Item Reviewed: Estee Lauder Idealist Pore Minimizing Skin Refinisher

Price/pack size: -

Available at: All Estee Lauder counters

Ingredients:

Description:

This fast-acting serum delivers our most dramatic skin resurfacing benefits—more efficiently than ever before.

With Idealist, your skin looks and feels like your ideal skin:

Virtually poreless.

  • Pores appear 1/3 smaller—instantly.
  • See a 69% reduction in the look of pores in just 4 weeks.

Unbelievably soft and smooth.

  • Repairs the look of uneven skin texture,

    • flakiness and roughness.

  • Smooth it on and instantly enjoy that soft, seamless, silky feeling you love.

Incredibly clear and even-toned.

  • See more clarity and luminosity.
  • Gives skin an overall more even tone.

Review: The very kind beauty consultant gave me a sample of Idealist when I purchased my ANR whitening serum. I only started to use it recently and have mixed thoughts about it.

The good: it was pretty liquid, spreading easily on my skin and dries fairly quickly to a matte, powdery finish. My skin didn’t turn oily as fast as it normally would by mid-day.

The bad: it accentuated flaky bits around my mouth and nose. I also didn’t see the supposed skincare effects (pores looking smaller instantly). If its only benefit was to mattify my skin, I don’t think I’ll be shelling out moolah for this sole purpose.

Sadly, the sample was too small to see any long-term effects – would probably give it another go if I had a sample large enough for 2-3 weeks.

Rating: 3/5

Would I buy again: Maybe