The other night I hosted a ‘best dish’ dinner party. Essentially, you invite a bunch of chicas who know how to work it in the kitchen and ask that they each bring the one dish that they know kicks ass… the one thing that they make and everyone falls over themselves asking for the recipe. (Mine is homemade vanilla ice cream so good it makes Haagen Daz look stupid…) This way you’ve got a rocking dinner party full of killer food (that you didn’t have to make) and a whopload of fab new recipes!
Anyway nothing goes better with good food than fab vino and copious amounts of champers. Hence, I woke up the next day looking like this:
Anyhoo, the fastest way to fix my face involved drinking copious amounts of water and plumping out fine dehydration lines with a moisture-boosting treatment. For the latter, I turned to a Skin Logic Collagen Infusion mask, R31,99.
Now, as I’ve mentioned before, collagen and elastin is the bouncy, rubbery stuff that exists in your skin to give it a plump, youthful look. Alas, you stop producing it naturally in your 30’s and you can’t replace it unless you get jiggy with fillers. There isn’t a collagen cream in the world that can transpose collagen into your skin and have it bind to your own natural collagen. Still, it can live in your skin TEMPORARILY, giving it a lusher, fuller look before washing out your bod – and this is what this face mask does. It’s collagen and elastin have been hydrolized (meaning it’s molecules have been made super-duper tiny) so that it can be easily absorbed into your skin and give you an intense, if not permanent, moisture boost.
The mask, which is a cloth-type that’s been soaked in a clear, gellitanous collagen serum, is the type you don’t want your boyfriend to see you in. Wearing it made me look like a burn victim/flesh eating zombie who’s skin was starting to peel off.
Still, after a mere twenty minutes, I can now see that my thirsty skin’s gotten the hydration it wanted, but couldn’t get from my very superficially hydrating daily moisturiser. The fine lines I spotted around my eyes and mouth have disappeared and I feel like I ‘got my pretty back’. Niiice.
Next time I’m in Clicks I’m going to look out for this again and keep it as part of my ‘hangover rescue beauty kit’ (this includes Clarins Liquid Bronze face self tan and Beauty Flash Balm, eye drops and The Body Shop’s baked to last blush in Petal). I also reckon it’s a nice li’l ‘beauty booster’ to use before a big night out.
Love, love
Leigh
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God you make me laugh.
LOL love those pics n the captions!!!