tennis, life and a few things in between

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

1. Soft clean infusion rich and thick
2. Advanced night repair pretty good
3. advanced night repair eye average
4. advanced night eye concentrate good
5. Advanced Night Cleaning gel good
6. Perfectly clean ok
7. Revitalizing supreme+ average
8. Revitalizing spf 15 good
9. NightWare Plus ok
10. Futurist aqua primer why did I buy this?
11. 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.

• cream Prestige