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Dr. Idris Major Fade Flash Mask
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About this product

A gel-based wash-off exfoliating mask with 15% glycolic acid, 3% lactic acid, and tranexamic acid designed to chemically exfoliate, brighten hyperpigmentation, and improve skin texture and firmness.

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Oily skinCombination skinAcne-prone skin
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The Guru Index verdict

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What the gurus are saying

Gurus consistently praise this mask as a potent yet well-formulated AHA treatment that delivers visible brightening and smoothing results, particularly for hyperpigmentation and uneven skin tone. The formula's combination of two exfoliating acids with tranexamic acid is credited as more sophisticated and less irritating than simpler high-strength alternatives. The main drawback is price, though the dual-cartridge packaging is seen as a practical offset. Most users report tolerating it well even with sensitive skin when used weekly, and some extend use to multiple times per week or overnight application.
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AHAFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Water/​Aqua/​Eau, Glycolic Acid, Tranexamic Acid, Glycerin, Hydroxypropyl Starch Phosphate, Lactic Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Pentylene Glycol, Panthenol, Propanediol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Sclerotium Gum, Coccinia Indica Fruit Extract, Eclipta Prostrata Extract, Glyceryl Polyacrylate, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Amylopectin, Annatto (Ci 75120)

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"This is an occasional use mask, so you can get that exfoliating effect without necessarily having to build it into the rest of your skincare routine. This mask actually really helped me to love AHA. It uses 15% glycolic acid, which is a lot of AHA. Glycolic acid helps to chemically exfoliate the top surface of the skin, shed away dead skin cells, and help with skin tone and texture. With long-term and consistent use, it can actually help with collagen production in the skin, help to thicken up the skin, make it more firm, more youthful, more supple, and just rejuvenate the skin. This mask is focused on brightening. It also includes tranexamic acid. And we also have 3% lactic acid, which not only does the chemical exfoliating process, but it also helps your skin retain hydration as well. This is a very potent mask. I would categorize this like an AHA peel, like an at-home peel type of product. The way that I like to use this is once a week. And this has actually made it into my weekly rotation of skincare. I use this once a week, and I have for going on two years now."
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"I have on my skin, particularly hyperpigmentation that I get from acne and from inflammatory events on my skin. And this really helps to heal them up faster. I'm also just noticing that it's giving my skin a much more refreshed quality to it, a smoother texture to it as I've used this now for about two years. I really love it. I think it's great, but I just think it is very very expensive."
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"Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask, let me tell you I did not want to like this product. The ingredients is what really drew me in. I was like this is for sure made by a dermatologist because they're really focusing in on some really key brightening active ingredients: glycolic acid, lactic acid, and tranexamic acid. Glycolic and lactic are AHAs so they work on the top surface of your skin to really resurface your skin in a way right. They exfoliate the dead skin cells on top so they smooth out your skin but they also work to brighten the skin. They can work on hyperpigmentation. Lactic acid is actually really good for your skin barrier. It can increase skin hydration over time. Tranexamic acid is not an exfoliating acid but it is a brightening ingredient and it can work on stubborn hyperpigmentation, sunspots, melasma."
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"I really do credit this product as the product that made me fall in love slowly but surely with AHAs, particularly with glycolic acid, because that's really the cornerstone of this wash off mask. It's 15% of glycolic acid, and that is quite a good amount of glycolic acid. Glycolic acid is actually a fairly small molecule that is part of the AHA family and that actually means that this molecule gets into the skin, penetrates deeper and it penetrates into the skin faster making it work really effectively for the skin and that means that it actually exfoliates your skin very very quickly."
