Review : Skin Food Salmon Dark Circle Powder

Product Description
An instant brightening powder, it is rich in omega-3 fatty acid, vitamins A and E with Nano-coating, to lighten dark eye circles.

At 2.5g, it has taken me ages to even create a dent in it because you only needs a tiny amount for the undereye area. The product comes in a cute pot with a filter between the puff and the powder.

Peach in colour, it blends in well with my skin colour and has a sheer coverage. Using it on top of a concealer, this product helps to minimize my dark circles but not significantly. If your undereye area is dry like mine, I felt that the dark circle powder creases slightly into the fine lines.

Source : Skin Food

Review : Purer Skin Miracle Serum

Product Description
Purer Skin^TM Miracle Serum rejuvenates your skin by visibly reducing fine lines and wrinkles, leaving your skin looking younger and more radiant.
This intense formulation is enriched with Purer Source Bird’s Nest^TM and helps:

1. Achieve fairer skin by lightening dark spots 
2. Hydrate and increase skin elasticity 
3. Remove fine lines and wrinkles

Using proprietary scientific processes, Sialic Acid, Collagen and Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) are delivered deep into the layers of your skin, while natural bird’s nest proteins help to rejuvenate your skin, restoring it to its original youthfulness. 
Purer Skin^TM Miracle Serum is hypollaergenic, free from parabens and sulphates and registered with the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore and clinically tested at Dermscan Laboratoire, France.

Proud to be using a Made-In-Singapore product, I owned a tiny dropper glass bottle which has provided me with 6 times of usages. Actually just 1 drop from the dropper is sufficient for my whole face but during my first initial usage, I over-apply with 3 drops of serum and ended up with a very sticky face that took a very long time for it to sink into my skin.

Clear in colour, the serum has a thick and concentrated consistency that is sticky on the skin after application. While it is non-greasy, it took a long while to sink into the skin before I can pile on the moisturizer and BB cream. Skin does feel smooth and supple after it gets absorbed but 6 applications are too little to see its effectiveness however, take note that I do find the scent pungent, like the saliva after someone sneezes.

Source : PurerSkin

Review : Biotherm Blue Therapy Serum

Product Description
A new repair serum, BLUE THERAPY, fuses 3 aquatic active extracts - regenerative A. flos-aquae, restructuring L. ochroleuca and strengthening Pure Thermal Plankton - in a highly-concentrated formula for a triple action on firmness, dark spots and wrinkles.

Biotherm was generous enough to provide several sachets during my redemption of their new product which provided me a good initial feel of their product but not impressive enough for me to rush out to get the full size.

The serum is said to provide 9 visible results based on their evaluation tests on 104 subjects over 4 weeks.
One is expected to see
- Firmness : Tonicity, Lifted Skin, Firmness
- Dark Spots : Evenness, Radiance
- Wrinkles : Smoother skin, Reduced fine lines, Younger looking skin, Reduced wrinkles

Blue in colour, this serum has a silicon feel with a slippery texture and provides a coating on the
skin, giving the illusion of velvety smoother skin to the touch.
However, it did not hydrate my skin well, as flakiness on my nose are still apparent on my bad skin days ( read : dehydrated skin before usage ). In terms of other areas, I believe I may not have not use it long enough to determine the efficiacy on firmness, dark spots and wrinkles for the skin.

The 1 week usage include using each 1ml sachet in the morning and 1ml sachet sometimes at night did not provide visible improvement where firmness and dark spots are concerned. I didn't feel that I have radiance or evenness on my face after using for a week.
Smoother skin after usage is temporary till the next face cleansing while I do not have fine lines and wrinkles at this moment to prove its claims.

The serum scored 4.2 from 6 users on Makeupalley.

Source : Biotherm

Review : Laneige White Plus Renew Purifying Mask

Product Description
Effectively and smoothly cares for dead skin cells and oxidized pores for instant brightening effect.
Natural whitening effect of mulberry in AP Snowray Complex Exfoliating and purifying effect of papain enzymes that decompose protein and cellulose powder exfoliate dead skin cells and impurities for instant whitening effect.

A friend to help me to purchase a box of the mask pack from Korea last year. Each box contains 8 tubs of 10g purifying mask that claims to do deep cleansing and whitening. Hence I like to use it on days when my skin is dull, rough or as a supplement to my whitening regime.

For each tub, I can use it for up to 4 times so technically I can get about 32 usages for the whole pack. Logically I think its meant to be a 1 time use for each pack but yet it seemed overpriced and the quantity is too much to be applied liberally all over the face just like that.

White in colour, this wash-off pack has a thick clay-like creamy texture that applies easily but is difficult to cleanse off. However, once the gunk is rinsed off, I felt that my skin is brighter, clearer, smoother and with cleaner pores.

Sometimes I do get a taut feeling due to its deep cleansing properties which may be drying so I will usually add on a hydrating mask thereafter.

Check out other masks and trial kits from Laneige and get free samples with your purchase.
Laneige Water Pocket Sheet Mask Set
Laneige Hydrating Trial Kit
Laneige Pore Care Trial Kit 


Source : Laneige

Review : Naruko Raw Job Tears Brightening Night Gelly

Product Description
This is a sleeping beauty gelly for "wiping rough and dull complexion out at night and refreshing skin in the daytime". Main formulas such as Pore White and Pearl White are integrated in the product. Plus the 5 ingredients of synergetic brightening, it accelerates the pore care focusing on large pores and rough and dull skin and creates white, soft, smooth skin conditions. It also soothes and brightens the skin after sun exposure as well as repair the sunburn during daytime.

From the Raw Job Tears range, I have used its whitening toner, lotion, serum, eye gelly and mask before, with some working better than the others.
I particularly like this night gelly ( as compared to the rest of the products ) as I can see the effects.
I usually alternate between a hydrating and a whitening product in the night, depending on my skin needs because whitening products do not provide sufficient hydration most of the times.

With a delicious barley scent, the night gelly has a light jelly serum-like texture that gets absorbed into the skin easily. Its non-oily and skin feels nourished. However, the hydration ability falls short of
expectations.
The following morning, I can see that my skin looks rested with a glowing radiance. However that was only in the initial phases. After subsequent usages beyond a week, the glowing radiance is no longer there.

On its website, this product is said to be " no paraben series of preservatives, artificial flavours and pigments were added to the product", however note that Phenoxyethethanol  as its 2nd last ingredient is a preservative.

Source : Naruko