To plump the skin, test the micro-sauna

With heat, water leaves the capillary vessels to escape into the tissues, creating a micro-edema that instantly plumps the features! The atmosphere saturated with water vapor in the bathroom, applications of hot towels on the face, self-heating masks ( Clinical Pore Minimizer Thermo-Active Affinant Scrub ), stimulation lamps ( Tripollar Stop ) ... all this is amazing and damn efficient!

Repulping the Skin by Playing Overlays

A layer of cream, I mass with the tips of your fingers. Another layer of cream, I stir again; and so on, up to three layers. The result is striking: the face is like "blown" water. Especially if you have offered in prelude a micro-sauna "steam" to your face to open the pores and facilitate the penetration of the texture. Obviously, only sorbet gel creams and moisturizing serums ( Rexaline Hydraforce Concentrated Anti-Wrinkle Serum Concentrate, in Sephora ) are suitable for this ritual. Emulsions too rich, too heavy, cling to the features.

Repulse the skin and irrigate it with a mask

Nothing has yet been found to replenish the skin before an evening. Moisturizing, shine or youth, no matter, as long as the texture is supple and creamy. It is above all by occlusion that the mask acts. The ideal? Place it when you are in the bath to benefit from the effect of steam. Our favorites: Clarins Multi-Intensive Repulping Mask, which, in addition, rubs dead cells, and Darphin's Camellia Youth Radiance Mask, which smells of white flowers. If you do not have any products on hand, a cream "sorbet" placed thickly on the face will do. Ultra-performing also, the tissue mask, which succeeds in imprisoning the equivalent of a bottle of serum ( Shiseido Retinol Pure Benefition Retinol Intensive Mask ), and the hydrocolloid mask, in a gelled material pre-cut to the shapes of the face or of the eyes ( Ultra Correction Total Eye Revitalizer from Chanel Accuracy ). "Then the trick to fix the water in the skin is to apply a film-forming cream, such as Dior Hydrating Ultra Hydrating Cream, which will make" lid "and prevent evaporation," advises Edouard Mauvais-Jarvis, director of scientific communication at Dior.

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Repulp the skin giving softness

By mixing with your day cream or foundation a drop of a lightly pearly make-up base, which you will apply on the whole face. The domed areas thus highlighted, you will immediately look more juvenile. Avoid imperfectly the matt textures, which flatten the lines, the worst being the powder. To matificate the face, use absorbent papers. Make up the hollow of your dark circles with a corrector chosen a tone brighter than your skin tone or conceal your pockets under a concealer a darker tone. And at the end of the make-up, put a little blow of water mist on the whole of the face, to lighten the complexion and to give it a slightly more "juicy" aspect. Tricks of Ludovic Engrand, makeup artist at Shu Uemura.

Repulp the skin by volumizing your cheekbones

Imitate the Japanese, who have all kinds of hallucinating textures to glamorize their gestures, such as Shu Uemura Amino Acid Massage Oil, which is applied after make-up removal and, in contact with the fingers, turns into an oil rich and creamy. Start small circular movements with the fingertips to smooth the skin, then chain with ample movements of the back of the hand, going up from the bottom to the top of the face to recreate volume in the area of ​​the cheekbones: the famous effect "Baby cheek"!

Grow your BB mouth

With lip pumps formulated with methyl nicotinate, a vasodilator that artificially inflates the mucous membrane as after an injection into the doctor, or with formulas based on hyaluronic acid ( Diamond High Tech Lip Care from Inca Rose , points of sale on 01 43 32 28 91 ). Or even smart tubes that, in addition, delineate the contour of the mouth ( Double Lips and Loures Contour of L 'Oréal Paris ). Without forgetting the trick of the balm applied in thick layer and left standing five minutes. One removes the excess with a tissue and, miracle, the mouth is all inflated! The Japanese have their technique: they pinch the contour of the lips of the commissure towards cupid's bow. Result: a mouth of geisha!

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Repulp the skin by refilling with hyaluronic acid

"The" molecule that the entire cosmetic industry is tearing itself apart. We understand why: it can capture up to a thousand times its weight in water! It is applied to the face, which recovers illico the fresh and juicy aspect of its 15 years . But beware: its variants do not all have the same effectiveness on the skin. "High molecular weight" hyaluronic acid penetrates the skin fairly superficially. It merely impregnates the horny layer in a masterful way. The wrinkles of dehydration are immediately reinflated, the complexion is fresher ... for a few hours only ( Hydrating B5 of SkinCeuticals ). The "encapsulated" hyaluronic acid penetrates more deeply. Hydration is therefore a more lasting suspicion ( Teosyal Advanced Filler ). In fact, the only molecules able to make their way through the epidermis are the hyaluronic acid fragments. Reduced to small particles, they will bind to specific receptors of the cells and induce, at a distance, its synthesis by the skin ( Avène eluage ). Durable but visible results only after three or four weeks. For very water-deficient skins, certain treatments can combine different types of hyaluronic acid: Hyaluronic Intensive Mask from Esthederm Institute, Moisturizing Serum Hyaluronic Acid High & Low Molecular Weight of Academy. Also worth mentioning: Dermatologica Skin Hydrating Booster, Avon Anew Clinical Derma-Full x 3 Serum, and Relaxine Super Hydrating ( at Sephora ).

Repulp the skin by clearing with the "Mesolift"

The physician injects a revitalizing cocktail composed of hyaluronic acid, vitamins, trace elements and minerals ( type NCTF of Filorga ) strongly rehydrates the dermis. A "baby face" treatment par excellence but, for a lasting result, frequently renew the sessions: three spaced a week, a fourth to fifteen days, then a month, maintenance ( from 150 € to 200 € the session ) . The hyaluronic acid used is usually "uncrosslinked", that is to say a fluid texture that persists little in the organism, being rapidly degraded by the enzymes. There are also products of mesotherapy with little crosslinking and therefore a longer life span. This is the case of Restylane Vital, which is injected deep into the dermis. Cosmetic treatments with the mesolift effect ( Meso-Mask by Filorga, Mesolift by Liérac, Prodigy Re-Plasty by Helena Rubinstein ) are inspired by these revitalizing mixtures. Their rehydrating power, however, is less spectacular since they do not exceed the superficial layers of the skin.

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