Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair serum has been a wonderful helper since it quickly eases most irritations and balances out my skin. During a beach photo shoot last summer, the makeup girl applied makeup remover with alcohol on my face. My face immediately felt stingy. Though she used water to remove the remover, my face got extremely agitated by the sunlight on the beach (with spray on sunscreen) .  After I got home, I put some ANR on my face and my face felt better immediately.  Two hours later, the redness went down some.  After that day, I start to use the serum as a soother. Whenever I get too much oil on my face and my skin starts to complain, I apply this and some oil free gel for a day, my skin goes back to normal.

Though I haven’t noticed any effect on removing fine lines around my eyes. As careful as I was, I still notice that the skin around my eyes is get more and more loose and has developed mesh like texture and some light fine lines. Duh, I am getting older but I want to fight it! I recently bought the ANR eye cream. It has very high rating for effectiveness but also very low rating since it is agitating. I am nervous about it since I did feel some agitation for the last two days. I can only apply it sparely and monitor closely.

— 3/26. Update: it might not be this eye cream that stings. I suspect it’s the Clinique All About Eye Rich cream I put on during day time that is causing tear.  I stopped using it. It’s been almost a week now and the ANR cream hasn’t caused any problem. I did notice a tiny new fine line but I am not sure if it was caused by the other one. I should have test new products one at a time. 🙁  But other than that, i am not sure if ANR is working. The lines seem to be shallower but it might be because I have been very carefully keeping the area moist; they certainly haven’t started to  disappear yet.  Ah…. I hate this!

— Caution: this product contains Retinal, which is a good thing for fighting fine lines but makes your skin irritated and extremely sensitive  to sunlight.