Althea Korea 2nd Birthday Haul
Althea Korea turns 2 this month and they are celebrating their birthday with us! Watch me as I unbox my korean beauty products, unveil up and coming korean beauty trends and share with you amazing Althea's Birthday giveaways, freebies and coupon in my beauty unboxing video and blog post. Besides that, I will also be showing you my creation of the beautiful cake box which I decorated. With that let's get started.
If you've watch my video before hand - thank you - you would have seen how much stuff is inside the box and most of it are freebies in conjunction to their birthday month. Out of all these I only purchased 6 items - can you guess which 6?
Psst. If you take a photo of your Althea Shopping haul and hashtag it with #AltheaTurns2 and #AltheaKorea, you'll get a chance to not only be featured by Althea, but win some fabulous prizes as well!
The Birthday Box - Large
Every year on Althea's birthday, they will produce and create these adorable, limited edition boxes for the celebration - You can see Althea's first birthday box and my haul HERE | Watch my stop motion video which I did for their first birthday HERE. This year's box is in the form of a cake. Vanilla cake ~ As seen from above, the cake frosting design goes around the box. That means if you stack one box on top of each other, they will be layers of cake. It might even look like a wedding cake with enough boxes!
Althea Cake Box DIY set
Aside from the beautiful turquoise coloured cake box, They also provided us with a discount code thank you card, cake box decorating items and an actual cake decorating set. If you're curious on what was written on my thank you coupon card, you can watch it in my unboxing video.
With the cake box decorating items, you can transform you cake into a customized cake box, post it on Instagram and win more prizes! - Because birthday
Joy Party, Cake Bunting Set
Presenting the actual cake decorating set ~ I know it looks kind of jumbled up in the box but that doesn't defer me from it. It's brightly coloured aesthetics are so eye catching and I can't wait to use it.
Seen from the back of the box, there are two other colours as well - pink and blue. I envision it to be perfect for baby showers.
My DIY Cake Box
With my DIY skills, a scissors and glue, the cake decorating box items and the cake decorating box, I summon my customized cake box. Abracadabra! Beautiful! Time to post it on Instagram #AltheaTurns2 #AltheaKorea
Enough cake box shenanigans, time to hop in to my actual haul. Since there are so many things in the haul, I am going to list the things which I bought first then move on to the gifts which they gave.
My Althea Haul
Real Skin, Healthy Vinegar skin Toner 300ml - Lavender
This is a new brand on Althea which provides a range of toner with different smells ranging from wine, black bean, barley seed, red ginseng and so much more. It is made from 12 types of natural fermented ingredients PH 5.5 and contains vitamin, mineral and moisturizing ingredients. It also helps tighten pores, clarify the skin and exfoliate you skin at the same time. Plus it helps protects the skin from sensitivity and dryness from the environment.
Besides having different smells, each 'flavour' have a different property. For lavender, it helps to soothen, clarify and battle acne concern on one's skin. It is recommended to people with oily or normal skin but not dry skin. Personally, I only get pimples once a month during that time of the month. However, my love for lavender scented things just got me shouting "Yes! I pick you!" at the computer in the middle of the night - Too much pokemon.
To make your life easier, here's the list of Vingear skin toner you can choose from according to your skin type. Just noticed that they even have tomato! Wow!
Pure Smile, Choosy Night Lip Pack - Bergamot
Recently, my lips started to have these random flaky skin ever since I healed from the sunburned I've gained from my Wild Wild Wet adventure. Thus, I decided to get a lip pack to take better care of my lips. I saw a review of this online and it seems good. Thus I purchased it.
The Pure Smiles Choose Night Lip Pack aims to relieve dried and chapped lips overnight. It is formulated with natural ingredients such as milk protein extract, honey and collagen. I assume that it could be used daily for the only instructions stated on the website is "After cleansing, apply adequate amount to dry, chapped lips overnight." It comes in 2 scent - Milk Vanilla and Bergamot. I have no idea what is bergamot, so I got it :)
Quick Review on Choosy Night Lip Pack - BergamotIt's my second night of using this as a night care routine and so far my lips have been soft and smooth. I don't see any dry spot and flaky skin. It does give off a sweet cupcake smell which tempts you to eat it - do not for it's kind of bitter and tasteless at the same time. By simply applying a thin layer of this - it still felt very thick- it made me feel that I have enough protection for the night. However, every morning I notice that this product is automatically gone from my lips. I'm not quite sure what happened to it - maybe I drool it off, ate it in my sleep, roll it on the pillow or it absorbed into my lips. I will continue trying this out and give a full review on this product on IreviewUread.
