Ruyi | Retinol & Vitamin C Essence

This is fairly similar to the Lucenbase ones, usually sold at higher pricing though. I got it at a good price (better pricing to Lucenbase) to try it out to see the difference. 

The transparent ones is Vitamin C and milky ones is Retinol. 

The vitamin C content feels much stronger, not recommended to use directly after toner, we should buffer it with hydraulic acid, Astragalus essence or recombinant collagen essence first before applying. (Which means I will need more essence if I use this = higher price). I tried to use directly the first time and I feel slight tingling feeling and itchiness on my face (I think I have sensitive / fragile skin). With buffer, it works fine. 

The vitamin A part is alright though, it feels more gentle and can be used directly.

Rating: 3 out of 5. Because it would incur more cost if I continue use it after I ran out of the Astragalus essence. I can't use it with Astaxanthin Essence for sure as it definitely would make my skin worse off (due to the slight allergy mentioned in an earlier post).

Lazada official Ruyi store link: RUYI | Anti-Aging Collagen VC Essence (Best price per piece is to buy 120 pieces - 4 boxes at their offcial store, not other stores. Wait for the price to go below $50 to ~$4x to buy, $3x pricing is pretty rare, I only saw it once hence my purchase)

Shopee link: Ruyi whitening essence (different name but is the same product) - $1x per box of 30pcs, good for trying due to lower single box pricing but Lazada is cheaper if you buy more.

Verdict: only get it if you are after higher potency product and is willing to spend on the extra products required to support the usage.

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RUYI | Whitening Moisturizing Anti-Spot Repairing Mask

I had gotten the Ruyi | Whitening Moisturizing Anti-Spot Repairing Mask as free gifts for the various Ruyi products that I had purchased to date. 

My skin felt very hydrated and firm after each use. Due to the Whitening effect, it is not recommended to use during days that we are doing self-guasha on our face; can only use during the "rest" days where we are doing light lifting massage for absorption, after applying serum, put the mask for 15mins then take away, pat the remains into our face then apply moisturiser and that's it.

Rating: 4 out of 5 as it is not the most versatile type

Official lazada Ruyi store on this product: RUYI | Whitening Moisturizing Anti-Spot Repairing Mask (Based on my computation, the best price per piece is with 105 pieces purchase, not 125 pieces, if you plan to purchase it)

Medicube: PDRN Pink 1 Day Serum

I bought these from Shopee through new sign up promo and I had always wanted to try them!

Unfortunately, I feel that it was indeed moisturising but it feels very sticky on my skin after using. Very very sticky, even after applying a mask over it, the feeling doesn't go away. 

But since there are 10 pieces, I will still finish them up but maybe I should use half bottle each time hopefully there's a way to make it feel better and less sticky.

The bottle design is good, easy to twist open.

Rating: 3 out of 5 because the sticky feeling is still bearable and the bottle design is good. Minus 2 for the very sticky feel and I can't tell much about the actual effect apart from feeling that my skin is very sticky after use.

Anti-static Massaging Wide-toothed Comb Green Sandalwood

I bought a new Anti-static Massaging Wide-toothed Green Sandalwood Comb lately as the "tooth" of my plastic comb 💔 broke. 

As mentioned in the earlier post, the class I took covered the scalp massaging techniques. They kept selling the idea of doing scalp massage using Sandalwood comb (deer horn version - image above) and the ginseng + rosemary + polygonum multiflorum roller essential oil along with their usual course upsell. 

I was trying to see if there is a more effective way to just massage my entire scalp. To make my life easier and replace my broken comb, I bought a new Wide-toothed Green Sandalwood Comb and simply sprayed the hydrosol / essential oil mix onto my scalp, activate the meridians, then just use the comb to comb my hair from left to right 10 times for each area. It is the most efficient way that I could think of plus the comb's price is like <30% of the same Green Sandalwood deer horn pair. Plus I would have combed my hair so killing 2 birds with 1 stone. 🤭

Even as purely a comb, it looks not bad and is smooth and nice to use, I always like Wide-toothed ones more as it feels better when combing my hair.

(My Lazada referrer link: Wide-toothed Green Sandalwood Comb, for the version I actually bought)

I feel that the massaging effect mainly relaxed my scalp but I didn't get the darkened hair effect I was after, I couldn't feel much dandruff since the usage though.