Discover the Foutain of Youth with Silk’n FaceFX Anti-Aging Device

PRODUCT: Silk’n FaceFX,

PRICE:150.00, 

CATEGORY: Skincare Devices

TYPE: Anti-aging

MY RATING: 8/10

RECOMMENDED AGE RANGE: All

FOUTAIN OF YOUTH

Turn back time and unwrinkle wrinkles

The Claim:

One of the most advanced at-hom, anti-aging devices available today!

Silk’n FaceFX uses a combination of at-home fractional (HF) red light therapy that synergistically combines heat and light energy to stimulate your own natural collagen production. You’ll achieve long-term smooth, vibrant and radiant skin.

Benefits:

• Anti-aging device that diminishes appearance of wrinkles
• Reduce pore size for a smoother appearance
• Treat discolorataion to Improve skin tone and brighten dull, aging skin
• Get immedate and long-term professional results as-home

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Texture Imrovements: Softer, smoother skin                            

Complexion Improvements: Fresh, vibrant and glowing skin

Best Usage: 3x’s/week for 5-7 min during first month. Maintain results using 1x/wk.
Results: 3-8 eeks gives you noticeable improvement in skin texture               

Recommended Problem Areas: Treat cheeks, forehead, under eyes, crows feet, mouth and neck.  
Skincare Products: Use prior to application of skin care products for deeper absorption.    

FEEDBACK

PInkyPrIss Review: 
My biggest concerns are hyperpigmentation on my cheeks and forehead, crows feet, and my aging neck. Thus far, I truly see an improvement with my hyperpigmentation issues. The best part is that I could see an improvement in my skin tone within just a few weeks. -Faster than Hydroquinone. 

This device is really beneficial during summer months to target discoloration, which can drastically worsen with days spent in the sun and at the beach. Dull skin can make you look older than you, so the brightening benefits have been wonderful. I love the fact this device can be used on aging hands, neck and chest too! I do find that my crows feet and neck lines are taking a little longer to improve.

Definitely pair with a vitamin C serum to fully take advantage the brightening, lightening, and age delaying effects of both products.

TIP: Mid November you can Silk’n offers 25% off selected devices. - "Black Friday Event" on the Silk’n website

MORE PRODUCT INFORMATION:
Silk’n is the award-winning, international leader in professional aesthetic devices for home use.
Featured on TV shows including The Doctors 
Featured in Magazines such as O, the Oprah Magazine, Allure, Vogue and more.
Clinincally tested and dermatologist recommended
FDA cleared for at-home use

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The Difference Between Olay Regenerating Serum Vs. Micro-Sculpting Serum

What’s the difference between the Olay Regenerist Regenerating Serum and Olay’s Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Serum?

The textures are different and they have different finishes

-Regenerating serum has a silky texture, with a powder finish.

-Micro-Sculpting serum has a thicker-velvety texture, with a shiny finish.

They have different ingredients with different consistency’s:

-Regenerating serum has a silicone-based consistency with water being the first ingredient, and it is not paraben free.

-Micro-Sculpting serum has a water-and-silicone-base, with water being the second ingredient; it’s also paraben free. This serum contains the humectant, Hyaluronic Acid (in its salt form), which is the most powerful moisturizer known so far. It provides a smoothness and softening to the skin and can reduce the appearance of wrinkles. It also contains the mineral, mica, that gives your skin the instant glow the regenerating serum does not provide.

Ageless-beauty.com notes the following differences between their ingredients:

As for ingredients, the Micro-Sculpting Serum has additional cell communicating ingredients to tell the skin how to behave in a younger fashion: Niacinamide (4th of 30), Palmitoyl Pentapeptide­4 (9th), and Carnosine (13th).
The Daily Regenerating Serum has both Niacinamide and Palmitoyl Pentapeptide­3 (the former INCI name for Palmitoyl Pentapeptide­4, a.k.a.Matrixyl, a collagen stimulating peptide), but in lower concentrations (5th and 11th of 26).

Wrinklecreamguide.org notes,

Olay Regenerist Micro Sculpting Serum promotes the use of peptides in high concentrations. In reality it does not contain high enough amounts or concentrates to actually induce collagen production. A majority of the serum’s ingredients are actually thickeners, plastics, and fillers.
In conclusion, the Olay Regenerist Micro Sculpting Serum has a lot of potential to work, especially when including two peptides in its formula. However these peptides are too low on the list to actually reduce wrinkles.

