This Beauty Brand We All Used As Teens Is Secretly Making Some Of The Best Products For Us 40ish Gals
Hint: yellow.
by The Candidly Team
You used it. We used it. It was almost like a rite of passage. A graduation into “real” skincare and makeup.
Yes. It’s Clinique.
What a thrill to own “grown up” lotion! A silver lipstick tube! Shimmery eyeshadow that we had no idea required blending! Bras. Periods. Acne. Boys. Clinique.
But then we moved on.
We had bigger fish to fry, bigger pores to fill, deeper wrinkles to manage. And so, we started using retinols and vitamin XYZs and serums and night creams and burning peels and whatever else we could get our hands on as middle-age husks.
But.
It turns out that Clinique is excellent for mature skin. So while we’d never buy an eyeshadow or blush from them now (we tried them, there’s just not a lot of pigment or staying power), we did discover 7 products that are absolutely on par with nearly any of their fancy (read: expensive) counterparts, and in some cases, better.
Let’s go.
And here is our Editor-in-Chief wearing: Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion+™, Moisture Surge™ Sheertint Hydrator in medium, and Stay-Matte Sheer Pressed Powder in Stay Beige.
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