I haven't done beauty blogging for a long while now, but SampleStore has recently sent me the all-new My Beauty Diary Black Mask range, featuring an intriguing all-black facial mask with a special ingredient - Cosphingo. My Beauty Diary is my basic go-to weekly masks because they are always the most affordable, still pretty comfortable and effective for that extra moisture pump. My Beauty Diary Black Mask range features three exquisite variants - Black Obsidian Moisturizing, Black Rose Brightening and Black Pearl Total Effect Black Masks. This time, I'm trying out the My Beauty Diary Black Obsidian Moisturizing Black Mask!

Cosphingo has a long-lasting moisturizing property for improved hydration, enabling the skin to feel soft and supple like baby’s skin. This cotton sheet mask is made of high-quality fine and smooth cotton fibres from Japan, feels gentle on the skin, and its exceptional absorption ability allows the essences from the mask to be thoroughly absorbed by the skin, enhancing its skin care benefits. Free of harmful paraben preservatives, alcohol, mineral oil, pigments and fluorescent agents, these masks are safe for use on all skin types including sensitive skin.

Utilizing mystical black ingredients to help eliminate skin pigmentation, unevenness and loose skin caused by UV rays and environmental impurities, the deluxe Black Mask series helps to restore uneven skin tone, enhance skin elasticity, leaving your skin rejuvenated, deeply moisturized with dewy radiance.

Rich in trace elements and minerals that restores healthy skin, French Black Obsidian helps support the skin’s protective mechanism and enhances the skin’s hydrating power. The infusion of Laminaria digitata and sugar maple delivers intense hydration to the deep layers of skin to improve dry skin texture, revealing renewed and brighter skin. Enriched with numerous soothing ingredients like calendula officinalis, Licorice, and Ruscus aculeatus extracts to relieve dry, rough and irritated skin, the mask is also rich in Bladder wrack seaweed, aloe vera, and hydrolyzed Jojoba for improved hydration, allowing the skin to feel optimally nourished, revitalized with glowing luminosity. 

The mask is made up of conforming fabric with refined tailoring and texture characteristics. However, it can get a little too big and ill-fitting for small faces (yeay, #humblebrag). Well, better too big than too small anyway! The best part is that the mask is the first mask I've seen that offers an extension for my neck area to provide it the care that is often neglected.

Previously I felt like my skin was ravaged so bad by the harsh cold winds here, but luckily this mask came at the right time. I felt very refreshed and glowy afterwards, with an obvious increase in hydration levels. Go get yourself radiant and well-hydrated looking skin with a weekly boost: My Beauty Diary Black Obsidian Moisturizing Black Mask retails at $16.90/1 box (5pc). It is available in all major pharmacies and supermarkets from September 2014 onwards.

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