The light-reflecting make-up trend expected to be popular for the spring/summer season works well for those who have an even complexion. But if you weren't blessed with perfect skin, how can you create an impeccable canvas?
Dior's new approach is to use a post-serum developed based on an understanding of the skin's optical power. According to the French brand, the skin is an ideal optical structure for the treatment and diffusion of light, with the power to unify colours in order to reveal a perfect and even complexion on its surface.
The latest addition to the Capture Totale line, a post-serum called Dream Skin, is applied as the last step of the skincare routine before putting on foundation.
"Dream'' (ideal) skin requires a combination of texture and colour that makes it fresh and beautiful looking. Like an Impressionist painting, skin is made up of a multitude of small coloured dots arranged in different layers, with brown pigments called melanin located in the deep epidermis and red-coloured blood cells in the dermis.
A uniform colour on the skin's surface depends on the quality of the available light because without light there is no colour.
The upper layer of the epidermis is composed of thin, flattened cells endowed with light-filtering properties while the deepest layers of the epidermis are made up of hollow, cuboid cells filled with water and with intense diffusion power. This particular structure allows the epidermis to reorganise the path daylight takes, so to speak.
Over time, structural changes alter the trajectory of light in the epidermis, decreasing the skin's natural optical properties in evening out the surface. Moreover, signs of ageing skin such as dark spots, wrinkles and enlarged pores become more visible and the epidermis is no longer capable of optically correcting them
With the understanding they developed about how the skin absorbs, treats and diffuses light, Dior scientists developed a complex of biomimetic mineral powders that leave a "second skin'' to retain the optical structure and properties.
This powder complex has been incorporated into the new serum which still functions as an anti-ageing skincare product featuring flower extracts from Longoza grown in Madagascar and Opilia from Burkina Faso.
