[Review] Petitfee Oil Blossom Lip Mask

Price: $9.90 on bbcosmetic

(Use affiliated coupon: C10T190S3 for 8% off) 
Verdict: 8/10
Repurchase: No

Price & Shop

I received this Petitfee Oil Blossom Lip Mask from  BBCosmetic in exchange for an honest review a while back but all thoughts are my own, as always. ^^ It's $9.90 per piece but you can get it for $9.10 after the 8% discount. For those of you unaware with the free international shipping store, check out my review of them here.

I've made so many purchases from them that I've lost count. They do 50% off deals on their facebook page with free shipping available almost every day so I've caved so many times. I regret nothing. 

Packaging, Ingredients and Directions

The packaging for this balm is super adorable. It comes in a tiny (but incredibly sturdy) square box that houses an equally tiny glass jar that contains 15g of product. They've also included a spatula so you can be more... sanitary I suppose? But I usually just make sure I have clean fingers and use my fingers instead cause using the spatula usually causes me to take out too much product, which I certainly can't return back to the jar.

Ingredients: Diisostearyl Malate, Dipentaerythrityl Hexa C5-0 Acid Esters, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Microcrystalline Wax, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Bees Wax, Ceresin, Petrolatum, Butyrospermum Parkii, Eclipta Prostrata Leaf Powder, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Curcuma Longa Root Extract, Parfum, Phenoxyethanol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Melia Azadirachta Leaf Extract, Titanium Dioxide, Melia Azadirachta Flower Extract, Moringa Oleifera, Corallina Officinalis Extract, Melia Azadirachta Bark Extract, Ocimum Sanctum Leaf Extract, Camellia Japonica Seed Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Limnanthes Alba Seed Oil

Running the ingredients through cosdna didn't come up with anything particular to look out for. On the other hand, there are still some ingredients that may be triggering to some such as bees wax, phenoxyethanol, tocopheryl acetate, and jojoba seed oil (buxus chinensis oil). As always with these products, ymmv. I'm not exactly sure how to patch test with lip products but I'm thinking you could try on a different part of your body as you patch test with any other products for a little while to ensure that there's no adverse reacitons before using it on your lips. I yolo'ed and applied it on my lip directly though.

The product brags no aritifical dye and a strong barrier-coating type texture, the former which surprised me since this is such a beautiful shade of pink! It contains 5 kinds of highly nutritious plant oil balms and has camelia seed oil as well as vitamin E. 

Directions says to apply balm onto lips before sleeping and wipe off the next day.

Texture and Fragrance

The Petitfee Oil Blossom Lip Mask is very easily spreadable and doesn't dry sticky. Instread, it feels just like it's name, leaving a layer of oil on my lip to keep it moisturized. It does a good job as a protective barrier but it doesn't really sink into my lips.

As for the fragrance, that I could really do without.While it smells amazing, like some sort of pink bubblegum, it has a scent that doesn't go away. Ever. It also tends to creep into your mouth and it doesn't taste half as good as it smelled. I really dislike the really strong taste it has. Drinking water is impossible unless you want a mouthful of this. Blergh. Fragrance is so bad that I'm taking away 2 points from it. 

Performance

The mask's main aim is hydration and moisturization, both functions it manages to do really well. My lips are pretty well on its own and the only times I need to use this is for when I've use peel off lipsticks or actually just any day I feel like my lips need extra love. I only need a little bit of this to moisturize my skin and it's looking like it's going to last forever. The next morning, there's still a decent amount of this so I can just wipe this off. My lips are left healthy, plumped, and super soft. Love it!

And yet, I'm not going to repurchase it. Because the scent is really very off-putting for me. The scent of bubblegum or artifical strawberry never really goes away and that bothers me enough that I don't really want this on my lips. I actually found myself dreading this. I have yet to find a way to apply this without getting it into my mouth so maybe when I find a way, I'll love this more. For now, it's a pass for me.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• It's reasonably priced at $9.10 for 15ml of product.
• It does what it's supposed to wonderfully!
• The short ingredient list means it has less triggering ingredients and only ingredients that's good for my lips.
• Keeps my lips moisturized throughout the night and I wake up to supple lips

Cons

• Scent of pink bubblegum doesn't quite go away no matter what I do. Can't even drink water with this on my lips. It's so bad, I'm taking off 2 points from it. 

