Body Slimming Cream and Essence Review

Its the holiday season...and that means body makeover!!! As slimming centers are too expensive for my tiny pockets, I opt for slimming creams instead. I bought three types of slimming cream for comparison. They are Mustajab Ginger Cream Extra Hot, Beautee Chili Slimming Cream and ZA Wonder Shaper Body Shaping Essence.

Beautee Chilli comes in a round plastic container with a big opening which makes it easier to scoop the cream out. The cream is pink in colour and has the thickest consistency of the three. Mustajab cream comes in a plastic squeeze tube. The cream is pale pink in colour and has the consistencey of a baby lotion. ZA wonder shaper comes in a round, tall plastic squeeze bottle. The gel-like cream is green in colour and quite watery.

This is what it looks like when I apply the creams on my skin.

The Beautee chili cream has a spicy chili fragrance and my skin felt hot after applying it. To make sure the cream is totally absorbed, I applied plastics wrap after using the cream..all I can say is burn baby burn! Mustajab Cream has a very strong ginger fragrance (which will disappear after 2 minutes). After applying it my skin felt super cold even though the packaging says extra hot. I guess it'll depend on your own body type and skin. ZA Wonder Shaper has the most nicest fresh fragrance of all. After applying it, my skin felt some tingling sensation. All three cream has normal absorption rate and my skin felt not sticky after using it. I can quickly dress up and go! Verdict : I would repurchase the Beautee Chili Cream as I love the hot burning effect it has. I dont' mind the chilli fragrance as it tends to disappear after 5 minutes. All three creams will have some effect to tone up the body, provided that it's used regularly. Since i'm not that kinda gal..I have a long way to go...*sigh*

Beautee 3D Mask Review - Green Apple Oily & Acne Mask

Facial mask is a must for beauty buffs everywhere. I don't really consider myself a beauty buff (maybe just a buff? ha! ha!) but I do sometimes use masks in my beauty routine (usually over the weekend). My sister and I decided that we'd like to try out masks from Beautee and end up purchasing quite a number of them. So this time around, I would like to do a review on Beautee 3D Mask.

Yup. I bought four masks (charcoal, green apple, green pea and gold powder) along with two soothing solution.

There are eleven types of Beautee 3D Mask:

Charcoal - For all skin type, specially for oily and purifying skin. Moisturizes skin, stimulate tissue regeneration and detoxifies skin to facilitate toxic elimination.

Coffee - For all skin type. Revitalizes and refreshing while restoring vitality of skin cells and moisturizes skin.

Gold Powder - For all skin type, except Hyper-Sensitive skin. Rejuvenate cell and skin suppleness and elasticity, helps reduce wrinkles, fine lines and anti-aging. Gives you a smooth and fair complexion.

Green Apple - For oily and pimpled skin. Removes excess fat, revitalize blood, ease nerves, clear acne and lighten pigmentation. Desensitized irritant and soothes inflammation. Has antiseptic effect on acne and helps prevent further breakout.

Green Pea - For oily and acne skin. Purify and remove excessive oil formation within skin layer, reducing accumulation of sebum secretion (to prevent the clogging of skin pores) and provides sufficient moisture to skin.

Lily - For dry, dull and loose skin. Firming and reducing wrinkles. Drastically improves hydration and elasticity. Helps reduce the sign of aging and gives a healthy glow.

Lavender - For all skin type, specially for sensitive and irritated skin. Soothing, cooling, moisturizing effects soften and calming epidermis. Provide the skin softening, healing and anti-inflammatory. Builds a healthier, lighter and smoother relaxed skin.

Oat - For dull, dehydrated and loose skin. Restoring skin elasticity. Keeping skin soft and smooth.

Soybean - For all skin type, specially for pigmentation skin. Effective for eliminating pigmentation, freckles and black spots. Leaving skin fresh and healthy resulting in lightened and delicate skin.

Redbean - For sensitive, dry and irritated skin. Supplying moisture directly to the tissues. Being an excellent Hydrator and UV light absorber. Provides the skin softening, healing and anti-inflammatory. Give soothing effect to skin.

Vegefiber - For all skin type. Highly effective in removing dirt and impurities. Enables to penetrate deep into skin layer in cleansing away unwanted wastes and dead old skin cells which causes blockage of skin pores. Paving the functions of detoxifying and purifying.

These masks comes in the form of powder and have to be mixed either with Beautee Mask Solution or mineral water. You can actually use purified tap water but don't use water straight out from the tap because tap water contains chlorine.

