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First impressions: Kose Sekkisei Medicated Cream

Some purchases I spend ages deliberating over and some I just pick up randomly, on a whim or because of a recommendation. I think Sekkisei was a recc from AB Muse and it was a great choice for me. This is a truly delightful product, fragrance aside, and could be the ideal day moisturiser, although it seems like it may break me out.  I say may break me out because it could be user error.  Cost $3ish for 6g, mini pots from TK. Although I'm pretty sure it's out of stock now.  Packaging It's a jar, my least favourite cream packaging but what can you do. A jar is probably the best packaging for a cream, given you can be sure you've used it to the last drop, although a squeeze tube is just easier in my opinion. Pretty much everything comes in jars and a squeeze tube for a gel cream is probably madness because how would you consistently squeeze out the right amount and also I often don't pay attention to how much I'm squeezing, resulting in using too much. My face do...

First impressions: Sooryehan The Black Single Essence

This will feel like a big of a negative review but it'll get better! Cost  $27.44 from KoreaDepart (plus shipping, no taxes) Introduction I got this to do a full routine of The Black range and hoping it would help with redness, like The Black Serum originally did. I thought using all four products - essence, serum, moisturiser and cream - would be delightful as a routine. I suspected that the products wouldn't be siliconey enough to help with sleep creases, knowing the cream was actually quite light.  And knowing the essence would be watery, I potentially felt that I would be annoyed by it because I find watery products annoying to apply and take ages to absorb. Packaging It's interesting that the serum, even the 60ml, comes in a plastic bottle, where as the essence and moisturiser are both glass bottles. The essence has an open top with one of those plastic covers so it doesn't just pour out but it does still just pour out because it's super watery. Regardless of t...