anti-aging cosmetics

i just started using Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Protective Recovery Complex.

you guys have any experience with things like this? do they clog your pores? there doesn't seem to be any oil in this one.

my boyfriend's mom uses products like this and her skin is luminous... so i'm counting on it working.

i get really excited when i wake up in the morning, with this feeling like i'm going to unveil a new me

i want them to work but i don't think they do. i don't know. i haven't really tried too many.

i don't know, i mean, i've definitely noticed my eye stuff working. so that gives me hope!

so. undereye creams. i usually just apply like right beneath the eye, but lately i've started to notice slight circles beneath that. and you know, people are always complaining about crows feet on the outer corners of the eye or whatever?

so i want to start doing this but i'm worried it will make me breakout. thoughts?

Has never occurred to me to try any of these. Prob should use something around the mouth to try and stave off the smoker's pucker, but corners of eyes don't appear to be showing any signs of wrinkling. Deep furrow between eyebrows is normal expression for me and I doubt anything except paralysis would change that. :)

i use eye cream all over the eye area - no breakouts :)
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Yeah surmounter you need to put that shit all around the eyes including in the corners.

ooook thx guys

Surm are you hard core with the sunscreen? Because I wish I had been when I was er younger.

ugh i'm not. but i did just start using an SPF15 moisturizer

You are pretty fair, correct? Me too--and when I hit my 30s these brown sunspots that look like freckles only bigger and not cute started cropping up. So now my advice to the young'uns is DO NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT SUNSCREEN ON, EVER.

i have really been trying to be diligent about the sunscreen and i still think i'm already seeing sun/age effects :( :( :(

i got a sample from mario badescu that is an eye/lip sunscreen. it's really nice, but it's only spf 15 i think :(

Wtf level SPF do you guys use? I was using 70 but the a couple ppl were like "Damn don't you get any sun?" and now I'm wondering if such a high SPF is even necessary.

i was using a neutrogena sport face 70, but now i'm using aveeno 55 for babies (lol) and my moisturizer is also 15, so i don't know - am i still at 70?

i am so excited to order new clinique cosmetics on friday when i get paid. i'm thinkin some SPF has to be in the mix.

tbh i've been a little lax at times (for example, forgetting to put it on when i'm just running from the house to gym) and i feel as though i've picked up more color than i would have liked this summer (which is not much, but when i pick up color it mostly makes me pinker/older looking, rather than tan).

Wow. I don't have newly appeared age spots --- YET. But I started avoiding the sun in early high school (which only means "I stopped laying out or going tanning, unlike everyone else").

The thing is that a little sunburn just gives me some color and makes me rosy in the cheeks = I don't hate it. But I don't like to get ACTUALLY tan, either.

also i think i did some damage (even though i was wearing 70 and never burned) in peru, where i was at high elevations AND closer to the equator (double whammy for sun exposure). i feel like my face color is way more uneven since then.

Yeah I don't really want to be tan either but was thinking maybe a little color wouldn't be too bad. Oh fuck it, I'll stick with my SPF 70.

My hair gets really blonde in the summer and is pretty light right now so I thought maybe a little tan would look good but I'd rather not risk it I guess. I just burn too easily.

My sun damage was definitely racked up in my 20s, when I rarely used sunscreen, lived on the coast of Texas, etc. etc. I don't have much in the way of wrinkles (knock on wood) but I'm paying the price in sunspots, broken capillaries, and general uneveness.

I'm super picky about how stuff feels, and one of the few facial sunscreens I've found to be both non-irritating and "cosmetically elegant" (i.e. no white cast or pilling) is La Roche Posay (sp?) anthelios SPF 15. They now have higher SPFs available (a 40, I think), and I will definitely move up once I run out of my current supply.

OK, this is good to know. I've heard good things about them but it's sorta $$ so I've never bought it but think I will next time. Is it a moisturizer with sunscreen in it or just a sunscreen?

