I hope everyone had a great New Year and Holidays! I will be returning to me reviews shortly today, but I just got my wisdom teeth removed (all four!) yesterday so I’ve been spending this time adjusting to the eating Vicodin every 4 hours thing. Bleggh. I’m also on a liquid diet for the next week since I’m a baby and it hurts to eat. I must say, Ensure is very sweet (the vanilla flavor anyway). I’m not much of a sweets person so this is really hard for me to down without wanting to hurl. Just an update for now, will see you all later today with more reviews!

Also, I’m thinking of making another Sasa order soon towards the end of the month. If you have any suggestions for skincare products that you’d want me to purchase and buy, let me know! I will mainly be making a huge hall of sheet masks, toners and possibly more blotting sheets.

Product: JUJU Cosmetics Moisture Aloe Toner
Price: USD 8.40 @ Sasa
Review:

So for the couple months that I was M.I.A. my regimen had actually changed up a bit. Its now returned back to normal however because I was just utilizing the month to try out some new products. This aloe toner was one such product and let me just tell you: I am officially in love! The toner may look like it comes in a glass bottle but its actually just plastic. There is a small hole at the top that makes dispense of the product extremely easy since you can give the bottle a squeeze to squirt some of the liquid out.

There is no fragrance at all and unlike with most toners, it doesn’t feel harsh at all. It actually feels hydrating on my skin after I apply it and doesn’t strip my skin of anything. I apply the toner using a cotton ball and it literally glides along my skin. Aloe is supposed to be anti-inflammatory and soothing for the skin and it lives up to its properties! It had definitely help to calm the redness of my acne and actually reduced the amount of break-outs even while using Tazorac. This product is 100% organic aloe and doesn’t contain alcohol, which is great for people with sensitive skin.

This lasted me for about a month or so and I really feel that I need to stock up on this product again.

Rating: 5/5

Product: B&C Tsururi Pore Peeling
Price: USD 8.90 @ Sasa
Review:

I have been looking into other options for getting rid of my blackheads, simply because I know that pulling them out using the pore strips is only a short-term solution. I’ve also heard the pore strips will actually make blackheads worse because of how damaging and abrasive on the skin they can be. I decided that I would give this blackhead peel a try, but a major problem that I had with this product was the fact that there was no directions in English and I unfortunately, cannot read Japanese.

The directions on Sasa’s website tells me to apply the gel and wait for it to dry, but the first time that I tried the gel, I literally waited like an hour and the gel didn’t much “dry” or harden. You’re also supposed to massage the gel on your skin as to break up the dead skin cells, so I just end up rubbing it on my nose and massaging for about a minute or so and then washing it off.

It contains german clay, activated carbon and black pepper to soften and remove dead skin cells, dirt and pore-clogging impurities. I usually use it every other day after cleansing my face with warm water to open up pores. I feel that it does help pull out some impurities and helps to clean out pores, but there is not immediate obvious effect that using a pore strip would provide. Overall, I don’t think that the gel showed any significant results and wasn’t worth the $9 that I spent on it. Especially since the product is verrry small, only about 45 grams – the tube is no bigger than about the palm of your hand.

Rating: 3/5

Product: SKINLITE Hydrating Cucumber Masque
Price: USD 1.00 @ Sasa
Review:

I ordered these because I was simply scrolling through the mask selection on Sasa’s website and it was one of the awesome cheap masks that was given a 5/5 review. I’ve tried the SKINLITE Dual Wellbeing Masque before and it was absolutely amazing. The mask contains olive oil and cucumber extract that is supposed to soothe and soften the skin. It also contains phyto collagen and Vitamin E, and Vitamin E is the essential nutrient to keep hair, nails and skin healthy.

The product is a wash-off type mask and comes out like a grainy, green gel. Something we may not be used to is that even after 15-20 minutes, the mask doesn’t exactly harden when you go to wash it off. I only bought three of these masks but I haven’t broken out or anything each time I used it. It leaves my skin feeling soft and smooth after washing it off, a very nice stress reliever after a crazy round of stressing for exams.

I took off a point for the inconvenient packaging because it is kind of messy to squeeze out of the packaging. If they sold it in a larger tube with easier dispense, it would be great!

Rating: 4/5

Product: mook Power Pore Cleaning Strips
Price: USD 1.00 @ Sasa
Review:

You remember how I raved about the Cettua Silky & Clear Nose Strips? Well the brand by mook is just as good, if not better! These strips are extremely strong and they pull out even more than the Cettua one’s can pull out in one go. I don’t know if this contains anything special like witch hazel or charcoal, but they do come out black like the Cettua ones. Color doesn’t indicate much though, so unless someone who can read the Korean or Chinese on the packaging to prove that there is special extracts in it, let’s just assume its your average nose strip (that works wonders!).

The bad thing is that they are pretty painful to pull off – which can be a bad thing if you have very sensitive skin. I find that even I can only handle one strip per week. Then again, one strip clears off my nose pretty well and doing another one every other day or every two days isn’t that helpful. I’ve tried doing one every other day before and the second time didn’t produce great results simply because there wasn’t much left on my nose to pull out – a waste of a nose strip!

Rating: 5/5

Hello~! I figured I might as well start off the blog with my most recent skincare haul worth a whopping 75$ (free shipping!) from Sasa. For those of you who may not know, Sasa is a beauty and healthcare franchise in Asia – much like Sephora is in America. I generally order in bulk from this website once a year on things that would cost a lot more if I bought them individually here in America.

The main purpose of this haul was to stock up on more oil-blotting sheets, because for an oily skinned person like me, I can’t live without them!

Look under the cut for a full summary of the products that I bought! Look forward to the reviews in the future!
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