Assalamualaikum semua!

Aaand, I'm back with another skincare review. 

Guess who wrote this post 3 weeks ago but havent post it because she cant seem to make time to take pictures of the product? me. hahaha!

I have been using Yadah sunscreen for so long and I freaking love it because it hydrates and smells fresh. But I have been thinking to switch to another brand since my favorite Yadah sunscreen only comes with SPF 35 PA++ only. I tried Yadah Oh My Sun Slush SPF50+ PA+++ but i kinda hate the texture and the scent so I know I have to try sunscreen from another brand.

||     COSRX ALOE SOOTHING SUN CREAM               

I have a few sunscreens added to cart but i decided to buy Cosrx because I tried their toner and serum and they works great! 

COSRX is a Korean skincare brand that specializes in maintaining effective products using minimal ingredients. Not only the ingredients are minimal, I also love their product's packaging as it really looks minimal but kinda give you that "this skincare must be effective" kinda vibe haha.

I read somewhere on the internet that the high SPF is not as important as how often you re-apply sunscreen. But I really want to give sunscreen with SPF50+ PA+++ a try! I talked about sunscreen HERE and feel free to read it as I explain the types of Sunscreen and many more! 

This sunscreen is a Hybrid Sunscreen so you have to wait at least 15minutes before going out after applying this sunscreen. The key ingredient is of course Aloe Vera which is known for its moisturizing and soothing effects, which sounds really great as our skin needs some soothing ingredients as the sun is burning hot.

I am actually very upset as I can't find the exact price of this sunscreen online. There are many places where you can grab this, but lemme tell you the price list I found online and these are all normal price, bukan sale price okay (Price for 50ml tub):
    1. Hermo : RM70 (they usually play with the price tag, original price too high then sale bnyak % so         jadi murah padahal lebih kurang dengan yang lain. lol.)

    2. Watsons Online : RM56

    3. COSRX Malaysia Shopee : RM65

||     INGREDIENTS               

Water, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Cyclopentasiloxane, Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenyl Triazine, Phenylbenzimidazole Sulfonic Acid, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Isoamyl p-Methoxycinnamate, Potassium Cetyl Phosphate, Alcohol, Dimethicone, Glyceryl Stearate, Butylene Glycol, Titanium Dioxide, C14-22 Alcohols, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Cetearyl Alcohol, PEG-100 Stearate, Triethanolamine, Silica, Sodium Hydroxide, C12-20 Alkyl Glucoside, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide, Stearic Acid, Fragrance, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Aloe Arborescens Leaf Extract, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Tocopheryl Acetate, Disodium EDTA

||     WHAT IT CLAIMS               

||     FIRST IMPRESSIONS               

My first impression is not that "whoa" as COSRX packaging is neat but there's literally nothing exciting or suprising when unboxing it. Maybe I need to buy sunscreen that is packed with rare packaging kot hahah. Here are my first Impressions of this sunscreen:

    1. Huge size but worth the price if bought during sale

    2. Nice Packaging

    3. Does not spill easily

    4. Don't have to spin the cap to open it. (Easy to use)

    5. Smells like....Brylcreem. iye, minyak rambut lelaki tu. TT~TT Apooooo

||     TEXTURE AND HOW TO USE               

This sunscreen is a little bit thicker than my previous Yadah Sunscreen and since my skin is a dry type, the fact that this sunscreen contains Aloe really helps misturizing my skin. Here's what i think:

🌞 Texture: Quite thick but not annoying.

🌞 Color : White, but does not leave white cast when applied on skin

🌞 Scent: Honestly, it smells like Brylcreem and I hate that TT.TT

🌞 Time needed: Since this is a hybrid sunscreen, you need to wait at least 15 minutes before going under the sun

🌞 Packaging : Plastic tub

no white cast

Just like any other sunscreen, you need to use this at the end of your day skincare routine (yup, nak tidur takpayah la pakai okay), before appling makeup:

    1. After cleansing, apply your skincare as usual (toner, emulsion, serum, etc)

    2. When done, apply sunscreen. 

    3. Apply your desired makeup. Done. 

||     MY REVIEWS              

Here you go!

