Ask any beauty editor her secret to smooth, radiant skin, and chances are she’s using a Clarisonic. The oscillating brush has long been a desert-island essential for deep cleaning (the bristles move 200 to 350 times per second and remove six times more dirt than your hands), shrinking pores, preventing breakouts, and imparting a luminous glow. The brand offers a brush head and cleanser for every skin type, whether yours is sensitive, dry, or acne-prone, but omitted one crucial antiaging concern: hyper-pigmentation. At least until now.
The new Sonic Radiance Brightening Solution promises to reduce the appearance of dark spots (i.e, that smattering of freckles you earned at the beach) in as little as two weeks. The kit includes the cult-favorite Aria body design with densely packed, super-soft bristles that “buff” pigment at the skin’s surface and fade excess melanin. Meant to be used twice daily, the Sonic Radiance Solution comes with a gentle, milky morning cleanser and a more intense Skin Renewing Peel Wash for night laced with LHA (an acid that gently resurfaces skin) and gylcolic acid, to improve texture and tone. The Brightening Activator Serum, which should be applied directly after cleansing, is packed with potent ellagic acid and phenylethyl resorcinol to minimize the damage you incurred during those long summer days in the sun.
Considering the number of underwhelming “glow-inducing” products out there, I was skeptical, but after using the system for a few days, I noticed a difference. The pillowy brush and antioxidant-rich products felt luxurious, and my complexion looked radiant after each scrubbing session. Any redness was diminished, and the overall tone was considerably more even—almost like a soft-blur effect. I might not be in the market for an extreme antiaging regimen (yet), but there isn’t a demographic on earth who doesn’t want to brighten up.
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