Review: Bio-Gold Collagen Facial Mask

Not too long ago, I went for a facial at SkinHub (they called me and asked me to try their new facial "innovation" and gave me a special price of S$38), and after the session, the lady was extremely nice and gave us (Chay Teng and I went together) this Bio-Gold Collagen Facial Mask.

They tried to get us to sign exorbitant facial packages but both of us didn't, and so it was really rather nice of the lady to give us free masks despite us being asshole customers.

It's a rather queer mask. Originally I thought that the gold was just on the packaging, but ohdearno, the entire mask was in gold! Such extravagance! :D

The mask is "formulated with pure gold, natural bio-ingredients and hydrating compounds to deliver to you a more refined, younger looking skin".

Some benefits of gold on the skin:

• slows down the skin's collagen depletion and elastic breakdown
• stimulates cellular regrowth at the basal layer to regenerate
• combats damaging free radicals
• stabilizes skin immunity
• rehydrates skin
• improves skin elasticity, thus reducing the appearance of premature aging

Above information compiled from a quick Google session (in case anyone wants to be anal and accuse me of blindly copying from their source ONLY =.=).

I had no idea gold can be so beneficial for the skin! Gold in my mind will always be the one in jewellery, I guess I have to broaden my horizon, huh?

Ingredients: Nano-active gold, bone collagen, placenta extract, flavanoids, aloe extract, ginkgo extract, victoria C, victoria E, hydroclauric acid and rose essential oil.

I was quite shocked when I opened the packaging; THE ENTIRE MASK WAS GOLD! And this mask is unlike other sheet masks. Instead of drenching a sheet in essence, this mask has a jelly-like texture, and even though it was floating on the essence, I have no idea how it absorbs the liquid. Perhaps the sheet is made of a porous material, I don't know...

One thing I hated is the really unnecessarily excessive packaging. The moment I opened and took out the mask, a waterfall of essence came gushing out, and it soiled my blanket. =.=

When I applied it on my face, the first thing that I noticed was how cooling the sensation was. And this sensation was ongoing for the first 5 minutes. Quite bizzare because they don't have menthol/mint/tea-tree/any product that induce the cooling sensation stated in the ingredient list.

Nevertheless, that sensation was very much welcome on my highly-fatigued skin.

I actually laughed out really loud after i applied it on, and messed up the mask till I had to reapply it. I sent my bf a picture of the mask on, and he said I looked like a Buddha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I also think that there is a very high resemblance! :D

Did it work?

In my delusional mind, yes.

I'm quite sure that this mask needs to be regularly applied for a certain period of time (normally 4 weeks) before any constructive results start to show.

However, I was biased because of how lavish this mask is. :P It's cooling, my skin felt smooth afterwards, I had my dosage of laughter and it smelled quite good! Nothing major to complain about except for the horrible packaging.

To be honest, I don't even know if this will work on my skin in the long run. But for now, it's a two-thumbs-up from me JUST BECAUSE IT'S GOLD AND AWESOME.

I just lost 2000 points of credibility there. Ho-hum.