i don't usually wax euphoric about makeup, fashion or any of this sort of thing in particular. i am pragmatic and i think that these items should serve an actual purpose and live up to their billing. my concerns have always been hyperpigmentation scars and now, in the past few years, a melasma patch that forms a mask on my face. there were days when i didn't want to leave the house, i felt so shamed by what was out there in plain sight, on my face. after all, those unrealistically thin models in fashion magazines don't have pores or errant colour marking their faces either.
i think one of these companies has finally made something that actually does come close to matching my skintone, and evening it out, creating an aura of flawlessness--within reason, of course, since i am human. i saw the ads, but was skeptical because it was the same press that has cost me untold thousands of dollars that did nothing to hide the get rif of or hide the demarcation, and only served to depress and alternately ire me. i'll never forget going to see one of the dermatologists featured on style by jury and getting lip service and attitude but no clear solution, and i certainly didn't come out with no marks and rejuvenated skin. that is, unless i went for the cadillac of treatments and that offered no clear guarantee either. (i now watch that program with an entirely different perspective when i happen to see it because i had a negative experience with one of their stylists as well.) and since i don't have that naturally flawless skin it was important to me that something actually lived up to the press.
revlon beyond natural goes on white and as you blend it into your skin it begins to take on the colour of your skin tone, after a few minutes it is virtually indeterminable from my own skin. it even looks like my natural skin tone. who woulda thunk? it really is something. it isn't rocket science (or maybe it is?) but it is something that helps me put my best face forward in a time when i sometimes don't feel that way. i have given up on the hope of waking up one morning and finding the melasma had simply vanished from my face. that hasn't happened and it likely never will, so instead of expensive aesthetic procedures that don't work, i'm more than happy to spend the $16.99 for a small tube of confidence. it is interesting to note, though, that in canada--or at london drugs anyway--they are missing a shade that probably would be so perfect it would be absolutely silly, and that always makes me wonder. why don't they give canadians the benefit of the full produt line?
