• Radiant Eye Repair is fantastic on “11″ forehead lines. A couple of months ago I had an especially long week of people making me furrow my brow. It’s like everyone I came in contact with – checkout clerks, bank tellers, dry cleaner – conspired to drive me nuts. Doing that for a couple of days, along with my especially dry skin that week, led to an icky set of 11 lines. I smoothed on the thick gel of PRAI Radiant Eye Repair and my 11 lines disappeared. Impressive.
• Radiant Eye Repair is also pretty fantastic on raw, chapped lips. Like the kind you get when the weather is as cold as it was today. Incredibly emollient and forms a great barrier.
• PRAI Creme de Luxe Face Ultimate Age Defense is amazing on dry cuticles. It’s a bit pricey to be your regular hand moisturizer, but if you need your cuticles in shape fast, it gets the job done beautifully.
• PRAI Creme de Luxe Face Ultimate Age Defense is also great after at-home glycolic peels. Apply while your face is still wet after washing off the formula and your skin will be incredibly smooth.

Find PRAI Beauty at HSN and HSN.com!

• Peter Thomas Roth Lashes to Die For $32, normally $125
• Peter Thomas Roth Un-Wrinkle Makeup-Less Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30 $24
• Peter Thomas Roth Conditioning Tonic $16
• Peter Thomas Roth Botanical Buffing Beads Body Wash $13
• Peter Thomas Roth Brows to Die For $17
• Peter Thomas Roth 5 Piece Un-Wrinkle Kit $22
• Peter Thomas Roth Anti-Aging Cleansing Gel Super-Size 32 fl oz $39.00

Want fast and free shipping? Sign up at Shoprunner.com for free two day shipping at Beauty.com, Drugstore.com, and many other stores. I’ve been using it to pick up items that are on sale but shipping would make them too expensive. Ulta will be coming soon to Shoprunner’s list of stores (in future news, I’ll probably be having Ulta.com packages arriving at my house everyday when shipping is free). I love Shoprunner!

 I’ve known about Liz Earle Intensive Nourishing Treatment Mask for awhile  but did not test it out until a few weeks ago. I love the Liz Earle line, and I adore their Brightening Mask, so I was keen to try the Nourishing Treatment Mask when it was sent to me.

Liz Earle Intenstive Nourishing Treatment Mask is fantastic. It makes skin sooooo soft and evens out skintone issues due to dryness/redness in ten minutes flat. I love that you can move around in the mask too – it’s not like many facial masks that if you move, goop is going to get everywhere. It stays in place while you talk, move around, or just sit back with your eyes closed.

On cold morning when I’d rather stay under the warm covers, I’ve taken to negotiating with myself – I keep the mask on my nightstand, and when the alarm goes off and the urge to go back to sleep hits, I smooth the mask on. It feels good, so being awake is a little more tolerable. And it eventually gets me out of bed since I have to wash it off in 10-15 minutes.

I’m also a big fan of what Nourishing Treatment Mask does for throat skin – the mask makes throat skin soft, smooth and radiant. If you are in your early thirties, throat skin is one of those thing that you don’t notice as not looking like it did when you were 18 until you do something about it, and then you remember how good an area like your throat looked when you were younger. Much like foundation, facial masks shouldn’t stop at your jawline – make sure to give your thin neck skin the good treatment you give your face. And since Liz Earle Intensive Nourishing Treatment Mask contains Borage Oil to hydrate, it’s an ideal mask for throat and neck use!

The mask comes with one of Liz Earle’s amazing muslin cloths to wash it off with. I adore these muslin clothes – I would fill my closet with them if I could! They remove the mask cleanly and gently.

I really like using the mask after at-home glycolic peels. It hydrates the freshly exposed skin and soothes any irritation. And given that glycolic peels aren’t  Then just wash it off, apply moisturizer, and admire your radiant skin!

Liz Earle Intensive Nourishing Treatment Mask really is fantastic. I really love the Liz Earle line, so expectations are always high when I try a new product of theirs. Nourishing Treatment Mask exceeded my expectations and I’ll definitely continue to use it…especially on mornings that require extreme self-negotiation to get up…

Find Liz Earle Intensive Nourishing Treatment Mask at LizEarle.com for $24.00!

Lyn and I refer to Quenching Sorbet Creme as “pretty in a tube”. This fantastic lightweight (and pink) moisturizer is incredibly hydrating, akin to a far heavier moisturizer. Yet the formula is soooooo silky and feels really good when you smooth it over your face, which is a really nice bonus in a highly effective moisturizer. It’s really a luxurious treat.

