Elizavecca Milky Piggy â€å“carbonated Bubble Clay Maskã¢â‚¬â Review

Mid-week is the perfect fourth dimension for a

mini-

review of the famous Elizavecca Milky Piggy Carbonated Chimera Dirt Mask. (Update: my word counter tells me that "mini" review is a lie.  Eh, everything's relative!)  This mask is old news; it'south a archetype case of

skincaretainment

, and the product is more well-known for its entertainment value than the actual furnishings on the skin.  That's partly why I've avoided it until now, merely information technology's summer and my skin is a slimy mess in this humidity and then information technology'south very ready for an occasional clay mask.  Why not one that inflates into a comically broad cloud of foam while on your face, making you look like a pixar character while doing double duty of beginning cleansing and dirt mask fashion deep pore cleansing all in one get?

There is an inner jar chapeau/seal to keep air from reacting to the product.

Sounds too skillful to exist truthful, correct?  Plus, lots of people have used this mask, including young man

Snailcast

podcaster

Fifty Shades of Snail

, then I purchased a jar of information technology and give it a try.  Then I dropped all irritants out of my routine and tried it again.  Sometimes, you accept to just have to hurt yourself twice to confirm something is bad news.

In this post:

• Product details
• Ingredients
• What it did to my confront
• What I'd rather utilise instead

Earlier using this mask the 2nd time, I skipped anything that would compromise my moisture barrier for at least a calendar week: no acid exfoliants, no manual exfoliants, no tretinoin, goose egg to weaken my pare barrier or make me more sensitive.  I wanted to make sure there was no chance the culprit was just piling clay on top of sensitive pare.  Unfortunately, it still left my skin screaming for mercy and I smothered its cries with snail gel to recover.

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Product details

Full product name: Elizavecca Milky Piggy Carbonated Bubble Clay Mask
Purpose: Supposedly cleanses, exfoliates, nourishes the pare, and does all the things a clay mask is supposed to do on the 'exorcises your pore demons' front. What its real purposes is: a super entertaining confront mask that gives you lot a tingling bubbles feeling while forming into greyness clouds on your face up, perfect for taking selfies of your make-new trollface and posting them on social media.
Odour: Pleasant, reminds me of "aqua"-themed products, non a noticeable clay scent.
Texture: At outset it's a sticky, clammy clay goop that you smear over your skin, and then inside minutes, it reacts with the air to class a thick layer of foam. Yet, it nevertheless leaves the pasty, clammy texture on the skin when you endeavour to rinse it off.
Quantity: 100g.
Rating: two/5, because even though using information technology was a declaration of war on my epidermis, I can appreciate that others are fine with it and it's fun to use, so it gets an extra point.
Where to get information technology:

Amazon

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eBay

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Jolse

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TesterKorea

|

KoreaDepart

Repurchase: Hell no. This wasn't the Elizavecca "Hell Pore" mask, but information technology certain felt like my pores were being bathed the fires of the

Phlegethon

.

Ingredients

Thoroughly mystified as to what might have caused the pare reaction, I checked out the ingredients list on

Cosdna

:

Purified Water, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, White Clay, Acrylate Copolymer, Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate, Methyl Perfluorobutyl Ether, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Lauramide DEA, TEA-Cocoyl Glutamate, Green Tea Extracts, Glycerine, Dipropylene Glycol, Bentonite, Collagen, Charcoal Powder, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Flavouring Agents, Carbonated Water, Xanthan Gum, Disodium EDTA, Allantoin, Butylene Glycol, Lavander Extracts, Monarda Didyma Leafage Extracts, Peppermint Leaf Extracts, Freesia Leaf Extracts, Chamomile Flower Extracts, Rosemary Leaf Excerpt

This product contains SLS, which is a huge flag for some people.  Information technology'southward not an ingredient trigger for me, however, so unless this contains and so much SLS it's suited to stripping crude oil out of a rig worker's overalls (do they habiliment overalls?) I merely can't meet that being the culprit.  My skin hates menthol, and then it's possible it might be the peppermint. Whatever it was, my skin did nooooot like information technology, as you will meet in the next section.

As to what causes the bubbling result, I'd highly recommend checking out

Labmuffin's post on oxygen masks

, where she explains that perfluorocarbons (like the Methyl Perfluorobutyl Ether in this production) are the key ingredient in self-foaming oxygen masks like this one.

