Guest Review: SkinCeuticals Eye Renewing Gel

Hey girls, I'll take the chance to apologise for not blogging of late. This job I have is killing me. I've typed so much today I'm developing CPT in my left wrist. And I'm even now, typing with my eyes closed. Things should ease up in a few weeks, but for now it's rather tough going. I'll try to keep posting about once or twice a week though. Yay for Syen!

Anyway, here's another great review by the intrepid Australian explorer, Eli. The way I'm working now, I'll probably need this miracle eye gel myself soon!

I am 22 with the eyes of a 60 year old.

Dark eye circles run amok in my dad’s family. He has them, his siblings have them – even my 10 year old cousin has them. The fact that I suffer from insomnia just makes my panda eyes worse.

I had grown resigned to the dark circles until I looked in the mirror a few months ago and realised that I had wrinkles under my eyes. Not fine lines, mind you, but deep set wrinkles. My dark circles had kept me from noticing them earlier.

I freaked out right there and then. After much deliberation on MUA, I ended up ordering this from Strawberrynet.

And it works.

The label on the bottle says that this Eye Renewal Gel is a “night time line-minimising treatment for the eye area.” It works by exfoliating the eye area to smooth out the lines and the active ingredient in this is either 5% BHA or a 5% blend of AHA and BHA – I tossed out the leaflet so I am relying on my memory here.

The product is described as a gel but it is more of a liquid than anything else. It comes packaged in a glass bottle with a dropper, making it easy to control how much of the product one wishes to use. I find a drop more than enough for both eyes and it is quite easy to apply.

I love this stuff. Within 2 weeks, the faint lines had disappeared. A few months later, the deep lines are slowly fading out. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the lines will be mostly gone by Christmas.

It also lifted my dark circles a little but not by very much.

A bottle lasts for ages since you only need to use a drop a day. Some MUA-ers use this during the day time as well but I don’t want to overdo it. Also, this is not a moisturiser so you might have to use a moisturiser on top of this. I don’t really bother using an eye moisturiser on top – the liquid takes about 10-20 minutes to dry – but I do dab on moisturiser in the morning because I dry out if I don’t.

I didn’t experience any stinging with this product but I read some complaints on MUA about it. This may not be for you if your skin is especially sensitive.

Grouses about this product? I wish that the bottle wasn’t made of glass. I quite like the little dropper but I keep worrying that it will break while travelling. Oh, and it stings if you get it into your eye by accident. I nearly pawed my eye out when it happened.

I picked this up from Strawberrynet for AUD 26 but the price has gone up now to US 34 ~ AUD 33.50. It sells out quite quickly on Strawberrynet but they restock this item every 2 weeks or so, its just a matter of waiting.