Happy Lunar New Year, Beauty Queens!!
Any resolutions for the year of the Water Dragon? I got one for you – banish dry, flaky skin on my hands!
On a normal day, the skin on my face is oily enough to grease a griddle (sexy, I know) but the skin on my hands can get pretty dry. This is because, by day, I am a Registered Nurse in an intensive care unit. What that means for my hands is that they can look forward to taking a beating every day I’m at work. I put on latex gloves, rip them off, rub alcohol onto them to disinfect them and then wash them with a very un-gentle soap. I do this at least twice every hour and I work 12 hour shifts.
You can imagine the kind of damage done to my poor hands. In case you can’t, here’s a picture.
Super dry hand is super sad hand. 
Yes, I know I’m white enough to glow in the dark. Yes, I know this makes it harder for you to see what I’m trying to point out to you. However, if you can direct your gaze (assuming you’re not blinded by my epic paleness) to the part of my hand above my pointer finger knuckle, you can see where there are white flakes coming off of my skin.
That’s how dry I got. I’ve tried everything. I tried shea body butters, body butters with Dead Sea minerals….but nothing worked.
Here’s another picture of the dry, flaky skin hand.
Ugh. Yuck. So sad….
And then the proverbial light bulb went off in my head. I got my hands on some Philessential capsules and read up on them. Btw, if you like Dermalogica Age Smart Multivitamin Power Concentrate but don’t like the hefty price tag, give these Philessential babies a whirl.
courtesy of Frizzy2Silky
Here’s a brief exerpt from the Frizzy2Silky site :
Each Philessential Antioxidant Serum capsule delivers natural Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, antioxidants and complexion-friendly oils that helps minimize the signs of skin aging and promotes the appearance of incredibly silky-smooth, naturally-glowing skin!
Philessential Antioxidant Serum Capsules are a safe, effective, and natural way to reduce wrinkles.
- Anti-aging properties: Reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Protects against free radical damage and environmental stress.
- Promotes increased hydration: Naturally enhance hydration and strengthen skin’s protective barrier.
- Enhances youthful appearance: Helps produce nature collagen, improve firmness, elasticity and radiance.
- Helps improve skin tone: Instantly retexturizes for noticeably softer, brighter, smoother looking skin.
Preservative free and artificial fragrance free AND no testing on animals? Nice.
Granted, the skin on my hands don’t look old yet (thank the powers that be) but they were looking super dry, scaly, flaky, uber gross and extremely dull.
I figured “Oh, what the hell. What have I got to lose” and I twisted the cap off of one of the capsules.
Good things apparently come in small, heart shaped capsules.
Here, in order, were my thoughts as I was squeezing the contents of these deceptively small capsules on to the back of my left hand :
- “Hm…that’s not a lot of product. How is this supposed to cover someone’s FACE if it doesn’t look like it’ll cover the back of ONE hand?! What a rip off.”
- Wow, it smells really good! Like….unsweetened lemonade. Sharp, zingy and tangy. I kind of want to taste it….but I won’t.”
- “Holy good God, this stuff is oily!”
- “Wow….a little bit goes a long way….”
- “Hm….interesting. It was oily beyond belief when I first squeezed it on my hand but now it doesn’t feel oily at all! Imagine that.”
- “….wow….my hands aren’t oily. It’s like the skin just sucked this stuff up. Crazy.”
- “….oooOOohhh….my hands feel so soft and smell so nice!” *sniff * sniff * sniff *
I’m not very good at remembering to pamper my hands everyday so I’ve only used 7 capsules over 21 days.
I have to say, this stuff is amazing. My hands are no longer dry and flaky. They went from dull to sort of normal. I’m sure the “sort of normal” would be more like “vibrant and beautiful” if I was more diligent with using this every day. However, what my hands look like now is a huge improvement over what it looked like a few weeks ago.
Actually, when I remembered to put it on every other day, my hands were beautiful. They were smooth and silky with no dead, flaky bits of dead skin to be seen!
As for the small amount contained per capsule, let me tell you that it was enough to cover BOTH hands from front to back and even some of my arms just above the wrist.
Good things come in small packages!
No more flaky, dry skin!!
Beauty Queens with dry skin! If this stuff can do all this for my beat up hands, imagine what it can do for the dry skin on your face!
Act now because there’s a Buy One, Get One Free promotion going on now!! There’s even one with free shipping!
This is for a trial 1 week supply. $5 gets you 7 capsules on a normal day…but now it will get you 14 for a limited time!! There is a limit of 3 per customer.
This is for a 30 day supply $37.50 gets you a 30 day supply on a normal day…but now it will get you 60 DAYS WORTH for a limited time. There is a limit of 3 per customer.
Here’s the best deal of all. 60 capsules PLUS free shipping! Tell me 120 capsules at $75 with free shipping is not a great deal.
Each capsule is sealed, thus ensuring that its contents are not exposed to air which will decrease the effectiveness of the product. This, however, does not mean these will last forever so use them in a timely manner.
As always, use coupon code BONNIE10 upon checkout to save yourself an additional 10% on all orders!
Till next time!
