Monday, April 18, 2011

Vichy Bi-WHITE Event

You guyz remember the Vichy Anti Imperfection Challenge? Not very long ago i was invited to attend the showcase of another skincare series by Vichy, The Vichy Bi-WHITE Reveal range.



Bi-WHITE Reveal range

During the event, Dr Jonathan Lee was also there to share with us the Cause, Prevention and Treatments of skin pigmentation.


Dr Jonathan Lee from The Aesthetic Studio

Dr Lee explained that melanin are pigments that gives us, our color. So everyone have it. However, external factors such as UV rays, chemical treatment, drugs or inflammation can influenced melanin to produce more than it should be, causing the dark spots and hyper pigmentation. So prevention above cure gals!

Anyways..

Vichy also presented to us their newest addition to the Bi-WHITE Reveal range, Deep Cell-Whitening** Spot Intervention.


The new Vichy Bi-WHITE Reveal Deep Cell-Whitening Spot Intervention

With 5 times more LHA and 2 times more Ceramide White, the Deep Cell-Whitening Spot Intervention promises to not only decrease spot shade intensity. But also prevent the production of melanin which is the root evil of spots! Active Ingredients found in the Deep Cell-Whitening Spot Intervention are:






The Vichy Bi-WHITE Reveal range event was held at Once upon a milkshake! A place where i believe all woman love and hate at the same time. Irresistibly thick milkshake blending from 3 huge scoops of Ice Cream!! Yes! Sinful but irresistible. I had 2 milkshakes! one called Pirate queen peach.. cheesy name o.O!

The other, a milkshake specially made for the Vichy event. It has cranberries, vanilla ice cream and milk... And to make the milkshake taste even better, we got to make them ourselves!!!


Milkshake by yours truly!


All getting buzy blending ice creams.

ok end of commercial break. Let's get back to the products. I was given the whole range of Bi-WHITE reveal products to try and i've added some of them to my 'day' skincare routine.

Before i actually start talking about the products, i want to first set my humble opinion on whitening straight.

There is something about us asian girls wanting to be fair. The "i want to be fairer" trend is so bad, to an extent of one walking into a profession make up bouquet, gets the make up artist to pick her foundation shade and requesting for a shade lighter a day after the purchase cause her entire family feels that its to dark WHEN the foundation is clearly her skin tone.

Seriously i dun understand why..why do people want their face to look like its attached to the wrong body??

For me, Whitening is not about turning myself from Pocahontas to Snow white. It about giving my already tan face that glow.. hmmm.. something like if u are fair u wan to be fair not pale, for me it's i wan to be glowing tan NOT dull. Point is i dun believe that i can change my skintone completely just by applying products. ok products! First, the Concentrate, Essence and Eye cream.



From Left,

Deep Cell-Whitening Spot Intervention:
This new baby of Vichy's Bi-WHITE reveal range comes in a cream/ gel like texture. I do not have serious freckles or spot problem but this product did help me lighten some of my slight skin discoloration due to pimples. I also apply this product around the corners of my nose where it tends to be a little darker than the rest of my face.

Double Corrective Whitening Essence:
My 2nd favourite product of the range. Unlike most essence that i've tried, the double corrective whitening essence is very light. Not only that it is not sticky, it does not give my face that super shiny look and it smells nice... like vanilla...

Anti-Dark Circle Whitening Corrective Eye Care:
I'm never a fan of eye creams cause most eye cream can be too rich for my eyes and i'll start to grow milia seeds, i can't blame the products cause it's a generic issue but i try to prevent it by staying away from eye creams. I know that all of doctors may say that milia seeds has got nothing to do with eye creams but for me i'll rather not take the risk.

Having say that i always run away from eye creams, the Anti Dark Circle Whitening Corrective Eye Care comes in a creamy gel like texture which feels lighter than most eye cream. I do notice that my dark circles are lighter now after more than 3 weeks of use and most importantly no milia seeds.

Next,


From Left:

Double Corrective Whitening Day Cream SPF20:
The day moisturizer of this range. Like my eye cream, i rarely use cream moisturizer cause i've got combination skin and cream moisturizer be too rich for me causing my face to look super oily and shiny by mid day. But the Double corrective whitening day cream does not cause my face to be shiny. In fact it has got this mattifying finish to it plus it is also SPF 20. Although, it's too low for many, but being the 'i can nv get enough sleep' kind of person, little protect is good protect during lazy days!!

All the goodness apart, there is two things i wanna mention about this day cream. First, if you the kind of gal that uses your moisturizer as a base for ur powder, then this is NOT the moisturizer you are looking for. Perhaps it's the mattifying finish that doesn't hold on to powders.

Second, I not sure if anyone of you has realized but i feel that whitening moisturizers tend to give the skin a white cast, which i really do not like! So, please do not spam this moisturizer on your face then blame it for giving u milk sweat.

Double Corrective Whitening Night Cream:
This is the last step of my night skincare routine. I have always believe that night time is the time where skin repairs and regenerate all the good cells. And the products we put on our faces every single night are there to give some of our "not very hard working" cells a push! And the double corrective whitening night cream helps to neutralize existing melanin allowing my skin to look more radiant.

In all, i feel that the Vichy Bi-WHITE Reveal range is one whitening range that i will go back too cause the products that i've tried are really light,they dont give me that oily/sticky/"i have too much product on face" feeling and till date i have yet to experience any breakout. Results from the product can be seen especially for my dark undereye! BUT! Please do not think that i've become fairer..

2 comments:

Nicola said...

Great post hun! I enjoyed reading it! I may give these products a try! xxx

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vivianism said...

very detailed great post!! :)