Pros:

🌞 Thick texture but does not feel thick after applying

🌞 Absorbs well

🌞 Soothing and calming

🌞 Moisturizing, I can skip emulsion but my skin is still ok and not flakey

🌞 Texture quite thick

🌞 No white cast

🌞 Easy to open the cap as I don't have to take the whole thing off

🌞 Huge tub of 50ml, lasts quite long

🌞 Skin looks healthy 

🌞 Sometimes I skip makeup and just go out with this sunscreen as my final step. works great

Cons:

🌚 I hate, hate, hate the scent. It smells like brylcreem TT~TT even my husband agrees!

Will I re-purchase?

No, solely because of the scent... It's really upsetting because I love the functions and texture and everything else except the smell TT~TT

Will I recommend this to my friends?

If they don't mind about the scent, then why not.  

Till Then,

Thank you for reading this post!

hani shubie

Its been long since I last post review on food & restaurants, right? But there's nothing much we can do though since it's COVID time and it's better to stay at home than go outside to have fun. We usually do takeaway instead of dining if we wanna eat restaurant/ stall food in as it's safer but I usually cook on a daily basis. 

I mean, should I start sharing recipes now? 🤔 #ChefJadian lol

Back to Mr. Dakgalbi. Have you tried them? I tried twice. The first time was with my friend, I was so noob and jakun because I went there without doing any research hahah but that was like 3 years ago in KL. Since there's a Mr Dakgalbi restaurant nearby, I decided to treat my Husband for his bday! (pastu dia memang tak pernah makan, so here we go!)

||     THE RESTAURANT               

Mr Dakgalbi is a restaurant serving Dakgalbi- a really popular Korean Stir Fried Chicken that is cooked with ramen, cabbage, potato, some tteok, and many other ingredients with the special spicy sauce. When you almost finish your meal, add on rice, more spicy sauce, some seaweed and turn it to fried rice! So it's like eating 2 course meals but in a big portion. really, it's Biiiiggg!

And yes, Mr Dakgalbi is a franchise and there are many outlets in Malaysia as of now. But I could not find their official website so I can't list out the branches for you. But you can always google search for the Mr Dakgalbi restaurants nearby. Plus, they are available on Food Panda so you can always tapau!

Due to COVID-19, half of the area is closed to public so that there are limited seatings inside the restaurant. This is easier for them to control the amount of customers dining in at a time. They also have limited worker during this period so expect slow service. 

But honestly, the restaurant is clean!

||     THE MENU               

The menu is not that difficult to understand but if you're a first timer, confirm blur macam laki aku hahah! (actually i pon blur jugak since I haven't been there in 3 years). But worry not, there are many sets available so you don't need to choose everything 1 by 1 and just ask the staff there, they're really nice and will help you and explain to you what you want to know. 

Here are the menus available. My sister said that the fried chicken is tasty but honestly i couldn't see the menu here. will ask the staffs if I come again! 

||     EATING GUIDE               

Haaaa! another restaurant review with eating guide! 

Okay basically, just sit and watch. The staff will cook everything in front of you and all you need to do is wait (and take videos + pictures for your instagram of course!). They'll let you know once it's ready. 

The staff will cook the dakgalbi first, without the fried rice. Just eat them, and call the staff when you're like 70% to 80% done so the staff will make a fried rice with your dakgalbi leftover. 

But since this outlet was short of staff when we went (i think la), they cook it altogether so you don't need to call them again for the fried rice. Honestly, i love this way better!! 

||     THE FOOD               

The food was superb and I am confident to say that it's waaaayyyy better than the one I ate in KL. Serius. 

The portion was big. Since there was only 2 of us, we ordered Jju-ddak which is a webfoot octopus dakgalbi set for 2 pax. There's also chicken in the set but this one includes octopus and we didn't dare to order any fried chicken or other side menu as I already warn my husband that the portion is huge! (bukan kedekut sebab aku belanja birthday guy k hahah!)

We actually avoid eating heavy food since lunch time because I said that the portion is big so naturally when the food came, we ate our hearts out. Still tak habis, and we managed to eat like, 3/5 out of everything. We asked the staff to tapau the balance and we ate it as breakfast the next morning. Kemain kan jah, breakfast dakgalbi. HAHA

Yeorobeun (everyone),... we ate that for breakfast and we were full until 3pm. so maknanya, we ate 2 times for 2paxs portion tu and still kekenyangan! berbaloi baloi! 

||     HALAL STATUS               

Mr Ddakgalbi claim that their ingredients are pork free and alchohol free. They also got their fresh ingredients from halal certified supplier, you can view their Facebook page HERE for the updated news.

||      OUR REVIEW               

So here's my honest review on this restaurant, and I pay for the meal using my own money (not sponsored)

🍲 4.8 overall

🍲 4.9 for food! It's fresh, tasty and the portion is really huge! Kimchi je biasa-biasa.

