With Helen Siwak
Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, a life of one long summer. A never-ending sun-kissed journey of nibbling berry tarts at quaint picnics, twirling in lace summer dresses, careless ocean frolicking, and falling asleep watching beautiful sunsets. Well…WAKE-UP! That is but a dream, and right now your sunny summer vacation is taking its toll on your skin and hair.
In the real world, the summer months can derail our daily routines, and though it will be hard to say goodbye to the good times, it is not hard to get back on track with this month’s recommendations for your après travel repair and rejuvenation.
The summer sun is a notorious gift-giver and not the desired kind with a blue box and bow! The Silk’n ReVit Microdermabrasion Device is available for a little under a $100 and is the ideal tool to combat those small creases that have ‘suddenly’ appeared around your eyes. This sleek tool combines gentle exfoliation with vacuum stimulation. Use weekly to blur age spots, irregularities in the skin, and acne scars.
Available at Shoppers Drug Mart
This Sachajuan hair-repair line is enriched with Ocean Silk Technology. If your summer travel is not over yet, these three easy-to-pack products will repair and remoisturize your sun-damaged hair while you are on-the-go, and leave it with a silky shine, vitality, and strength.
The Sachajuan Moisturizing Shampoo & Conditioner combination is explicitly designed to rehydrate dry, bleached, coloured, or highlighted hair. The shampoo restores moisture in dry and chemically lightened hair, and the conditioner is an intense moisturizer for damaged and frizzy hair.
Available at Leisure Center, 950 Homer Street
Forever innovating, Estée Lauder revolutionizes once again with their new Advanced Night Repair Intensive Recovery Ampoules. Each recovery concentrate is a precision dose ampoule offers rapid relief to your over-stressed skin. These powerful micro-dose ampoules help address all types of irritation (salt-water, sunshine, dehydration) that cause premature signs of aging.
This has definitely been the summer of the eye mask! If you are obsessed with the soothing and relaxing ritual of the mask, you will quickly fall in love with this Estée Lauder concentrated recovery eye mask. This new product left my eye area feeling cool and refreshed. Eyes looked more rested, and fine lines plumped.
Available at Hudson’s Bay
Sized to tuck perfectly into your handbag for overnight flights, Chanel’s Hydra Beauty Masque au Camellia is a hydrating oxygenating mask that will help conquer skin fatigue as you fly. With a gentle scent and containing Chanel’s highest concentration of Coco’s signature Camellia flowers, this little tube is packed with power.
With only 5 drops, Chanel’s Hydra Beauty Micro Liquid Essence is the first hydrating and energizing liquid essence produced with Camellia micro-droplets in combination with glycerin and hyaluronic acid. Free from alcohol and surfactants, it is suitable for even the most demanding and damaged skin.
Available at Holt Renfrew
At the end of the day, it is true that a powerful lippy can cure what ails you! The semi-matte Givenchy Le Rouge 2018 Couture Edition Lipstick is the one stroke wonder that saturates your lips in plush, opulent colour that lasts and lasts, without fading or feathering.
Available at Holt Renfrew
Blemishes and sun-spots the results of too much time poolside? Try Givenchy’s iconic Prisme Libre loose powder in shade N°1 Mousseline Pastel. Packaged in a black and multicolored floral case, this powder features a fusion of four complementary shades that together create a colour-correcting finish for natural, unified, and enhanced skin. Limited 2018 Couture Edition.
Available at Holt Renfrew
