Spring is here, it’s time to get facial / skin suntan lotions out.
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer is the one I use most often, from their facial to body mist. They’re not dry nor greasy, and inexpensive.
Anthelios spf 60, by Laroche-Posay (their cream spf30 good) is good too, I think I got it at US Open: neither dry nor greasy.
Anessa spf 50 Mild Milk by Shiseido company, is so so – feels dry on my skin.
Sunshady by BioClarity is the worst: thick, greasy and stays white on my skin after applying it and their shelf life is very short, only 3 months. I’m active and out there under the sun all the time, but never have I finished a 1.7 oz tube within a year. I learnt this after I purchased a set in Sept 2022, and the Face screen expires May 2023, less than a year.
PTR Peter Thomas Roth is one of my faved brand. Their products seem to agree with my skin:
1. Intensive anti-aging creme thick but not greasy
2. Power K eye rescue
3. 24K gold hydra-gel eye patches
4. Firm peeling gel
5. Water drench hyaluronic cloud cream
Over the years, I also used Estée Lauder and Clinique.
Estée
- Soft clean infusion rich and thick
- Advanced night repair pretty good
- advanced night repair eye average
- advanced night eye concentrate good
- Advanced Night Cleaning gel good
- Perfectly clean ok
- Revitalizing supreme+ average
- Revitalizing spf 15 good
- NightWare Plus ok
- Futurist aqua primer why did I buy this?
- DayWear spf 15 so so
Clinique
- moisture surge spf 28 good
- clarifying lotion #2 very good
- dramatically different good
Christian Dior: I used it exclusively in Hong Kong. Still remembered its chubby tonic bottle with relative small mouth. Their Prestige line came near the end of 1990s. After a few years, I stopped all together.
Recently when I purchased a Dior 006 berry Addict lipstick, the sales girl gave me a sample of the cream, with faint rose smell. I couldn’t remember if there is any improvement from its initial stage. Their samples are also neatly packaged, just like their regular products, which is overkill. One of the reason I left Dior is, too much marketing and packaging, which is one of the reason I tried PTR.