Paula Begoun says,

The formula contains enough niacinamide to effectively "increase the skin's ceramide and fatty acid content as well as have anti­inflammatory action and work to reduce hyper­pigmentation."

Finally, their costs are different. The Micro-Sculpting serum runs about $30 and the Regenerating serum is usually less than $25. Typically, i’ts a third of the price.

For two serums that seem so similar at first glance, they sure are different.

Is Olay Micro-Sculpting Serum Worth the Money?

PRODUCT:

Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Serum, 
olay.com

PRICE: $29.99, 1.7 oz., prices vary  
CATEGORY: Skin Care Product
TYPE: Firming Serum

*My Rating: 6/10
*Ulta: 4.4/5
*Beautipedia: BEST
*Total Beauty: 9.8/10
*Makeupalley: 3.5/5

FOR BRIGHT, PLUMP AND HYDRATED SKIN

“This antioxidant-packed serum will diminish fine lines. ”

The Claim:

This fast absorbing, non-greasy formula provides specially designed hydration that softens the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and improves skin's texture. Skin looks brighter, more radiant and significantly firmer after just five days.

Benefits: 

• Serum provides ultra-lightweight, non-greasy moisturization
• Anti-aging serum with an amino-peptide + B3 complex penetrates deep into your skins surface to fight the look of tired skin
• Instantly plumps skin for a more lifted appearance
• Helps to regenerate damaged skin.
• Hydrates for noticeably younger and firmer skin
• Improves uneven skin tone and texture
• Skin looks brighter and more radiant

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Fragrant Scent: Floral                  

Key Ingredient(s): Amino-peptide + B3, Niacinamide, Green Tea, Vitamin E, Hyaluronic Acid

Texture: Velvety Smooth                        

Consistency: Water- and-silicone-based

Coverage: Absorbs Quickly                            

Complexion: Glowing

Finish: Shiny                               

Results: Radiant skin

Wear: All Day                                   

Best Usage: Daily, AM and PM

Best For: Dry/Combination Skin                              

Tested on Animals: Yes

Jar Packaging: No                           

Verdict: I do not recommend it

DOWN and DIRTY DETAILS

Key Ingredient(s):

• Vitamin E - (Tocopherol) also has a well-established reputation as an effective antioxidant. It neutralizes free radicals and replenishes skin's lipids.
• Vitamin B3 - also known as niacinamide,  is an antioxidant that can improve skin's elasticity, dramatically enhance skin's hydration, help erase discolorations, and revive skin's healthy tone and texture.
• Glycerin - is a humectant and extremely hygroscopic, meaning it readily absorbs water from other sources. So, in part, glycerin works because of its ability to attract water from the environment and from the lower layers of skin (dermis) increasing the amount of water in the surface layers of skin. Another aspect of glycerin’s benefit is that it is a skin-identical ingredient, meaning it is a substance found naturally in skin.
• Panthenol - is a provitamin of B5.
• Hyaluronic acid (moisturizers) -Provides smoothness and softening to the skin. It can reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
• Allantoin (anti-inflammatory) - is a natural soothing, anti-irritant, and skin protectant that increases its water content. It also increases the smoothness of the skin; promotes cell replication; and promotes the healing of wounds, burns, and scars.

Other Ingredients:

Water, Cyclopentasiloxane, Glycerin, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Panthenol, Dimenthicone Crosspolymer, Polyethylene, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Sodium Hyaluronate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Carnosine, Allantoin, Dimethiconol, Polyacrylamide, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Laureth-4, Laureth-7, Citric Acid, PEG-100 Stearate, Dmdm Hydantoin, BHT, Disodium EDTA, Tin Oxide, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate, Titanium Dioxide. Original Contains Fragrance.

Fragrant Scent: Floral - Has a soft, barely-there floral scent that vanishes quickly, too.

Texture: Velvety Smooth - Provides a smooth feeling to surface of skin. Feels like velvet when you apply.

Consistency: Silky - This water- and silicone-based serum makes my skin feel smooth and silky without any greasiness. Its silky consistency helps my makeup glide on easier.

Coverage: Absorbs Quickly

The airy formula sinks right into skin. It does not make you feel greasy and penetrates well into the skin.

