ASTALIFT

It takes a lot to impress Little Bird, with her 20 years of experience in the cosmetics indusry, but I have to say, the new skincare range from Astalift does exactly that. And better still, it performs better than some of its more premium competitors for less money – what’s not to like?!

Little Bird tried the Astalift Discovery Set, which at £49 is a great value pack, giving you a four week supply of Aquarysta Jelly and a six week supply of day and night cream, and a four month supply of eye cream. 


It also gives you a Cleansing Oil product, but I can’t comment on that one as I didn’t use it (I just don’t like cleansing oil as a format, although I have friends who are evangelical about it). 

The good thing about offering a pack like this, and other cosmetic companies take note, is that it actually gives you enough of the stuff to do a meaningful trial, meaning any repurchase is purely because you have used enough of it to know if it is going to work for you, without having had to outlay a small fortune for an entire range.

The ‘Jelly’ is used like a serum – and after four weeks of use (morning and night before the moisturisers), I can safely say Little Bird’s lines were definitely less deep – particularly the pesky forehead lines and nose to mouth lines.  Result.

Now, Little Bird is hardly the most aged specimen on the planet, and isn’t really old enough (a tender 42) to have any significant degree of ‘sag’ going on, but that said, when she puts the Day Cream on her skin definitely feels ‘whoa, that’s firm.’  It’s a lovely unctuous texture, good for dry skin, but not so rich as to leave you shiny. 

The Night Cream is very ‘feel good’, and is more unctuous still, making you look plumped up and radiant on waking (big result).

The Eye Cream is nothing short of miraculous.  The full size eye cream retails at £40, and is a true bargain in terms of its efficacy.  Little Bird usually uses a £104 eye cream (scandalous, I know, but in my defence I did inherit it from my mother), which is a very, very good eye cream.  But I would have to say at £40 this is definitely better.  Just to be sure, Little Bird only did one eye for 4 weeks to see the difference, and the difference was very definite.  It has fantastic line-reducing properties, and again was very smoothing and firming.  And the best bit… it doesn’t ‘rub off’ when makeup is applied over the top of it.  (I’ve now applied the cream to both eyes, as my slightly piratical lopsided look was starting to alarm my neighbours!)

All in all, Little Bird fielded many compliments during her trial time, and was seriously impressed.  Just for once, a cosmetic company has come good with its promise to make you look radiant.

Top Tip – order online from Debenhams.com when they have a mega day, and you’ll get an extra 10% off.  Otherwise available from Boots.com, and Astalift.co.uk