💕😌 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💗

[ather]

@itsfi  that’s so cool!!! I love how knowledgeable you are about this brand. I really need to do more research!! They seem so innovative also! 

[itsfi]

Awww, thank you @ather! I tend to like to do a deep dive of brands with multiple products I really enjoy, if / when I have the time. 😊 

I think skincare has seen a lot of innovations, both in the Asian and North American markets, and in other countries as well. That’s always so fun for me. Though it means I have to work harder to not go overboard with picking up all the latest products. 😂 

[quspork]

Good review, @itsfi! It definitely sounds like Mediheal was taking some liberties on the color spectrum with their black ingredients LOL. 

[itsfi]

@quspork, Mediheal sheet masks have been good to me so I’m willing to give them some creative license with their claims. 😆 @heartsmyface mentioned below ⬇️  that some wording may have been lost in translation. In any event, my face likes bamboo charcoal sheet masks in the warmer months and this is one I’ll keep stocking every so often. 

[QueenMarceline]

@itsfi I'm always on the hunt for a charcoal sheet mask that gives me similar effects to traditional charcoal masks. So far I haven't had much luck. This one sounds on the promising side, I might have to give it a go. The search continues, lol.

[itsfi]

@QueenMarceline, hahaha! Does the search ever come to an end? 😂 There have been a few masks I've found that I would be happy with using that mask forever and then it gets discontinued. Story of my sheet mask life. Sigh. I do like charcoal sheet masks but for the oilier parts of my face or areas where I'm more prone to clogged pores, I prefer a wash off clay mask. 

[QueenMarceline]

@itsfi Ugh! Story of my sheet mask life too. I loved some of the old discontinued Sephora sheet masks. The new ones can be fun but nothing feels quite the same to the gold/precious metals editions of the Sephora masks from a few years back or the Lavender and Almond foot sheet masks... sigh. Can we please bring these goodies back? 😭

 SEPHORA COLLECTION SUPERMASK - The Silver Mask 

SEPHORA COLLECTION Foot Mask Lavender 

[itsfi]

@QueenMarceline, if you have a petition to sign for discontinued sheet masks we'd like to bring back, you just direct that signature page my way. And while you're at it, everyone on this thread would probably sign it as well for one discontinued sheet mask or another. 😉

[QueenMarceline]

@itsfi Hahah, oh I am sure of it! Maybe we need to start those petitions. 🤣

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi   Well, technically blueberries are purple 😂

[itsfi]

@heartsmyface, ha! I guess 10 black foods is a better marketing angle than 7 black foods, 2 purple ones and a green one. 😆 This has made me wonder what other foods they could have included that are black in color and have skincare benefits. 🤔 So far, I’ve come up with black tea, black currents, black caviar, black Mission figs and chia seeds. 🖤

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi  I suppose not!  Poppy seeds?   Wait why does it need to be black?  Did something get lost in translation?  

edit- ah ha!  I’m going to bet the Korean version says pitch dark

 

[itsfi]

Ooh, poppy seeds! Great idea @heartsmyface. I noticed that the front of the packaging calls out that the mask as having "10 black foods" as a draw. I'm not sure what the significance of that is, because the 10 listed, along with the others in the INCI list are great.

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi  I just edited my last comment;) it’s supposed to be ‘pitch dark’.   also, I love the internet.  

 

[itsfi]

Ahhhh, and the lightbulb 💡 in my little noggin 🧠 comes on, hearts! 😆 Ooooh, excellent info @heartsmyface! I love the internet; how did we get on without it before? 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi  We lived in blissful ignorance thinking we were right and others didn’t know their colours 🌈 🦋 ☀️ 😆

Years of odd mask translations have taught me that things that sound questionable usually mean one or more words have been substituted with a secondary meaning in the original language.  This one was tricky cause the mask is actually black and so are a bunch of ingredients. 

[itsfi]

@heartsmyface, I was judgy about those black foods they listed. Ahhh, the blissful ignorance has come to an end. Hahaha! Me thinks I need to make a trip to Seoul to research the Korean version of this mask. ✈️ For science, of course. 🔬

[heartsmyface]

@itsfi Science. ha a very good reason to go;) 

[missy94612]

@itsfi 

We did a Mediheal mask this week too, but a different one. This sounds interesting. I don't think we've used a bamboo charcoal mask before. I read your review on the ingredients to my husband and daughter and they both had some hilarious response.s My daughter said "blueberries are not black, that's just silly!" and had a good laugh at that. My husband's comment was "wouldn't charcoal be considered black or closer to it than those 3?"

[itsfi]

Hahaha @missy94612. They’re not wrong. 😆 

[eshoe]

@itsfi your color analysis of the ingredients made me giggle. I think they were stretching it juuuuuuuust a bit 😂