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.

Lucenbase: Vitamin A & C Essence Set

This is the first Vitamin A & C essence that I actually enjoyed using from Lazada. I feel that this version is value for money, I've bought the 120 pieces which is 3 boxes of 40 pieces each. 20 pieces of Vitamin A and 20 pieces of Vitamin C per box. It cost ~ $40+/- SGD varying with the promotion available. Each 30 pieces cost ~ $10.

The transparent ones is Vitamin C and the yellow ones is Vitamin A. Do note that we need to keep all these products away from light to ensure its potency. 

What I liked about this product set is that the single-use bottle is solid and easy to twist open. It's strength is just nice for my skin even when applied directly after toner. My skin absorbed the product relatively well after some slight lighting massage as I normally used the full bottle in 1 use.

Typically, Vitamin C every morning, I might apply optional other essence after it (about 1min later) to boost the anti oxidant effects if I had the time, e.g. Astragalus or Astaxanthin essence that I previously bought so I don't waste them (the other stuff). Vitamin A is applied at night about twice a week. 

I had slight allergy with Astaxanthin Essence (if I apply it directly, I get slight rashes / bumps about 30mins later, but it heals overnight after I applied aloe vera over it). Since I have 5 bottles of Astaxanthin Essence, in order not to waste my money, and it appears that if I apply the vitamin C before, my skin feels fine after with 2 drops of Astaxanthin Essence.

Overall, with this product my skin feels firm, hydrated and smooth after using it. Will definitely buy again when I am running out. I wish their Vitamin C ones could be sold alone so that it would work put better based on my usage. 

Rating: 5 out of 5 because I loved it

I bought this from Lazada's official store: Lucenbase: Vitamin A & C Essence Set.

Bioaqua: Hyaluronic Acid, Retinol & Vitamin C Essence

These single-use essence are the cheapest I found on Lazada but if we use the full bottle (1.5ml) in 1 use, my skin doesn't absorb it very well. It feels watery and moisturising and can be applied directly on my skin for all variations without any side effects but probably because it is somewhat diluted hence the low price. 

Personally I feel that the biggest downside of this product is that each bottle is super hard to open, simply twisting it doesn't work, easiest is to use scissors but it means we can't keep it after. The alternate way I discovered while trying to finish it is to pull from 1 side using our nails using all my strength and after like 2-3 times it finally opens a gap, from there I can then twist and pull open the cap. Definitely not good for use in the morning if you are in a rush of time.

Since it is moisturising and average kind of effective as Anti-oxidant, plus the low price, I decided to give the bottle version a try. I feel that the Vitamin Chief bottle might still be fine as I should be able to finish in 1 month but the Retinol version might be half wasted as I only use it like twice a week, so 1 month about 8-9 times. It would take about at least 3 months to finish the whole bottle and I am not sure if the freshness would still be there if I do that, so I regretted slightly after the purchase.

Rating: 2 out of 5 for the single-use version and 3.5 out of 5 for the bottle version

Lazada referrer links for the versions that I bought if you plan to check it out:

Single use version (~$5+ for 2 bottles)

Bottle version (~$3+ to $4+ per box depends on what you buy)

Verdict: I would say that I won't recommend these unless you have a tight budget on such products. Those that cost about $10+ for 1 month worth of products are much better. These feels kind of average just that it is super cheap. Bottle version is about 23% of other brand's pricing, single-use version is about 30% of other brand's pricing, exact pricing may vary with the discount offered by Lazada.