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♥ Sheet Mask Giveaway by MOOTTA ♥

6. September 2013

Hey my dearest friends ♥
Last Friday I introduced MOOTTA to you (click >>here<<) and I promised to have a surprise for you this week. And here it is…drumroll….a new giveaway kindly sponsored by MOOTTA ^_^ yeiii!♥
In a way, this is my opportunity to thank you all for reading and for the huge support in the last months, otherwise there would not have been a giveaway like this :) So let’s go directly to the products you can win:

Innisfree It’s Real Rice Mask 
Innisfree It’s Real Gold Kiwi Mask
Innisfree It’s Real Green Tea Mask
The Face Shop Real Nature Honey Mask
The Face Shop Real Nature Lemon Mask

One of you can win these five Sheet Masks by entering this giveaway.

The mandatory entries are:
1. Be a reader of my blog via either GFC or bloglovin’
2. Either sign up for MOOTTA‘s newsletter or create an account on their web store

The giveaway will end on 27th of September and the winner will be chosen with help of rafflecopter. This is an international giveaway :) You can take part in the gadget below. Please don’t cheat. I’ll check the entries.

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Hope you’ll have fun with this giveaway and good luck to all of you! ♥

Thanks to MOOTTA again, for sponsoring this giveaway! By the way, aside from this giveaway MOOTTA is doing random giveaways via their blog comments and random followers through their three outlets. So check out MOOTTA via the following links:

At the moment they offer a discount coupon on items in their “our picks” section until end of october. You get 20 % off using the code mentioned above.

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Review: Missha Cream Chocolate Latte Cleansing Foam

4. September 2013
Hey ♥
Here is a review for Missha’s Cream Chocolate Latte Cleansing Foam. I knew I had to buy it, since it was cheap and claimed to be with chocolate scent. and I can tell you, that it smells so delicious!*_*
There are two more Cream Latte Cleansers, one with Green Tea Latte and one with Strawberry Latte. Honestly, I’d love to try all of them! I decided to buy the Chocolate cleanser in the end, because the description says, that it is moisturizing for dry skin.

Here is the product description taken from Missha’s web page:
Features:
Creamy chocolate latte flavour

1. Cleansing foam that contains chocolate latte that provides vitality and nutrition to the tired, dry skin.

2. The chocolate latte provides abundant nutrition which prevents skin aging and loss of vitality.

3. Soft, smooth lather like latte moisturizes the skin even after wash off

Ingredients:
– Contains 516mg of Chocolate latte

– Chocolate contains polyphenol that vitalizes the skin.

– Minerals, protein and daily fat moisturizes and soothes the dry skin.
 

how to use:
1.Take an appropriate amount on the hand
2.Apply over the face as if massaging
3.Wash off with lukewarm water
The product description on the tube is Korean only. The package design is simple but cute. I like the white tube with the ornaments and the little cup on the front. The foam cleanser comes in a tube, a pump would have been easier in application, but this is okay, too.
The product itself is a brown-shimmering, fluffy cream with turns into foam once you wash your face. This is a very mild cleanser and won’t remove heavy eye or lip make-up. Actually, you should not get this into your eyes because it stings as hell :D (I did….~_~)…apart from this, it feels and smells great. The scent is like hot chocolate, a mixture of milk and chocolate. ♥ The foam has a nice, soft texture. If you wash it off you feel how your skin was cleansed and it feels squeaky. If you dry your face it doesn’t feel squeaky anymore, but simply soft and clean and smooth. It does make my dry skin feel drier, but in a way moisturized. I really like to use this cleanser. Especially in the morning, when you don’t have a lot of make-up on your face. The scent is so heavenly, it makes me a feel happy and gives me a good start daily :)

The tube contains 172 mg and costs
– US$ 10.44 at W2Beauty (free shipping option)
– 3500 Won at testerkorea (shipping depends on weight)
– US$ 6-11 at ebay (plus shipping eventually)

This cleanser is also available in a set of three, if you want to try all of them ;)

