💕😌 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💗

[Cissy63]

Great reviews thanks 😃 @itsfi 

[itsfi]

@Cissy63, thank you! These were lovely products to use in a masking session. I had forgotten I had some of these so it was nice to use them. 

[eshoe]

Hmmm, I suspect there are more than a few here with photo albums full of masking sessions, @itsfi!  The Wander Beauty masks are a treat, yes. I have never seen this type of eye patch in jar form, like the hydrogels; it seems like that might be a more economical/sustainable way to offer them.

I just finished a DS of the same Ouai hair mask, although mine had a prominent Melrose scent. I also have a DS of one for thick hair to check, now I am curious to see how scented that one will be 🤔 

[itsfi]

@eshoe, lol. I initially took your reference to "photo albums" to the physical ones before realizing otherwise since I don't keep them on my phone in an album. It seems that some of the material for certain eye gels might make it challenging to produce them in the containers that we see for hydrogels. Yeah, scent varies from samples / products. We've seen that before. I personally wouldn't have minded the "prominent Melrose scent" in your DS of the Ouai hair mask, but it feels like it's better that it was unscented than for it to have an awful scent.

[Kim888]

Oh wow that sheet mask sounds amazing @itsfi - agree anything that Makes me look more awake is always good 

[itsfi]

@Kim888, oh, I agree! Looking awake is half the battle some days. 🤣 I have enjoyed her masks in this line; her other one was more hit and miss, but the ones in this 1-a-day series that I've tried have been pretty good. 

[lmaster]

Multi step mask

 

• You open the package and pull out another smaller package inside
• Then you add the smaller package ( bubble peeling solution) to the round exfoliation pad and squish it all together until bubbles start to form
• You take the round pad out and massage your skin for 1 minute
• It instructs you to turn the pad around to the soft side and press in the solution
• Finally you rinse and voila soft smooth skin!
• I enjoy this one greatly

   

[Cissy63]

This sounds good @lmaster 😀

[lmaster]

It really is, if your in need of exfoliation @Cissy63 

[eshoe]

Another Wish Formula win, @lmaster! Also, ‘squish’ is a fun word ☺️

[lmaster]

@eshoe it is such a fun word 🤣

[itsfi]

@lmaster, I like how this combines physical and chemical exfoliation. Results sound great - soft smooth skin is hard to beat. 

[lmaster]

@itsfi this was a great find I stumbled upon a year or so ago,,, it still works beautifully

[Cissy63]

I tried a two-step mask by Masque + ology.  It’s the Collagen Melting Web Mask.  I had to get past the picture on the package.  It did creep me out.  It claims that it’s “The non surgical two-step facelift mask. The activating niacinomide and jojoba oil cream begins to hydrate and form the skin. Then the collagen web mask reacts to this cream, partially melting into the skin while the remaining web lifts and tightens the skin”. 

So I applied as much of the oil cream as I could to my face.  By the time I unfolded the two part web sheet I could feel the cream sinking into my skin .  I squeezed as much out as I could to put more on my face.  The web mask was dry and didn’t fit well on my face.  The cream felt great.  The web not so much. 

I left it on for 20 minutes as directed.

When I took off the web, it was adheared to my face.  Not painful to remove, more like it was stuck on my skin.  

The results were good.   My skin was very soft and it had an appearance of being even.  

But I don’t think I will repurchase right away.   If I do I will need to see about cutting the web to fit better.  

 

 

[eshoe]

Oh my, @Cissy63, I can see how the packaging is a little terrifying! Seems like some masks lean that way, unintentionally, I am guessing 🙂

The entire process sounds…interesting. The ‘web’ might make me feel a little claustrophobic, you are a trooper. While the results seem good, I can see why it isn’t an immediate repurchase for you. Great review!

[Cissy63]

Yes, I don’t think this is going to be a quick repurchase 💀 I reminded me of the MRI of my brain many years ago.  They put a device over my face that looked too much like that picture 🥺. @eshoe 

[eshoe]

Oh @Cissy63, no, I don’t think I would want to be reminded of that, either. I’ve heard it can feel a little claustrophobic, too. I am sorry you had to go through that (and be reminded of it as well😢). There are too many other good masks out there!

[itsfi]

@Cissy63, I think I tried a similar type mask and yes, it’s very … interesting how it “melts”  into the skin and becomes string-like when removing it. Your results sound good! 😀 

[Cissy63]

Thank you, yes results were good.  But it’s a little creepy for me 🥺 @itsfi 

[lmaster]

@Cissy63 this sounds extremely interesting!! I've never seen anything like this

[Cissy63]

Thank you it was very different @lmaster