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๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ 2024 Masking Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

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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!


March Madness
 - Competition is in the air. Find a worthy dupe of a ๐Ÿ’ฐmask that is share-worthy? Or find a dupe that works even better than the original? Details, please!

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JanuaryFresh Starts - Time for a re-set, or morning masking? However you see it, this month is all about new beginnings.
FebruaryWinter 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.
MarchMarch 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!
AprilSpring Fling - Baskets and bouquets, showers of much-anticipated rain...this month's focus is herbal and floral sensory delights.
MayDew 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.
JuneSummer 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 masks๐Ÿ’—

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@itsfi  Good point!! Thereโ€™s so many masks out there to try still. 

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@itsfi  The results from this one was soo good! I'm not too happy about the ethanol, but at least it's not too high up in the ingredients ๐Ÿ˜‰

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@Shosh85 Ooooh that packaging just looks like itโ€™s going to be a really cool mask haha! Sounds like itโ€™s a winner!! Though it is annoying when masks have ingredients you donโ€™t like! 

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@Kim888  This one was definitely a winner! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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Caviar, anyone? ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿฅš
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Went with a collagen theme for a couple of masking sessions this week, with a sheet mask ingredient focus on gold caviar for this week's odd skincare ingredient challenge. Caviar is said to help the skin produce better quality collagen.
 
I don't dislike like caviar, but I wouldn't say I like it either, so the thought of it as a skincare ingredient has always seemed a smidge odd to me, even though I've seen it as part of a spa's facial menu. I used a caviar mask earlier this year and thought I duel it out between the Skinfood Gold Caviar Collagen Mask Sheet Nourishing (which I received as a gwp; I think it's been discontinued) and JMsolution Active Golden Caviar Nourishing Mask Prime (because I have become quite the fan of this brand and I figured if there's a mask that might make me more fond to a caviar sheet mask, it would be one from JMsolution). Let's see who will come out victorious on the caviar challenge!
 
Skinfood vs. JMsolution
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Mask:SkinfoodJMsolutionWinner
Claim(s):NourishingNourishingTie
INCI list placement:6th ingredient19th ingredientSkinfood
Material:cotton, 2-piecescotton cupra - very thin, softTie
Adherence:GoodGoodTie
Fit:Fine; standard fit - too long at chin, eye and mouth openings too narrowGood; just too long at chin / jawlineJMsolution
Essence:Watery liquid, lots of itClear, feels more like a serum, contains gold flecks. The sheet holds a lot of serum and there's more in the packet.JMsolution
Viscosity:Slight - enough to keep the liquid from dripping but not so much to make it goopy or gooey.On the thicker side as it has more of a gel serum feel to itN/A?? I don't have a personal preference for the viscosity of essence / masks other than I don't like if it's too extreme either way (runny or thick)
Scent:slightly perfumedlight, freshJMsolution
Tack / Stickiness: NoneTackySkinfood
Results:Skin felt hydrated.Moisturized and hydrated skin.JMsolution
Other Factors:Contains  ethanol (4th ingredient listed). It also contains a paraben and added fragrance, neither of which are dealbreakers for me, but the ethanol is both surprising and for myself, a pass.I've read that flecks in the serum are capsules containing the caviar extract that burst open, but I didn't feel any 'bursting'. On the basis of where it falls on the INCI list, Skinfood, but, for me, the presence of ethanol in that mask gives the advantage to JMsolution.
Repurchase:NopeYesJMsolution

The title of Caviar Champ! goes to JMsolution Active Golden Caviar Nourishing Mask Prime!

Ingredients
From YesStyle
 
Skinfood
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Purified Water, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Ethanol, Methyl Glue Seth -20, Caviar Extract (350mg), Blood Hydro Jenei Not Suited -60 Castor Oil, Sodium Carbonate As A Hyaluronidase, Sodium Carbomer Hyde Roll-De-Rise Collagen (35mg), Xanthan Gum, Butylene Glycol, Carbomer, Polysorbate-20, Palmitoyl Oligopeptide, Palmitoyl Tetra-Peptides-7, Penta-Peptide Palmitoyl-4, Echil Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Silica Di Methyl Silyl Rate, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Argan Tree Kernel Extract, Sodium Cocoyl Glutamate, Gold (1.75ฮผg), Hydro-Suited Jenei Lecithin, Cholesterol and Ceramide 3, Dimethicone, Acetyl Tyrosine, Proline, Hyde Roll-De-Rise Vegetable Protein, Adenosine Triphosphate, Methylparaben, Phenoxyethanol, Perfume
JMsolution
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Water, Glycerin, Glycereth-26,Methylpropanediol, Phenoxyethanol, Trehalose,Carbomer Allantoin, Betaine, PEG-60Hydrogenated Castoroit, Triethanol- amine, Butylene Glycol,Ethylhexylglycerin, Disodium EDTA,1,2-Hexanediol, Glyceryl Polyacrylate,Caviar Extract(100PPM), Sodium Hyaluronate, Fragrance, Chondrus Crispus Powder Agar, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Titanium Dioxide, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Tromethamine Artemisia Princeps Leaf Extract, Calendula Officinalis Extract, CI 77491, Mica, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Gellan Gum, Tin Oxide, Hyaluronic Acid, Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid, Glucose Gold(10PPB)
 

