Scinic All in One Honey Ampoule review

I´ve been using the Scinic All in One Ampoule for 3 months. It contains all the honey goodness with 90% honey extract plus royal jelly and propolis extract. Also niacninamide and adenosine which are both good for whitening.

 

Vanedo Beauty Friends Snail Essence Mask review

I´ve bought this Vanedo Snail Mask really cheap from Ebay for a pack of 10.
Fit: Strange. The only thing coming to mind. Here and there too tight and didn´t cover other parts.
Scent: Fairly scentless.
The essence: clear, runny liquid a lot still at the bottom of the pack.
I had left it on for 30 minutes.
Initial opinion: After removing it, the essence soaked in really quickly and left my skin feeling moist.
The day after: Skin feeling moisturised, but nothing else.
Conlusion: Delivers what you can expect from a cheap mask like this but I won´t repurchase it. (Still have 6 left even after giving away a few.)

Mega Haul post from Testerkorea, Global Interpark, Yesstyle, Secret Key, Skin18 and Ebay

These are some of the things I´ve received in December. Christmas shopping for myself. :)

Global Interpark - Shopping experience and mini haul

Through another blogger´s haul post ( while looking for mask reviews) I´ve learned about a site called Global Interpark.
They have cult items with free shipping and often the price is at least half of what you would pay for it elsewhere. And the products are authentic as far as I can tell.
Just to name a few that you can buy right now with free shipping: Banila & Co Clean It Zero Jumbo size (180ml), Skinfood Gold Caviar toner and emulsion set (both full size), Leaders and Mediheal masks, the famous Laneige water sleeping mask, Innisfree, Sulwhasoo products and also cushions and a few make-up.

My morning skincare routine in winter

Here is a quick overview of my morning skincare routine. I work at a Christmas market at least 4 days a week so I´m frequently in cold and windy weather while also in a heated space. (As much as a gas heater can heat a semi open stall...) So even if I have oily skin I need all the moisture I can get, otherwise my skin will feel tight and uncomfortable.

So here is how I combat needing a lot of mositure while having oily skin. 

Actually forgot to include another really important product: Innisfree´s No-Sebum Mineral Powder.

Also the 3rd bottle from the left is a decanted Cosrx Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence.

Cosrx Ultimate Moisturizing Honey Overnight Mask Review

This was one of my first purchases since getting interested in asian skincare. I´ve only read good things about Cosrx, so this was my first choice for a sleeping pack.
I have to say, this was as good as the hype around it led me to believe.

Beauty Friends II Essence Mask Sheet Pack Raspberry Review

According to Skin18, from where I´ve bought this sheet mask, it contains Rubus Coreanus fruit extract (which is species of raspberry native to Korea, Japan and China) that makes skin supple and soft. Also, it should help fade age spots and reduce discoloration, plus help protect skin from damaging sun rays.

 

Skin18 Haul (Sheet masks everywhere...)

My haul from Skin18.com. Skin18 is an online shop focused on Korean skincare products. According to their website, their mission is to bring you products that will make you look forever 18. (How cute is that? :))
Their sheet mask selection is really great (with big discounts too!), as you can see bellow.

I placed my order on the 2nd of November, they sent out my order on the 4th of November.
It has arrived on the 10th, less then a week after posting my package, weekends included. I was really impressed.
They had a promotion, when you sign up for their newsletter you recieve a coupon code for -11USD from your order. They also have a free shipping offer in November over 30USD, so I teamed up with my sister to buy some masks. (Just to be clear you have to buy at least 41USD worth of product if you use your code and want the free shipping, I didn´t know it, but it wasn´t a hardship to find 11 dollars worth of something to buy from them. :D)

All the masks still packed together.

Benton Aloe BHA Skin Toner Review

Sadly this was my first "bad" product I´ve bought that really didn´t work for my skin. More about it under the cut.

