How to Get Rid of Tired Looking Face: Allure’s Editor Picks Astara Daily Refining Scrub

Last Friday, I had a fan­tas­tic night out at Pacifica doing bowl­ing, and I didn’t get home till late. With all that excite­ment, I did not have a rest­ful sleep, and woke up at 7am in the morn­ing. What can make your skin look old and dull faster than late night and lack of sleep? And with all this extra time in the morn­ing, I decided to try prod­ucts from Astara Skincare.

Astara Refining Face Scrub

I first cleansed my face with Astara’s Daily Refining Scrub.  The Daily Refining Scrub is Allure’s Editor’s Pick and 2 oz size for $18.  This scrub exfo­li­ates with nat­ural ingre­di­ents, oxy­genates the skin and was gen­tle on my face.   The scrub has very fine exfo­liants and I love its slightly cit­rus smell    Then, I sprayed the Blue Flame Purifying Toning Mist (which is per­fect for my com­bi­na­tion skin).  The ton­ing mist has the scent of laven­der and imme­di­ately reminded me of the Jurlique Lotion (you know, dif­fer­ent prod­ucts have dif­fer­ent scent of Lavender for some reasons).

The Nourishing Vitamin Mask

Since I was tired from last night, I decided nour­ish­ing is what I needed!   So I applied the Nourishing Vitamin Mask, which came in a delight­ful glass jar.  It claims to revi­tal­ize tired, dry and dull skin.  It had the con­sis­tency of yogurt, and a lovely, sweet scent of apples. Yum!  It spread eas­ily on my face. As a yogurt mask, it didn’t dry like a clay mask so I could not tell when it was time to wash it off.  The instruc­tions said 5 — 20 min­utes, which to me seems to mean “as soon as you get bored”.  I mean, that’s a pretty wide range of time, isn’t it? I waited for around 18 min and took it off, for I was eager to see the results.  

Astara Nourishing Vitamin Mask

Immediately after wash­ing it off, I could feel the dif­fer­ence.   The mask helped me get rid of my tired look­ing face.  My skin feels hydrated, as if there’s a film of water around it (no exag­ger­a­tion).  The scrub ear­lier also have left my skin smoother, and I can­not help pok­ing  my own face It feels so bouncy and elas­tic and firm, like a baby’s face. I am happy with the result, and when I was get­ting ready later on in the day, I could see my skin glow and I don’t even have to put on foun­da­tion at all! (Extra points for that, eh?)  My skin was brighter and it looked like I had a great night’s sleep, and on top of them it has the eve­ness from foun­da­tion.  Isn’t that amaz­ing? But wait, there’s more. When I met up with Mr. H and his friends, the first thing he said was, “Wow, you look dif­fer­ent today. What did you do?”

“Secret.”

Key Ingredients:
Organic Aloe Vera Leaf Juice, Soy Phospholipids, Pine, Golden Seal, Sodium PCA, Royal Jelly, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hyaluronic Acid, Beta Glucans, Wheat Amino Acids, Vitamin C.

Splurge: Treat your­self at $35 for 1.3 oz.

Pros:

• Natural ingre­di­ents, no parabens, lots of healthy nat­ural fruits and oils (you want to eat it!)
• Get rid of that tired look­ing face.  Helps after jet­lagged for a bright, refreshed, no makeup look.
• The pack­ag­ing is sim­ple, no non­sense with a glass jar.

Cons:

• A bit pricey

Review from our Super Shimz ValleyGurlFrmHell

We sent out another mask from Astara, the Activated Sea Mineral Mask for ValleyGurlFrmHell to review.  She loved it so much so even try it on her husband!

To Risa (MakeupByRisa), we sent her the nour­ish­ing vit­a­min mask too, of which she men­tioned, “it is golden”, and green papaya nutri­ent mask. This is about all the skin­care prod­uct that she used. Astara masks start at 5:47.

About Astara Skincare

Founded by Sunny Griffin,  (an ex super­model, jour­nal­ist and beauty exec­u­tive), Astara Skincare  is a raw, botan­i­cal, and ener­gized skin­care line based on the phi­los­o­phy that opti­mal health and skin nutri­tion can be achieved by not only the intake of proper nour­ish­ment but also achieve younger skin health by only using prod­ucts using the high­est qual­ity botan­i­cals, nutri­tion based for­mu­la­tions, holis­tic sys­tem of treat­ments and results dri­ven for­mu­la­tions.  Celebrities that use her prod­ucts include Mena Suvari, Hugh Jackman, Padma Lakshmi, Liv Taylor and Molly Simms.