🍲 5.0 for staffs. The chef is VERY POLITE! and the girl that take our order and cook us our food is also friendly and polite. 

🍲 4.8 for ambience

🍲 4.6 for service. the service is quite slow but I can understand. A lot of business is struggling to survive so they have to cut their operation cost by reducing workers, and I guess here too. I hope their business survive!

🍲 4.8 for the price. We ate 2 times, including when we tapau the food home. It's really worth it!

||     THE ADDRESS               

MR DAKGALBI SUNWAY BIG BOX

Lot G-05, Sunway Big Box Village, 

Persiaran Medini, 5, Sunway,

79250 Nusajaya, Johor Bahru, Johor.

or click HERE for the location in Google Maps.

Facebook page :  mr.dakgalbi_johorbahru_bbv

Call/ whatsapp : 014-260 8004

Open from 10am to 10pm

Till then,

Thank you for reading this entry!

hani shubie

 Assalamualaikum and hello semua!

PKPB start lagi, Johor pon dah kena kurung so please beware and follow SOP ya everyone. we're still not safe TT~TT

Okay back to my review. But first, i will use BM here tau, unlike my previous posts. 

||     ATOMY, TAK PERNAH DENGAR PON?          

I have been listening to my non muslim friend speaking about Atomy non-stop but dalam hati ada jugak fikir, bestnya join ATOMY tapi tak yakin la sebab tak pernah dengar langsung pasal Atomy ni. Entah bagus entah tak tu satu. Halal satu lagi jugak. Aku nak join buat apa wei kalau aku sendiri ragu-ragu hahah. Ramai non muslim tak berapa aware dengan what is Halal and what is not. Ramai tahu Halal tapi tak 100% tahu especially yang bab produk kongsi mesin dengan non-halal items (paling senang pork la kan). So ragu-ragu jugak la kan, sebab skincare banyak je yang tak ada logo halal tapi at least kita tahu dia ni plant based ke, ada ingredients derived from animals ke, vegan friendly ke kan. 

Tapi kawan aku ni bagus, dia banyak tanya macam mana Halal semua so aku ajar lah dia. Jadi bila food items atau benda pelik-pelik, dia tak promote kat aku. tapi produk yang ada logo Halal atau 100% plant based, dia suka sangat bagi aku try. 

Nak dijadikan cerita, satu hari tu aku bukak instagram je nampak post Farah Lee dengan Atomy Vitamin C. Lama jugak I follow beliau ni dan kalau korang tak kenal Farah Lee, dia ni la pengasas clothing line OmmaEsabelle, dulu blajar kat Korea tau. Bila dia sendiri yang cakap pasal Atomy, terus I register pasal memang dia ni stay bertahun kat Korea, fasih Korea dan member Korea pon ramai. Plus, dia muslim dan tahu Halal ni macam mana kan. Settle bab ragu haha! 

Lepas selidik sana sini, rupanya ATOMY ni, barang dia sama kilang dengan Laneige, Lancome, MaryKay, Avon, Herbalife, Nature Republic, Etude House, Innisfree, dan macam-macam lagi. Kilang ni kilang kosmetik terbesar di asia tapi nampak tak brand apa yang kat atas tu? High end kan? exactly! 

KOLMAR

Atomy ni mendapat pengiktirafan dari Kementerian Sains Korea dan KAERI pulak memang institut Atom/ Nuklear negara Korea yang banyak buat research. Kat KAERI sahaja ada beratus ratus saintis dan researcher. Pastu ATOMY ada jugak dapat subsidi dari kerajaan Korea Selatan, sebab tu barang-barang Atomy ni high quality tapi harga takdelah mahal macam Mary Kay atau Laneige tu. 

