Hello girlfriends and welcome to another episode of Tried and Tested!
Now in the recent years, there have been more and more up and coming beauty brands from Singapore
and they're doing really interesting unique things so we thought we check them out!
So here we have a solid ginger shampoo and a solid broccoli conditioner from Oasis:Hair.
So their products are organic and they're made fresh here in Singapore a few times a week by
their founder and beauty chef, Hildra.
So she says beauty chef also because actually the place where all the magic happens,
she refers to it as the beauty kitchen.
So Oasis: is a brand for those who are looking for a more natural way of living
and they also promote sustainability and using less waste in their packaging
so for example, these you can also order them without packaging at all
but we thought just you know show you what they could look like because they would also make lovely gifts!
I insist Christmas is coming but they keep saying Christmas is not coming, it's almost Christmas,
it's end of September already October, November, December, Christmas!
It's a good time to start planning, great gifts!
So these are the midi sized and they're supposed to each last for about 30 to 50 washes.
Here is how you use them.
First you wet your hair,
and then you rub the shampoo directly onto your scalp and lather in
and then you wash it off.
So I've tried solid shampoos before and I did find it a bit hard to lather
and sometimes I wasn't sure whether it was like clean or not so I'm interested to see how these perform.
Okay let's have a look inside.
Mmm smells so good, spicy like very strong spicy ginger.
This looks like a canele.
So they have other flavours like blue pea lemongrass and turmeric and i chose the ginger one because
it sounded like really nice and I love the smell of ginger,
this is actually for hair loss,
I don't really have hair loss, I don't think?
Maybe a little bit?
I mean more hair wouldn't hurt.
Okay so this is a broccoli conditioner and inside they have shea butter,
they have omega 9 and they also have vitamin c and b6
and it's supposed to be good to give your hair shine and also to prevent frizz.
It actually smells very minty and citrusy,
so apparently there's also like mint and grapefruit inside here,
there's no broccoli smell.
Okay so I'm gonna take these home and try them
and see how they go!
So I have been trying out the shampoo and conditioner and I love it!
The shampoo is a lot easier to use than I thought it would be
because it just lathers so well!
I wouldn't say super dense but it's a pretty dense cushiony foam that arises which is pretty amazing.
Shape wise, this is easy to hold and you don't really lose your grip, right.
But I do think that as it gets smaller
and as you use more, it might get a little bit more difficult
but I think in which case you just kind of melt it down and like put it through your hair
which is what I had to do for the conditioner!
I think there's just a lot more oils in it so it's a lot softer and you can see how many times I used it.
It feels a little bit oily and a bit heavy and maybe weird at first
but after I washed it off I was like oh!
Actually it doesn't feel greasy at all!
And there's no like residue on my scalp it feels fresh and just I mean look at my hair, look,
it's so bouncy!
So in terms of storage I do not like it when my bar soaps or like bar whatever like solid wet things
are on flat surfaces like this so...
It's actually meant for your kitchen sponge
but I feel like the contact area here is much smaller so it just suits my purposes.
After you use it for a while this starts to happen and that's a bit...
I do not like that.
But it's okay, I just don't look at it and use it.
So overall, really enjoyed it!
I would give the shampoo a 10/10.
It did such a great job, even when I didn't use the conditioner right,
my hair was very bouncy and it felt very alive.
For the conditioner I would give it well maybe a 9/10,
just because it's much softer so it's a bit fussy to use and I did find it hard to put it through my hair
so yeah, I had to squish it off melt it down and put it through my hair
so I would give it a 9/10 but actually you know what,
it still smells great and it worked very well so and I guess after a while you kind of get used to it,
which I think for the shampoo once it goes down to a smaller size,
you'll probably have to do something like that as well so okay, I will give it a 9.5/10.
So to be clear I haven't done anything to my hair, I haven't styled it or anything, I just left it to air dry
and this is like how it looks now so.
So Rooki Beauty is a skincare brand that harnesses the power of superfoods to give
you glowing healthy skin.
So this is their first and most popular product,
this is the green pulp paste masque,
and it's a vegan gel mask that's supposed to hydrate and plump your skin.
Inside they have carrots, tomatoes, matcha powder, kale, soy beans, vitamin E, this is a meal.
So these are pimple patches also from Rooki.
