[Review] Skincare: Garnier Sakura White Pinkish Radiance

This is the most recent product that I purchased! It was just randomly out of the blue when I was browsing some stuffs in Watsons, this product seems appealing. So I decided to try it!

Tadaaa~

Garnier Sakura White Pinkish Radiance Moisturizing Cream & Essence Lotion

It's been a while since I used Garnier brand and so I'd like to share with you my review.

Garnier Sakura White Pinkish Radiance Moisturizing Cream

Suitable for sensitive skin - dermatology tested

Sakura Extract

Garnier unlocks the power of exquisite Japanese Sakura blossoms - a delicate and precious flowers that fully blooms only for a week each year. Sakura extract effectively reduce dullness and roughness, helps fight skin darkening, refines skin texture and comfort skin.

Pinkish Radiance Moisturizing Cream SPF 21 / PA++

Enriched with Sakura Extract - a gentle but powerful ingredient from Japan, the delicate pinkish cream with a blend of Sakura Extracts, Vitamin B3 and Vitamin CG nourishes skin deeply and helps lighten skin tone and dark spot, refine textures and smoothen pores. The formula is suitable even for sensitive skin.

- Day after day, skin blooms beautifully like Sakura flower - fair, fresh, translucent with pinkish glow!

 - In 4 weeks, the skin become 60% more pinkish radiant

Directions: Spread evenly on perfectly cleansed face and neck

I've been using this product for 2 weeks every morning (almost) without fail. I have to say this cream absorbs to skin quickly and give matte finish. After applying the cream it makes my skin looks brighter. It has a strong perfume smell but it's still acceptable for me. I could say it improves my skin color, it looks brighter and more glowing. Previously my skin was quite dark (as I always always kissing with sun) and sometimes it looks dull. :( 

With this moisturizer it brings more radiance, not pinkish (yet; but I don't know because never in my life I have pinkish face unless if I'm blushing :p). 

I like this cream too because it came with SPF and my skin is fully protected under sun. I don't need to apply sun block and moisturizer separately. 

The texture of cream is like pudding; it's kinda unique. :D 

Of course there are few things that I don't like from this item but it still acceptable for me. I could only use the cream for daily usage. I can't bring it to sleep because it has SPF. Strong perfume smell sometimes a bit irritates me when I'm applying the cream. 

But overall I like this product so much. Not sure I will buy the 2nd tube because I really love to experiment with different items. 

Price: SGD 19.90

Easily available in drugstore; Watsons, Guardian, Unity, NTUC Xtra. 

Do check out for some sale in Watsons or Guardian, you could save about $4!! I just saw few days ago it's on sale in Guardian for SGD 15.90. 

Garnier Sakura White Pinkish Radiance Essence Lotion

Enriched with Sakura Extract compressed, it can effectively brighten skin from its source, boost skin rosiness and transparency. Blending with Vitamin B3 and Vitamin CG, skin tone is more even, fairer, smooth and refined. The watery translucent is light and easy to be absorbed, penetrating into each inch of skin. Day after day, skin blossoming beautifully like the Sakura: pink, transparent and white! 

The proven power of natural ingredients:

Sakura Extract

Sakura-365 days of growing for only 7-14 days of blossoming in a year. Though the tender rosy blossoming of Sakura is short-lived, they give their best at every blossoming moment! You want to preserve Sakura fair skin?

Garnier captures the whitening power from Sakura blossoms stricly selected from Shikoku and Okayama in Japan. Garnier uses high-end technology to extract Sakura Extracts, effectively eliminates dullness & roughness, brightens skin and boosts skin rosiness and transparency. Reveals rosy transparent fairness like Sakura.

Remember that I mentioned to check for the discount / sale in Guardian or Watsons? I decided to purchase this because of the discounts! I thought that it will be more interesting to see the result if I combined the same product together rather than I'm using different one, it may or may not be maximize.

At first when I purchased I thought it may be a toner. But when I opened and tried it, it's absolutely not toner. I'm not sure how to describe it. A lotion? Anyway, I applied this after I used toner and before moisturizer. 

