Hello Girlfriends and welcome to another episode of Tried and Tested.
Today, we'll be trying out house brand beauty products from Watsons, Guardian, Sephora and Sasa.
These are Sephoras in house face wipes and we've featured the charcoal one in a previous episode.
Now we have the coconut, the papaya, pineapple, and watermelon!
So all of them have different properties.
So the coconut one is supposed to be soothing, papaya is to give you a glow, and
the pineapple is supposed to smoothing, and the watermelon is hydrating.
These 2 has the exfoliating side, but these 2 are just cleansing.
I've tried the pineapple one before and actually that's kind of what got me started on these wipes and they smell so good.
Just so pineapple-y and fresh there's a possibility that the scent being that strong isn't that great for your skin,
but it worked fine for me and I really loved the smell.
Now I'm actually quite interested in the watermelon one.
It doesn't even smell like watermelon. It just smells like some kind of makeup remover.
I'll try the papaya.
It smells like some kind of sweet tropical flower.
I wouldn't say it smells like coconut water, but I know for sure that the pineapple really smell like pineapple, so...
Yas!
So much better. It's very refreshing, and it's fruity, and it really perks you up, so pineapple for me is the favourite.
Let's try coconut water on this side and then the papaya one on this side.
It doesn't feel like it's very wet. But I think it's pretty good at removing makeup.
And what I love most about these wipes is that they don't leave sticky or oily or any type of residue.
After I finish using it, I can totally not rinse and it would feel very comfortable.
And the cloth is also pretty soft, and I kind of like how it feels cloth-like.
So the papaya one is slightly different because it has an exfoliating side as well as a non-exfoliating side
whereas the coconut water one is just purely cleansing wipes.
For me, I don't usually use the exfoliating side unless I'm maybe out and feeling particularly greasy
because I do find that it's slightly rough sometimes, but I think you can take it and gently exfoliate.
For the fragrances that I like, it's a 10.
For the rest, I feel like it's really personal preference.
Sephora actually has a huge range of brushes, and one of my favourite one from Sephora is this one.
It is the PRO Featherweight Blending Brush #93 and it's quite interesting because
it's very long and it's got a tapered finish and it's also quite feathery.
I kind of use it for my blush, for my highlighting, for my setting powder, everything.
I really love how it picks up product very sparingly and how it deposits it on your face.
And I feel like it spreads it out, it disperses the powder very lightly everywhere.
This one I feel like, just picks up just the perfect amount.
So you pick up on the side, you can do it this way, you can do it like,
I just kind of go all over.
So I guess like, hit it with the side first and then blend it out.
I love how it allows you to build up the product very slowly.
Because you can do really fine layers and that to me is great because it gives you incredible control.
This is an amazing brush, I give this a 10/10.
This is the Watsons Spa Warm Eye Mask and it's a self-heating mask that heats up to 40 degrees celcius
and it helps to moisten and soothe your tired eyes
and you can really pamper yourself for 10 minutes everyday, in your own little spa session!
It's got a lavender scent, and they also say that if you have a wound, swelling, rash or any other skin problem around the eyes, you shouldn't use this.
So I have a possible sty that is forming, I'm still trying to keep it down,
so I'm going to leave it off this eye and just on this one.
Oh! It really does have the heart! Oh my goodness! That is so cute! I will just show you.
Oh! Ok it's starting to heat up.
Right now it is heating up quite nicely, and it's very relaxing.
Like a warm pack on aching muscles always feels good,
so a warm pack on your eye muscles, which we use all the time and get very tired even though we don't realise it,
is actually really relaxing.
I don't smell any lavender, nope.
It does smell a bit like the dentist.
This feels nice. I think that the heart shape is super adorable.
It's not the most comfortable, I feel, because it's just a little bit stiffer on the edges, but it's alright.
It's not uncomfortable. It's just not super comfortable.
This is about SGD5.90 per pack of 5, so price wise it's a bit lower than the competitors,
but not by much, and I feel that the price difference with the competitors is actually very close,
but the quality difference is maybe a bit further.
So for this one, it still does the job, the main thing though,
is I feel that there is really no lavender smell, at all, and if they didn't say that they have a lavender aroma,
that'll be totally cool! But they do.
So I will rate this 5.5/10.
These are cotton pads from Guardian's house brand and they are ultra soft,
100% cotton and this is what we've been using for a very long time!
We use a ton of cotton pads on this show, so we had to find something that was cost efficient but also effective.
so we tried some that were cheaper but man! They were just fluffing everywhere,
get caught in the mascara, everything, that like like 'no, no, no!'
But this is really good! I feel that this does fluff a little bit, but quite minimally.
I like this because I feel that it's very soft, and also absorbs a good amount of product without eating all of it.
And it does the job really well. And also I feel that the price point is very attractive.
The Daiso ones is also not bad, but it works out to be more expensive.
I've also tried out some really expensive cotton pads, and I find sometimes that they absorb so much product that you end up wasting more product?
But for this one it doesn't do that.
Are there better cotton pads out there? Definitely.
But for this price point, I feel like these are really good,
so I will give this a 8/10.
This is Guardian's very own dual ended foundation and concealer brush.
The brush has a pretty nice density. It's very smooth, almost a bit waxy smooth.
And here, it's also got a nice firmness, and also the same super waxy smooth finish.
It's pretty comfortable on the skin, pretty easy to move around.
It doesn't drag my skin and it is very gentle. It doesn't seem to be eating up too much of my foundation either.
Smooth application, no streaks. So now I'm going to try the smaller end, which is for concealer.
I feel like the concealing side doesn't blend very well.
So the larger side for me works, the concealer side I'm not really a fan.
It's SGD18.90 for this brush. I think it's alright.
I feel that there are some other brushes around the same price point that also do a pretty good job.
Honestly with this, I feel that you're just paying for 1 brush.
I think I would give this a
7? 6.5. A 6.5/10.
This is a lash styling LED heated curler from Sasatinnie, which is Sasa's house brand.
And this has 2 heat settings, one is for thinner lashes, and 2 is for thicker lashes.
Also, they have an LED light so that you can use it in low light settings.
If you want to curl your lashes in the club?
This kind of looks like a thermometer. The minute you turn this on, the light comes on.
Compared to other heated eyelash curlers that I've used, I think this is taking quite a while.
I reckon I could have curled my lashes on both my eyes already.
Let me try if this works.
No, this is no.
I don't know why, but this is just not doing it. It is not doing anything.
It took a really long time to heat up, and then it got a little bit warm.
And then also as I was using it, nothing was curling.
My eyelashes look almost exactly the same.
The LED light is actually not helpful at all.
In fact I feel like it's blinding me. It's just very close to my eye,
so then I can't even see my own - I see more light then lashes. And there's no way to turn it off.
Well, it didn't work, so it'll be a 0?
You can use a heated eyelash curler on your bare lashes but there are some people who say that they should be used after your mascara.
So let's try that!
After you put mascara and you use this, it does open up the eyes,
but you do have to hold it for quite an amount of time, at least 20 seconds for it to really kind of open up.
I think I would give this a 6?
Because it does do the job, it just takes a long time
and I would like the option of having it used on my bare lashes because I've seen that before and I know it can be done.
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Rating, awesome/10.
Ok, till next time, muah, go be beautiful!
