Review - Laneige White Plus Renew Original Essence

I was raving and obsessed with Korean Skincare Routine few months back, and finally went onto a Laneige Splurge! Until today, I never regretted the splurge because after beginning my Korean Skincare Routine, my skin condition has definitely become improved and appears to be much more radiant than ever!

When I was young, I have darker skin tone compared to my friends because I went swimming a lot. I was just learning swimming from my dad, and we went to the pool quite often. It was my primary school days, I was dark and had a very horrible "aunty" hairstyle. I was born with extremely uncontrollable frizzy hair and in my primary school days, we have to cut our hair short, and one day I got something like a bob cut, which made my hairstyle worse, LITERALLY. I looked just like an auntie. 

OR AN AFRICAN(?) LION WHO JUST ESCAPED FROM THE LIONESS' CLAWS =_=

That's me. But hey, now I'm the lioness .. RAWRR~~ :3

Okay enough rambling, so I think I've made my point that I have very dark skin tone during my younger days. After entering secondary school, my skin tone became brighter as I didn't swim that often already. However, my skin was still dull and I look like a piece of wood in the classroom. I looked like the wooden desks in my classroom. No kidding. 

I didn't pay much attention to how I look during my schooldays. I even hesitated to wear contact lenses to school (actually it wasn't allowed, but teachers can't notice it anyway) and some of my friends wore even colored contact lenses to school. :O 

I was like a caveman. Seriously. 

I didn't dare to do anything, I'm super timid, and I was a total NERD. 

Study, study, study ... was everything I did back in secondary school. 

I thought that caring for the skin starts only when you're old, but turns out it's totally wrong! 

Aging starts even at age 20, and now I'm already 21! 

I know it didn't sound like a big deal, but I personally think that it's a big deal for a medical student who sleep late and have no "face-time" literally.

I didn't care about skincare stuffs all along, my mum always told me I should start taking care of my skin but I always ignored what she said about skincare (because I was too ignorant). I thought that skincare wasn't important ... until one day! I took a good look at myself in the mirror and I saw an old hag someone who has aged so much for a person who is only 21. Dammit! I look hideous! Of course I can't compare myself with those who are born with face deformities or those who are involved in accidents and have their face destroyed, but ... I'm ... I'm an old woman!! *sobs*

Alright! Moving on to the review! I'm gonna review about one product at a time, so that you guys can avoid getting entranced into sleep by my lengthy posts! :D

Today's review is gonna be about White Plus Renew Original Essence by Laneige~

Packaging :

It comes packaged in a box~

I like the metallic grey blue hue of the bottle, 

it made it looked so high class (?) haha

It comes with a dropper design, which is more hygienic and convenient. 

You can control the amount of serum according to your needs by dropping varying amounts serum onto your hand.

Product Description :

LANEIGE White Plus Renew Original Essence 40mL / 1.3 fl.oz

• A natural whitening essence that brightens without stimulation
• A whitening essence with a low viscosity, 4 free formula that comfortably embraces your skin and feathery smooth suppleness to restore the naturally bright complexion
• A whitening essence that melts on skin for a cool and refreshing texture that leaves smoothness and penetrates quickly for a smooth skin texture and an even skin tone

Laneige's White Plus Renew product line boasts the innovative Melacrusher technology to inhibit melanin synthesis, block bridge, and restore the melanin self-decomposing capacity. Melacrusher decomposes melanin debris in your skin and clarifies the melanin factory to leave your skin flawlessly radiant. 

Innovative Melacrusher Whitening technology

Yeast extract, originated from mushroom, is a new-concept autophagic whitening technology that restores the melanin self-decomposing capacity of your skin for flawlessly bright skin.

Green Tea Whitening

Green tea, which is Asia's leading whitening ingredient, is mild on skin yet powerful for whitening and considered the treasure of the world. Laneige White Plus Renew uses green tea for whitening to inhibit melanin generation and block Melanin Bridge.

4 Free and Supple Texture

The whitening formula is free of 4-free ingredients (paraben, animal products, mineral oils, artificial pigments) and is mild on your skin. Also, it is rich in the moisturizers of green tea polysaccharides and safe to use on your skin.

Usage Directions

Pump once to apply as your regular serum every morning and evening. Apply on your cheeks, forehead, nose, lips, and neck and gently press with your palms for penetration. 

Ingredients:

My Verdict :

Pros :

• The product comes in a very nice bottle design, it looked really modern and classy with the metallic-blue gradient hue. It comes with a pump like a dropper, which is more hygienic and easier to know how much of serum you want according to the number of drops.
• Upon application, the texture was smooth and not sticky at all. The serum just glides onto my skin and absorbed really quickly. Pressing your face with your palm speeds up the absorption.
• The product really whitens and brightens up my skin! Even my mum asked me why my skin looked brighter and healthier looking compared to the past. She even asked what products did I use for my face. My housemate said she noticed my face became much more radiant. Haha results proven :D
• I did not experience any breakouts while using this product. It suits my skin and gives a smooth finish after being absorbed. Yayyy!!
• It has a really pleasant smell as it contained fragrances, but the particular smell is in all Laneige products (I'm also using the White Plus Renew Skin Refiner and it smells the same). I guess it's Laneige own signature smell :P

Cons :

• After my skin became brighter, during hot days my skin will become really red (more reddish compared to last time). Maybe it's because my skin became whiter, that's why the redness of my cheeks showed out even more. Or maybe my skin dullness covered the redness in the past, so now it became more noticeable, since my skin already became brighter :P
• Sometimes my skin feels stingy around my lip area after applying, or I feel that my face is heating up .. or maybe it's just me? I don't know
• In this few months of using it, my skin did became dry (I'm aware that whitening skincare products can dry up the skin) but I'm not sure whether if it's because of the essence or my cleanser (my cleanser tends to dries up the skin since it functions to fight sebum and acne)

Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the results as it was not only me who noticed the difference. 

It means that the difference is not subtle at all! 

My mum, oppa, housemate and classmates all noticed a difference in my face! 

I was overjoyed! :DDDD

I will definitely use this until I reach my desired skin tone *which is somewhere near a snowman's face* >:)