About 8-10 years ago (give or take) I noticed that my years
of being a Florida girl and baking in the sun (and, unfortunately, putting my
face too close to a sunlamp my mom had and frying my face more than once) has
taken its toll on my skin. I have these “lovely” dark spots and yucky looking
skin that bothers me a bit. Just a bit. Not enough to actually spend a lot of
time or money on it, just enough to get irritated that drugstore foundation isn’t
good enough quality to even out my skin tone. But the other night I saw a
commercial for a mask from Garnier that is supposed to help with dark spots and
evening out skin tone.
I looked for it at Wally World the next time I was there
(and remembered the commercial, so it was probably 4-5 Wally World trips…meaning
maybe 2 weeks from the time I saw the commercial). When I got home and checked
it out, it wasn’t a mask like I know, where you put slimey stuff on your skin
and then wash it off. It was an actual mask that you unfolded and put on your
face! It has eye, nose and mouth holes. The model on the box showed that it
fits you like a glove…if you put a glove on your face. So, anyway, I finally
got around to doing my mask on Sunday night. I washed and dried my face like
the package said and then opened the mask packet and unfolded it and applied it
to my face. I didn’t end up looking like the model. I ended up looking like
something from a film showing people who had had surgery on their faces. It just
didn’t “fit”. I tried yanking on it, stretching it, manipulating it any way I
could think of and then finally just left it alone and sat down for the needed
10 minutes. While I was waiting for the mask to work its magic, I did a search
on Google for reviews on this product and ran across on that raved about cloth
masks and how wonderful they were and this way. She claimed that she was able
to stretch and manipulate the mask so it fit on her face nicely. What?! I still
don’t get it.
The end result was that while I didn’t notice
instant brightening, like the box claimed, I will do it two more times this
week and twice next week (there’s a total of 5 masks in the box) because I'm too cheap not to use it now that I've opened the box. I did notice
that my skin was very soft, the jury is out on if it will help the dark spots.
But the look on my son’s face when he came into my room while I was ‘masking’
was totally worth all the trouble!
The end result was that while I didn’t notice
instant brightening, like the box claimed, I will do it two more times this
week and twice next week (there’s a total of 5 masks in the box) because I'm too cheap not to use it now that I've opened the box. I did notice
that my skin was very soft, the jury is out on if it will help the dark spots.
But the look on my son’s face when he came into my room while I was ‘masking’
was totally worth all the trouble!
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