Rating:

Allgemein

Graveyard: July and August Empties

3. September 2013

I wanted to share with you the products I’ve been using up each month and here is my picture for July and August. I didn’t have enough time to post a picture before my vacation, so I’ll put the two months together. Also, I cleaned up my make-up bag and I found some stuff which was still inside it, although it’s already used up :D

Nivea Sun Protect & Bronze: Repurchase? Yes, I did repurchase the same again.
Nivea Tinted Moisturizer: Repurchase? No.
My Scheming 7-Days Whitening Mask Set : Repurchase? No, although there were some nice masks in this pack and the package is adorable, too. But there are so many masks I still want to try…
Innisfree Capsule Recipe Mask Tea Tree and Jejubija: Repurchase? Yes, but another type of these perhaps.
Nature Republic Hawaiian Fresh Seaweed Pack: Repurchase? Yes! This one was really great :) And I love Peel-off masks.
p2 Beauty Insider Liquid Eyeliner: Repurchase? At the moment I have enough eyeliner, but in general yes. It is cheap and pigmented.
Maybelinne Eyestudio Lasting Gel Eyeliner: Repurchase? No, it dried out much to fast :(
Astor Perfect Stay Lip Tint and Balm: Repurchase? I would, but I think they discontinued this product.
Rimmel Black Eyeshadow: Repurchase? At the moment not, but in general it was a good product.
Rituals Yogi Flow Foaming Shower Gel: Repurchase? Yes, this one was really great. I loved the scent and it was providing so much foam…a pity it was only a small size.
Astor Quick&Go: Repurchase? I loved this nail polish and the color, but it’s not available anymore and I don’t remember the name :(
The Bodyshop Shea Shower Cream: Repurchase? Yes, I loved the scent.

That’s it for this time :)

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Review: Solone Alice In Wonderland Collection Perfect Drawing Eye Liner ♥sponsored♥

1. September 2013

Hello ♥

I’m very excited to review Solone’s Alice In Wonderland Collection Perfect Drawing Eye Liner today. ♥ Everybody loving Alice In Wonderland and any related product to this beautiful story: Be prepared! After seeing these pictures, you’ll wish to own the whole collection, just to have it and to look at the beautiful illustrations by the artist Stanley Dai over and over again.

Solone is a Taiwanese brand for make up and beauty. The name consists of three elements: So Colorful, Love and New Age. In collaboration with the artist Stanley Dai they created a collection dedicted to the world of Alice In Wonderland. This collection contains the Perfect Drawing Eye Liner, the Vivid Fantasy Smoody Pencil, the Role Switching Liquid Eyeliner and the Rose Covering Makeup Remover Pencil. The promotional pictures below belong to Solone and were edited by myself. You can click on the to enlarge :)

I’m reviewing Solone Alice In Wonderland Collection Perfect Drawing Eye Liner No.2, a black colored Eyeliner with shimmering particles. There are 4 shades available, two of them containing shimmering particles and the remaining two don’t.
The properties of the product are described as followed:
– Glamorous eyeliner design. Built-in Swarovski crystal, presenting a shining glamour and elegant eyeliner.
– Easy to apply, smooth and good color texture.
– 10 sec speedy dry, new water-proof and skin-oil resistant formula.
– Provided with a sharpener.

Below you’ll find the product description by Solone:

