💕😌 Skin & Body Care Masking Challenge 😌💖

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Welcome to the Skin & Body Care Masking Challenge! 

Feel free to join in whenever and wherever. Share your thoughts and observations on a mask you have tried, we need all the details, please! Most importantly - have fun!

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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💗

[haleyvvvv]

Yes, this is such a great mask, @sonnydee!! It is so great for cooler weather. So glad you enjoyed!!

[sonnydee]

A success story of shopping your stash! @haleyvvvv 🍯

[Shosh85]

@sonnydee   I LOVE the warming effect on this one - so cozy! Definitely a perfect mask for cold weather! Glad to hear it worked out well for you! 😃🍯

[sonnydee]

I know I have more foils, hoping I have a ds but either way, going to use it when the weather gets colder @Shosh85 

[itsfi]

This is one of my favorite masks @sonnydee, especially in the wintertime! Love honey as a skincare ingredient. 🍯 Did your skin have any negative reactions in the days that followed?

[sonnydee]

Nope, nothing negative so far @itsfi & I know my face enough that it would let me know pretty quickly🙀😕 except for toners- they can sometimes sneak up on me. 😞

[PrettyPaint]

@sonnydee  Oh wow, I’m glad you tried this one out. I’m definitely a fan. 

[sonnydee]

Me too! @PrettyPaint I have the smaller gift set in my loves list, its currently oos... 

[ShortErica]

That sounds like a good first impression. I'll join @sonnydee from a day ago and we can be in the haven't tried the Farmacy Honey Potion Renewing Antioxidant Hydration Mask 1.7 oz/ 50 g club.

[sonnydee]

Yay! The more the merrier! @ShortErica 

[lmaster]

I honestly can't believe you've never tried this one before @sonnydee 😆

[sonnydee]

I have foils of it @lmaster but i.skip over it, anything really thick, deeply hydrating scares me but this actually rinsed clean but left my skin soft. I think in the winter I would appreciate it even more- ahhhhh, could you imagine a foot mask in this?!🤤

[lmaster]

Ohhhh @sonnydee slather this all over your feet and wrap with saran wrap 😆

[sonnydee]

And cover with socks so we can get around. You know us moms cant be down for a extended amount of time 😂@lmaster 

[lmaster]

@sonnydee that's no joke!! I don't get to sit down until the kids go to bed!! 

[sonnydee]

Awww yes, good times. @lmaster 😴📺

[PrettyPaint]

@sonnydee  Best idea ever!!!

[sonnydee]

Hopefully someone from Farmacy thinks so too or that would be a expensive foot mask!  or a good way to use up a close to expired jar! 🍯@PrettyPaint

[quspork]

Glad to hear this one worked out well for you, @sonnydee! A little warm up for a cool day 

[sonnydee]

Me too @quspork i think Im definitely going to use again in the winter

[itsfi]

Went with a green theme, as I continue working my way through the rainbow theme. These also fit into this week's letters of the week themes, with an O for Origins, as well as a sheet mask with an odious scent for my taste, a slightly ocean-scented resurfacing treatment, and an overnight mask that happens to be an oldie (another O) and a love (an L), and some TLC for the lips. 

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The wash-off masks and the Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Sleeping Mask are ones I’ve used before and enjoy. Glow Recipe no longer makes this overnight mask; the new version contains retinol, which my skin can be very sensitive to so it’s not one I’ll likely pick up. The original version is a moisturizing overnight mask for my skin in the cooler months. It makes a nice follow up to Peach & Lily Super Reboot Resurfacing Mask, which I’ve been using weekly on my chin and along my jawline to keep my pores clean and clear. It’s a 10% AHA / 0.5% BHA formulation with a soft floral and lightly oceanic scent; and just look at that color!!! Is it blue? Green? A combination of both? Probably the latter, but to keep to my green color of the rainbow theme, we’ll say it’s more green. lol.  

While it may be a stretch to say the Peach & Lily mask is green in color, there’s no doubting the green color of the Sephora Collection The Seaweed Mask, an one-piece, ill-scented hydrogel mask that is one of the better fitting sheet masks for my face shape and features. That’s rare but this will not be a repurchase for me – the scent on this mask is fortunately, not strong, but sadly, it is extremely unpleasant and it lingers a bit longer than I cared. It reminds me of the stinky smell from the kelp that washes up on the beach and the various rotting organisms tied up in the kelp. Ick. If that weren’t enough to steer me away from this mask again (it is!), the irritation my skin experienced most certainly is.  

The redness eventually went away and I did use Origins Hello, Calm mask to help it along. I initially received a sample of the Hello, Calm before it launched, and after using it, I've picked up a full size and this prom size as well. I know that many are not fond of the scent on the scent on this Origins mask, but it is so much better than the scent on the seaweed mask and the mask is both calming for my senses and my face.

Lip care included the Smashbox Mindful 5 Nourishing Lip Oil in the morning and the LabNo Cicaloe Intensive Lip Balm in the evening, both of which I've used before. The Smashbox Lip Oil isn't greasy, goopy, tacky or sticky; it is actually glides on more like a light balm-gloss than an oil and melts into the lips very easily. I like it as a prep for my lip products when I'm getting ready. The LabNo lip balm includes two ingredients I really like - centella asiatica and aloe - that work together to hydrate and soothe the lips. It actually feels more like a nourishing cream for the lips than a balm, and is one I'd recommend for those with very dry and/or sensitive lips.

Origins Hello Calm™ Relaxing & Hydrating Face Mask with Hemp Seed Oil 2.5 oz/ 75 mL  

SEPHORA COLLECTION Clean Sea Weed Mask 

Smashbox Mindful 5 Nourishing Lip Oil