After having suffered a break out on my face thanks to some new makeup I'd tried, I was very keen to give this a go. I opened the packet and found that a paper mask is just that- it's a piece of paper that's imbued with the mask. It has cut outs for eyes, nose and mouth, with the one for the eyes having flaps you can fold down again. I have a small head, enough so that with my short hair that I have to either buy my beanies from the kids' dept in older youth sizes and can only buy ball cap styles that are adjustable. I mention this because whilst others have stated in their reviews that the mask did not quite reach their jaw lines and the holes did not line up, I had no such problems.The mask did tingle once applied, and where I had spots, it was a little uncomfortable for a bit. I left the eye flaps up until the final half of the ten minutes. My eyes smarted for a long moment and I almost flipped them back up, but my eyes did not tear up and the tingling settled, so I left it, realizing it was similar to a reaction I'd had years before to a product that also used fruit enzymes to exfoliate and which had done me no harm. When it was all finished, I was left with smooth, soft skin that had a bit of a pink tinge to it, though I did find I had to rinse away a bit of tackiness with cool water first as the mask seemed to leave some kind of residue behind. I noticed it brought up some deeper impurities toward the surface, which I had hoped for what with the breakout and all, so I treated those and the pinkness of my skin with a light layer of Sudocrem which I rubbed in gently. By the next day both the pinkness of my skin and said impurities were gone.Final verdict: nice little item to have in the cabinet when skin can use an extra pick me up treatment in addition to my usual clay masks. Format is also handy for packing to take traveling, unlike glass jars of clay masks, so something to perhaps take along the next holiday e go on in order to keep my skin looking tip top.