The packaging is beautiful and really want me to buy all the other products as well ♥ *_* The products description of the packaging is in Taiwanese, unfortunately. But there are little drawings inside, showing how to applicate the eye liner. You can enlarge the images by clicking on them.
The pen is black and has the brand name written on in curvy, pink letters. The cap is from plastic and has the built-in Swarovski crystal on the top.
You can sharpen the tip of the pencil and a pink sharpener is included with this product, too. The color of this eyeliner is black with a bit of shimmer. It’s not too much of shimmering, which I prefer. The eyeliner is rubbing proof and waterproof to a certain extend. If you combine rubbing with water the eyeliner will disappear.
Would I repurchase this eyeliner pencil? Yes and no. Yes, because I love the packaging, but now I already have it. No, because I’d like to try out the liquid eyeliner. I like this eyeliner pencil, but I love liquid and gel liner more. If you are a fan of pencil eyeliner I’d recommend you to try this. It is rubbing and water proof if you don’t overdo it and has a beautiful packaging.
You can get Solone Alice in Wonderland Collection from Beauty Chamber. At the moment there is a back to school promotion with 10% off the entire order. It doesn’t list all the products which are available, so if you are looking for something special like this, write an Email to Amber, the shop owner, and she’ll give you a quote. She is very nice and answers fast to your emails. She has a blog at http://chamber2u.blogspot.tw/. Check out the facebook page, too: https://www.facebook.com/beautychamber2013
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Rating:

 


Just as a short reminder: All products mentioned and reviewed on this blog are of my personal opinions. This product here was sent to me for reviewing purpose by http://beautychamber.bigcartel.com, which doesn’t influence me in providing my honest opinion on the products.
Btw: My 100 follower giveaway has ended and I mailed the winner Shelly today. Congratulations! Thank you all for taking part and don’t be sad if you didn’t win. There will be a new chance soon!!
 I promise ;)
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Introducing MOOTTA and Review on Innisfree It’s Real Masks

30. August 2013

Hello ♥

Did you hear about MOOTTA already? It’s a new start up company in South Korea focusing on Fashion and Beauty. MOOTTA’s main issue is to bring fashion- and beauty-trends from the South Korean Capital Seoul to everybody in the world.
I’m always curious about new companies providing Korean products, since I really love Korean beauty products for quite a while now, and I was always eyeing with their fashion. Unfortunately, a lot of products are limited to Korea only, so I’m always happy if I discover new stores that can provide me with new products that I don’t know yet. Did you know that “mootta” is Korean and means to ask?

Here is how the web store of MOOTTA looks like:

taken from www.mootta.com
MOOTTA‘s web appearance is very clean and nice and easily to navigate. They have a section for beauty and several sections for clothing and accessories. There is also a designer section where you can find pieces of work of various designer, including the finalist of Project Runway Korea. They are trying to provide clothes from designers which are unique and represent Seoul fashion.
The products in the beauty section are selected products from the beauty show in Korea called “Get It Beauty”, where the contestants test and evaluate products without knowing from which brand it is (btw: I like the concept of testing products which are similar without knowing which is which, in this way you tend to be a lot more objective).
MOOTTA was kind enough to send me two sheet masks for reviewing purpose. Both masks are from Innisfree’s It’s Real Mask line. They were neatly packed within a paper bag showing MOOTTA’s logo on it. The masks were send via EMS and arrived after 4 days. I will review the Innisfree It’s Real Rice and the Gold Kiwi Sheet Masks for you today and in a week I’ll be coming up with some other surprise for you. I’ll hope you’ll stay tuned *^_^*
There are 20 different Innisfree It’s Real Masks available. Each displaying the main ingredient used on the package. I like the design of the packaging, although it is not especially cute, but it looks nice and promising. Also, the instructions are written in English on the backside of each package.
taken from www.innisfree.co.kr

Here is the description taken from MOOTTA’s web page:

description:

Innisfree It’s Real Mask is enriched with ingredients, which offers groundbreaking result in brightening up and moisturizing dull skin.
Wonderfully moisturized, deeply nourished and plumped, skin emerges infinitely regenerated. Your skin can be renewed, refined, resilient and radiant upon using it.
 
application:
1. Apply a sheet of mask to toned face. 
2. Leave on for 10 – 20 minutes before tearing off the mask. 
3. Gently massage the whole face with fingertips for better absorption

 

