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Assalamu'alaykum,

Hi, I always like a mask which can clearer pores. Two years ago aztec mask was being popular and I do love it. However, year by year I was too lazy to purchase by online and now Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque is being hits in beauty forum :p. Of course, I was excited to try this because a lot of people talk about it and they said that is great #lol. I'm always interest with a mask which have function to  clearer pores XD

My skin is oily combination. I have many skin imperfections likes pimples, whiteheads, super oily skin in T zone, dullness, spots and uneven skin tone T,T So, I like to take care my skin especially using a mask if my skin is going worst. I'm using a mask minimal 3 times a week. I've tried many kind of face masks.

Of course when I read the description of mask  "Helps dry up acne pimples, rinse a way blackheads & shrink enlarge pores", I said "Omg, I should try this mask directly, it looks great". When I got the mask, I didn't expected that the size is quite big (226.8 gr or 8 oz). The price is cheap $ 3.99 in walgreens but I bought it IDR 167000 . Maybe the size is big so it needs more charges for shipping and handling. However I think that it's really worth :)

I've been using this mask for some months, if you see my skin of course my skin isn't perfect yet. However it gives a good result for my skin. My pimples is dry up if I used whole night but if I just used 15 minutes, I thought it didn't give significant result. Don't try to use the mask in a whole night because it will make your skin drier and little bit flaky. I used it every night just in my acne pimples and 2 or 3 times a week I put this mask like the direction, only 15 minutes XD. 

This is great for oily skin because it can sucking up excess oil. I didn't see significant result for my large pores. My skin feels clearer, smooth, and tight but don't worry little bit moisturizer can rid of the tight feeling. My face is a nest of whiteheads :p but it did't really help, I still need a facial. 

If you look for mask to make your skin brighter, just leave it! But if you like to maintenance your skin  (especially if you've oily skin) and makes your skin clearer,  Queen Helene Mint Julep is good :) 

It has thicker texture with a mint smell. A smell like a toothpaste. If  I was using a mask, sometimes my friends was shock because my face turn into green #lol

The mask will dry up with crack version and give tight feeling in your skin. Leave the mask around 10-15 minutes and rinses off with warm water, but I always rinse off with cold water, it's fine too :)

Assalamu'alaykum

Hi, how's your day? Jakarta sekarang panas banget ya? iya jakarta dari dulu memang panas XD Apa hubungannya coba tiba-tiba ngomongin jakarta yang panas? Jelas ada dong :P Ceritanya aku ini kerja di dalam ruangan ber AC jadi kulit pasti kering kalau ga pakai lotion jadi meskipun ga suka tetap dipaksain pakai :p Tetapi aktivitas aku tidak melulu didalam ruangan, aku sering keluar waktu siang-siang. Jadi kalau pagi biasanya aku sudah pakai body lotion habis itu kalau siang-siangnya aku harus panas-panasan apalagi naik kendaraan umum aku merasa tidak nyaman banget. Kebayang kan gimana gak enaknya ketika pakai body lotion, habis itu keringetan. Aiiih lengket ya :( Hayo ngaku siapa yang begitu juga?

Tetapi kalau sekarang sih aku sudah ga khawatir lagi karena ternyata Citra mengeluarkan produk baru yaitu Citra Japanese Wakame . Dari namanya kelihatannya berbau jepang-jepang gitu kan dan biasanya aku tertarik dengan skin care yang berbau jepang,hehe #korban dorama, kulit perempuan jepang kan mulus-mulus :p. Terus wakame itu apa? Wakame ini adalah rumput laut alami dari jepang. Apa sih manfaat dari wakame? Wakame bisa menjaga keremajaan kulit karena mengandung vitamin, mineral dan antioksidan. Wakame juga kaya asam hyaluronic, yang fungsinya menjaga elastisitas dan kelembapan kulit.

Citra Japanese Wakame ini ada dua yaitu Nutri-Serum dan hand & body lotion, sekarang ke nutri serum dulu yuk

Pasti banyak yang bertanya deh nutri-serum itu apa? ini hand & body gel serum. Teksturnya lebih light dan lebih cair kalau dibanding hand & body gel lotion nya. Gel serum ini dipakai sebelum gel lotion. Dari segi packagingnya, cukup travel friendly, meskipun gede tetap ringan dan bukan barang fragile. Aku tidak tahu apakah nutri serum ini ada ukuran yang lebih kecil atau tidak, sepertinya belum ada yang ukuran lebih kecil. Yang ini ukuran 180 ml.

Diformulasikan khusus untuk kulit Asia, 

dengan 3X whitening untuk kulit lebih cepat merata. 

