Say it isn’t so … I don’t want to believe it! I had been noticing for a bit that the skin under my eyes were looking a little dry, and horrors of all horrors – I saw the faint beginnings of fine lines. NOOooo!
Obviously I rushed to Clinique and bought All About Eyes, one of the most famous eye creams on the market.
Moisture-rich eye cream diminishes the look of undereye circles, shadows, fine lines-instantly and over time. De-puffs, calms with botanicals. Helps boost natural collagen production. Strengthens skin’s moisture barrier against common irritants. Ophthalmologist Tested.
Before I start – these are my thoughts on miracle anti-aging creams: Marketing scam! If you have wrinkles, you have wrinkles; like we discussed about cellulite, it’s already something your skin has formed. The only real thing that can help in terms of ‘turning back the clock’ is plastic surgery procedures or scientifically proven ingredients like Retinols/Retin-A.
Regardless, like I previously said in my post Preventing Signs of Aging Tips, moisturizing is great at preventing, so I do think anti aging products work – just for prevention, rather than repair. (Let me know if you agree or disagree with me!)
“Moisture-rich eye cream…” Heck yeah! I love this formula. Like with all Clinique products, the formula seems gentle, easy to apply, and non irritating. The product feels lightweight on the skin too, so you don’t really feel like anytime is on it. (A trick for really tried eyes – put your eye cream in the fridge for 5 minutes before you apply it – heaven!)
“…diminishes the look of under eye circles, shadows, fine lines instantly…” Nope, nothing’s changed. Nothing can help these deadly dark circles and shadows of mine. I still look dead in the morning! :-P I do see small results in de-puffing eye bags though, so that’s good. Regarding the fine lines, they did seem to disappear from this quick dose of moisture (which any moisturizer can do, really). I do think that the extra moisture at the eye area every night will help greatly in preventing more of those nasties from forming.
“…and over time.” Only time can tell, but overall, I like this product. As far as the rest of their pitch above, I do think it’s a calming eye cream and helps boost the skin so it appears more youthful. I really liked the formula itself, it was easy to apply, and I liked that it was so gentle. So like I said before – prevention is better than cure, and I would recommend this as a great ‘starter’ eye cream. Some of the older ladies with more concerns may want to check out eye creams with retinols/Retin A in them.
Does anyone use All About Eyes, or eye creams in general? Do you think anti-aging creams are pretty much scams as well? I’d love to know your thoughts because I’m pretty adamant for that idea, unless of course someone (or some product) proves me wrong!
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Renee sweets,
I love your avvie! You are stunning! :D The new blog look is looking great too; you’re such an inspiration.
I’m glad for your review of this product. I just got this at the EL sale I went to! ;)
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Aw thanks Mag! You are so sweet. :) Do you have any plans to review it, too?
ooo…like the new template! =D
I got a sample of this last week. And has been trying it out. Will write a review soon (when I think I’ve abuse it enough) and let you know what I think ;)
ps. Do not get Origins Perfect World for Eyes. Ugh. Check out my review of it.
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Thanks! Looking forward to hear what you think :)
Sucks about that Origins eye cream, their ingredients seemed promising. Kinda like this product I guess – prevention rather than cure!
Hi Renee,
I don’t know how I got to your blog, but I’m so glad I did. You’re great!
Anyway, I’m a huge fan of Clinique products, too. Not too fond of their lipsticks and eyeshadows, but their skin care products are great.
Anyway, I have tried All about eyes, but the regular one. I haven’t tried it in rich, but I didn’t really like it. Besides doing nothing for my undereyes, it sort of dried it out.
And, no, nothing will take away wrinkles. Once they’re there, they’re there for LIFE. However, we CAN lessen the visibility of wrinkles with specialty eye creams. They are always coming up with new formulations with this and that star ingredient, but I have read that Retinol is the best for wrinkles. Again, it won’t take them away, just make them appear finer.
Right now I’m using Kinerase Intensive Eye treatment. I’ve only started so I have yet to see any results, if at all.
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How’s wordpress? I’m on blogger and I’m already annoyed after only 1 month of use.
Oh and I’ve bookmarked you :D
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Hey Mary. Thanks for visiting! So glad to have you here and hope to see you around more :)
I totally agree with you – I have only tried Clinique’s mascara and lip gloss, and while I do like them a lot, I do think their strength is in their skin care products – I love them!
Yup, retinol is the best and scientifically proven. I’ll have to look out for that in the future. Right now I think this eye cream will do for now, I’m probably the only one who can even see those lines (we girls always like to obsess, don’t we? ;-) ) but I will definitely look for a retinol eye cream – and will definitely let you all know! Will you be posting a review on the Kinerase eye cream in the future?
As far as WordPress goes, I love it! You can get a free account at wordpress.org if you don’t have a domain name. It’s very user friendly. What don’t you like about Blogger? I had to maintain a blog for a school assignment and I thought it was fine (except I think it’s a little hard to figure everything out at first!)
And thanks so much! I’ve returned the favor :)
Regarding blogger… I guess it’s just that I find that I’ve got very little options for personalizing my page. And I’ve been trying to get that “Read more” to cut my entries to work for weeks now, to no avail. Maybe I’m just “blog” stupid (haha.)
