Garnier Skin Renew Dark Spot Overnight Peel
I started looking for a product to fade the dark spots that I have on my face. One in particular on my right cheek has been bothering me for a while and another small spot below my right eye was starting to surface. Since we just came out of summer, I think being outdoors in the sun without full on SPF had a big part in creating the problem. The other way, I think was due to stress. Stress has a way of wreaking havoc on the complexion.
So I picked up the Garnier Skin Renew Dark Spot Overnight Peel because it guaranteed results in 4 weeks. I used it consistently for 4 weeks. I stayed out of the sun, wore heavy SPF if I did go outside, washed and exfoliated my skin really well before applying it each night.
I applied it all over
my face and neck. It has a clear gel
consistency and it takes about a minute to dry.
Once it dried, I went on to apply my normal evening moisturizer. After a few weeks, I noticed the large dark
patch on my cheek (I've had for about a year) started to feel “scaly”, so I took the only heavy scrub I had
which was a body scrub with honey and sugar and scrubbed away on that
patch. Afterwards it felt really
smooth and the patch seemed to lighten a little.
Before Pictures
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After Pictures (4wks)
I notice however that after 4 weeks of use, there’s only a slight improvement to the dark patch on my cheek. The spot under my eye remains to be about the same. I am going to continue to use it though. After about 4 wks I’ve only gone through about half the bottle. The “scaly” feeling on my cheek's dark patch comes back every few days, so I use the sugar scrub (Tree Hut Shea Sugar Body Scrub)to smooth it off. I normally would never use a scrub this abrasive for my face, but it seems to be helping.
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| Tree Hut Shea Sugar Body Scrub |
Im going to continue
with this routine: deep exfoliation along with the peel until I’ve used up the
whole bottle, then do a final
review. I'll do a final comparison of the before and after pictures.
I will say, even if it
doesn’t remove my dark patches completely, it brightened my
complexion and has given it a more even, and “polished” look to it in this amount of time that I've used it. I don't know if these results will be long term, so if I want
to continue using it for that purpose only, I think it’d be worth the
$12-$13. Even my Cellex-C Vitamin C
Serum that I’ve used for years doesn’t do that.
My Video Review
Here! http://youtu.be/vf0-3KLUFGQ