Price: $9.90 on bbcosmetic

(Use affiliated coupon: C10T190S3 for 8% off) 
Verdict: 8/10
Repurchase: No

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[Review] Pascucci Royal Jelly Good Face Eco Mask Sheet

Price: NA

(received from Hermo)

Verdict: 6/10

Repurchase: No

Price & Shop (Mini-story)

A while back, I wrote a rant on my blog about how Hermo sent me a hairball along with my purchase and how they weren't really apologetic about it when I emailed them. Everytime I've seen another one of their sales, I reminded myself that I wanted nothing to do with hermo by re-reading my rant and that's help me no purchase anything from them since then. Yay for my wallet.

So, imagine my surprise when I received a parcel from Hermo with a box in it. "Huh?" I thought. "I haven't bought anything from Hermo lately..." Then, I opened the parcel and found that they had sent me a sheet mask along with a... dried up plant in a jar. There was also a sweet, handwritten note to let me know that they've tried to improve based on my complaint, because face it, you can be nice about it and say it's constructive criticism, but it's really just a complaint.

Still, credit is where credit's due so Thank you, Hermo for sending me these. I'm... less upset about the hairball now I suppose. Hermo stocks them for RM24 pieces for 15 pieces, which is a good price for decent masks I suppose, but I wouldn't buy more of these. 

Ingredients

Ingredients (from back packaging): water, glycerin, butylene glycol, royal jelly extract, sodium hyaluronate, rhus semialata gall extract, zanthoxylum piperitum fruit extract, portulaca oleracea extract, terminalia chebula fruit extract, carbomer, triethanolamine, Peg-60 hydrogenate castor oil, phenoxyethanol, dmdm hydrantoin, disodium edta, fragrance

On the bright side, there's not a billion ingredients here. On the other hand, I ran this through cosdna and a few of these came up on safety, such as the triethanol emine (pH adjuster) Hydrogenated castor oil (surfactant), phenoxyethanol (preservative), dmdm hydantoin (preservative), and fragrance. Some of you might also react badly to the butylene glycol included.

I found that PEG-60 Hydrogenated Castor oil is present in a lot of sheet masks and lotions. It's used as a solubilizer and the amount present in products is safe for most skin. However, those with skin conditions/more sensitive skin shoudl avoid this since it may cause irritation. Personally, I've never had bad reactions with products with this present. 

Fit, Scent, & Texture

The fit of the mask was just so-so, as you can see. It didn't really managed to cover most of my forehead and parts of my nose. However, there's really lots of other worse-fitting masks out there so it wasn't too bad overall.

The smell of honey is fairly overwhelming but I enjoy the smell of honey so this wasn't too unpleasant. There was enough essence in it for me to smear the extra on my neck and legs and the texture of the essence was fairly waterly. The mask is actually just a paper mask (According to their ebay description). 

Performance

The royal Jelly Eco Mask Sheet is supposed to contain royal jelly, which is effective in nutrition supply, moisturizing, providing plentiful vitamins to dry skin. It also helps to make your face silky, clean and moisturized. The galactomyces ferment filtrate in the mask claims to help improve skin cell reproduction, elasticity, anti-aging, anti-wrinkle, and whitening.

• It pains me to admit the mask wasn't absolutely horrible. It wasn't really good either though. First off, they sealed this mask on the outer edge of the packaging, so I had to cut this with scissors to get it out, which is just stupid. It was pleasant enough to have on though and was still wet when I took this off 30 minute later. My skin was very moisturized, which is a nice change from the #skinfood masks I've been using for the past few days. Unfortunately, it also left my skin with a sticky residue that I dislike. I layered a moisturizer over this and that helped. I'm taking off points for the bad packaging and the fact that it left a sticky residue. It wasn't a completely horribel mask, but it's not something I would pay for either. 

• Price: NA

  (received from Hermo)

  Verdict: 6/10

  Repurchase: No
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