| Review | Colorescience Total Eye 3-in-1 Renewal Therapy SPF 35

With spring and summer approaching, sun protection is becoming increasingly important. I usually always use some level of sun protection daily but I have never thought too much about sun protection specifically for the eyes. Also, I have never seen sun protection specifically for the eyes, until now! I couldn't be more thrilled to be kindly sent this Total Eye Renewal Therapy from Colorescience! Learn more about Colorscience here. Read my review their All Calm Clinical Redness Corrector for full face sun protection, correcting, and priming! 

The Colorescience Total Eye 3-in-1 Renewal Therapy SPF 35 retails for $69.00 USD and is available at Colorescience. This unique skincare-makeup hybrid is innovatively packaged in a pump tube with metal tip applicator. I have seen this metal tip applicator for eye care products before but never with this pump tube for dispensing product! The packaging is very easy to use and control the amount of product being dispensed. It keeps it quite sanitary because it releases the amount of product needed but doesn't allow product to go back into the tube. It is a compact tube, perfect for on-the-go or travel!




This 3-in-1 product is intended to serve as skin treatment, sun protection, and a color corrector. First of all, if you didn't already know, I love skincare-makeup hybrids. I think I have said it in multiple reviews of these kinds of products but I also love multi-tasking products! Despite being a product junkie, I am a lazy girl through and through and anything I can use to make my life and routine easier is an instant essential in my collection. Often the problem with multi-purpose products is that they fail in some aspect that they claim to assist with, however this is not the case with this product! It really delivers a on all three aspects exceptionally well!





SKIN TREATMENT

As a skincare product, this lightweight tinted cream treats puffiness, sagging skin, dark circles, and lines and wrinkles. I must agree with most of these claims that apply to my eye area because as you dot it onto the eye area, you instantly feel a cooling and depuffing sensation. As you spread the product a bit with the metal tip applicator, your skin will feel soothed. It really feels more like an eye treatment than a makeup product! After 5 minutes or so, my eye area looks much less puffy, it looks and feels smooth, and the darkness is covered up!

SUN PROTECTION

While many of us apply daily sunscreen, we often don't think about our eye area, which has the thinnest layer of skin! This is why this area is one of the first places people show signs of aging, on top of that, people often don't use sun protection on this area. The problem with using traditional sunscreens near the eye area is that it often causes irritation, watery eyes, or even burning from the chemicals. Colorscience uses physical sunscreen ingredients that don't irritate the eye area but still protect it incredibly well! I love that someone has finally come out with a sun protection for the eye area and the best part is that it isn't an extra step in my daily routine because it is incorporated into my concealer/corrector!

CORRECTOR

This cream comes in a universal light peach shade that helps correct for darkness and discoloration. Peach tones help correct shadowing and darkness without causing an ashy look in those darker areas. Instead, it corrects and brightens the dark areas very well! The color is very brightening but not too light, for my medium skin tone, however I expect this will be too light for deep skin tones. The texture is very lightweight and a gel-cream texture. It reminds me a lot of the texture of the YSL Touch Eclat but more gel-like. It spreads and blends into the skin very easily and provides a really good coverage. I find I don't need any additional concealer when I use this product. The product is quite hydrating and for those who are crease-prone, I recommend setting the product immediately. I find after I set the product, it stays put and it doesn't crease throughout the day. Another tip for preventing under eye products from creasing is making sure you really push the product into the skin, using a beauty sponge really helps with this. The product is very brightening and gives my under eyes a healthy glow and freshness which I can always appreciate when I'm plagued with insomnia.

I can't recommend this product enough! Seriously, this is one of the BEST product to hit my vanity in a long time! I haven't really changed my under eye concealer in a long time and I don't often experiment with mew products for that area but after trying this Renewal Eye Therapy, I think I have found my new favorite under eye product! The light texture and finish covers and corrects my darkness with looking or feeling heavy. It brightens and brings a much needed freshness to my tired eyes in the morning. Plus you really feel the treatment depuffing and hydrating the eye area! I love the inclusion of the high SPF to protect and prevent damage to my eye area! With the warmer months quickly approaching, I think this product is an essential for everyone. It makes it easy to protect your eye area while you treat and correct it!