Lebelage Red Ginseng Mask Review

I´ll copy the decription off the Ebay page I´ve bought it from:

RED GINSENG (For tight skin and supply nutrition)

• It contains red ginseng extract is effective in preventing trouble, its will help skin surface smooth.
• The change of seasons, skin become rough and dark, ginseng extract will help skin plentiful moisture and nourishment.
• Tired and rough skin giving firmer and elastic.    

(Source)

Recent Jolse hauls

Jolse had a couple sales going on in the recent weeks and I couldn´t really say no to buying some things off of my whishlist. As always Jolse included a lot of free samples with my orders.

Tony Moly Clean Dew Apple Mint Cleansing Oil Review

Since posting about my skincare possessions, more than a month has gone by. Some products I´ve already repurchased since then, some were cast away because of reasons and there are quite a few new additions.

One of the ones I have repurchased is Tony Moly´s Clean Dew Apple Mint Cleansing Oil. (Btw that´s a handful of a name...)
This product is the first step in the double-cleansing process that consists of using an oil based cleanser and a foaming one.

Ekel Red Ginseng Ultra Hydrating Essence Mask

My next mask is from the same brand as I reviewed in my previous post. Ekel´s Red Ginseng Mask.

Red Ginseng is supposed to smooth rough skin and provide moisture.

However, unlike the cucumber one I really didn´t like this. It had a strong scent, which I can only assume was red ginseng. The scent didn´t even dissipate after a while, it was like a strong smelling cloud around my face the whole time I´ve had it on...
Also it broke me out.

Conclusion: this mask is not for me and I won´t repurchase it.

Ekel Cucumber Ultra Hydrating Essence Mask Review

Let's start with a quick mask review.
I've ordered a lot of different masks off ebay and plan to try them all out and post my feelings about them.

First of them is Ekel´s Cucumber Ultra Hydrating Essence Mask.
Sorry for the picture of the torn packaging, it only occured to me to take a picture after I've already applied it.

All the things I own so far for my skincare routine

I could even call this a haul post. :) I will show you all my Korean (and one Japanese) skincare possessions. After I finish my testing I will write individual posts of them. Not pictured are some face oils and a face wash, simply because they are not Asian products. And samples I recieved with my purchases.

This is the order they came in:

                                      

Etude House - Baking Powder Pore Cleansing Foam

Introduction part 2

I have only recently started to be interested in skincare (read a month and half ago) and specifically asian skincare products.
Before this I thought because I don't use make-up regularly it´s enough to wash my face at night with foaming cleanser. Plus the occassional spot treatement for any pimple.
And I should mention all the useless products I´ve grabbed in drugstores after reading the package and which just kept lining the bathroom counter after a few use. They either didn't work, made matters worse or just couldn't engage my waning interest enough to return to them.

Fact about me is that I can get really obsessive if I find something interesting. That's how I first got into nail art - now I own hundreds of polishes and a variety of nail art supplies - and planner decoration.
While hunting for a korean nail polish review I stumbled upon a blog reviewing a lot of korean products and not just nail polish. Then I googled korean skincare routine and after countless hours of reading reviews and comparing products I placed my first orders on ebay and Wishtrend.

It's hard building a stash or routine from scratch. You don't know what to get, the sheer variety is baffling. Plus all the henceforth unknown phrases like emulsion, essence, ampoul... It's hard to be sensible and just order samples before committing to a full product. First you have to wait for the samples to arrive, then wait for your skin's reaction and if only it's positive can you order the full size.
When caught up in something being sensible or patient is not my strong suit. I can't say I got away without purchasing a few underwhelming products.
My next post will be about all my additions I have bought so far and later there should be another post about my routine.

First post as an introduction

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Hello everyone who happens upon this post.
My name is Andrea and I intend for this place to be my trial of a few skincare products - mainly Korean.

So it's more like a diary of sorts of my progress.
About my skin and skincare goals: I have combination oily skin with blackheads on my forehead, nose, cheeks and chin. Plus the occassional pimple.
I would like to get rid of them and even out the texture of my skin.
Soon there should follow a skincare routine post.