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When your work is done for the day, there's a bunch of do-gooder night potions that are just getting ready to spring into beautification action on your behalf. So while you sleep, the night shift are hard at it. Beauty is a 24-hour a day job.
Kerastase Noctogenist Serum Nuit
$56 for 125ml
If night cream is good enough for the face, then it's blimmin' well good enough for hair. This serum is for thick hair but there's also a version for fine hair so everyone's covered. Both versions have amino acids and vitamin C derivatives in them. Applied on freshly shampooed hair, you choose to blowdry it or not but sleeping on wet hair isn't pleasant so removing some of the moisture is a good idea. Then it's sleeptime. Come morning hair really does feel amazing, as if Frederic Fekkai himself had been massaging copious amounts of conditioner into it.
From selected hair salons.
L'Oreal Derma Genesis Intensive Night Cream
$39.99 for 50ml
The stars in this show are Pro-Xylene, a bio-degradable anti-ageing molecule, and hyaluronic acid, a powerful moisturiser used by dermatologists to re-plump skin. The double whammy means skin is revitalised, tautened and revived. Combine that with the algae extract present to help with cellular renewal and you're looking at one helpful cream.
From selected pharmacies, department and variety stores and supermarkets.
Lancome Primordiale Nuit
$150 for 50ml
Specially for women in their 30s, first encountering the signs of ageing, this night cream gets to work on those visible signs by using goodies such as vitamin A and a wheatgerm extract to help negate the effects of UVA rays and free radicals. It also gives skin a blast of moisture and helps stimulate natural cell renewal. Start as you mean to go on in the fight against ageing.
From selected department stores and pharmacies.
Dr LeWinn's Line Smoothing Complex S8 Double Intensity Night Cream
$119.90 for 30g
Dr LeWinn says the ingredient Snap-8 in this has a "Botox-like" action. Suffice to say it helps reduces the appearance of expression lines and wrinkles. This also comes with a rich moisturiser that is deeply hydrating, and liquorice root extract to brighten the look of skin and soothe it.
From selected pharmacies and department stores.
Estee Lauder Re-Nutriv Re-Creation Eye Balm and Night Serum for Eyes
$535 for 15ml and 4ml
There's one for day and one for night in this thoughtful luxury skincare set. This equals 24-hours of age-fighting anti-oxidant protection and deep hydration for the eye area. Both use padina, a sea plant fitted out in a calcified shell. Combined with other ingredients it helps the calcium in our skin - charged with safeguarding moisture - do even better. Then, a blend of 74 trace minerals including magnesium, zinc and selenium help regulate cellular activity. And lastly, enriched water from 600m below sea level around the Hawaiian islands provides manganese and copper, which support the collagen in skin. There's also some other highfalutin ingredients involved. Together, these super-charged battlers do all manner of good to shielding the delicate eye area from nasties and reduce signs of ageing.
From Smith & Caughey's.