What information technology did to my face

Alarm: volition feature depression-res front end-facing camera shots that weren't actually meant for the public, which is why I didn't bother with setting up my semi-decent camera and fussing with lighting and whatnot.  These were actually destined for the other members of the snail unit of measurement, who tend to carry the brunt of my live reporting of skincare disasters, like the time

I Hanbanged Also Hard

.

However, one time I got the mask off and saw that the nasty reaction I had the kickoff go-round was not in fact due to the acid exfoliants I had been using, at that place was no risk I would put my pare through this once again in order to take nice photos.  The lighting is different due to being in dissimilar rooms-- the results photo was taken in natural light, rather than a mix of natural and artificial like the get-go photo.

I have not corrected the colour or white balance of these photos, and unfortunately the photographic camera didn't capture how dramatic the effect was in existent life.  My face wasn't merely red, it was mottled with actress-angry patches.  You tin encounter how angry it is compared the skin on my neck/chest.

In minutes, the predictable cloudface forms.

It started off innocently/amusingly enough, with the foam blooming rapidly into a round deject of tickling bubbles:

I get information technology, this is super fun and goofy, and information technology's much more entertaining than your usual clay mask.  I left the mask on for just shy of 10 minutes, and although my skin wasn't called-for, it wasn't all that of a pleasant sensation.

It was an absolute hurting to wash off, which is something that the

Beauty and the Cat

girls had mentioned (if y'all haven't checked out this hilarious duo, I highly recommend doing and so) in their review-- they were not kidding.

Despite the bubbling, when you bear on the mask or try to wash it off, information technology converts back into a gummy slime that defies all attempts to rinse it without either requiring a lot of manual endeavor or following up with a foaming cleanser.  I ended up using the latter because I didn't want to irritate my face farther.

I'm sucking upwards my hatred of posting pictures
 of my skin (or otherwise) on the internet,
just so y'all can see what a mess this is!

When it finally came off, instead of dragging my pore clogs to the surface and/or smoothing out my skin texture, my skin was the aforementioned mottled mess, with the areas that I hadn't applied the mask (like next to my eyebrows, and my eye sockets) standing out in abrupt relief.

The worst patches had virtually a purple tone to them, on superlative of the overall redness, every bit you tin can see in the second photo.

Incidentally, this was like to the reaction I had to the

reformulated My Scheming Snail silk masks

, merely that was much, much worse.  The bad patches were a flake inflamed, but nothing like the welts I had with the snail mask!  My skin definitely reacts to products frequently but information technology's well-nigh always in the course of acne, not redness/irritation.  My peel just likes to clog and break out when it doesn't like things.

I also don't normally have an upshot with dirt masks, although I tin find them a bit drying and I avert them when I'm on acid exfoliants.

Yous can read near the acids and actives I use here:

What's In My Skincare Wardrobe: Actives (Prescriptions, Antioxidants, and Acids) Edition

.

What I'd rather employ instead

I've tried a few dirt masks, such as the

Mizon Pore Clearing Volcanic Mask

, and the matching Gommage version from the same line, both of which left me unimpressed.  The problem I have with clay masks is that I don't utilise them often enough to justify purchasing them, which is where the skincaretainment factor of this one comes into play-- the idea that something is so fun to use it motivates you to practise information technology.

I much prefer the Innisfree Jeju Volcanic Pore Dirt Mask, and I particularly love that it comes in single-serving sizes, which work improve than a total size for "once a season" users like me.  As I mentioned in

K-Beauty & Portion Control: Why Sometimes Good Value Can Exist a Bad Idea

, full size clay masks volition go stale long before I make a paring in them, so these are perfect for me.  There'southward enough in them for two uses if yous want to do a spa nighttime with a friend.

Where to get the Innisfree Jeju Volcanic Pore Clay Mask capsule pods:

Amazon

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eBay

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Jolse

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Via Seoul

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RoseRoseShop

|

KoreaDepart

I don't uncertainty that the Elizavecca Milky Piggy Carbonated Bubble Clay Mask is a keen production for some people, offering them convenience and entertainment all in one, but it wasn't meant to be.  Thankfully I have a skincare wardrobe stocked with soothing snail products, and so it didn't take long to coax my crying skin dorsum from the brink of the tantrum.

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