Okay I found this because I was actually looking for cute pimple patches
and then I found these heart-shaped ones!
So cute, aren't they adorable?
I got this because I thought oh, maybe it could be like a cute accessory also,
but then I put them on and I realised that because they're red and like quite big and the shape is
not super clear, actually when you put it on from far, it just looks like a very big pimple
so it kind of like went against what I thought it would do,
but these purple patches work so well!
And I wasn't expecting them to, I thought they would just be pretty and then that was it right,
but they work so well so I'm super in love with these as well.
Alright I'm excited to try this out!
That looks like candy!
It looks like the frozen honey!
The texture is kind of like melted mochi.
So how it works is that it's a green gel and you put it on your skin and then you massage,
as you massage, it turns white.
It feels like I'm putting food on my face actually oh and I can feel it warming out on my skin.
The warming sensation is not extreme, it's quite nice actually
but it's interesting,
like I'm finding this whole thing like, really like really a sensorial adventure!
Like the thing is like just gooey you know,
so like even after I start massaging it and once it turns white, it kind of actually still feels gooey?
It feels like very thin slime,
yeah because okay look at the way it's hanging off my face!
I will admit like i'm not a huge fan of this texture.
It doesn't really smell like much,
it kind of smells more like leaning towards the unscented skincare with a bit of a woody smell.
Okay so now after rubbing it on for 1 minute, I have to leave it on for 10 to 15 minutes.
Alright it's been about like 12 minutes now so we're going to remove it.
Interestingly, it feels exactly the same!
You know how sometimes mask after you leave it on it'll either dry, or it'll like harden or something
but this feels exactly the same.
I'm very interested to see the results.
Okay after I removed everything, it doesn't still feel sticky,
it feels good,
okay the elasticity, it feels really nice.
My skin feels bouncy and healthy and it feels hydrated.
Feels calm, it feels as a slightly... it's slightly cool.
It doesn't feel like it's been agitated
so it's very gentle
because sometimes the mask after you take them off it can feel a little bit like... oh no everything's like still tingling,
yeah so I quite like this!
For the sticky thing I think i'll take a bit of getting used to,
I haven't tried a lot of masks that are like so sticky,
yeah so that's in a way like I can see how that could be fun.
So overall, I think I would give this
an 8/10.
Yeah I would give this an 8/10.
It didn't feel like my skin went through a huge change
but it does feel like nourished.
So this collection is from Sahur's Art Beauty.
now Sahur's Art Beauty was started by Sahur Saleim,
she is a 23 year old beauty influencer, makeup artist
and she started posting makeup related stuff on Instagram I think about in 2015
and now she has over 300 000 followers.
And so this is a fine art inspired makeup collection,
and I think it's so interesting because it's like we have so many types of makeup and makeup collections out there,
I do not recall seeing one that's been inspired by fine art before.
And her products are also vegan, cruelty free and alcohol free, very cool.
So this is the mona painter's palette.
Now this was inspired by what she thought Leonardo da vinci's oil paint palette would look like
as he was painting the Mona Lisa.
Wow.
This feels really nice.
This feels like a nicely made palette.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Ooo so smooth!
The browns are very buttery.
Ooo this gold is beautiful!
I think the glitters are really quite special.
Okay let's try this out!
Such a beautiful colour!
Very hard to find like nice normal brown sometimes,
because there's so many I get quite picky with them
and this is a really pretty one.
Look at how smooth that is!
I'll try some pink up on top!
Oh so cute, it feels like a bit sunsetty.
I feel like the colours in here, I kind of get like the whole like fine art thing,
it's kind of inspiring me to play with more colours,
like sometimes that with palettes that have a lot of colours in there it can feel a little bit like intimidating
or it can feel a little bit like oh where do I start, you know.
Whereas this one kind of has like a nice base of simple colours that work really beautifully
and then they have like colours that you can slowly build up if you're feeling a bit more courageous.
I'm really loving this palette,
I think it blends so beautifully,
like the colours are gorgeous
and everything just blends so nicely together, it performs really really well,
I just want to throw everything on my eye!
Alright this is my final look!
I also managed to use the isleworth to do the inner corner of my eye.
The shimmers perform so well,
the bright colours are bright,
you can make them brighter if you want,
you can also use them just as a touch at the end I ended up using a little bit of virgin
to add a bit more like of a pop of pink.