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"This is an occasional use mask, so you can get that exfoliating effect without necessarily having to build it into the rest of your skincare routine. This mask actually really helped me to love AHA. It uses 15% glycolic acid, which is a lot of AHA. Glycolic acid helps to chemically exfoliate the top surface of the skin, shed away dead skin cells, and help with skin tone and texture. With long-term and consistent use, it can actually help with collagen production in the skin, help to thicken up the skin, make it more firm, more youthful, more supple, and just rejuvenate the skin. This mask is focused on brightening. It also includes tranexamic acid. And we also have 3% lactic acid, which not only does the chemical exfoliating process, but it also helps your skin retain hydration as well. This is a very potent mask. I would categorize this like an AHA peel, like an at-home peel type of product. The way that I like to use this is once a week. And this has actually made it into my weekly rotation of skincare. I use this once a week, and I have for going on two years now."
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"This is a potent AHA mask but unlike The Ordinary 30% AHA mask, I feel like this has been formulated in a really smart way that kind of helps to sidestep some of the irritation. It's a more sophisticated formula instead of just throwing a bunch of AHA at your face, a bunch of glycolic acid. This is matching up the glycolic acid with the lactic acid and then adding in tranexamic acid, which is a brightening ingredient and not an exfoliating acid, so it really does amp up the benefits of helping to target dark spots on the face and really helping to target brightening up the complexion along with helping with texture and smoothness of the skin. I've seen some really good benefits using this. It really does brighten up hyperpigmentation, so the dark marks that you get after inflammation on your skin. If you suffer with melasma, if you suffer with sun damage, I would really look at this product if you can afford it. I think that it is a little gentler on the skin but I think it's just as potent."
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"Dr Idris Major Fade Flash Mask is really been helping my skin and this is a really nice one to use once or twice a week. It really does give you that nice perk up to your skin. Not only does it help to brighten your skin, but the ingredients will help with hyperpigmentation from acne but they will also help for melasma sun damage and uneven or dull looking skin tone. It will really help with a lot of different concerns. Because it does contain 15% glycolic acid it exfoliates at the top surface of your skin which actually makes your skin a lot more smooth and a lot more radiant. Your makeup's going to apply a little bit better when you do some AHA. So it helps with textural irregularities and help to bring out that inner glow even if you have hyperpigmentation on your skin. It's called a little bit on the pricey side but you do get two cartridges with this, which helps to keep the formula really fresh and efficacious for your skin instead of doing a jumbo size container."
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"I've been obsessed with the Dr Idris Major Fade Flash Mask for about a year now. It uses 15% glycolic acid, which is probably the most potent AHA acid out there and shows really good results on the skin. They bump up the AHA by including an additional 3% lactic acid, which is also an AHA but generally considered more gentle and better tolerated by sensitive skin folks, while still showing very good results. The mask also contains tranexamic acid, which is a brightening active that's great for helping to address hyperpigmentation and unevenness on the skin. So you're getting AHA exfoliation working really hard for your skin, but then an additional dose of brightening on top of that. I've been incorporating this mask into my weekly skincare routine for about a year now and I absolutely love the results. I do have sensitive skin that can get quite dry and sensitive in the winter, and I've had no issues with it."
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"This mask is from Dr. Idriss, it's the Major Fade Flash Mask and I absolutely love this because it's 15% glycolic acid and 3% lactic acid, so two very good AHA chemical exfoliants, and then there's also some tranexamic acid in this mask too which is a great brightening ingredient that targets pigmentation on the skin. I use the AHA once a week. I do have fairly sensitive skin and I have found that using high percentage AHA has given me problems in the past, so I'm just very cautious with this mask, but quite honestly my skin tolerates this super well at one time a week and I'm getting really good results with it. I don't feel like I have to blast my skin with it more times a week. This helps with skin cell turnover and that's such an important component to even-toned complexion. When you're consistent with your products you will start to see that type of result. Your skin's not going to look as dull and as uneven, especially with AHA. It's the perfect exfoliant for that."
