- They say curiosity killed the cat
or did the curiosity help the cat to have less wrinkles?
You decide.
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Hey, everyone, it's me, Hallease.
Endeavoring to persevere.
As always, if you're new here,
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So for the past couple months,
on these here internets,
I have been seeing a lot about LED masks.
But I've mostly been seeing people
of the beiger variety talk about them.
I'll see people of the beiger variety
that are in their like 40s, 50s,
doing an LED mask review,
which is like, okay, interesting.
You know, more mature women
talking about their experiences with the masks
and how they feel about them.
On the contrary then, I will see people,
you know 19, 20, 21, 22ish,
is talking about their experience with LED mask.
And so I'm like,
where are the middle ground people? (chuckles)
Where are the 30 somethings?
Because I wanna know what those people think
and also where are the melanated people? (chuckles)
I wanna know if those people
have had any luck with this at all.
Because something about me is,
even though I'm not a beauty influencer in the slightest,
I be keeping up.
I wanna know if there's something out there
that is not invasive that I can do.
Not necessarily to age backwards,
not trying to do that in the slightest,
but if there are things that I can do
that can help me maintain a glow,
help me just look awake,
then I'm here for it.
That isn't like injectables, then I'm here for it.
Obviously drinking water, eating right aside, obviously.
And so I've been very curious about the LED mask game
because I've been seeing a lot of folks on either side
talking about 'em,
but not really anybody melanated talking about it.
And thusly my curiosity was intrigued
when Aduro hopped into my inbox and was like,
"Hey, Hallease, wanna try out our LED mask for free?"
And I thought to myself,
"Duh, yeah, send it."
So in this video I'm gonna talk to y'all
about my LED mask experience
using a Aduro's LED mask.
I'm gonna tell y'all how often I used it, my schedule,
my regimen with it,
and then I'm gonna show you a before and after
from using the mask consistently
for four weeks on my skin.
And y'all tell me if you see a difference.
I wanna see what y'all's opinions are.
You will not hurt my feelings either way.
If you think you see a change,
if you don't really think you see a change,
I'm just curious.
and I just love to share that curiosity with all of you.
So let's get into this mask review.
For one, I'm not wearing makeup in this video.
Generally I do wear makeup in my videos now
as I continue to mature.
I usually just wear like some concealer under the eyes,
some a little bit of bit of mascara
and a little bit of like brow pomade, you know.
That's usually my go-to look for most YouTube videos.
And in this one I am currently not wearing anything.
So that way y'all can just kinda see
what I am looking like now,
four weeks into using this mask.
And I did make sure to take some before footage
so you can see what my skin looked like then as well.
But before I show you my befores,
so you can see my before versus now,
my after I guess, or my current,
I'm gonna walk you through
just how I've been using this Aduro mask.
So you can kind of know just what the process is like,
if this is something you want to do
or you've been curious in as a deeper skinned,
dark skinned person.
Obviously if you're not deep skinned or dark skinned,
and you're watching this video, you know, there you go.
How I use the mask.
So with any beauty regimen,
the more consistent you are about doing it,
the better the whatever results
that beauty regimen will do,
have for you will be.
So I tried to be very consistent
about utilizing the mask in my daily beauty routine.
So I made sure to use the Aduro mask
at least five times a week
for at least a five minute session.
And I tried it in a variety of different ways.
I tried it like before bed,
like maybe I was taking a shower 'cause I worked out,
washed my face,
and then put it on for 5, 10, 15 minutes before bed.
And I found that I was less likely to wanna do it
towards the end of the day.
What ended up working for me,
incorporating the Aduro mask into my daily routine
was to do it in the morning
right after I got out the shower.
So I would take a shower in the morning,
wash my face, you know,
and be coming out, put on my shower lotion,
all that kind of stuff.
I would put the mask on, set my timer,
put my deodorant on, put my perfume on,
figure out what I'm gonna wear for the day,
put that on, all that kind of stuff.
And by the time I was done with all that,
the timer would be done.
Then I'd take it off
and go about doing the rest of my morning facial routine,
which usually consists of a daytime safe retinol
and of course sunscreen and an eye cream as well.
So that's how I started to incorporate it consistently
in my daily morning facial routine.
The other thing that I think Barry's mentioning as well,
is that this mask comes with a lot of different settings
and a lot of different LED color temperatures
that you can utilize.