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@itsfi  

omg! My husband received a gift basket at work from one of his accounts and it had caviar in it. He's all for trying it; gotta love his sense of adventure. I'm less brave. I'll stick with adding that Jm Solution mask to my list of masks to try.

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Hahahaha @missy94612! I'd forgotten all about the holiday gift baskets. Well, if I end up getting one and it has a jar of caviar in it, I know who to give it too if there are no takers among my coworkers. JMsolution makes some great sheet masks; I don't think there's a mask from the brand that I didn't at least like.

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Well this was an entertaining read, @itsfi! No surprise that the JMSolution reigned supreme ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ  

 

And there is that ethanol again, yikes. 

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@eshoe, I don't know how it happened, but that week, I used at least 2 sheet masks with ethanol in it. ๐Ÿ˜ฒ Not a pattern I wanted to keep up. ๐Ÿ˜ฃ So I reached for the sheets in the daily mask packs a few times after that - those extras in the 33 pack went to good use. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

Oh thatโ€™s good to hear, @itsfi! Yay for having a comforting little mask back-up on hand โ˜บ๏ธ

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@itsfi I'm with @Shosh85 I just can't try real caviar ๐Ÿคฃ awesome duel

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

Just my opinion @lmaster, but I donโ€™t think youโ€™re missing out. There are so many other things worth trying. @Shosh85 

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@itsfi I am not a picky person, especially when it comes to food, but Caviar is just one of those things I will not try! Haha! ๐Ÿคข


What a great duel! I've been hearing such good things about JM Solution masks! Glad to hear it's another good one from the brand ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@Shosh85, Iโ€™ve really liked the JMsolution masks that Iโ€™ve tried so far. Itโ€™s quickly becoming a brand that I think of the same way as Etude House, Leaders, Mediheal, Papa Recipe when it comes fo

sheet mask. 

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@Shosh85, I understand. Iโ€™ve had it on sushi rolls and theyโ€™re usually the small ones so itโ€™s fine, though I have asked for the roll to be made without it or will sometimes ask for it on the side, if others want it. The larger ones are a pass for me.

 

Shosh, @ather, the first time I tried it, it was for an event for work. I worked really hard to not make a face after putting it in my mouth. What I wanted to do was respond the way Tom Hanksโ€™ character did on Big: 

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Yep, completely understand the feeling. ๐Ÿ˜† 

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@itsfi  Haha! Great movie! I think I still have my VHS copy of it ๐Ÿ˜‚ That's probably an accurate representation of what my reaction would be as well ๐Ÿ˜…
....  speaking of Tom Hanks, he liked caviar in this movie ๐Ÿ˜‰

 

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Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

Hahaha, thatโ€™s why heโ€™s won multiple Oscars @Shosh85. He can switch up his like for caviar. ๐Ÿ˜† Wait a sec, did he actually eat the caviar in Youโ€™ve Got Mail or did he just scoop it up to upset Meg Ryanโ€™s character? hmmโ€ฆ ๐Ÿค” 

Re: ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Œ Mask of the Week Challenge ๐Ÿ˜Œ๐Ÿ’–

@itsfi  Haha! I'm pretty sure he was already scooping up the caviar before Meg Ryan started scolding him...... but I'll definitely have to watch it again it to be sure ๐Ÿ˜‰

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@itsfi I LOVE this movie!!!

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Itโ€™s such a good one @lmaster! I should rewatch it one of these days. Movie marathon! ๐ŸŽฅ ๐Ÿฟ 

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@itsfi  Great duel!! I canโ€™t say Iโ€™ve ever had caviar or used a mask containing it. It is an odd skincare ingredient but I wouldnโ€™t be opposed to using it!!!  That vital proteins packet is it new? I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve seen that flavour before. They have one with caffeine in it that was quite lovely. 

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