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"The AHA is really kind of helping to just kind of keep things under control. I've definitely noticed smoother skin, softer skin, brighter skin. It just really brings a clarity to the skin that was just like that kind of missing thing, you know, that thing I was yearning for and didn't know how to quite get it, and I feel like this mask has given that to me. So I am really impressed because I've had an uneasy relationship with glycolic acid and lactic acid and AHAs in general. I don't usually talk about those types of products because they don't usually work for me, they don't usually agree with my skin. I usually get a lot of irritation. But it's been working the way I've worked it into my schedule. It's working for me, it's working for my skin. I think the formulation is just smart. The tranexamic acid is just the cherry on top that's really bringing that clarity to the skin. I will probably take a break in high summer just because of the photosensitizing properties of AHA."
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"I'm a major fan of the Dr Idris Major Fade Flash Mask. I've been using this now for going on my second year. I do try to build this into my routine once a week. This mask uses 15% glycolic acid and 3% lactic acid, both AHAs that are designed to really exfoliate the top surface of your skin. They help to get all those dead skin cells off your face that are interfering with your glow, so your skin is going to be so much smoother and brighter. But it also helps to address hyperpigmentation, uneven skin darkness on the skin. It helps to address texture on the skin because it really smooths out the skin and just overall it brings this rejuvenated look to your skin. This is really like a facial in a bottle because it is such a high percentage of AHA. My sensitive skin actually tolerates it super well."
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"A really, really good product as an exfoliating mask. If you're someone just go the ordinary peeling solution doesn't agree with you. High strength peels don't agree with you. This is something you can definitely use. I highly recommend it."
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"I'm obsessed with my Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. This is an Allure best of beauty with 15% glycolic acid, 3% lactic acid, and transexamic acid. It is an exfoliating mask that does also hydrate at the same time. In the summertime, I maybe use it two times a week. In the winter time, I'll go up to four times a week. And sometimes when I'm really really lazy, I'll just put it on followed by the serum and the moisturizer and we just go to sleep because I can tolerate it and it gives you baby smooth skin the next day. Totally something perfected for texture, dryness, and beyond."
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"Glycolic acid is actually my favorite. AHA, alpha hydroxy acid that is going to not only exfoliate your skin, it is also going to help to hold on to hydration. Lactic acid has nothing to do with your pores. It's the bonus. It's going to help to brighten your skin in the process while exfoliating your skin. And these two exfoliating acids are in the Dr. Idris Major Fade Flash Mask, which is my exfoliating mask of choice that I do anywhere from two to four times a week. And sometimes I even sleep with it on my face overnight because I'm not sensitive to it. It's a hydrating exfoliating mask that is going to help with the overall appearance of your skin so your skin can look smoother and firmer over time giving you that flawless application of makeup the next day."
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"I'm obsessed with my Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. This is an Allure best of beauty with 15% glycolic acid, 3% lactic acid, and transexamic acid. It is an exfoliating mask that does also hydrate at the same time. In the summertime, I maybe use it two times a week. In the winter time, I'll go up to four times a week. And sometimes when I'm really really lazy, I'll just put it on followed by the serum and the moisturizer and we just go to sleep because I can tolerate it and it gives you baby smooth skin the next day. Totally something perfected for texture, dryness, and beyond."
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"The Dr. Idriss Major Fade Flash Mask. As you guys can see, this is a mask. So, you can dictate how long you want to leave it on for. And you can also choose where you use it. So, if you're sensitive here, don't go close to your eyes. I cannot use it around my nose because I'm very sensitive around my nose, but I'll put it on my cheeks, my forehead, my chin, my neck, my chest. I will do this especially once a week to get a smoother décolletage. It is great. The combination of glycolic and lactic acid, again, I'm very much a fan of my own products and this is what I use on my own face."
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"This is an exfoliating mask that is loaded in glycolic acid at 15% and lactic acid. So you're going to exfoliate your skin. You're going to have a smoother surface. You can sleep with it overnight if you're not sensitive, but just approach cautiously if you've not used it. And I would patch test it first. And the fact that the glycolic acid is married to the lactic acid, it not only smooths your skin, but it also brightens your skin. And it also has transexamic acid, which is a medication that I prescribe in my office and even injects in my office for people with melasma. But we have it in the mask as well to really help boost the brightening process."