Teksturnya ringan, lebih cepat menyerap dan menutrisi ke dalam kulit.

Honestly, kalau whitening aku tidak terlalu merasakan efeknya. Mungkin karena kulit tubuh aku agak badak jadi jarang ada produk pemutih yang berefek banget sama kulit. Tetapi, aku super yes untuk lebih cepat menyerap ke kulit. Karena meskipun aku pakai banyak dan awalnya basah banget, setelah itu langsung meresap semua. 

Ingredients

Teksturnya gel dan cair jadi cepat meresap dan yang pasti tidak lengket seperti kebanyakan body lotion pada umumnya. Yang aku suka juga adalah wanginya seger banget, believe me, you must smell it and you will like it!

Cepat banget meresap dan kulit jadi lembab dan gak lengket

Ini hand & body lotionnya. Bedanya apa dengan body lotion biasa? Citra Japanese Wakame ini bentuknya gel. Teksturnya lebih ringan dari hand body pada umumnya tetapi kalau dibandingin nutri-serum lebih light yang nutri serum, gel lotion ini lebih kental. Packagingnya ada dua ukuran yaitu 120 ml dan 240 ml. Kalau untuk dibawa pergi, yang 120 ml cocok banget XD

Ingredients

Assalamu'alaykum,

Today is fourth day of Ramadan, how is going? :) Jakarta is being hotter but I was happy because I can go home early, hihihi. This is what I love being a government officer :p. If I arrived home I just want to take a shower for refreshing my body. Shower gel from Cottage has nice scent, I can enjoy juicy, sweet and refreshing fragrance. 

Cottage has so many fragrance likes vanilla, green tea, white peach, fig, strawberry mint, grapefruit, violet, ocean blossom, kiwi, caramel and organ oil. I smelt mine, grapefruit, it's so nice and sweet, the smell as same as orange juice. I really love this scent. Like claim of the brand, Skin soft enough to eat, YES, I want eat my skin XD

The packaging is simple but colorful. The bottle shape likes milk or yogurt bottle. They have pink, orange, green, brown, blue, purple etc. Cottage has plastic bottle which you don't need to worry it broken. Cottage made in France :)

The bottle cap, it's quite enough to control size of gel :)

Its creamy foam and tonic fragrance will make your skin smooth, soft and deliciously scented. Cottage is parabens free and has pH neutral. I want to test about pH but I don't have litmus paper. Soap which has pH neutral didn't make your skin dry.

Ingredients

Assalamu'alaykum,

Hello, kali ini aku mau membahas produk Bali Ratih, sesuai namanya produknya beneran dibuat di Bali lo,hehe. Aku penasaran apa hubungan Pulau Bali sama bali Ratih maka aku cari-cari infonya dan ternyata aku memang  lihat tulisan Made in Bali di packagingnya dan diproduksi oleh PT. Bali Sari. Hoaa, excited banget karena ini produk lokal Indonesia.

Ini rangkaian produk Bali Ratih yang sudah aku coba. Ada body scrub, body lotion, body mist dan body butter. Untuk varian dari wanginya ternyata ada banyak banget macemnya, ada yang wangi bunga, buah, coklat, kopi, dsb. Terus wanginya juga yummy,hehe

Sumber: baliratih.web.id

Karena aku lagi belajar branding jadi aku suka tertarik dengan branding lokal produk,hehe. Jadi logo Bali Ratih ini daun warna hijau, yang pasti kebayang kan segernya xD. Brand vision nya Refresh Inner Beauty, Feel Unique & Special. Mungkin wangi-wangi dari Bali Ratih ini yang membuat kita merasa unik dan spesial ya hahaha

Ini body scrub Bali Ratih, dari segi packaging itu seperti kebanyakan body scrub, pot berwatna putih dengan label sesuai dengan pilihan wanginya. Beratnya 100gr (3.53 oz). Yang strawberry ini wanginya yummy banget, wanginya manis strawberry. Body scrub ini wanginya gak terlalu tahan lama kalau sudah dibilas, tetapi selama belum dibilas sih wanginya bakal kecium terus. Kalau lagi scrub mood aku jadi baik karena wangi strawberry-nya enak banget, padahal aku bukan tipe penyuka wangi yang manis/fruity. 

Oh iya dibagian bawah ada tulisan expired date dan ternyata untuk body scrub sendiri expired datenya gak terlalu lama yaitu tahun 2014 ini, kemudian ada tulisan exp after opened 2 weeks,hahaha. Bagi aku yang males scrub dua minggu itu sebentar banget lo, karena belum tentu seminggu sekali pakai scrub.

