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Quick fixes: a rescue kit for tired-looking skin

Mask Pick-Me-Ups
If you’ve got a few extra minutes, revitalizing masks are the best way to boost circulation, re-hydrate the skin and smooth out any rough patches. Unlike their clay counterparts, treatment/moisturizing masks don’t need to "set", so they’re quicker to use and remove.
   Here are some of our favourites.

   Sisley’s Express Flower Gel Hydrating, Toning and Firming Mask, has extracts of lily, iris and sesame, which is rich in essential fatty acids, to improve skin’s clarity, while making the texture velvety-soft. Sisley has an extensive web site at http://www.sisley.tm.fr.
   Payot’s Masque Éclat Lifting (Glowing Lifting Mask), a satiny-cream masque with wheat protein, that increases suppleness, smooth wrinkles and fine lines, and gives a radiant complexion.
   M. D. Forté’s Skin Rejuvenation Hydra-Masque is a very potent formula containing AHA’s, BHA’s, proteolytic enzyme–papaya with Vitamin A and E, to refine and intensively hydrate the skin, leaving it smooth and radiant. Information about M. D. Forté is available at http://www.mdforte.com, and products are available at several sites online, including http://www.novaderm.com and http://www.aaaskindoctor.com/.
   Shiseido’s Benefiance Firming Massage Masque. This very soft gel actually goes on like a scrub at first, with little capsules that burst as you massage the skin. These vitamin E conditioning granules provide gentle exfoliation, refining surface texture. And bio-hyaluronic acid and other humectants hydrate skin, keeping it moist and soft.
   YSL’s Natural Action Exfoliator (Granule Free). This beautifully scented, detoxifying gel-crême removes impurities and dull skin cells without abrasive particles. The skin is left soft, smooth and absolutely radiant.


Quick treatments
First, prep your skin. There are several products that give your skin the beautiful texture and healthy glow that you didn’t necessarily wake up with.
   YSL’s Instant Firming Gel, for example, does so much more than its name implies. Humectants, glycerin, milk protein, panthenol, jojoba oil, vitamin E and vitamin C go to work instantly to make skin feel perfectly smooth and radiant—the perfect canvas for your make-up.
   Guerlain’s Divinaura Pure Gold Treatment, also a gel, contains gold particles for instant radiance, plus glycerine, sodium hyaluronate, arnica extract and super-moisturizers to soften and hydrate the skin.
   Clarins’ ever-popular Beauty Flash Balm uses a filmogenic agent, witch hazel and olive extracts, to tighten and smooth, plus algae to stimulate, milk glycoproteins to moisturize, and bisabolol (from chamomile) to soothe and soften.

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