Review | Colorescience All Calm Clinical Redness Corrector

Do you struggle with chronic redness or irritation? Are you wearing a full coverage foundation or heavy concealer to hide the redness? Then you need to read this! 

While my skin doesn't have heavy irritation or redness on the majority of my face, I have struggled a long time with finding something to conceal the broken capillaries and redness around my nose. I also have, some random broken capillaries on the area just under my cheeks but above my jawline. It seems like my skin is more translucent or something there. Also, with my dry skin, I am more prone to redness as the weather changes. When Colorescience reached out to me about trying this product, I was very excited. 

Colorscience is actually a local brand to me, located in the San Diego County, I am always down to support a local brand! Their beauty philosophy combines science with cosmetics, focusing on protecting and treating the skin. One of their popular products is their portable sunscreen. 

The Colorescience All Calm Clinical Redness Corrector retails for $120.00 USD for 1fl. oz and is available at Colorescience. The packaging is very utilitarian. It is meant to be functional not to be a show piece on your vanity. The plastic bottle is very sturdy and seems to be double-layered. I took this with me on my travels and it traveled very well. The pump is very easy to control and manage the amount of product being dispensed. Yes, the price may be a bit shocking but this product provides skincare benefits, as well as, the incredible effect it has on your makeup application! 

The product is a fairly pigmented mousse that feels a thick but as you blend the product into your skin, it sheers out a bit. The color is a light beige with a greenish tint to it but you really hardly tell. I find this shade will work well for fair to medium skin tones but the more tan you are, it will look a bit ashy but it will not effect your look much, if you are going to wear a foundation or base product over it. While the product initially feels thick, it feels very light on the skin. I like to apply this product with my fingers, ensuring an even application. This product makes an amazing primer for makeup! It evens out skin tone, neutralizes redness, and provides a little bit of coverage. I recommend starting with very little, about a peas size, and working in sections because the product does spread out and can end up being a lot more than you'd expect.  

Like I had mentioned before, I have redness around my nose and around my cheeks but I have also noticed after I have used a peel or intense mask, my skin can look quite splotchy and red the next day. This product is perfect for that! 

My makeup applies beautifully over this product! I love to apply many sheer and light layers to achieve my base, this has been a game-changer in my routine because it really helps cover any discoloration without adding a thick or heavy layer on my skin. It also seems to even out texture and even controls some oil because I once tried wearing it without powdering my skin at all and it seemed to hold my makeup on for a long time without extreme oil breakthrough! My skin is on the drier side but I can see this being an excellent base for oily skin types. 

The most important component of this product is in its skincare and redness reduction technology. This product is not only supposed to reduce redness and irritation during use but long-term after prolonged use! I haven't experienced any major inflammation or irritation so I cannot vouch for this technology but it is certainly very promising for those sensitive and acne prone skin! This product will soothe and calm all those skin conditions! 

This product also contains SPF50 which is something I both like and dislike. I love that it contains a high SPF because then I don't have to worry about an extra layer of product on my skin. Also, my skin will be very protected with such a high SPF, which is why I took it with me on my trip to Las Vegas. The reason why I dislike this, is that I LOVE this product and I would want to wear it day or night! With a high SPF, it will have a very strong flashback in photos! I would have liked to see this without the SPF, so it can be more versatile because individuals who suffer from redness will want to use this product for more than just daytime wear. 

Overall, I adore this product and I don't even have big issues with redness. The product just makes such a great tinted primer and it helps me achieve a flawless look without a heavy look or feeling. I never noticed how splotchy my skin can look, until I have day without this product as a primer. This is a product I would definitely purchase after I finish this bottle, it is must have for all skin types! You will be shocked at how perfected your makeup looks over this product! Plus it is weightless and it has skincare benefits! While it is very expensive, the product works like a dream and a little product goes a very long way!