Pearlywerkz - Singapore Beauty and Lifestyle Blog: altheasg

Product Review: Welcome Althea A'Bloom Collection

Althea 5/02/2019

Congratulations Althea! You did it again!

Within a short span of time since they first launched their site, they came out with their own exclusives. Each time I hear news that something new from the Althea's exclusive column is launching, or that they have collaborated with celebrities to come out with their own products. I'll be beaming full of excitement, like a rabbit hidden within a magician's hat waiting to spring out once the magician's wand touches the hat.

This time, Althea launched its A'Bloom Beauty Playground. In this series, there are products such as makeup puffs, a blackhead remover and four interestingly themed fruit mask that can help you in your tacky face issues.

As an Althea Angel, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peak into what was going to launch. The kind ladies from Althea had send in the media kit containing the following items:

A'Bloom Mask in 4 assorted variants

Wanna make a guess which one did I tried on first?

Usage Directions:
After cleansing your face, apply your facial toner and apply the mask sheet on for 10-20 minutes.
Remove mask sheet and pat in remaining essence on your face.

Nourishing Avocado Mask (Avo-Cuddle-Me) - For Dry Skin
The mask sheet is infused with avocado extracts and hibiscus, nourishes your skin and protects it from harmful environmental factors. It also helps to prevent wrinkles.

My thoughts:
The Avocado Mask's serum felt thicker than the other variants. It was dripping when I lift up the mask sheet from the pack. It also had a gentle fragrance. When placed on the face, it had a tightening effect.

Moisturizing Watermelon (Water-Me-Long) - For Combination Skin

The mask sheet contains watermelon extracts and lavender to calm and hydrate your skin. Need something moisturizing, then this is for you.

My thoughts:
The watermelon mask is the most hydrating and moisturizing one of the four mask variant. It also brightens up my skin. This mask is stronger scented than the rest, it also had the most serum on it, but it turns out that the effects works the best for me and suits my skin the most. There was left over serum on my face after masking and it took a slightly longer time to absorb than the others.

Brightening Lemon Lime Mask (Sparkle-Me-Bright) - For Combination Skin
The mask sheet contains a double dose of Vitamin C from its lemon and lime extracts as well as green tea. Need a clarifying mask to brighten up your otherwise dull skin, try this.

My thoughts:
This was the very first mask I tried on a day after I received the media box. I liked that the face mask adheres nicely onto my small face. The single sheet mask sheet was thin but adequate. There were enough slits on the mask to allow easy placement on the face. The amount of serum was not overflowing, but the mask was generously coated with serum, with not much excess left within the pack.

The result was amazing as the face mask really helped brighten up my dull skin. There was a slight difference between the skin tone of my face and neck the following day when I checked on my face. My face did not break out, there was no allergy reactions or itchiness and my face felt fairly moisturized too.

Anti-Blemish Peach Mask (AC-Me-Peach) - For Oily Skin
This is an anti-blemish mask sheet infused with peach extracts along with tea-tree oil to regulate oil balance, moisture, and purify your skin. It also aims to soothe irritated sensitive skin.

My thoughts:
I used the Peach Mask after my face had a few new hormonal pimple popping out. I know its too late but better late than never right? The peach mask had a stronger fragrance compared to the Lemon and Avocado mask. My face felt okay but not significantly brighter or moisturized, yet comfortable and soothing during and after the masking. My pimple did not heal but seems to appear less inflamed after masking.

Each of these mask sheets retails at $0.60SGD / $5SGD for a pack of 10 same mask sheets. During the promotion period, (10+10) mask retails at $5.

Knowing that the modern stressful Asians always have blackhead issues, the team at Althea came up with the first ever Natural BHA stick also known as the A'Bloom BHA Blackhead Blaster to clean, unclog and protect your skin from black and white heads. With this amazing stick, you don't have to feel the pain when removing your black and white heads anymore.

