I've been extremely...lucky with my skin recently. 'Lucky' being almost every new product I've tried, my skin is enjoying it. Now the Law of Averages doesn't work that way and I keep feeling apprehensive that the next product I try, my skin will rebel and hate it.

My latest HG essence has taken over my Laneige White Plus Renew Original Essence. I couldn't put the latter down after I started using it but omg, this Laneige White Dew Original Ampoule Essence is bomb.

Just an additional side note: I feel that the White Dew Original Ampoule Essence is lighter and absorbs faster. It's also definitely more hydrating. It brightened my skin very well; especially coupled with sheet-masking. However, I still feel that the White Plus Renew Essence did a better job at evening out my skin tone.

It has a similar packaging compared to the White Plus Renew one but this blue gradient gives me life. It's SO NICE. I really enjoy my skincare more when the packaging is nice. It just makes the process so much more enjoyable lah.

Comes with a dropper so what I normally do is drop one drop each on forehead and cheeks and then pat them all in.

This would take the place of a serum/essence for me, AFTER hydration toner.

It is in a way runnier consistency and feels lighter too! I pat it in till it gets tacky then sealing it with either a moisturizer (AM) or sheet mask > moisturizer (PM).

I was very interested in its hydrating abilities since it contains phyto sugar water - Trehalose & Raffinose. Trehalose helps to regulate skin moisture content while Raffinose supplies moisture to skin and boost skin brightening effects. So I decided to test this on one v neglected area - my eyelids.

Izzit I running out of space on my face to test stuff. I have to resort to using eyelids 😂 No lah, kidding, my lids are really neglected.

I'm sorry u guys have to get so upclose and personal. Idk how to show y'all otherwise leh hahahaha

Okay, I hope the compression don't make this too shitty. In the before, u can see fine lines and just how dry my lids are.

I use a teeny bit of the serum and gently pat it into my lids and u can see the big difference in just 7 days! A lot of the fine lines have disappeared and my skin there feels and looks less thin and dry.

I was really v pleased with the visible results. My lids deserved all the pampering! Did my veins freak anyone out tho.

Now, if someone were to ask me to take a barefaced selfie of myself a few years ago, I would laugh so hard and then hide. No way would that be a voluntary thing.

But I'm really so delighted by the positive change my skin is taking that I feel like I'm finally comfortable in my own skin. That glow u see is real.

The essence has evened out a lot of my shallowness and significantly brighten my skin, and as u have seen from my lids above, it has pretty decent hydration properties too. I have no qualms taking barefaced selfies even with the iPhone back-facing camera okay ✌🏼

I believe coupled with sheet masking daily, my skin has improved by leaps and bounds. Idk how true this is, but I read that sheet masking 'forces' the essence/serum that u apply to work with ur skin instead of evaporating.

If u seen my IG-stories and read whatever

maskotd posts I put up, u would know I'm on a crazy mask-journey.

I have doing it daily for 2 weeks now and I'm pretty ready for a review. I've gotten so many emails and DMs asking if it really helps!

If u see, I've been using a lot of wallet-friendly masks since it's a daily thing. Cannot afford $5 sheet mask daily leh wtf. I only needed the masks to serve one purpose - hydration. Ever since I started thinking of dehydrated skin instead of dry skin, it has changed the way I treat it and I really can see crazy changes.

I'm using one sheet mask a day ever since finding out my skin is dehydrated and not dry. I wanted to see if it makes any difference to skin texture and if hydrated skin really looks plumper. I wasn't sure what to expect cause I have never tried smth so extreme like masking daily before. Hahaha of course I was tracking it with pictures. My camera roll is just filled with crazy upclose pics of my skin all day every day.

I used the circles to mark out the darker pitted scars and an odd red mole, so u girls can match the before/after.

In the before, my skin was okay but if u have been a reader, u know I repeat this alot. My skin is just red all the time. I say 'okay' because it isn't breaking out or anything. It was as normal as I it could get, or at least thought it could.

But with each day, I'm starting to see more effects from proper skincare steps and sheet-masking! My skin is way softer and it is so clear. U can see the difference yourself right. I'm not making it up on my head.

It's looks less irritated even tho texture feels the same. It's definitely softer - this I can attest to. The most obvious difference is that my skin looks so much more plump.

My skin looks less irritated on most days, it calms down easier and I couldn't find a way to show y'all this, but like I mentioned, myskin is plumper? Not like I-put-on-weight-kinda plump lmao but like when I touch it, it has a bounce to it. The Koreans call it 'chok chok' but I find no association to the word and therefore, I can't link it in my head. Maybe more like QQ in Singapore terms hahaha

I always thot I knew a lot about taking care of my skin but I'm totally relearning everything from scratch.

I feel like the difference I see when I do the proper steps and use the right stuff, is just SO AMAZING. I've never felt better about my skin, and that says ALOT. The fact that I am actually seeing and recording improvements daily is still quite crazy to me