I love how it easily absorbs to my skin and it has dewy finish, non-sticky. I just started using this lotion so I couldn't really tell you much. 

I love the texture and actually it has even stronger perfume smell compare with the moisturizer. It still alright but I find it kinda irritating when I applied it. 

Price: SGD 17.90 (I totally forgot what's the original price). I bought it on discounted price SGD 14.90 at Guardian NEX. 

Easily available in drugstore; Watsons, Guardian, Unity, NTUC Xtra. 

Will I recommend this product?

Absolutely, for those of you who are looking for great yet affordable product then this is for you. 

//This review is based on my experience. I'm not getting any pay from Garnier or anyone else. This is purely from my personal review.// 

XOXO

Jess

Bintan Island - Retreat

Ok so last week the company that I attached with, the bosses decided to have staff retreat! So we went to Pulau Bintan; Bintan Island in Indonesia. It's located on the south east of Singapore! Just on the right side of Batam Island.

I was really impressed by the ferry; when I came out from Immigration, the resort is just right in front of me! I was like WOW! Well anyway the officer almost stop me because he thought I went to the wrong queue, and I was like, "I'm Indonesian!!" and he let me go. Perhaps they hardly get Indonesia tourist and majority are non-Indo.

The resort was nice. We were staying in Bintan Lagoon Resort. But the ferry I could say it's pretty much expensive, it costs about SGD 80 per person!! 

On the day we arrived actually the weather was so good! The sky was super blue, really really blue. It matches the sea color and it blends perfectly. The perfect blue sky and sea. Here's some pic to increase the jealousy. 

The first day we were just chillax, nothing good to do. While waiting for check-in time we decided to go for massage! Since it's 7 of us, the massage place provide complimentary pick up and drop off at our hotel. When we reached there, my eyes almost popped up because all the price are really expensive! Just for 90 min massage I spent IDR 630K. Unbelievable right. I could get full treatment with that price! And apparently the massage was not that great, the massager didn't hit the spot at all. It was none, zero. Disappointing. 

Then we decided to buy some groceries and local number in shop nearby there. And we went back to hotel, just for a safety precaution for my colleagues who were not get used with unhygienic food and we had lunch in hotel. The view was perfect. But the food it just so so. Nothing really excites me. 

In the evening we went to beach, relaxing and it was really awesome. I did some silly stuffs with colleagues and we had the opening of our retreat by the beach; while some of us in the water and freezing. It was really interesting. 

Dinner we went to restaurant that is located quite far, about 40 minutes drive from our resort, I ordered quite numbers of food. And it costed about SGD 270 for 9 pax. Food I ordered were crabs, flower crabs, crayfish, gong gong, fish, etc and it's all double portion. The food was great and the place too. It's at the lake side. 

Second day. Unbelievably the villa didn't come with breakfast. So we had ala carte breakfast. Well, since I'm not a big eater in the morning, I didn't mind just to have a bread and milk in morning. After breakfast we had whole day session for company vision, discussion, etc. I was so drained in the evening, my brain was fried. So I decided to take rest in the villa while all of them playing at the pool. 

And we had supper actually in the bar and short drinking session followed by another drinking session and blackjack in the men's villa. 

Last day. We woke up late. Had brunch and after that check out and relaxing at the pool side while waiting for the ferry in the evening. The ferry in the evening was a nightmare, I almost puking because the waves was too strong, I forced myself to sleep. And the journey was about 1 1/2 hours. :( But we all reach Singapore safely! Reached Singapore, the haze smell was back! 

Overall, it was really a great trip, keep aside all the creepy things happened and the food. The people that I work with, they are really awesome. As the company growing and moving forward, I really wish to be able to be part of it. And I feel I'm totally blessed, indeed God's blessings are really awesome! :) 

For me, one time visit to Bintan and that's all. I will reconsider to visit again in future. Even though it's near with Singapore but it's kinda over budget (if I have to travel by myself and in my own spending). It's really a lovely place and worth while to visit just once. My second time, perhaps will be next few years I guess. 

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Jess