Shaped like a lip balm, it contains the natural white willow, charcoal, apricot seed and tea tree leaf oil effective for gentle exfoliation, the packaging of the product makes it portable and easy to carry around. Something that you can easily place into your toiletries bag even when you need to travel.

Usage Directions:
After cleansing your face of all makeup, apply to areas with excess sebum. Gently massage in a circular motion to release the trapped oil and dirt. Finish off by rinsing with lukewarm water. For more effective cleansing, you may place a warm towel on your skin to open the pores before using.

My thoughts:
I used the BHA Blackhead blaster on my cheeks, nose chin area where my black and white heads are most prominent. I notice that after the scrub the area felt less oily and feels cleaner although I do not note any significant reduce in pore size in just a single usage, nor was my "deeply trapped" blackhead removed. Those small and pesky white heads however seemed to have been scrubbed off. Overall, I liked the product though in terms of effectiveness, it is still too early to judge.

*Bonus tip - This item can also be used to scrub your elbow and heel too. (But I won't recommend to use it on your face afterwards, for obvious hygiene issues.)

Each of these stick retails at $5SGD.

Every makeup enthusiast needs one of these in their makeup vanity table. Be it the experienced ones or the newbies. The A'Bloom Meringue puff is going to bring your makeup application game to the next level.

There are 2 sizes to choose from the giant and the babies. The Giant Meringue puff expands to 1.5x when soaked into water, blends easily with your makeup and gives you a matt or glossy finish (depending on if you use it wet/dry). The Baby Meringue puff are handy to carry out and does well on small and hard to reach areas.

Usage Directions:
For glowy dewy finish : Soak puff in running water and squeeze out water. Use the narrow part for eyes, nose, lip and curvy part of your face. Use wide part for the rest of your face. For matt finish, simply use it dry!

Caring Tips:
Be gentle with these puffs as they may rip or chip off if you exert too much force. Remember to clean your sponge frequently and replace them every 1-3 months.

Puff Cleansing Tips:
Soak puff in running water and wash with cleansing foam. Squeeze till dry and it dry completely in cool area.

Each of these giant meringue puff retails at $3SGD/pc. The baby meringue puff retails at $4SGD/3pcs per pack.

My thoughts:
Tried to use the giant meringue puff wet (photo above shows giant puff after expansion in size) and was rather amused by its expansion in size. It was very flexible hence able to reach out to various odd areas and makes my CC cushion very easy to blend. I loved it and have already bought myself another spare one to keep. I foresee I will be using these very often from now on.

I love Althea's product so much that before I tried on the mask, I had already purchased another 40+40 of these with the (10+10) promo! Key in "ABMASKS" on check out to get this deal. I'm so glad I did because I'm already done with these 4 pieces of mask by the time you read this review.

First timer on Althea? Click on Althea Link for 20% off your cart products.
Oh, You're very welcome.

For more snippets of me, beauty, fashion, lifestyle, food and product reviews do follow me on my social channels:

Pearlywerkz FB | Pearlywerkz IG | Pearlywerkz WWW
For collaboration opportunities please email me at: pearlywerkz@outlook.com

Disclaimer:

1) These products are sent to me by Althea KR for the purpose of my review for this collaboration. Thank you for all the love your team had showered me.
2) All photographs on this site belongs to the property of Pearlywerkz unless otherwise credited.
3) Do ask for permission if you wish to utilize any of the photographs used on this site.
4) Review is 100% honest and based on personal experience.

Share |

Product Review: Althea Exclusive Make-Up Products reveal

Althea 2/12/2019

Annyeong! Althea's biggest debut yet, this year when they launched their exclusive make-up box and range of exclusive make-up products. I was so excited to unbox this when I received them and I can't help but posted it on my Instagram. Really, I asked myself what have I done to deserve all this. Thank you Althea.

From Althea's Flawless Creamy Concealers to Watercolour cream tint, to eye palette, to eye glitter. I can't stop wow-ing at what's up and coming each time when I opened a new Althea Exclusive box. Since then, I've been diligently watching make-up tutorials, seeing how people put together their make-up so that I too, can put together mine.

