Sandra‘s Closet

Last week, I was invited by Clé de Peau Beauté as their ambassador to «UNLOCK A NEW RADIANCE» at the Riviera-historic landmark, the Carlton Cannes. In the South of France, the Japanese beauty brand revealed their radiance expertise while we indulged in the glamour of the Croisette.

We started the journey after our arrival with a very early flight (thank you for those beauty products that make even the dullest and most tired skin look radiant and plump), with a wonderful lunch at the Carlton Cannes The Beach Club. As it was so extremely hot and humid, we were all very grateful when we changed location and discovered Clé de Peau Beauté’s scientific breakthrough that is infused in the newest emblematic skin care, in the super luxurious penthouse suite.

Clé de Peau Beauté is the number one skincare brand in Japan. Since its launch in 1982, it has been a pioneer in the Haute Cosmetics. Three core values play an important part: to be intelligent, uncompromising and exquisite.

THE SERUM REBORN
It is all about «switching off aging, and switching on youthful renewal.»

Scientists found that the epidermis acts like a third brain. Like the brain, our skin is smart. It has the ability to remove bad stimuli, even before they reach the skin cells. The skin can detect, capture and defend those aggressors with the help of RADIANT LILY, which is thriving in the wild for over 3,500 years in the mountains of Southern France. This flower is extremely attuned to the rhythms of its harsh environment. The high-potency extract derived from it helps to improve skin defense.

Later we were invited to a masterclass with Benjamin Puckey, Clé de Peau Beauté’s Global Color Director and Celebrity Makeup Artist, who revealed to us how to achieve «Radiance at a Glance» in a few steps.

SERUM
Apply around five drops with upward movements on the skin as the first step.

CORRECTING CREAM VEIL
This product is one of Clé de Peau Beauté’s bestselling products. The perfect base. They cannot keep it in stock.

RADIANT FLUID FOUNDATION
It has a SPF 25 and since 2013 Benjamin has it in his kit. He prefers using the foundation before the concealer.

STICK CONCEALER
With the help of its creamy and moisturizing texture, it blurs imperfections. It is a great product to use for flash photography as it absorbs the light.

EYE COLOR SOLO SHADOWS
The texture is so amazing and feels bouncy. Oil meets cream, apply it with your fingers and add on the intensity with different layers. According to Benjamin, doing make-up is about creating 3-dimensional looks also for the eyelids.

MASCARA
Clé de Peau Beauté created this mascara for Asian lashes which are short in general. So you can rest assured to have a wow effect when you use it.

HIGHLIGHTER
This new shade, a peachy browny ambery glow melts into the skin for the perfect summery glow.

LIPS
At the moment the trend is not to use a lip liner and apply the lipstick and tap it with your fingers.

Refreshments were served on the rooftop terrace of the penthouse suite where we could enjoy some sunshine thanks to the right sun protection.

After a short break where we were able to refresh and change into a glamorous black tie outfit to embark on a sunset cruise to celebrate this beautiful day.

Once we were back on land, we were surprised with an amazing candlelight dinner at Château de la Napoule. It felt like being part of  an episode of Bridgerton.

During the gourmet dinner we enjoyed like music. However, the dessert needs a special mentioning. A «chocolate sphere surprise» embellished with the Clé de Peau logo was drenched in warm caramel sauce which melted it to unleash the yummiest chocolate dessert inside.

To finish on a high this radiant evening, I was surprised with La Crème in my hotel room, the brand’s most exquisite skincare icon. Its uncompromising blend of 60 ingredients is working in synergy to amplify the skin’s innate ability to regenerate overnight. Thanks to it, I woke up all refreshed and ready to fly off to my next adventure.

Radiantly yours!

