With all of the hype surrounding the launch of Visionnaire I knew I had to give it a try and after one of my fab twitter friends Nichola Joss described this product as stunning, I hot footed it into Newcastle to one of the Lancome counters.
I have to admit the poor women who served me did get the short straw as I wanted to know how and why this product worked. I was given the sales pitch which was that it was a molecule which triggered multiple changes in the skin, but unfortunately we couldn't get any more detail than this. I wanted to know about this molecule, was the magical molecule LR2412 a delivery system which simply delivered the other listed ingredients to the skin in a different way or was it the magical ingredient that would change my skin. Lancome describe Visionnaire as a Skin Corrector, this is quite a claim and one I certainly needed to road test.
I couldn't wait to cleanse my skin, I felt I had to use my Lancome Baum Eclate another of my favourites, particularly during Autumn and Winter to ensure my skin stays hydrated and protected during the constant changes in weather. I then applied two to three small pumps of the Visionnaire to my skin, gently massaging it in to my face and neck which was a total pleasure due to the smell and feel of the products. I would say it was a cross between a gel and a cream in texture. I allowed this to totally melt into my skin and then applied a little moisturiser before heading off to bed.
As always I had that very excited Christmas morning feeling and jumped out of bed and faced the mirror (I am very often devastated at this point in my day). I have always believed that if a night cream / treatment / serum is good you should be able to see a difference in the morning - well 'hello difference'. I could visibly see a difference in my skin, please don't ask me to say exactly what it was (7am - oh please) but I knew it was different and in a good way.
It is recommended that Visionnaire be used at night, but I have to say I was so excited about the result I used just one pump around my eye and forehead (problem areas)before I applied my usual products and makeup.
Over the next few days I did get quite a few compliments from my clients about how fresh my skin looked and when asking what they wanted to achieve from their facials, they were saying that they wanted their skin to look even like mine. Now this is huge compliment for me as I am very self conscious about pigmentation on my face and this was clearly becoming not appearing as visible.
I have been using my Visionnaire for almost 4 weeks now and I have to say that my skin is looking more even in texture and feeling smoother. The tone and pigmentation is also much improved, so much so that over the last two weeks I have taken to wearing tinted moisturiser rather than a foundation as I don't actually want to cover my skin up (wow, get me!!) I have had a couple of little spots appear over the last few days, but I have to say that normally these could have dragged on for weeks before fully healing, but give me two days using the Visionnaire and they have practically gone. That alone is worth £57 from my purse.
Before I wrote my post on this, I still had to understand how this product worked - I knew it did but I needed to know why, so I asked those lovely girls behind the twitter @LancomeUK to help me out. The girls kindly provided the press release for me to devour and so here is my take on the magic that is Visionnaire.
After many years of researching how plants repaired themselves, 12yrs to be precise. Lancome discovered that when a plant is injured and is in need of repair it produces jasmonic acid which triggers a chain of reactions to aid repair and prevents future damage. Lancome wanted to recreate this reaction within the skin and have a single molecule prompting repair in the skin, basically it triggers a process so everything within the skin works harder to repair faster.
Retinol is an ingredient we are used to seeing in skin correcting products and can physically change the skin, but due to the potential irritation it can cause this is not seen in large amounts in products so change is slow. The LR2412 works in a very similar way to retinol but without the irritation.
Well it certainly has me sold, I am loving the visible changes I can see in my skin and the fact it just looks bouncier and thicker I think. Sometimes my skin would take on a slight paper thin look, particularly on my cheeks in the winter, but my skin here definitely feels fuller.
So its a huge thumbs up from me and this is one serum which I will continue to use. Thank you Lancome!!
Has anyone else tried Visionnaire? If so I would love to know what you think.
If you have any wonder products you think I should try, let me know and I will do what I can to give them a go.
Wendy xx
