Lip tints~~~

So I am not sure why, but toward the end of my last module, I started to have this "want" to buy lip tints.. So I caved and did stress induced purchases.. I bought quite a few of them.. Hahahahaha... So bad!  I'll do a review on a few of them so I hope you don't mind close up shots of my lips....Also, because how much I ramble and how much swatches there are, this will be a LONG post! Please be patient!  

ReEn Yungo The First Cleansing Treatment

Hiiiii~~~~~ I am back!!!!! I finished my exam last month and have a month of free time~~ Yay~~~ Back to normal life!!!! 

Anyways~ I been neglecting my skin because I just am too tired and lazy to do anything every day. That decision has caused havoc on my skin and I am currently trying to remedy that mistake. Because I haven't been using much products, I am doing a review on hair product instead of skincare. But don't worry. I may have went a few little stress induced shopping trips when I was avoiding studying. So there will be more things to post about in the future.

Okay, back on topic. Today's post is about ReEn Yungo The First Cleansing Treatment. I got this from Global Interpark for about $10 CAD back in October. If you are in Canada, you should be able to find it at your local T&T supermarket for about $20 CAD. Yikes on the mark up, but that's T&T for you.

I was super impressed by the look of this shampoo when I got it! I absolutely love the design of the box. It's so simple but so pretty. It's got those flowers embossed on a simple white box. So pretty!! (♥ω♥ ) ~♪ I may have kept the box just because it's so pretty. ೕ(˃̵ᴗ˂̵ ๑)

Little background on my hair. I have pretty weak, fine and thinning hair due to PCOS. I have to switch my shampoos every few months as my hair would start to look "greasy" just hours after I washed it. It looks super bad since my hair is so fine, it looks like I haven't washed it for days. Yuck. And because my hair is thinning, you can see "bald" spots when it gets weighted down. To make the matter worse, I would get lots of dandruff so it's a complicated situation. The only good part of having fine thinning hair is that I basically don't have to brush it at all. I can just wake up and not brush my hair and it still looks perfectly fine.

I used to switch between the Shiseido Tsubaki Damage Care shampoo and Head & Shoulders dandruff shampoo. These shampoos along with my conditioner kept my hair smooth and free from tangles. But I thought I would give the Yungo treatment a try and see if it helps with my dandruff and greasy roots problem.

The Yungo treatment/shampoo is actually red! I was surprised when I first saw it. It has a nice floral herbal scent to it. Normally I am against these kind of scents but this is a light and pleasant scent that I came to accept. It does linger though! I can still smell it after my hair is dried, so if you are sensitive to smell, this may not be for you.

The treatment actually doesn't lather well, but it does leave my hair feeling squeaky clean. Good thing right???

Well... No.... Let me explain...

 After the first wash, my hair looked nice and clean and I didn't have to bust out the dry shampoo the next day. Yay! Downside is, I woke up with a HUGE tangled mess at the back of my head. What's a girl to do besides just gently brush it out? I thought if I added more conditioner that would help, but nope, it didn't help at all.

Fast forward to March, I am still getting huge tangled mess at the back of my head every morning. I am getting comments from my mother saying how my hair has thinned out even more. Yet I am still using the shampoo for some odd reason. I knew it was the treatment/shampoo that was causing the big mess every morning but I just didn't bother switching from it. Until one day I was showering and just had CLUMPS of hair coming out. ( ͒˃⌂˂ ͒) That was the last straw for me and I immediately switched back to my Shiseido shampoo.

It's now 5 weeks since I switched back to Shiseido and I have to say it's been a slow recovery for my poor dying hair. ( ≧Д≦) The Shiseido shampoo has helped in restoring my hair such that I no longer wake up with a huge tangled mess every morning. It didn't completely eliminate it, only slowly reduced it. If I move around a lot in my sleep, I end up with a big huge mess in the exact same spot and would have to carefully brush it out. I think it's going to take a LONG time and probably some hair masks to restore my hair. I got some Skylake shampoo to try but at this stage, I think I am going to focus on restoring my hair before possibly damaging it again.

While I appreciate how the treatment allowed me to have a dry scalp with no dandruff, the fact that I have to spend 5 minutes holding my hair at the roots and trying to brush out the tangles every morning completely outweighs any benefits I can see from the treatment. I don't know what hair type this treatment will be good for, but I know for sure my hair did not like it and the half finished tube is going in the garbage.

Last thing.. I found out I passed my module today!! YAY!!!!!!!!! Now I got two weeks before the next module start.... But YES!! I passed!!! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

*Update* I FINALLY got my hair back to normal!! It took a long time but I finally got it to the point where I don't wake up with a big mess on the back of my head every time I wake up. 

Leaders Cosmetics Canada

Hi everyone!

Yay!!! My first module is done and I am free for a month to do whatever I want!! Yay!!! Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

Okay, back to business.

I did a haul from Leaders Canada back in December. I was super pleased with my experience as everything was in Canadian dollars and they were beyond generous with the samples! I ordered $50 worth of masks (16 masks in total) to get free shipping and received 10 additional masks as freebies! How awesome is that?! ( •̀ᄇ• ́)ﻭ✧

A photo posted by @addictedtocrafts12 on Dec 11, 2015 at 6:10pm PST

I did plan on doing a whole post just on these coconut gel masks, as I really liked them. Unfortunately school got involved and I had to drop everything to focus on that. Even more unfortunately, Leaders ended up repackaging and reformulating most of the coconut gel masks in January. That is why you see most of them as out of stock on the website.

