...almost. Clinique's Repairwear Laser Focus Wrinkle & UV Damage Corrector helps you complexion to forgive you for some of the careless ways you treated your face over the years. Sun exposure, stress and pollution have a way of building up over time and leave your skin at a disadvantage. Here is a way to help you turn back complexion time.
We found this product to be very promising and easy to use--the dropper applicator dispenses just the right amount and the liquid glides smoothly on the face, We also like that the bottle is made out plastic rather than breakable glass.
A cruel trick, perhaps, but the body’s natural process slows down with time, making it more difficult for skin to repair itself, among other things. This loss of essential proteins, like collagen and elastin, all play a part in wrinkles, lines and skin discoloration. RoC® BRILLIANCE™ is the first line of breakthrough at-home anti-aging treatments that works in 2 steps.
E-PULSE™: a patented micro-current technology inspired by the latest professional procedures and backed by years of research. It uses electrostimulation to bring new life to the look of your skin.
Electrostimulation instantly creates a gentle flow of energy within the surface layers of the skin and stimulates the skin’s natural process for dramatic results. Recharge your skin; recharge your attitude.
AVEENO®AGELESS VITALITY™ Elasticity Recharging System - Day SPF 30 is a 2-step daily treatment system that also protects your skin from sun damage with SPF 30. When the naturally charged biomineral concentrate is combined with the rejuvenating moisturizer, formulated with ACTIVE NATURALS® blackberry leaf extract and dill, the treatment system activates to restore essential energy to elastin-deficient skin, restoring a more youthful, awakened look.
Step 1: Biomineral concentrate--Using your fingertip, gently apply the biomineral concentrate to your most troublesome areas of aging (brow, lip/mouth area, lines, wrinkles and age spots).
Step 2: Rejuvenating Day Moisturizer SPF 30--Next, massage the rejuvenating moisturizer over entire face and neck until fully absorbed
You should begin to see the rejuvenating benefits of this breakthrough treatment system quickly and will see even better results over time
Here are a few items definitely worth your attention—Avon’s ANEW REVERSALIST Night Renewal Cream –couldn’t we all use a little help taking a few steps back in time to help our complexions look a bit more youthful? Use this at night and the companion ANEW REVERSALIST Day Renewal Cream SPF 25 during the daylight hours. It visibly reverses wrinkles with Activinol Technology while helping to protect skin with SPF 25 UVA/UVB.
And for an eye-makeup that is so new it still isn’t available as of this writing—you should grab a few of Avon’s SuperSHOCK Vivid Liquid Eyeshadow. It only sounds like an eye make-up that Lady GaGa would wear onstage. The color is so sheer and subtle that all you have is a beautiful veil of shimmering color highlighting your eyes. If you want a more bold look, just apply another layer. Or two. Shades include Chromed Cocoa, Garnet Flash, Pink Reflects and Twinkling Snow and at $7.00 each, you can buy a couple.
Leave it to Neutrogena to help you get your skin in beautiful shape and then keep it that way with a new sunscreen line for 2010. Use Neutrogena Clinical Eye Lift Contouring Treatment to go beyond lines and wrinkles to visibly lift, firm, and define the entire eye area. This clever duo features a nourishing moisturizer that activates with their patented ion2complex™ serum. The rich, gentle eye cream smoothes collagen depleted skin and contours the entire eye area for younger-looking eyes. Use alone or under make-up
To keep your skin from aging as well are prevent skin damage or worse, be sue to use sunscreen every day. Even those days that start off cloudy can evolve into sun filled hours that can spell trouble for unprotected skin. Some of Neutrogena’s new notable sunscreens include: Spectrum+ Advanced Sunblock Lotion SPF 55, 70, & 100, Ultra Sheer Liquid Sunblock SPF 55 and 70+, Age Shield Face Sunblock Lotion SPF 110, Ultra Sheer Body Mist Sunblock, SPF 85 & 100, and Ultimate Sport™ Spray, SPF 85 & 100. Now there is no excuse not to use sunscreen on your face and any other bit of skin that is exposed to the beautiful, warming and damaging rays of sunshine.
If you are thinking of trying the PRO-X line from Olay, you might want to start with the Starter Kit. Pro-X Anti-Aging Starter Protocol is your introduction to the three-part daily program. All products have been designed and professionally tested to re-signal skin to perform more like it did when it was younger.
This introduction to the Olay PRO-X line includes:
Pro-X Wrinkle Smoothing Cream-- designed and professionally tested to smooth uneven textures with moisture, fighting the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
Pro-X Eye Restoration Complex -- designed and professionally tested for the part of your face that shows age the most: the delicate eye area. This specialized treatment hydrates to restore the area to its optimum appearance by improving the look of crow’s feet. Massaging it in reduces excess fluids to diminish dark circles and puffiness.
