Product watch: Beauty products for Breast Cancer Awareness month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and pink-ified beauty on sale now and into winter helps support the cause.
Estée Lauder’s most luxurious night treatment is a favourite of BCA spokeswoman Liz Hurley and reportedly the key to Tom Ford’s eternal youth.
EL serums come and go, but I think this one’s hung around since 1982 because you can rely on it to make you look well-rested in the short-term and to create smoother, more even-toned complexion over time (provided you also UV-protect skin daily).
The ingredients list is replete with vitamin and plant-based antioxidants.
Tripeptide-32 helps fight cell-damaging proteins and lactobacillus keeps skin soothed.
Advanced Night’s formula was updated in 2014 (hence the ‘II’) to include retinyl palmitate — a form of Vitamin A that is well-tolerated by even very sensitive types — and plenty of the reparative fruit-extract lecithin.
The addition of arabidopsis thaliana, a natural thickener, gives the serum a rich gel-like texture that works well under makeup.
There really is no reason to restrict applications to bedtime. Estée Lauder will donate 20 per cent of each sale to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation until June 2017.
Clinique’s Dramatically Different Moisturiser boasts nostalgic charm and skin-balancing benefits.
It finishes up the brand’s ‘3-Step’ regime, which so many of us adopt when we first start to get serious about skincare (though any serious regime should also really end with broad-spectrum sun protection).
The texture is light and comforting with a non-greasy finish.
The formula, updated in 2013 to respond to increasing environmental challenges to skin’s natural moisture barrier, now includes a ‘complex’ of hyaluronic acid, glycerin and urea.
These are all moisturisers that occur in the skin and boost your natural reserves (hence the plus sign).
Oily skin fares better with Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturising Gel, €42, but this charm-decorated bottles is a great gift for normal to dry and sensitive types. €2 from each sale benefits Breast Cancer Research.
Elemis has pledged £10,000 from the sales of ‘The Hero Collection,’ a four-pack of face and body products, to Breast Cancer Awareness.
The products are ‘pink editions’ of brand favourites and best suit normal-to-dry skin.
The Pro-Collagen Neck and Décolleté Balm pampers skin with fatty-acid rich sea buckthorn oil and soothing marine extracts.
Skin in these areas does not actually need a specific product and this balm works just as well as a facial treatment.
The Frangipani Monoi Body Oil can be worn as a feminine perfume or all-over body moisturiser, depending on your skin’s sensitivity to fragrance.
Each of the fourteen Cellular Recovery Skin Bliss Capsules contains an antioxidant facial oil that helps fight environmental damages and temporarily smooths lines. The immediate effect is plumped, radiant skin.
Elemis’s multiple award-winning Pro-Collagen Marine Cream is fortified with marine extracts and plant-based antioxidants.
The emulsion improves skin suppleness and hydration whilst protecting from free-radicals. The ‘Hero’ set comes with a cute pink cosmetics bag.
HAIR
Bumble and Bumble pioneered this gift to lazy girls and volume seekers in 1999. Artistic Director Laurent Philippon drew from his background in classical French hairdressing to create a style-reviving powder.
Prêt-à-powder is an ultra-fine, translucent blend of clay and oat flour that dry-cleanses without trace.
Microfine silica adheres to strands, generating impressive volume and hold.
The formula suits all hair types. Sprinkle it on roots to create instant lift and refresh yesterday’s blowdry.
Bumble and Bumble’s dressed up Prêt-à-powder in a limited-edition pink cap for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and will be donating €5 from each sale.
Wetbrush have turned their Original Detangler pink for Breast Cancer Awareness.
Running anything but a wide-tooth comb through wet hair feels like asking for breakage but this brush has pliable ‘Intelliflex’ bristles that separate without stretching strands.
The bristles are flexible enough to bend over knots without snagging but still strong enough to glide through extensions or thick waves and curls.
Thanks to Wetbrush Detangler’s long bristle length — about three quarters of an inch — you can also use it to distribute your favourite styling product easily and evenly. A detachable tool in the handle helps keep the brush squeaky clean.
Twenty per cent of the purchase price goes to the cause.
Cut your styling time in half with this pink-detailed super-dryer.
The GHD Air is very comfortable to use and boasts a professional-strength motor and patented removable air filter combo that speeds drying with its high-pressure air flow.
It also has Ionic technology that combats frizz and fly-always to ensure a smooth, salon-like finish.
Extra-special features include two concentrator nozzles, a wide selection of variable temperature and speed settings, as well as a cool shot button to help your style ‘set’ even more quickly.
Each GHD hairdryer comes complete with a limited edition co-ordinating dust bag for storage.
A tenth of the purchase price goes towards breast cancer research.
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