💕😌 2024 Masking Challenge 😌💖

[eshoe]

Welcome to the 2024 Masking Challenge! 

This year is going to be a little different - simplified. Easy. Every month will have a new theme, and that's it. Feel free to join in whenever and wherever. Most importantly - have fun!

Spring Fling - Baskets and bouquets, showers of much-anticipated rain...this month's focus is herbal and floral sensory delights 💮

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January	Fresh Starts - Time for a re-set, or morning masking? However you see it, this month is all about new beginnings.
February	Winter Love - Whether it's a mask you adore, or something extra-special to care for dry winter skin, this month is for some soothing TLC.
March	March Madness - Competition is in the air! Find a $ dupe of a $$$ mask that is share-worthy? Or find a dupe that works even better than the original? Details, please!
April	Spring Fling - Baskets and bouquets, showers of much-anticipated rain...this month's focus is herbal and floral sensory delights.
May	Dew Drops - May Day lore says to wash your face in the dew you collect in the morning of the first day of May for radiant skin. This month is for absorbing all of that good-for-you H2O.
June	Summer Sunshine - Ice cream, sunglasses, SPF, check! Once the sun is down (or before it's up), extra care is most necessary. How do you give your skin cooling repair?

Mask of the Week Misc. Info & Previous Year's Links:

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To Post:

Each week features a different theme, as well as a letter of the alphabet for coming up with new masking ideas. 

Please include the brand and name of the mask you are trying out, as well as a photo if possible. Any other details are greatly appreciated, including scent, fit, adherence, mask type (hydrating, brightening, exfoliating, detox, sleeping, etc.) as well as your overall experience.

Most importantly: Would you repurchase it? 

Second most important: Have fun and merry masking!

2023 Mask of the Week Challenge

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2022 Mask of the Week Challenge

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2021 Mask of the Week Challenge

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2020 Mask of the Week Challenge:

https://community.sephora.com/t5/Skincare-Aware/2020-Mask-of-the-Week-Challenge-PART-1/m-p/4995162/h...

2019 Mask of the Week Challenge:

https://community.sephora.com/t5/Skincare-Aware/2019-Mask-of-the-Week-Challenge/m-p/4497678/highligh...

2018 Mask of the Week Challenge:

https://community.sephora.com/t5/Skincare-Aware/Mask-of-the-Week-Challenge/td-p/3615125   

Thank you @Aaliaa for starting this thread, and giving us a place to share our love for masks💗

[Shosh85]

Buddied up with @ShortErica and did this Spirulina mask for this week's theme. 😃
Thanks to MOtM for this one! (I wonder if this is the one you thought you had, @eshoe 😂)

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Biorace Intense Hydrating Spirulina Mask

This is a thin-medium cotton sheet mask that was saturated with a nice jelly serum. The scent is hard for me to describe - maybe clean + floral? I wouldn't say it was enjoyable, but it was tolerable enough. The fit was great and was just a little too long at the chin/jawline. It adhered well and was comfortable to wear the half hour I had it on. There wasn't any tack after removing. My face felt refreshed, lightly hydrated and soft and smooth.

I thought this was a nice one, and I'd use again, but probably wouldn't purchase. The scent wasn't my favorite and I wouldn't say I experienced "intense hydration," like it claims, but it was overall pretty decent.

[eshoe]

@Shosh85 it’s very possible! I’ve since picked up another, so at least I get to experience the ‘meh-ness’ too 😉 @ShortErica @missjeanie 

[ShortErica]

@eshoe I'd at least give it a meh+. I peaked at @Shosh85's review (tried not too because I wanted to be unbiased but couldn't resist) and that lowered my expectations so then it wasn't as meh as I went in thinking. No tack and a good wear get a thumbs up. Let us know your thoughts when you use it 😊

[eshoe]

I’m using it right now @ShortErica @Shosh85 and my first impression on scent was Old Spice 🧐

[ShortErica]

I'm wearing it now @Shosh85. I side eyed that "intense hydration" claim too. Yeah I got floral but then wasn't sure on the scent. I am appreciating the fit but yeah, nothing to knock my socks off.

[Shosh85]

@ShortErica  Yep, nothin' special. I'd definitely agree with @missjeanie's "meh" category comment. 

[missjeanie]

@Shosh85  I looked through my stash and didn't find this one, so I looked through my empties pics and found it there.  I had it in the 'meh' category, so I'm going to agree with you on this one lol.

[Shosh85]

@missjeanie  Yeah, "meh" is pretty accurate 😉 Not bad, but easily forgettable

[itsfi]

S is for soothing

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What I Like: 

The material of the VT Cica Daily Soothing Mask is quite nice - it's a nude seal fabric, same as the Merbliss Intense Hydration mask I posted on previously.  There's a good amount of essence in these sheets, more so than I've seen in some daily sheet mask packs. There are also some good skincare ingredients in the essence - extracts of centella asiatica, honey, propolis and royal jelly, along with sodium hyaluronate and pathenol, to name a few.  These masks can be left on for 10-20 minutes (per the instructions) without it drying out and I find that amount of time to hydrate my skin nicely. It's not as hydrated as if I used an individual sheet mask, but I didn't expect it to. I was pleasantly surprised that it gave me more hydration than I thought it would. I also love the mini tongs that come with these sheet masks as well! These VT sheet masks claim to soothe the skin and I feel like it did, to some extent, at least. My skin wasn't super irritated to begin with when I used these. A couple blemishes looked less angry, always a plus. 

