💕😌 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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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💗

[itsfi]

Oh, good question @Shosh85. Hold, please (queue music in the background while I grab the packet). 

There is the very subtlest scent at the very beginning and then nothing. For a nanosecond, I thought I picked up a very, very, very slight scent of lychee (of all things). I was so surprised that I squeezed out another little bit and I did that 3 other times. Ha! It's very lightly, almost imperceptibly, fruity, but then I don't pick up anything when I go in for a second sniff. 

From an ingredients perspective, no added fragrance. Here's what's listed on the brand's website for the sleeping mask. These are the same ingredients listed and in the same order, as on the back of my foil sample.

Water/Aqua/Eau, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Pentylene Glycol, Algae Extract, Natto Gum, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hyaluronate, Potassium Hydroxide, Tetrasodium EDTA

[Shosh85]

@itsfi  Oh thank you! Yup, definitely sounds like something I *need* to buy! 😃

[lmaster]

@itsfi I love the skin inc brand! 

[itsfi]

Oooh, what products have you tried from the brand @lmaster? I have a few serums I want to go through but I’m definitely interested in exploring Skin Inc more. ♥️

[lmaster]

Well,, my most favorite @itsfi is my daily dose of uplift, I've went through three bottles already 😆 it seems to be disappearing from the sites I used to purchase it from,,, I hope they don't discontinue it 🙄

[itsfi]

@lmaster, not the dreaded “d” word?!! The trend of discontinuing our faves needs to stop. 🤪 It looks like that serum is available direct from the brand and they have a “subscribe and save” feature too.

[lmaster]

Oh that's awesome to know!! Thank you I did just recently buy a bottle for about $12 I think through boxycharm before I cancelled the sub @itsfi 

[itsfi]

Whoa!! $12 @lmaster!!! 🙌🏼 That’s awesome! You canceled your Boxcharm sub box? Just too many things/subs? Or was it the contents of the boxes?

[lmaster]

@itsfi it's the products, some are very appealing,,, but I never end up getting those products 🙄

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi  Ack!  I love that horse oil!  You just made me kick myself for not thinking of it to soothe mask irritation!  The linolenic acid is an anti inflammatory and acts as a skin barrier!   🤦‍♀️

[itsfi]

@heartsmyface, ooooh!!! Do you think it would be too much to apply it before putting on the mask? I mean, as part of a skincare routine, not literally right before putting on the mask?

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi   The mask might get oily but I care not:)   I’m going to try it out tomorrow.  If anything it’ll be soothing for after wear but I’m willing to sacrifice a mask for science:) 

[itsfi]

@heartsmyface, I'm going to move the jar back onto the counter for after-care. 👍 Maybe I'll try a super simple routine tomorrow and wait for the horse oil to fully absorb before heading out with my mask. It seems every week brings a new skin sensitivity to combat so I'm up for trying most anything.

[heartsmyface]

  I’m doing a large product purge this past few weeks and am on to clay/cream masks now.  J is for just using things up.  

This is my second use of the Glamglow pink gravity mud this week.  The tiny pot had just enough for two generous applications.  I’ve loved this peel off mask with its light coconuty scent for years in all its variations (I have a few) but it’s time to use them or toss them.  

 

[Shosh85]

@heartsmyface  Oh, I love it! 💖 Glamglow has definitely got some great smelling products! 😋😃

[heartsmyface]

@Shosh85  Yes!!  And I’m forever appreciative of the little pink spatulas that come with their masks!  I still struggle applying any cream/clay mask smoothly but they help.  

[quspork]

Another +1 on that lovely Glamglow scent, @heartsmyface 

[heartsmyface]

@quspork   The scent should be bottled as a perfume.  

[lmaster]

The glamglow smells awesome! @heartsmyface 

[heartsmyface]

@lmaster Yeah the scent carries these.  My skin does feel softer after using them but a lot of other masks do the same thing.  They were one of the first mask brands i ever bought at Sephora if not the first so they carry a little nostalgia.  

[itsfi]

What a gorgeous pink @heartsmyface! Love the coconutty scent on the GlamGlow products. Transports you to a tropical getaway! 😍 

P.S. Your les Merveilleuses de Laduree collection in the background is gorgeous!! 💖