They have both--a moisturizer with SPF 15 (which I use for regular workdays) and a water-resistant SPF 15 (which I use for hikes, the pool, more exposed stuff).

blood of virgin maidens ftw

honestly wtf has madonna been doing to her face is what i wanna know

http://blogs.watoday.com.au/lifestyle/fearclothing/madonna_600.jpg

that lip color!

oh, madge :(

i never know what to do about eye creams--i seem to get milia pretty easily. (those raised white spots--uuuugh)

i've tried a ton of different brands, but i hate those damn spots, so i don't use any of it anymore. i probably should.

nordstrom's rack has a shitload of dr. perricone products on major sale. if only i had expendable income... i see the super $$ anti-aging stuff as a luxury rather than a necessity (like eye cream and moisturizer, for example).

i worry about the white bumps too, but i worry more about crows feet, so i take the risk. usually i'm ok if i put a little benzoyl peroxide on any white bumps!

and yes i love the marshalls racks ;)

i also have to say that air conditioning has saved my skin this summer. i can go to sleep with all my stuff on and wake up intact.

i am just thrilled to learn that my temporary bumpy skin phase definitely was because of the bare minerals reaction and not some new recurring skin freakout thing. took a while to go away, but it hasn't come back, thank goodness!

whole experience is making me super sheepish about trying new creams, sunscreens, etc., though :(

btw, this Boots No7 Protect & Perfect is great for fine lines/sun damage and you can get it at Target.

zinc- and titanium-based sunblock is supposedly most effective at blocking out UV rays, so I've been swearing by it for the past year or so. because I'm such a cheapo, I stick to CVS's 15 spf moisturizer (an Olay knockoff) and Walgreens' 45 spf zinc sunblock, but I'm a bit lazy about replacing them after they run out. is it crazy & obsessive to buy sunblock by the quart/gallon at the beginning of the summer? because I'm thinking about doing that next year.

I'm terrified of wrinkles and age spots but haven't had any problems yet because I'm a BABY, so I'm told.

you can never have too much sunscreen ;)

:) guys, i got told i look 24 the other day. i feel it's nice (i'm 26...)

Not sure if this anti-aging or age reversal, but... I need some kind of cream for very pronounced laughter lines, to somehow 'fill them in'. There are so many of them. Any recommendations?

Also, anything that deals with dark under eyes really well? Don't have a puffiness problem, but do have a darkness problem.

i think i'm getting more eye wrinkles bc my sunglasses broke and i've been more exposed.

i need a new exfoliating scrub. i was using the alba green one but i think it is too coarse.

I like the Origins papaya one but that was years ago. Now I have a Clarins one that was a waste of money as it's too messy to use regularly.

my chanel rep, speaking to her colleague/slave who was preparing a preferred customer file: "emily's interests are eye makeup and....[looks at my face and then down to the floor for a moment, slight cough] first signs of aging"

i shit u not

i embrace my crow's feet tbh

'Interests'! hahahahha

yeah i was like "wouldnt call it an interest tbh!!!!" trying to be funny and shes like "better to get interested in it now than later"

right :\ i know u will get through it

as for those cold eye compress things they sell, can we confirm that these are bullshit?

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Too bad this shit is $92 at Sephora because everytime I go there and "try it out" I look years younger for a few hours. How can I get my hands on this for way cheaper?

Oops.

http://skincarerx.com/xl_images/Murad_Essential-C_Daily_Renewal_Complex.jpg

want

you can save ONE DOLLAR buy it here:

http://us.strawberrynet.com/product-search/?searchLineId=B547&searchField=murad#

although they do have 15% extra off right now, plus loyalty discounts, for members

this sounds like magic.
ahem i believe justine and i both have birthdays comin' up... sayin.

:) i want it so bad

still using my neutrogena on-the-spot + night of olay. i think i'm happy with the results.

also alternating between lab series for men / clinique under-eye creams. i like them both. i kind of prefer the lab series one but i think it's too expensive for me to buy on my own. guy at work gives me free samples. i'll have to see if i can hit him up for that again....

Sephora will give samples of it in those cute lil plastic jars.

PRO TIP

Everyone a work seems to think I'm between 23-26 so I'm pretty happy with the rults good old Olay has proided me with. Really though, I think the way ppl age is mainly down to genetics

yea, that's what my aunt was telling me last night. i was like, b-b-but... CREAMS!? GELS!?

it's annoying tho cuz i kind of have to trust her, cuz she's a nutritionist and she looks, like, 15 years younger than she actually is

got Clarins Instant Smooth for xmas, will report back (this is for visuals rather than actual effect on skin, though)

i think my skin problems really may be climate related because when i went away for 2 weeks it got a little better!

also i think maybe hormones.

