Review: Peach Stem Cell Vitamin A Facial Mask by Watsons

I usually only make & post reviews if I've used the product for a long time and I'm sure of its results. But I thought I'll just post a short review on this! Watsons was giving out complimentary masks on their instagram a while ago and I managed to get one! This is quite a new product. I am a believer of masks, whatever that means, and so I thought it'll be good to try a new brand. 

To be honest, the chance of me randomly picking this up from the stores myself to try is really low. There are WAY too many masks out there and to try a new brand, that is a house brand is not something I would do! So I'm glad to have a chance to try these. 

Reading the packaging, I was quite impressed. 

"Made in Korea"

"Free of Parabens, Alcohol & Lanolin"

Some things I've noted: 

1. Upon opening the package, I find a very crumpled sheet mask inside, like it has slipped down to the bottom. Sounds bad, but actually it doesn't really matter if the product is good right? It doesn't come with a plastic to hold up the shape & help you to peel off & apply the mask easily. Innisfree's sheet masks also don't come with a plastic, but it isn't crumpled nor do they slip in the packaging. This Watsons mask wasn't as easy to apply as Taiwan's popular My Beauty Diary masks. To me, that is still one of the most easy-to-apply masks.  
2. It wasn't dripping with the essence -- good for application, but bad if you think that means there is less essence? 
3. A lot of 'cuts' on the masks to help fit your face better. Some cuts are also pretty "deep". That's a good thing I suppose, but I didn't really like it because it made the mask more 'vulnerable' to tears especially since I had to 'uncrumple' the mask to put it on (see point 1). I took time to be careful but I still got a tear at the nose. Nvm, I'll just "paste" it back to my face!
4. Thick sheet. I read somewhere that the thinner the sheet mask, the better because your skin can absorb the essence better. I'm not sure about that. This is definitely noticeably thicker than others I've tried.
5. Nice fragrance. 

Oh dear, does that sound like a bad review? Neutral?? But honestly it wasn't that bad. After I removed it, 'massage' a little, it absorbed pretty well and didn't leave any icky sticky residue on my face. I think its still a pretty decent mask to try out. My biggest complain is only the application part. Up til now, I still like MBD's sheet mask's ease of application. It was quite annoying to have to 'un-crumple' the mask and find where the eyes, mouth holes are, especially when the mask is already susceptible to tears. The 'cuts' on the mask were to give a good fit, but it was susceptible to tears too. I don't know if I just got a bad pack with a crumpled mask, but if they fix that, I think this mask will be okay. I would recommend you to try it if you're looking for a masks that fits your face well. 

Will I get this again? hmm... for the price, maybe no. Maybe when they have a promotion!

Here are more info on the packaging: 

What is "bee venom" anyway.. 

Have you tried this product? Was your mask 'crumpled' up like mine?

How to post videos from camera to instagram

I took a video with my camera but I also wanted to share it on instagram. If you wanna post videos onto instagram, you gotta save the video in your iphone's camera roll right? So that means we gotta do 2 things:
1) Convert/Trim video
2) Transfer/save onto iphone's camera rol
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Before I start my noob-ish tutorial (I'm sure there are some other ways to do this rather than my way, but idk, maybe this is what you're looking for), I have to say that there are several other softwares/programs other than those that I've mentioned that can do the same thing. I'm sure you know what you have so just play around and see if you can do the same thing. All the programs/apps I used are all free to download, or were already installed on my laptop.
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1) Converting/trimming the video 
I trimmed the video with Windows Live Movie Maker (what! don't judge). It's pretty straighfoward: just click "view" and then "trim". You don't have to trim it to exactly 15seconds, just short enough for the file size to be not too big, but still have the part you want to post (ok, obviously..). WLMM only saves in .WMV format, so i just saved the file, opened it in Quicktime and saved it again as .MOV. (ok i'm actually not sure if i have to convert it to .mov, but i just did it because its fast to save and better than wasting the time to find out if i have to convert.)

Note: Video need not be in 1:1/square format. I saved the file in 640x480.

2) Transfer/save onto iphone's camera roll
I saved the video onto my dropbox on my laptop, which allows me to access the file on my iphone. Another alternative way is to email yourself, but I didn't try that. The syncing time is pretty fast since the file size was pretty small (18mb). When you open the file on the dropbox app on your iphone, you'll realise that the "save to" icon is greyed and you can't click it. What I did was to "favourite" the file. The app will then take some time to download the video for "offline viewing". You can view the progress on the "Favourites" tab. Once its done downloading, you'll find that you can now click the previously greyed out icon! If you click that, there will be an option "Save to Camera Roll". Save it, and then you can now access instagram and post the video from your camera roll!

Note: The app didn't crop my video to a square format, but it had the black bars. It didn't matter to me.

Yeah, there you have it. My tutorial. I've already said it's gonna be noob-ish. I just figured this out on my own and played around and this is how I managed to post a video from my camera to instagram! Hope this helps someone... If you have any questions -- don't ask, because I won't be able to answer you. HAHA. I really don't think I can! I didn't go figure out about the video format, audio, file size, resolution etc... I just clicked around and found that this worked for me. Maybe I took some extra steps but I can't really be bothered to find out other proper ways to do it because this was pretty fast & simple for me to do with apps/programs I already had. There's probably some shortcut or better way to do that, but I'll leave you to google it for yourself.

k bye.