What's also a plus is that this mask pack contains, wait for it . . . 

30 sheet masks!!!

LOL! Not 20. Or 32. Or 36. Thirty. So there are actual months where this mask pack will be perfect for daily masking. Hahaha! Tagging @Shosh85 @lmaster, I wasn't sure I would come across a mask pack that had 30 or 31 sheet masks, but here we go. 😂🤣😂

Area(s) for Improvement: 

The packaging has its pros and cons. I would like to see a better way to close/seal the inside "door" to the sheet masks. It's easy to tear off completely, which is what I did the first time I used a daily sheet mask pack with this type of design (it was from A'Pieu). I learned my lesson and made sure not to tear off the inner lid completely. Still, though, some of the essence ended spilling out when the box fell from the sink counter, which means these are not safe for travel (but then again, I don't have any travel plans for the time I intend to use these sheet masks). Good news though, the two-lid system prevented any sheets from touching the floor - it landed on a closed lid so everything was intact, save the essence that seeped out. Could've been worse, but this is one of the areas with this mask pack can could benefit the most from a redesign. This isn't a deal breaker.

Would I repurchase?: 

I'd like to go through the entire box before committing to anything, but I'm definitely leaning towards this being a repurchase. I'll try to remember to post about these sheet masks again when V is the letter of the week. If all goes accordingly to plan, I'll pretty much have gone through this mask pack by then so the timing should work out very nicely.

Ingredients (from yesstyle (dot) com) :

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Purified Water, Glycerin, Dipropylene Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Polyglyceryl-4 Caprate, Propanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Illicium Verum (Anise) Fruit Extract, Trehalose, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Seed Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Arginine, Panthenol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Centella Asiatica Extract, Madecassoside, Madecassic Acid, Asiaticoside, Asiatic Acid, Propolis Extract, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Butylene Glycol, Honey Extract, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Royal Jelly Extract, Matricaria Flower Extract, Fructan, Xylitylglucoside, Anhydroxylitol, Xylitol, Glucose, Glycine, Serine, Glutamic Acid, Aspartic Acid, Leucine, Alanine, Lysine, Arginine, Tyrosine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Proline, Valine, Isoleucine, Histidine, Methionine, Cysteine, Fragrance

[lmaster]

@itsfi I love the packaging and the tongs!! Sounds great!

[missjeanie]

@itsfi I've been thinking about my beauty packaging more and more as well and I like the idea of these masks.  I've been great at reducing quite a bit in other areas of my life however I've found that beauty wise while I recycle where I can, there's still a significant amount of trash.  Are these packaged in a 'baby wipe' type of plastic box?  Do you find that they last open much past the 30 ish days?  I don't use makeup or cleansing wipes often but when I do I find that they dry out before I can finish the pack and end up adding water into them to 're-hydrate'. 

[Shosh85]

@itsfi  30? So that means even if you bought 12, you would still come up 5 short for the year 😂 .... but I guess if you replaced a few of the 30 packs with the 32 packs, it'd even out 😆

Glad to hear these are working out well for you so far! I'll be super interested to know how you feel about them when you've gone through a pack! 😃

[itsfi]

Hahaha! 😝 Yes @Shosh85, these would not work for a full year without some additional masks. I like these daily mask packs but I don’t think I like them so much that I’d just want to use one or just ones like this for a year. You know I get distracted by new sheet masks. 😂 I have been thinking about what a good allocation of masks in my collection would be for me with daily mask packs, tried and true masks, filler masks and new to me masks, etc., so we shall see.

[Kim888]

@itsfi @That sounds really interesting! Sometimes I do get concerned about all the packaging so this sounds like a nice compromise! Glad to hear they exceeded your expectations 

[itsfi]

@Kim888, I really like sheet masks but the packaging has been something that I've given thought to. I'll continue to use individual sheet masks but will incorporate more of these daily mask packs in my sheet mask routine more frequently, now that I've found a few that my skin seems to like. 😁

[lmaster]

Buddy mask

 

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This sheet was thin with extra clear serum, eye holes needed snipped in the inner corners, but otherwise fit nicely. The scent to me was more floral/sweet. I wore it for 20 minutes and massaged the remaining serum. Again nicely hydrated and moisturized and my skin felt nourished and clean. No noticeable tack 👍 will use again for sure!

[ShortErica]

It was nice to buddy up and even more fun with masks we all enjoyed @lmaster!

[lmaster]

Yes absolutely!! @ShortErica I'm still going to use the blueberry version here soon 🙌

[Shosh85]

@lmaster  These really are all so nice! Glad this one worked out great for you too! 😃

[lmaster]

Love em!! @Shosh85 😆

[tjffc]

@lmaster Great.  Im so glad it worked for you.  It looks very interesting.