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Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:59 pm  |
| frozenstrawberrypie wrote: |
SKII Facial Treatment Essence - did nothing for me. The sheet masks worked wonders though.
Also Creme de La Mer... it was a good moisturizer, that was it. |
oops! I just order a SKII Facial Treatment Essence. I should see this post before I placed a new order 
I have the same feeling of Creme de La Mer as you. |
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Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:13 am |
Nuface
Prevage |
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Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:44 pm |
Creme de la Mer and Kinerase. Useless, overpriced.
Unfortunatley Safetox is not that great for me either. It definitely does "something" but given the price and time commitment it doesn't do enough. |
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45, fair skin, no botox or fillers - yet. Epidermx II, Eye Tuck, .Lumigan, HA, face shaving & Retin-A are my current faves. Like "Ageless if You Dare" . . . when I remember to do it. |
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Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:44 pm |
| I see a lot of products on this thread that I have also heard good things about in the past. Products, like beauty I suppose, are in the eye of the beholder. Where one is a gem to one, may be trash to another and vice versa. |
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Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:47 pm |
Clarins Generation 6 Double Serum, just grease...
ewwk.. |
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Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:16 pm |
La Mer and Kinerase
if they were drug store creams, they would have been fine. but for high end creams they totally failed. |
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Moderately fair, dry, prone to break outs on chin, sun damage, 30s. |
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Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:15 pm |
| Prevage, Genefique(Lancome) |
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Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:53 pm |
| Shlovies wrote: |
| I see a lot of products on this thread that I have also heard good things about in the past. Products, like beauty I suppose, are in the eye of the beholder. Where one is a gem to one, may be trash to another and vice versa. |
I think that is the case with all cosmetics, nothing is great for everyone. It's a mystery why what works so beautifully for some doesn't do a thing for others!  |
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Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:33 pm |
| I would say Yuky elizabeth grant. Stupid me ordered about $300 worth of product from tv. the C serum smells like old orange juice. and everything else is so disgusting. I don't know how this company is still in business. |
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Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:03 pm |
| I now add Revive products to this list ! |
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Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:45 pm |
Ahhh yes, ReVive. I purchased *several* of the ReVive Intensite Volumizing Serum and got absolutely zero result. It is like $600 an ounce Vaseline. Used it for over 2 years (the entire line exclusively) before I realized I was being had, so stupid. Although this was years ago, and I think it was only $500 an ounce then. Or maybe that is just my memory being kind  .
ReVive (except I liked the serum protectiff)
Creme de La Mer, all versions
Skyn Iceland (downright toxic ingredient lists)
ESTEE LAUDER (okay, not high-end, but truly awful repercussions after long-term use of their Fruition & other products in my 20s when none of it was even needed, but that didn't stop their EA-trained sales staff from "recommending" it to me continually) |
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Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:25 pm |
Hi FadeGirl,
I was just curious to know what happened repercussions you are speaking of with the Estee Lauder? Since Estee Lauder appears to have rather tame actives in their products I would like to know what to watch out for in their line etc.
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:29 am |
Hello Schlovies,
I loyally used Estee Lauder's Fruition every day for forever, maybe close to a decade. I had 3 dermatologists (over a period of several years) and one plastic surgeon tell me that it was (or very likely was, depending on the doc) the reason that I developed melasma/hyperpigmentation. Due to the acids in the product making my skin very photosensitive over time.
But I didn't believe it & kept using it. I was convinced that my melasma was due to my hormones even though the MDs disagreed with my diagnosis. Because I felt like a stressed out maniac (motherhood!) I blamed hormones, even though my melasma didn't show up until almost 2 years after I gave birth.
In the end it cannot be proved, but there is no denying that extensive use of Fruition royally thinned my skin, and I was never a sun worshipper. And I *only* have the melasma/hyperpigmentation where I used the Fruition: on my face. Not even a speck of it any place else. Further, for years there was not any warning on this product advising the use of sunscreen; now there is. That's no accident.
