From cream to water - introducing Cure's Water Treatment Skin Cream

A couple days ago, I was delighted to receive an opportunity to attend a media launch event on Cure's newly innovated Water Treatment Skin Cream. As a beauty/makeup junkie, I'm always enthusiastic when it comes to expanding my "beauty knowledge" so when it comes to a brand I'm not familiar with, I wanted to know more. If you're reading this, I'm pretty sure you're interested too or perhaps you're already a fan of Cure? :)

To those like me that is new to Cure, Cure is a Japanese brand that believes in the terms "Simple, Natural, and Clean" Their products has no scent, no color, and no preservatives. Only natural ingredients in a simple packaging. After the successful launch of their Natural Aqua Gel with many awards, Cure has now introduced yet another amazing product to wow everyone's skin care routine - Cure Water Treatment Skin Cream. 

Let's first talk about this gem from Cure. Since 2012, Cure's Natural Aqua Gel has been a huge success and is well loved in most Asian countries. This product was even referred as a "Legendary product" and "Monster Product" ! Well, in a good way la of course.

I know what you thinking, "eeeee so disgusting" but wait wait, let me explain. When pumped out, Cure's Natural Aqua Gel is a fragrance, colour, and preservative free clear gel. It is known to be one of the most gentle exfoliator out in the market suitable for all ages and all skin types. This product is formed using activated hydrogen water that prevents oxidation. The way this exfoliator works is that when gently rubbed into the skin, it'll gentle catch the dead skin on the surface of your skin and remove it. Suggested use of this product would be once or twice a week. 

Now here's our main star of the day. This is Cure's latest product - Cure Water Treatment Skin Cream. This new innovation from Cure is an activated hydrogen water moisturizer. This product has 2 main usage to it, as a toner as well as an emulsion. It is great for maintaining skin hydration for a smoother and oil free complexion.

This lightweight moisturizer is specially formulated to battle against dry skin. So similar to the Natural Aqua Gel, this product is also suitable for sensitive skin and is recommended for acne prone skin as well(like mine). 75% of this product is created from hydrogen water to help prevent skin oxidization for a more radiant complexion. 

What I find super cool is that this product actually turns into water!! So the way you use it is fairly simple, all you have to do is apply it onto your skin and massage it gently. The cream will then turn into water. This helps the skin to absorb the product faster!

Another thing I like about this product is that unlike most moisturizers that are sticky after applying, this has no sticky feel to it at all. Also, did you know that Cure's Water Treatment was initially a 'not for sale' product? It was initially only given out as gifts. Just this year this product was given out as a gift at the Academy & Grammy's awards! However after being raved by users and retailers, Cure has decided to launch this product into the beauty market. *cheers* 

This media event was held at TOUS les JOURS, Empire Damansara. Really liked how they had flower bouquets for us to use as props for photos haha. Had to take this opportunity to get some close ups too! Also, thanks for preparing some light refreshments for us as well. (so please bear with all the incoming food photos)

I loved these pastries so much, after the event I actually went to their bakery to buy some home ahaha.

Always super happy meeting new friends at events I attend. Glad to meet you two Zoelie & Ann Sze! Also met Tiffany after the event and had a short chat, totally forgot to get a selfie with you though T_T Hope to see you girls in more events!

Overall, it was great learning so much about Cure's Water Treatment Skin Cream & Natural Aqua Gel. A full review on these two products will be up in perhaps a month's time from now. Ever since my hectic close to no sleep final week, my skin is in a pretty bad state right now and I can't wait to properly test this product out for you guys! 

If you interested in Cure's products, the Cure Water Treatment Skin Cream is retailing for RM169, while the Natural Aqua Gel is retailing for RM139. Both products are sold exclusively in Sasa ❤

Althea Addiction: Korean masks

Hey everyone, remember my previous post on Althea's first anniversary? Ever since then, I think I've developed an addiction towards Korean beauty products. 2016 felt like a skin care breakthrough year for me. All this while I've only looked into makeup, makeup and makeup. I've never really bothered with skin care so I don't know what went wrong with me lately. All of a sudden I've been buying masks non-stop! From sheet masks, clay masks, gel masks, and peeling masks, I've bought em' all! It has gone to the point where I'm just telling myself to stop on the mask purchases because I think I have enough to last me for the rest of the year. 

I tagged along Aiko for my second Althea box purchase because I needed someone to hit the RM150 free shipping together with me. This box took about two weeks+ to deliver which was slightly on the longer side. During this purchase I got two face masks and one foot mask. 

The first product I got was Elizavecca's Pore Solution Super Elastic Mask Pack - RM5 ea. If you're up to date with 'weird korean beauty products' you must've heard of them. This is the brand that has introduced the highly raved Carbonated Bubble Clay Mask. Something I have yet to find the guts to try out haha.

What I got was this multi-care 3-step mask pack. This mask pack consists of skin benefiting ingredients like glacier milk, green tea extra, and bird's nest extract which helps in whitening, wrinkle improvement, as well as elasticity. I've only tried one pack so far and my face did feel slightly softer after using it. However if you were to ask me if I see any big results after one use I'll say no. I won't write it off as a useless product though cause I believe that with masks, you can't really see the results in one use unless your skin is in a really bad condition to begin with or the mask is really THAT good. So I won't dwell much into this until I've gathered enough packets to properly try em' out. 

This is Calmia's Silky Essential Foot Pack - RM9 each. Ever since I've tried out some random foot mask I got when I was at Sasa previously, I've instantly fell in love with them!! (The foot mask I got from Sasa looked like this one but I'm not sure if it was the same one) I actually got this because we were short of RM9 and this was ngam ngam RM9! No regrets on this because 

I LOVE THIS.

This is probably one of the only masks that will literally make you feel like you've got an instant skin surgery for the price of RM9. I have really dry feet, if you've ever seen my feet you'll know it la. So inside this pack you'll get a pair of disposable socks. Yes, socks. The sock is dry on the outside and filled with moisturizing ingredients on the inside. At first I was really skeptical when purchasing a foot mask, I was so worried of the thought that I won't be able to walk around so I waited til it was about bed time to try it out. Who knew I was actually able to walk around the house flaunting my disposable socks, dispose it after that and have baby smooth feet!! So this is definitely gonna be something I'll repurchase again soon!

Here's the last product I got during this Althea haul. This is the B&SOAP Apate Black Wash-Off Pack (130g) - RM45 ea. I've always wanted to try clay masks because of all the good things I've heard about em' This product was on sale for RM35 when I got it. Also, this was actually my main intention of ordering this box haha. I won't be talking much about this mask pack right now because I'm still in the middle of testing this out to see how well it works. 

That's all for my Althea haul #2! I'll be back with another blog post real soon so stay tuned! Oh and recently I was at Ipoh with my Multimedia kakis for a day trip. Filmed and uploaded a new vlog for it on my Youtube channel! Check it out here or watch the embed below ♡ 

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