You Little Beauty – Chanel Le Lift Lèvres et Contours

I’ve cleansed, serumed and moisturised and now its time for my eye cream (I normally pop my eye cream on before moisturiser but I wanted another week trialling this). 

Now I first tried a Chanel eye cream a few years ago.  I was celebrating my birthday and I’d had a Chanel makeover in Brown Thomas, bought a few products and the gal threw a few samples in and I was given Ultra Correction Line Repair Anti-Wrinkle Eye Cream.  I have to say that I absolutely loved the effect it gave me.  Whether you believe in eye creams or not, this little beauty provided exactly what I needed – blurred my fine lines around my eyes…well, I’m going to be bold now: what fine lines?

By the time I thought I would treat myself to a full-size pot, I realised (I've had two birthdays since the Brown Thomas makeover) that they don’t sell this product any more (they only do a day and a night cream for the face), so I came away with a lovely black pot of Le Lift at Dublin Airport December 2015.  It took me a while to actually start using it as I wanted to finish off my Shiseido Beneficiance Eye Cream which is a fab product in itself.

At last, I finished Shiseido about a month ago and have been using Le Lift since and I love it.

However, it appears that I came away from Duty Free with the wrong cream - I’ve been given the lip contour cream by mistake!  All is not lost though as basically its plumping fine lines wherever they are so I’m happy enough applying it around my eyes as well as my lips and it seems to deliver on all counts. I pop it on like I'm wearing a super-hero's eye mask - pressing it into the skin towards my hairline to prevent crow's feet and also around my orbital bone (never near my eyes or on my lids).

Chanel have developed an active concentrated ingredient called 3.5-DA which they say helps to regulate cell function at a genetic level and their Le Lift range has the technology to adapt to everyone’s individual needs.  I would love to know more about this and how it works scientifically but I guess I’d have to become a Chanel consultant.

Le Lift is said to restore the density of the lip area, leaving them smoother, fuller and plumper with fine lines gradually getting softer so hopefully its doing the same to the skin around my eyes.  I am happy with the effect anyway but next time, I will buy the correct cream Le Lift Crème Yeux!

Chanel Le Lift Lèvres et Contours

15g for £57