There are three types of solutions offered by Beautee:

Lifting Solution - For dull, dehydrated and loose skin. Creates natural glow and healthy radiant for mature skin. Enhance mask to achieve smoothing and moisturizing effect.

Whitening Solution - For all skin type, specially for skin with pigmentation. Promotes fairer and whitening effect, fairer to skin. Enhance mask to achieve rejuvenate and combat skin pigmentation.

Soothing Solution - For all skin type, specially for sensitive and irritated skin. Normalizes the suppleness of skin, calms irritation and inflammation. Enhances the mask to achieve soothing effects of the skin.

Each package of mask costs RM7 and the solutions also costs RM7.

For my first time trying the mask, I opted to try the Green Apple mask since my face is having a breakout party time. To use the mask, you would have to mix 1 1/2 spoon of the powder with 2 1/2 spoon of the solution/mineral water/purified tap water. I wasn't sure of the size of the spoon needed so I used a Baskin Robins spoon since I deemed it as having the most ideal size (not too big and not too small).

Scooping out the powder

The soothing solution is a nice looking greenish liquid and is quite thick. The colour makes me think of kiwi or lime jelly.

So, now I am scooping out the solution onto the powder mask.

Scooping out the solution

Here's what the concoction looks like before the powder and the solution is mixed together:

Here's what the mask looks like after the powder and the solution had been mixed together:

The next step is to apply the mask evenly on the face. There are some bits and pieces of particles (herbs/apples? I am not really sure) in the mask.

 The almost evenly spread mask on my skin (can you see the bits and pieces of particles?)

This is how the mask looks like whilst it is half-drying on my skin:

The bits and pieces of particles are more evident now

The mask is supposed to be left to dry on your skin for about 20 minutes. But seeing that by the time my 20 minutes are almost up, the mask is still partially dry (I guess I put too much on my skin) so I let it sit for another 20 minutes. Peeling the mask off is not that difficult except for the parts where the mask was spread on thinly and over the borderline of my hair/eyebrows. Over those patches I had to scratch my face gently to get it out. As for the rest, the mask was quite easy to peel off.

After the mask is peeled off, the instruction says that we have to gently rinse our face with water. I'm not sure about the removing of excess fat part (as mentioned on the package) but my skin did felt clean and less irritated. After a few hours my skin did not get oily as it usually did on non-mask-wearing days. I guess it does control the oil secretion for a bit.

Is this a repeat buy for me? Well, I am not really sure because I am quite lazy when it comes to peeling off the mask after it has dried out. Maybe after I have finished all the other masks I might ponder upon the decision to buy or not to buy again.

Beautee Cool Cream Cleanser Review

Cleansers are most important for everyday use to remove make-up, dead skin cells, oil, dirt and other types of pollutants from the skin of the face. I actually had finished off my cleanser a few days back so I am currently in the hunt to find me a new cleanser. After being sucked into the 'Let's buy! Let's buy!' zone and hooked on the Beautee Ampoulees, my sister and I decided to try their Cool Cream Cleanser. This cleanser costs RM35 and bought via online (thanks to my online shopping enthusiast sister).

This cleanser comes in a 30ml pump bottle and is formulated in France (as mentioned on the bottle itself). It can be used as a cleanser or as a mask depending on how you use it. The description at the back of the bottle stated that 'This special cooling sensation cleanser can thoroughly clean skin and penetrates skin to soften dead cells and black heads. It also helps to soothe uncomfortable skin condition and reduce excessive sebum on skin'.

To use as a cleanser, you only have to apply the cleanser onto your face, massage gently and then rinse off.

To use as a mask, you have to apply the cleanser onto your face, massage gently if you want to and leave it on your skin. There are certain time limits that you have to follow depending on your skin type.
Normal to dry skin: 3-5 minutes
Oily and open pore skin: 10-15 minutes
Sensitive skin: 10-15 minutes
Pimpled skin: 15-30 minutes

The active ingredients of this cleanser (as stated at the back of the bottle): water, honeysuckle, root of red rooted salvia angelica and lavender.

The bottle is surprisingly small and compact but the size is just nice enough for me to hold firmly and pump the cleanser unto my palm.

