I Love the Clarisonic!

I need to prep this post with a little skincare anecdote. At the height of glycolic acid popularity in skincare, I overexfoliated my skin to the point where it looked tight and shiny, kind of like I had had plastic surgery. I was using glycolic acid skincare day and night, and I was scrubbing with a grainy face scrub a few times a week. It was also around that time when one of the so-called "best" facialists in NYC ripped my face apart with microdermabrasion. My intervention came when Annet King from Dermalogica saw me and said, "What did you do your face?"

Ever since the Glycolic Incident of '05 I have been exfoliator-phobic. Sure, I've dabbled here and there, but I always back off from exfoliating regularly because I'm scared of overdoing it. So even though the Clarisonic came out a few years ago to great fanfare, I never tried it. But about 2 months ago I finally broke down and started using the Clarisonic Mia after a bunch of dermatologists told me that they use them.

So I used it 2x per week* for about a month and a half, and I thought it felt good and make my skin feel smooth, but I was kind of meh about it. Until I left town for two weeks and didn't bring it with me. My skin looked like ass. Once I got back and used it again, I swear I saw an instant improvement. In fact, the Clarisonic followed by Caudalie Premier Cru (applied while my skin is still slightly damp) makes my skin super duper soft. I love it.

*Clarisonic says you can use it every day, but for me 2x per week is plenty. Any more and my skin starts to get that scary look again.