Not getting great effects from Instant Smooth.

my sister got a garnier eye depuffer roller thing and i tried it but i did not like it. i don't know maybe you need to use it a bunch? but i generally do not like the garnier skin care line.

also rip my caudalié buffing cream (sefap casualty) :( :( :( :(

oops it is caudalíe.

My skin is affected by climate too. It goes a bit bad when I visit my parents (it's cold and/or dry there) but it's usually pretty clear when I'm in UK.

(also my mom insists vaseline, plain old vaseline, is the trick to her good skin. she is nearly 50 but has been IDed a couple times during the last year, and nobody believes her when she says she has an adult daughter, so it must be doing something right)

i got a sample of that murad stuff!

ugh that's so cool. i saw it in sephora and drooled a little.

vaseline! i have heard this, but i think it would clog my pores way too much. i'm sure it works wonders tho!

just ask them for a sample, surm!

I always use the tester, caking it on in a v v large amount and then ask for a sample.

I have a friend who just started working at Sephora. I wonder if they get a discount?

oh ok! i need to go back there to get my new cologne anyway

if i put vaseline on my face i wld get IDed for looking like a pimply 15-yr-old for real

ya that's what I thought too, I was skeptical when she told me it worked for her. I'd never try it because I'm sure that's exactly what I'd look like too, but maybe for people with really dry skin in dry climates it can make a more positive difference.

Really dry, fine-grained skin I think mostly ages through drying out? Oily skin is more protected in the long run. Maybe your mom has dry skin to begin with and the Vaseline is protecting it from aging normally, that would be kind of a personal magic bullet for her, in which case, yay for Moms.

o yes, she has very dry skin to begin with, which is not made better by living in a very dry climate.

I scheduled IPL. Does this make me a horrible shallow bitch?

Not at all and the results I see in before/after pics look promising.

How much is it,generally?

Well I think places are running recession specials--I'm doing four treatments plus a bonus "gentle waves" (wtf?) treatment for well under a grand. I have a long and tortured history with my skin (terrible acne for many years, extensive sun damage and broken cappillaries, pre-cancerous lesions, etc)--so while it is a big DINK-y splurge it will be the fulfillment of a major wish I've had for decades now.

Oh and it is being done by my legit dermatologist after getting second opinions so I feel pretty secure that I will have good results.

oh i would do that
i just have gotten to the point where i tend to wear power/foundation every day to even out skin tone and it is annoying

Yeah I dunno it's like at age 33 all of these sun spots started showing up and capillaries were bursting all over the place, just when the acne was finally a thing of the past!

what is IPL?

intense pulsed light--kinda like a laser thingie, but with less er tissue distruction. Can get rid of stuff like hyperpigmentation (sun spots, etc) and vascular lesions/redness/flushing.

um destruction not distruction duh

o god i would love that

good for you!

Yeah I dunno it's like at age 33 all of these sun spots started showing up
me too. are lazers the only option for getting rid of these? they are not freckles and i do not like them.

oh wow nice

does your face get all swollen for a few days after ipl?

Apparently you can expect redness and maybe a little puffiness for a day afterwards, but it is considered a "no downtime" procedure. My derm said it would look/feel like a moderate sunburn for a day or so. Hell after all of the actual horrible sunburns I've had, this should be a piece of cake.

Freckles I would be fine with, but the sun spots are definitely not freckles.

are lazers the only option for getting rid of these?

Lasers (of which there are many types) and/or chemical peels (also many types) are the only things for sun spots I think. Microdermabrasion I think is good for wrinkles and pore appearance, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't do anything about hyperpigmentation.

i wish there was a way to do a nonsurgical brow lift.

but that is not skin care anyway so.

Please note that IPL is as far as I'm willing to go on the cosmetic front--no botox, fillers etc. for me, thanks. Definitely no plastic surgery!

yeah i am really anti-plastic surgery!
i just feel like i am carrying a bunch of weight in my forehead that hides my eyes and makes me squinty.
i will just have to deal, though!

i've done glycolic acid peels at home, but nothing serious. it also didn't work.

so the inner corners of my eyes are starting to get ... i don't know, something. like they're not hydrated enough.

i haven't been using eye cream bc i ran out but i just found a little. i need to invest tho. anything been working wonders as of late?

i need like moisture surge