What also impressed me is how good skin looks immediately upon application. It plumps out tiny little lines instantly and leaves skin porcelain-smooth. Skin looks smooth, even, and dewy – Pretty in a Tube indeed!

Find Caudalie Vinosource Quenching Sorbet-Crème at Caudalie-USA.com for $40!

Elgible “Pink” Products include:

• Caudalie Beauty Elixir – Great for adding radiance and tone to skin and pepping up makeup during the day. We’ll be reviewing it this month!
• Caudalie Nourishing Body Lotion
• Caudalie Vinosource Quenching Sorbet-Crème - AMAZING stuff, we’ll be reviewing it this week.
• Caudalie Vinosource Moisturizing Cream-Mask - read our review here.
• Caudalie Vinosource Anti-Wrinkle Nourishing Cream
• Caudalie Anti-Wrinkle Ultra-nourishing Cream
  

You see, I wanted the incredible radiance that Caudalie Vinoperfect Radiance Serum gives on contact, but I knew I should be wearing sunscreen. 99% of the time I use both in layers, but in the crazy hot first week of August, I thought that more than one layer of skincare product would be a bit too much for the matte yet slightly dewy look I was going for. If I was going to be outside for more than a couple of minutes, the choice would be clear – sunscreen. But I was going to be mostly inside one particular day, so the question remained: which product to use? As I sat there I checked my mail, and saw that the good folks at Caudalie were sending me their new Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 for review. Suddenly, I didn’t have to choose – I would be able to get that radiant look and be wearing a SPF!

But the sum is greater than its’ parts in the case of Caudalie’s Day Perfecting Fluid. Not only did it make my skin radiant, supple, and provide the perfect base for makeup, it also evened out my skin tone immediately without foundation. I was instantly hooked. The texture of the formula is so silky too – it really feels like you have nothing on your skin, and it is incredibly gentle – which I love for a product with a SPF.

It definitely smoothed out little lines on Lyn and I, and as I said, it really evened out skin tone. So we decided to test it out on our father, who can be rather errant when it comes to SPF. (We call this “Skin Care Ninja-ing” – a quick sweep of moisturizer across his forehead and onto his temples when he’s not looking). He looked FANTASTIC. The lines on his forehead just disappeared with one use. While Day Perfecting Fluid is a beige-y color in your palm before application, it imparts no color to the skin, but smooths lines in no time flat, so it’s definitely a product men can use as well when looking for a SPF with a matte finish (aka doesn’t look like he has anything on, SPF or otherwise).

Lyn and I have both been using Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 for a few weeks now and we love it. It’s not sticky or greasy on the hottest of summer days, and keeps you looking fresh no matter what. It’s a great addition to using Caudalie Vinoperfect Radiance Serum at night – it really lightens up dark spots over time.

Find Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 at Caudalie-USA.com for $68.00. It’s a really great product that feels incredibly luxurious and protects your skin!

If you’d like to try before you buy, Sephora is currently offering a deluxe sample of Caudalie Vinoperfect Day Perfecting Fluid SPF 15 with orders of $25 or more with coupon code VINOSPF.

Serious Skin Care LightFraxion

And it’s a cool name for a cool product. Serious Skin Care is launching a new product, LightFraxion, today on HSN. And I love the science of it.

The lotion contains an extract, Morinda Citrifolia (commonly known as noni), which contains a polyphenol to take icky UV light and filter it, if you will, into a wavelength that falls into the red light spectrum (it’s really amazing I don’t have a pocket protector for how excited I was writing that last sentence). Visible red light is commonly used in both derms’ offices and in at-home devices to improve elasticity and reduces wrinkles (such as the Tanda Regenerate Anti-Aging Device). Of course, with many devices, you have to wear goggles to protect your eyes when you are treating your skin, which is not the case with LightFraxion since it’s a lotion and it is simply converting the light that naturally hits your skin. No weird looking goggles required.

Of course, since LightFraxion doesn’t contain a sunscreen, you will have to wear a separate sunscreen. But no fear – LightFraxion still works with sunscreen on. (and wouldn’t it be counterintuitive to wear and anti-aging product but not wear sunscreen?????)

And I feel a little silly for saying this next part, this is a daytime treatment, not a night cream. Why? Because it’s dark at night, and the sun is out during the day….

Ready to try LightFraxion? Find it on HSN.com for $39.95 and on the HSN channel today at 10am, 3pm, and 11pm today (all EST) where you can learn more about the product and get some other anti-aging tips. Not going to be near a TV? Check out the new HSN Arcade, where you can play games while you watch HSN in real time in HD.