Holika Holika, White Wine Therapy Sleeping Mask
The main reason why I got this was my go to sleeping mask - Manning's Annecy Age Zero Collagen Sleeping Mask - ran out. By ran out I mean expired. Thus, I need another lazy mask. I saw this cute wine barrel and immediately I thought that it would look great on my desk plus it's a sleeping mask. I didn't really know exactly how it can help my skin until this exact moment when I am typing this.
Holika Holika, White Wine Therapy Sleeping Mask is a overnight mask which aims to brightens and smoothen one's skin. It contains 10% French Bourgogne Chardonnay White Wine which eliminates impurities and dead skin cells. Besides that, it have a water drop texture - to coat your skin - to hydrate and retain the moisture on your skin for a long period of time.
How to:- After cleansing, balance your skin with toner
- Spread a moderate amount and gently tap to absorb
- Do not wipe off. Rinse off with lukewarm water the following morning
So far I have yet to try this mask. However, I've opened it and it smell like white grapes. Will be posting a full review on this on IreviewUread.
Onasaemeein, Perfect Moisture Cream
The Onasaemeein perfect moisture cream contains 5% of trehalose extract. What exactly is trehalose? Well according to the description in Althea, trehalose is a resurrection plant in the desert which can help with wrinkle improving, water retention and does not contains any side effects. It aims to help people who have super dry skin, increasing wrinkles, dark skin tone, elasticity and wants a long wearing moisturizing cream.
Plus, it looks really cool being able to turn into water droplets and all. In fact it reminds me of Cathy Doll's Sweet Dream Water Splash Essence where it's essence automatically transforms into water droplets as well.
I initially wanted to buy this in my last Althea haul. However, I can't get my eyes off the Nellafantasia Honey Snail Ultra Moisture Cream - which eventually became my mother's property. This time, we are back to this state where the Onasaemeein, Perfect Moisture Cream pops out right in front of me once again. Thus, I bought it.
Hiddencos, Americano Mask & Latte Mask
Coffee. A drink, a spa item or a mask. I have previously reviewed coffee shower bath and coffee scrubs on IreviewUread but I have yet to review or even come across a coffee mask. Yes this product intrigues me. Therefore, as a inquisitive Beauty/ Lifestyle/ DIY Blogger/ Kind of a youtuber, I purchased it.
Hiddencos, Americano Mask- Contains Premium Arabica coffee extract from Colombia
- Contains Green tea extract and Portulaca extra
- Moisture enhancement
- Help moisturize and nourish tired and dry skin
- Relaxes one's skin
- Protect and maintain smooth and perfect skin
So what does it do? We shall start with the Americano Mask
- Whitening and Wrinkle improvement
- Contains Premium Arabica coffee extract from Colombia
- Help provides moisture and nutrients to the skin
- Brightens and provides clear and elastic skin
- Adenosine helps improve wrinkles
- Protects and maintain smooth and perfect skin
Next, Hiddencos,Latte Mask
Needless to say, I will be reviewing this 2 masks in one post a americano verus lattee mask.
Now that my haul part is over, time to present to you my list of gifts which I got from them. Do note that I do not have much information on these gifts until I actually test them out.
Freebies which comes along with my purchase
Beuins Mask Sample Set
This is one of the most colour sample set which caught my eyes. Not only was it packed in a gift pack with curly wire to secure it but it looks like rainbow trading cards. It is amazing.
Here's what's written at the back of the packages:
Beuins Whitening sleeping mask
The whitening sleeping mask pack brightens and whitens dull, blotted skin with ingredients such as white egg plant and niacinamide. - What is white eggplant?
Beuins Soothing Sleeping Mask
- wow where they get the dragon blood?Soothes and soften skin healthily with Dragon Blood extract
Beuins Nutrition Sleeping Mask
The nourishing sleeping mask pack makes skin moisturized and radiant with ingredients such as Centella asiatica and Macadamia oil.
Beuins Pore Clay Mask
The Clay mask pack makes skin smooth and healthy by absorbing and removing sebum and impurities from pores with soft and moisturizing Morroccan clay.
To use: Apply evenly. Wait 10 - 15 minutes till the clay is dry enough and wash off.
