Would I say that my under eye area is a problem? No not
really. I have slightly dark circles and have started noticing some fine lines
but nothing I can’t live with. Still. I am all about taking care of my skin and
I like using an eye cream. I have been pretty loyal to my Clinique All About
Eyes cream in the past but stopped using it about a year ago when I fell out of
love with the whole brand in general. It happens, I suddenly wake up and decide
I am not brand loyal anymore.
Since then I have been in the eye cream wilderness, I used
the Bobbi Brown one for a while and it was fine but not a perfect match. I want
that holy grail product, one that I can definitely see and feel working. I know
how my skin responds when it likes something, it goes very supple and I feel
all healthy, like I have been eating avocados and drinking lots of water for a
month.
I also tried two Estee Lauder samples, one of the Resilience
Lift and another of the Idealist Cooling Eye Illuminator. You can buy them here. I found them a bit ‘meh’ to be honest, certainly not worthy of the Estee
Lauder price tag. I wonder sometimes about these cooling eye treatments, I have
the Garnier one for when I need a quick eye wake up. I really want them to
work, I feel like they do for all of 10 seconds and then they just stop.
Anyway, the cream I really wanted to talk about is the Yes
To Grapefruit Dark Circle Correcting Eye Cream. I was in CVS the other day and
saw it, I like grapefruits, it was $16 so I thought why not? Maybe I will be
surprised, maybe I need to climb down from my department store high horse
(granted Garnier is drugstore, I bought into the gimmick though) and try
something new. Well that was a poor decision on my part, I’m not saying that
drugstore eye creams are bad but I think this one is.
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| Yes To Grapefruit Dark Circle Correcting Eye Cream. Click here to read the full write up. |
The packaging is fine, it is a little tube with a precision
nozzle on the end of it, I must admit I squished too much product out the first
few times but I am used to tubs at the end of the day. I don’t know why I was
expecting a fragrance free product, I don’t think I necessarily was actually,
it’s just when I opened the tube the scent hit me immediately. I was sad. I
don’t like it when things have too much fragrance in them (read my Caldrea
article here) and I felt like this may overpower any perfume I was wearing. I
wasn’t at all excited to start plastering it around my eyes.
That being said, I gave this Yes To product a good old shot,
I used it for three and a half weeks. Hmm, nothing good to say unfortunately, the
fragrance made my eyes water, the product broke down my concealer (no matter
how much I set the stuff), I started breaking out in these tiny weird
whiteheads which all cleared up last week after I placed the tube in the box of
products that I am none too pleased with. The worst part is I can’t say that my
little lines look any less liney and I still have darkness under my eyes. My
skin doesn’t feel supple or smooth, in fact I feel like my eye area is letting
the rest of my face down at the moment.
I am back to wondering the wilderness, I may go pick up a
sample from Kiehls they are pleasing me at the moment. Until then it’s teabags and cucumber I
suppose.
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