By Melissa Lauren
We all know how good getting a makeover can feel, but those high-end, glamour applications only last until you wash them off. Give yourself a treat every night by using skin care products that leave your skin feeling nourished, supple and ready for all those great makeover looks. Playing with makeup is always fun, but don’t forget, true beauty comes from within.
Following are our editor’s picks from Clarins, Estée Lauder, and Lancôme that rejuvenate and repair skin on a cellular level.
After washing your face thoroughly and remembering to use eye makeup remover, gently pat your face dry and try your hand at these products so you can be sure you’re maximizing your beauty sleep.
Clarins Double Serum
reactivates skins’ vital functions resulting in visibly firmer skin, reduced wrinkles, a more even skin tone, and less visible pores.
How to Apply: Mix and warm a few drops between palms. Gently press onto face and neck.
Clarins Super Restorative Total Eye Concentrate
treats visible signs of skin aging: deep wrinkles, crow’s feet, puffiness, and dark circles.
How to Apply: Use light pressure on eye contours and eyelids; light sweeping motions between eye ows and on temples.
Super Restorative Night Wear
works while you sleep to promote skin density, restore elasticity, evens out skin tone, and replenishes skin weakened by hormonal changes linked to the aging process.
How to Apply: Apply after Double Serum to face and neck with light pressing motions, working from the center of your face outward.
Visionnaire from Lancôme
is a serum with smoothing ingredients that correct wrinkles, pores, and skin texture, disappears marks and wrinkles transforming skin, leaving an even skin tone.
How to Apply: Mix and warm a few drops between palms. Gently press onto face and neck.
Estée Lauder's Resilience Lift
creates a more lifted, firmer, sculpted look, leaving facial contours more defined. The nourishing moisture complex helps counteract overnight dehydration.
How to Apply: Apply on the face and neck using a gentle upwards motion.
Estée Lauder's Advanced Night Repair
maximizes the power of skin’s natural nighttime renewal and reduces lines and wrinkles leaving skin hydrated and radiant.
How to Apply: Use several drops and smooth in gently all over face and throat.
Revitalizing Supreme
is a multi-action moisturizer that reduces the look of multiple signs of aging: lines, wrinkles, loss of firmness, dullness, and dehydration.
How to Apply: You can use this day or night on your face and neck using a gentle upwards motion.
Lancôme's Absolue Eye Precious Cells
reduces puffiness revealing the youthful look of the eye contour leaving skin repaired and feeling denser.
How to Apply: Use light pressure on eye contours and eyelids; light sweeping motions between eye ows and on temples.
Absolue Precious Oil
is a multi-solution texture that restores radiance, melting into the skin to deliver luminosity, leaving a satin finish.
How to Apply: Mix and warm a few drops between palms. Gently press onto face and neck.
Many thanks to Lord & Taylor at Westfield Annapolis Mall for their research assistance. All images courtesy of Clarins, Estée Lauder, and Lancôme.
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Buzzword: Resveratrol
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Despite a lack of substantial research conducted on human subjects, the term Resveratrol has been popping up in the beauty press in pubs such as New Beauty and TV shows like The Real Housewives of Orange County. Why? Resveratrol, a polyphenol found in many plants and consumed in the normal diet through grapes (and red wine!), berries, and nuts, has shown some promise for its anti-aging properties at least in studies conducted with mice. The other benefit may make you heart happy: In a year-long clinical study conducted in 2012, participants consumed resveratrol (via grapes) and the compound’s anti-inflammatory effects were found to help prevent cardiovascular disease.
Try it for yourself?
Dr. Terry Du ow of TV’s Botched and Real Housewives of Orange County uses this buzz ingredient in his meal replacement shake from his anti-aging Consult Beauté product line. Evine.com/b/beauty/consult-beaute