6 Of The Best Serums
We know what you’re thinking. And our guess is it’s one of two things. 1) I often can’t be bothered cleansing in the morning, let alone applying a serum OR 2) My skin looks, and feels like s*it. I need a holiday. And that new Proenza Kent mini. But let’s not get distracted.
Here’s the thing about serums, they’re not a necessity of SPF and 8-glasses-of-water-a-day proportions, but yes, you should have one in your life. These guys are an investment piece, with a cost per wear of next to nothing, and today we’re arguing the case for why you should fork out.
We’ve had enough of our fine lines, uneven skin tone and tired looking skin and here’s the thing, you can’t just use “The Secret” to wish wrinkles away (we’ve tried), so we decided to look into the hardest-working serums that get results fast. We’re talking line-reducing, pigmentation-helping, hyper-hydration results. This week we put them all to the test, and found 6 of the best, so your skin can look and feel…younger, smoother, stronger…. better. You can thank us later.
Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair
Skin transformation just four weeks is a pretty massive call, but it’s a legit promise that accompanies this bad boy. And it’s not advertising BS – this stuff is an overnight godsend, not to mention pretty much the best selling serum in all the land. It’s plush, but not oily, active, but also suitable for sensitive skins, hydrating but not heavy. Think of it as a good night’s sleep in a little brown bottle.
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The Ole Henriksen Pure Truth Vit C activating oil
The second we applied this oil, we were all like “why can’t our skin be like this all the time?” This serum is super-light & totally mattifying. With a healing rosehip oil base and packed with brightening Vitamin A and C, as well as all the Omega oils heath nuts are often praising for their “glow”, there’s a reason this serum is cult and we highly recommend.
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Grown Alchemist Anti-Oxidant Treatment Serum with Rosehip and Camellia Seed
As one of our pharmacy-brand go-tos, we know we can go away for the weekend and if we forget something we can hit up the town pharmacy and know that this brand has us sorted. That’s actually how we got onto the excellence of this oil. After too much beach scene indulgences, our skin was crying out for hydration and anti-oxidant help, this light and beautifully-scented oil came to the rescue and has lasted us through the winter too
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La Prarie Anti Aging Rapid Response Booster
For starters, we just love the name of this product. “Rapid Response”, like being on the dirty side of our 20s (*cough* 30s) is an emergency we need a triple-O response to…#TRUTH. Enter: La Prarie. The Grand Maharajah of Anti-Aging tech. Using the brand’s unique delivery system that acts like the Net-a-Porter of active skincare (i.e delivers a perfectly wrapped drop, just when you need it), this made our skin about 10000watts more luminous, and used over a fortnight, we really noticed a fine-line disappearing act. MAGIC.
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Ultraceuticals Ultimate C15+ Firming Serum
Vitamin C is one of those ever-surprising ingredients that is SO necessary when it comes to great skin and health in general. This serum harnesses that power, and kicks it into turbo-mode by throwing in a few other collagen-stimulating, mega-firming ingredients for good measure. This elixir is so potent (and results-driven) that if you’re not used to high-quality active stuff like this, we recommend using on alternative days at first, before jumping right in, otherwise you might feel some sensitivity, which is totally normal.
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Su-Man Velvet Skin Brightening Serum
OH MAN. You know that feeling you get when you’re in a hotel, you’ve just had a super hot shower, put on your plush robe and slid into a pillow-topped, million-thread count hotel bed for the first time? This is basically that for your face. So lush, so soft and so addictive. Not just a pretty face, this potion fuses the best of eastern and western anti-aging medicine and somehow create a product that feels this good and actually gets results. Great for dull, dry skin needing a radiant lift.
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