My Beauty Diary - 10th Anniversary Limited Edition Masks Review

        Following the New Years, MBD released their 10th anniversary limited edition masks in my local area. After seeing this I immediately bought several packs. There are 5 different packs available each containing 5 masks depending on which pack you bought + 1 bonus black pearl whitening mask. I bought 4/5 available packs which I will go through in depth the differences and what they claim to do.

       For those who are unfamiliar with the MBD mask line, MBD is a Taiwanese brand that uses natural ingredients in their products. Thus MBD does not contain parabens, alcohol, and preservatives. MBD carries face masks and eye masks in their natural line, two-step line and luxury line and various other beauty products. You can check all this information out at http://www.beautydiary.com.tw/en/index.aspx

Each box contains 5 of the corresponding masks + 1 bonus black pearl mask as shown in the above picture, but since I used a few of them already >_< you only see 3/5 masks in the picture. I went to the store a couple of days ago to find a new clear box set that contains 10 masks (mix of the 5 different limited edition masks) for $11.99CAD.

I will briefly go over each of the 4 boxes of masks and I will be doing a more in depth review on the pore refining mask just because I have been using that mask over the past few weeks.

Pore Refining Mask:

The pore refining mask contains citrus extract, various plant extract, aloe, mushroom and natural yeast. The pore refining masks, as the name states, claims to refine your pores and rejuvenate your skin.

Intensive Brightening Mask:

The intensive brightening mask is basically the Japanese cherry blossom mask. It contains various flower extract and kiwi extract to provide brightening, soothing and regenerating effects.

Deep Hydrating Mask:

This mask is basically the Luffa mask. It contains luffa extract, beans extract, various plants and aloe extract to moisturize and hydrate.

Instant Soothing Mask:

The instant soothing mask contains coral powder, various fruit, aloe and flower extract to sooth irritated skin, stimulate skin repairing and provide deep skin hydration.

❤ My Beauty Diary - Pore Refining Mask Review

❤ Where can I buy this?

• My beauty diary masks can be purchase (if you live in Vancouver) at your local T&T Supermarket (metrotown has the largest quantity and various other brands). The regular (non limited edition) contains 10 masks/box and costs $11.99 when its on sale, regular priced at $14.99.

• If you live in the US these can be purchased at Fashion City and Walmart

• http://web1.sasa.com/SasaWeb/eng/sasa/home.jsp

• Ebay/Amazon

What the mask claims to do:

• Fruit extract will deeply penetrate the skin to provide hydration
• Mushroom and natural yeast absorbency provides hydration and protection for the skin from external/environmental damage to achieve a smooth constituency 
• Various natural plant extracts (licorice etc) refines pores and reawakens the skins radiance
• Aloe leaf juice restores the elasticity in the skin 

I've used this mask twice over the past two weeks and I have noticed a slight reduction in the size of my pores (or maybe its all in my head). However, I don't have large pores to begin with so that might be a reason.

My thoughts on this mask:

• Ok so smell is a big thing for me, if it smells bad I honestly can't imagine myself putting it on my face for longer than 10 minutes and these MBD masks smell WONDERFUL
• Slight pore size reduction
• Hydrates well and my skin still feels hydrated for the next couple of days
• Noticeable radiance in my skin as noted by others

This particular mask didn't wow or disappoint me in anyway since I didn't expect drastic results when I first bought it. Pore refining products claim to minimize pore size but honestly that's all it can do unless you get your pores treated at a beauty salon. From what I've seen, pore size is genetically inherited. My friend has little to NO pores and that applies to her whole family while I have a small little blackheads around my  T-zone as do some of my family members.

❤ The verdict:

Packaging: 5/5 - Beautiful packaging with the cute animation on each mask and on the box (its limited edition                           so its expected)

Smell:        5/5 - So like I mentioned, smell is a big thing for me. I wouldn't want to put fishy smelling                                       products on my face...ever....one exception may be the natto line from MBD.

Function:   3/5 - Slight reduction in pore size which may be just me imagining it over the last two weeks. I                              will continue to finish this box and a couple more over a longer period of time and see if I                              will see results.

❤ I do not recommend getting this unless you really want to try it for yourself to see if it works. All MBD limited edition masks have beautiful packaging and smell so the actual function of the mask is mostly what its down to. Like I have mentioned, its a great hydrating mask, it's cheap (cost me $6.00CAD for 1 box) but I didn't notice great results for what they claim the mask does.

I will be doing reviews for the other masks in the limited edition line and natural line shortly in another post since this review seems to have dragged on pretty long. I hope this review has helped you all and I will see you next time! ^^

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Have you tried these products and loved/hated it?
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