Before I begin any make-up, I always ensure I have a clear canvas (Face), therefore I take care of my skin with Althea Bare Essentials . Always keep your skin fresh and clean so that your make-up can come on easily later on. For those who suffer from minor acne issues or post acne marks and needed some coverage, the team at Althea had recently launched the Althea Skin Relief Spot Flim Gel (15ml) $6.

This product contains tea tree oil, centella and pine leaf extract which helps to sooth your skin redness, treat your acne and repair your skin while it gently hides below your make-up. I personally prefer to use it when I do not have my foundation on as I tend to have less patience to wait for it to dry up completely before applying my base make-up. I do however find it extremely helpful to have in the make-up pouch for treating my pimples. I've tried to apply once, but ended with a flaky make-up around that particular area as it had not completely dried, making a mess of my make-up so be warned.

With the base of my canvas clean and acne spots covered and protected well, I will next apply Althea Petal Velvet Sunaway with SPF 50+ PA++++ . This serves as a base foundation and sunblock to block off the UV rays and what nots from entering my skin. If you prefer a lighter day make-up, you can use tinted sunblock as your make-up base instead of applying a layer of foundation on so that your face will not appear too heavy. Next up, I will try to guide you step by step on how I create my (Sunrise/ Day Look) and (Moorise/Night Look).

After application of your preferred cushion/foundation depending on your needs and preference I usually like to apply some Flawless Creamy Concealer $5/6g on some areas of my troubled skin. As you can see that I have a rather fair skin from my swatches, Vanilla is lighter than my skin tone and Ginger is closest to my skin tone, followed by Honey which is 1 tone darker. I like to sometimes use a darker shade of concealer on my skin to appear more neutral than fair. Darker concealers are also better in terms of coverage and contourings, compared to the lighter toned ones which works better as a highlighter. I use more Honey and Ginger to conceal and Vanilla for blending with my skin colour.

(Tip: Use darker coloured concealers to cover darker and harder to cover spots underneath your foundation and the lighter ones after you apply your foundation as they are harder to blend away).

My troubled spots are under my eyes, (some pigmentation spots on my nose and cheeks), as well as occasional acne spots. I'll apply Ginger and blend lightly with my make-up brush. For spots, blending them with your fingers or small concealer brush, dapping gently works best.

Next, comes the fun part which is a BCL X Althea Sunrise and Moonrise eye palette $46 (Quote BCL30 for 30% off during Althea cart out) made in collaboration with Bunga Citra Lestari (Indonesian Singer and Actress).

I usually play with single or double colours and tend to use more of neutrals, earth tones, pink and purple shades on my eye for my daily go-to-work look, but never really know how to work with more than 2 colours until my recent experiments with Althea's Exclusives and I am getting better at them. Yay!

(Tip for make-up starters, you can make use of the lighter shades as a base eye shadow and build up your eye make-up using colours of the same range (E.g- Nude/Brown/Pink/Gold) , (Pink/Red/Purple). There is no right or wrong when it comes to building your eye make-up as long as you are comfortable with the look you've created and make sure your eye make-up looks clean and not smudgy.

For my Sunrise Day Look:
I made use of the shimmery nude (Lightest shade of the palette) as my base, followed by light glitter pink on my inner eye areas and blending out with a pearly pink on my outer eyes. Ending off highlighting the centre of my eye, corners of my eyes and bottom inner part of eyes, with a touch of metallic gold. You can see subtle colours and gradients on my eyes but they are not over powering so this look is good for even office or dates !

Look is completed with Althea Watercolor Cream tint in Peach along with liquid foundation and Althea Pink Light Eye Glitter highlights, lightly blend out at the corners of my eyes.

