But I'm gonna help you get the real honest truth
about these products.
Hi guys, welcome back to the Adore Beauty YouTube channel.
If you wanna to find out if the products
that celebs reckon are worth the money
are actually worth your money,
keep watching this video because we are going to go through
seven celeb approved skincare products
and my honest thoughts on them.
A little bit of a disclaimer
before we jump right into the recommendations,
you wanna take celebrity skincare recommendations
with a grain of salt, for a few reasons.
A: they have probably a lot more disposable income
than you or I, so they can literally afford to spend money
on whatever skincare takes their fancy.
They also have access to the best in the biz
when it comes to facials, skin treatments,
cosmetic treatments, dermatologists,
all of that kind of stuff, that costs a lot of money
that the average person doesn't have.
Celebrities often work with brands too,
so if you read something about a celebrity
loving a certain product,
I would always go and check their Instagram,
see if they're actually a Brand Ambassador for that brand,
or, if it's just an off the cuff recommendation.
It doesn't mean that they don't love it,
but it just gives a broader context to the recommendation.
And last but not least,
a celeb might actually not have the same skin type
or skin concerns as you,
so, when you're picking your skincare,
you always wanna go with what's gonna work for your skin,
your skin type, your skin concerns,
as well as working within your budget.
Now, onto these celebrity skin recommendations.
First cab off the rank,
we have the Cosmedix Purity Clean Exfoliating Cleanser.
This guy is actually comes recommended
by Victoria Beckham, AK Posh Spice.
Posh said that "Australian skin therapist
Melanie Grant suggests I use Cosmedix to cleanse
with every morning and night.
And I'm loving it."
This product, as the name suggests,
is an exfoliating cleanser.
It contains lactic acid,
so it's a very gentle form of AHA, Alpha Hydroxy Acid,
chemical exfoliation.
This is the kind of product that if you have oily skin,
if you're prone to blackheads,
if you're prone to congestion,
you can swap this cleanser in to your routine
just to kind of amp up your exfoliation.
Victoria Beckham has excellent taste
because this is a delightful cleanser.
Woo, it's an orange green, orange green?
It's a fluorescent kind of foresty,
beautiful aqua green, light gel consistency,
kind of looks a bit like slime, does it not?
Which we will come to a more slimy
celeb skincare recommendation a bit later in the video.
Lather it in, let it sit for a bit to do its job
and then rinse it off.
Smells like toothpaste or mouthwash,
that's because it's got tea tree and peppermint in it.
Now this is a very lovely, amazing, effective,
gentle exfoliating cleanser.
That's a mouthful, but is it worth $74
for this 150 mil pump?
It is a big pump,
so this will get you through
but if you're on a budget
there are more affordable options.
I would suggest the Skinstitut Lactic Acid Cleanser
which is about half the price
but that's not to say that Posh's cleanser isn't good,
it is, but there are more affordable options
if you're interested.
Next up in our celeb skincare wrap up is this guy
and as you can see, oh, I don't know if you can see,
this is one of my personal favourites.
So the SkinCeutical's Hydrating B5 Gel
is actually a recommendation that comes from Sam Smith.
So in their Vogue YouTube video, they said, and I quote,
"This is my favourite thing of all time.
It's amazing and you can just feel your skin drinking it."
I would have to agree with Sam,
as I said this is one of my all time favourite serums,
it's pricey, $137 for 30 mils.
This product is loaded with the vitamin B5,
also known as Panthenol,
it just helps to support your skin barrier.
As you can see, I'm actually not gonna put this
on my skin, 'cause I don't wanna waste any of it,
'cause I need to save it for my face.
It's $137.
But it's a very light, clear water-based,
super silky hydrating serum.
Are there other options at different price points?
100%, Medik8 have their B5 serum or their B5 intense.
So those are both under $100
but I'm obsessed with this serum.
If my opinion means anything to you.
Well worth the money.
On the complete opposite end of the pricing spectrum,
we have one of The Ordinary's
best-selling vitamin A serums.
This one is the Granactive Retinoid 2% emulsion.
Which celebrity allegedly loves it?
Well, Kim Kardashian did post about this product
on her app back in the day,
whether she uses it now,
who knows?
This product has a concentration of 2% Granactive retinoid,
on our vitamin A spectrum
of least effective but least irritating
to most effective and most hectic,
Granactive retinoids sits right down this side.
It's a really gentle form of Vitamin A,
it's very stable and non-irritating,
for that reason Granactive retinoid products
are great for retinoid beginners.
This product is, look it's 17.90,
I don't know if you can see, it's still very silky.
Gosh, I'm doing an excellent job.
But is this serum at 17.90 going to give you
the same results as one that's say $179?
Probably not in my opinion,
but if you are looking for something that is affordable
and you're new to active skincare,
you wanna give a retinoid or Vitamin A product a try,
there's not really much to lose with this one.
Number four is this brown glass and gold bottle
that probably looks a little bit familiar.
It's the Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair
also known as the ANR serum.
Now who loves this? Liz Hurley.
So Liz Hurley told Vogue UK that she's been
using this product twice a day for 20 years.
And essentially this is just a lovely,
really inoffensive hydrating serum.
The texture is super silky,
it has a very light, subtle, fresh scent.
You're looking at $110 for a 30 mil bottle of this.
