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January 11, 2011 • 23 comments • 2096 viewsSponsored Post
It’s weird.
When I was studying in London, everyone wanted to have the tanned fresh-off-my-yacht look. Every pharmacy you go to you’ll find tanning lotions and stuff. The darker the better.
I tried the whole tanning look. Read about it here. It was a disaster.
At the end of the day, you should love your skin colour but you should always try to enhance it by having an even skintone or lightening dark spots. As a whole, I learned to love my skin colour. I’m on the fair side, and now I find that fairer skin gives you more glow and you look fresher and more radiant!
Clearly I’m not alone on this because you’ll see so many whitening treatments in Asia; chemical peels, microdermabrasions, and oh god, whitening injections. No way am I putting needles into my face!! Imagine the pain….
Well, lucky for us, we have an abundance of whitening products in Asia! Say TAKNAK to all these whitening treatments that are not only costly, but also painful and with side effects!
Recently, I tried using Olay White Radiance CelLucent White Essence. It’s not really a serum, nor is it cream….kind of in the middle with a milky texture. This essence helps whitening, luminosity and hydration to our skin! I love the dropper feature!! Makes us aware of how much we’re using so we don’t over or under-use the product.
Then, I paired it with Olay White Radiance CelLucent White Cream. Acts as my moisturizer these days because of its higher hydration power. There’s this new technology that comes with it; shape memory gel which forms a layer of moisture to moisturize face evenly allowing the better reflection of light rays for a smoother radiance!
This cream is really unique actually. The cream is not runny or liquidy…it just stays!! Like you scoop it out of the tub right…and after that it’ll just perk up to normal. Kinda like jelly! I’ve never seen a cream like this.
Ok, lucky for you, I did some research on these Olay products before using them, so I’ll share it with you here. Put on your glasses and white coats cos here comes some Science 101.
PAY ATTENTION, STUDENTS.
Olay White Radiance range uses this CelLucent Complex which contains Niacinamide and some other ingredient, which is the most effective whitening active.
What do they do?!!
Why, I’m glad you asked….
You wanna know what happens when UV rays fall on your skin?!
Well you should, cos it’ll make you smarter.
1) UV rays–> skin–> body’s defence mechanism wanna produce protein Alpha-MSH.
2) Alpha whatever calls the signal receptor in the epidermis and they both wanna start melanin production (pigmentation!!)
I SAID PAY ATTENTION!!!
3) CelLulent Complex comes to rescue –> temporarily help block the signal receptor to work on this melanin production business
4) Then its friend Niacinamide comes later into the picture to help prevent transfer of melanin to epidermis.
5) Result: The product acts on melanin!! We’ll get true glowing luminous and fair skin that’s dying to come out of us.
Clap clap clap!!! Free Science lesson for us ladies out there. You’re welcome…Man, I should be a science teacher… next class, we’ll talk about photosynthesis… plants, tree, sun….easy peasy!!
So yeah, back to Olay, I’m impressed. I love how they actually TEACH their customers what goes on and how they help prevent all these ageing and pigmentation processes. Not only does our skin look amazing in just 8 weeks, but we actually get to know our skin better*!
Try the Olay White Radiance range for yourself and see how you GLOW in JUST 8 weeks*!
The Essence and The Cream are each RM 129.90.
* with regular use.
Hi PD, I’m so tempted to try this Olay range. But I have combination
Skin. I know some whitening products can cause outbreak in some ppl, due to it’s rich content. I wanna try but scared la. Any advice,pls?
Hi Vivy, where do you usually bought your supply on the Olay products?
I like reading your writings but I wish you’d put a disclaimer on your title whenever it is an advertorial. I read your blog through RSS (which is summarised) and sorry to say that I am one of those who won’t bother clicking if it was an advertorial. I am not saying you shouldn’t be doing advertorials, but it’d be great if you give us a choice whether to click or not. 🙂
Hahahaha, easier to understand when u put it that way… and pandai ye u put picture of celebrities that look like you… pweetyy
if i’m not mistaken whitening injection is not injected to the face. it’s through the veins on your arms 🙂
somehow all those photos look likes you 😛
PD Fans: (felt weird writing that hahah) i have verrryyyyy sensitive skin and i am extra sensitive to products that aggravate skin.. so far olay has not caused any damage to the skin, so it should be ok. but i’d advise you to try first on a small part of your skin to see if anything happens.
farah: guardian!
sash: so sorry sash, but i do disclose when i write advertorials because in category down there, i put it under Sponsored Post. But I will add at the top so you’ll be notified. Oh yeah, how do you get notifications when someone blogs?!! That’s so cool.
aneesa: i should be a teacher no? ehhehe where got look like me!
bjk: omg serious?! still sounds scary to me :S
ida: mana ada! i wish!
vivy, I agreed with ida, all the celebrity pics up there do looks like u 🙂
my skin isn’t fair (gelap melayu)…so if i use this, would it makes my skin fairer?
It gets boring when a blogger became famous. This is because all they do is blog about advertorial stuff….I guess you wont even bother to actually buy the product if its not given to you to blog about it. Perhaps maybe tagged this post as ADV so that we can choose to skip this.
Just my two cents
sorry to say but whitening products are bad for you. =( your skin NEEDS melanin to protect the skin from UV rays and without melanin you’re at higher risks of getting skin cancer. I’ve had a relative who’ve died of melanoma (skin) cancer so its no joke.
however, wear sunscreen over it and that’d do the trick. =)
u look soo much like them!! :))
Kak Vivy! Has anyone ever told you, that you look like Zhang Zi Yi!!? =)
mm vivy, i understand you have to promote the product, but so many kids here have their self-esteems affected by the fact that asians and malaysians think whiter is better (i would know, my mum is Farsi and she is as pale as milk, but i got my dad’s tan.)
you did say that we should love our ‘own skin colour’, but writing that ‘fair skin’ makes you ‘more radiant’ and that you ‘are not alone in this’ already pits it against dark skin, and will have browner women scrambling to become zhang ziyi or kristin kreuk for the wrong reasons (i.e. tan is “bad” and white is “better.”)
it is the running theme in this post; the product’s spot-correcting and skin-evening benefits seems secondary to having a ‘whiter’, ‘fairer’ face.
with the best of intentions, D.
Dear PD’s lovely readers, please please think twice before using whitening products. Not all are good for you. You people are all lovely the way you are.
btw thanks for putting a “sponsored post” in front of the post, like what kennysia did with the big “ADV”. when blogs and ads do not have a clear line nowadays, it’s good to see bloggers putting effort to be frank with readers. heart u <3
OMG… just pose like zhang ziyi, take ur pic and put it next to one another….u’ll be surprise… 🙂 anyway nice job on Fashion Valet Blog. I mean, who doesn’t like Gossip Girl
Thank you for adding that to the top and I am glad you didn’t take it the wrong way. I read your blog using Google Reader but due to your settings, it is only a summarised feed and I do still have to click to read the whole post. Would’ve been better if it was a full feed but I shall not be too demanding. 😉
Ooh you really do look like Kristin Kreuk in that last picture! Have you watched her in Snow White? She looks flawless in that movie!
Asian skin is the unique one 😉
Yeahh I agree with Faux Fashionista.
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