Smoothies for Your Eyes

Clinique's new Lid Smoothie Antioxidant 8-Hour Eye Colour  promises a long-wearing cream shadow that delivers rich, crease-resistant colour that stays put for eight hours. We were a bit skeptical at first. But we tried it on the hottest day on record-- 100 degrees and the A/C broke. The eye colour held up impressively. Everything else may have been melting but the eyes looked cool.

Ingredients such as an antioxidant-rich blend that includes extracts of Vitamin E. Broccoli, Carrot. Blueberry and Spinach, along with Cucumber, Aloe, and Caffeine all help make this product do what it promise. And beautifully. And you thought this eye magic got its Smoothie name by chance.

The shades--Currant Affair, Pinko Biloba,  Salt and Pepper to name just a few are convincingly beautiful--even the green (Cute-cumber) and blue (Impromptu-blue) shades are taken down enough notches so that they look amazingly natural.

When this comes out in August, visit the Clinique counter and try  it out.

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Facing A New Decade

Since we try to take care of ourselves while we are awake-- eating healthy, drinking lots of water, getting plenty of exercise and trying not to let stress break down any benefits—we really appreciate a cream that promises to “restore and repair the signs of aging while [we] sleep.”

Clinique’s New  Youth Surge Night Age Decelerating Night Moisturizer, out this month, helps us make this new decade count---count backwards to more youthful looking skin.

This potent gem—packed in an unbreakable jar, which we like since there is less chance of  it shattering or breaking a floor tile should it be dropped—is a cocktail of  powerful antioxidants, including Japanese Knotweed, Mulberry Root Extract, Vitamins E and C and  Sirtuins—a precious class of proteins important to helping to extend the life of cells. This complex is unique to Clinique and feels really amooth gliding on your face and is quickly absorbed.

Clinique promises that the“youth-extending agents  create a nightly moisturizer that helps intensify the nightly cycle of natural repair. Plumped with natural collagen, lines and wrinkles appear to evaporate. Skin gains that energized "8-hour effect" come morning.”

Sounds promising to us.

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