The Essential Energy range has two day-and-night moisturisers, a cream and a gel-cream – pick the texture you prefer. It also has a Day Emulsion with SPF30/PA+++ to simplify your daytime routine, so you can skip the sunscreen. $80 each.
According to Shiseido’s researchers, 30 is the turning point when your skin can no longer bounce back well from lifestyle habits like lack of sleep and stress. Your lifestyle doesn’t change, your skincare routine doesn’t change, but your skin, which didn’t feel sensitive before, now reacts to the slightest change in temperature or stress by turning itchy, red or tingly. It may feel drier than it once did or look duller despite your best efforts to moisturise. These conditions are exacerbated with age, which is why the brand has developed the Essential Energy range of moisturisers, to help your skin respond better to skincare. To know if your new skincare product or routine is working, Shiseido says you need to keep these three pointers in mind:
1. Be consistent. Skin needs regular attention, morning and night. If you are adopting a new skincare routine, stick with it for at least four weeks, because that’s the average skin cell renewal cycle.
2. Moisturise, even if you have oily skin. Wrinkles and sagging result from a lack of moisture, even in oily skin. The Essential Energy moisturiser-only range has an exclusive oil technology that helps hold water in skin to maintain the oil-water balance, without causing a feeling of stickiness.
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Larry Yeo explains why your under-eye concealer sometimes doesn’t stay put:
1. Blocked tear ducts
If you have nasal allergies, nose infections or chronic sinusitis, the mucous membranes around the nose may get irritated and block the tear ducts. When that happens, your eyes water, melting your concealer or making it crease.
2. How you prep the under-eye area
Many women use an excessive amount of eye cream. This makes the skin greasy, so concealer can’t stay in place. Just use a pea-sized amount of any eye gel or cream. If you’ve over-moisturised, blot away the excess with tissue paper.
3. The amount you use
If you apply too much concealer, it cakes, dries up, and slides off .
4. Using the wrong formula
