to be several that you like, I know that I've found tons in here that I'm dying to try and I'm going to go through them one by one. >•< plus it even has recipes for steamed cakes and the presentation is just WOW. There are simple designs that look great but are still easy to do and slightly more difficult ones that are fab looking but none of them I'd say are challenging which is great right?!

 I'm not sure if you can buy this book online but if you're in Hong Kong go to big book stores and you'll probably be able to find it (it'd be helpful if I remembered the name but I can't so sorry). Urm but I haven't actually noticed it in the shop PageOne so you could look there but...

See you in my next post!

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