For my Moonrise Night Look:

I made use of the rich brown as my base, followed by cool purple on the base, building upwards with the deep wine shade. For the centre highlighter, I made use of the metallic rose gold tone, also highlighting the inner corner of my eyes with the same shade. (This is also the same look you saw on my Instagram).

Look is completed with Althea Watercolor Cream tint in Strawberry along with BB cushion, eyeliner and Mascara and Althea Pink Light Eye Glitter lightly blended on my eye liners.

Bonus! For an extra bling bling sweet look effect. Add on the AAlthea Spotlight eye glitter $8/4.5ml in (Pink/Gold Light) as eye liners or to highlight the corners of your eyes. Don't forget your bottom eye lash areas too!

Lastly, add a touch of Althea Watercolor Cream Tint $7/4.5ml on your lips. My personal recommendations are the peach and marron colour for day use, plum and strawberry for night use or whichever you prefer according to your mood.

I hope you liked the 2 looks which I've created. Feel free to give me feedbacks and encouragements if you like what you've seen. Thank you for pampering us Althea Angels as always. I am very looking forward to your next new Althea Exclusive, while exploring new looks with this palette and heartiest congratulations to these make-up products I think they do really great.

For more snippets of me, beauty, fashion, lifestyle, food and product reviews do follow me on my social channels:

Pearlywerkz FB | Pearlywerkz IG | Pearlywerkz WWW

For collaboration opportunities please email me at: pearlywerkz@outlook.com

Disclaimer:

1) These products are sent to me by Althea KR for the purpose of my review for this collaboration. Thank you for all the love your team had showered me thus far.
2) All photographs on this site belongs to the property of Pearlywerkz unless otherwise credited.
3) Do ask for permission if you wish to utilize any of the photographs used on this site.
4) Review is 100% honest and based on personal experience.

Share |

Product Review: Althea Pore Purifying Serum Cleanser

Althea 1/07/2019

Have you already heard about Althea's brand new Pore Purifying Serum Cleanser? My house is stashed with Althea house brand products and so far every single one of them works quite well, especially the skincare products. I am so excited and I can't wait to try out their new release which is their make-up range!!!

I don't have a single complain at all when it comes to Althea's house brand because I believe the research team had gone into great lengths, trial and test to bring out the best in all the items before they labelled it their own. But maybe this one is just... different?

What is the Althea Pore Purifying Serum Cleanser:

Althea Pore Purifying Serum Cleanser is a cleanser and serum fused together. As it's name suggest, it not only helps to remove your make-up, dirt and oil. It is enhanced with mint extracts so that your skin stays cool and hydrated without drying out. It also helps to minimize enlarged pores and keep your skin's PH levels balanced.

This product looks more like a facial toner than a cleanser based on first impression and texture.

Key Ingredients:

♡ Mint leaf extract - Cools down the skin and soothes irritations
♡ Jojoba seed oil - Deeply moisturizes any dryness without feeling heavy
♡ Tea tree leaf extract - Has antibacterial properties that purify the skin

* Do remember to remove the internal protective foil before your first use.

Usage Direction of Pore Purifying Serum Cleanser:

There are 2 ways which you can make use of the Pore Purifying Serum Cleanser,

If you are using it to remove your make up:

♡ Pour an adequate amount of the product onto your palm.

♡ Massage the product all over your skin in circular motions to remove dirt and makeup.
♡ Rinse off the residue with water. You may also use a second cleanser to completely remove any residue.

Tip: You can also apply the cleanser to a cotton wool, wipe off your make-up and wash off the residue with water.

If you are using it to cleanse your skin:
♡ Dampen the skin and apply an adequate amount of the product onto your palm.
♡ Gently massage the product all over your skin in circular motions for 5-10 seconds before rinsing it off with water.

This is a gentle cleanser that is good for days when you have good skin as it feels very light on the skin. I have use it to remove my make-up products and they worked to remove them pretty well, even for my lipstick and eye make-up.

I do however, find it weird when I have to wash my face after applying this product as it does not suds well, hence giving me the "unclean" feeling after wash. I would still recommend to use the Althea Contour Cleanser instead.

