Green Tea Mask

This is one of those beauty secrets that DO work and the results are NOT subtle but very obvious. Just ask half the girls in my forum. They will testify in agreement.

Wear this mask 10 – 15 minutes every day. Think of it as a repairing mask, rather than a mask that’s focused on one type of skin trouble. In just a few days, you’ll notice that your skin is not only smoother and clearer, but it FEELS healthy to the touch as well. Temporary acne scarring will heal much faster, break outs are less frequent, the texture of your skin is better and, for me, it brightens my skin as well (could be the bleach in the flour, LOL).

So, w/o further ado, I present to you… the green tea mask recipe:

You will need:

Green tea in powder form. This may be a bit hard for you to acquire. Try your local Korean market. Maybe you might find something online

Flour. You needn’t be picky about the flour. What you have stored in the kitchen will do nicely.

Water. Temperature isn’t a big deal, either. Some prefer lukewarm to warm, just because it seems to improve the consistency of the formula, and the heat supposedly ‘activates’ the green tea. Sometimes, I like mixing it with cold water because the cold mask feels therapeutic on my skin.

How to mix:

The ratio of flour to green tea is up to you. Some like to make their green tea portions greater than their flour portion. Some try not to use flour at all. Personally, I like to be frugal w/my expensive green tea and feel that a smaller tea portion works just as well. I mix a teaspoon of flour with a half-teaspoon of green tea.

Gradually mix in small amounts of water at a time, until the tea and flour become wet and paste-like. We want this to be more like elmer’s glue, not cookie dough. Try to make it wet enough for it to reach every crevice of your skin, but not too runny that it’d roll down your neck.

Apply with clean fingers, spoon, brush, popsicle stick, your baby sister’s foot, whatever – all over the face, excluding your lips and eyelids. It’s okay for it to be thin if you find you don’t have enough. If you have too much, go ahead and use it all up, extending down to under your chin, maybe even your neck, even the back of your hands.

Wait about ten minutes. Sometimes, I get so caught up watching a show, I have it on for like half an hour. Hasn’t hurt me, yet, lol. But when it dries, it pinches your skin and itches like hell.

Rinse off with warm water. It’ll take a while to remove if much of it is already dried but take advantage of this and rinse, rinse, rinse. Rinsing is something many of us don’t do enough of because we want to be done w/washing our faces asap and move on with our schedules.

Follow up with normal moisturizing routing. I follow up with toner and Vitamin E creme.

When I’m at home, I use the toner my mom made for me with lemon, soju, glycerin and green tea. When I’m at my boyfriend’s, I use the Proactive toner I’ve had lying around here.

I get my Vitamin E creme at Vitamin World. I use this and their Vitamin A Retinol creme as moisturizers.

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