- Hi, I'm Parris, and for the last couple months
I've been playing with my hair color
with a gray reducing shampoo, in some videos.
People have been really interested in that,
and apparently it's actually made
my apparent age look different.
So I thought, next to hair color,
what's the one thing, when people see that,
that they judge your age by,
and I'm pretty sure number two on the list is wrinkles.
So, went over to my local Walgreen's
and said what have you got for men and wrinkles,
for wrinkly men?
So they recommended most highly, two products.
One is L'oreal's Men Expert Vita Lift
Anti-Wrinkle and Firming.
The other is Neutrogena Men Age Fighter,
sounds pretty manly.
Today is the first day I'm gonna be giving these a try,
explain a little about how they work.
What I understand, is really the only ingredient in them
that will probably do anything for the wrinkles,
and I'll do a one week follow up,
two week follow up, and one month follow up to see.
Cause I'm gonna use these every day,
or at least however it says in the instructions,
to see what it can do about the wrinkles
right around my eyes.
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L'oreal Men Expert Vita Lift does have retinol in it.
As well as their special ingredients,
that will help to moisturize your skin
and to make it look younger.
This product doesn't have sunscreen in it,
so it's advertised as a daily moisturizer.
The 1.6 ounce container inside goes for about $12,
I'll link to this, down below the video.
And Neutrogena Men Age Fighter also has retinol in it,
but this product includes a sunscreen,
so in addition to helping, supposedly,
repair some previous skin damage, like wrinkles,
contributed to, perhaps, by UV exposure.
This one has sunscreen in it, SPF 15,
so it'll help you from picking up any more.
The 1.4 ounces in this tube goes for about $16,
and I'll also link to this down below the video.
Now other than applying sunscreen when going to the pool,
or the beach, or going out for a day hiking,
I've never applied any moisturizer, wrinkle cream,
or night cream, or any of those things to my face.
Pretty much throughout most of my life,
I've had lots of UV exposure,
and I have the skin to show that.
If I could do it all again, I would protect my skin better,
especially in my 20's, I was really into white water
rafting, back in Washington state,
every weekend out on the water and so many sunburns.
But that was then and this is now,
so the question is, is there any after the fact
thing you can do, once you've damaged your skin.
Well, there's some products that claim
that's what they can do.
These two are specifically for men,
women have been using products like this for a long time,
and really I think the only difference between
these newer men's products and the traditional women's
products is the scents that they've added.
The women's products smell, I don't know rosey or something.
Now let's take a look at what they claim
they can do on the package, and I'll tell you about
the only thing in either of these,
as I understand it, will really make
any change in those lines on my face.
Another way to not look older, don't wear reading glasses.
So, the Neutrogena for men, face moisturizer with sunscreen,
retinol, multi-vitamins, clinically proven to reduce
the look of lines, wrinkles, and helps prevent sunburn.
So it's gonna reduce the look of lines and wrinkles.
Well does that mean they don't go away?
How does it reduce the look of them?
Now, the L'oreal Men Expert Vita Lift Daily Moisturizing
Cream, says it helps with the five signs of aging.
In fact it says fights the five signs of aging,
wrinkles, loss of firmness,
sagging, roughness, dryness.
So those are the five signs of aging, in men I guess.
This formula combines pro-retinol and par elastyl,
two anti-wrinkle, and anti-sagging ingredients,
to provide anti-aging action.
Fights the appearance of sagging on the face and neck.
Do I have that, I don't even know
what I should be worrying about.
Visibly reduces the appearance of wrinkles.
Again, reduces the appearance,
doesn't say it actually gets rid of the wrinkles.
The L'oreal also has no further instructions included,
but the device itself is kind of cool looking.
It looks like a deodorant stick to me,
for those hard to reach wrinkles under the arms, maybe.
Thinking how expensive this is per molecule,
this is not very oily, but easy to spread cream.
There we go.
Looks pretty similar.
This is the Neutrogena, this is the L'oreal.
Just a little bit of a cream,
oh, this has got something else going on,
the L'oreal, but the Neutrogena,
really there's no smell other than just it smells
like it's a little bit of cream.
I'm not sure what the scent is in this,
oh, the peppermint, that's right.
For my, to reduce my razor burn.
Alright, closer than you wanted to see me,
and than I wanted to be seen.
The Neutrogena Men's is gonna go on the right eye,
around where I have the wrinkles,
and then the L'oreal here, and as you can see,
well it's easy to see how the wrinkles form,
it's obviously where the skin does that,
when you squint or when you close your eyes.
This is the Neutrogena, I'm not sure how much to use,
I assume like a little pea sized amount,
I guess it depends on how much skin you need to cover.
And since it's expensive you want it
to last as long as possible.
I fear I have used far too much.
Maybe a half pea will work.
I wonder if this ever soaks in,
or I'm gonna look like this for a while.
We'll see if that soaks in,
I have a similar amount of the L'oreal,
I figure I better use just as much,
maybe when you use more, you get more results.
Gonna overdo it here, but next time
I'll know to use a little bit less.
Probably enough to cover my whole face.
Well the Neutrogena's kind of soaked in a little,
at least doesn't look like I just applied a whole bunch
of sunscreen, but it's still got a little bit
of that shiny-ness to it.
I think the L'oreal's the same, it's soaking in,
and not leaving the white cream
on the surface of the face anymore.
Well, am I looking younger yet?
Supposed to take a few weeks to see results,
I think I've read in some reviews online,
that it's at least a couple weeks before you start
to see anything with the Neutrogena,
and it'd be closer to a month for the L'oreal.
But I will use both of these on the,
I'll keep track of which eye we put them on, and not in,
and do this twice a day, and give you the follow ups,
again at one week, two weeks, and at a month,
and you can compare them, I'll grab screenshots
from this video, and put them side by side
with what you'll see in a month.
See if it's reduced the appearance of wrinkles.
I saw an expose on the wrinkle cream industry
a few years back, and their conclusion was,
it was only the retinol that had any observable effect
on wrinkles, in any of these products.
Doesn't matter whether you're spending $10 a tube,
or 50, or 100, the retinol is what's doing the work.
You can find out more about both these products
at the links down below this video.
I will continue to use them until they've had
a fair chance to have some effect.
Then I'll stop using them, and see
how long it takes before the effect wears off.
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See you, perhaps with fewer wrinkles, on the next review.
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