REVIEW: Estee Lauder - Idealist pore minimazing skin

What it promises to do?

This fast-acting serum delivers our most dramatic skin resurfacing benefits-more efficiently than ever before.

With Idealist, your skin looks and feels like your ideal skin:

Virtually poreless.
- Pores appear 1/3 smaller-instantly.
- See a 69% reduction in the look of pores in just 4 weeks.

Unbelievably soft and smooth.
- Repairs the look of uneven skin texture flakiness and roughness.
- Smooth it on and instantly enjoy that soft, seamless, silky feeling you love.

Incredibly clear and even-toned.
- See more clarity and luminosity.
- Gives skin an overall more even tone.

Underneath the skin you see, is the skin you want.
- Feel it.
- See it.
- Have it now, with Idealist.

Ingredients:

Water, Dimethicone, Isododecane, Cyclopentasiloxane, Polysilicone-11, Butylene Glycol, Ascorbyl Glucoside, PEG-10 Dimethicone, Gentiana Lutea (Gentian) Root Extract, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Extract, Hydrolyzed Rice Bran Extract, Curcuma Longa (Turmeric) Root Extract, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Peel Extract, Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Extract, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Fruit Extract, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Morus Bombycis (Mulberry) Root Extract, Trametes Versicolor Extract, Hordeum Vulgare (Barley) Extract, Salicylic Acid, Caffeine, Cholesterol, Acetyl Glucosamine, Squalane, Yeast Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seedcake, Isohexadecane, PEG-6, Dimethoxytolyl Propylresorcinol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Propylene Glycol Dicaprate, Polysorbate-20, Glycyrrhetinic Acid, Polysorbate-80, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sodium Sulfite, Sodium Metabisulfite, Acrylamide/Sodium Acryloyldimethyltaurate Copolymer, Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer, Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Potassium Sorbate, Di-C12-18 Alkyl Dimonium Chloride, Fragrance, Tromethamine, Tin Oxide, Sodium Hydroxide, Disodium EDTA, BHT, Phenoxyethanol, Linalool, Limonene, Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Bismuth Oxychloride, Carmine

Application:

"Apply every AM on clean skin. Follow with your moisturizer."

Package:

The product comes in an aquamarine coloured see-through bottle, the bottle is in a box with almost the same colours. The cap and the pump are both gold.

My own experience:

Something that really annoys me about my skin are my huge pores. I don't have a smooth skin at all. So about two years ago I complained about this at my local beauty shop. The sales person advised me to try out the Estee Lauder Idealist.

After a couple of weeks they really seemed to be smaller. I wasn't the only one who noticed that. Be aware that your pores won't disappear completely. Nonetheless I'm really pleased about the effect. I use the product on my chin and noise because these are my problem areas.
It's true that your skin feels slightly softer after using the Idealist for a while. Although if you use the Idealist purely for this purpose, I would advise other products.
I apply the product once a day, every morning before putting on my makeup. One pump of the product is sufficient for me. The product looks white but once it's smeared out, you don't see any residue. The skin absorbs this product very quickly.
Another plus side is that this product doesn't have a scent.

You can buy this product on the Estée Lauder website for € 63,11/30ml

If you're pleased about the Estée Lauders product please note that they have some other skin enhancing products such as the Idealist Skin illuminator and the award winning Advanced night repair.