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Wednesday, 9 September 2009
The Best Thing You Haven't Tried Yet: Boots Sensitive Hydrating Eye Cream
Topic: Eye Creams

I know that I give drugstore items a hard time.  I know that I talk an unnatural amount of smack about their lackluster quality.  However, I am woman enough to admit when I have been proven false (check the archives...its happened before) and its happened again.

 

Boots, available at a Target near you, has one of the best moisturizing eye creams I have ever tried.  There, I've said it. Heck, I'll even repeat it: one of the best moisturizing eye creams ever...that is to say, in this history of human life on planet earth.  Yep.

Boots Expert Sensitive Hydrating Eye Cream provides the perfect amount of moisture and works well on both oily and dry skins.  More importantly, it absorbs quickly and wears well under concealers. I'm finding this to be a wonderful, light, non greasy and non smelly day cream in the summer. Another plus is that it comes in a tube.  Too many great eye creams come in jars that risk cross contamination everytime you dig in there.  With this, you just squirt out what you need and get to work.

The Cons? 

  1. No SPF so you'll want to use a concealer that has some in it.
  2. Parabens?  They're in there!
  3. No wrinkle fighting agents.  If this is a problem you're dealing with, use Boots in the morning and a strong wrinkle fighter at night.  Here's a review on the one I recommend most (riiiiight here).

I've listed the pros above, but one of the best things about this product is the price.  You can get a long lasting tube (20 ml!) of this eye cream for less than $7.  Put down the sandwich, get off the computer and go get it....NOW!


Posted by theworldsdresser at 3:51 PM EDT
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Ole Henriksen Fresh Start Eye Creme
Topic: Eye Creams

Ole Henriksen is a very costly line and for good reason - their products are magical pots containing life fulfilling beauty.  Yeah.  I'm just starting to see fine lines - not really visible to other folks, but terrorizing to me. I decided to give Ole's Fresh Start Eye Creme a go.  There are two very real reactions I sometimes have with eye treatments: either they burn the very delicate and thin skin around my eye or they cause milia.  I had none of these with Fresh Start. 

In terms of texture, its a moisturizing, creamy product that falls just short of being too thick. It has no eye watering scents and doesn't leave that weird waxy look that sometimes follows eye products. Most importantly, it has fatty acids to reduce (or at least the look of) fine lines and wrinkles around the eye.

Ingredients include avocado oil, grapeseed oil and vitamins A and E.l Ole's website claims that, in addition to treating lines, it also prevents the formation of future wrinkles.  We'll see about that....

At any rate, Fresh Start Eye Creme can be purchased at Sephora and www.olehenriksen.com. They are  $38 for a 1 oz jar, but I've seen them in sets on HSN, so you may want to wait until they roll those around again to get a better deal. I think I'm going to put this to the ultimate test and do a month long Left Face/Right Face using this on one side and Cosmedicine's Instant Wrinkle Write Off on the other to see which one really does the better job.   I'll let you all know how it goes!


Posted by theworldsdresser at 12:01 AM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, 17 March 2009 11:47 AM EDT

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