The Body Shop recently introduced two new products to their Vitamin C product range – the Glow Boosting Moisturiser and the Instant Glow Enhancer. With a pleasant orange scent and glow boosting properties, it’s easy to see why the Vitamin C lineup is so popular.
I’m a very skeptical person when it comes to skincare – if I can’t see immediate results, then I often feel it doesn’t do anything at all (unless it breaks me out, in which case it definitely did something WRONG!). But I keep reaching for these two products, so that means that there’s something about them that I quite like.
The Vitamin C Glow Boosting Moisturiser is designed to moisturize dull, tired and grumpy skin. As you’d expect from the Vitamin C line, it has a wonderful citrusy-orange scent which has certainly worked wonders to perk me up in the morning. It might be a silly booster, but that scent DOES work to refresh you in the morning after a late night of watching Netflix.
The texture of the moisturizer is similar to a gel in the sense that it doesn’t feel creamy – it’s more slippery and smooth. Thankfully, I don’t experience that weird cracking feeling like I do with a lot of gel moisturizers (anyone else? I feel tightness on my face after I wear a gel moisturizer, although it typically disappears within a few minutes.) It dries down quickly and leaves my skin feeling… plump. Saturated, maybe? Whatever the word, my skin definitely feel hydrated.
The Vitamin C Instant Glow Enhancer is intended to revitalize your skin and give it a rosy tint. (I don’t understand how orange = rosy, but anyway…) It doesn’t specifically say it’s a primer, or a self tanner, just that it’s intended to perk your skin up.
There’s no way around it, the colour of the Instant Glow Enhancer is straight up orange and I was terrified to use it. My first attempt was not a success: I made the mistake of not blending the product in enough under my makeup and ended up with an orange chunk that eventually peeled off. Delicious, right?
My second and third attempts were much better. Once blended in entirely, it feels a bit tacky, but then dries down within a minute to a very, VERY smooth finish. I found it reacted differently depending on which foundation I used. With the new Make Up For Ever UltraHD foundation I got fairly oily/shiny within about six hours. With the Boots No7 Instant Radiance foundation I had a lot less oil. But did I notice a different in my skin colour? Not at all. This disappeared completely into the skin (when blended in properly) and didn’t add any of the promised rosy-ness I was expecting.
Final Thoughts
Although the Instant Glow Enhancer doesn’t really DO anything at all on my skin, it’s still fun to use. Is it worth your money though? Probably not, but I’d still recommend getting a sample of it and trying it out for yourself.
The Glow Boosting Moisturiser is a different story though! This beautiful pot of orange goodness hydrates my skin, picks me up in the morning with the wonderful scent and is fun to use (aren’t all gelatinous moisturizers??). The smell is so pleasing that it’s actually made me reach for my Satsuma Body Butter more and more just so I can get that added bit of orange scent on my skin. Love!
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