Ingredients

Warna scrubnya pink tentunya xD dan butiran scrubnya itu lembut kecil-kecil tetapi mateb kok angkat daki dan kulit mati. Ini mungkin agak-agak gak enak dilihat ya, tapi karena tangan gw emang udah mulus #minta dikeplak :p jadi tidak terlalu signifikan before after scrub. Aku mau menunjukkan bagian kaki, maaf ya sebelumnya kalau foto kakinya agak-agak menyakitkan mata xD

Ini kondisi kaki aku sebelum scrub, jelek banget kan hahaha. Iya karena sering pakai heels jadinya begitu tuh, ada bekas kapalan dan sel kulit mati. Jadi meskipun aku suka males scrub buat bagian lain kalau jari kaki itu biasanya aku usahain seminggu sekali, kalau gak pasti sel kulit matinya keburu numpuk.

Cara scrubnya sih tinggal ratakan scrub pada bagian jari kaki, biasanya aku memang sengaja taruh banyak pada bagian ini, terus tinggak gosok-gosok.

Taraaaa!!! begini hasilnya setelah scrub, memang gak semua sel kulit matinya langsung hilang sih, cuma much better kan xD 

Yang ini body butter, packagingnya sama dengan body scrub. Nettonya 110ml (3.72FL oz). Wangi body butter yang aku coba lavender. Kalau dengar lavender apa yang keinget? kalau aku langsung inget aroma ruangan,hehe. Jadi kalau yang suka aroma terapi buat menghilangkan stress, wangi lavender ini cocok banget. Wanginya lebih ke floral dan woody . Aku biasanya suka pakai ini kalau sebelum tidur jadi lumayan ngilangin stress dan biar tiduknya nyenyak,hehe

Ingredients

Warna body butternya putih dan teksturnya lembut banget. 

Teksturnya lebih pekat dibanding body lotion.

Kulit jadi berasa moist banget setelah pakai body butter. Aku percaya sih kalau setelah pemakaian kira-kira 7 jam an pasti sudah nyerap ke kulit karena efeknya juga kelihatan yaitu jadi lembab bahkan untuk bagian-bagian yang memang kering (ct: siku) aku lebih suka pakai body butter. Terasa lebih soft dan melembabkan banget, cuma setiap pagi ketika aku basuh tangan dan kaki itu aku merasa body butternya masih nempel semua di kulit dan bakal hilang setelah di basuh air. Mungkin aku pakai kebanyakan kali ya jadi masih banyak sisanya yang nempel di kulit. Tetapi jangan khawatir kok body butter ini sama sekali gak lengket.

Body Mist (60 ml)

Body mist Bali Ratih ini packagingnya travel friendly, ringan dan gak bulky buat dibawa-bawa. Wangi body mist Olive ini lebih ke fresh dan fruity. Pada first spray: wanginya fresh dan citrus, cuma wangi middlenya jadi sedikit musk. Mengenai ketahanan wanginya, tidak cukup lama tidak sampai 1 jam, cuma kalau buat aku body mist itu memang buat menyegarkan aja setelah mandi. Kalau memang buat yang tahan lama seharian aku pilih edt atau edp. Kalau sehabis mandi gitu aku biasanya spray di titik-titik tertentu seperti leher dan punggung tangan.

hand & body lotion (110 ml)

Packagingnya aku suka karena berbentuk pump, jadi tinggal pencet dan lebih terkontrol keluarnya dibanding packaging yang tube. Wangi untuk body lotion aku coba yang white musk, wangi musknya cukup kuat menurut aku untuk ukuran body lotion dan wangi middle nya agak sedikit berubah, antara musk, woody dan sedikit bau aroma terapi.

Meskipun tidak ada spf nya tetapi ada tulisan UV White + Vit E membuat aku agak tenang pakai ini kalau siang hari. Berhubung matahari jakarta panas banget dan kejam sama kulit kalau buat pagi biasanya aku pilih body lotion yang berspf atau yang ada tulisannya UV. Semoga Bali Ratih ini sudah cukup pretend sama matahari ya, meskipun tidak berspf xD

Warnanya putih, body lotion Bali Ratih ini teksturnya lebih liquid dibanding body butter. Tetapi kalau dibandingkan dengan body lotion merk lain Bali Ratih ini lebih pekat. Tidak lengket, cepat meresap di kulit dan membuat kulit lembab.

