Before I tell you about this product, I need to tell you a bit about myself. I come from a very religious family that believes, among other things, that women shouldn't wear makeup (no, it's not a cult. They just believe that focusing on your appearance is vanity and that energy could be better spent in prayer or service to others). While a few members of my family did use moisturizers and some of the women (including me) wore makeup, my mother did not. So I didn't grow up watching someone do a makeup routine or a moisturizing routine. I learned a lot about makeup in my teens (by trial and error, YIKES!) and twenties (through makeup classes and a bit more sophistication) but still I never really had a beauty regimen or routine. I'd treat blemishes or use biore strips, but for the most part my skin care routine consisted of an occasional mask and daily astringent when I wore makeup and plain water or a very mild cleanser for the decade or so when I rarely wore it. I had some vague idea that I should probably be doing more, and even occasionally bought a product or received a trial sample but nothing consistent.
Fast forward to a month or so ago, when I had decided it was time to focus a bit on myself. I was cleaning my bathroom and doing one of my regular product purges (I buy or sign up for samples for an embarrassing array of products that I'll use a few times before decided my bathroom is cluttered and gathering up the products I don't love or haven't gotten around to trying and getting rid of them. I usually either share them with friends and family or donate them if they're unused). Anyway, I came across a few Olay Regenerist products that I had picked up somewhere along the way. There was a face cream, an eye cream, and a cleanser. They were all three unopened, which would have destined them for the women's shelter if not for that pledge to do something for myself every day. So, I thought I'd try them out and if I didn't like them after a few weeks, no harm done. And that's the very long story of how I came to try Olay Regenerist Luminous Dark Circle Correcting HydraSwirl Eye Cream at least a year after I first purchased the product.
Now, just before this happened, I received a deep purple eyeliner in a Birchbox (You can read more about that here). I tried it right away, and it blended perfectly into the deep-purple darkness of my eyes, that I had just assumed was the permanent result of almost a decade of sleep deprivation. This is an important point, because it's how I knew the Hydraswirl eye treatment was working--before I started using it, my eyelid matched the Mulberry hue of the eyeliner.
The second morning after I used the Olay products, I noticed that I looked more well rested. I noticed that I LOOKED more well rested in spite of the fact that one of my sons had had a bad night and I had only gotten 3 hours of sleep. But I was tired, so I didn't really think about it.
I kept using the product every night, less because it was 'doing' anything and more because I was enjoying that three-minute ritual of cleansing and moisturizing. After about a week, I accidentally grabbed that same mulberry eyeliner that had blended into my eyelids a week before. It looked terrible, highlighting the brownness of my eyelids. As I was removing the eyeliner, I realized that it didn't just 'blend in' to my eyes anymore. My eyelids had actually changed color, and they were now brown instead of purple.
Every day, I noticed that my eyes were just a little less dark. After about two weeks, my eyelids and under eye area are only slightly darker than the rest of my face. I wish I had taken pictures every day so that I could show the progression, but the best I can do is tell you that I now wear that mulberry eyeliner--it looks like a faded black now, and the same eyeliner that first just blended into my dark eyelid and later looked absolutely horrible against them now looks great. My eyes have gone from an almost-bruised looking purple to a normal skin tone in just two weeks. And no, they weren't bruised to begin with, and no I am not getting any more sleep. The only thing I'm doing differently is using Olay Regenerist eye cream.
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