New Luxury Beauty Serum from ELLE

ELLE sent me a product and a letter earlier this month and I was over the moon because it was such a cute little surprise. The product was a ‘new luxury beauty serum’ unfortunately I have no idea what brand it was from because that’ll be revealed later what I do know is that the product is not actually on shelves yet or it is now but wasn’t received it.

The Promise: ‘The gel-serum is supposed to instantly firm, lift and plump the skin to make it look smoother, tighter and more youthful.’

The Packaging: It came in a really cute bottle but I must say it did remind me a lot of my Chemistry lessons back when I was in school as some of them chemicals did come in a similar form. Back to the product, the bottle itself was quite simple. I assume that the actual serum will have a label on it but as it’s a ‘secret’, I’m not too sure what the labelling will look like.

The Applicator: Most serums come with either a pump or a pipette- both would dispense the product pretty well but I think using a pipette is much more entertaining and ‘cooler’. The pipette for this particular serum is at a slight angle at the tip of the pipette – this is quite similar to the Bobbi Brown Serum applicator (which I have not used before I just came across it), I'm not too sure why that is but one day I'll find out.

The Product: I thought this serum would be too thick on the skin because it was a ‘gel’ but I was so completely wrong. I put 2 – 3 drops on my hand and then used my finger to massage it onto my forehead, cheeks, nose and chin HOWEVER this absorbs into the skin so incredibly fast that I was genuinely thrown back with surprise. It absorbs into your skin before you can blink. So I actually changed the way of how I applied it – I find that you’d get better application patting the product into your face rather that massaging.

The Scent: The smell of a product is so important and I had no reason to complain when using this. At first I couldn’t quite pinpoint what this sweet smell was…it was so beautiful. I worked it out though (with help) – Rose water, I don’t know if this product has rose water components within it but if it does that's awesome because rose water does weird and wonderful things to the skin. I strongly recommend Rose water products to everyone because of the advantages it has (I would have to make a completely new post on that if I were to say more).

The Result: I’ve already said that it absorbs into the skin at lightening speed so after 30 minutes I literally just when ahead and touched my face and it was so smooth, the product makes your skin visibly clearer and gives it a much more healthy glow, which I’ve been needing recently due to my long work hours. After the (somewhat) 6-hour mark my skin was still super smooth so I already loved the product. 

As my skin is ‘quite young’ I can’t really comment on the firming and lifting aspect as there isn’t a lot to be made firmer or lifted but I did like how my skin felt after I used the serum. The statistics do however state that '83% of woman said their skin felt firmer 30 minutes after application and 90% said their skin felt firmer after 6 hours' in addition to this '87% of woman said their skin felt more lifted 30 minutes after application and this remained at 87% after 6 hours'.

I haven’t always been a serum girl because I’ve always believed that serums would make my face oilier - which probably isn’t true. I know for a fact that I have an oily T-Zone – I hate it; so I actually avoid putting too many layers of products on my face. However, this product cancels out all my fear because I can use both serum and moisturiser and walla, I don’t have that oily face I feared off.

I don’t have any complaints about the product as of yet but I’m definitely going to finish using the product up, until the last droplet and if by the end of the bottle it’s become a crucial part of my routine then I will most definitely invest in some…(unless Christmas leaves me broke).

Thank you for reading & Merry Christmas.

P.S. 5 sleeps till Christmas

- UPDATE - 

The Luxury Beauty Serum is from REN, and it is their new Keep Young and Beautiful™ Firming and Smoothing Serum, I was right. It does have extracts of Rose water in it and also it costs £46 but I think it's probably worth its price because other ELLE insiders have said that it tightens their skin and lifts it - as I said before my skin is actually quite young so I wouldn't be able to comment on this aspect.