By BR Kellie
Remember when sheet masks were things of simplicity? You'd rip open a pack to find a piece of white material soaked in liquid, you'd place it on your face, mooch about for twenty minutes praying no one would come to your front door unexpectedly, then once the time was up you'd peel it off, bundle it up and chuck it in the rubbish. Job done. These days the explosion of the K-Beauty favourite has seen companies come out with variations of the sheet mask, some wonderful, some plain our weird. You have been warned.
Let's be honest, regular sheet masks make you look like a stalky serial killer from a horror movie, but it only gets stranger when you add rubber. Dr Jart's Rubber Mask has got to be one of the weirdest sheet masks out. Not only does the cover feature a baby-shaped rubber face (shudder!) but when taken out of the package (as seen in this video from Tati) it ends up making you look like a failed superhero whose mum didn't know how to make a proper mask. And if you're hoping to look like a weird rubber baby - you're out of luck. And can we please take a minute to look at the name on the packaging above. Nope. Just. Nope.
If you have squillions of dollars to spend and want to look like a high-class dominatrix, then the Givenchy Le Soin Noir Lace Face Mask is for you! Retailing at US$330.00 for a pack of four this mask is the ultimate in luxury skincare, and contains something magical sounding called 'Life Algae complex', which apparently targets the integrity of the cell life cycle to correct all the signs of aging. At that price you'd hope so! While my scepticism is real, it certainly must have had a following as it's sold out everywhere I could find online.
While not full-face sheet masks, we think these are still worthy of a mention... KOKOSTAR's sliced masks are cut into the cutest shapes and colours - including lemon rings, cucumber slices and rose petals! You know, we'd almost be wanting someone to knock on our door when we were wearing these - we think it would tickle their fancy no end.
But perhaps the most terrifying of them all is the Emoji sheet masks. Emoji's are meant to be cute and quirky ways of expressing feelings, they're not meant to make dogs howl or children hide behind their mother's legs. My little person adores helping take off my weekly sheet mask, but I wouldn't subject her to this - I couldn't afford the therapy costs down the track!
So there we have it - some of the weirdest and most wonderful things we can apply to our face in the name of beauty. Have you tried any of them? Is there a scarier sheet mask we need to know about? A weirder one? A more fabulous one? Chat away...
Oh my goodness, these are amazingly awful!!