💕😌 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💗

[eshoe]

Funny enough I almost used this one last night, @Shosh85 - but it was snubbed over once again😆 I am more inclined to use it now that I know it has a milky serum. Go figure! More and more, it seems like the ones that get picked over are the ones that should  be used.

[Shosh85]

@eshoe  I agree! More than half the time the ones I snub are ones I end up liking! Milky serum is always a big selling point for me too 😊😃

[heartsmyface]

I is for ‘I didn’t know this was an overnight mask’. I’ve had this Etude House Body Spot Patch pack for a while and decided to see what the deal was with it.  It comes with two packs of three different sized bandaid looking patches.  
from the website:

This soothing spot patch provides you with intensive care for problem skin areas of your whole body at any time. The product has a mild analgesic effect.

Etude House Body Spot Patch contains arginine, salicylic acid, Baikal skullcap (scutellaria baicalensis) extract, peony root extract, licorice extract, madecassoside, and more.

One of the product’s key ingredients, madecassoside, helps to restore the synthesis of collagen and elastic fibers. Known for its depigmenting, regenerating and softening properties, madecassoside facilitates the healing and regeneration processes in your skin due to the regulation of keratinocytes. Because of this fiber-regenerating ability, madecassoside is capable of reducing deep wrinkles and providing a medium-term lifting effect.

The package contains 3 sets of spot patch of different sizes.

HOW TO USE

Remove the protective film from the patch and attach the patch onto a problem area for 12 hours. Use the spot patch both during the day and at night.

yeah I wish I had of read it was an overnight commitment before placing the bandages randomly all over the place but okay I’m willing to stick it out.  I’ve got two small ones on my knuckles (for wrinkle science) and the rest are on my chest and dry areas of my face. 
i love the cute design on thé patches.  They smell médicinal - like a doctors office.  I suppose I’ll report back in the morning:) 

 

 

[ather]

@heartsmyface  Love you put them on your knuckles for wrinkle science. 

[heartsmyface]

Update- overnight a few of the patches came off but where they stayed on my face feels the most hydrated it’s ever felt and the discomfort around my nose is gone!  They weren’t kidding when they said there was a gentle analgesic effect.  I have no discomfort but I’m not numb. I would completely believe there was lidocaine in these if I hadn’t already read the ingredients.
Where I was wearing the patches there was definitely brightening.  There’s a rectangle of lighter skin on my chest.  I hope it’s temporary. I like these!!! The inside completely melted down with my body heat and absorbed overnight.  They’re much thinner this morning.   I’m feeling like these may have been made for fading scars or something and I have been interpreting ‘spots’ as dry patches.  That may explain all the mini ones!  They’d perhaps be excellent for acne scarring.  Or maybe it’s for both scarring and wrinkles.   I have to hunt more of these down if I can cause I want to try them out on my husband.  
Edit- I thiiink these are now either rebranded as  hydrocolloid trouble patches or they’re not available for export? I just made an  Etude house order to find out. They seem to have redesigned the packaging on everything I love anyway so an order was due.  

[ather]

@heartsmyface  Oh darn!!!! I was thinking to myself I could really use them to help a few scars!!! 

[heartsmyface]

@ather   Mederma advanced scar gel is the best!  it fades and smooths old and new scars!!  

[ather]

@heartsmyface  Thanks!! I’ll have to see if I can find it!

[lmaster]

@heartsmyface these look and sound remarkable!!

[Shosh85]

@heartsmyface  Oh my goodness, how cute are those?! They look/sound so great! It's too bad you can't track down more! 

[Samtian]

@heartsmyface Ooh these sound really good! I love your I reasoning and the random placements haha. Can't wait to hear about the ones you ordered.

[itsfi]

@heartsmyface, ooouuh, these sound like they could be perfect for fading acne scars, dark spots and PIH. 😍 *adding these to the list

wait ... did you say you think the packaging is a redesign? Hmmm, maybe I should check my stash first to see if I have the older model. lol 😂

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi   Upon more investigation I don’t believe they’re the same.  My husband will appreciate them either way but the hydrocolloid ones look to be to treat the acne itself.  These are différent.  if they’re as medicinal as they smell maybe they weren’t cleared for export? 

[itsfi]

You're adorbs @heartsmyface! 😁 These patches look fun and the ingredients sound great! I can see these being perfect for travel (or at home these days). Will be interesting to hear whether these patches live up to their claims.

[Kim888]

@heartsmyface @lol at that but this looks really interesting ! Can’t wait for your report back!

[eshoe]

Hmmmm, tell me more about your polish, @heartsmyface! 

[heartsmyface]

@eshoe   Ha i was in the middle of applying it when I realized I had to leave these masks on.  It’s Missed Shift by Holo Taco.  Awesome it’s getting attention and it hasn’t even dried down completely!  It’s  hard to capture the shift but it goes from purple to navy to green.  Ignore the knuckle sticker (it’s not gonna last the night) but I think I got it! 

 

[eshoe]

I noticed the knuckle patch and thought hmmmmmm I guess knuckles need love too, right @heartsmyface? 

Holo Taco. Love the name and holos are my favorite polishes. They seem to be easier to remove, which I also like. Ok gonna check that one out!

[heartsmyface]

@eshoe @Hahah, I was running out of dry areas and they seemed the right size for knuckles.  They didn’t stay on my hands longer than two hours  cause I am incapable of sitting and doing nothing fb  but I have two very nice hydrated knuckles.  

[eshoe]

Then hydrated knuckles it is, @heartsmyface!

I found this whole avoiding sleep. Not sure this would be any more comfortable than the stick on ones.

 

[itsfi]

@heartsmyface, this is the Skin, Inc. liner I mentioned to you in a previous post. At one point, I thought I saw on their direct site, a set that included a pack of these liners and one of their serums. I've found other similar styles of mask liners but they don't seem to be available in (or for delivery to) North America. 

Did you end up getting these, @eshoe?