On the back side you’ll find the Korean description. On the Rice mask you’ll also find the instructions and the ingredients in English (I don’t know why it’s all in Korean on the Gold Kiwi mask, probably another batch).
The cotton sheet is smooth and not too thin, neither too thick, and in both cases nicely soaked with the essence without being drippy. Their is no extra-foil attached to the cotton sheet, so you have to be a bit more careful while unfolding it. There is not a lot of essence left within the packaging, but enough to put the rest on your neck, for example.
Concerning the fit of the cotton sheet to the face: A lot of people keep complaining if a sheet mask is not fitting to they face shape. Sheet masks are designed to fit most people, so they have to make a compromise between a lot of different face shapes and sizes. I don’t blame any company for not providing the best fitted cotton sheet for my face. Until now I could always fold the sheet in a way that it stayed on my face nicely and even, and that’s the same case here. :)
I’ll review know each sheet mask separately, because they were different in they consistency and their effect:

Innisfree It’s Skin Rice Mask

The essence of this mask is not a clear liquid, but milky. In my opinion it felt creamier on the skin. The scent was pleasant and didn’t smell like rice at all, but clean and soap-y. I left the mask on my skin for about half an hour and took it off.
After taking off the mask the essence is soaked nicely into and on the skin, but it wasn’t absorbed completely. I waiting for another couple of minutes, but the skin stayed kind of greasy/creamy, probably because the consistency of the essence is more on the creamy side. I decided to go to sleep and have a look at my skin on the next day. And…drum roll….the essence was absorbed, my skin was so plum and soft the next morning I had to touch my cheeks all the time :D My skin also didn’t react negatively to the mask. I was absolutely happy with the result.

Innisfree It’s Skin Gold Kiwi Mask

The essence of the Gold Kiwi Mask is a clear liquid. The scent was fresh and fruity and reminded of Kiwi or something similar :D. I left the mask on my skin for about half an hour and took it off.
Also here, after taking off the mask the essence is soaked into the skin. I waiting for another couple of minutes, before it was absorbed completely and just left a slight stickiness. This one did feel completely different to the creamier Rice Mask.. The next day the stickiness was gone and the face looked refreshed, but it didn’t provide such a nice plum feel of the skin like the Rice mask.
Comparing both masks, I can definitely say, that I loved the Rice Mask a lot. The effect was visible on the next day and my skin felt great. Compared to this, the Gold Kiwi Mask is “simply” refreshing. Nevertheless, both masks have a nice scent and didn’t break me out or anything, and thus are good masks.
You can find them >> here <<. Do you have any favourite Innisfree It’s Real Masks? Which one did you try?

Thanks to MOOTTA again, for sending me the masks!
You can check out MOOTTA via the following links:

At the moment they offer a discount coupon on items in their “our picks” section until end of october. You get 20 % off using the code mentioned above.

Rating for the Rice Mask:
 Rating for the Gold Kiwi Mask:

Just as a short reminder: All products mentioned and reviewed on this blog are of my personal opinions. This product here was sent to me for reviewing purpose by http://www.mootta.com, which doesn’t influence me in providing my honest opinion on the products.

Don’t forget to take part in my giveaway. It’s still going a few hours!

 

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Review: Balala Eyshadow Kido Bear No. 1 ♥sponsored♥

