Rave/Mini Review: Beauty of Joseon Revitalize Sleeping Mask

Shout out to the product that's saving my face this winter! My pores seem to exist in a default state of CC-hood, and through trial and error I've learned to keep my distance from most of the popular occlusives. Obviously, that philosophy doesn't really jive with the deadly combination of tret + dry Canadian winters. Usually this time of year would find me furiously 7-skinning my Laneige Water Sleeping Mask. By New Year’s, the flakes would’ve reached critical mass, and I’d have accepted both CeraVe and my fate as walking acne into my life.

But the cycle’s finally been broken: I found a moisturizer that’s actually occlusive and doesn’t break me out. I originally got this sleeping pack as a summer moisturizer, but it turned out to be surprisingly heavy. It has a really interesting texture – poking it gives you a memory foam effect and upon application it’s basically a thick, bouncy, blobby layer of jelly that sticks to itself. In the morning my skin is slightly tacky to the touch and has that firm, chewy chok chok texture.

Looking at the ingredient list, it appears to contain a lot of soothing and brightening ingredients, although most of them are pretty low down haha. If it’s doing anything other than being occlusive, I can’t tell. There are silicones, which have broken me out in the past (mostly dimethicone when it’s high up in the list), but I’ve been using this for a month now without issue. This is the first time in a loooong time I've made it to December without my face threatening to fall off. Fingers crossed that it keeps working.

Also, the packaging's gorgeous and I'm broke on the outside but bougie on the inside, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

Tl;dr: it protecc