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The Pond’s Age Miracle Range

‘In our early 30s our skin starts showing the first signs of ageing; skin feels persistently drier, existing marks appear darker and age spots, fine lines and wrinkles start to appear. These are all signs that the ageing process has begun beneath the skin.’

This is according to Pond’s. According to my friend Marilé, everything starts going downhill after 25. Man, I wish I listened to her and started using the proper products back then already.

Pond’s has a beautiful range of products that target the 7 signs of ageing:

1. Loss of radiance
2. Uneven skin tone
3. Dehydration
4. Rough, dry patches
5. Pigmentation
6. Loss of firmness
7. Wrinkles
 
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‘Experience a revolutionary breakthrough in anti-ageing with POND’S age miracleTM. A potent system of 6 Bio-Actives that work in combination with each other and with the natural processes of your skin to deliver 3X more skin renewal power.’

The range consists of a foaming face wash, a toner, 2 day creams (a pump bottle for combination to oily skin and jar for normal to dry skin), a night cream, a serum, eye cream and BB Creams.

Overall the range is well priced, the packaging is attractive and I think the quality of the products are what you would expect from Pond’s.

My favourites from the range:

The SERUM has a lovely velvety texture and my skin feels silky smooth after application. And bonus… it comes in a pump bottle. It retails for R165.

The BB CREAM gives me a bit more coverage than I expected and Beige suits my pale skin tone quite nicely. It has an SPF of 30 which is great. I prefer a foundation that gives lighter coverage or a BB Cream in winter, so I suspect that I will be reaching for this often. It retails for R145.

My favourite from the range is the DUAL EYE THERAPY EYE CREAM.

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I was surprised when I saw how big the pot was, but soon understood as when I unscrewed the cap, I realized that it actually contains two eye creams – one for the under eye area and one for the lid. The pink upper eye cream contains collagen and targets lines and wrinkles. It feels more like a balm than a cream and creates a lovely base for your make-up. The white under eye cream aims to brighten the area and reduce puffiness. Both creams contain sunshields. R155.

If you feel you need to start using anti-ageing products, this range is a great one to try.

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*Disclaimer: These products were sent to me by the brand for review purposes. I have not received compensation for this post and the opinions on the products are my own.

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GrandeLash-md hits our shores

I recently spotted GrandeLash-md on Facebook and got very excited!

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I had a chat with Dr Doma and this is what she had to say:

‘Like so many things in life, a good idea comes from the smallest ideas. A dear friend of mine, Alicia Grande whom I have known for going on 15 years met a man who knew a person, who knew that persons cousin, who knew the cousins girlfriend, whose brother had a brilliant idea – AN EYELASH AND EYEBROW SERUM TO GROW LASHES AND BROWS.

Now, my friend, being naturally nosey and a ‘health and beauty expert with her own radio show’ could not resist the temptation of long, lush eyelashes of her own, no messy eyelash glue and flapping false eyelashes, no more lash extensions whilst losing half of her own in the process, so secretly every morning and every night, most faithfully she would apply the lash serum to the root of her lashes and the brow serum to her brows… until one night, her husband, said ‘Alicia, what have you been doing to your eyelashes, they look gorgeous’.

Now, my beautiful friend, always one for a challenge trademarked GRANDELASH-MD and GRANDE BROW and voila a Lashalicious Company was born.

Having connected after some years, Alicia suggested I bring GRANDELASH-MD and GRANDE BROW into South Africa.  My business partner and I, both tomboys with long legged shapely blondes’ inside us, somewhere took on the challenge and tried her kindly sent samples. I myself suffer from Hypothyroidism, therefore my brows are sparse (that’s being generous) and to see my lashes, one needed a microscope, so I must say I started using the products with great trepidation, but faithfully followed instructions and being just slightly over 30, used it twice daily. Two weeks after using the product I had a meeting to go to, I ‘put’ my face on and nearly fell over when my lashes left track marks on the inside of my glasses, my lashes had grown so much.

Erika, the bigger tomboy nearly speared herself in the eye when she saw the amount of mascara she needed to use on her new lashes and so our GRANDE journey began. Two average, workalot, oddball mums with lashes to die for.

My medical background had to be tucked away whilst I showed off my ever growing lashes and Erika causes a breeze batting her eyelashes wherever she goes.  FINALLY – A PRODUCT THAT DID WHAT IT SAID THAT IT DID!!!!! And all natural. So of course, always up for a challenge we were granted the Agency for Africa and voila… We have arrived – watch for the little lash mobile doin the rounds in the northern suburbs.’

I received my GrandeLash-md yesterday and I can’t wait to see the results. Watch this space!

If you want to read up a bit more or see before and after’s, please have a look at the GrandeLash-md SA Facebook page or check out the GrandeLash-md website.

GrandeLash-md retails for R775 for a 2-3 month supply.

Do you want long, fluttery lashes to? Then have a look at my next post.

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