Fifty Shades of Snail
Finding the best skin care products since 2014. Started with a focus on Korean skincare and grew from there. Skincare tips and beauty tips that work, maybe some hamster butts too
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Category: Hydrogel Masks
Made of essence thickened into gel, hydrogel masks are a more luxurious and potent upgrade to the commonplace sheet mask. They typically cost a few bucks more than a sheet mask, but many of them are worth every penny. If sheet masks are the gateway drug to Asian skin care, hydrogel masks are the hard drugs.
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Note from Auntie Snail: I wouldn’t know anywhere near as much as I do about Asian skincare if not for the amazing community over at Reddit’s /r/AsianBeauty. Today, one of those amazing community members, /u/GiveMeABreak25, gives us the scoop on the new My Beauty Diary masks she’s uncovered for 2015! It all started off as…
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Note from your Auntie Snail: Glow Recipe provided the product I review in this post. I review it as honestly as I review products I purchased myself. I do not have an affiliate account with Glow Recipe and will not earn any revenue from sales of this mask. You can read my sponsorship policy here. Two of…
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When I chose the masks I used in my 7 Masks 1 Goal whitening experiment, my criteria were simple. I wanted the masks to contain niacinamide, and I also looked for licorice root extract, two lightening agents that have been proven to produce results on excess melanin and hyperpigmentation. It seems the combo isn’t terribly common…
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A bit over a week ago, I came up with an experiment. I wanted to see whether daily use of sheet masks containing specific ingredients could produce real, lasting improvements to skin–essentially, I wanted to disprove the idea that sheet masks are for temporary results only. I’m very happy to say that I proved myself…
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Let me just say up front that I love these masks so much they make me want to pollinate something. If you know what I mean. My first five-pack of Banila Co Miss Flower & Mr Honey hydrogel masks was the result of a small impulse haul from the Memebox site–the same haul that got…
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Hydrogel masks! They’re a little on the pricey side, so when I see them on sale, I jump all over them. That’s how I ended up with my Innisfree hydrogel mask haul, which introduced me to this, the first hydrogel mask that I haven’t loved. Sigh. Purpose: The Innisfree Green Tea Hydro Gel Mask claims…
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You know what turns a good Saturday into a great Saturday? Checking the mail, finding a slip in there notifying me that I have a package waiting at the front office, and going to the office to be handed a nice big Innisfree-branded box! My haul from the recent Innisfreeworld 2+2 hydrogel and free shipping sale has…
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I’ve reviewed plenty of sheet masks since this blog’s creation, but one area I’ve only recently begun to explore is the slippery world of the hydrogel mask. That’s about to change, thanks to some interesting hauls I’ve made recently. Let’s take a look at hydrogel masks! What is a hydrogel mask? Widely considered a step above…
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