A few weekends ago, I cycled 180 kms in beautiful, variable Australian weather – cold in Bowral, even colder at speed downhill, delicious in the sun by midday and positively tan-able by the time the afternoon rolled around (how casual am I making those hours passing sound?!). At the end, I had perspired (a lot), cried (a little), and copped a fair bit of sun and wind to the face. It was one of the most incredible days and every ache and niggle in the pursuing 48 hours felt worth every penny we were able to raise for Lymphoma Australia (over $10,000 of those pennies, but who’s counting?).
But by Tuesday night, my body, my brain and my face were certainly in need of a little self-lovin’.
When your forehead has already slurped up your moisturiser by the time you’re onto your cheeks, you know a little TLC and a whole lotta moisture is needed.
A drive-by of MECCA gave me the change to have my Girls-Night-In accompanied by Frank Body and the very well known, brainchild of Zoe Foster-Blake, Go-To.
I have been a big fan of Go-To’s attitude, faultless marketing and commercial astuteness since it was launched in 2012.
And it’s pretty hard not to be a fan girl of the creator and follow her and her husband, half of Australia’s radio sweetheart duo (Hamish & Andy). But, to be honest, I haven’t always loved the consistency of their products for my skin.
Having followed the brand’s rise but then side-stepped from using them over the last few years, I thought I’d dip a toe back in with their new face mask. It’s not super cheap for a one-off ($9) but I was sold by the notion that it was naturally derived (without parabens, sulfates, petrolatum or synthetic colours), well-respected (with ingredients such as finger lime extract, a natural source of AHA’s) and “saturated in serum”. Yum!
Post shower, with a freshly scrubbed face, I set myself up with Elizabeth Day’s newest paperback ‘How to Fail’ on the couch, lit a candle and wiggled my toes with relaxed, mid-week, quiet-time glee.
The first thing I notice is that the mask has a clean fragrance, soft and slightly floral. I can’t quite pick the scent itself but it is totally inoffensive – and I kind of like how subtle it is – a less full-on scent to me means less fiddling with the product in its creation. The next thing is that it is the perfect amount of ‘drippy’. It genuinely lives up to its advertising. It feels positively saturated in all the good serums and life-saving tactics my skin needs. At this stage, the price point becomes a non-issue.The face wizards at Go-To have managed to have a pretty zero-drip technology so no product is wasted.
The other magic they have mastered is that somehow, without me knowing, they have moulded Transformazing from my face. Like my actual countenance. The same way you don’t notice how much you’re missing out on before you taste the difference between adult-dinner-party-wine and Uni-Student wine, I never noticed how much delight could come from a face mask that perfectly fits your dimensions before this. In fact, I might be simultaneously delighted and furious – how can I ever go back to other face masks now? Now that Go-To has traversed the very contours of my face, the nooks of my nostrils, the crannies of my lips (without any annoying overhang into my mouth while I sip my very healthy and wholesome Evening Tea…ahem….red wine). I don’t know how you did it Zoe but you’ve gone and impressed me with something I never knew I cared about and now I sound like a weird broken record talking about the geography of my face!
With the mask now plastered to my tired, thirsty skin, its time for 10-15 minutes of naval-gazing, deep diving into my book and wondering when my boyfriend will walk through the door. He was horrified by my public display of face masking on our last long haul flight and hasn’t quite recovered.
Fifteen minutes later, and I’m totally impressed by how much product has transferred to my skin. What started as your normal slippery mask-sucker is now almost cotton-like in its dryness. The littler layer of extra serum stays on the skin, neck and décolletage (great word) overnight and I have to admit, I noticed a difference putting my moisturizer on the next day, namely because my skin didn’t try to mistakenly slurp up my BB cream when I got ready for work.
All in all, I’m as impressed as I hoped I would be and I will definitely be purchasing this product again. Hopefully next time, just because I feel like it and not because of some wild attempt at an athletic feat.
If you’re wanting to give your face a little extra somethin’ somethin’, you wont regret this buy.
And as always, when it comes to pearls of serum wisdom, remember as ZFB says “you’re face stops at your boobs”. So use any extra drops…hell, head down to that belly-button of yours!
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