So...if I could go back in time I would never use any product, including cleansers, that had any acid in it. I'm not entirely anti-acid, they have their place...but there are also safer alternatives for most folks.
As for what Estee Lauder promises about how gentle Fruition is? Perhaps if you only use it once a month, but that isn't what it directs on the bottle now, is it? Once I stopped using it, my natural skin tone/color very rapidly came back from sickly pale. And my eyebrows are about 50 times darker. What was Fruition doing bleaching my skin and eyebrows if it meekly contains only "extra-gentle, buffered acids"?
Be wary of risking irreparable damage to your face based on the non-enforceable claims of a purveyor. I now think the term "gentle acid" is quite the oxymoron!! |
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:33 am |
| Derma Roller - besides red and pain, can't see any result at all. |
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:38 am |
| critic wrote: |
| Derma Roller - besides red and pain, can't see any result at all. |
Oh yes Critic, DermaRoller for me, too! Aside from the temporary inflammation (no kidding, right?) I had zero improvement. |
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:04 am |
| Yes, me three for dermaroller! I used the 1.5mm dermaroller about 6x, 1x/ month. No wow for me, although a lot of other people have gotten good results from it. (I wish *something* had happened, given all that pain & drama!) |
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40 yrs old; Tanaka massage 1x/ day; HF device; retin-a .05%; FE & Carolyn's Facial Fitness every other day; green smoothies; MSM 4000mg/day; NAC 1000mg/day; ALA; Ageless Secret/ Gold combo; FIM lamp; History of Whoo skincare; homemade niacinamide toner |
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:08 am |
| I bought the April Rain Night Rainew and Day Rainew, has done nothing. Wish I never bought it. |
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ReAura/Tria Face & Eye, Baby Quasar MD Plus, Derminator (age 4 |
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:18 am |
| has wrote: |
| I would say Yuky elizabeth grant. Stupid me ordered about $300 worth of product from tv. the C serum smells like old orange juice. and everything else is so disgusting. I don't know how this company is still in business. |
has, Don't think you are alone, I got sucked in about 4-5 years ago....boy I would much rather have that money to put towards something else! Total waste! |
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:12 am |
Hi,
I really appreciate you disclosing this information. It causes one to think twice about these kinds of products, period. We can be in a mindset that "hey, this is a very well known reputable company so of course I won't have any damage" etc etc...
Thanks again Fadegirl!  |
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Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:06 am |
| i second La Prairie. no use at all and high price. |
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Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:37 pm |
Dermal fillers in the cheek area.
BF |
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Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:46 pm |
| No positive results from 1.5 dermaroller at all. BOOOOOOO! |
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65 Caucasion, history of acne, sagging, some wrinkling, rough texture. Using Dermawand, AALS, Microderm Machine,Copper Peptides |
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Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:50 pm |
| Mars wrote: |
| No positive results from 1.5 dermaroller at all. BOOOOOOO! |
You have to have faith. I'm dermarolling, suffering and continue dermarolling... It is supposed to help with the product penetration, so may be the product is not that great. |
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Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:11 pm |
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Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:34 pm |
I think we have to be realistic about what we're trying to do - which is basically slow down or reverse the aging process which some would say is next to impossible.
I don't believe that any cosmetic cream will remove wrinkles or correct sagging. Most of the home-use gadgets that we are using have a limited track record and no-one really knows what their real potential (if any) is.
I've tried just about everything that I can afford, including relatively expensive laser treatments - and I have never had a totally WOW result.
However, after saying all of that I don't think I look as "old" as most of my peers - so I tell myself that something must be working. But there's no quick fix, it's important to be consistent and not give up - because time doesn't stop marching on.
It's also useless to compare our anti-aging efforts to celebrities who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and get up to things that we can't even imagine.
So my mantra is to be realistic, be consistent and don't give up! |
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Born 1950. There's a new cream on the market that gets rid of wrinkles - you smear it on the mirror!! |
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