This is a new feature I’m running where I’ll be re-reviewing products I’ve already reviewed mostly because I don’t think there’s any use in me giving my initial opinion without doing a second review actually reviewing the effectiveness of a product. For today’s revisit, I’ll be going over the TonyMoly Eggpore blackhead out gel which I’ve reviewed here. There will be three sections and this post will be broken up to accordingly. Warning, this post is picture intensive. Not phone data friendly.

#1.

First off I have to mention something that really bothers me, from the website it mentions that the gel turns a milky white upon contact with sebum but I believe this statement to be a lie, if not an over stretched truth. The gel itself has a lot of these little white flecks or dots and at first I didn’t think too much about it, but the more I used it the more I realised that the white colour that comes after a few rubs is actually coming from the gel itself.

To the right, you can see how many little white dots there are in the gel. The yellow beads are there for exfoliating.

[clear]In the picture below, I had placed some of this gel on my hand where you can really see the white dots.

In this next image, I had just muddied the gel by tapping lightly on the spot to simulate the little dots to ‘burst’ and release their colour. As you can see, it is now super milky whitewhich is the colour it becomes when I massage it into my nose, of course the surface of my hand isn’t that oilyif at all and you can clearly see some dots where they’re stretched out and clearly becoming mixed into the gel. It is a little shameful that the company advertises something like that to be so obviously wrong and I suppose you don’t always believe what’s written on the bottle but this is more for show rather than for any purpose. For those of you who likes a little bit of entertainment while doing your face care routine, I guess this isn’t a terrible thing but know that the colour change has absolutely nothing to do with the gel reacting to sebum on your face.

#2.

The claims that it removes blackheads is, I find, a little bit over done – it helps to remove them, mostly by clearing away dead skin around the blackheads and the oily texture of the gel along with massaging really does help the blackheads to pop out a bit moresuper gross and TMI I know but this is an important bit so that when you go on to the actual blackhead removal part (with a pore strip) the strip will really grip on to the blackheads and pull them out (even stubborn ones). This gradual removal means that you will not see a drastic improvement as suggested by the product promo informationwhere by the blackheads actually come out during the massaging part.

#3.

I find that this is a useful tool in removing blackheads, not because it changes anything suddenly but because it works as an aid to blackhead removal. However, I wouldn’t buy it again – I’ll probably look into other products that do similar things but I wouldn’t buy the same one again. Should you buy it? It’s really up to you at this point, if you’re looking for something to help in removing blackheads but haven’t found anything yet, I say give this a try; and for $10 for 30mls of product, it’s not too expensive. If you’re happy with your current blackhead removal routine, you can always give it a pass.

That’s all from me today – what a very long post! But I hope you’ve all learnt something new about this product that doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere else!

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday! I wish you all have a safe and happy Easter with your loved ones!

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