La Mer the Concentrate (part 1) : eBay Guides

The purpose of this multi-part guide is to discuss how La Mer concentrate affects the skin on the right side of my face. My normal regimen (twice daily) is gentle cleanser, followed by benzoyl peroxide gel on T zone and then a moisturizer (SPF in morning, non-SPF at night). I continued my normal routine with the left side of my face and added the La Mer concentrate around my eye area, upper cheek, and laugh line on the right side of my face (right before moisturizing). This part of the guide will discuss the beginning of this experiment. The latter parts will chronicle the progress of the concentrate. I got my hands on travel size containers of the La Mer best sellers. I've seen many reviews, many of them negative, about Creme de La Mer, but it seems to be the gold standard of beauty creams so after reading the upteenth magazine article casually discussing how nothing is as good as La Mer, my curiosity was piqued. In my sample bag were travel size containers of Creme de La Mer, the lotion, the concentrate and the eye concentrate. Although it is the Creme de La Mer that is the most famous product, I decided to try the concentrate first because it boasts itself as the concentrated form of the active ingredients in the cream. If this stuff really works, I thought, then the concentrate should show visible results in a few weeks' time. I took a good look at my 34-year-old, non-smoking, Filipina face and saw that my skin is pretty good considering its age: a myriad of light wrinkles and a couple of creases around the eyes, some noticeable pores and some age spots. I tried to figure out which side was worse so that I can try the concentrate on that side, but they were both pretty equal. I decided on the right side of my face because I'm right-handed and it would be easier. I didn't think anything was going to happen. I thought the whole legend of La Mer was a crock of doo doo. But after a single application during my nighttime regimen, I started to doubt myself. My skin actually had a positive reaction to the product. It felt better and it *felt* better (as in it felt good to the touch and it felt well). But it often reacts this way to really expensive products so I reserved judgment. The next morning, I added it to my morning regimen. Then I stared into the mirror and, lo and behold, I did notice a change. The right side of my face was missing all the light wrinkles from my nose to my eye, the pores were much smaller in size, number and depth than the pores on the left, and my laugh line was diminished. Could this be possible? This is only the second application. I told my friend that I'm trying La Mer on one side of my face and asked her to guess which one. I smiled to create wrinkles and she said the right side. I asked another friend, same answer. A third friend confirmed. A fourth said the left, but it was in a darkened room. When the lights were better, he changed his mind. All of these friends were amazed at the difference between the right and left side of my face. They wonder if this rate of regeneration will continue. I'm at four applications now and am not seeing much more improvement, but it is continuing to do its thing. I've started to add the concentrate to a knee that has a scar from a scab that healed badly last year. I'm going to keep going until the sample is out. I'll keep you all posted, but I'm starting to think the legend is real.