💕😌 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💗

[eshoe]

@Samtian is George a cat?

 

[Samtian]

@eshoe Oh I need a baby like that!! Yep George is one of our Weasley twin kittens.

[itsfi]

@Samtian, at first I thought "ohhhh, what kind of ingredient is fwea?" Hahahaha! Nice work, George!!! 😁 I like the sound of "deeply hydrating" ~ happy to hear this was a love for you!

[Samtian]

@itsfi Haha thank you, must be something from New Zealand. 

[itsfi]

Closed out last week's masking with a L for love, loss and last. 💖💔😢

I'm pretty sure Tennyson did not have Too Cool For School Coconut Ceramide Mask in mind when he wrote " 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." but I can't help but feel such a message is fitting for this, my very last Too Cool For School Coconut Ceramide Mask. <<cue the dramatic background music>> 🎵🎶

This is one of my all-time favorite sheet masks (L for Love). Sadly, it has been discontinued for some time it seems, at least a year, maybe two? (L for Loss). This is my last backup (L for Last), and this will be my last goodbye to it. Unless of course TCFS brings it back, which I would completely be on board with!  As I'm sure others would too - am I right, @Shosh85?

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What I Liked: Skin looks and feels rested, refreshed, dewy and very hydrated after half an hour with this super soft, incredibly thin cotton sheet saturated in a clear, light, watery fresh-scented essence. 💖

Area(s) for Improvement: Bring. It. Back. Please. 

My Two Cents: Alas, the love affair is over. Sigh. 

One More Thing . . . 

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This was not only the last of my beloved TCFS Coconut Ceramide Mask, it was the last mask I needed to use in order to reach my target number for my sheet mask library. Having used this mask, I am now holding at 80 sheet masks (probably less by the time I get this post up since I used this one last week). It's a modern miracle that took me 2 years, several sheet mask no-buys, multiple months of double masking (thank you so much for inspiring that @missjeanie!), and numerous masks gifted to friends and coworkers, to make possible. But here we are. Or were, as of last week. 😉  80 sheet masks.

The plan going forward (for now, at least) is to keep my total number of sheet masks in my mask library to no more than 80. Over the next couple of months though, I will also be making an effort to hold off on purchasing sheet masks until my supply reaches 30 sheet masks (the exception being that I'll pick up a few sheet masks during the upcoming spring sale), at which time, I can make a large sheet mask haul(s), if I want to. I'm pretty sure I'll want to. 😂

[lmaster]

I loved this one too @itsfi 😔

[itsfi]

It’s such a great mask @lmaster! 🥥 

[quspork]

Yay for reaching your goal, @itsfi!

[itsfi]

Thank you @quspork! 🤗 So far, so good! 😉 We'll see if I can keep it up. 

[eshoe]

That is an impressively low amount of inventory, @itsfi. anything below 100 seems completely reasonable, if not a bit unsettling;)

[itsfi]

@eshoe, it's certainly taken some getting used to, but I'm settling in pretty well so far with less than 100 on hand. Time will tell if it lasts. 😆

[Samtian]

@itsfi Congrats on reaching your goal!!! Sorry about it being discontinued. 

[itsfi]

Thank you @Samtian! I didn't think I'd ever make it. 😂 It's all good - it happens, right?! Though it seems that there has been a lot of sheet masks that have been discontinued in the last year or so. Sometimes I think to myself, maybe I'll just say it's not a good mask, then it'll be around forever!! Ha! I have all these masks left to go through; maybe another favorite will be in the mix. 🤔

[missjeanie]

I'm smelling the entire time I'm reading this @itsfi !  

So many feels.... the loss of the TCFS mask (I may or may not be saving my last two), I too hope they bring it back.  I have the matching lip scrub as well and I really like it.  

I'm so proud of you for getting to your goal of 80!!  Double masking really helps.  And double masking for multiple months!!!  Yo go!  That's some dedication.  I'm rooting for you to hit your 30 goal, and I have full faith that you can do it!

[itsfi]

Savor those last two coconut ceramide masks, @missjeanie!! 😍 Thank you so much for just putting in my head the thought of a month of double masking! 🤗 It actually came in handy not just for my face, but giving me something to focus on from a self-care aspect and just something to have a little control over with everything going on. Made for a good "time out" during the day, and the night too! 😉

[missjeanie]

I agree @itsfi it's helped me get back into a bit of a routine.  I was finding that pandemic life had me so off my game.  I now do a wash off in the morning/at lunch before my shower and do my sheet mask either in the afternoon or the evening, both if I'm feeling a bit of extra time.  Seeing you're post actually reminded me to get up and toss one on.  This month is Creme Shop month... I'm thinking I may pick another 'theme' for next month lol.

[itsfi]

You've been a rock star with working through your masks @missjeanie! Love that this month is TCS month. I used one of those masks earlier this week. Having your own theme is so much fun! Impressive that you have monthly themes. I try for weekly ones but end up maybe sticking to it for 3 or 4 days. I think I may be able to get in a longer one later in the spring. Yeah, pandemic life has had a roller coaster effect when it's come to skincare and self-care; on a high at the moment so I'm going to aim to make the most of it and keep at it. I'll keep an eye out for your posts / reviews for this month's theme and next month's.

[PrettyPaint]

@itsfi  In Memoriam C.C.M. 😞

I think I recall you posting about this one before. I never got the chance to try it, but it sounds amazing. By the way, I am so impressed with your mask library efforts. I have to ask, though - Is there some significance in the number 80? 🙂

[itsfi]

@PrettyPaint, yes, so sad to see CCM go. So. sad. 

Thank you! 🤗 I just really wanted to get my sheet masks down to something more manageable. I think 80 probably seems a lot to most people. It is a lot, let's be fair here. But, I'm going to start with this and then see how much lower I can get it comfortably. 😆 

You know prettypaint, I'd like to say there was this great thought process or story that went into arriving at 80 sheet masks as a final tally, but it really boiled down to this - 100 seemed too much; if I went with 90, which could work nicely for a quarterly or seasonal rotation of masks, I was afraid it would be too easy for me to inch my way to 100. I also had in mind a collection of masks that would include one monthly mask pack (and the most I've seen is one holding 33 sheet masks), along with one 14-day pack and one 7-day pack (I'm trying to figure out if I have a preference for a month long, 2-week long or week long mask packs), as well as room if I decided to purchase a pack of 10 masks.

So the tally there was 64 and we hadn't even gotten to individual masks. When I go to the local boutiques or order individual masks online, I probably pick up 5-8 individually packaged masks at a given time, and I don't always just go into just 1 store or one online shop, so I doubled the high end (2 x 8 = 16) and that got me to 80. See, nothing glamorous about the number 80 here. We'll see if I can get comfortable with lowering that number. I feel like I should be able to. But should and will can be two different stories. We shall see . . . 

[missjeanie]

I enjoyed the rational here @itsfi .  I need to decide how to figure out my ideal number.  You're right.  100 is a lot, but maybe not to those of us reading lol.  

[itsfi]

@missjeanie, figuring out what would be a good target number for me was a bit of a challenge. My points of reference was either 10 (when I first started) and that lasted me a two months or waaay too much. 😂 For me, what helped to at least get me started was to think about my purchasing practices when it came to sheet masks and also what mix of sheet masks (tried-and-true favorites vs new-to-me masks) I wanted in my mask library.