LoL, Sandra

Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht and Courtesy of Clé de Peau Beauté
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Welcome to my Clé de Peau Beauté Key Radiance routine. As an amabassador for this ultra luxury skincare and makeup brand, I would like to present you the different steps to achieve beautiful, glowing, and healthy radiant skin. Skincare doesn’t need to be complicated — with the right products, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Clé de Peau Beauté has always known this since its creation in 1982. Being at the cutting edge of skincare innovation, using the most potent, scientifically-proven ingredients to forge new frontiers in advanced skin-cell science, each product in the range features Clé de Peau Beauté’s Skin-Empowering Illuminator, a patented technology made with Platinum Golden Silk Essence to enhance your complexion’s intuitive ability to self-repair.

Step 1: AWAKEN
The Serum

With a unique formula that feels as though it’s melting into the skin, Clé de Peau Beauté’s best-selling THE SERUM is the crucial first step in the Key Radiance Care Ritual, as it awakens Skin Intelligence while delivering vital moisture and priming skin for optimal absorption of Clé de Peau Beauté skincare. For maximum impact, apply three pumps morning and evening onto freshly cleansed skin.

Step 2: NURTURE
Hydro-Softening Lotion

Follow up the nutrient-packed serum with the Clé de Peau Beauté HYDRO-SOFTENING LOTION that instantly and intensively hydrates and balances skin to help eliminate the appearance of roughness and dryness, thanks to a potent combination of moisturising agents. Like the mind, skin is smart. The Hydro-Softening Lotion leverages Skin Intelligence to support your skin’s maximum ability to restore and protect itself. This product helps you respond to the good (nutrients, sleep, moisture) and bad (pollution, stress, UV rays) for your best skin. It has a clear liquid consistency and should be applied with a cotton pad morning and evening.

I recommend using the Clé de Peau silk COTTON pads that are much better than normal cotton pads as they don’t absorb too much of the product and have an exfoliating effect.

Step 3: BOOST
The Moisturizer

Finish off your skincare routine with a targeted daily moisturizer that nourishes and protects while enhancing skin’s natural resilience for vibrant, youthful-looking skin. During the day, reach for Clé de Peau Beauté’s PROTECTIVE FORTIFYING CREAM. Containing UV protection (SPF 20), it helps guard against environmental aggressors such as UVA, UVB, blue light and infrared rays, it’s the perfect base for foundation. With continued use, it maintains skin’s natural moisture barrier and resilience. Take a pearl-sized amount and sweep it over the skin following The Serum and Hydro-Softening Lotion for a flawless finish.

At night, use the ultimate anti-aging night cream LA CRÈME, that maximizes your skin’s ability to repair, renew, and protect itself overnight to restore the look and feel of youthful skin. With a high concentration of Skin-Empowering Illuminator, it is the icon of the brand and targets skin’s innate potential for self-regeneration. As the skin is at its lowest level at night, this product amplifies the skin’s innate self-regeneration potential. Come morning, the skin feels rejuvenated, incredibly smooth and firm. With its continued use, the skin achieves remarkable resilience and a youthful density. It is an amazing luxurious product, the best you gift to your skin. It takes three days to produce it in the factory. Other products take around half a day in general.

The packaging is also in line with this outstanding product, a jewel, like a diamond. It is a testament to perfection, with 40-years of research behind it. 60 ingredients are transformed in meticulous steps, formulated for a youthful and radiant look, and fully produced in the workshops in Japan.

Don’t forget to use the ENHANCING EYE CONTOUR CREAM SUPREME as the final step of your ritual at day and night. The Clé de Peau Beauté award-winning eye cream focuses on the micro circulation and helps to produce collagen and tightens the eye contour. It also diminishes the appearance of fine lines and under eye darkness while visibly lifting and plumping to support youthful vibrancy around the eye area. Its rich, silky texture absorbs easily into the skin. Best applied with a platinum-coated eye massager tool with a unique faceted design that enables the tool to roll effortlessly over skin.

Incredibly smooth skin with a glow that evolves over time. Vitality, awakened. Resilience, reclaimed. Forward to a radiant tomorrow.
Finally Clé de Peau Beauté is available in Switzerland at Globus and Marionnaud.

LoL, Sandra

Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
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