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While The Working Girl was getting a complementary makeover at Sephora, Mother Blogger sniffed, slathered, and played with any new products on the shelves.  One such product that caught her eye -- almost literally speaking -- was perfekt Eye Perfection Gel. 

Mother Blogger has had a love affair with perfekt's primer (which in her humble opinion, is one of the best primers on the market), so she was titillated to experience perfekt's new eye product.

What it is:
A vitamin-enriched, tinted, skin perfector for the delicate eye area.

What it does:
Perfekt Eye Perfection Gel is a multi-tasking, modern gel-mousse that glides on effortlessly to instantly leave the eye area with a smooth, airbrushed finish - perfect alone or a fantastic primer for eyeshadow. The gel contains a cooling, natural palladium tip applicator and a soothing cucumber extract to relieve puffiness and leave the eyes looking refreshed. This multi-tasking formula contains a light-reflecting tint that brightens tired-looking eyes. The skin around the eyes will be left smooth and soft—making concealer optional!

What else you need to know:
Eye Perfection Gel is free of oil, talc, wax, fragrance, and parabens, which is so very important to the pregnant Working Girl.

The results are in:

Mother Blogger cleaned off her eye area and applied perfekt Eye Perfection Gel in Bright on her lid and below her eye.  For testing purposes, she also put it on her hand, which left the skin on her hand exceptionally soft.  The tinted product left her skin smooth, although she did feel the need for a little under-eye concealer.  After applying eye makeup to the eyelid, Mother Blogger asked The Working Girl and The Sephora Girl their thoughts.  Both thought the product helped to alleviate eyeshadow from settling into Mother Blogger's creases and helped her tired eyes.  Sephora Girl added that the palladium tip reduces puffiness under the eye.  All three of us gave perfekt Eye Perfection Gel a thumbs-up.

Also available in Awake, Refreshed, and Vibrant. 

Ouch factor:  $45.

What's up next:  Comparison of Yves Saint Laurent ($45) foundation to Armani foundation ($58).

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I have yet to find the perfect solution to ironing out my facial winkles, and my laugh lines are no laughing matter now that they are carving out a niche in my face. I would gladly consider Botox except that a 20-year ride of Botox would cost as much as a new BMW 335i coupe. (The truth: $40,000 for Botox or the BMW). So what's a girl to do? Spackle, girls, spackle!

The truth: My previous primer, Perfekt Skin Perfecting Gel, was a perfect symphony of primer and foundation, but it only lasted approximately 24 pumps, to the tune of $1,000 a year. (My SephoraBFF indicated that it should last 240 pumps.) In the quest for the perfect primer, my primer morgue includes, among, others, Laura Geller's Spackle Makeup Primer which tends to coagulate in my lines like platelets in a blood vessel, Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer and Nars Makeup Primer which left a filmy residue that looked like the inside of my shower door.

The naked truth is that anybody's skin looks its best naked -- freshly exfoliated and intensely moisturized -- no matter what you apply as the next layer. Perfekt is still the best smoke and mirrors on the market to date. Although Brains indicates the primer is too costly, Beauty wins this debate: The multitasking Perfekt can be worn as a primer or as a light foundation. It covers redness, fine lines, and looks very natural. I am off to see my little gal pals, Leah and Amy, at Sephora to turn in my empty container of Perfekt for a new one with the hopes that I can achieve a 240-pump regimen.


Once again, I must applaud our local Sephora girls and Chantelle who helped at the Christ Child Society fashion show fundraiser. Between Sephora's gals and Chantelle, owner and stylist who owns the salon Flashbangs, they turned our models into supermodels.