Anyway…What you said is sooo true. Just give us girls a 10X magnifying mirror and we’ll come up with 100 flaws on our face that need to be fixed ASAP. Those things are the devil! lol
I sometimes feel that the less I obsess the better off my skin will be in the long run, but, alas, that is never the case. haha
I also LOVE Clinique. I have dabbled with a lot of moisturizers, but I’ll always go back to Dramatically Different Lotion. A lot of people seem to complain that DDL’sformulation is out of date or that it’s comodegenic since it’s mainly mineral oil, but it truly is a great moisturizer. Mineral oil’s a great humectant. I honestly don’t see what the big fuss is…
And yes, I will be doing a review on Kinerase’s Intensive Eye! I’ll let you know :D
Thanks, also!
Hmm… I’m afraid I can’t help you with Blogger, Mary, but perhaps they have support forums? I like to post on support forums a lot with my annoying questions, and they do help a great deal. Actually thinking about it, I haven’t seen a “read me” option on any Blogger sites I’ve been too. I have seen some fantastic ‘looks’ on Blogger though, I think it’s definitely possible! You can write to a blogger who has an awesome theme and asked them what they did as well. Either way, I hope you find what you are looking for and sorry that I’m not much help :(
…You should’ve seen me in high school. This was the time I ‘got’ into the whole beauty thing and I would sit in front of the mirror and pick out every pore I had. Popping pimples were the best LOL. So crazy … but so satisfying! :-P So I know what you mean… you just can’t stop.
I’ve actually never heard about the mineral oil in the DDML. Yikes! I’m using the oil-free gel version, though. So it doesn’t apply to me? I used the original in the beginning but changed soon after.
I look forward to your review! ;-)
Hi Renee,
Thank you so very much for the tips! You’re too nice :D.
And LOL to “popping pimples..” There’s just something so “cleansing” about getting rid of your skin’s impurities, right? Glad you can relate hahaha.
And you’re right, it doesn’t apply to you since the gel version has zero mineral oil. But for sure the original one has loads — I think it’s 75-80% since it’s right after water in the ingredients list. I don’t mind it, I feel that if it works, then there shouldn’t be any harm in continuing to use it.
Here’s the ingredient list, although I’m sure it’s on the box:
Ingredients: Water Purified, Dimethicone, Isododecane, Butylene Glycol, Bis-Peg-18 Methylether, Dimethyl Silane, Glycerin, Laminaria Saccharina Extract, Saccharomyces Lysate Extract, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Hordeum Vulgare (Barley) Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seedcake, Caffeine, Trehalose, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria), Polysilicone-11, Silica, Propylene Glycol Dicaprate, Oleth-10, Laureth-23, Laureth-4, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/vp Copolymer, Carbomer, Tromethamine, Disodium-Edta, Phenoxyethanol, Methylparaben, Yellow 5, Red 4, Yellow 6
*It’s got glycerin, which is a good humectant and, I’ve read, works much like mineral oil without the “clogging the pores” thing. I have gotten samples of the gel and I love it, too. But I’m normal/dry so I can’t rely on it at all. I use the Moisture Surge (awesome name!!) once in a while and I like that, too.
Thanks I’ll keep you posted. So far, so good!
p.s. I’m sure you get it a lot, but you are super gorge! I love your avatar — so chic!
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I need to try that out! I’m one of them girls guilty of not really using a proper eye cream.
Do you know of any eye creams great for getting rid of dark undereye circles?
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Hey Ilyana – so sorry but right now I have no other recommendations, this is the first eye cream I’ve used … I’m pretty bad myself, should’ve bought one a while ago! I hope my other readers can help you out with their recommendations. So sorry again. :(
Hi,
Look for Kojic acid and, I think, it’s called Licorice root extract. Kojic acid is agreat melanin inhibitor. Melanin is the “brown” or skin pigmentation that our skin produces.
Right now I’m trying Neostrata’s (a Canadian cosmeceutical company) Eye brightening capsules which is pure Vitamin K — also touted to get rid of undereye circles. There’s also Hydroquinone which is a synthetic ingredient. The problem with Hydroquinone is that it may cause some skin problems, they have actually put a cap on the maximum percentage of concentration of it in skin care products for that reason.
Another is Eyeliss: an agent made of peptides that stops the capillaries, which are really visible in the undereye area as the skin there is real thin, from leaking. That means less visible undereye circles!
Also, use sunscreen around your eyes! You may want to get a separate sunscreen for your eyes to avoid irritation. Again, our skin produces lots of melanin as a reaction to UVB rays. Protecting your eye area will lessen your chances of developing more in the eye area.
Another important thing to remember is that if you’re trying to get rid of eye circles due to fatigue, then forget using anything — you’d just be wasting your money. I guess only sleep will help :D. The aforementioned ingredients only help with.
Philosophy’s Dark Shadows has eyeliss (listed as palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3), but I don’t know how effective it is.
Peter Thomas Roth’s Power K Eye Rescue has Phytonadione (man made Vitamin K.) Quite expensive, though!
There’s also Bremmen Research Labs’ Hyxelin also has eyeliss. It has gotten mixed reviews, though.
I hope that helped out a little.
I am a virgin when it comes to sunscreen! I am thinking of getting one and I would like to know whether it is applied beneath makeup and which one I should get for my body.
I use this stuff everyday, and so does my mother,and we can’t live without it. I use it as an eyeshadow base as well. It’s not actually part of their anti-aging line, I don’t think…? It holds my eyeshadows down perfectly, and it does help my eyes look better. I don’t have wrinkles yet so, I can’t say if it’d help with that. Although I did have a crying session one night, and I used it the next morning and my eyes weren’t puffy anymore in time to use my eyeliner!