And essentially it's a day and night serum
that's meant to intensely hydrate the skin
which in turn can help
reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
and other signs of ageing.
But it's important to note, there is no Vitamin A
in this serum, which is kind of the gold standard
of anti-aging ingredients.
I think it's lovely.
Are there probably more bang for your buck
anti-aging skincare products on the market?
Yes, but if you have the means to spend,
it is a glorious product, it's very iconic,
it has a heritage feel to it.
It also just looks very chic, so you do you.
Okay, now we've come to the slime.
This product is the
COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence,
COSRX is an amazing Korean skincare brand.
This one's loved by Emily Ratajkowski.
She actually said on Instagram
that she was using this to help with her stressed out skin.
What is it?
You probably might've heard me say snail before.
Look, there's no other way to say it,
it's snail giz.
This product is made up of 96% snail excretion.
What they do is they get the snails
and they basically have the snails spend some time
in a snail spa.
They get them really relaxed,
there's probably some nice music playing,
maybe a bit of aromatherapy,
gets them all relaxed
and then they excrete this stuff
and then they filter it and the snails don't filter it,
I presumably that's where the human beings come in.
They filter it, pop it in this
and the result is like an intensely hydrating,
you know, skin barrier, protecting essence, I guess.
It is super slimy, super thick,
scent-wise it's very fresh,
again, kind of that clinical scent.
It's so silky, but also sticky
and it just sits on the skin
and I guess if there's a product that's gonna
make your skin instantly look like juicy, dewy, creature,
it's gonna be this product.
Even on the skin now you can see how glowy
that is making my skin look.
I'm losing props here.
If you wanna read more about this product,
I did write a Beauty IQ article
on it and some other really cool Korean skincare launches.
I'll pop that down here and you can read it.
So it kind of goes on after cleansing
and before any other serums or moisturisers,
essences are a very popular step in Korean skincare,
38 bucks for 100ml.
You really only need one pump.
This bottle will last you bloody forever.
Would I use it?
I don't know.
It takes a while to get used to the texture
but if you can get passed the stickiness
and just lean into the juiciness and the plumpness
then it's a very great product.
Number six is a product you have probably seen
on Instagram lately
because it is a cult French skincare product
that has just come back into stock finally.
It sells out every time we have it,
but it's the Embryolisse,
Oh gosh, I'm gonna just absolutely fudge this pronunciation.
Lait Creme Concentre
Look, it's the Embryolisse moisturiser.
It's $42 for a 75 mil tube.
I mean, this one has actually been heralded
as a celeb favourite for years.
One example is Elle Macpherson.
She told Who What Wear that is a no-nonsense,
good quality cream.
And I think that kind of just sums it up.
The texture is actually quite silky
but it feels very kind of comforting
and substantial when it goes on the skin
and for this reason, makeup artists love using it
as almost like a priming moisturiser
before applying foundation.
It does take a while to sink in,
oh, my hands are really getting the Royal treatment today,
aren't they?
It does have a really strong floral fragrance,
so if fragrances aren't for you,
it does come in a sensitive version
which we will pop it up there
which can actually be used on babies,
so it's super sensitive,
if the floral fragrance doesn't do it for you.
I've actually been using it for the first time this winter,
and I have to say, I raid it.
I use it as a night moisturiser
for when my skin's feeling a bit meh,
I have dry skin
so I love a good thick cream like this
but the best and most kind of anecdotally loved
use for this product is under makeup.
So Chuck this on as your makeup primer
for a really beautiful hydrated base for makeup.
Last but not least, we have this one from Kiehls.
It's the creamy eye treatment with avocado.
It's one of the brands best-selling products
and it's one of our best-selling eye creams.
Shay Mitchell told Shape magazine
that she'd take this eye cream to a deserted island,
if she had to choose just one product,
so that's a pretty big endorsement.
We all love avo, they're delicious.
Now you can put them on your under eye bags.
It's $50.
This product is super thick,
so if you are prone to milia
which are those hard little white bumps
you can get under the eyes.
They're actually little bits of Keratin
that need to be extracted by a skin professional.
But if you're prone to milia,
straight up, don't use this because thicker creams
around this thin delicate eye area, can lead to milia.
If you don't struggle with milia
and you want just the most hydrating...
Yeah, just the most hydrating eye cream ever
that feels like a warm hug for your eye bags,
this is it.
It's got avocado oil, Shea butter and vitamin E,
so very hydrating, emollient ingredients
that are just gonna really plump up those fine lines
under here, even though I'm wearing makeup
I might just tap a bit on now because why not?
I love it.
100% rate this product.
But if you are prone to milia
or you want something a bit lighter,
try an eye serum or more of an eye cream
with a lotion consistency rather than this thick gal.
So that brings us to the end of our wrap-up
on celebrity skincare.
As for which ones I would personally purchase,
it's gotta be these three.
And you can tell because I have dry, thirsty skin
so I'm all about anything thick
and hydrating and nourishing.
So these three right here,
the Embryolisse, the SkinCeuticals B5
and the Kiehl's eye cream would be the ones
that I would repurchase, but as always with any skincare
whether it's recommended by a beauty editor like me,
a celebrity, your skin therapist, your mom,
always be led by your skin type and your skin concerns.
So on that note,
if you have tried any of these celeb products,
put a comment down below here
and let us know what you think,
but otherwise we'll see you next time.