27. August 2013
Hey ♥
Today I’ll be reviewing Balala Eyeshadow Kido Bear No. 1, a cute little eyeshadow palette with four matching shades. This product was send to me by BeautyChamber for reviewing purpose. Thanks a lot!♥
Actually, this is again a product and a company I never heard of before. I think it is a Taiwanese brand. It was also very very hard to find any information about it. I didn’t find a company web page or anything. Just some images on Google. The promotional pictures below belong therefore to Balala and were edited by myself.
As you can see, the packaging is super cute, with the bear face logo on the front. I really like the simply designed black plastic packaging. It seems they have quite a range of products.
I love the bear face so much, it is even on the side of the paper packaging ♥ The ingredients are written in English on the back side, but the rest of the information is Taiwanese I guess.
Funnily, when you search for any images, it appears often that you find pictures from products, looking very similar to Tony Moly’s product, like the Cat Chu Wink Lipstick. I was wondering if they are somehow connected to Tony Moly?!…If anybody has information about that, please feel free to write a comment!
The eyeshadow palette I’m reviewing contains two purple shades, a brown shade and a highlighter. The packaging comes with an applicator and a mirror, too. Each eyeshadow has the face of the bear imprinted on it. Sadly, they will disappear if the eyeshadow is used too often :/
The colors are really pigmented, even without a eye-shadow base. I love how they feel, but you have to be careful that the powder particle don’t fall off and ruin your face make-up. The best way to prevent this is using an eye-shadow base. The staying power is great, too.
I rarely wear eyeshadow myself, simply because I’m too lazy to spend too much time in the morning. Eyeliner is usually enough for me. But on special occasions I try to put on a little bit eyeshadow, mostly natural shades. Below you can see me wearing the eyeshadow palette in two different ways.
products used: Balala Eyeshadow Palette 01, Estée Lauder Sumptuous Extreme Mascara, Jelly Pong Pong 2-in-1 Eyeliner & Shadow, Kiss Me Heroine MakeSmooth Liquid Eyeliner Pen, Zoeva Eyeshadow Brush
You can get Balala Eyeshadow Kido Bear from Beauty Chamber. At the moment there is a back to school promotion with 10% off the entire order. It doesn’t list all the products which are available, so if you are looking for something special like this, write an Email to Amber, the shop owner, and she’ll give you a quote. She is very nice and answers fast to your emails. She has a blog at http://chamber2u.blogspot.tw/. Check out the facebook page, too: https://www.facebook.com/beautychamber2013
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I don’t have anything bad to tell about this little cute palette. Lately nearly all the products I tested were absolutely convincing and I was giving a lot of 5 berries rating. I “hope” I’ll have some more critical products in the next time, otherwise nobody will believe my rating anymore XD. On the other hand, I’m happy I like the products and can use them :D
Rating:

 

Just as a short reminder: All products mentioned and reviewed on this blog are of my personal opinions. This product here was sent to me for reviewing purpose by http://beautychamber.bigcartel.com, which doesn’t influence me in providing my honest opinion on the products.
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Review: Innisfree Capsule Recipe Mask Jeju Bija and Tea Tree ♥sponsored♥

26. August 2013
Hello everybody ♥
I’m back from my holidays finally and after my short blogging break it is time to continue with a lot of reviews. I have still so many products waiting for being evaluated, so I better get started right away! ✿◕ ‿ ◕✿
A mask I used before my vacation is Innisfree Capsule Recipe Mask Jeju Bija and Tea Tree. It was send to me by BeautyChamber for reviewing purpose and I liked this one a lot.


There are 12 different types of Innisfree Capsule Recipe Mask, so have quite a variety to try. Each Mask comes in a small plastic capsule and contains 10 ml product. The packaging is neat and each type comes with another color on the lid. The Jeju Bija and Green Tea Mask has a bright green lid.

The product is light green color, too and has the consistency of clay. After you put it on your skin you have to wait 15 minutes or longer until it dries. Afterwards it can be washed off. It has a herbal scent at the beginning, which wears off while the mask dries up. After washing the mask off, the skin feels clean and refreshed. It was a nice feeling and I enjoyed using it. It also worked calming, I guess because of the ingredients of Jeju Bija and Tea Tree.

 

Each capsule contains enough product for 3-4 times usage. You can re-close the lid by putting it into a special slit in the plastic capsule. It is not 100% closed tightly then, but I stored it in the fridge and it didn’t dry up. If you want to be more sure you can just close the lid with additional wrapping film ;) I’ll leave you with a funny pic of me wearing this mask :D Hope I don’t scare anyone :D

 

You can get Innisfree Capsule Recipe Masks from Beauty Chamber. At the moment there is a back to school promotion with 10% off the entire order. It doesn’t list all the products which are available, so if you are looking for something special like this, write an Email to Amber, the shop owner, and she’ll give you a quote. She is very nice and answers fast to your emails. She has a blog at http://chamber2u.blogspot.tw/. Check out the facebook page, too: https://www.facebook.com/beautychamber2013

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Did you try out these Capsule Masks from Innisfree? Which one did you try and how did you like it?

