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My Experience With Lancôme Discovery Kit

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If you’d been my blog’s follower a month back and had gone through my posts, I posted HERE a challenge of using Lancôme Discovery Kit for one month to see any visible results on my skin. Above is the kit and all the products that I started using from October 9th, 2011 till now.

My experience with this kit:

I started using all the products that came with this particular kit once every day since October 9th, 2011 and my first experience was somewhat unbelievable and quite amazing. The first thing that I used was Lancôme Genifique Youth Activating serum. I applied two drops of this Lancôme Genifique Youth Activating serum all over my face, and went ahead with my regular makeup routine. I have oily-combination skin and I usually need to do touchups on all the oily-zones after a couple of hours. However, the day I applied this serum, my face remained perfectly fine for whole day. I could see that it looked brightened and shine-free, which definitely made me go "Wow!" about this.

I continued using this serum daily for morning time, followed by Lancôme Genifique youth activating night cream at night, Lancôme Genifiqueyouth activating eye cream for both day and night, as well as Lancôme cleansing milk and tonique douceur toner too. My skin continued to get better everyday for the next 2 weeks.
But, as is said – “Too much of any good thing can also lead to bad results”. After regular usage of two weeks, I began to see some tiny bumps appearing on my forehead and nose. That made me wonder what was going wrong with my skin, as none of my food habits had changed. My complexion was growing better and more even everyday. My pores were getting reduced, my dark circles were fading and I could see a definite glow on my skin; but the tiny bumps made me worried. I could feel that somewhere my skin's balance was going off. I immediately cut off the usage of the night cream (which I believed was the major culprit for the breakout as I could feel it to be quite rich), from daily to once in 2-3 days. That made my skin a bit better, but still not without bumps. The moment one bump got cured, another one would rise.

The only thing I could do was to cut off both the serum and night cream to just once every 4-5 days. That routine did the trick and my skin slowly began to get back to its original smooth texture. Now, I love using the whole kit and I can definitely see the difference it has made to my skin. The only thing I have to ensure is that I use the Genifique youth activating serum and night cream only once 4-5 days for my oily combination skin. I use the serum in day time, and for night I use the night cream. The formula is quite rich and I think that is the reason, why many people in online reviews too have complained about getting breakouts when they tried the Lancôme Genifique range of products.

Now, I use the Lancôme cleansing milk and Tonique Douceur daily evening to cleanse and tone my skin. I also apply the Lancôme Genifique Youth Activating eye cream daily to pamper my eyes, which I have reviewed HERE. However, the Lancôme Genifique Youth Activating Serum and Night cream usage is limited to once every 4-5 days. I usually apply it only on weekend, which gives my skin the rich pampering it needs, without getting any overdose of good stuffs.

My experience as stated above has been specific to my oily-combination skin, so I don't know if it'd work fine for dry or very oily skinned people. But, if you are my skin type, I definitely recommend you get this kit, as I am sure it will do wonders for you the way it has done for my skin, provided you optimize its usage well enough to suit your skin's natural balance.

Below are Before and After pics (1 month usage as stated above)




I've purposefully worn the same dress, and tried to make the same pose and have taken the pic with same flash lighting for you to notice the difference in my skin better.

So, what do you think about my experience? If you've had similar or somewhat difference experience with these products, please share with me in your comments below.
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