MASKGENIE CHALLENGE

I am now doing a MaskGenie Challenge where I am going to use my masks and give simple reviews of them! I will use masks every 1-2 days until 1 January 2015, also providing photos and some details about them!!

Will you also accept the MaskGenie Challenge?

Your task will be to use 5 masks within 10 days, take photos of you and your mask, and write a short review about them!

Please also tag @MaskGenie and #maskgeniechallenge on Instagram each time you post!!!

Those who complete the challenge before 31 December 2014, will be in to win one of Genie's Favourite Masks Pouch!!! Let's get masking!!!

It doesn't just have to be a face sheet mask; it can be a clay mask, hand mask, foot mask, hair mask, or whatever mask you have, just as long as you can take a photo of you with your mask on, then it's okay!

If you think 5 masks in 10 days is too easy, you can even do 10 masks in 10 days! It's all up to you, but just don't forget to tag @maskgenie and #maskgeniechallenge on Instagram!!!

Let's get masking, everyone!!!

MEMEBOX GLOBAL #17 UNBOXING

I've been ordering way fewer boxes than I used to, because I didn't see anything that caught my eye, and I realised that Memebox doesn't stick to their themes sometimes. I realised that the Global Editions were the better pick, so here's another unboxing of another Global Box...

Memebox Global #17

Another shocking news that I read today...

Memebox is an online retailer for Korean Beauty products. With $1.5 million in seed funding, and the prestigious accolade of being one of Y Combinator's top 3 startups for Winter 2014, Memebox is poised to make a big play in the online consumer goods sector. This year, Memebox will transition away from being a reseller of cosmetic products to an online-only cosmetic manufacturer.

The paragraph in italics is copied from this website:

http://www.venturedlife.com/karl-loo/

I don't know if it's true, but hopefully they'll still be keeping their boxes!


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http://us.memebox.com/user/geniesfavproducts


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ABCDEat RECIPE: Matcha Steamed Egg Pudding Dessert

I absolutely love drinking the Organic Soya Milk with Matcha by Green Dot Dot, a local Hong Kong brand. They are slightly pricey, due to the fact that they're "organic", but that hasn't stopped me from repurchasing them, because they are just so delicious!

I normally just add hot water to the powder, stir, then serve, but recently, I've been making Chinese Steamed Egg Puddings again, and I suddenly thought of experimenting with different flavours.

Today's post will be on how to make the
Matcha Steamed Egg Pudding Dessert

Steamed Egg Pudding is a really easy to make dessert - it's a very smoothly textured pudding made of nothing except egg white, milk, and sugar. There is another version of the Pudding which uses egg yolk as well as egg white, but since we will be adding Matcha Soy Milk Powder into this specific recipe, we will only be using the egg white to avoid the strong egg flavour.

Things you'll need:1 bowl (needs to be quite steep)
tin foil or a lid/plate to cover the bowl with
1 wok (steep enough to put your bowl into and cover with a lid)
1 packet of the Matcha Organic Soy Milk Powder
1 egg (only the egg white will be used)
1 teaspoon of sugar
200-250ml of milk (full cream milk is desired, but it's up to you)

How to make it:1) Pour the Matcha Organic Soy Milk Powder into a cup.

2) Add a little bit of hot water into the cup, and stir until the powder dissolves. While it is still warm, add 1 teaspoon of sugar into the Matcha Milk, and stir.

3) Add in 200-250ml of milk into the Matcha Milk, and stir.

4) In another bowl, separate the egg white from the egg yolk.

5) Slowly add (while stirring occasionally) the egg white into the Matcha Milk.

6) Pour the mixture into a bowl. After you pour the mixture in, make sure there is still around 2 inches above the mixture, so that it won't overflow when you steam.

7) Cover the bowl with some tin foil or a lid/plate.

8) Boil some water inside a wok, and when it is boiling, put the bowl inside and cover with a lid

9) Leave it to steam for about 12-15 minutes on high

11) After 12-15 minutes, remove the bowl from the wok, and leave it to cool (with the lid on) for a few minutes before serving

As I couldn't find any other steeper bowl, my matcha pudding overflowed while steaming. The taste is delicious, but the presentation is ugly. The original steamed egg pudding looks great though!

I treated my mother-in-law to have the other bowl, and she finished hers in no time!

The total time for making this dessert is around 30 minutes.


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REVIEW: TO BE NANG GOLD 24K SNAIL NUTRITION HYDRO GEL MASK

This was featured in the Memebox Special #54 Miracle Masks. There were three "flavours" of masks from the To Be Nang brand inside the Miracle Masks Box, and since this one says it's a 24K gold mask, it seemed like a very classy mask to use.

It comes in a gold packaging - looks like an expensive kind of mask!

When I opened up the package, I could see that there was a lot of essence inside. When I took the mask out from the packaging, it felt super slippery on my hands, and it was slightly difficult putting it on my face properly, especially when I had put an eye mask on already. After adjusting it for a while, I was able to leave the mask on my face, but since it was a really slippery mask, the bottom half of the mask kept slipping down to cover my lips - this got a little annoying, because I always had to push the mask back up even though I tried to lie down as much as I could (I had just washed my hair and so lying down with wet hair wasn't good, and I was limited to watching TV episodes on my phone while lying down, because I wasn't allowed to walk around like I normally would with other sheet masks). Okay, so apart from that, I also experienced some irritations on my skin - I'm not sure whether it was because I kept pushing the mask back up or what, but I felt a slight itchy feeling above my lips. As I continued to leave the mask on, I started to get a slight itchy feeling over other parts of my face too, but it wasn't unbearable, so I just left it on my face for 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes, I removed the mask from my face, and massaged the remaining essence onto my face. There was a lot of essence left on my face (so much that I was putting it on my arms etc), and it left my face feeling quite sticky (eww I hate that feeling!). It was still sticky 10 minutes after I removed the mask, and since the itchy feeling was still there, and it became quite unbearable, I had to wash my face with water, and while doing so, I felt that I was washing off a thick layer of essence on my face. My face was still slightly irritated afterwards, and what surprised me most, is that arm became red and itchy (because I had applied the essence onto my arms), but it did leave my face feeling quite soft.

Not really impressed with this mask - not sure what I'm sensitive to, but I'm usually not sensitive to any gold or snail products, so I really don't know about this one. I asked the others at MUT about this mask, but nobody seemed to have any reactions to it, just me.

Rating: 5/10

MEMEBOX SPECIAL #57 FOR DRY & SENSITIVE SKIN UNBOXING

I actually think the quality of Memeboxes is actually decreasing, and the products no longer seem WOW (is it because I've received so many products already, or is it that they're not putting as much effort into their boxes?) Anyhow, this is the box that I received a few days ago, but didn't get the video up until yesterday...

Memebox Special #57 For Dry & Sensitive Skin

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