I have only been using the wrinkle reducer
and or the skin booster.
Those are the only two I've been using
because they're the only two that give only red light.
And the reason why I've been doing that
is because I've heard through the grapevine
and hearing other dermatologists online talk
about LED masks in general,
that blue light therapy,
while it's great for acne fighting,
there is now starting to seem potentially
like there might be some counter effects
in regards to hyperpigmentation
from using blue light therapy.
And so I have just only been sticking to red light therapy.
So it's only about trying to,
you know, just help to balance the skin,
tone the skin, reduce wrinkles, so on and so forth.
Even though this LED mask
comes with a lot of different colors,
a lot of different settings,
I've only been using red light therapy.
The other thing that I actually really like
about this mask too,
is that it actually travels well.
It's quite portable.
And that's because built into it,
is a battery pack essentially.
So you can charge this thing using a USBC port
and have it charged for like 20, 30 minutes,
or something like that.
And then it just runs, you know, it just runs indefinitely.
So you don't have to be right near an outlet
every time you want to use it,
or anything like that.
So with all that being had said,
let's see my before and afters.
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I feel like
I look more awake.
Question mark. (laughs)
To be fair,
I wasn't coming into this
expecting some sort of drastic change, you know?
But my goals, my aging goals,
are really more about just looking good for my age,
not really trying to look younger per se.
I don't really want people to be surprised
when I say that I'm 32
because I don't think people should be surprised (laughs)
when I say that I'm 32.
I'm not trying to age backwards,
I'm not trying to do the most,
you know what I'm saying?
I'm just trying to look good for my age.
I'm just trying to have like a happiness about me.
You know what I'm saying?
That's my goal.
Something I will say about my skin though,
that this won't help with, you know,
is my skin is very textured.
I have always had very textured skin,
I've always had big pores.
My skin's also quite oily.
I've always had oily skin as well.
And so,
that is something that light therapy won't help with.
And frankly, that's something I'm okay with.
Because in general,
even though having oily skin kind of sucks when you're young
because it's usually very acne prone
and it's just a bummer.
I've had acne for most of my, as soon as puberty hit,
I had acne all the way up until, you know,
I finally felt like I had got it under control
for the most part.
And now I just have
these sort of minor hormonal breakouts, you know,
I felt like I didn't get it under control
until I was well into my twenties.
Like maybe like 28 was when I finally was like,
"Yeah, this doesn't suck so much anymore."
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Will I keep doing this?
Yes, I will.
And I think the reason why
is because I was given a mask for free. (laughs)
I think the better question to ask potentially,
that I'm about to ask myself and answer for y'all
is would I have bought this on my own?
And I can't, I don't know.
I don't know because I'm not gonna lie to you.
I mean, they're not inexpensive, you know,
most of these masks I see on the market
are anywhere from 300 to $500
depending on which one you get.
But I think if you're someone
that is trying to see what is out there
and available for you to do,
that isn't so invasive like injections and things like that.
And so with all that being had said,
your girl's moving on up in the world,
I got a little code,
got a little discount for y'all, okay?
If you're interested in purchasing the Aduro mask,
I have linked down in the description box,
a discount code that you can use
to get a little bit off on me
if you decide to execute on this mask.
But I have really enjoyed it
and I'm gonna keep using it
partially because I got it for free.
I mean, full disclosure, I got it for free.
So it's like, yeah, why wouldn't I keep using it?
Especially now that I have figured out a way to use it
that feels like authentic to me
and isn't difficult to maintain.
Remember the whole thing
about having any sort of beauty regimen
is how maintainable is it for you.
If it's not very sustainable,
then like you're not gonna do it.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't know if I'll do it as much as I did it
to see the results that I've gotten for this video
or have not gotten for this video.
All right, y'all.
So if you've tried light therapy
and you feel like you've seen great results,
let me know in the comments below.
Or if you've tried it out and it just didn't work for you,
let me know in the comments below.
I'm always curious to see
just like what people are up to in the beauty space.
You know what I'm saying?
Again, I'm not a beauty guru,
not a beauty influencer, if you will.
But I'd be like,
"What they doing?
What they doing over there?
What y'all doing?
Gimme the tea, gimme the secrets.
I wanna know." (chuckles)
So if you try it, let me know in the comments below.
Again, I'm Hallease.
Endeavoring to persevere.
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