It's rather off-putting that it's a brand under Ever Bilena Cosmetics. Nothing wrong with the brand, just, you know, it's forever associated with a certain female dance group and you can't help but feel worried about its quality. Ever Bilena is now endorsed by my favorite local beauty queen, so I try to remind myself that product quality has nothing to do with celebrity endorsers. Anyway.
I ordered Hello Glow on Shopee on the sole basis of it promising that it's "safe for sensitive skin, teenagers, pregnant and breastfeeding women." It's literally printed on the box. While other rejuvenating kits promise more or less the same thing, Ever Bilena is a rather large cosmetics company, and I don't think they'd risk tarnishing their decades long existence by lying about its product contents. Rejuvenating kits from fly by night cosmetics laboratories have nothing to lose. Ever Bilena, despite being associated with a certain female dance group, has billions at stake.
What's in the box?
The same stuff you'd find in other rejuvenating brands: soap, toner, night cream, and day cream that functions as sunscreen.
SOAP
It's decently wrapped in its own plastic packaging, unlike other rejuv soaps that come in cling wrap. The label says 4-in-1 whitening soap. Promises to restore, exfoliate and whiten. Contains papaya extract, kojic acid, and glutathione. I'm not that excited about using papaya extract on my face, I've tried half a dozen other brands of papaya soap and all have broken me out. Same worries about kojic acid. Arbutin is okay, it's supposed to be the safest whitening ingredient in the market. Glutathione, I've heard a derma say, is pretty useless as a topical ingredient. At the back, it shows that its base is coconut and palm oil, and I do find the soap very moisturizing indeed. It also has lychee and peony extracts.
The soap is rather underwhelming. I wore make up one time and it failed to remove my sunscreen and BB cream. I had to use grapeseed oil and tissue to completely clean my face. Nonetheless, the soap did not break me out, which is outstanding in my book.
TONER
Another outstanding product is the clarifying toner. It contains Ethyl Alcohol, so I was expecting it would dry my skin out, but it surprisingly didn't. It also contains Apple, Skullcap, Saxifrage extracts, which are new to me. It also has kojic, arbutin and glutathione for whitening purposes. I enjoy using the toner because it smells so nice. It doesn't sting. My skin feels clean and moisturized after using it.
DAY CREAM
This is an SPF 30 sunscreen with moisturizers and apple extract. Nothing remarkably good about it. I mean, when it comes to sunscreen, you can only really hope it does what it's supposed to do. It's quite sticky, but although it feels thick, it smells light and fruity so it sorta compensates that way. I've used it under make up once and it didn't blend well because this day cream does not really absorb into the skin, it sits on top making for a muddy scenario.
NIGHT CREAM
This is the product I liked the least. Mainly because like the day cream, it's thick. It does not absorb into the skin. For some reason also, this breaks me out. Whenever I put this on my face, I wake up with 2-3 pimples on random places. I checked the label, and I'm guessing it's just a bad mix of all the fruit extracts and whitening stuff and the thick cream base. I now use this on my neck on nights when I know I can stand some stickiness.
Do I recommend this?
I think this would work on normal to dry skin. The set works well in moisturizing the skin. Even though it didn't deliver on a couple of its promises (micropeeling, glass skin, skin brightening, etc.), it did make my skin look and feel healthy. This would probably work perfectly on people who live in low-humidity areas. I also feel like this is perfect for people who are not really looking to get crazy white, but needs just the right amount of glowing suppleness.
Price: Around P250 for a kit that lasts for a month.
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