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"It is a gel-based mask that you can leave on your face, you can even leave it overnight if you're not very sensitive. It is a 15% glycolic acid mask with lactic acid and tranexamic acid to help even out your skin tone and to make your skin feel baby smooth soft. I use it three times a week and it has been a game changer. My mother who is 67 has applied it to her sunspots on the back of her hands and left them on throughout the day and actually reapplied them throughout the day after washing her hands, and those sunspots, to my shock and surprise, are gone. It is formulated gently enough so most skin types can tolerate it."
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"There's no fragrance, it's a beautiful tone and tint you can really see where you apply it. If you're sensitive, put it on for 5 minutes and wash it off. You will feel a spice as your pH of your skin acclimates. You can leave it on for up to 30 minutes, and if you're really not sensitive, you can put it on overnight. You wake up with the softest, smoothest skin ever. I put it from here to my chest in the morning when I shower and it's like, oh my god. When I do the trainings at Sephora now, I make the beauty advisers touch my face because you have to feel it to believe it."
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"The Major Fade Flash Mask is a 15% glycolic acid mask, but products do combine acids with a 3% lactic acid as a bonus. The reason why I made it a mask is twofold. You should not be exfoliating every single night of the week. When it's a mask format, there's a barrier to entry, so you don't want to do it as often and therefore you want to exfoliate probably two to four times a week at most. The thing about a mask that is really unique and nice is that you can put it to any area of your face or body that you want to have it sit on for a few minutes and then wash it off. You can control where you apply it and how long you apply it for, and that is really unique to a mask and that is why we also made it as a mask format. Plus the other bonus is that this also has trizyamic acid which is an ingredient used for brightening as well. So the combination of that with the lactic acid and the glycolic acid make it a very effective mask. This one in particular does have an initial tingle. It is the pH of your skin acclimating to the product. It is not an irritation and it usually resolves around 1 to 2 minutes."
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"I like to marry it to lactic acid because lactic acid can help minimize discoloration, and then we also in this particular product married it to tranexamic acid, which is not an exfoliating acid. If you have melasma you just want to throw everything at it, so combining it with an exfoliating acid allows it to work a little bit more efficiently, and that is why we mixed all three in the Dr Idris Major Fade Flash Mask. The beauty of a gel is you can pick how long you keep it on your face and where you apply it. So for me I always apply it on the high points of my face, I don't go too close into my orbital rim because it gets a little bit more sensitive there, and the skin underneath the eyes is more sensitive. I come on my forehead because you want to make sure that you are getting any sort of sunspots, and then down my nose lightly, lightly, lightly. I don't come in here or in here because that is going to get irritated. Few nights a week I'll put this on for 20 to 30 minutes. One night a week I'll even sleep with it and wash it off the next day. It is spicy for everyone who applies it and then it settles down. My skin feels nice, it feels smooth. It always gets a little bit red after I wash it off."
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"This is made up of 15% glycolic acid, so it is already double in strength compared to the ordinary, so it is not necessarily for beginners but it is worth a try. And if you have sensitive skin, always, always patch test first. But it also has lactic acid, which is a brightening exfoliating acid, and the combination of these two is extremely powerful. Plus it's married to tranexamic acid to help with hyperpigmentation. You can be in control of where you apply it, you can apply it not too close to your eyes, you can apply it along your nasal bridge, you can apply it all over your face, or you can even use it as a spot treatment. You can use it elsewhere on your body because it comes in the form of a gel. You control where it goes and how long it stays, and then you wash it off."
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"That is why I love the Dr. Idris Major Fade Flash Mask. Glycolic acid because it's going to help hydrate. It's also going to help promote collagen. So that's going to help even out fine lines and wrinkles in the long run. And lactic acid because she brightens while she hydrates. And the combination of the two is perfection."
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