All Eyes On Her

The third sample I ordered in my Great Eye Cream Hunt is Camellia Rose’s Sea Buckthorn & Blue Tansy Nourishing Cream (h/t Kris from EDS). It’s actually not an eye cream, but a facial cream that many CR users started applying around the eye.

This product turned out to be thicker than I had expected, and it almost veers into the balm-like category. It’s also a bit oddly blended — it has an almost cottage-cheese-like texture, which blends up when you warm the cream in your fingertips to apply it.

The weird thing about this stuff, though, is that despite how very thick and rich it feels, it absorbs more than almost any other eye cream I’ve tried, and more quickly too. It’s an odd feeling. I’m a little concerned that the high shea butter content will give me milia or make me break out a bit, so I’m going to have to try it out for a couple days and see how it goes.

However, this might all be a moot point, since Camellia Rose may be closed for business — my correspondence with the owner indicated that she was just too overwhelmed to satisfy all her orders! I hope she can find a balance, and I know I’ll enjoy my samples either way — but I don’t want to get too invested in her products until I know if I can re-order them.