Nak register pulak kena ada introducer, means kalau korang nak register tu kena inform sesiapa existing member nanti diorang tolong register (click SINI untuk register for FREE!)

||     APRIL SKIN CALENDULA PEEL OFF PACK     

||     THE INGREDIENTS     

||     WHAT IT CLAIMS     

||     FIRST IMPRESSIONS     

||     TEXTURE AND HOW TO USE        

the texture

My skin after using the pack

||     MY REVIEWS     

||     WHERE TO BUY     

||  YUJA NIACIN BRIGHTENING SLEEPING MASK     

Yuja Niacin Brightening Sleeping Mask, it has Whitening & Anti-wrinkle function. Brightens and moisturises skin with 70% of Goheung Yuja Extract. Improves skin tone and brightens skin with Glutathione, Arbutin and Resmelin.

trial size

full size

||  THE INGREDIENTS     

Citrus Junos Fruit Extract, Water, Butylene Glycol, Niacinamide, Glycerin, Panthenol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Thuja Orientals Leaf Extract, Zanthoxylum Schinifolum Leaf Extract, Polygonum Cuspidatum root Extract, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) leaf Extract, Mentha Aquatica Leaf Extract, Mentha Rotundifolia Leaf Extract, nelumbo Nucifera Flower Extract, Coptis Japonica Extract, Hippophae Rhamnodes Fruit Extract, Arbutin, Glutathione, Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Biotin, Tocopherol, Cyanocobalamin, (-)-alpha-bisabolol, Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate, Menadione, Arginine, Trehalose, Madecassoside, Aenoside, Diphenylsiloxy Phenyl Trimethicone, Caprylyl Methicone, Inulin Lauryl Carbamate, Behenyl Alcohol, Sorbitan Oleate, Sorbitan Isostearate, Caprylyl/ Capryl Glucoside, Polyisobutene, Xanthan Gum, Carbomer, Acrylates/ C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Dimethicone/ Phenyl Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Benzyl Glycol, Ethylhexyglycerin, Raspberry Ketone, Disodium EDTA, Citrus Junos Peel Oil (3,000 ppm)

||  PACKAGING   

As for the packaging, the trial pack comes in a plastic container with no box, while the full size comes in a plastic container (looks like glass tho) + plastic cover and comes with box.

I was quite worried on the plastic cover of the full sized ones as it seems thin and not able to cover the product from spilling, but I'm really glad I was wrong. The description on the jar itself is clear and the box stated everything we need to know about the product. (some products didn't disclose everything and sometimes we need to google them and I dont like it, leceh mak aih!)

but they're in Korean. If you don't know Korean, you still need to google tho.

And since they represents Yuja and Vitamin C, the packaging is yellow in color.

||  TEXTURE & DETAILS     

Reviews online from Korean said that this smells like Yuja, and since I don't know how the real Yuja smells like, I'm gonna say that this gel-type mask smells like orange peel. It got some tanginess, a little bit of sweetness, but it's more to a bitter orange peel.

this is right after being applied. It will be absorbed in a short time and doesn't leave any sticky feeling.

The bitter + tangy smell from an orange peel smells exactly like this sleeping mask.

🍋 Gel-like texture, but it melts on your skin
🍋 Texture slightly watery compared to Klairs Vitamin E mask, but both melts when applied to skin
🍋 Smells like orange peel (korean said it's like Yuja but Idk how Yuja smells haha)
🍋 Light yellow color
🍋 Absorbs well and not sticky
🍋 Packaging is quite nice
🍋 Trial pack is in plastic container, and full size is in a plastic container but it looks like glass haha
🍋 The scent surprisingly kinda makes me relax

||  HOW TO USE     

I told you why I love sleeping mask, right? Because it's easy to use! Here's how I use this sleeping mask :

Cleanser → toner  → Ampoule or serum  →  sleeping mask

Then I go to sleep!

All you need to do is to wash your face off in the morning with lukewarm water, and done. Your skin will look so healthy and brighter. It doesn't look too bright though, I mean if you have Malay-colored skin, you can't expect to have Korean-colored skin with only 1 use. Use this constantly and you will see your skin becomes fairer, glowing and healthier.

||  MY REVIEWS     

Pros: 
⭐ Affordable price
⭐ Absorbs well but doesn't leave my skin dry
⭐ Moisturizing & brightening. It works 2 way!
⭐ Skin looks healthy and glowing the next morning
⭐ Lightweight, you can put on 2nd layer if you want more moisture
⭐ Packaging is quite nice and product doesn't spill
⭐ Doesn't sting when applied to skin
⭐ Super easy to use. Just apply and sleep haha!
⭐ Refreshing
⭐ If you like Tangy scent, you will love this
⭐ Paraben fee, alchohol free

Cons: 
⛅ Scent is nice but quite strong

Will I re-purchase?
Yes, as this product works and the price is affordable.

Will I recommend this to my friends? 
Yes! If they're looking for a vitamin C sleeping mask, this is it!

Till then,
Thank you for reading this post!
hani shubie