It’s true. It’s so very, very true.

Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase Under Eye Recovery

Of course, people who are “YLT” offenders aren’t going to cease their obnoxiousness no matter what, but with the right products, you can confidently say “No, I don’t.” Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase Under Eye Recovery is one of those products in the fight against snarky perceived appearance comments.

Under Eye Recovery is another great product from the Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase line, and a fantastic daily eye cream on the whole. It targets puffiness, wrinkles, and dark circles. And yes, it makes your eyes look fresh, energized, and super awake after just a few days of use. Take that, rude appearance commenter!

Kinerase Under Eye Recovery works in two ways – it depuffs, smooths, and brightens the eye skin immediately, and it also works in the long term to prevent future eye skin sagging due to stretching caused by fluid under the eyes, future wrinkling, and gets rid of dark circles. As soon as you put it on, your eyes look brighter and within a couple of minutes puffiness dissipates. It’s pretty impressive – I’d say the depuffing effect is on level with MAC’s  Fast Response Eye Cream, which I only use in beauty emergencies since the caffeine in it can irritate my skin if I use it for more than a couple of days. But Kinerase Under Eye Recovery depuffs without any irritation! I’m really happy to find a fast acting depuffing eye cream that is gentle and also hydrates.

Like all Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase products, Under Eye Recovery contains Kinetin in the same amount as the original Kinerase line, and it also contains “Eyeseryl” which works to keep collegen fibers intact, so your eye skin stays firm, as well as aids in lightening dark circles. It also contains a collagen stimulating ingredient.

I’m so thrilled to find a depuffing, brightening, firming eye cream that doesn’t dehydrate my eye skin. It’s fantastic for days that you need a quick skin pick me up, and it gives smoother, tighter eye skin with continued use. It’s also fantastic under makeup – hydrating enough to look dewy without looking greasy, and eye makeup stays in place.

So when people say you look tired, you can smile and put them in their place.

Find Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase Under Eye Recovery at Walgreens for $22.39. (of note – all Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase products seem to be on sale on the Walgreens site right now – good time to try them out!)

Just saw that Miracle Skin Transformer™ Treat & Conceal is available at Sephora.com. I think I actually saw it the other day but it didn’t register until I was browsing tonight.

Read our review of the product here. It’s good stuff – I’m so glad to see it available at Sephora!

The DNAEGF Renewal Skincare Line is a fantastic two-punch system to treat the causes of age and UV related skin damage. First, it uses marine and botanical enzymes. Since the DNA starts to lose the ability to repair itself at a pretty young age, these enzymes help skin cells to recognize damaged DNA and eliminate it – just like your skin did in younger days.

Secondarily, the DNAEGF line contains Epidermal Growth Factor grown in Barley plants, which are grown in pumice stones with Icelandic water (sounds very spa-like). This peptide works to give your skin’s natural healing system a little boost. Put together, the two components optimize the way your skin reacts to the effects of sun and time.

The cleanser is a little powerhouse. It is both a masterful cleanser and exceedingly gentle. When I was sick for a week, it was the only cleanser that didn’t sting my raw skin. It is especially good for taking off all makeup cleanly, including eye makeup, without scrubbing. Like Dr. LeWinn by Kinerase HydraBalance Foaming Cleanser, it’s a soft feeling foam – it doesn’t feel like you are overcleansing, it’s just a gentle, soothing foam. Which makes it impressive that it contains a glycolic complex to sweep away dead cells and brighten up your complexion, without irritation.

The DNA Night Renewal Cream is fantastic. The silky formula absorbs well and makes skin soooo soft – you’ll have a hard time keeping your hands off your skin. I love how lightweight it is – many night creams are thick and sticky, but Night Renewal glides on skin and leaves it smooth, soft, and feeling practically product-free. If the line’s SPF is as lightweight of a feel, then I’m sold on that too!

Since it is doesn’t countain fragrance, both products would be great for guys – nothing sticky or heavy to deter him from using it again. It’s also paraban and sulfate free.

I really like using the DNAEGF Renewal line at the gym – the cleanser is amazing both before and after workout. Beforehand, it cleans all makeup off your skin easily, so you aren’t walking out of the locker room with a scrubbed red face. Afterwards, it gently cleanses away your workout. DNA Night Renewal is a nice light base moisturizer to use after a workout – doesn’t trap heat and doesn’t feel sticky even on the most humid days.

Dr. Moy’s DNAEGF Renewal Skincare line is pretty intriguing. Find the whole line at dnaegfrenewal.com.

DNA EGF Renewal Foaming Cleanser