The shimmers are beautiful!
And actually even though this is more silver,
like because it's got gold and like sort of green flecks in it,
it actually matches with this gold really well as well if you wanted to like mix them together
so overall, i'm loving this palette.
It's just... I would give this a 10/10.
Alright we have 2 of the lipsticks here.
So the whole collection is The Kiss liquid lipstick collection
and it's inspired by Gustav Klimt's most famous painting called The Kiss.
So 1908 was the year The Kiss was finished
and Belvedere is the museum in which The Kiss is housed.
So this shade is a 1908 and it's the glazed creme
Oh this is beautiful!
That applies so well.
It's very easy to get to the edges,
it's a very creamy formula,
and it's got a nice shine,
and it's incredibly comfortable my god!
The sensation of putting it on is comfortable
and after it's on, I don't really like feel it.
It's just like there.
And this colour is gorgeous!
This kind of reminds me of brooke candy, but like updated,
and I prefer.
Because it's like a nice like brownish nude but it's got like lots of beautiful pink tones in there,
because sometimes browns are tricky because they can make your face look very dull,
but then this brightens.
Yeah when I first saw the applicator I was like oh I'm not sure
because it kind of looked very thin and a bit bendy
and I wasn't sure if you'd be able to like control it well but my god it's like perfect, oh my god i'm so happy!
I love this, okay this is like a 10/10 for me this is beautiful.
Now let's try out the matte formula in Belvedere.
This is their most popular matte shade.
Actually I was surprised by the way this colour turned out,
I was expecting it to be a little bit more brown
but what I'm seeing is more red with a hint of terracotta.
I think when she formulated this she was taking accutane
and so her lips were very dry but i think she was saying that her favourite lipsticks are like matte,
so she was trying to formulate something that she could still use even with the lips being very dry.
So I think generally matte liquid lipsticks can be very drying,
it's hard to find one that doesn't feel like a film that's just like stretched over your mouth
so I feel for this one, I don't really get a lot of that stretching filmy sensation
but it is there a little bit.
Generally I usually go for like the creams or like the butters or like soft mattes,
I rarely go for like matte matte
but I think for a matte matte,
this is I would yeah, I would say that this is considered like not very drying.
So that's really impressive.
So I guess for me the little thing would just be that the 3 different colours like not quite matching,
it's like kind of different in the tube and on the lips.
If i were buying it online, I think i'll be a little bit disappointed
but it's still a pretty color so i think i'll just minus 0.5 for that,
so 9.5!
So this is the charcoal beads gel cleanser from Glowfully
and it is formulated without harsh chemicals,
and also Glowfully products are supposed to be specially suited for our hot and humid environment.
So inside here we have charcoal that's supposed to act like a magnet and draw our pore clogging pollutants and impurities
and the cleanser is also scented with geranium essential oil.
Alright let's try this out!
I'm surprised, I thought they were going to be gray
but these look a bit green to me or is it just my eyes.
The smell is very strong,
like a bit of a green like botanical kind of scent.
For a gel cleanser, I do find this quite rich
but it actually feels quite moisturising.
Cream cleansers sometimes can feel a little bit heavy
whereas this one kind of sits in the middle of a gel and a cream after I lather it
which I quite like because it feels super refreshing.
Okay so initially after I washed it off,
like it felt nice and bouncy and like still hydrated, not dry or stripped the way some gel cleansers are
but like the more it sits out the more I feel like it's actually it feels a little bit bare.
It feels nice but it does feel a little bit drier.
Yeah so maybe it's not suitable for my skin
because i do lean towards the dry side.
I mean it's not stripped, it's still okay and my skin does feel very nice and it was refreshing
but it's starting to feel a little bit more taut,
like the more I leave it the more taut it feels if that makes sense.
Yeah but it doesn't feel like this.
I found the smell a little bit overpowering at first,
after a while it's kind of okay I can still
sort of like smell it on my face now so I'm not a huge fan of that.
But overall I think this is yeah, it's all right.
Yeah it's quite a pleasant experience so I think I would give this like maybe a 7.5/10.
it feels quite nice just maybe not for my skin type.
Yeah I guess like if your skin isn't like too dry I think this is okay.
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