What is Althea Beauty Box?

Every month, the Althea team will release 2 types of beauty boxes.

Althea Boxes are based on specific themes, giving customers and fans a chance to get their hands on a mix of loved and new favorites. Release frequency: twice a month

Trend Boxes, on the other hand, will be packed with hot products (either a new brand or new products from an existing brand) based on some of Korea’s biggest beauty trends. Released frequency: once a month

Each box can hold anywhere from 6 - 12 full-size products depending on the theme and value. The best part? There's no commitment to subscribing for a monthly, quarterly or yearly payment to get these beauty boxes! Only downside is that these beauty boxes are so popular, they go out of stock really quickly! Sign up here to receive regular updates on Althea.kr!

My princess box came in pretty pink, all filled to the brim with retail sized products catered for sensitive and tired skin! Here's what they have inside my S.O.S box. I really like how they put these products together specially for people who have skin concerns they wish to tackle. The products are spilt into morning and night routine, so you don't to worry about cramping everything onto your skin at one go, hahahaha.



The S.O.S Box actually soothes out my dry skin problem in just 1 week of usage, which was very surprising because I usually had to wait a few weeks for my skin to get used to the moisturizer and before I get to see results. Most of the products in this box is really gentle to sensitive skin, so it didn't really cause any outbreaks on me when I first started the routine!

Okay, I gotta admit that I got lazy on some days especially in the morning.... So I tend to skip my morning skincare a lot simply because I am too tired for it hahahaha. So what I usually do when I get home after washing up is use Chok Chok No Wash Green Tea Cleansing Water first before setting on Skinfood Peppermint Clay Mask. I love it lah, really hahaha. That smooth, clean feeling you get after you wash off the peppermint mask is superrrrrr satisfying.

Lastly, lock in the moisture with Skinfood's Soothing Apple Gel. Huehuehue, and you'll wake up with baby soft skin!

All this goodness for only S$35.80. Which explains why it ran out so quickly!
Hop over to Althea's website and check out what's in for you before they run out again!

Tried it the moment I received it and I have to say, it's a life-saver. Being someone with minimal eyebrows, my eyebrows tend to just smudge away after a whole day out since half of it is makeup LOL. I'll have keep touching up and still have it smudged off due to the excess sebum that forms after long hours under the sun. Althea's Petal Velvet Powder is made with 100% pure silica, which has ultimate oil absorbing properties for long lasting excess sebum control. It helps to set the make-up, allowing make-up to stay on longer without producing excess sebum that would smudge your make-up. Now tell me how can I not love it when it saves my brows from running away? HAHAHAHA


It's translucent and perfecting qualities also creates a satin finish that mattifies without dehydrating the skin. Giving off a nice, smooth and matte look to your skin, like a real-life beauty mode tool!


Althea's Petal Velvet Powder is made with micro-fine particles that minimize the appearance of pores and fine lines to reveal flawless, petal-like complexion. Super lightweight, made with fine natural mineral powder that helps cover up pores and reflecting bright lights to create a velvety smooth finish. It is specially formulated to have the same elasticity as your skin so it an set your make-up perfectly without it caking up!


Not forgetting the Althea flower also has anti-aging, sun protection and hydration effect. Being the main ingredient of the Althea Petal Velvet Powder, it helps prevent the skin barrier from dehydrating by increasing moisture levels!

Greeted with lemon grass tea and iced cold hand towel for the scorching hot weather upon arrival. Good thing about booking a reservation here is that they actually provide bus shuttles from the ferry terminal to the resort, so it's really convenient. They have wifi throughout the entire resort, and occasional Singapore signal...... Not sure if that's a good thing being so near home hahahaha.


Montigo provides 24 hour check-in provided if the room is available. Sadly, they were fully booked the day before so we did not managed to check-in right upon arrival. We were early enough to enjoy the breakfast buffet though! So the staff suggested us to go for the breakfast buffet while we are waiting since the next room is only going to be ready at 3PM


The breakfast buffet is insane. Probably because I haven't had such amazing food all in one place for quite a while. The last was Pan Pacific Hotel's buffet @ Edge, shit that's some epic godlike buffet over there hahaha.
Montigo provides international breakfast buffet, ranging from traditional indo cuisine to european's beef goulash, to our beloved congee, and then my favorite cereal bar; they have a selection so broad you'd be full before you even get to try everything. So my advice is you take a little bit of everything, so that you get to try all of their food before you get too full to devour their pastry and desserts.


We were done with breakfast at about 11:30AM, after that we took a short walk around the beach/jetty area since we have the time. But we were so unfamiliar with the place because it's our first day so we ended up heading back to the reception to chill for a bit until our room is ready.


Back at the reception;

We managed to finally check-in at around 1PM, after rolling around for 3 hours hahahhaha

Did I mention that Montigo Resorts is actually friggin huge? The buggy will transport you from the reception to your villa or the restaurant area because it's that huge. Sure you can walk, but it's summer all year round, I'd suggest not la, ah?


We booked the Hill Top Villa, located right at the top of Montigo, just one straight path down from the reception so it isn't too unaccessible tbh. But we were extremely surprised at how freaking big the villa actually is. Kimmy didn't think it would be this big when we were making our reservation.


Anyway, it was almost time for dinner after we're done swimming and settling down in the villa. Called for room service because we were so freaking lazy and the surrounding area has absolutely nothing. Nearest town is at least a 15 minutes drive away? But the restaurants within the resort itself serves amazing food, there is also Tiigo bar at night with Dj spinning for you to chill!

That sums up our day 1 @ Batam, hahaha. Tbh didn't really do much except relaxing and enjoying the slow pace lifestyle here. We booked a session of "Chef's Experience" for tomorrow morning. We gonna be fishing for our own fish and then learning to cook some traditional Indo food, hahaha. Xiao eggcited. Update again tomorrow!