Best Usage:

Use one pump of the serum in the morning and at night. Apply with your fingertips, massaging the serum onto your face and neck in an upward circular motion. Focus on areas like the brow and jaw line. Use a cream over the serum to hold in the moisture.

FEEDBACK

PInkyPrIss Review: While this serum may have many great ingredients that are beneficial for the skin, I cannot recommend it. I could not tell people to use a product that so many other people have had problems with. I have read reviews on several websites (totalbeauty.com, ulta.com, makeupalley.com) and there are just an overwhelming number of people who have had breakouts while using this serum. Personally, I don’t usually like wasting my time trying products that don’t have good reviews. I also cannot recommend a product that does not do what it claims to do.

*Allure Winner, Readers' Choice 2013

MORE PRODUCT INFORMATION:

According to Ingredient expert Paula Begoun:

This water- and silicone-based serum doesn't have any sculpting ability, either on a micro or macro scale. Hydrating and plumping skin that is showing signs of sagging isn't going to make it look lifted—it’s not as though this serum is a mini face-lift in a bottle.

The reason this is rated so highly is because it has a lot in common with the other serums from Olay Regenerist. That means with each use your skin is treated to a helpful amount of cell-communicating ingredient niacinamide, skin-identical glycerin, and a cadre of other anti-aging ingredients, including peptides, antioxidants, and more cell-communicating ingredients.

According to TopWrinkleCream.org,

Olay Regenerist Micro Sculpting Serum specifically names peptide concentrates in its formulation as well as vitamin B combinations. Peptides are proven ingredients that stimulate collagen and elastin production in skin for wrinkle reduction. But in order to produce enough collagen to reduce wrinkles a product must contain three or more peptides. Olay Regenerist Micro Sculpting Serum only contains two peptides in low amounts.

Also, a majority of Olay Regenerist Micro Sculpting Serum’s ingredients are thickeners and moisturizers. Some ingredients are pure plastic or wax. Despite being an affordable product Olay Regenerist Micro Sculpting Serum does not deliver the results it advertises.

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Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Serum

FOR BRIGHT, PLUMP AND HYDRATED SKIN

“This antioxidant-packed serum will diminish fine lines. ”

QUICK TAKE

Fragrant Scent: Floral                  

Key Ingredient(s): Niacinamide, Green Tea, Vitamin E, Hyaluronic Acid

Texture: Velvety Smooth                        

Consistency: Water- and silicone-based serum

Coverage: Absorbs Quickly                            

Complexion: Glowing

Finish: Shiny                               

Results: Radiant skin

Wear: All Day                                   

Best Usage: Daily, AM and PM

Best For: Dry/Combination Skin                              

Tested on Animals: Yes

Jar Packaging: No                           

Verdict: I do not recommend it

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What Is Frederic Fekkai's Protein RX Reparative Shampoo?

Product Name: 
Frederic Fekkai Protein RX Reparative Shampoo, 
fekkai.com/PrX

Price: $30.00, 6.7 oz.
Type: Hair Product

Category: Shampoo

Review Headline: Frizz Free Soft Silky Hair

Overall Rating: 10 Great

The Claim: 
Shampoo removes damaging impurities and build-up while nourishing and detangling each strand.

Scent: 

I love the fresh scent of this gently fragranced line.

Result: 
From the first time I used this product, I noticed a difference in my hair texture. My hair is much softer, more manageable and the shampoo actually does detangle.

PinkyPriss Review: 
Product has a creamy, yet lightweight fluid texture that lathers very well giving you excellent coverage, so a little goes a long way.

Ease of Use: 
Both the shampoo and conditioner have an easy to use pump that dispenses a moderate amount of product. The packaging is solid, so the top will not break off to cause spills. No spills = No mess!

The best candidate? 
Personally, I have dry, frizzy, thick, wavy, long hair; but from what I have read, this line works well on most hair types.

Key/Notable Ingredients(s): 
Keratin, Silk Protein, and rich in emollients

Recommended Application:  

I prefer to shampoo and condition every other day, sometimes every two days. I wash my hair twice, first to loosen dirt, then to make sure it is squeaky clean. I use about four pumps to lather and massage product into each strand. Follow with conditioner in the same product line, as they are designed to work together.

Bottom Line: 
Overall I would highly recommend this product.