Beauty Product Reviews

After reading countless glowing reviews about this little jar of miracles I was sold. I have a *slight* obessesion with skincare products. I’ve tried products from the drugstore to the super pricey luxury, and everything in between. Unfortunately, I have never found anything I just absolutely love (with the exception of Sisley, buuuut I can’t justify consistently purchasing a $700 cream). With that said, I set out to find something amazing! This sounded like a winner. I promptly added the entire May collection to my cart, checked out, and impatiently awaited their arrival.

A bit about my skin before we go any further. I have combination skin, around my nose & chin I usually get dry patches, and a bit oily between my brows. Nothing extreme or unmanageable. I get the occasional pimples, usually appearing around my chin and forehead area. Maybe 1-2 at a time, nothing more. I have a good diet, drink plenty of water, supplements, and take what I think is pretty good care of my skin. My complexion is a bit dull though, I wanted to find something to help with those few little breakouts, large pores, and give my skin a beautiful glow.

Fast forward, package arrives. I rip open the box and examine my pricey new additions. Packaging is gorgeous, feels luxe, and as always, Beautylish has lovingly packed everything perfectly.

I decide to introduce one product at a time to my skin. Don’t want to make my skin angry, right? I have a few small pimples on my forehead, this arrived at just the right time! I decide to start with the problem solver, to you know, solve my breakout problem.

I was so excited about this product, I literally took a “before” photo for the first time ever. I could not wait to see the amazing changes my skin was about to undergo as all the reviews raved about.

Day 1, I use the mask as directed. I honestly hate the smell, it’s very odd. I’d rather smell Good Genes all day long over it, but for good skin I can suffer through the smell. There’s a slight tingling, burning feeling but nothing major. Moving on to day two. By mid-day I can see bumps under my skin forming. Maybe purging some reviews talked about? Okay, that’s fine whatever. I guess that means it’s really getting deep down in there? I decide to use it as a spot treatment, a dab it on the areas that night before bed.

Day three, my face is ANGRY. More bumps are forming under the skin, and the previous ones have made their way to the surface, they’re now large cystic like acne.

Fast forward a week, my face is continuing to worsen. I have no idea why but I did not connect it at the time to the mask. So what do I do? Let’s throw on another mask to help with this situation! And that’s what I did. The next my skin was far worse. Far, far, faaaaaar worse than I have ever seen it.

There are clusters of cystic acne all over my forehead, and new ones still forming under my skin. It’s covered in scabs. It HURTS. OMG does it hurt. I can barely touch my skin, it hurts to even wash my face and I have had to stop using all of my other skincare because it burns all the open sores so badly.

So I write this, as I sit in bed crying about my skin and how badly it hurts. I know, I know, there are much bigger problems out there. I’m sure it worked for a lot, but for me it was an awful mistake.

*sidenote: this was the only new thing added to my routine. Same diet, no new medications, same makeup, same skincare routine with my tried and true products. Adequate sleep, no stress, not that time of the month, etc.