Innisfree It's Real Sheet Masks Review

One of my aunts in Hong Kong is really into skin care. She has friends that really like the Innisfree It's Real line of sheet masks that are supposed to be similar to the My Beauty Diary ones. I really enjoy My Beauty Diary so she sent me a few of the Innisfree masks to try. So far I've tried the Manuka Honey, Gold Kiwi, Pomengranate, Acai Berry, and two other ones which I think were Cucumber and Bamboo. Sorry, no pictures today. I still haven't figured out why Blogger keeps changing the quality of my pictures.

Packaging: I only have the individual sheets so I don't know if they come in box form. I have not seen pictures of any box packaging though. The design is nice and clean with a picture of what the scent is on the front. The actual sheet itself is pretty thin but rougher than My Beauty Diary. After I take the sheet off, I like to rub it over my face to get the excess serum. Because of this, the difference in texture was pretty noticeable. However, if you don't normally do this, I don't think you would notice.

Scent: The scents are pretty light and fade pretty quickly. The manuka honey smells really bad though. Inside the package, it just smells faintly of honey. But once you take it out, it has a chemically, melted plastic type of smell that was terrible. Luckily, it faded away before it started making me sick.

Serum: Each sheet mask comes with 20mL of serum. The serum is more watery and less moisturizing than My Beauty Diary. I heard someone compare it to toner but to me, toner is a bit more watery. The serum gets completely evaporated or absorbed in about 45 minutes. The gold kiwi mask had less serum that the other scents. Based on the date printed on the packaging, it was not an older sheet. However, I don't have more gold kiwi masks to compare. It lasted 34 minutes, which is still longer than the 10-20 minute recommended use time.

Comments: I am not a fan of this line of masks. Maybe it's because I use these masks for longer than 10-20 minutes but after each use, I get a deep pimple 1-2 days afterwards. I've used six of these masks without changing anything else in my skin routine, diet, or sleep pattern but it always ends up with the same result. It's not even the small type of pimples that go away in a few days, it's the type that won't go away for 1+ weeks and tends to leave a mark on my skin. I normally rinse my face before putting on my nighttime moisturizer but that didn't help. The first 2 that I tried were used about a month apart with a pimple resulting each time. Then a few months later, I used 3 masks in a row which resulted in 3 deep pimples. It was extremely frustrating because my skin had been pretty nice before the masks. I should probably try using it only for the recommended 10-20 minutes but I'm not really willing to risk it. I still have the rose and aloe masks left but I'll probably just give them to my mom. 

Rating: 1/5

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