Quasi Bio-Collagen Mask Review
It feels like every skincare product on the market at the moment is promising to give me glass skin. But do they work? I tried the Official Quasi Bio-Collagen Mask to find out. Here’s what happened.
Bio-collagen face masks seem to be everywhere, specifically the kind that you leave on for hours at a time. You can even sleep in them. I’ve seen so many videos of women putting white sheets on their faces, apparently going to bed, and in the morning peeling the mask off to reveal shiny, bouncy and glowing skin underneath. As the mask dries overnight, it turns from hospital white to transparent. That’s how you know it works, so they say.
I was skeptical because collagen isn’t easily absorbed through the skin so the impact of any collagen face mask is always going to be temporary. But that’s the case with most products — they all require consistent reapplication, so that wasn’t a deal breaker for me. The ads feature women of all ages, not just people in their 20s with great skin already. They’re also cruelty-free. I was in.
Quasi Bio-Collagen Face Mask: A Review
There are a few different collagen face mask brands that say they do the same thing. I went with Quasi because the ads were literally on my Instagram feed for months, and I don’t follow them, and they had stacks of user videos and good reviews that seemed legit. I do plan on trying a few other brands, but I had to pick one to start with and it was Quasi.
According to the website, these masks reduce pores, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, and give you plump, firm and glowing skin. Key ingredients include galactomyces, which is a fermented essence that is absorbed by the skin while brightening and firming. Oligo hyaluronic acid is absorbed very easily by the skin due to it’s low molecular weight, providing intense moisturisation. Low-molecular-weight collagen helps minimise pores and increase elasticity, and niacinamide which helps build keratin to maintain skin health.
What happened
I bought four packs of four in the sales after Christmas. Apparently the masks should be used weekly, so that’s what I planned to do.
I washed all the make up off my face, using micellar water to make sure there was nothing left. I didn’t apply anything else to my face. The mask was thick, white and jelly-like. It comes in a few pieces so you can taylor it to fit. There are two oval cut-outs where the eye holes are, so I put them directly under my lower lash lines so ensure my under-eye area would get collagen as well. I then placed one half of the mask over my chin and lower cheeks, and the other half on my forehead, cheek bones, and eyes. A have a small face, there was a fair bit of overlap in the middle, it didn’t seem to matter.
It went on very smoothly. I used my new Gua Sha to smooth it all down and make sure there were no air bubbles. It didn’t fall off and didn’t feel as though it was going to. It did feel damp and I wondered how it would go in bed. I waited up for about 45 minutes before going to bed. It dried a bit, but it was still damp-ish to touch.
Sleeping with a face mask on
Sleeping in a face mask was weird. I didn’t love it and I wouldn’t recommend it. I kept feeling as though it was going to stain the sheets (it didn’t) or come off in my sleep (it didn’t), and I woke at one point and felt very aware that it was on my face. It must have been about 4am when I decided I’d had enough. It had been on for six hours at that point, more than enough time, so I peeled it off and went back to sleep.
I had some regrets because I didn’t have that big reveal moment in the ads, where you peel it off and your skin looks amazing. But I remembered one of Quasi’s many ads that shows a woman washing her face immediately after taking her mask off to prove the dewy glass-like texture was her skin, rather than product residue from the mask. For those reasons, I figured my skin should still look like that in three hours when my alarm went off.
The result
My did not look dewy the next day and I do think that was to do with going back to sleep, but I was pretty happy with the results anyway. My skin looked firm and brighter and make up went on very easily. It did I did feel as though my skin had a boost of something and there was a healthy glow about it. My skin felt smoother for a few days, though I’m not sure how noticeable that was to anyone but me.
I used it again a week later, but this time I kept it on all night and peeled it off slowly in the morning. As promised, the mask had turned from hospital white to transparent. It looked like a completely different product by the time it came off. It didn’t pull on my skin, and while it was stuck to my face, it peeled off easily.
There was more of a dewyness to my skin after the second one, but it didn’t look much different to the night I pulled it off at 4am. A bit shinier, maybe.
Pros
My skin did look noticeably firmer and my fine lines were less visible, and the results seemed to last right up until I did another mask. My skin wasn’t irritated at all and my pores looked clearer and smaller. I think it cleared sebum from my pores, and I think it would continue to do that over the course of weeks with continual use, which is a pretty good result because sebum is difficult to remove without professional help.
Cons
The masks are expensive. It’s hard to say how expensive because they always seem to have huge deals. As I write this, the site says two packs (eight masks) costs AU$160 but at the moment there’s 50% off so it costs $80. Certain packs come with free gifts, like Gua Sha sets, $20 gift cards, mystery gifts. These deals change constantly. Either way, $80 for four face masks is still a lot. The results are only temporary, but the masks are cheaper than weekly facials at a salon.
I also really didn’t like wearing the mask to bed. I tried putting one on at about 7pm, hoping it would be done by 10pm when I went to bed. It wasn’t. I think they probably need about four hours to dry completely.
Verdict
I would get this again. The results were not exactly like the ads, my skin wasn’t instantly transformed, but I also had realistic expectations. I wanted a reduction in fine lines and for my skin to appear firmer and smoother, with a glow, and that’s what happened. I was really impressed with the way it seemed to remove sebum and minimised pores. I look forward to seeing how this changes my skin over a few months.