I have since tested the pore purifying serum cleanser for a few times now, sometimes it seems to work ok, but there were also recent times where my face would flare up, turning red and itch badly after using them directly on my skin to remove my make up and rinsing off with water only. I would recommend a double cleanse with a normal face cleanser after using this product and not washing with water only.

**Those with sensitive skin should use this product with caution and do patch test before using on your whole face.**

Overall, I am having mixed feelings with this product. Maybe I should stop using the product until my face feels better.

If you would love to get one, its retailing at $11.00 SGD (150ml). You are also encourage to visit https://sg.althea.kr/pore-purifying-serum-cleanser for more information as well as to purchase. For a limited time only, grab your Althea exclusives and receive an althea sticker *while stock last, limited quantity only*.

For more snippets of me, beauty, fashion, lifestyle, food and product reviews do follow me on my social channels:

Pearlywerkz FB | Pearlywerkz IG | Pearlywerkz WWW

For collaboration opportunities please email me at: pearlywerkz@outlook.com

Disclaimer:
1) These products are sent to me by Althea KR for the purpose of my review for this collaboration. Thank you for all the love your team had showered me thus far.
2) All photographs on this site belongs to the property of Pearlywerkz unless otherwise credited.
3) Do ask for permission if you wish to utilize any of the photographs used on this site.
4) Review is 100% honest and based on personal experience.

Share |

Product Shout Out: Althea Real Fresh Skin Detoxer

Althea 11/17/2018

Do you remember when Althea was 3 years old, Althea send us the Althea angels a set of the lovely Real Fresh Skin Detoxer Face Mask in 2 variants:

1. Rose - Premium May Rose Petal (Refining)

2. Green Tea - Leaves from Jeju Island plantation

These are so easy to use! All you need is 10 seconds, not even minute, you don't have to sleep on them nor wait for them to dry up. What's more lovely is that they smell floral or gentle and works so well on almost everyone I know.

Direction:

1) After washing your face, dispense some of the Real Fresh Skin Detoxer and apply it onto your face.
2) Leave it on for about 10 seconds and wash off!

You can actually use this as a cleanser if you like. Just don't use it every day as it might be too much if your skin is sensitive.

A word of caution for sensitive skin people like me though, you should try to apply a thinner layer and do a patch test near your chin areas before applying to your whole face as this product may not work for everyone. You should also use them once - twice a week and not every day if you have a sensitive skin.

The results are amazing. They make my face clean, fresh and they smelled good too. I love them and can't really tell you which I love better. I've shared my opinion on this on one of my Instagram post too. Have you seen them?

Aside to that, Korea's famous influencer Minsco and Kpop star Jeonghwa from EXID also shared a video about this amazing product. Althea Korea did a product collaboration with Korea's top TV programme, Get It Beauty, called the Real Fresh Skin Detoxers.

You can try to load the video from here if the above doesn't load. https://youtu.be/en2lcVeMdxY but no worries, I have also included video snippets.

Jeonghwa in action, its so easy and fast to use that its faster than making a cup of coffee.

Minsco showing Jeonghwa the texture of the green tea skin detoxer.

Minsco guiding Jeonghwa on live on how to enhance the product further by incorporating a simple face massage.

Although most of us probably cannot understand it since it's in Korean, but I can tell both of them really love this product too. We should all try the facial massage too.

Enough said, I think its time for you to head over here: https://sg.althea.kr/real-fresh-skin-detoxer-set
to get one to try for yourself today! For a limited time only, you can get both at $25 (U.P $28) and there's free shipping too if you key in "PBSHIP" during your cart out.

For more snippets of me, beauty, fashion, lifestyle, food and product reviews do follow me on my social channels:

Pearlywerkz FB | Pearlywerkz IG | Pearlywerkz WWW

For collaboration opportunities please email me at:

pearlywerkz@outlook.com