Beuins Hydro Sleeping Mask
The moisturizing sleeping mask pack promotes the water circulation of skin and provides moisture to skin with ingredients such as bursting water droplets and plant-based moisturizing ingredients.
Beuins Energy sleeping Mask
The sleeping mask pack provides vitality and strengthens skin with the compound of goat milk and vitamins while tidying up the formative memory protective film of skin.
Beuins Honey Scrub Mask
The dead skin cell-removing mask pack effectively removes excessive dead skin cells with Walnut powder and provides moisture and nourishment to skin as the viscous honey ingredient closely adhere to skin. To use: Apply evenly. Wait 10 - 15 minutes. Massage it softly and wash off with warm water.
All these samples are available on Althea if you want the full bottle of mask. Personally I like sample packs alot more for they gives you the opportunity to try new things plus they are easy to finish. Which is a con for me because I change products all the time.
Aqua Blossom, White Effect Oled Cream | Whamisa, Organic Flowers Nourishing Cream
Whamisa, Organic Flowers Nourishing Cream- Anti-aging cream
- Formulated with mango seed, cacao avocado, and shea butters
- Gives you long lasting nourishment, protection and more supple skin
- contains 8 different botanical extracts
- Soothe, rejuvenate and nourish the skin
- Lighten dark skin areas - not only face but can be used for armpit, crown, knee and other parts as well
- No stick
- Natural whitening
This comes in the same packet as the trading cards mask. From what I've found, they are both moisturizers. Here are more details
These two moisturizer can't seemed to be found on Althea anymore.
Pink fruity, Half Moon Eyes
I saw this the other time and wanted to get it as a free gift but somehow it does not come in a singular capsule and it somehow became 'not a free gift with purchase' anymore. Therefore, I let it go. I guess it was the right decision for here it is!
Pure Smile, Neco Punch Point Pads
This is so cute. I have never tried point pad mask before despite it being trending so this is a really great surprise for me. Plus my recent obsession with cats have got me thinking that Althea is a mind reader ;)
WondeRuci, Light Light Eye Balm
I'm very shock at this product for I bought it before in one of my previous hauls and even reviewed it HERE. I remembered it was not cheap. The fact that they are so generous to give this as a gift got me flabbergasted. This is such a great and generous birthday for them, me and my mother - Hi mom!
Pure Smile, White Grape Essence Mask & Milk Essence Mask
This is packed as this brand day gift set. I was really happy for I did initially wanted to get a milk mask but I forgot. It's like they read my mind once again! Amazing!
Skinature, Pig Collagen Mask
We are finally at the last item of the free gift set. It's the pig collagen mask. I heard and tried so many kinds of weird mask ranging from horse oil to snake oil to snail mucus that the fact that a mask could surprise me once again is a miracle. Pig collagen mask. Who ever though of that? I will review this on IreviewUread and shock all of you in the process.
*Althea points vary from country to country, depending on your currency.
We have reached the last section of this blog the giveaway and freebies portion. This July, Althea is celebrating their birthday with you! Not only are they having a Althea Birthday sale, but they are also having plenty of giveaways.
First 5000 shoppers get to get their limited edition Althea Birthday Cake Box and DIY Bday Kit. The colour of the box and size varies to the amount of things you buy.
Beside that, shoppers will also receive a generous sample pack from them!
Next contest they are having would be the Shop & Win contest. Where a lucky shopper which shopped on Althea during 3rd July to 30th July 2017 get to walk away with many Althea points* Winners will be crowned weekly. You can view the terms and conditions HERE.
Another giveaway would be their birthday giveaway where there are free Beauty Products for shoppers to add into the cart. You can view this page HERE. So far, everything on the page is out of stock. Hopefully by the time you finish reading this lengthy post, they will add something new!
They are having various social media giveaway such as on Facebook and Instagram. On Instagram, they are having the 20 Days of Beauty giveaway where a winner will be crowned every working day of the month. Winners will be announce on Instagram and their blog. You can view the list and Terms and condition HERE.
Psst. They will also be having a giveaway on their Facebook page every monday so camp there!
This is the most exciting one for you and your partner can get to fly to Korea! All you have to do is show of your Birthday box creation and you might win prizes from a year's free shopping on Althea, 3 months free shopping, USD$100 Credits and even get to flight to korea. More details HERE.
What are you waiting for? Head over to althea.kr and start shopping now! Check out their blog for more details and the terms and conditions of the contests.
Read my other Althea boxes review here:
