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Avène Review: Skin Care Skin Care - Wrinkle / Fine Lines

Review: Avène Sérénage Nutri-Redensifying Vital Serum & Day Cream

This week I rekindled with my first love. Skin care first love that is. Many years ago I remembered driving to Mid Valley, stepped into Guardians and bought a whole set of Avène. I was given a bunch of trial size too and the products succeeded in combating my acne problem. As I mentioned many times before in my blog…I get bored easily with the same routine everyday so I stopped using skin care once and for all. Talking about being lazy LOL! Don’t worry. All that is history now. I’m very devoted to my skin care routine now that I know the importance of using skin care.

At my age now (gosh I feel so old saying this) I’m more suitable with anti-aging range. I was told that Avène has a new range called Sérénage. In today’s review I’m going to review two product from the new range which is Nutri-Redensifying Vital Serum and Nutri-Redensifying Day Cream.

Estée Lauder Review: Skin Care Skin Care - Wrinkle / Fine Lines

Review: Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex

Lately I’ve implemented the iconic Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex into my skin care regime to boost or enhance my skin even more. I bought this Limited Edition 75ml bottle back in March 2012 and I’ve been using it since. I just realized I’ve used up half bottle of it in just 2 months as I shared this bottle with my mum. Basically I poured some into the deluxe sample bottle of 7ml and she had 2 refills so far!

Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex 75ml is retailing for RM395. There’s also 2 smaller size version which is 30ml for RM240 and 50ml for RM330.

La Belle Review: Skin Care Skin Care - Firming Skin Care - Wrinkle / Fine Lines

Review: La Belle Gold Essense

I have been using La Belle Gold Essense for a few weeks now and I think it’s safe for me to do a short review of the product at this point of time.

I bought 2 boxes of this and each box contains 10 vials. Each vial content is 3.5ml and you are suppose to finish a bottle in 3 days. That sounds a little you say? I have the same thought at first too but after I started to use my first vial, I was so wrong.

Here’s the review.

Function:-
LA BELLE Gold Essence use 24K Pure gold leaf helps to slow collagen depletion and prevent sagging skin. It also assists in protecti on against pollution effects & damaging UV rays. Gold speeds up cellular processes and active regeneration to regenerate healthy, firm skin cells and reduce fine line & wrinkle.

Indications:-
All skin type, especially for open pore, less toned, age, aging & dark spot.

Tips from seller website:-
La Belle Gold Essence can use as apply under eye area to reduce fine lines & firm up eye area.

Apply La Belle Gold Essence on your whole face area, massage upward until absorbed. Do apply some under eye area & smiley line with massage upward until essence is fully absorbed.

To achieve best results, you should continuously use the same type of ampoule for 10-15 days. It can be used day and night.

A bottle of ampoule essence can be use for 3 days. Do not leave if for more than 3 days because ingredients are made of natural source, and the nutrients will volatile.

My first order is 3 boxes. 2 boxes is mine and the 3rd box is Monica’s.

The vials are securely stored in the box. What is also included is a “pump head” (I don’t know what to call that *lol*) which you can see in the middle of the box.

La Belle Gold Essense view up-close. You can see generous amount of gold leafs in each vial and how secured is the vial stored in the box.

Seller is kind enough to include a free gifts for me.

The free gifts includes 2X vials of Caviar Essence and 2X empty refill bottle. I gave 1 each to Monica.

So you take a vial from the box. The next following steps is fun! *pls ignore my skin peeling on my fingers*

This is what we are suppose to remove. The white transparent cap.

As you take off the white transparent cap, the aluminum protective cap underneath will also be torn-off as it’s sort of connected. Don’t worry about that as the cap is necessary to be removed.

After you removed all the cap, you’d see a dark grey rubber cap.

Remove the rubber cap off. I don’t throw away the cap just in case.

Take the “pump head” from the box. It’s the thing in the middle of the box.

Connect the pump head to the vial opening. The pump head is made of rubber so don’t worry if you’d break it.

Take off the lil white cap on the tip of the pump head. Tilt the bottle upside down till the essense is all at the pump head and start pumping the essense out to your palm!

This is all you need for a whole face.

My Personal Review:-
Many people commented that the vial is so small and the content is so little. But little did they know. The essense is not watery at all. It is quite rich.
On day time I’d use just enough for my whole face including the eye area. If I use too much, my whole face will become very oily in less than 2 hours. As for controlling sebum…it works but not very much on T-zone area like forehead, nose, jaw and inner cheek. My makeup stays longer, silky smooth finish and makes my face brighter too.
On night time usage, I’d apply more and I practically soaked my whole face in this wonderful essense. If I don’t do this, it’s quite impossible to finish a bottle in 3 days.
After just less than 3 days, I can see the fine lines around my eye area is gone. What’s left is the deeper line on the inner corner of my eyes. I believe this will also be gone after long usage. The least expected effect from this is that my eyebags are gone too! Not a single eyebag now when I smile! I never see that coming.

What I Think?
I wish the vial is smaller though. It’s very hard for me to use up a vial in 3 days. BUT. I will repurchase this product when I finished up my stocks. It’s cheap and it works. It’s really time saving and hassle free as I only need to use this for everything! How good is that? 🙂

The Price
Retail Price – 1 box RM90
Current Promo – RM70 a box at Christmas & New Year Sales promo
Additional Discount – 30% discount for purchase of RM150 and above & extra 3% discount for being their FB fan!

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored review. I bought the product on my own.