For once this post is not being written on Saturday night, yay me! I’ll be honest, working full time, half-marathon training and blogging is exhausting, not to mention having a boyfriend and a social life and a deep desire to nap most hours of the day. I wasn’t at all prepared for all of these commitments and now I’m trying to play catch up, and not very successfully. I will get on top of everything at some point, I just need to give myself a day of purely planning and organising. You know, when I’ve caught up on my sleep.
This week I tried out a brand called Sisley, who I’ve never heard of, with a product called Global Perfect Pore Minimizer. The sample itself looks very sleek, with a nice big product card to explain the ins and outs. From the name you’d figure it was a pore blurrer, much like Benefit’s Porefessional, but according to Sisley it’s “a powerful skin-enhancing concentrate with an all-around corrective, preventative and treatment action.” It’s designed to tighten pores, smooth and mattify the skin and ensure flawless skin texture day after day (increasingly so the more you use it). You can use it morning and night, either alone or under your normal skincare, so it’s pretty much comparable to a jazzy moisturiser.
Despite the fact this isn’t a primer, I used it as one. The texture of the cream is thick, thicker than a moisturiser, yet it does genuinely matte the skin. It did smooth my skin out, but I wouldn’t say it particularly refined my pores. I don’t have really visible pores though so it might be more noticeable if you have bigger pores. That being said, it’s such a heavy cream and it left my skin feeling quite weighed down throughout the day so I wouldn’t recommend it for oily skin, despite the fact it is non-comodonic.
To be honest, I don’t really get this. It’s meant to tighten pores yet we know pores can’t physically be tightened, so using it at night would be pointless. It’s too heavy for me personally to use during the day, it might be alright on it’s own but in winter I don’t want to miss out my serum and moisturiser in order for a product to do its job, especially when there are plenty of pure blurring primers out there that work well with my current skin routine. Oh, it’s also £128 so it would be cheaper for me to use a good serum, moisturiser and primer than use this on it’s own.
This is a no from me. I don’t get how the product would actually benefit my skin and it costs a bloody bomb!
If you fancy giving it a try, you can grab it here.