Now all of my masks are out of date and it seems kind of silly to do posts on out of date products. So I won't be doing a post like I originally planned to. But based on what I read so far on Instagram, the repackaged reformulated masks are even better! I will purchase and test them once they are on the Leaders Canada website. Until then, I just want to put the word out there for all my fellow Canadians that there is a legit Leaders Canada website you can purchase the products from! I would also recommend emailing them and asking if there are any sales going on! I did and they gave me an introductory coupon code for 30% off!!  ✧٩(•́⌄•́๑)

*Update* Hmm, it looks like Leaders Canada is gone as quietly as it came.. The website is gone now. So I guess they decided the Canadian market is just not worth it. Oh well. Too bad.. I'll order straight from Korea then.

Update

Hi!

I just want to pop up and do a quick update! I recently went back to get my designation so that means I am basically spending my spare time studying and brush up on things I have forgotten since I graduated. So.... That means I will be updating the blog even more sporadically than I did before.. I do apologize but school is really killing me! (X╭╮X)My skincare routine is now basically cleanser and facial spray. I am just glad we are having a super warm February in Cow Town so my skin isn't drying up.

Once again, sorry about the lack of updates in the upcoming future. But hopefully I'll be able to do some more posts once I am done the course in April. (๑◕︵◕๑)

[JOLSE] Benton Honest TT Mist Review

Yay!!! It's my first and probably last sponsored review!!!!! Let me start it off with a story~~

So Jolse went on r/AsianBeauty back in November selecting 40 reviewers for the Benton mist and I submitted my name for it. They also had a similar process on their website and I also submitted my name. Hey.. Why not increase my chances right..

Fast forward to middle of November and I was browsing on their website and saw the banner for the list of winners. I was sad to see my name wasn't on there but that reminded me to check out Reddit. And what did I see?!?!?! OMG ~~~~ I won~~~~~~!!! o(*≧□≦)o But then.. I realized.. I missed the deadline to give them my address.... .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·. What's a girl to do????

I emailed them and explained how I missed the deadline. Jolse graciously replied back saying they will still send it out! Yay!!!!

I anxiously waited and waited but it still wasn't here by the posting deadline of January 8, 2016... But.. What do you know.. I get the mist a week after the deadline. Thanks a lot Canada Post... ┐(￣ー￣)┌

Anyways, here is my honest opinion of the Benton Honest TT Mist.

First and foremost. I DO NOT like this mist at all. It has nothing to do with the product but rather the product design. Every time I sprayed the mist on my face.. I feel like I am being bombarded heavily with water. The nozzle just dispenses too much liquid with too much force. I have to hold it at an arms length to not be splashed with so much product that it's dripping off of my face. If it feels like my face is being rained on every time I use it, I am not going to like this product. Sorry Benton!

1 full pump, it's very poorly distributed. 

On the plus side, I do like how it is designed aesthically. It's only 40ml so it would be very clunky to have it in a bottle. I like the tube design. It makes it much easier to slip into a bag than a bottle. The simple black and white design is very appealing to me but I have a preference for black and white items.

Let's move on to the actual product. This is made with tea tree water instead of plain water. I am so glad this mist doesn't smell ANYTHING like tea tree!!!! Tea tree is up there on my list of smells I will absolutely avoid. I refused to use this tea tree mask that works really well due to the smell. So the lack of tea tree smell is a big plus for me. The fact that it doesn't have any discernible scent is even better!!!

 Ingredients: As per the package. 

Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Leaf Water, Sodium Hyaluronate, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea tree) Extract, Butylene Glycol, Aloe Barbadenisis Leaf Juice, Glycerin, Althaea Rosea Root Extract, Aloe Barbadenis Leaf Extract, Beta-Glucan, Poly Glutamic Acid, Aspalathus Linearis Extract, Portulaca Oleracea Extract, Psidium Guajava Extract, Zanthoxylum Piperitum Fruit Extract, Pulsatilla Koreana Extract, Usnea Barbata (Lichen) Extract

Oooooh~~~ Sodium Hyaluronate is the second ingredient!!! I am always excited to see that high up in the ingredients list! 

Love that there's instructions in both Korean and English!

I been using the mist right after my toner, and I hate to say it.... The tea tree water doesn't work as effective as the Snail Bee Essence. I know there has been problems with the preservatives in the Snail Bee Essence previously but it worked wonderfully against all of my brother's breakouts. Whereas this, I am using it right after toner and I am still getting break outs. In fact, I got two huge painful under the skin bumps on my cheeks right after I started to use the mist. After I stopped for a few days, they kind of went down. I currently have quite a bit of breakouts on my chin and I been using the mist. So far, it haven't helped calm or reduce any of it... 乁░ ‾́  ‾́ ░ㄏ

But... then I realized.. I had misconceptions about the product! This is a moisturizing product! Not targeted toward breakouts at all!! I really thought it was for calming down breakouts like the Snail Bee Essence. But the description on the tube says it is to "help improve your rough and damaged skin from stress and pollution with moisturizing and cooling effect".  I should've known after seeing Sodium Hyaluronate as the second ingredients.. I think including "TT" in the product name and  advertising it is made from Tea Tree water is a bit misleading for a moisturizing product.

Okay, so it's a moisturizing product. So now let's view its moisturizing ability. I would say it's quite good with refreshing my skin and keep it moisturized. After I spray and pat in the mist, my skin feels softer and more moisturized. I even tried to spray it while I am at work, where I have a mini heater on at all times. My skin was so much softer and happier after using it.

My final thoughts on Benton's Honest TT Mist is that the tea tree water does nothing against breakouts for me but it is quite a good moisturizing mist. Would I purchase it? No I would not. even though it's portable, and a good product. I absolutely hate the nozzle and how unevenly distributed the mist is. I don't want to sit in public and look like an idiot trying to distribute the mist and pat it in. ＼| ￣ヘ￣|／

Last thought! Thanks again to Jolse for sending the product out for me to try!