Rating:

Just as a short reminder: All products mentioned and reviewed on this blog are of my personal opinions. This product here was sent to me for reviewing purpose by http://beautychamber.bigcartel.com, which doesn’t influence me in providing my honest opinion on the products

 

Allgemein

♥ holidays ♥

2. August 2013
Hello ♥
I’ll be offline the next three weeks :) Wish you all a wonderful time and hope you’ll keep reading when I’m back! I have still a huge pile of reviews for you :D
And don’t forget to take part in my giveaway. Good luck to everyone ♥♥♥
See you soon!

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♥ Berries in the Snow 100 Follower Giveaway ♥ CLOSED

30. July 2013
Hello there ♥
Finally: Here is my 100 follower Giveaway especially for all of you who followed my blog posts in the last couple of months. I never imagined that I would write something interesting for other people to read or to have a look at, but seeing all of you people subscribing in different ways and writing me comments makes and made me so happy. I started blogging 5 month ago and it feels like I’ve been doing this for longer time to me and I really enjoy doing it and share my opinion about different kind of products with you. I really appreciate every single reader and I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your support. Thank you all! ♥
I’m sorry I cannot offer you the hugest prizes, but I hope you’ll like what I chose to spend to the lucky winner of my giveaway. She/He will get Skinfood’s Vita Water Drop CC Cream. I did a review some time ago and I own this CC cream by myself and I really enjoyed using it, especially now since the weather is warmer. I will order the prize at the end of the giveaway time and the winner can choose which design she/he wants. Also, the giveaway is open internationally. :D
The giveaway will end on 31st of August and the winner will be chosen with help of rafflecopter. You can take part in the gadget below. Please don’t cheat. I’ll check the entries.
a Rafflecopter giveaway

If you want to share the banner of the giveaway on your blog you can use the code below:


 

Hope you’ll have fun with this giveaway and good luck to all of you!
PS: This is my blog post no. 100! :D

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Review: Nature Republic Fresh Hawaiian Seaweed Pack

29. July 2013
Hey there ♥
I saw these new packs from Nature Republic a while ago and since they looked so nice and exotic and really made me feel like summer I decided to try some. There are three different packs you can try: Hawaiian Fresh Seaweed Pack, Hawaiian Fresh Mango Pack and Hawaiian Fresh Pineapple Pack. The packs are available either in a tube for several time usage, or for single use in a cute little plastic container. I’m reviewing Hawaiian Fresh Seaweed Pack today, which works as a peel-off mask.

The packaging is really nice and shows a tropical scenery with a palm leaf and flower and seaweed. I really like how the packaging is designed, since it represents the ingredients of Hawaiian deep sea water, hibiscus flower and Seaweed extract. Seaweed shall help to clear your pores and make your skin smooth.
The pack has a gluey and sticky consistency and has a green color with darker particles inside (seaweed particles?!).
The small plastic container can be used for one time, except you spreed it only very thinly, then it can make two uses perhaps. The scent is very fresh and pleasant. I also put it into the fridge before, so I had an extra cooling effect, which was really nice. I left it on for 20 minutes around, until all the pack was dried. I could peel it of very easily afterwards. I felt clean and refreshed and my skin was soft. It was really a pleasant effect. Also I liked that this was a peel-off mask, so you really had the feeling that it did some cleaning on your face XD.
The full sized tube contains 120 ml and the small pack contains 8 ml.
You can get it at testerkorea for 7500 Won (~8 US$) and 1500 Won (~2 US$), respectively. Shipping depends on weight. If I would repurchase it, I would buy the bigger tube, mainly because I think it is easier to squeeze the pack out of a tube than take it out with the fingers :D
Rating:
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