Assalamu'alaykum,

holaa, I'm back with amazing serum from clinique, if you mentioned before, I posted about Clinique repair laser focus wrinkle & photo damage corrector. It was good and I see a lot of improvement in my skin texture after using that serum for 5 months. I plan to repurchase if this serum run off, but Clinique Indonesia sent me their new clinique repair laser focus and now the complete name of serum is smooths, restores, corrects. I was excited to try it because the old repair laser focus is good for my skin.

This is new reformulated serum which delves one step beyond lines and wrinkles to deliver twice the smoothing result as before. Repairwear Laser Focus Smooths, Restores, Corrects is delivering 63% of the visible wrinkle reducing power of a dermatology in just 12 weeks. Really? :P hahaha. Clinique re-evaluate the original formula from old Repairwear Laser Focus with new ingredients which contains new skin resurfacing technology. It encourages gentle yet effective exfoliation to reveal smoother, more radiant looking skin. 

I'm twenty two but I choose anti aging serum from now. If you ask why? because I see some wrinkles in my skin like under eye and my forehead. It's not noticeable but I love to prevent wrinkle from now, I want my skin younger than my age,hehe. If you want to know, new formulas from new repair serum contains from

Acetyl Glucosamine: this formula holds dead skin cells on the surface of the skin for a more natural shedding process.

Salvia Sclarea (Clary) Extract: It derived from Salvia Sclarea plant. The function  is to support the final steps of cell differentiation and exfoliation by promoting the reformation of skin barrier. I was curious about Salvia sclarea plant, It was cute and the flowers is purple^^

Salvia Sclarea

(Source:here)

Oke, let's start with the packaging. I'm not complaining about the packaging, It's simple but sleek with pipette. However I little bit scary to bring this on vacation because I will cry if this bottle is broken,hehe so I never try to bring this anywhere. My bag is so messy if I go anywhere hehe

This serum comes in two different sizes, 30 ml and 50 ml. The price for 30 ml is IDR 725000 and 50 ml is IDR 950000. It is suitable for all skin types and ages XD. See? It doesn't matter ,hehe. My friends is complaining if I choose an anti aging serum #lol.

I thought that this new serum is focusing to make glowing skin beside helps skin's texture for a younger look. I used this new serum about one month (day and night) and I notice that my skin more radiant and glowing than before. Sometimes I thought that my skin tone has change but it was not, my skin texture is just better so it looks more radiant. 

Ingredients

These are repairwear laser focus serums, the old and the new one. The packagings are same, same bottles, colors and sizes. I put those serum in separate place because It's difficult to mention the different if I'm not reading correctly,hehe.

The texture for smooths, restores, corrects serum is lighter and  the color is whiter than photo damage, but  I think they have same scent. Maybe you can't see the different clearly on my hand but if you really see both you can easily mention that the wrinkle and photo damage (old) looks cloudier and the new one look whiter. 

You can see that the new serum absorbs faster than the previous one. I must wait little bit longer for the wrinkle and photo damage (old). I feel that the new serum is more liquid maybe because of that they can absorb better. The old one is more sticky than the new serum. I mean the previous serum isn't sticky at all but if I compare with the new, photo damage is more slimy. The new is lighter.

This my skin condition after using new clinique repair serum. My skin isn't perfect XD I suddenly have a lot of white head (purging) in my cheeks. But it's not because this serum, I mention that happens after I change my toner. However I feel that my skin more radiant, smoother and feel tight after used new clinique repairwear serum. When I used the previous clinique serum I didn't mention that my skin being more bright. I just feel smoother and clearer but now I feel that my skin brighter. Omg, I'm so happy because I was stop using whitening or brightening cream, my skin little bit sensitive if using that. I read some reviews about new clinique repair serum fade acne scars but it didn't give significant result for me in one month I used new serum. I got a lot of improvement in my skin texture, I can see the significant improvement with new serum than the previous one. It also repair my flake skin after microdermabrasion in two days. I have oily skin and the new serum didn't make my skin more oily. Although it's suitable for all skin type, I think that it will be perfect for dry skin types,hehe. I hope it also can minimize my pores but I didn't see the result yet, I hope it will work for a long term used. 

Conclusion

Pros

- absorbed more faster than previous clinique repairwear serum.

- the serum lighter, whiter and less slimy.

- My skin is brighter and more radiant.

- can repair flake skin fast.

- make my skin smooth, tight and moist.

- didn't make my skin more oily

- the result is noticeable in one month while the previous one isn't

Cons

- didn't give significant result for minimize pores

- Somehow I feel that new serum can fertilize red acne, although it didn't cause acne. I just took a break for few days using this serum If I got hormonal acne

- pricey but worth to buy