ZO SKIN HEALTH 5 Day Challenge
The count down to summer is on. Which means it’s time to ditch the heavy foundation and let your natural skin shine through….
Of course, the whole bare faced look would be a whole let easier to embrace, if the last six months hadn’t left my skin looking as lacklustre as lockdown. The lethal cocktail of stress, central heating and homeschooling had taken it’s toll on my skin and I needed to take drastic action if I had any hope of looking fresh faced by summer. Trust me, heavy foundation and heat is one pairing that never works out well.
The Z0 Skin Health 5 Day Peel Challenge is something I had stumbled across a while back but always been too scared to try. A feeling that was only heightened when I reintroduced retinol into my regime following a pregnancy induced hiatus and failing to read the incrustations, experienced the full might of ZO’s Radical Night Repair Serum. Yet drastic times call for drastic measures and the one thing I did know, is, this stuff really works.
Learning from my previous experience, I arranged a Zoom consultation with aesthetician extraordinaire Natali Kelly to talk me through the procedure. Focused around the use of the ZO Radical Night Repair, Natali explains that the serum contains a 1% micronencapsulated retinol designed to improve skin texture and uneven pigmentation, and to minimise the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
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Radical Night Repair Serum £129.50
Created by the infamous Dr Zein Obagi, the challenge involves applying 5 pumps of the serum every morning and evening, alongside a daily application of SPF to protect your skin (I used Bioderma’s Photoderm Mineral Defence 50+), that’s it. Around day 4 or 5 of the challenge your skin will start to feel uncomfortably tight, before beginning to crack and peel. You will also experience some skin soreness and redness, all of which is to be expected. It’s at this point, Natali continues, when you might want to introduce some other products to soothe the skin and aid the peeling process.
Natalie recommends ZO’s Gentle Cleanser and Daily Power Defence, their hydrating and soothing Daily Renewal Cream, to slather on as and when you please, and the Exfoliating Polish and/or Complexion Renewal Pads to gently aid the exfoliation process. Conveniently, ZO Skin Health have collated all these items, alongside the all important Radical Night Repair Serum to create their Aggressive Anti-aging Programme £218.98 .
If you are wanting to head out during the challenge but can’t handle leaving the house resembling a tomato, then I would also suggest getting your hands on tube of Eborian’s CC Red Correct. Light weight and hydrating this miraculous CC Cream instantly blurs, soothes and tones down signs of redness, without causing any added irritation to the skin. A must have for any makeup kit.
Challenge Kit sorted, Natali explains how the peel works. Penetrating deeply into the dermis over the course of 5 days, ZO’s Radical Night Repair serum works to create an accelerated turn over of dead skin cells. It is this acceleration process, that causes, some rather extreme skin peeling. While the process may not be pretty, if you can pull through a few days of looking like an extra in a horror movie, the results are well worth it.
Suitable , even, for those with sensitive skin, the results list off like a who’s who of anti-aging. From epidermal renewal and decreased hyperpigmentation, to increased collagen production, skin elasticity and thickness. ZO’s 5 Day Peel Challenge even helps to reduce sebum and improve acne, as well as significantly reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Editor’s Beauty Director, Alicia’s 5 Day Peel Challenge with ZO SKIN HEALTH
It’s important to note, that whilst the challenge may only last 5 days, this is not where the journey ends. While it may be called the ZO 5 Day Challenge, the peeling process only really starts somewhere between days 3 to 5 and if you’re anything like me, could continue until day 9 or 10.
Just hang-on in there. For when your results finally do shine through, like a glowing beacon of health and radiance, you’ll know the wait was worth it.
New client lifestyle (head to toe) consultation with Natali Kelly : £100 Skin consultation: £50 natalikelly.com
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