Pro-X Age Repair Lotion with SPF 30 is designed and professionally tested to help shield your skin from harmful UVA and UVB exposure. This Primary Solution hydrates to overcome the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Available separately is the Regenerist Anti-Aging Eye Roller, which uses precision micro-rollers that gently massage in a concentrated, hydrating anti-aging treatment to not only help reduce eye puffiness, but also regenerate skin's appearance to diminish fine lines and wrinkles.
This feels very nice rolling over the delicate skin around the eyes and it lasts a long time, since there is no waste—just the right amount is dispensed with each application.
You can create the perfect skin care solution for you with the Regenerist line of advanced anti-aging products.
For your body, consider Olay’s Quench Advanced Healing Body Lotion, an intensive, fragrance free lotion with vitamin E & Vita-Niacin. It is non-greasy and helps heal skin's moisture barrier to prevent dry skin from coming back. This fast absorbing lotion provides repairing moisturization to break the cycle of dry skin.
Three products from Olay—not so new but tried and very true. And affordable.
There are some times, aren’t there, when you wish you could start over. Starting Over is a soothing moisturizer from Origins that has powerful plant ingredients, including Mimosa Tree Bark, Chestnut Seed Extract, Argan Leaf Extract, Green Algae, Apple and Cucumber Extracts as well as Salicylic Acid. Think of it, as Origins suggests, as “nature's alternative to injections.” Origins acknowledges that of course it does not replace medical procedures, but you still can give your skin the advantages of a moisturizer that works harder to make your complexion look brighter and smoother; rebuilding collagen, repairing visible lines and improving texture and tone.
Available in original and oil-free formulas. Apply A.M. and P.M. to clean skin.
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.”
We do like the idea of three basic facial care products. But they have to be serious. This one, as you might expect from RoC, is. Multi Correxion is one of their newer, breakthrough line of products diminishes the appearance of multiple signs for aging with the exclusive fusionof pure RoC®RETINOL and antioxidants. The new box of the three essentials—Daily Perfecting Cleanser, Daily Perfecting crème for the day (with important SPF 30) and Intensive Night Concentrate.
You can use these three products as a base for others or, conceivably, just use the three and consider that you’ve done very good things, on the outside, for your complexion.
Here’s a handy idea from Avon: Anew Rejuvenate 24-hour Eye Moisturizer –two formulas, one for day and one for night, in one jar. One side is a night time treatment that softens the appearance of fine lines and minimizes under-eye puffiness. You wake up and your eyes seem more rested and somehow more youthful looking. The PM formula is designed to help repair cellular damage and to help prevent fluid retention.
The other chamber in the jar is a Day Revitalization Cream with SPF 25 UVA/UVB protection, which, the company states, can even be used on the sensitive eye lid area, which really is something new. The day formula makes eyes look revitalized and awake while softening the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This cream is formulated to help inhibit enzyme oxidation that can lead to dark shadows.
According to Avon, “in just 24 hours more than 70% of women saw the look of fine lines softened, shadows brightened and puffiness reduced “ and “in just two weeks, 77% saw a dramatic improvement in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.”
Having both AM and PM formulas in one jar saves space, time and a bit of money. There are generous amounts of both creams in the 0.33 fl.oz. jar and both feel very light and soothing when applied. For $30. you really are getting two creams specially formulated for the delicate eye area, one for the night and one for day.
Olay has been in the business of skincare long enough to know what they are doing. Born more than fifty years ago, as Oil of Olay, the skincare company has evolved into one of the best performing anti-aging skin care lines.
Color Recapture, by Olay Definity, one of several categories of skincare that Olay offers, at first seemed like it would be like many often marketed, oft tried combinations of moisturizer and coverage. Too many times products that make this dual promise turn out to be, somewhat duplicitous, if unintentionally. Something just misses—either the color is streaky or the moisturizer is either too greasy or not there. Olay’s Definity Color Recapture, however, really does what it says it will do. And isn’t that what any of us wants from any product?
The slim, clear container is easy on the eye and shows off the ribbons of coverage amid the moisturizer. Just the right amount of the mixture comes out of the pump if you are careful not to press too hard--a little goes a long way. The solution goes on very smoothly and feels like satin against the skin. And the result was a surprising excellent. The color blends in perfectly with the anti-aging moisturizer and provides the right amount of coverage for most days. Imperfections and discolorations are diffused by the sheer illuminating color and the skin has a more supple feel. And even while it is making your complexion more luminous, Color Recapture is working as an anti-aging skin care elixir.
Available in three shades: Fair to Light; Light to Medium; Medium to Deep
