Quite
a few of my friends have amazing skin. I literally cannot tell when Hannah is
wearing foundation - she seriously needs to be in a MaxFactor advert or
something.
If
you’re lucky enough to be one of those girls who can put body fake tan on your
face and wake up beautifully glowing instead of wondering how you could have
contracted chicken pox overnight, then you probably won’t get much out of this article.
But
if you’re like me and suffer from seriously pissed off skin – I swear I just
look at a bar of chocolate and I get a spot – then you may appreciate this.
I’ve
just started using Clinique’s anti-blemish range – maybe I’m a bit behind and
maybe you’re all like – I tried that ages ago, catch up – but up until about a
year ago, I could leave a full face of make up on for an entire night and it
wouldn’t make a difference. Not that I practiced that regularly, but we’ve all
been there after a night out when you don’t even have the mental capability to
peel off an eyelash never mind the risk of breaking your neck looking for make
up wipes. I’m a newbie. I used to watch my best friend Catherine spend 45
minutes before she went to bed, cleansing, toning and moisturising and I used
to think…wow, I’m so glad I don’t have to do that! Usually I don’t go to sleep
until I’m physically exhausted so I couldn’t imagine anything worse than
setting to at midnight. A quick Tesco value make up wipe suited me fine, but
one day my skin had had enough and everything changed.
I’ve
been trying the Clinique range and I’ve got to say it is amazing. Their 3-step
anti-blemish routine is exactly what I needed. After being on anti-biotics for
a while, I didn’t want to carry on – something felt weird about being on anti-biotics
for a whole year? There was a whole host of problems so I sacked them as soon
as possible. I’ll be honest I don’t think I could have gone straight onto
Clinque. As anyone with acne will know, cosmetics and topical treatments are
good but they’re not powerful enough in a lot of cases, especially in the early
stages.
For
anyone with bad skin who just uses make up wipes (I’m hoping I wasn’t the only
person doing this), it really is a fact that they do not remove all the make-up.
Once I started with Clinique, I couldn’t believe how much make-up I still had
left on my face after only using a make-up wipe, sometimes even two just to be
sure.
I
highly recommend this range by Clinique, especially for fast results. It is
amazing, but one piece of advice which is crucial when using this collection,
is that for the first week, you’re skin will get worse before it gets better -
this is because it draws everything out of your skin now rather than later;
everything that would become a spot or a blemish eventually. This terrified me
at first but please persevere because it is worth it.
I
really feel the star of the show goes to their moisturiser, ‘Clinique Moisture
Surge Intense’ RRP £32 per 50ml. A bit pricey for a moisturiser yes, but SO
WORTH IT. If I’m honest I wouldn’t describe it as a moisturiser; it’s so much
more. The problem is, the 3-step leaves your skin dry. It’s not so much a
problem because the 3rd step of the 3-step is a moisturiser, but as
the lovely Clinique lady told me (and I personally don’t think she wasn’t just
trying to sell it) you really benefit from this extra product, especially if
you have dry skin anyway or combination skin (oily and dry in different places).
It feels amazing; more a gel than a cream, it leaves your skin feeling sublime,
completely hydrated and it doesn’t clog your pores like a lot of thick cream
moisturisers. Honestly, 10/10.
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