The texture of the cleanser is somewhat like lotion and is white in colour. The smell of the substance is subtle and doesn't crowd into my nostrils. It smells of a light clean scent. For me it's important to use a nice and clean smelling cleanser so that it gives me a clean feeling while using it. To cover my whole face, the amount of cleanser I needed is in the size of 20 cents. Make sure you pump the exact amount that you need before applying the cleanser because I did the mistake of pumping out too little and realized that the amount of cleanser wasn't enough for my face so I had to push the pump with the base of my palms since my fingers were all sticky and smeared and I ended up making quite a mess. Huhu..

The cleanser is not a frothy type of cleanser. All I did was spread it onto my face and did a little massage and then leave it on my skin for 10-15 minutes. You can take a nap if you like while waiting for the time to pass.

Rinsing the cleanser off my face is the most fun part. Once water touched my skin I immediately felt a cooling sensation (just like the bottle said it would!) and it stays that way all the while I was rinsing the cleanser off. I really mean it. It was really cool and cold! Almost like ice water hitting your skin. Nice and refreshing. It can really be used as a wake-me-up cleanser in those sleepy and lazy mornings. The cooling sensation does not fade away for a few minutes after I had rinsed off my face. This is definitely going to be my pick-me-up things to use.

I have yet to see the effect of using this cleanser in a long run. I think this could be a repeat buy for me just for the cooling sensation alone. Thumbs up for this! :)

Additional info (added a week later):
I actually ran out of this cleanser after a week of using it. And the small opening of the bottle makes it quite hard to scoop out the remaining cleanser out. I guess using it everyday (once in the morning and once before bedtime) makes the bottle of cleanser finish off faster. For RM35 a week I guess it's kind of expensive to maintain.

Beautee Ampoules Review

An ampoule (also ampule or ampulla) is a small sealed vial which is used to contain and preserve a sample, usually a solid or liquid. Ampoules are commonly made of glass, although plastic ampoules do exist. (source: From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia).

Women will go to many lengths to be beautiful and ampoules are currently getting quite the rave and attention of beauty buffs. One of the brand that is currently being sold via online is Beautee Ampoules.

 There are quite a number of types of ampoules to choose from.

1. Eye care - Reduce eyes puffiness and dark circles
2. Firming - Lifting and firming for matured skin
3. Hydrating - Replenishes moisture
4. Open pore - Minimize open pore
5. Purifying - For acne, pimples and oily skin
6. Soothing - Prevent irritation and calm skin
7. Vitamin C - For anti oxidant and radiant glow
8. Whitening - Whitening effect for dark skin
9. Collagen - For pre make up, moisturizing and promote glowing skin
10. Clarifying - For stimulation of cell renewal and diminishes scars
11. Bust - Lift sagging bust, improve blood circulation

To open the vial, you will have to break off the top with a tissue to avoid cutting your fingers with the shards of glass. Hold it firmly and pull the top of the glass towards you. Then you can pour a bit of the liquid unto the palm of your hand.

Once a vial had been opened, you will have to finish the concentrated liquid of goodness to ensure that you'll get the utmost benefit from the ampoules. As for me, I usually divide the usage of one vial to three usage. After I opened a vial and used 1/3 of the content, I would put the opened vial into an airtight container and put it in the fridge. Some people would advice for us to stuff the opening of the opened vial with a wad of cotton ball or tissue but as for me I just put in in the container then into the fridge and that's that. The vitamin C is the most concentrated ampoule (a bit yellowish in colour). Once you have opened the vial, you have to finish the liquid inside to ensure you'll get the utmost effect of the vitamin C. But I still divided the usage of the vitamin C ampoule same as the others. A little bit goes a looong way I'd say..hehe..

This is how the clear substance of the ampoule looks like (kind of looks like water but the texture is actually a bit more thicker):

Spread the ampoule liquid onto your face evenly. Then you can pat the liquid gently on your skin until it is fully absorbed.

I have been using the purifying, open pore and vitamin C ampoules for about a week. One vial of ampoules actually can last for about 3 usage. The purifying ampoules is a little bit thick and left my skin a bit oily after a few hours (can't really blame the ampoule though since my skin is very oily). The open pore ampoule is a little bit lighter and I like the feel of the substance on my skin since it didn't give me that oily feeling like other types of pore reducing products I've used. The vitamin C ampoule is one of my favourites. The texture of the liquid is smooth and easily absorbed by my skin. It didn't give me the oily effect and that is the most important thing for me. :) It made my skin felt smooth and healthy even after the first usage.

Well, for me this is a repeat buy since the ampoules didn't make my skin breakout and it did control a little bit of my oily skin. I'll be try the soothing ampoule next.